Ikke bare har fans været vrede over at en så signifikant Marvel-karakter som Spider-Man kun findes eksklusivt i PlayStation-versionen af det kommende Marvel's Avengers, de er også forvirrede, for Crystal Dynamics har gentagne gange forsøge at hysse sagen ned, ved at slå fast at der ikke er tale om noget indhold der har en afgørende indflydelse på historien.
Men ville det ikke være mærkeligt, hvis Spider-Man ingen indflydelse på historien havde? Alligevel er det den forklaring udvikleren går med, og i et interview med WCCFTech forklarer udviklerne igen, at der er tale om en separat kampagne, der ikke betyder noget for det samlede narrativ.
"Spider-Man is in addition to the arc and progression of the main story as well. There was no swapping or anything else in that line. We've got our plan, we've got our heroes that are coming out and the stories and the challenges and the gameplay escalation that we've planned out. That's all continuing as planned. And then just on top of all that stuff, we've also got Spider-Man now and you know, he's weaving into that, that is the key. There is no swapping or changing anything to kind of accommodate that. He's got to fit within the massive plan and all of that stuff we've already got. It's like, Sony went 'Hey, can you add this on top of it, as a sort of a cherry on top of that?' But he doesn't affect or change that in any way. That plan is still moving forward as originally planned and conceived with all the original expansion stuff in mind."
Dog har de afsløret, at andre DLC-karakteres historier vil have en indflydelse, såsom den der introducers med Hawkeye.