I haven't been keeping up to date on Ultimate Spiderman, but there are lots of ways that they could subvert the image still, right? Miles unveiling himself at a press conference might be a dream, or a trip with the Fantastic Four to an alternate reality.

Hell, he could do it, and then four years later he could make a deal with Mephisto and completely undo it and undermine all of our faith in narrative integrity. Nah, that could never happen.