Imagine if they had actually planned it, they could have introduced an entire third brother to be Spider-Man!

But, if Spider-Man had really been his brother, somehow I feel that Peter might not have let the rumors that the two of them were dating stand for as long as they did. There were a lot of little holes in it like that, but I suppose I just didn't think too hard about them, because I trusted both Peter and Spider-Man, at a time when I really needed to.

That trust always mattered more than any actual identity, so it never felt like a betrayal when I found out the truth. Just a convenient and confusing consolidation.