Is Spiderman overrated as a character?

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Poll Is Spiderman overrated as a character? (194 votes)

yes 28%
no 62%
almost but not quite 10%

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@darthaznable: I think the problem is that people can't pose any sort of question anymore without people such as yourself projecting their own whininess into the question or fanboys getting extremely threatened by anything remotely critical of a character they like. Questions or statements are generally what lead to discussion which is generally the purpose of any message board.

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Being wanked, and then capable of beating high-tier characters? PIS, PIS everywhere!

Yes, massively overrated, much more overrated than Batman.

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As a character , aboslutley not. he's one of the 3 most important characters in CB history. As far as on a battles forum or whatever...don't know, don't care.

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Hell no, thats Deadpool.

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As a character? No. On the Vine, hell yes, it seems that people can only say ''Peter one-shots''.

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No he's earned his praise.

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How is a character overrated? I don't get how that works....I need some criteria to actually answer this.

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Nah, Spiderman is alright.

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Not the way I see it, he's one of my favourite Marvel characters - and that's coming from someone who's greatest 10 consists of only two actual heroes, one arguably an anti-hero.

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He'll never be overrated, before the MCU and comics actually started getting popular if you asked a non comic fan to name a superhero, besides Batman or Superman, they'd most likely name Spider-Man. He's an icon.

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Nope, unless you mean on the battle forums.

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#63  Edited By shonuff33

He's boring to me to be invested in since he breaks no ground in any true long lasting change in his stories and returns to the loser status quo. He isn't really fun as a Superhero since he adds tedious filler as a main character with fights/adventure/plot development not lasting or being the main draw of the plot as much as his boring torture porn of a normal lifestyle which intertwine and plot holes obvious story elements needed to play out naturally. His cast sucks and is basically useless since their normal, his villains are not as cool or threatening as Xmen or even Daredevils and all of Peter's drama becomes a running joke with other marvel heroes meaning Spider-Man's life is nothing serious or even relatable.

So yes he is overrated, everyone loves him because he is pretty much the easiest and the most self inserting to write about for about any story, he's no blander than Superman because he's a ideal modern day mary sue(bullied, anti social, unpopular superhero who everyone wants to envision themselves as when he lives out their deepest fantasies) who wants us to feel sorry for him even though he's quite the contrary in most of his stories.

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Yeah he's overrated. I used to like him a lot until I found out that he's a ripoff of Elsa Lesau's Spider Queen. Elsa's Spider Queen came out way before Spider-Man did.

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That is so unfair. Where's the love for Spider-Queen?? if the ripoff Spider-Man gets SO much fame then the original needs to get more famous too...they should put Spider-Queen in films and promote her on shirts and everything lol.

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No not over rated, just badly written by Slott.

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I'm not as up on current Spider Man as I'd like, but he'd have to be five times more wanked than he was when he "beat" Firelord (or whatever that Herald's name was) to be actually overrated these days.

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He's wanked but not as much as some heroes

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Spider-Man is the greatest superhero ever, my hero. He is not overrated.

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Being wanked, and then capable of beating high-tier characters? PIS, PIS everywhere!

No, just Iron Man. ?In Fact, he one shots Iron Man. You are making Spider-Man's fans look bad because of your precious Iron Man right? Fine, Spider-Man one shots him like he did to Firelord.

Yes, massively overrated, much more overrated than Batman.

Now you're just being funny, people actually think he can take on Spectre.

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Extremely overrated. He has no iconic stories. Every single writer sucks on his books. All his villains are animals. Besides 4 or 5 villains that are good the rest of his rogue gallery are B list at best. Extremely boring to read when he's not Spider-Man. Spider-Man just stands out and has cool powers but if you read the majority of his comics they freaking suck. Definitely overrated but he's just marketed better than any other Marvel character and so that is why he's so popular.

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No, he is the greatest comic character of all time and yet somehow his fanbase is so much better than Batman's or Superman's which are toxic AF.

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@krleavenger said:

By writers: Not much (in terms of comics i mean)

By fans: Of course.

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#76 anthp2000  Moderator

There's no reason not to like him, and he is one of the most iconic characters in fiction's history, but he's not all that when it comes to writing and storytelling IMO.

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Overrated as in it's too popular then yes, otherwise i don't know

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No, he is the greatest comic character of all time and yet somehow his fanbase is so much better than Batman's or Superman's which are toxic AF.

Actually, this. He is among top 3, and his fanbase is pretty reasonable (not that there aren't/weren't people who were wanking him, but then again, even obscured characters get wanked sometimes). Batman and Superman are on the same tier as Spider-man and yet their fans brag about how their are always the best, beat everybody and are tiers above every and any character in any way imaginable.

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lolwut, Spidey is one of, if not the greatest

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#80 socajunkie  Moderator

How dare you.

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#81  Edited By DeathandGrim

These types of threads about comic book icons being overrated are so bad

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#82  Edited By Itachus17

Yep(i still like him a lot though), but not as much as the Bats.

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Of course not,no characters are overrated.

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No. To me, his character is so interesting & relateable

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No.

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@blackspidey2099 said:

Spidey is the world's greatest superhero - there's no way he is overrated.

What about Thor?

Anyway, personally he's not my favorite hero or even on my top 10 so I guess from my perspective he'd be overrated, but I have no right to say other's opinions are wrong

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Overrated? No.

Too many fanboys? Yes.

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#90  Edited By Michaelbn

@krleavenger:

LOL @ his fanbase isn't toxic. Just check out Persian site spidey.ir and you'll find out that you're terribly wrong.

He's not that interesting and great himself especially written by slott, but Tobey, Noir, Ultimate and secret wars: civil war had the best versions of spidey plus his concept and roots are very relatable. And IMO he's the most iconic comic character and superhero.

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Underrated, to be honest. I'll contend that some of the fans are annoying tho

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No. Great character

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Extremely overrated. The fanboys didn't know how to act when his 1000th game came out. One fat slob youtuber started tearing up lmaoo

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@michaelbn:

LOL @ his fanbase isn't toxic. Just check out Persian site spidey.ir and you'll find out that you're terribly wrong.

To be frank, if you have to point out one specific obscured site to find toxic fanbase, the statement doesn't have a lot of weight to it. Even characters as irrelevant as Gladiator have toxic fans. Regardless, I've been on Vine for quite some time and the amount of "toxic" fan I found for Peter is barely greater than those of pretty much any comic character. Same goes for youtube videos and comments.

I mean, stuff like this are subjective because they are based off of one's personal experience, so disagreements are at the door obviously, and saying "LOL" due to disagreement about a topic that can never be 100% objective, is unnecessary honestly.

He's not that interesting and great himself especially written by slott, but Tobey, Noir, Ultimate and secret wars: civil war had the best versions of spidey plus his concept and roots are very relatable.

That's your opinion man. I respect that and I'm fine with it but it's not necessarily a fact. I personally am not a huge fan of Noir, Ultimate and Tobey Spider-men in particular, and while Civil War is one of, if not my favorite comic arc, it's not really one of Spider-man definitive stories in my opinion. Not sure why you would bring up Slott because most Spider-man fans, including myself, either hate his writing or don't find it that good, and there are like 2-3 people I actually encountered on internet who actually like his writing.

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@jagerzi: the fact he’s one of the most popular, iconic and profitable superheroes of all time kills your whole comment. Lmfao go get some buttpaste for all that butthurt.

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As a character, no, he's not overrated.

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@the_stegman: No... that's a super silly assumption.

No,I don't think Spider-man is overrated. Popular,but not overrated.

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