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Raimiverse Spider-Man Respect Thread

Spider-Man is my favorite comic book character of all time and in running for my single favorite fictional character of all time, even moreso than Batman, my #2 superhero. I've loved all of the Spider-Man movies except for the disappointing Spider-Man 3 and the "they weren't even trying" 1977 film. So with that in mind, I thought I'd do a respect thread for both the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man and Andrew Garfield Spider-Man, starting with the former:

Respect Raimiverse Spider-Man:

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"Who am I? You sure you want to know? The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody told you that it was a happy little tale, if somebody told you I was just your average, ordinary guy, not a care in the world...somebody lied."

Shortly after getting his powers, Peter's spider-sense is already such that he dodges Flash Thompson's punch (itself strong enough to leave a depression in a metal locker with no injury to his hand), and then an attack from behind by one of Flash's friends. Peter also shows good agility when he leaps right over this person. Every single one of Flash's attacks before and after this are dodged as well. Flash never lands a single hit on him. The fight ends with Peter grabbing Flash's wrist, applying enough pressure to cause him pain, and then send him flying several feet and down the hallway with one punch. It's unclear whether or not Peter intended to send Flash flying that far, but it was likely instinctual, considering all of his agility feats were shown to be. All of this was a younger and less experienced Peter.

Time of first Spider-Sense use: 1:40-1:57

Time of second Spider-Sense use followed by back-flip into the air: 2:29-2:31

Time of defeating Flash, first by wrist-grab and then my superhuman punch: 2:42-2:50

In his first fight in costume (and still not at his physical peak, which will be shown later), Spider-Man squares off against Crusher Hogan expy Bone Saw. Now I feel I should stress that Bone Saw was able to curbstomp two wrestlers beforehand, one of whom he finished by jumping off of one of the ring "walls" and landing elbow first onto another man. He seemed to suffer no injury from using this move. So clearly, his muscles aren't just for show.

To start, Spider-Man leaps far enough into the air to avoid Bone-Saw's initial charge (2:07-2:10). He then, with assistance from his webbing (which in the Sam Raimi films are not from web-shooters but rather organic and seemingly without limit) evades another charge from Bone Saw (2:24-2:26). Bizarrely, Spider-Man's spider-sense seems to not work as Bone Saw then whacks him in the head with a metal folding chair. He then hits him on the head with the chair again, and then twice on the back (2:29-2:37). Spider-Man is then grabbed by the leg and slammed into one of the metal cage walls, followed by another (2:42-2:46). For all of this though, Spider-Man has remained conscious, and when Bone Saw tries to bring a crowbar on him, Spider-Man kicks him about ten times, knocking Bone Saw back. A follow up kick sends Bone Saw flying over Spider-Man's head and into one of the cage walls, which finally knocks him out. The whole lasted from 2:07 to 3:04, which means that the fight promoter's claim that Spider-Man pinned him in two minutes is inaccurate. In fact, Spider-Man one in less than one minute, and Bone Saw only put up any kind of a fight at all via a metal chair (in other words, cheating).

From 0:24-0:36 he climbs up a nearby wall before then launching himself forwards to cover more distance more quickly, even though by that point he was already fairly high up (meaning he crawls fast). Then, at 0:42 he leaps from that wall and goes sailing through the air long enough to reach a nearby flagpole that he then launches himself off of. This sends him pretty far. From 0:48 to 0:54 Spider-Man leaps an incredibly far distance on his own twice in a row. In the web-swing that follows (itself a bit more messy and clumsy on his part due to it being his first ever attempt), Spider-Man manages to catch up with the car he is chasing, and then lands on it. With one punch at around the 2:00 mark Spider-Man drives his fist right through the car's metal roof, showing that Spider-Man hits hard enough to punch right through metal. At 2:17-2:21 he performs another one of his superhuman leaps, this time jumping over a bridge so it doesn't kill him. With another punch at 2:27 he shatters the glass front of the car with no injury to his own hand (something you're not going to see a normal human do), and then leaps far into the air yet again to get clear of the car's crashing into a metal gate.

After using the shadows to trick Dennis Carradine into thinking that Spider-Man is in front of him, the web-head sneaks up from behind and then attacks. He smashes his head through two glass windows, and then dodges a few knife strikes from Carradine before then kicking the knife right out of his hand. A double-kick knocks Carradine back and clearly injures him, as he is bent over, pleading, and backed up against the window. A now very enraged Spider-Man grabs Carradine and lifts him up, before then seeing that Carradine is the same man he left run by him earlier. After coming over his shock and horror, Spider-Man reacts fast enough to keep Carradine from shooting him in the face, and then either dislocates, fractures, or breaks Carradine's gun-arm. The scene is ambiguous as to how much Carradine's arm was injured, but we hear a snapping sound and he howls in pain. He then nervously backs away and accidentally falls to his death.

Time of knife dodging: 3:17-:319

Time of stopping Carradine from firing and then injuring his arm enough to cause both a snapping sound and a cry of pain from Carradine: 3:54-3:56

After his first few outings in the iconic Spider-Man costume see him foiling some common crooks in both melee and with webbing, we get the first fight with the Green Goblin. To start, Peter's Spider-Sense alerts him to the danger of the Green Goblin just before the Goblin first appears a fair distance away from him (so far away that the Oscorp board members present couldn't even tell that it was their stolen glider until one saw that it was through binoculars). At 1:12 to 1:14 he shows strength sufficient to pull back and away from falling debris two grown adults via his webbing, and also pull them back a fair distance. At 1:54 he swings in and kicks the superhuman (and armored) Green Goblin so hard he knocks him right off of his glider. Spider-Man then at 2:30 takes a hit from the superhuman Green Goblin that sends him flying back several feet and through at least three tables. Spider-Man's being sent flying is finally stopped by slamming into a lamppost with enough force to cause it to fall down. And yet despite taking a hit like that, Spider-Man is able to get back up again. He then runs fast enough to consistently stay ahead of the gunfire shot at him from the Green Goblin's glider before then web-swinging onto a nearby balloon. From there, Spider-Man plays "leap-frog", leaping from balloon to balloon until he reaches Mary Jane. It is at this point however that the Green Goblin grabs him and smashes him at super-fast speed into a window with enough force to shatter it (3:08-3:10). Green Goblin follows this up by slamming Spider-Man's head into what's left of the window three times.

Still conscious and combat capable, Spider-Man strikes back and holds his own for a little while before Green Goblin is then able to knock Spider-Man off his glider. Spider-Man falls and lands, and isn't at all effected by this. After blinding Green Goblin with webbing to the face, Spider-Man punches through the glider's metal bottom and rips out part of it's inner machinery, damaging it and causing to malfunction enough that Green Goblin has to retreat (3:30-3:32). Finally, he catches Mary Jane before she hits the ground and then swings off with her in tow.

From 0:08 to 0:33, Spider-Man tears into a group of thugs numbering at least four and as many as six. He not only makes swift work of them, he also shows sufficient strength to first pull them all back a fair distance via his webbing and then at one point hit two of them so hard they go flying into the air and smashing into nearby windows. With these two, he also hit them both and sent them flying at the same time.

From 0:48-0:51 Spider-Man takes another superhuman punch from Green Goblin that sends him flying backwards several feet (and also smashing through a wooden door) and...he's fine. He then, in one of my personal favorite scenes out of any of the Sam Raimi films dodges Green Goblin's razor-bats. From 1:13 to 1:21 Spider-Man evades first two razor bats at once and then three at once, razor-bats that are followed immediately by a punch to the face from Green Goblin. Spider-Man tanks this hit and then a follow-up kick while simultaneously dodging razor bats as they make their return trip. He only gets cut by one because he foolishly decided to destroy them with his bare arms (though in fairness he did actually manage to destroy two of them in this fashion). At 1:32-1:34 he ducks in time to avoid two razor-bats coming at him from opposite directions. Spider-Man then hits the Green Goblin hard enough to launch him into the air and then kicks him hard enough to send him flying several feet (1:36-1:41). Spider-Man's mask then seems to resist being burned by some fire, and Spider-Man escapes from the burning building just as an explosion occurs. This also marks the second time he's fought Green Goblin to a draw.

(Note: Apologies for the sub-par quality of these two videos, but they were the best I could find).

At around the 1:00 mark of the first video, Spider-Man sling-shots himself into the air and by doing this is able to reach the bridge Mary Jane is on in mere moments.

In the second video, when faced with the choice of who to save (Mary Jane or the children on the cable-car), Spider-Man first saves Mary Jane and then with one hand is able to hold up the cable-car with everyone inside it by it's severed cable with only one arm (beginning at 2:56). He is then able to hold onto it for over a minute, only letting go at around 4:10 when the Green Goblin punches him. Spider-Man endures both this punch and the previous one and then grabs the cable again at around 4:18. He manages to hold onto it until 5:06 when the presence of the boat allows him to let go. But once again, he held onto it (with one arm) for nearly a minute. Pretty impressive strength feat.

A lot happens here. To start, Spider-Man is sent falling through an old brick building. Despite his efforts to save himself via webbing, Spider-Man still smashes right through a glass window and then tumbles along the ground. This is followed by him taking a pumpkin bomb exploding in his face that also sends him flying backwards and right through a brick wall with enough force to shatter it, followed by him slamming into something metal and then landing face-first onto a pile of bricks. This then is followed by the Green Goblin pummeling him without mercy from 0:38 to 1:22, which is 44 seconds. When Green Goblin makes the mistake of threatening Mary Jane however, Spider-Man gets the determination he needs to keep fighting. First, he shows reaction speed sufficient to grab Green Goblin's polearm before it can skewer him (1:56), and then manages to hold it at bay from 1:56 to 2:04, while the whole time Green Goblin was trying to run him through. This shows that Spider-Man's strength was greater than the Green Goblin's, especially since he was not only injured when he did it, he also sent the Green Goblin flying backwards several feet after overcoming his polearm thrust.

Spider-Man follows this up by first tripping the Green Goblin with webbing and then using more webbing to bring a brick wall down on Goblin. After this, Spider-Man grabs Green Goblin and swings up with him to higher ground, where he then pummels him until Green Goblin finally cries uncle, his doing this showing that Spider-Man would have won otherwise (after all, if he wasn't winning, why stop to beg for mercy?)

Finally, at 4:00-4:05, Spider-Man's spider-sense warns him of the Green Goblin's glider flying at him from behind. Spider-Man leaps over it and the glider fatally impales itself on it's own master.

Early in the scene, Spider-Man creates a web-net strong enough to hold up a police car, and makes it before it falls on nearby civilians. He then swings through the air fast enough to make it through the opening in a truck as it is passing by, which shows excellent timing. When the thugs in the car open fire, Spider-Man swings out of the way of all of their shots, and these thugs are packing machine guns and other firearms besides. Spider-Man evades their shots long enough to get in close and disarm them via web bullets. (0:35-0:45). Immediately following this he uses webbing to send the two thugs flying and onto a nearby lamppost, showing sufficient strength to send them into the air in the first place.

I really apologize for the atrocious picture and sound quality in the above video, but it was all I could find.

Basically starting at 0:30 or so, Spider-Man's powers star to fitz out, and he plummets before landing on a pair of large metal pipes with enough force to bend them badly. He gets back up relatively quickly and looks to be no worse for wear in the end.

Swings by and grabs Harry Osborn before he can be hit, before then attempting to pull the plug on Otto's machine. He begins to rip to rip the large cables out at 3:03, and finally succeeds at 3:12, though it's worth mentioning he'd already started to rip the machinery out of the wall earlier at around 3:06.

Heck of a lot to go through here, so let's get started:

  • Dodges bags of money hurled at him by Doc Ock's tentacles (0:45-0:51)
  • More dodging, with Spider-Man only getting tagged because he was distracted by how his webbing was gone again (0:58-1:02)
  • Tanks a bag of metal coins being thrown right at his chest with enough force to destroy the bag and then the fall to the ground (1:06-1:09)
  • Head endures the attempts by Otto's mechanical arms to crush it (1:21-1:31). To explain why this is substantial, Otto's mechanical arms were throughout the film shown to be strong enough to: rip a metal bank vault door off it's hinges and then hurl it into the air (shown at 0:05-0:10), hurl fully grown men into the air with his arms (an example of which is shown at 0:29-0:32), rip a metal car door off and hurl it without effort (1:42-1:44), restrain Spider-Man's hands (who at this point has already been shown to be superhumanly strong), and other showings. Point is, the mechanical arms are clearly possessed of superhuman strength, and yet two of them working in concert could not crush Spider-Man's skull after 10 seconds of applying pressure. They didn't even leave a crack. That's good durability for Spider-Man's noggin.
  • Dodges the thrown taxi cab door (1:44). Takes having the taxi's ripped off trunk thrown right at him immediately after, with it also hitting him with enough force to send him flying back into the bank. And yet, he's fine in the end.
  • Beginning at around 2:36, starts taking multiple hits from Doc Ock's super strong mechanical arms (and also being slammed into the side of a building over and over), and yet is able to keep fighting.
  • From 3:20 to 3:23 he is smashed into book shelves and tanks the injuries.
  • From 3:40 to 3:43 he is smashed through one window and then sent flying through another one...and he's still able to fight. ultimately battling Doc Ock to a standstill before Otto baits Spider-Man into coming to him (while he discreetly activates a blade on one of his mechanical arms). Aunt May then intervenes, interrupting and ending the fight.

Not as much here, but Spider-Man's powers again fitz out on him due to his lack of faith in them, and he plummets again. This time, he slams into the side of a building during his fall before then landing on a garbage bin before then finally falling onto the pavement ground (0:21-0:25). And yet, despite all of this he remains conscious and relatively uninjured.

While an argument could be made that this is Spider-Man without his powers, I feel this should count anyway because here, Peter endures slamming into a wall followed by a fall onto the top of a car and then bumping into another car and then hitting the ground (0:55-0:58).

And yet after all of the above he's honestly in way better shape than any normal person in real life would be if they suffered injuries like that. For one thing he's still conscious and is not bruised or bleeding at all. Sure, he says "ow, my back", but come on. Any normal person would be dead, or at the very least in need of immediate medical attention. I choose, therefore, to interpret this as Peter's durability returning.

Not only does Peter endure being thrown backwards into a wall and then having a bunch of rubble fall on him (4:11-4:15), but he then shows sufficient strength to burst out of this pile of rubble and send it flying (4:46-4:48). He also, earlier sensed the car being thrown into the cafe via his Spider-Sense in time to push Mary Jane out of it's path (2:59-3:17).

As the usage of three videos shows, this is pretty much Spider-Man's finest hour combat wise, and as such there's a ton to go through, so let's get started:

  • Dodges, parries, or tanks hits from Doc Ock's mechanical arms throughout. And as already mentioned Otto's arms are superhuman strong going by feats. They also go as fast as he can think, sense Otto is directly controlling them with his mind (something he explicitly states earlier in the film).
  • Holds onto a large metal clock-handle attached to a web-line with one arm and then hurls it with enough force to send it rocketing up at Doc Ock and also smashing through stone and then embedding itself in metal. (First video, 0:55-1:01)
  • Kicks the broken pieces of the metal clock handle away from him (First video, 1:06-1:07)
  • Falls onto the metal top of a moving train and then goes tumbling along it for a few moments (also leaving depressions in the top)...and he's fine. (First video, 1:17-1:25)
  • Reacted in time to duck under the top of a tunnel/bridge. (First video, 1:37-1:38)
  • Kicks Doctor Octopus so hard he knocks him back a ways. It takes Otto's arms holding him to up to keep him from getting put on his back (First video, 1:41)
  • Took being smashed right through metal doors and then slamming into the ones on the opposite end with enough force to leave a depression in them. (First video, 1:59-2:01).
  • Smashes through a window and is fine (First video, 2:04)
  • Reacts in time to avoid a speeding train coming from the opposite direction (First video, 2:11-2:14)
  • Falls from a great height and then lands and tumbles along a road, and remains conscious and combat capable (First video, 2:25-2:27)
  • Mask endures close-range sparks, though Spider-Man then removes it due to it's being temporarily rendered ineffective. (First video, 3:34-3:36)
  • Takes having his foot smashed against multiple tracks at a high velocity for almost ten seconds before he's finally forced to stop. While he did endure harm from this, he is shown to still be able to stand upright, showing that his leg was neither fractured nor broken. (First video, 4:00-4:10)
  • In an incredible feat of strength and pain tolerance, Spider-Man (with assistance from multiple web-lines) manages to bring a speeding and out of control train to a halt. This takes everything he had strength wise, and he collapsed from fatigue (Second video, 0:00-0:47). One bit of shameless Jesus allegory later, and Spider-Man regains consciousness, though he remains weakened enough that Doc Ock is able to one-shot him. Later though, he effortlessly breaks free of his metal restraints at Harry Osborn's house (Second video, 4:49-4:50).
  • Now, in the extended cut, some additional scenes are added. More specifically, at 2:51-2:52 of the third video, Spider-Man plants Doc Ock into the top of the train, and at 2:59-3:08 takes being slammed into the metal top of the train by Doc Ock's arms and then a window with enough force to shatter it. He then, at 3:16-3:22 takes having his head slamming into metal objects lining the train track at a high velocity, before then, at roughly 3:24 getting hit by a train, and incredibly, tanking it. No seriously. He gets hit by a train and then swings back in for another go seemingly no worse for wear. That's pretty nuts.

And here's another major scene with a lot to it...

  • Manages to web Doc Ock's tentacles together (First video, 1:24)
  • Took being thrown right through the roof of the pier warehouse (First video, 1:28)
  • Smashed through a window feet-first and is fine (First video, 1:34-1:35)
  • Kicked Doc Ock so hard he sent him smashing through the wooden floor of the warehouse (First video, 1:37-1:38)
  • With one web-line, is able to hold onto Mary Jane as she's being sucked into what is pretty much a miniature sun that has an intense gravitational pull. He manages to keep her from getting sucked in before the metal chains around her legs get sucked in and she in turn becomes more light-weight, allowing Spider-Man to pull her to safety (First video, 2:02-2:08)
  • Took having a large wooden beam slammed onto his back by Doc Ock's tentacles (First video, 2:12-2:13). He then takes being thrown into something metal and then landing hard and getting rubble dumped on top of him. (First video, 2:17-2:19)
  • At 2:41 (First video), he manages to finally best Doc Ock by putting some large cables in-between him and Doc Ock's blade, which electrocutes Doc Ock into submission.
  • Rips large cables out of their sockets (First video, 2:43-2:48) and then taking being blasted backwards by the electrical explosion (First video, 2:48-2:52).
  • Beginning at 2:58 of the second video, Spider-Man manages to (with some strain on his part) hold up a large wall of a collapsing warehouse to keep it from crushing Mary Jane and himself. He manages to hold it up until 4:03 (over a minute) before then hurling it away. Whether he did this via his own strength or because the gravitational pull of the mini-sun made it easier to dispose of the partly metal wall is unclear, but given that said mini-sun had already been drowned in the river, it's possible Spider-Man did via his own strength. Impressive either way.

And now for the Spider-Man 3 feats. As I mentioned above, I didn't actually like this movie very much, but it did have some solid action scenes that make Raimi Spider-Man look all the more impressive, so I'm including the feats from this film anyway. To begin with, Peter's first fight against New Goblin:

To go over everything here:

  • Takes punches from New Goblin throughout. This is impressive because New Goblin possess superhuman strength sufficient to rip a huge chunk of a brick wall off (1:04-1:07), and then pulverize that wall chunk with a single hit (1:14). And yet despite all of that Peter took multiple punches from him. He also took being slashed with New Goblin's wrist blades and kept fighting, as well as being hit by New Goblin's glider, which as shown later in the video can sever metal pipes, and also hit Peter so hard he went flying into a brick wall with enough force to leave a crater in it (0:37-0:39). So taking hits from the glider is impressive also.
  • Swung fast enough to be able to evade/outpace New Goblin on his glider
  • At 1:26-1:32 he took having his body slammed against the side of a building repeatedly as New Goblin flew by said building holding onto Peter's leg, and then immediately after endured being thrown right through two windows.
  • Beginning at about 1:44 he engages New Goblin in a contest of strength and ultimately manages to force him off of his own sky-stick at 1:50, also throwing him a pretty far distance.
  • At 2:04 he tanks another hit from New Goblin, but then as he falls he manages to land on the building feet-first and then roll along it, rather than tumbling along gracelessly.
  • From 2:10-2:14 he manages to outrun New Goblin on his glider while on foot, also ducking in time to evade his charge (and New Goblin's glider is here shown to be strong enough to sever metal pipes).
  • Beginning at 3:06 he manages to outpace five razor-bats hurled at him by New Goblin for a while, and even when they catch up with him and cut him he's still able to keep swinging. Also worth noting that these same razor-bats were able to effortlessly go through a metal pipe (3:06-3:07) yet only deal him slight wounds.
  • At around the 3:30 mark Peter starts neutralizing the remaining four razorbats with his webbing. He then at around 3:35 hurls a razor-bat via webbing back at New Goblin, which distracts him enough for Peter to create a web-line that New Goblin flies into, launching him off his glider and into a metal pipe that he hits with enough force to get knocked out. This ends the fight in what is a clear win for Peter.

Moves fast enough to not only catch Gwen before she falls to her death, but also moves both her and himself past some nearby rubble right before it smashes together (2:35-2:37).

At 1:16, Spider-Man takes a punch from Sandman that sends him flying out of the back of the armored truck (and through metal doors) and then onto the road, and he's fine. Beginning at about 1:37 he takes additional hits from Sandman. Now, I feel I should stress that Sandman has shown himself to be strong enough to go right through the metal roof of a truck (shown earlier in the video at 0:39), and he did hit Spider-Man hard enough to send him through the metal doors of the truck. In the video below he's shown to hit so hard that he pulverizes stone with his blows. So Sandman is clearly possessed of superhuman strength, and yet Spider-Man takes multiple hits from him. At about 1:39 he goes swinging right into the front of a bus and hits it with enough force to badly crack the front...and he's fine. At 1:42 he's hit by Sandman so hard he goes through one of the metal sides of the truck, and still he's conscious and combat capable. Finally, at around 1:52 he gets caught in a car crash that sees the truck he's in go tumbling along the road...and he comes out no worse for wear.

Before we begin with the next few, I would like to preface by saying that I don't believe that the black costume actually enhanced Spider-Man at all in the movies. Spider-Man does mention how the "power" of the symbiote feels good, but I could argue that part of that is just the intoxicating and corrupting nature of the symbiote, and that the feeling was more psychological than factual. And besides that, none of Spider-Man's showings with the symbiote were things he did not already display the ability to do strength and durability wise, so therefore in the end I argue that the symbiote did not enhance him and thus have no problem showing symbiote Spider-Man showings here. With that out of the way, the second fight against Sandman:

Lot to go through here:

  • Moves out of Sandman's way before the villain can hit him (1:58 about), and then dodges a punch from him that pulverizes the part of stone that his fist strikes instead (1:59 about)
  • With a swinging double-kick he hits Sandman and then keeps up the swing so as to get him further down the tunnel and then over the edge, causing Sandman to land on a lower track.
  • Tanks a kick from Sandman followed by a back-hand from one of his sand-fists (2:29-2:30)
  • Moves out of the way of a speeding train in time (2:31-2:32)
  • Kicks Sandman so hard he sends him right into a nearby train. Sandman then lands on something metal. (2:38-2:40)
  • Takes a head-butt from Sandman (2:50-2:51), followed by hitting the sides of two moving trains in succession (2:52-2:54), and then a punch from Sandman that sends him flying backwards into the window of a moving train (2:54-2:56), and yet he still manages to keep fighting.
  • After taking another punch to the face from Sandman, Spider-Man and Sandman land on a metal pipe. Spider-Man punches Sandman so hard that the pipe splits in two and both Spider-Man and Sandman go plummeting (3:04-3:05).
  • With a swinging double-kick he impacts a large metal pipe so hard he leaves a large depression in it (3:28 roughly).
  • Spider-Man manages to rip apart the aforementioned large metal pipe, and in doing so unleash a large torrent of water (3:32-3:40). This takes Sandman down.

Lot to go through here, too:

  • Takes a stab to the side at around 0:49, and yet keeps fighting for almost two minutes after that without getting any medical attention whatsoever. And he doesn't even look all that inconvenienced by it either.
  • Dodges a sweeping attack from Harry's arm-blades (0:58)
  • Kicks the superhuman Harry so hard he sends him flying backwards and into a nearby wall (0:59-1:00).
  • Dodges another sweeping attack from the arm blades, and then another one after that. (1:02-1:03)
  • Catches Harry's arm and holds it at bay (1:06-1:10). And again, Harry is superhuman, so keeping his arm at bay is no small feat.
  • Ducks under a stab from Harry's arm blades (1:12) and then breaks them before Harry can pull them out of the pillar (1:13)
  • Takes a kick from Harry that sends him flying into the air, crashing onto a table, and then sliding along the table (1:16-1:18). As his taunt to Harry shows, he's unfazed by this.
  • Kicks Harry so hard he sends him flying through the air and smashing through a window (1:27-1:31).
  • Stops a charge from Harry and then throws him to the side (1:40-1:42)
  • Punches through and shatters windows without injury or inconvenience (1:42-1:44)
  • Throws Harry into the air (1:47-1:49)
  • Evades strikes from Harry's sword from 2:03-2:08 and then again from 2:13 to 2:15
  • Brings Harry down at 2:50
  • Evades a pumpkin bomb thrown at him from behind at 3:00 and then via web-line returns it to sender.

And now, at long last, the big finish. Disappointing as this movie was overall they still knew how to end it on a high note, and that's this epic battle royale:

So, for that first video...

  • Takes being hit by Venom so hard his body obliterates the top of the taxi cab (which includes a lot of broken glass), and he's fine (1:13-1:15).
  • Takes being whacked by Venom and then falling pretty far before landing in Venom's web-net (1:33-1:37).
  • Takes Venom dropping on top of him from a great height (1:43)
  • Breaks one hand free of Venom's webbing (2:36)
  • Managed to contend with Venom for a time before then getting hit by him repeatedly. Spider-Man takes these hits as he plummets before then ripping off some of Venom's goo/webbing. He then tries using webbing to swing to safety and keep from hitting the ground outright, but he still tumbles along it. He remains conscious and combat capable after this happens however (2:40-3:05).
  • Cart-wheels out of the way of a punch from Giant Sandman (3:53)

And for video #2:

  • Takes first a swing kick from Venom that then sends him flying into metal, then falling onto more metal, and then getting a double-kick from Venom that sent him falling and crashing onto yet more metal (0:21-0:27). He gets back up, and is still able to fight.
  • Beginning at 0:40 and ending at 1:28 (meaning this all went on for 48 seconds), Venom attempts to strangle him via his own webbing. While Spider-Man is resisting Venom's efforts to strangle him, giant Sandman repeatedly slams his fist down on Spider-Man, hitting him at least half a dozen times (possibly more while MJ was looking up at the car and while the anchorman was talking), and yet even after the fifth one Spider-Man was still conscious and reaching for Mary Jane. That he is up and talking (and fighting) again very shortly after New Goblin comes to his rescue is also noteworthy, showing he wasn't taken out for very long, even though he'd been hit with a giant sand fist at least six times while also being strangled for almost a minute. And remember: Sandman when human sized was able to pulverize stone with his blows and when bigger then that but still far, far smaller than he is here was able to go right through an armored car roof. Just imagine how much damage giant Sandman's fists could do going by that. And yet Spider-Man took six hits from him (while being strangled), and after getting just a few moments to regain his strength is back on his feet.
  • After being thrown by New Goblin he kicks Venom so hard he not only sends him upwards, but through a metal floor and then ultimately hitting a girder so hard he bends it a bit. (2:31-2:33)

But wait! One last video!

  • Took a direct hit from giant Sandman that sent him flying into something metal that he then hit at what must have been some kind of velocity before then falling and landing hard onto a metal surface. (0:15-0:18)
  • Thrown right into a girder that he hits face-first (1:06) before then being punched by Venom (1:07) and then falling onto a wooden table before tumbling along the ground (1:08-1:11). He is still conscious even after all of this.
  • Smacked across the face three times by Venom with a large metal pipe. That Venom's superhuman means these strikes will be hitting even harder than if it were a normal person (1:15-1:25). He is still conscious, and his face isn't cut or bleeding at all, though it does look a bit bruised. However, considering everything he's taken at this point, it's unclear what specifically caused those.
  • At around 2:46-2:47 he breaks free of Venom's webbing at last. He breaks free of the other web-line at 2:54-2:55. From there he (with the metal pipe Venom used) hits him so hard he knocks him back a ways.
  • From 3:02/3:03-3:12, he plunges multiple metal pipes into a concrete floor, putting enough force forward to successfully put them in the ground. He was also during this able to hit Venom with a metal pipe so hard he knocked him back to the ground.
  • With a single web-line, Spider-Man manages to (with some difficulty) pull Eddie Brock out of the Venom symbiote (3:22-3:28).

Phew. That was a lot to go through. But, it's finally done!

So to sum everything up:

Strength

  • When younger, grabbed Flash Thompson's wrist and applied enough pressure to hurt him before then sending him flying down a hallway with one punch.
  • Also when still green, punched right through the metal roof of a car, before later punching through it's glass front with enough force to shatter it.
  • Dislocated, fractured, or broke a man's wrist and in so doing disarmed him of his gun
  • Repeatedly pulled people with enough force to send them flying backwards via his web-lines.
  • Punched right through the metal bottom of Green Goblin's glider and damaged it.
  • Repeatedly showed he could grab and swing with fully grown adults in his arms.
  • Destroyed metal razor-bats with his bare-hands.
  • Hit the Green Goblin hard enough to knock him into the air once, and then kicked him hard enough to send him flying back several feet.
  • Sent two thugs flying into the air and through nearby windows at the same time.
  • Held onto a cable attached to a cable-car full of people with one arm for first over a minute and then again for almost another minute, and both times he did not let go because he could not hold on any longer.
  • Kept the Green Goblin's polearm at bay while injured and then sent him flying through the air when he pushed him away.
  • Brought down a brick wall on the Green Goblin via webbing.
  • Ripped machinery panels out of the wall they were attached to by pulling on their cables.
  • Burst out of a pile of rubble and sent most of it flying as he did.
  • Held onto a large metal clock-hand attached to a web-line with one arm and then hurled it with enough force to send it rocketing up at Doctor Octopus and also smashing through stone and then embedding itself in metal.
  • Kicked the broken pieces of the aforementioned metal clock handle away from himself.
  • Smashed right through a window feet-first several times.
  • With assistance from his web-lines brought a speeding train to a halt (maximum of what he is capable of, as he fainted from exertion afterwards).
  • Effortlessly broke free of metal restraints
  • Kicked Doc Ock so hard he sent him smashing through the wooden floor of the warehouse.
  • With one web-line, was able to hold onto Mary Jane as she was being sucked into what was pretty much a miniature sun that had an intense gravitational pull.
  • Ripped large cables out of their sockets.
  • Managed to (with some strain on his part) hold up a large wall of a collapsing warehouse to keep it from crushing Mary Jane and himself. He managed to hold it up for over a minute before then hurling it away, the latter part possibly assisted by the mini-sun's gravitational pull sucking it in.
  • Engaged the superhuman New Goblin in a contest of strength and ultimately managed to force him off of his own sky-stick, also throwing him a pretty far distance.
  • Kicked Sandman so hard he sent him hurtling into a train.
  • Punched Sandman so hard the pipe he and Spider-Man were on, already possibly damaged from their landing on it, split in two and gave way.
  • With a swinging double-kick he busted metal
  • Ripped apart a large metal pipe and in doing so unleashing a huge torrent of water.
  • Kicked the superhuman New Goblin so hard he sent him flying backwards and into a nearby wall. In this same fight he also caught Harry's arm and held it at bay for a time, kicked Harry so hard he sent him flying through the air and smashing through a window, stopped a charge from him and then threw him to the side, punched and shattered windows with ease, and threw Harry into the air.
  • Broke free of Venom's restraining webbing after being held by it for a time. Did this twice.
  • With assistance from the momentum that would have been generated by New Goblin throwing him, he hit Venom so hard he sent him through a metal/concrete floor and then flying through that and onto a girder that Venom hit hard enough to bend it slightly.
  • Could (with assistance from metal pipes) hit Venom hard enough to knock him back a ways.
  • Plunged multiple metal pipes into a concrete ground, bringing to bear enough strength to be able to put them in the ground.

Agility (Melee)

  • Dodged every single one of Flash Thompson's punches when younger, along with an attack from behind by one of Flash's friends.
  • Dodged charges from Bone Saw the wrestler
  • Dodged knife strikes from Dennis Carradine
  • Repeatedly dodged or in some cases parried attacks from Doc Ock's mechanical arms, which go as fast as Otto can think (due to being controlled by his mind).
  • Dodged sword strikes from New Goblin repeatedly.
  • Reacted in time to duck under the top of a tunnel/bridge while fighting on top of a moving train.
  • Ducked in time to avoid New Goblin zooming towards him on his metal-pipe severing glider.
  • Evaded punches from Sandman
  • Dodged multiple hits from New Goblin's arm blades
  • Dodged multiple attacks from New Goblin's sword, both when on foot and when web-swinging.
  • Evaded a punch from Giant Sandman

Agility (Long Range)

  • Evades first two razor bats at once and then three at once, before then dodging the razor-bats as they make their return trips (showing he can dodge weapons with a boomerang/ricochet feature) and then two that were coming at him from different directions at once.
  • Evaded machine gun fire while web-swinging for roughly 10 seconds.
  • Dodged bags of money hurled at him by Doctor Octopus for roughly 6 seconds, and then again for four more seconds before his being distracted by his webbing disappearing causes him to get tagged.
  • Dodged a taxi cab door thrown at him by Doc Ock
  • Reacted in time to avoid a speeding train coming from the opposite direction.
  • Moved out of the way of a speeding train during his fight with Sandman
  • Dodged a pumpkin bomb thrown at him from behind by New Goblin

Durability

  • When younger took being hit in the head with a metal folding chair being chair twice followed by two more strikes to the back and then being slammed into the metal walls of a cage ring.
  • Took a hit from the superhuman Green Goblin that sent him flying several feet through the air and through multiple tables, glass, and finally crashing into a metal lamppost with enough force to bring it down.
  • Took being slammed into a glass window by the Green Goblin at a high velocity and then having his head slammed into what was left of the window (including metal) three times.
  • Took falling off Green Goblin's glider, onto the ground below.
  • Took a punch from the Green Goblin that sent him flying several feet and through a wooden door along with follow-up hits (and also a cut from a razor-bat).
  • Took (in order): two punches from Green Goblin, being sent through a brick wall, smashing through a glass window, a pumpkin bomb blowing up in his face, smashing through a brick wall from the force of said blast, slamming into something metal and then falling onto a pile of bricks, and getting the tar beaten out of him by Green Goblin. Was only temporarily downed by all of this and still remained conscious, also being able to keep fighting.
  • Plummeted before landing on a pair of large metal pipes with enough force to bend them badly. Walked it off/shrugged it off.
  • Tanked a bag of metal coins being thrown right at his chest with enough force to destroy the bag and then the fall to the ground.
  • Head endured the attempts by Otto's superhumanly strong mechanical arms to crush it for 10 seconds.
  • Took multiple hits from the aforementioned super strong mechanical arms on multiple occasions.
  • Took being hit by a thrown taxi's trunk door, the impact sending him flying back into the bank. And he was fine.
  • Took being smashed into a brick wall by Doc Ock's arms repeatedly
  • Took being smashed into book shelves by Doc Ock's arms
  • Took being smashed into windows by Dock Ock's arms, as well as being sent flying into them.
  • Took plummeting and then slamming into the side of a building during his fall before then landing on a garbage bin before then finally falling onto the pavement ground.
  • Endured being thrown backwards into a wall and then having a bunch of rubble fall on him.
  • During his train fight with Doc Ock endured all of the following in order: falling onto the metal top of a moving train and then going tumbling along it for a few moments (also leaving depressions in the top), being smashed right through metal doors and then slamming into the ones on the opposite end with enough force to leave a depression in them, smashed through a window, falling from a great height and then landing and tumbling along the road, being slammed into the metal top of the train repeatedly and then through a window (extended version), having his head slamming into metal objects lining the train tracks at a high velocity (extended version), getting hit by a train (extended version), putting his foot in front of train tracks (which causes it to smash through several at a high velocity), and finally the strength feat where he stops the train (this finally causes him to faint from exertion).
  • Took being thrown right through the roof of a warehouse
  • Took being blasted backwards by an electrical explosion caused by pulling large cables out of their sockets.
  • Took having a large wooden beam slammed onto his back by Doc Ock's tentacles. He then took being thrown into something metal and then landing hard and getting rubble dumped on top of him.
  • Took multiple punches on two different occasions fron New Goblin, who was strong enough to rip a huge chunk of a brick wall off, and then pulverize that wall chunk with a single hit.
  • Took being hit by New Goblin's glider (which itself can sever metal pipes just by flying through them and also bust/destroy other metal objects) so hard he went flying into a brick wall and hitting it so hard he left a man-sized crater in it.
  • In his first fight with New Goblin was able to keep fighting and swinging even after sustaining first a slash from New Goblin's arm blades and then cuts from the razor-bats, which themselves could effortlessly go through a metal pipe. He also took having his body slammed against the side of a building repeatedly as New Goblin flew by said building holding onto Peter's leg, and then immediately after endured being thrown right through two windows.
  • Took a punch from Sandman that sent him flying out of the back of an armored truck and through metal doors and then onto the road. Shortly after this he took additional hits from Sandman, who's sand-fists could pulverize stone. This was then followed by Spider-Man being hit so hard he went through one of the metal sides of the truck, and then this in turn was followed by Spider-Man going right into the front of a bus and hitting it with enough force to crack the windshield. And yet he shrugged all of this off.
  • Following all of the injuries described directly above, was caught in a car crash that saw the armored car he was in go tumbling along the road. And he came out no worse for wear.
  • Tanked a kick from Sandman followed by a back-hand from one of his stone-destroying sand fists.
  • Took a head-butt from Sandman followed by hitting the sides of two moving trains in succession, and then after that a punch from Sandman that sent him flying into a window on one of the moving trains that he then hit with enough force to shatter it. Pressed on.
  • Took a stab to the side from a knife and yet kept fighting for almost two minutes after that without getting any medical attention at all. Did not look the least bit inconvenienced by this.
  • Took a kick from Harry that sent him flying into the air, crashing onto a table, and then sliding along said table. Unfazed.
  • In his last fight in the trilogy took multiple hits from the superhuman Venom, as well as (in order): being hit by Venom so hard his body obliterated the top of the taxi he was on, falling from a great height onto a web-net after one of the hits from Venom, tumbling along the ground, a swing kick from Venom that sent him flying into metal before then falling onto more metal, another swinging double-kick from Venom that sent him falling and landing on a girder, and a 48 second long strangulation from Venom while simultaneously being hit by giant Sandman at least six times (possibly more), the latter of which only very briefly KOs him. He is soon standing and fighting again, not long after being bailed out by New Goblin.
  • All of what was just described was followed not long after by his taking a direct hit from giant Sandman that then sent him right into metal at a high velocity before then falling and landing hard onto a metal surface. This then in turn was soon followed by his being thrown into a girder face-first, being punched by Venom so hard he went flying through the air before then hitting a table and going tumbling along the ground, and being smacked across the face by Venom wielding a large piece of metal three times. And yet after all of this, he's still conscious and is only a bit bruised.

Webbing

  • Said to have tensile strength proportionate to that of the cables used in bridge building.
  • Could blind the Green Goblin
  • Could hold up a police car and keep it from falling on top of a crowd
  • Web bullets could hurt criminals enough to wind them and give Spider-Man time to close the distance. Could also throw off their aim.
  • A single line of it could hold Spider-Man while he was holding onto a large cable attached to a cable car (albeit barely).
  • Multiple lines of it helped Spider-Man bring a speeding and out of control train to a halt.
  • Could neutralize razor-bats that could effortlessly go through a metal pipe

Fighting Skills

  • Soundly trounced Flash Thompson (when younger)
  • Also when younger, beat professional wrestler Bone Saw in a cage match in less than a minute, even when the latter resorted to blatant cheating to give himself an edge.
  • Stomped Dennis Carradine
  • Took out at least four (maybe six) thugs accosting Mary Jane in less than half a minute.
  • Fended off the Green Goblin twice, and in their third encounter managed to gain the upper hand to the point that Green Goblin cried uncle.
  • Fought evenly with Doctor Octopus twice, beating him with some environmental aid in Round 3.
  • Beat New Goblin twice
  • Beat Sandman while bloodlusted (albeit with assistance from water)
  • Contended with Venom before coming to be on the losing end before then finally beating him after exploiting his symbiote's weakness to sonic vibrations.

And that's everything. With all of that out of the way, I hope you come to respect the Sam Raimi Spider-Man as much as I do.

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"Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: With Great Power, comes Great Responsibility. This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man."

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