Some superheroes have sidekicks, and others don't. But do you think Spider-Man should and could have a sidekick? We all know it won't happen, and if it does. That will change Spider-Man forever. He has had partners alot of times, but do you think he is too young to have such a person to be his sidekick? Or maybe himself could be a sidekick to someone else. Like (out of the blue) Daredevil, or Moonknight. And do you think any of the people of who he has partnered up with think of him as a sidekick? So many questions that we may never know about. 

 

The point of Spider-Man is that he's still trying to figure out who he is. He's great for teamups, but I couldn't see him having a Batman/Robin dynamic with someone where they plan an execute an operation on an ongoing basis. At most, I'd see him with a partner for a couple issues, or maybe an arc. Some kid that wants to be a hero, but doesn't stick around too long. Having Spider-Man be a mentor means he's got his life figured out enough that he can worry about someone else's: that's rarely the case.

The age of the sidekick is dead and should remain dead. I'm fine with the occasional mentor / apprentice thing, but sidekick? No.

She needs to get web shooters.

" The age of the sidekick is dead and should remain dead. I'm fine with the occasional mentor / apprentice thing, but sidekick? No. "

" The age of the sidekick is dead and should remain dead. I'm fine with the occasional mentor / apprentice thing, but sidekick? No. "

@mattdemers:  
 
Yeah Peter Parker can barely take care of himself. It's fine for him to be a role model, but a sidekick is a recipe for disaster.

" @War Killer:   Nomad is a current-age sidekick, more or less. But I don't like to simply chalk off young heroes as sidekicks. To me, to be a sidekick you have to serve directly under another hero and just be his wingman - getting little to no recognition. I'm in favor of schools for heroes-in-training. "

NO!, that SHOULD NOT happen, Stan Lee created Spider-man because he HATED the sidekicks, he was the first teenager superhero, all alone, and he stayed like this...
until he joined the Avengers in 2005, and currently he is with the FF, and he is also a X-men... But he stills alone in his life...
NO Araña is not his sidekick, she is just another girl that loves Spiders... (damn)

Ya know, this is one of the indications Marvel won't let Peter grow up, he has no sidekick to succeed him when he steps down. Lets be honest, who has he impacted the most out of all the spider totems based on his experience and knowledge of the world so far, answer? None. He leaves a few tips here or there but he never works life experience or has a hand in molding them from the ground up as a father like figure with superheroic insight and wisdom.

He in a sense is still a child in spirit and never really matured after Ben died, he became a self-styled martyr who self inflicts his failures in order not to grow up and take responsibility for his own sake.

Spidey and Silk

Absolutely not. Spidey works best alone with the occasional random team up.

Couldn't hurt. Would probably help people realize that Peter is an adult who has been there and done just about everything this superhero life brings, and he has a lot to teach.

^This^

How about Black Widow, Jessica Drew, Tigra, and She-Hulk respectively?

Sure! why not , that would be cool from time to time. I love the Marvel Team Up stories that featured Black Widow. It seems back then that she would seek Spidey out and they had a great crime fighting partnership.

No, especially not right now. These days 616 Spider-Man is a sidekick to anyone who decides to be a Superhero in New York City.

So true. Spider-Man has been sidelined in his own book as an incompetent, ineffectual, bumbling and hedonistic buffoon. The devil-dealing 616 Mephisto-verse Peter Parker, truly showcases stupid editorial mandates, poor writing and the most absurd character derailment ever facilitated upon a flagship character.

I will always regard the pre OMD Peter Parker as the one and only true Amazing Spider-Man.

@magnetic_eye said:

So true. Spider-Man has been sidelined in his own book as an incompetent, ineffectual, bumbling and hedonistic buffoon. The devil-dealing 616 Mephisto-verse Peter Parker, truly showcases stupid editorial mandates, poor writing and the most absurd character derailment ever facilitated upon a flagship character.

I will always regard the pre OMD Peter Parker as the one and only true Amazing Spider-Man.

I'm still holding out hope that the real Peter Parker can come back someday. Maybe now that Spider-Man is in the MCU they'll start respecting him in comics again. Honestly why would any new Superhero want Mephisto-Man to teach them anything, if he can't do anything without someone else's help? He's not inspiring, or even good at what he does and he's supposedly been doing this for a while. Maybe preOMD Peter Parker could have mentored someone, but as of now it is out of the question.

@magnetic_eye said:

@clonesaga2099 said:

No, especially not right now. These days 616 Spider-Man is a sidekick to anyone who decides to be a Superhero in New York City.

So true. Spider-Man has been sidelined in his own book as an incompetent, ineffectual, bumbling and hedonistic buffoon. The devil-dealing 616 Mephisto-verse Peter Parker, truly showcases stupid editorial mandates, poor writing and the most absurd character derailment ever facilitated upon a flagship character.

I will always regard the pre OMD Peter Parker as the one and only true Amazing Spider-Man.

How is it that some writers like Gerry Conway could do a very good Spider-Man/Peter Parker story and avoid making him into an incompetent, ineffectual, bumbling and hedonistic buffoon.

That Alpha kid was the worst, wtf happened to him by the way? Maybe he could take Miles under his wings in post Secret Wars Marvel.

@the_kidd:

I think Alpha just moved away and no one cared.

@darthfury78:

It's because guys like Conway try to understand the characters they write. Slott just wants to make established characters look like chumps so his own created characters look better by comparison. Unfortunately for him, he's a lousy writer and most of these characters end up flat and will probably be forgotten, hopefully, like Alpha.

Looks like Marvel wants Peter to play the mentor role by having a sidekick. Which confirms from my original point, Marvel hates how Peter isn't really doing anything as special as the other superheroes instead of you know being better.

I hope Alpha never comeback he was an annoying insufferable Gary Stu, like a Marvelize version of Damien Wayne. Yeah Slott is obsess with using the wolf effect, he also did it recently with Silk.

Gerry Conway understands the character very well. He is a professional writer with a proven track record across other disciplines of writing, for example (TV script-writing).

Dan Slott is better at cartoon dialogue, is more interested in his own bland characters that have no appeal or depth and his own self-imposed faux celebrity status whilst trolling the internet.

Black cat was pretty good as a sidekick, but Spiderman isn't mentor material when compared to the likes of Batman or captain america

People are convinced Mary Jane is this when moaning about him not being married to him and being a satellite concubine around him without her own individual stories and development.

Twenty-eight years on and people have no reason to doubt she is a great sidekick to him if they know where to look. Probably the best sidekick in fiction.

Let me know how your dating life gets on will you Jimmy? I've a feeling your attitudes towards dedicated life partners will make you a ball with the ladies in that department[/sarcasm]

^Yeah I'm ignoring you. You just can't be seriously.

MJ is gonna be Aunt May status from now on.

As far as sidekick(aka allies, equal partners), I think that Tigra, Jessica Drew, Black Widow, and Jennifer Walters could worked well with Peter over the course of generations, as well as Psylocke, and Carol Danvers because all of them could be Miles Morales's mentors as well. I would like to see The Black Widow mentor Miles, as well as Jessica Drew.

But think that the only person who would have made a good mentor for Peter Parker is The Black Widow and The Tasksmaster.

@darthfury78: have to disagree there. Black widow is an assasin and can't really teach pete how to use his powers to help people and fight crime and taskmaster is sometimes a borderline villian. For me captain America, iron man, black panther, maney Hawkeye can mentor pete

Spidey is more experienced than both Stark and Clint - not to mention more powerful. He should be mentoring them. Cap and Panther would be nice to see, though Shang Chi has already taught him some cool skills.

@blackspidey2099: Iron man and Hawkeye have more experience than spidey, Clint been training and killing long before spidey was in high school and Tony always been around before spidey. Tony is more powerful than spiderman due to his intellect, resources, and ....his suit. Clint is not more powerful but still delivers with him being one of the best marksman, one time ninja and captain America, and top sheild agent. I feel like how Peter life is a mentor/sidekick would need to be a younger/older version of him.

@dcmarveljoseph: well, Iron Man's first appearance is in 1963, a year after Peter's. Also, Spidey has appeared in more comic book issues than Iron Man. Therefore, due to a career that started before Tony's and is longer than Tony's, Spidey is undoubtedly more experienced. Hawkeye can be considered more experienced if we allow for his combat experience before his appearances in comics. Anyways, Spidey could easily beat Iron Man. With prep, he juices himself on Parker Particles and rips through Iron Man. Without prep, he uses his superior speed and agility, in combination with his strength and uncanny ability to stick to objects, in order to rip off a small piece of the armour. Then, he inserts his finger through and flicks it - the great force will knock Tony out.

I think that the Black Widow and Spider-Man can learn a lot from each other.

@blackspidey2099: Spidey catching petty thugs and supervillian doesn't really amount to Iron man going against terrorist, magical threats, super villians, etc. Iron man can wipe out a entire army base in seconds and go toe to toe with thor and hulk. I love spidey but even he can't survive a missle to the face....missles

@dcmarveljoseph: dude, I just explained to you how Iron Man loses to Spidey, with or without prep. Did you even bother reading my earlier post? He doesn't need to survive a missile to the face since he can just web it and throw it back - different skills. That doesn't mean Spidey can't beat Tony. Read my earlier post and you can see how easily Peter could beat Tony if he had to.

@blackspidey2099: If Iron man is in the air both of your points are out the window" iron man is a walking armory, forget the wave of lasers, missles, and energy repulsed she could rain on spiderman or a missle with an last radius that not even Spiderman could escape. Iron man can take off his armor, aim and put it on spiderman than fly him to the son

Of course, Spider-Man could never dodge the armor. And somehow Tony Stark can levitate in the air without the armor and wouldn't be killed. /sarcasm

Anyways, with prep time and juiced up on Parker Particles, Spidey is powered by the energy of the universe. None of Iron Man's attacks would hurt him. He can fly faster than him. And he can rip off his armor in one shot. Tony has no chance.

@blackspidey2099: , lets give parker a week, where would he get the particles that he ko ly used in a few issues? Each part of the armor could catch up to Peter. Tony went up against the likes of thor and hulk. IWhile spidey is in close quarters the failsafes on them suit would electrocute him or iron man can unibeam him, Peter can't rip off all of Tony's armor in one moved, that doesnt even makes any sense. And if your giving Peter the powers of the universe, that isn't even spidey vs ironman any more

@dcmarveljoseph: he didn't get the particles - he built some sort of reactor thing which enabled them to be used or something. It's still Spidey vs Iron Man since they can do whatever they want with their prep time. So, according to you, it's fair if Iron Man uses his Hulkbuster suit (his best gear) but Peter can't? Anyways, Peter has ripped of Tony's armour on 2 occasions - once in One More Day while Tony was wearing the Extremis armour and once in Amazing Spider-Man: Who Am I? infinite comics while Tony was wearing his Model 42 Marvel Now armour. Even Winter Soldier ripped off Tony's face plate in the Extremis armour.