Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider as a teenager, granting him spider-like powers. After the death of his Uncle Ben, Peter learned that "with great power, comes great responsibility." Swearing to always protect the innocent from harm, Peter Parker became Spider-Man.
Is he really able to run 200 miles an hour, or can he in fact cover 200 miles in an hour by a mix of jumping, webbing or running? Because running 200 miles an hour is too much even for him, he's no Formula 1 car.
Spidey's webs can only hold the Hulk if he stops and lets them dry (like the Hulk would do that). And even if they do dry, they wouldn't hold him for long.
That's bullcrap. Spider-man's feats over the years have proven he can take down Hulk. If anything, nowaday comics that make it look like Spidey is helpless to defeat the Hulk are bad plot devices. Rhino is basically like a mini version of Hulk (able to lift over 80 tons and skin is indestructible), and Spidey has proven at least twice that when he takes a battle seriously he can defeat Rhinio too easily for words.
OMG yes Spidey is severely underestimated, for the past decade Marvel has been castrating the guy. The man could knock thugs out with the flick of his finger and take out the whole X-men like it was nothing, he's even made a fool of Thor. Now Spider-woman can fight/beat him (and yeah I know he didn't have his Spider-sense but Spidey still shouldn't have even felt her punches) and the thought of Spidey fighting heroes like Iron Man or Hulk usually follow with laughs. Ask this same question around twenty years ago, people would say the exact opposite. Once in every blue moon we'll see a writer that gives us the same Spidey that was created decades ago, but most of them are facepalm worthy. I know Batman is badass and all but he can't beat Spider-man on his best day, no...just, no.
This is exacly why i sayed people say spider-man is not the best he is the best he saved reality by him self and even beat thanos and thanos is a problem even with the avengers and spidey is one of the few characters who are smart enough to beat an opponent in battle he uses his head not his fists unlike thor and the hulk and spidey even over rided iron man's armor his martial arts the way of the spider is not stupid in fact now thanks to the traning and he got his spider sense back he is two times harder to beat he can even fight with the best fighters in the world blind folded these are his strenghts
can lift 10 tons
can run 200 miles an hour
his way of the spider fighting style can out match any martial art in the world
has saved reality dozens of times
has 250IQ (he is even smarter then hank pym he even admited it him self)
He has more girlfriends more then any super hero (this is not really an advantage but its true)
Also spidey doesent care what people tell him if he is weak or strong or a show off but he is truly your friendly neighbor hood spider man.
This is exacly why i sayed people say spider-man is not the best he is the best he saved reality by him self and even beat thanos and thanos is a problem even with the avengers and spidey is one of the few characters who are smart enough to beat an opponent in battle he uses his head not his fists unlike thor and the hulk and spidey even over rided iron man's armor his martial arts the way of the spider is not stupid in fact now thanks to the traning and he got his spider sense back he is two times harder to beat he can even fight with the best fighters in the world blind folded these are his strenghts
can lift 10 tons
can run 200 miles an hour
his way of the spider fighting style can out match any martial art in the world
has saved reality dozens of times
has 250IQ (he is even smarter then hank pym he even admited it him self)
He has more girlfriends more then any super hero (this is not really an advantage but its true)
Also spidey doesent care what people tell him if he is weak or strong or a show off but he is truly your friendly neighbor hood spider man.
That art is for superior Spider-Man, who isn't Peter Parker. But as for your points,
He has feats which make his 10 tonner status very, very conservative. I'd say he's stronger than that.
In Dashing speed <50 meters, I'd say he's considerably faster than that, as he dodges bullets at point blank after they have been fired, speed blitzes opponents moving faster than the eye can follow e.t.c. Over longer distances I'd wouldn't say 200 mph, since one of his rogues, Speed-Demon, ran at 250 mph and was considerable faster than him. But Spider-Man has easily outran Kraven and his Cheetah's who can run at 60 mph, caught up to and outran someone wearing rocket propelled boots (the World record for Rocket-Propelled boots is 72 mph), and Perhaps most impressively caught up to van going at 90 mph from a standing start very quickly. Spider-Man is 100 mph plus, but 200 mph is pushing it IMO TBH. But web-slinging makes running unneeded.
The way of the Spider is very effective and has improved his skills no doubt, but they are still many who outclass him in skill by a wide margin such as Wolverine, Panther, Shang-Chi, Fist. Peter probably deserves a 5 on the H2H combat scale, but the guys I mentioned should all be a 7.
The whole of reality? The world, yes, Ends of the earth to be exact. New York, yes. But Reality? That's pushing it.
True. Reed Richards has also admitted that Peter often sees things better from a biological standpoint than he does.
Iron Man would say no on that one. But he has got a way with the ladies. Chameleon even was even surprised at how beautiful all of Peter's friends who were girls were.
Here in Comic-Vine, I think people in general have a very good understanding of what Spider-Man can and cannot do. He is a grey level character, probably above street-level, but below characters like Jack Hawksmoor and Midnighter, and putting him in a random encounter against most Streets result in him winning without too much trouble. Among people who are new to comics, I'd say that they neglect his strength and durability and only focus on his speed and agility, which is a shame. That's why you have that infernal Batman vs Spider-Man debate, which thankfully no one does around here anymore.
I mean he has been overrated as well. Him nearly killing Fire-lord is really, really bad writing. In fact, throughout the Secret Wars, he was hyped up pretty excessively. He made the X-Men look like noobs, despite the fact that they had people he shouldn't really be taking down, such as Rogue with Ms Marvel's powers, Colossus, Storm and Xavier (how the hell did get the drop on an Omega level Telepath?). He also trashed Titania, who had just come off destroying She-Hulk, with ease. Then Overpowered her again with Absorbing Man- Absorbing Man had to resort to using endangering innocents to stop Peter fighting them.
Overall, A cool character though, and the undisputed poster boy of marvel.
Ya sorry i put the superior spider man picture but is was the best one i could fine since i was busy but for me spidey is just a challenge for every one and his intellect is so high hank pym said he was smarter then him since peter made web shooters when he was 15
Ya sorry i put the superior spider man picture but is was the best one i could fine since i was busy but for me spidey is just a challenge for every one and his intellect is so high hank pym said he was smarter then him since peter made web shooters when he was 15
Yeah, Hank also talked about how he was able to get his spider-tracers to merge with the frequency of his Spider-Sense, within such small tech as the Spider tracers. I like Dan Slott alot, partly because recently, he's showing how intelligent Spider-Man can be.
This is exacly why i sayed people say spider-man is not the best he is the best he saved reality by him self and even beat thanos and thanos is a problem even with the avengers and spidey is one of the few characters who are smart enough to beat an opponent in battle he uses his head not his fists unlike thor and the hulk and spidey even over rided iron man's armor his martial arts the way of the spider is not stupid in fact now thanks to the traning and he got his spider sense back he is two times harder to beat he can even fight with the best fighters in the world blind folded these are his strenghts
can lift 10 tons
can run 200 miles an hour
his way of the spider fighting style can out match any martial art in the world
has saved reality dozens of times
has 250IQ (he is even smarter then hank pym he even admited it him self)
He has more girlfriends more then any super hero (this is not really an advantage but its true)
Also spidey doesent care what people tell him if he is weak or strong or a show off but he is truly your friendly neighbor hood spider man.
That art is for superior Spider-Man, who isn't Peter Parker. But as for your points,
He has feats which make his 10 tonner status very, very conservative. I'd say he's stronger than that.
In Dashing speed <50 meters, I'd say he's considerably faster than that, as he dodges bullets at point blank after they have been fired, speed blitzes opponents moving faster than the eye can follow e.t.c. Over longer distances I'd wouldn't say 200 mph, since one of his rogues, Speed-Demon, ran at 250 mph and was considerable faster than him. But Spider-Man has easily outran Kraven and his Cheetah's who can run at 60 mph, caught up to and outran someone wearing rocket propelled boots (the World record for Rocket-Propelled boots is 72 mph), and Perhaps most impressively caught up to van going at 90 mph from a standing start very quickly. Spider-Man is 100 mph plus, but 200 mph is pushing it IMO TBH. But web-slinging makes running unneeded.
The way of the Spider is very effective and has improved his skills no doubt, but they are still many who outclass him in skill by a wide margin such as Wolverine, Panther, Shang-Chi, Fist. Peter probably deserves a 5 on the H2H combat scale, but the guys I mentioned should all be a 7.
The whole of reality? The world, yes, Ends of the earth to be exact. New York, yes. But Reality? That's pushing it.
True. Reed Richards has also admitted that Peter often sees things better from a biological standpoint than he does.
Iron Man would say no on that one. But he has got a way with the ladies. Chameleon even was even surprised at how beautiful all of Peter's friends who were girls were.
Here in Comic-Vine, I think people in general have a very good understanding of what Spider-Man can and cannot do. He is a grey level character, probably above street-level, but below characters like Jack Hawksmoor and Midnighter, and putting him in a random encounter against most Streets result in him winning without too much trouble. Among people who are new to comics, I'd say that they neglect his strength and durability and only focus on his speed and agility, which is a shame. That's why you have that infernal Batman vs Spider-Man debate, which thankfully no one does around here anymore.
I mean he has been overrated as well. Him nearly killing Fire-lord is really, really bad writing. In fact, throughout the Secret Wars, he was hyped up pretty excessively. He made the X-Men look like noobs, despite the fact that they had people he shouldn't really be taking down, such as Rogue with Ms Marvel's powers, Colossus, Storm and Xavier (how the hell did get the drop on an Omega level Telepath?). He also trashed Titania, who had just come off destroying She-Hulk, with ease. Then Overpowered her again with Absorbing Man- Absorbing Man had to resort to using endangering innocents to stop Peter fighting them.
Overall, A cool character though, and the undisputed poster boy of marvel.
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He actually has saved all of reality at least a couple times. Once for sure with the Avengers against Nebula (Thanos' niece) when everyone else was literally gone, everything was saved when Spider-Man used his webbing to pull the plug on the machine Nebula had used to make most of existence dissapear.
The point is that spidey never really uses all of his power. He is very reserved. He has let himself go only a couple of times and these times he beath the crap out of Firelord, whole Kravinoff family etc.
out of every thing i still don't get a follow by the way he had 2 video games where he saved reality and it's spider-man shatterd dimeonsions and edge of time
@sammystorm75: I believe you'll have to prove a lot of the statements you've just made. Ability to run at 200 miles an hour? Web fluid strong enought to restrain the Hulk? I think you're really exaggerating his abilities. He's powerful, but not that powerful. And I'd suggest that trying to prove your points through videogames; they're not the same as the comics.
@sammystorm75: Actually he can lift 15 tons, he's suceptible to bug poison, he can only dodge gunfire from moderate distances, and you forgot that he has a healing factor and can even control insects. I was actually about to make this post myself because Spider-Man is very underestimated.
Why are people so against the notion that he can run 200 mph? He's already shown to be faster then the human eye. Plus he says he has the proportionate speed of a spider (which is faster then you think). Spiders (depending on the species) have run at speeds that range from 33 to 48 times their body length per second. Peter is 5foot10inches tall so since he is constantly boasting about having the proportionate speed and strength of a spider Peter should be able to move at these speeds which for his size ranges at about 130 to 190 mph. I don't know about you guys but I see no reason to argue with that logic since there is no reason for spidey to be slower than his namesake. Heck he maybe even faster than that. The guys strength is already blown out of proportion for a spider so why shouldn't he be at least as fast if not faster than any spider?
Spiderman is very under-estimated and was certainly more of a force to be reckoned with in the older comics. I am reading the Death of Gwen Stacey book at the moment, where he comprehensively smashes Luke Cage, who is a powerhouse with almost impervious skin. The combination of being able to lift 15 tons, amazing reflexes, jumping, leaping and astonishing durability really, makes him a match for much stronger bricks. In fact the ASM2 did quite a good job of show casing Spidey's abilities. He is much more impressive than in ASM1.
I used to think Batman could take down Spidey, but getting back into my Spiderman books again recently have done a complete U Turn on that one!!
Look,till the 90s Spider-Man was the best and strongest in the Marvel Universe....... He could take on anyone,and he did....in Secret Wars he beat up all of the X-Men with an ease. In Annual one he beat up the Avengers with an ease. He beat up Firelord,for God's sake!!.....this is a Silver Surfer villian!!!!
If Civil War happened in the 80s,it would have been Tony's side,Cap's side and Spider-Man's side.......and Spidey would beat everyone by himself....
So,no.....only young new superhero readers/enthousiasts underestimate him.....because he got a de-powering after the MCU happened. Everyone else knows what he is.
@punyparker: spidey has been an unstoppable force at times, but that Firelord fight victory was due neither to his brain nor skills. He just let spidey wale on him and got too cocky letting spidey win. You could say he has the strength to knock him out, but if the Firelord actually tried spidey would be finished.
@punyparker: spidey has been an unstoppable force at times, but that Firelord fight victory was due neither to his brain nor skills. He just let spidey wale on him and got too cocky letting spidey win. You could say he has the strength to knock him out, but if the Firelord actually tried spidey would be finished.
spidey being underrated is quite likely but maybe he isn't as when writers write him he always holds back like in superior spider-man #3 when spock fights vulture he remembers that peter always held back against him
SPidey is the ultimate jack of all trades character. He's good at everything but a master of nothing. And yes, Spidey goes out with more women and is in a serious relationship than most marvel u womanizer who only one night stands with them. Spidey beats Tony in being funny with ladies too.
as you know I spent about 25 years away from the comic book world, what do you mean by the MCU happening? was this a Marvel re-boot similar to DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths?
Anyway, maybe time they re-booted Spidey to where he should be. This implications from ASM2 is he is powerful, which is a good start!
well its time they remembered that Spiderman is and will always be the best loved marvel character, long after RDJ's Iron Man has faded in the memory, so give him back the respect and power he deserves. After all "With great power....."
well its time they remembered that Spiderman is and will always be the best loved marvel character, long after RDJ's Iron Man has faded in the memory, so give him back the respect and power he deserves. After all "With great power....."
Well,they know itand even Feige said it(the exec of Marvel Studios) that "Spider-Man is the most famous character of theirs,but Avengers is the most famous brand".....(bs)
Oh! and even RDJ said that he only read Spider-Man as a kid,and there is a pic of him with a Spider-Man t-shirt somewhere....
Yep, I think somebody put it succinctly when he commented on my Spiderman Blog a few months back that reading Spiderman is a rite of passage if you are a Marvel fan and I'd so as far as to say that you can't really call yourself a Marvel Fan unless you have read some Spiderman!!
SPidey is the ultimate jack of all trades character. He's good at everything but a master of nothing. And yes, Spidey goes out with more women and is in a serious relationship than most marvel u womanizer who only one night stands with them. Spidey beats Tony in being funny with ladies too.
I take this back, since Marvel explicity said Ironman is going to be more a company face than Spidey, I have no confidence in Peter's future value as a impressive superhero since he's gonna be sidelined for people less popuar than him and end up being more a joke than he already is.
SPidey is the ultimate jack of all trades character. He's good at everything but a master of nothing. And yes, Spidey goes out with more women and is in a serious relationship than most marvel u womanizer who only one night stands with them. Spidey beats Tony in being funny with ladies too.
I take this back, since Marvel explicity said Ironman is going to be more a company face than Spidey, I have no confidence in Peter's future value as a impressive superhero since he's gonna be sidelined for people less popuar than him and end up being more a joke than he already is.
I agree. I hope they fail so bad. I kind of want Marvel to go completely bankrupt again, so that all the idiots running Marvel get fired. I would rather have DC buy Marvel than have Iron man be the face of Marvel. At least DC would treat Spidey with some respect.
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