I don’t know which S-M movie- it’s the one where he’s racing up the Washington Monument for reasons. Anyway, he’s climbing up the side of it as fast as he can, and he breaks into a gallop, where all four feet leave the monument as he jumps. Isn’t he just going to launch himself into space? I’d display a clip, if I had one. I’ll look for one.
eta: normally I’d bitch about the dumbness of the web shooting, or sticking to walls through boots, but those can be for a different thread.
He can use his webshooters to pull himself back in.
I’d have to look at the clip to see exactly how it plays out. I know the scene you are talking about, but it’s been many years, and I don’t remember it that well.
But, unlike you and I, he has sticky hands and feet, so is able to not only propel himself vertically with no horizontal component, but also pull himself back towards the wall if he gets too far.
So, I don’t know if the clip reflects proper physics, but it’s not impossible that he would have all 4 limbs disconnected from a vertical surface without leaving it horizontally uncontrollably.
Unless they made it clear that he was connected by webbing to a point well above his position, they should NOT have had him leave the monument. That was “Coolness Over Science” (did I just start a trope?)…
…Probably committed by some of the young CGI homies:
“Duuude, look what I had Spidey do!” “Amazing!” “Sensational and Superior!” “Ultimate!” “Spectacular!” “Truly an amazing fantasy…”
Don’t the sides taper?
Yes, though only gradually. At its base, it’s 55 feet on a side, and at the top of the main obelisk section (where it begins to taper to a pyramid point), which is 500 feet above the base, it’s 35 feet on a side.
It’s magic. It’s all magic. The laws of physics don’t count, if the story needs something or if it makes for good visuals.
He could have all four limbs moving away from the wall, while his center of mass is still moving straight up or even towards the wall.
And just for the record, it was Spider-Man: Homecoming.
No. Gravity still exists. Why would he?
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. He’s running, jumping, and crawling, not web swinging, and he’s got momentum going up the side. What’s webbing have to do with this?
“Into space”, here, doesn’t mean “above the Earth’s atmosphere”, just “away from the solid building”. In the same way that someone who falls down a malfunctioning elevator shaft might have “stepped out into space”.
Yes, the dog has claws but I’m assuming SM has some sort of grippy substance on him.
Fun fact: The Monument’s marble blocks (all 36,00 of them) are held together by just gravity and friction - no mortar was used in the process.
If you watch the video linked in post #9 at around 0:34, as he is running he is pushing himself up and away from the wall, but then lands back on the wall again. He isn’t using his web to pull him back, and all four appendages have left contact with the wall.
OP is correct, proper physics would have him continuing his motion away from the wall and falling.
But the wall doesn’t go straight up; it tilts in at, what, a little over two degrees off from perpendicular? So if he pushes himself up and away from the wall at what would be a straight line just over a degree off from parallel to that wall, then wouldn’t that line in turn be just over a degree off from perpendicular to the ground? Could that leave him close enough for a fully-extended arm or two to reach?
I’ve seen divers, that to my untrained eye seem to move in undeserved directions. Spidey’s superpowered toes and fingers could be creating unseen momentum in his whole body that throws it back toward the vertical surface…or he’s being propped up by Steve Ditko’s ghost.
You’re questioning the physics of a Spider-Man film and the first place you go is his climbing technique?
Stranger
There are a number of levels of suspension of disbelief, but the hardest one to get over is, “That just doesn’t look right.”
I didn’t see anything that weird (in context). He launches himself upward using the friction of his sticky hands/feet then holds out his hands/feet to contact the wall when he loses momentum. I didn’t see him making big arching leaps up the wall or anything.
I look at pretty much any scene with Spider-Man slinging around or fighting with a villain and think that.
Stranger
Fair, but there is so much going on in the fights that it’s hard to tell what’s going on.
While I find some enjoyment in the Superhero genre, the fight scenes are generally the part I pay the least attention to. I think most MCU fights could be better choreographed by tossing a bunch of action figures into an iFLY. But then, I am also personally convinced that the fights in Transformers movies is just video of a silverware set in a VitaMax.