# A Spider-Man physics question

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**Created:** [April 21, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-spider-man-physics-question/983026 "2023-04-21T19:14:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-spider-man-physics-question/983026/21 "2023-04-22T17:57:53Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> 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.

Agreed. At :34, :56, and again at 1:15, he never departs the wall more than an arm’s length. He jumps parallel to the wall and when he slows, he just sticks his hands out and grabs the wall. There’s no gravity or magnetism implied by his motion. His torso moves in a straight line, not an arc, and only his limbs appear to separate from the wall and return to it.

I watched it more times than I care to in super-slow motion and hereby decree Spider-Man NOT GUILTY of counter-MCU physics use.

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