Spider-Man has the proportional punching skill of a spider. Ever see a spider try and throw a punch? It’s not all that.
Only if his inertial dampers are offline.
How about the train scene?
Doc Ock throws spiderman backwards (opposite the direction of the train), but did not bank on Spiderman deploying his spidey-wormhole, and appearing in front of the train.
I think accurate physics wasn’t high on their list of priorities.
Also, the car through the window is dumb for a number of other reasons, not least of which he is just intending to frighten Parker, yet is doing something that would have killed him (were it not for the superhuman reactions he doesn’t know Parker has).
(Both these things are IIRC)
Been an issue in the comic books for decades. If it arises at all the usual fanwank, it’s an ‘official’ fanwank even, is that Spidey pulls his punches when fighting non-supers, or opponents without superpowered damage resistance.
Some years ago, I found a book in a library – an entire book – on the physics (or lack thereof) of Superman.
At least the Princess Bride got this right…
The killjoy problem with super strength is that heroes are stronger than the materials they pick up. If Superman picks up an airplane there will be be a Superman sized hole in the fuselage. When heroes pick up something huge and swing it around, the object would fall apart because it can’t support its weight like that. Same reason why skyscrapers fall apart instead of falling down like trees.
That was probably The Science of Superman, by Mark Wolverton and Roger Stern, since Superman Science: The Real-World Science Behind Superman’s Powers by Tammy Enz and Agnieszka Biskup is new.
There’s also The Science of Superheroes, The Science of Supervillains, The Science of James Bond, The Science of Stephen King, and The Science of Anime, all by Lois Gresh; The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios; The Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors by HowStuffWorks.com; The Science of Star Wars by Mark Brake and Jon Chase (not to be confused with Gresh’s Computers of Star Trek); and The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne and Christopher Nolan.
It’s an industry.
I thought your point was that the landing skid wouldn’t have been able to take that much force on a hand-size area and would snap.
Heck, they’ve even got a Science of Discworld. How does the science behind four enormous elephants standing on the back of a titanic space turtle hold up?
Turns out, not well!
Sergio Aragones had Superman cartoons in MAD; S picks up an ocean liner in distress and it splits in half.
I’ve been bringing this one up for years here.
In the train fight, while on top the speeding train, Doc Ock throws Spiderman forward, in the same direction the train is traveling, away from Doc Ock and towards the front of the train.
Spiderman twists his body so he goes through the walkway, only to tackle Doc Ock from behind.
Nice bit of directorial misdirection that many people miss, but damned if it didn’t throw me out of the movie for a minute or so.
This is one of the things I think Superman Returns (which was IMO wrongly maligned) got absolutely right. There were a lot of people who commented that he seemed to have trouble stopping the crashing airplane, interpreting it as his not having enough strength. In my head-canon, I always thought he was having trouble not ripping the thing apart or turning the people inside into paste by applying too much strength at once, thus the Extreme Concentration Face he exhibited.
That’s not what that book series is about…
Watched the video and it still doesn’t work.
Imagine you’re driving a convertible with the top down, and you want to throw a ball so it hits you in the back of the head.
You can’t do it. You could get something to land behind you, but for it to actually be coming towards you along the same direction you’re going, the ball must be going faster than the car is at a point where the car has just overtaken the ball. Think about it.
The only way to do it, is overtake the ball and then hit the brakes.
If spiderman had walked along the walkway and jumped, or pushed off it in someway, it would have been OK. It would have required spiderman to have super jumping abilities or strength, but of course we already accept that.
Anyway, no wonder Doc Ock was so surprised by the move. He’s a scientist after all 
Good line!
Yeah, the two ways to do this is have SM circumnavigate the globe in 1.8 seconds or for the train to speed up and slow down in the same time frame. 
Maybe the train did change speed?
:dubious:
Ever been on a train before?
They don’t accelerate and brake on a dime, you know. Especially if they’re carrying passengers.
There’s one that’s a bit more risque called Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. I’m pretty sure it had other stuff in it about superheroes.
That’s just a single essay, not an entire book.