# Spiderman 2 -{spoilers}-

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-2-spoilers/252818>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 30, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-2-spoilers/252818 "2004-06-30T02:27:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 13

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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-2-spoilers/252818/241 "2004-07-20T01:52:02Z")

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> [@Peter Morris](#):
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> Is this true or a joke?
> 
> I always stay to the end of the credits, and I didn’t see this. Was this cut for UK distribution? Or is Terrifel making some reference that I don’t understand. (I don’t read Spiderman comics very much)

My apologies. As you suspected, this was indeed a joking reference to the comics, specifically the “Clone Saga,” which most Spider-fans will acknowledge as being one of the most memorable and influential story arcs of the last decade. That is, they will acknowledge this once you have broken through the self-induced amnesia that their psyches have desperately constructed to blot out the crippling post-traumatic stress disorder that reading the “Clone Saga” tended to induce, a breakthrough which could take years of therapy. So don’t trouble yourself, just take my word for it.

Like you, I’m one of those people who stays to watch the entire credits, partly out of respect for all the various clappers and loaders that worked on the movie, partly as an “Airplane!”-induced reflex not to miss any stingers at the very end. Plus, you learn interesting trivia that might otherwise have gone unnoticed, such as the cameo appearances of John Landis (“Doctor”) or Scott Speigel (“Man on Balcony”).

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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-2-spoilers/252818/242 "2004-07-20T11:23:57Z")

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> [@Max Carnage](#):
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> The All-Weiners Squad!
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> (I’m still pissed that they took Ollie and buffed him up into a serious character called the Steel Spider :rolleyes: )

:dubious:

You’re joking, of course. Right?

Ha-ha. Pull the other one. It has bells on.

Right?

Right??

Fenris

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**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spiderman-2-spoilers/252818/243 "2004-07-20T12:20:02Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> I’m not a doctor, but I believe that delirious tremens involves a lot more physical deterioration before you get to the serious hallucinations. If it had been DT, I think there would have been a lot more sweating, trembling, and vomiting going on.
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> However, I understand that drug and alcohol use can seriously exacerbate schizophrenia in people who are already subject to the disease, and even trigger its onset prematurely, so the drinking was almost certainly significant to the scene.

You do realize it was movie, right? 😉

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