I’d like to know who cleans up all the used webs. How do they get them unstuck? Who climbs up high enough to get them all, and do they want to bash Spidey’s head in?
An d when Spidey traps the evil baddie’s helicopter between the twin towers, at the 80th floor, who gets it down, and how?
Maybe I just shouldn’t ask those questions.
Anyway, outside of Manhattan, Spidey has a Spider-mobile. It’s a cool car. Chicks dig the car.
Presumably, Department of Damage Control, who is (in the MCU anyway) the answer to “who is going to clean up this mess?”
and how
If it’s DoDC, with substantial Stark Technogies handwavium.
Does he shoot real spider webs, or did he invent something to shoot a synthetic version to complement his other spidery powers? Real spider webs are biodegradable, but I seem to remember his webs come from machines strapped to his wrists.
I recall sometime, someplace, it was said that his webs, which are an artificial creation of his own design, did also bio-degrade. I don’t know if that is canon, though, it’s a subject that has been discussed many times.
In the beginning (I started with The Amazing Spider-Man #1), his webs, a compound of his own invention, dissolved after an hour, conveniently just enough time for the police to reach his stuck-to-a-wall bad guys. How the police would have evidence to arrest them was always left open.
What canon is today is beyond me. At some points Peter’s webs come out of his body, organically. I think that started in the movies and was carried over to the comics. Not sure. However he shoots webs, there will always be an explanation for their disappearance, so that nobody dies from being permanently stuck to a side of a building.
As for web-swinging, he used both wrists, so that in the middle of a swing from a building that is attached to his right wrist, he shoots from his left wrist to go to the next building, allowing him to move in any direction he wants, damping inertia being one of his spider powers. Also having his webs not sticking to him. Here’s a exaggerated example.
Also, 25 cities with the most skyscrapers. Spidey in Hong Kong would be a great movie.
Yeah, I always have wondered what Spider Man does when Doctor Doom is doing something nefarious in say… Brooklyn? Yes, it’s built-up, but the buildings aren’t particularly tall either.
Same thing in pretty much every city- he’d have downtown to swing around in, and then the rest would be him on foot, I suspect.
Many believe the organic web concept comes from the theme song of the first animated series which has the words “Is he strong? Listen bud, he’s got radioactive blood. Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead.”. The blood reference was actually about his strength, but the word ‘radioactive’ stands out in the song and were taken as an explanation for his webs. When the series arrived (early 70s?) Spiderman was not as popular as a couple of superheroes working for another publisher in a different city, and his origin story not as well known. The series was a factor in his increased exposure and popularity, aided of course by it’s catchy theme song.
He doesn’t need buildings to swing from. He can swing way above the tallest tower blocks. He just has to shoot his web at the sky, or clouds, or airplanes, or something.
There was a story where he had to go to….Delaware I think and got tired of having to run around or jump on cars to get places.
The webs are either biological or mechanical. Bio is kinda icky, mechanical begs the question of “why doesn’t he sell the formula?”
Yeah, that’s probably why cartoons aren’t canon. At last they weren’t in the 70s.
Technically, the movies aren’t canon either. They’re just so popular that the comics had to shift and adapt to peoples’ expectations.
What does fandom consider canon today? Is there anything besides the core comics that qualify? Is the MCU still a separate entity?
As far as I know the games, movies and comics are separate.
Missed this. He did try to sell the formula in Amazing Spider-Man #18 but got turned down because it wasn’t permanent.
Yeah, but nowadays I’m sure there’d be more uses. Of course, the other roadblock that would be thrown up is “How does he get the money for his invention while keeping his secret”? Which is pretty easily answered, but still…
The organic webs are a feature of the black parasitic suit introduced in Secret Wars.
The Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire movies do a pretty good job of showing how getting around the city Spider-style is as much parkour as swinging. Looks like tons of fun!
Starlink satellites? Although they might be unavailable if Spidey goes after the Russian mafia.
In the movie versions, Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man’s webs were organic (they came out of glands or something on his wrists); the rebooted versions with Andrew Garfield and then Tom Holland both used mechanical web-shooters
In the comic books, I know that, when Peter Parker first starts using the alien symbiote Spider-suit (which later became the villain Venom), the symbiote was able to create webs organically. I don’t know what the current canon is, however.
He calls the Fantastic Four. “Mr. Richards? Doctor Doom is your bad guy!” 
The movies are canon, but they take place in a different universe/dimension (and, thus, a different canon) than the books. The “main” Marvel canon (i.e, the comic books) takes place on “Earth-616,” while the MCU takes place on (probably) “Earth-199999.”
I do not remember if this was the 90s animated show or some other version but I vaguely remember a story line where Peter realizes there is a fake spiderman causing problems around the city. One of the clues is the fake one has a different webslinging formula that doesn’t disintegrate after a few hours like the real formula. It stays around instead.
I like the versions where he is a genius scientist / engineer who invents the web formula and web shooting mechanisms. It seems a copout for it to just happen naturally.
Over the years they’ve changed everything about Peter. At first he was just a nerdy smart high school student. Then he became a hot-shot inventor. Then he was part of the Marvel super-smarts, with Tony Stark and Hank Pym, although everybody was on a lower lever than Reed Richards. Then he was rebooted, and re-rebooted. Every generation throws a Peter Parker up the pop charts.
It’s web-swinging, and one of Spider-man’s many nicknames is web-swinger (also web-slinger, webhead…). The synthetic webbing is a polymer he invented at 15. Marvel had a period where they tried to come up with pseudo-rational explanations for everyone’s powers and quantify them (moving them to claim everyone had mutated genes rather than slapping “radiation” on everything like the 60s), and they said Spidey’s top speed was 75mph. When there aren’t buildings around, he basically does super-parkour (which I suspect he inspired) since he’s super strong (able to jump 3 stories straight up, lift 15 tons).
Peter Popstar?