What cities would be good for web-swinging?

Wasn’t Tony Stark’s girlfriend Pickled Peppers?

Peter Parker picked a peck of Pickled Pepper Potts.

Movie Paris would be good. Everywhere in Movie Paris is close to an Eiffel Tower. He could get anywhere quickly by swinging from one Eiffel Tower to the next, to the next.

The problem with mechanical webshooters and invented web-fluid is that that level of smarts is itself a superpower, and not a spider-one. Except that, for some reason, he coincidentally only used it for a spider-invention. Huh?

Personally, I prefer Peter Parker as smart, but high-school-honors-student smart, not metatechnologist smart. My preferred concept for the webs (which I don’t think has been done in any of the canons) is that his body does secrete a precursor to the web-fluid, but in an awkward way, and he does some simple chemistry to turn the secretions into functional web fluid he can put in his dispensers.

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter is caught outside of Manhattan and has to go to work in, like, Brooklyn or Queens or one of those boroughs of New York that doesn’t have a lot of skyscrapers. He mostly gets by by jumping.

In my comic book reading days, Spider-Man lived with his Aunt May in Queens. I assumed he was close to one of the East River bridges that he could swing beneath until he got to the high rises of Manhattan.

That’s true, getting out of the suburbs would be hard. I’d be screwed as a Spider-person lol.

Paris. That would be hilarious; Spidey being an arachnid tether ball swinging around the Eiffel Tower waiting for, a) a crime to occur in the vicinity, or, b) Superman to shove that elevator through the top of the ET on his way to outer space. What’s French for “spider”?

The ET? What a great idea for a comic! The Eiffel Tower is an alien who came to earth to preside as its overlord. But because it’s made of sentient steel, it has a very slow metabolism, so it’s been preparing its first step all this time.

I LIKE IT! Go with it!

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Finally bothered to look this up. It was indeed Spiderman: The Animated Series. S1:E5 where Mysterio is introduced. Not bad for what is probably a 29 year old memory. I didn’t watch it in reruns.

Yeah, Spider Man is Green Goblin, I suppose. Still, I thought the Marvel bad guys more or less overlapped with each other in the various comics, being a shared universe and all.

Oh, it is, and I’m sure that there are examples of comics in which Spider-Man was facing off against Doctor Doom, but those were likely situations in which the Fantastic Four were also involved.

Typically, each hero or group has certain villains who are their “rogues’ gallery,” and that’s who they are most often depicted dealing with. For Spider-Man, that’s Green Goblin/Hobgoblin, Mysterio, Venom, etc., whereas Doctor Doom is primarily the Fantastic Four’s villain, Magneto is primarily the X-Men’s villain, etc.

They even had a whole arc where it was set up that the bad guys would trade heroes to fight, under the assumption that this would ensure victory. I believe it was Loki behind the whole thing (and who foolishly tried the include the Red Skull on a team with Doctor Doom, who is Roma, and Magneto, a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust. Actually, none of the baddies liked him). I know way too much of this stuff. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

It took all the way till The Amazing Spider-Man #5 for Spider-Man to fight Doctor Doom by himself.

The FF do come in at the end, because that was the kind of star crossover that made Marvel stand out from DC.

That was the “Acts of Vengeance” storyline: