The Amazing, The Spectacular, The Sensational, The Wall-Crawling, Web-Slinging, Deal with the Devil Making, Modern Marvel.....LOOK OUT there goes a death analysis for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
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Peter Parker was just your ordinary unlucky neighborhood nerd, unpopular at school and interested in science. The most unordinary thing about him was that since his parents untimely death he lived with his loving aunt May and uncle Ben. However this life would change drastically the day he took a trip to a demonstration of the cutting edge world of atomic science. No one, himself included, noticed a small spider descending into the machine, the web of destiny extending over us all imbuing the tiny arachnid with a fate greater then it could possibly know. Bombarded with radiation the creature began dying and in shock bit the nearest living thing, the young Peter Parker.
But Peter's body chemistry was different... for the race of humanity contained dormant metahuman genes from the early experimentation of the race of hyper-advanced beings known as Celestials. This bite was actually a manipulation of the Spider-God Anansi specifically to activate this gene in Peter. All this was done by the Great Weaver so as to make sure that one such being, a being with spider-powers and noble intent, the spider-totem, would exist in every universe, influencing the multiverse to good.The radioactive spider-bite activated the metahuman gene in Peter's body, gifting him with incredible spider abilities!
But such power went to Spider-Man's head. Used to being at the bottom of the social hierarchy, he lorded his newfound power for fame and fortune and nothing more. Despite his immense power and capacity, when a thief passed him by and a policeman desperately called for him to stop the thief, Peter refused, for he was sick of being pushed around and told what to do. But when a burglar killed his dear uncle Ben and he pursued in anger, only to find that the burglar was the same thief he didn't stop before, he realized in horror that his act of selfishness and petulance cost him the life of his beloved uncle. From that day on, Peter has lived with the soul-crushing responsibility of trying to use his powers for the right reasons, and so strove to pursue justice as the superhero...Spider-Man! Spider-Man has since become one of, if not the premier hero of the Marvel Universe, savior of the world many times over.
This will be an analysis of the capacities of Base Spider-Man, not including non-standard equipment or temporary amps. This includes the Other amp as it's confirmed as of spider-verse that Kaine is the Other currently. Comics where he may have had The Other (that take place within the timeframe of the story arc of The Other but before OMD) I am not including. Sorry about the length of some of these sections but Spider-Man, as you would expect, has a LOT of feats, and a larger then average number of them require extensive explanation.
Strength:
Spider-Man is many times is said to have the "proportionate strength of a spider." I don't know if spiders in the Marvel Universe are just way stronger then real world spiders (Science genius Peter Parker does imply at one point that spiders can lift hundreds of times their own body weight when real world spiders can only lift 50 times their body weight) but Spider-Man has feats far in excess of the strength of being able to lift 50 times his body weight. Starting off relatively tame, minutes after first gaining his power, Spider-Man could crush steel in his hands as though it were paper, tore a metal door off a helicopter in one of his first adventures, and has broken titanium wire before. He overpowered a robot arm that had the strength of 100 men. More fantastically, he was able to beat up Asgardian Trolls, one-shot a T-Rex, and was able to trade blows with a man whose physiology acted as though he had developed on Jupiter. He was able to superleap outside of a water tank and casually kick a solid concrete pillar at Shocker. And pillars are no joke, those things hold up bridges!
Spider-Man can also lift a car. He certainly can lift up a car. He's got a LOT of car feats. He was able to easily throw a car and catch a car thrown by the Incredible Hulk! Even early Doctor Octopus could overturn cars as though they were made of balsa wood and Spider-man more recently showed he could move cars despite not having slept in days. Spider-Man also lifted a train car and picked up a small tank.
As you might be able to tell, Spider-Man is always holding up back his strength as it could kill normal humans unintentionally if not. He has made a Jackal clone explode with a punch and when brainwashed absolutely manhandled the Human Torch who could withstand a building collapse on him. He's pulled down a water tower, stopped an out of control train with his strength, and landed a jet on his back. When warped into the book "War of the Worlds" he was able to bring down a martian tripod. This is not quite as impressive as it sounds as the novel tripods weren't THAT advanced compared to 1890s Earth, though did require artillery to bring down. Speaking of bringing down giants though, Spider-Man believed he could topple the building sized Giant-Man, succeeded in bringing down the building sized Goliath, and web-threw a giant robot into the sky. Spider-Man also held up a stadium floor, brought a house down on Ghost Rider villain Blackheart (though it didn't do anything to Blackheart) and knocked Rhino through several floors of a building. He even held up all the floors of a hospital and one-shot Tombstone. This is impressive because Tombstone is bulletproof and completely tanked a large building sized explosion. Tombstone might actually be stronger because he prior beat Hammerhead in a fight.
This is relevant because Doctor Octopus and possibly Hammerhead have one of the best feats for the Spider-Man characters. The two were fighting and Hammerhead hit the nucleur reactor they were fighting on, somehow causing an atomic explosion. The explosion creates this massive fireball and mushroom cloud and obliterated the entire island they were on. I'm not sure if this is a feat for Hammerhead because I don't know how or even neccesarily if he survived it. He shows up again later acting all ghostly but instead of saying he died he states the explosion blasted him "out of phase". I don't know if that means he survived or not. The Marvel wiki claims he was killed so I don't feel comfortable using it as a feat. What is a feat however is that Doctor Octopus' mechanical arms wrapped around him when the explosion hit and protected him, remaining completely unharmed from the atomic explosion (though somehow were permenantly grafted to him from it). This has been calced to triple digit ton of tnt, though I think realistically given their lack of damage and the sheer violence of the explosion it's more likely in the kiloton range. Either way, this is important because Spider-Man was able to tear off these arms, damaging them more then the nuke did with his raw strength and another time violently breaking them. However other Spider-Man villains also have feats at this range as well.
For instance, let's talk about the master of electricity, Electro. Electro has implied he can cause city-wide effects with just one finger. He claimed he could plunge the entire city into darkness before and has actually done it on more then one occassion. He created an electrical storm that shut down all power to the city. Even minor storms release kilotons of energy during their course and Electro created one with a single eletric blast. On an earlier ocassion, Electro absorbed all the electricity in New York. At this point he was burning hotter then ever before, creating a blinding light across New York and stated he was burning like a star, like a nova. The core of the sun is 15.7 million Kelvin and to reach that heat a human sized entity would get multi city block level. A nova has a temperature of about 100 billion kelvin which would require town level. Electro recalling the events notes that the energy was growing out of control and threatening his life (also notes how he says he was one with the electrical force for what that's worth), suggesting this scales to his durability. Ashamed of his weakness, Electro recieved another dangerous amp, becoming one with the electrical field of the entire planet, and becoming 1,000 times stronger, emphasizing that he's stronger then ever. It is later stated that this God Electro was only one with a small section of the atmosphere. God Electro was able to tank this explosion of his own enraged power, that said a kick from insulated suit Spider-Man harmed God Electro and Spider-Man was able to beat him down even while still holding back and exhausted.
Another recurring villain of Spider-Man is Morbius the living vampire. Morbius hits like an H-Bomb, a stronger nuclear bomb. And while Spider-Man is not as strong as Morbius, he has been able to briefly restrain the living vampire and put him into a chockhold, forcing him to rely on hypnosis.And while weaker, Spider-Man was strong enough to knock Dracula back who is stronger then Morbius. Also as a bit of minor support, Spider-Man villains Kraven and Vulture were also going to "tear the city" apart in their battle. While not neccesarily being indicative of them being city level, it is at least suggestive of the two being able to do damage on a large scale. If their fight would only do damage within a city block, I doubt Spider-Man would say they would tear the whole city apart.
Spider-Man also scales to the feats from other Marvel Heroes, mostly because he seems to have made it his mission to get into a fight with every A, B, C and Z list Marvel Street Leveler and Low to Mid Meta. He is listed as having the same power level as Luke Cage, has harmed him with basic punches and an early comic suggested the two were two evenly matched for either to truly win. He also matched the strength of Post-Adamantium Hammerhead before knocking him out with one punch, the same Hammerhead having easily withstood an assault from an enraged Luke Cage. Luke Cage survived, if barely, the epicenter of a small nuclear explosion. He was able to pressure Iron Fist with his might and later drew blood from him with a punch. Iron Fist has made his fist glow like an exploding star before hitting like an H-Bomb and defeated Radion whose power was measured in hundreds of megatons. Spider-Man has one shot Deadpool who withstood ground zero of a nuclear explosion. A punch from Spidey harmed Carol Danvers, seeming to even draw blood (unsure if blood or saliva...coming from her mouth but it looks red). In base form Carol tanked a multi-city block level explosion with less damage and survived a tachyon blast that could destroy the top of a volcano. Spidey also one-shot Armored Scorpion who tanked being punched seven miles downwards by Carol supporting the scaling. Spider-Man has also beat his amazing friend Iceman. Iceman has created a large glacier calced at requiring about 200 tons of tnt and created an entire ice city. Working together, using Iceman's ice and Spidey's strength, Spidey was able to beat down the fiery Shadrac when Shadrac was earlier able to easily melt away Iceman's ice alone.
Spider-Man's most famous feat of this league comes from Marvel Team-Up Annual 2. Two antimatter spheres were drawn together and if they reach were going to annihilate the earth. To save the Earth, Hulk is brought out to hold the two apart but even for him the effort is exhausting him and the Jade Giant punches one far into space. Spidey, science major that he is, guesses correctly the attractive force will draw the other one at the same speed towards Hulk and wanting to save his big green friend, presses himself and Hulk with enough strength to move them both out of the way. This whole climax happens over one page. Moving both the Hulk and himself at such a quick speed has been calced at taking likely a bit over 1 kiloton.
However this is not the end to Spider-Man's strength. Spider-Man has an incredible supernatural will as will be explored in a later section, and this allows him to push past his limits, regularly overpowering enemies that are his superiors normally even when weakened. Spidey's villains know that when he stops joking, they should be afraid. He has lifted a weight he couldn't before by thinking of Mary Jane, not just lifting but completely shattering it, when determined Spidey broke an orb he couldn't prior despite being disoriented and weakened, and broke bindings that were surpressing his powers. He lifted and moved a large portion of a building underwater, held up the Daily Bugle and punched with more force then a mortar shell despite being weakened. In The Avengers Issue 315, Spider-Man thinking of Mary Jane even allowed him to break a coil that no force on Earth could break. This would include the like of nuclear bombs and likely natural disasters well into the megaton range. When Iron Fist was asked about people he couldn't beat, his first thought was Spider-Man, and this level of power was presumably what he thinking of given his megaton level feats.
Most people who have vs debated Spidey are probably aware of the famous scene in "If this be my Destiny", one of the top 3 most famous plots in Spidey's history (along with his first appearence and Gwen Stacy's Death) where to save Aunt May, despite being trapped under the weight of a locomotive, Spidey gives everything he's got and manages to lift the weight. What's often missed about this scene is that Spidey was incredibly weak from being active non-stop for days. Before this, Doctor Octopus, who was a bit stronger then Spidey normally and characterized by extreme arrogance, thought there was no way to beat Spider-Man and fled for his life. A later comic implies that in the scene Spidey was not just lifting the weight of a locomotive, but in fact lifting the entire underwater facility they were in. A normal Spider-Man has numerous times harmed early Titania who is said to be able to lift locomotives in the same fight. Speaking of Doctor Octopus however, on another occasion Spider-Man was weakened from sickness and put on a power harness to compensate to fight Otto but when the harness ran out of power, he managed to win via sheer determination.
Full power Spider-Man can also stomp his other sometimes arch-nemesis, the Green Goblin. While the Green Goblin is normally relative to Peter, at his full power Spider-Man easily crushed his hands and despite being shot was able to cave in his skull. When Spider-Man was highly sick and weakened by his sickness he was able to one-shot knockout the Green Goblin by putting everything into one strike and a determined Spider-Man was able to slug it out with an amped goblin (albeit the amp didn't seem to be very massive.) This is true across time as well. Back when Green Goblin killed Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man completely dominated him their next fight in a rage and just recently despite being weakened from his fight with Red Goblin, Spider-Man thinking about his loved ones allowed him to beat Green Goblin. This also happened with Hobgoblin. when Spider-Man threw everything he had at him, he completely wasted Hobgoblin with Hobgoblin admitting Spidey completely overwhelmed him and he didn't have a chance.
You may recall Morbius the living vampire who hits with the force of an H-Bomb, and is stronger then Spider-Man normally, When Spider-Man let his emotions overwhelm him he was able to overpower that Morbius and an enraged Spider-Man recently beat Morbius via a combination of his raw strength and exploiting his weaknesses. A Spider-Man that was so weak from illness he couldn't direct his webbing, his body was shaking, and couldn't think in complete sentences was able to mercilessly beat down Morbius until Human Torch dragged him off. He has similar feats against other recurring supernatural entities in his life of his like completely stomping Electro when angry, being able to physically overpower the Lizard despite being near-death through thinking about Mary Jane, and able to trade blows with Ezekiel who has the same spider-powers as him despite being weakened by toxins via his determination. Speaking of spider-powers, he also has similar feats against Venom who replicates his spider-powers but is physically stronger. An enraged Spider-Man has beat down Venom and even though he did lose eventually while weakened and damaged determined Spider-Man was able to beat down Venom some. And one time when Spider-Man was barely able to stand he saw Venom threaten Mary Jane and tackled him declaring the gloves were off proceeding to beat him so viciously he almost killed Venom.
Determined Spider-Man also has numerous impressive feats against Spider-Slayers, robots (or power armor) with the purpose of killing people with spider-powers like Spider-Man. When Doctor Octopus was in Spider-Man's body and didn't hold back at all he easily punched through a Spider-Slayer. Spider-Man has defeated an early Spider-Slayer just through determination and later despite being weakened from battle one-shot a Spider-Slayer. When a Spider-Slayer threatened Aunt May he brutally beat it down breaking it to pieces and when Mary Jane was in danger he also was able to physically destroy one.
He also demonstrated this degree of difference in his fight against Morlun. Morlun is an Inheritor, a race of inter-dimensional beings that hunt Spider-Totems like Spider-Man across the multiverse draining their energy with Morlun being Spider-Man's strongest enemy physically. A punch from Morlun was strong enough that Spider-Man said he had never been hit that hard. Morlun took all of Spider-Man's blows in stride however a determined Spidey was actually able to somewhat physically compete with Morlun. Bear in mind that Spider-Man is the only Spider-Totem to have beaten an Inheritor which is why he's considered the greatest of them all, though at this point he has defeated Morlun 4 times.
Spider-Man also has a few feats that I'm guessing are probably outliers but am not sure how strong they are so I'm including these at the end just for reference sake. He's fought Namor, though I'm not sure how strong Namor was on land at this point (as his power changed depending on if he was in the sea or on land). He was able to break the grip of the Hulk immediatly after he transformed when he was at his weakest. Also an internal power ranking puts Spider-Man on the same ranking as the Silver Surfer who states he relies not on brute strength but on the power cosmic suggesting this is his unamped strength. Now I was under the impression Silver Surfer was always amped by the power cosmic but he's put above normal humans so I don't know if this is talking about the strength level of his species or what. Spider-Man has fought through an army of Doom-Bots and also blew up Norman Osborn's power suit, which is really just a modified Tony Stark's suit, with his strength however it's implied Norman's modification actually weakened the suit for aesthetic purposes. Finally Spider-Man has fought a clone of himself (Cue) and dealt damage to his clone and was able to beat down Otto in his body (time travel shenanigans) so his strength should also scale to his durability feats.
Holy Empowerment:
This doesn't come up very often both in the comics and in vs debates since it requires a specific circumstance, but due to his connection to the spider god Anansi, Spider-Man gets stronger in places sacred to Anansi. Because of it's description that it's connecting him to the greater whole that he is part of and focusing his power and deadliness, it's likely this amp is the same as his determination amp.
You may recall Morbius the living vampire who hits with the force of an H-Bomb, and is stronger then Spider-Man normally, When Spider-Man let his emotions overwhelm him he was able to overpower that Morbius and an enraged Spider-Man recently beat Morbius via a combination of his raw strength and exploiting his weaknesses. A Spider-Man that was so weak from illness he couldn't direct his webbing, his body was shaking, and couldn't think in complete sentences was able to mercilessly beat down Morbius until Human Torch dragged him off. He has similar feats against other recurring supernatural entities in his life of his like completely stomping Electro when angry, being able to physically overpower the Lizard despite being near-death through thinking about Mary Jane, and able to trade blows with Ezekiel who has the same spider-powers as him despite being weakened by toxins via his determination. Speaking of spider-powers, he also has similar feats against Venom who replicates his spider-powers but is physically stronger. An enraged Spider-Man has beat down Venom and even though he did lose eventually while weakened and damaged determined Spider-Man was able to beat down Venom some. And one time when Spider-Man was barely able to stand he saw Venom threaten Mary Jane and tackled him declaring the gloves were off proceeding to beat him so viciously he almost killed Venom.
Determined Spider-Man also has numerous impressive feats against Spider-Slayers, robots (or power armor) with the purpose of killing people with spider-powers like Spider-Man. When Doctor Octopus was in Spider-Man's body and didn't hold back at all he easily punched through a Spider-Slayer. Spider-Man has defeated an early Spider-Slayer just through determination and later despite being weakened from battle one-shot a Spider-Slayer. When a Spider-Slayer threatened Aunt May he brutally beat it down breaking it to pieces and when Mary Jane was in danger he also was able to physically destroy one.
He also demonstrated this degree of difference in his fight against Morlun. Morlun is an Inheritor, a race of inter-dimensional beings that hunt Spider-Totems like Spider-Man across the multiverse draining their energy with Morlun being Spider-Man's strongest enemy physically. A punch from Morlun was strong enough that Spider-Man said he had never been hit that hard. Morlun took all of Spider-Man's blows in stride however a determined Spidey was actually able to somewhat physically compete with Morlun. Bear in mind that Spider-Man is the only Spider-Totem to have beaten an Inheritor which is why he's considered the greatest of them all, though at this point he has defeated Morlun 4 times.
Spider-Man also has a few feats that I'm guessing are probably outliers but am not sure how strong they are so I'm including these at the end just for reference sake. He's fought Namor, though I'm not sure how strong Namor was on land at this point (as his power changed depending on if he was in the sea or on land). He was able to break the grip of the Hulk immediatly after he transformed when he was at his weakest. Also an internal power ranking puts Spider-Man on the same ranking as the Silver Surfer who states he relies not on brute strength but on the power cosmic suggesting this is his unamped strength. Now I was under the impression Silver Surfer was always amped by the power cosmic but he's put above normal humans so I don't know if this is talking about the strength level of his species or what. Spider-Man has fought through an army of Doom-Bots and also blew up Norman Osborn's power suit, which is really just a modified Tony Stark's suit, with his strength however it's implied Norman's modification actually weakened the suit for aesthetic purposes. Finally Spider-Man has fought a clone of himself (Cue) and dealt damage to his clone and was able to beat down Otto in his body (time travel shenanigans) so his strength should also scale to his durability feats.
Holy Empowerment:
This doesn't come up very often both in the comics and in vs debates since it requires a specific circumstance, but due to his connection to the spider god Anansi, Spider-Man gets stronger in places sacred to Anansi. Because of it's description that it's connecting him to the greater whole that he is part of and focusing his power and deadliness, it's likely this amp is the same as his determination amp.
Chest Expansion:
"But one thing he didn't count is my power of CHEST EXPANSION!!"
I don't think any of us were counting on that Spider-Man.
Durability:
(Note, pic above regardless of how you feel of the feat takes place during the time Spider-Man had The Other amp and so is not going to be discussed here)
Many of the above strength feats also qualify for durability feats as they involve him both dishing out and taking attacks. Spider-Man is obviously durable to the point that some low-end outliers aside normal people simply aren't a credible threat to him. A normal human striking his face would just break their own fist and in old comics Spider-Man could allow normal humans to beat on him just so that he could relax and regain his energy as they did so little damage. He was even able to regain energy by taking attacks against metahumans you would think could harm him. Spider-Man has survived being thrown half a mile by the Lizard and a FULL mile by the Hulk and speaking of feats that sound impressive but don't actually mean very much, Spider-Man has taken the force of an average earthquake. Earthquakes are actually happening all the time, it's just that most are too weak to be felt meaning an average would only be likely megajoules of energy, if that. I get the feeling the feat was supposed to be more impressive given the context but I don't like arguments from authorial intent since I view that as ultimately unknowable. Also it's implied that issue may have been a dream. It's left deliberately ambigious. Oh and while this isn't a hugely impressive feat, Spider-Man withstood being tortured and crucified because comics are nothing if not subtle.
Moving onto more concrete feats Spider-Man has survived falling from orbit in a web ball. This was with his armor though he survived an explosion that destroyed a web cocoon in his base state and his cocoon also survived falling from orbit. The explosion he survived that destroyed his web cocoon would have taken out the neighboring buildings. He has "been hit by an unhealthy amount of trains in (his) time" and been buried under a few billion tons of rubble (potentially hyperbole) as well as survived having his mass multipled by 10 and being crushed under the foot of the building sized Goliath. Spider-Man has other building feats as well such as having nothing broken when he was crushed under half of a ten story building collapsing on him and surviving Graviton literally dropping a building on him. He was caught in this massively violent part of a building exploding and survived, survived getting caught in a warehouse explosion and one time when he was poisoned and heavily weakened from a fight with The Lizard he got caught in this monsterous building explosion and survived.
Spider-Man has regularly withstood numerous assaults from people relative to him in strength or stronger. He has survived shocks from Electro who right afer his power claimed he could exceed the strength of the electrical field strength of the atmosphere. He's also gotten zapped by Electro in the back, taken numerous blows from amped Electro and may have taken a shock from God Electro (though the next panel may suggest he was avoiding it and it's just weird perspective in the art). He's survived an assault from Luke Cage and took a direct charge from Rhino who is one of his strongest villains. A weakened Spider-Man survived a beating from Hobgoblin and when he was so weak he could barely stand he survived a strike from Doctor Octopus. He's taken numerous beatings from Venom who replicates his powers with greater strength then him. He's withstood strikes from Negus who is stronger then him and Blade together (Negus is also a Dracula tier vampire) and taken a combined assault from The Thing, Iron Fist and Carol Danvers. He's survived blows from a giant-sized massively enhanced Carnage (he had absorbed a bunch of other symbiotes) and he's even survived an assault from a furious Morlun.
While it's possibly hyperbole, Spider-Man after getting hit by Captain America says his fists are like "Pint-Sized A-Bombs." Spider-Man also survived an out of control optics beam from Cyclops whose optics beams blasted the top of a mountain and in one-issue he got hit by the power of Cyclone who claimed his power was the force of a hundred cyclones, the mightest vortex though on the other hand he would then go on to be stopped by a normal fan. I don't know if he was just being ridiculously arrogant or this is just silver age being silver age (his winds did do things like lifting chairs and Spider-Man which a small fan couldn't). He has also survived being hit by Professor Power when in the same issues Professor Power was stronger then the X-Men including Iceman. He was able to survive attacks from Wayep, the Mayan God of Mischief who in the same issues created a snowstorm via raw power and he has survived the epicenter of a massive volcano explosion. Also in the miniseries Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Out of Reach Peter's student Brigham goes rogue and joins Doctor Octopus before creating a power source using the body's natural energy that can destroy a city which not only can Doctor Octopus channel through his tentacles which aren't damaged by it but Brigham actually uses that energy himself to blast Spider-Man and knock back both Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus.
Spider-Man has also survived an energy storm in the distortion leading to the negative zone which as far as I am aware is unquantifiable and like every higher end marvel street tier has been blasted by Iron Man's uni-beams though I think he can adjust their power output. He was also directly striken with enough force to shatter a world....so that's something.
Stamina:
Spider-Man has a superhuman level of stamina. Originally this seemed to be connected to his super strength somehow though later on, and this seems more logical to me, it seems linked to his superhuman willpower, his ability to fight through fatigue. Spider-Man even early on stated his spider-strength meant he could stay active all day, he persisted on 3 days with only 3 hours of sleep without much difficulty and was later active for three days without any sleep without any fatigue. When he exerts himself he can go even further. He fought Morlun for 12 hours straight which is also an incredible feat of endurance, he fought 99 villains in procession but his most impressive feat of stamina and one of his most impressive feats in general comes from The Amazing Spider-Man Issue 500.
During the events of TASM 500, Spider-Man is displaced in time and has to return to the proper time by fighting through every single fight he has ever had in quick procession without rest. How many fights has he had at that point? TASM 500 came out in December 2003. As of 1990, Spider-Man estimates he had been in hundreds to thousands of fights and it's implied these are only the fights against metahuman threats against him as he has also said that someone tries to kill him every day. If you take the "superheroes have been around 10 years" thing to try and deal with comic books seemingly slow time progression, then that would mean someone has tried to kill him 10 * 365 times or 3,650 fights in quick procession. If you actually use when Spider-Man was first introduced, August 1962, that would be over 41 years of combat which would mean someone would have tried to kill him 41 * 365 times or 14,965 fights in close procession (not including leap years which would add another 10 or so). It's also notable that the fights that Spider-Man would have been in would include wout pause between Venom, Carnage, Rhino, Juggernaut, Doctor Doom, God Electro and Morlun.
On a less extreme level, Spider-Stamina gives Spidey the ability to survive without breathing for a superhuman period. This can extend to surviving underwater for 10 minutes as well as double the time a normal human could.
Physiology:
Spider-Man's biology was signfigantly altered via the magical spider's infecting his dormant m-gene. This sometimes pops up in strange biological abilities and resistances to biological abilities. For instance Spider-Man's blood, as his theme song goes, is radioactive blood. This of course means when a vampire tries to drink his blood it obviously kills them.....or turns them into a human. I guess that works too. It's actually a consistent point that Spider-Man's radioactive blood somehow cures vampirism. Also an intelligence and durability feat but in Spider-Man's first confrontation with Morlun he defeated the Inheritor by injecting himself with massive radiation to mess up Morlun's lifeforce absorption. He should have a similar radiation resistance to Silk who with high difficulty could survive for a time on a post-apocalyptic irradiated world. Spider-Man has, in addition to resistance to radiation, a resistance to poisons. He was able to push through a poison that was supposed to kill him via resistance and willpower and has an explictly superhuman poison resistance. He also survived enough drugs to kill an elephant. Similarly he was able to survive being submerged into a powerful acid, if barely.
Spider-Man has some more exotic resistances. He resisted existence erasure though I am unsure if that's something anyone could do in the situation and it's moreso a weakness of the form of erasure. He resisted petrification because.... "Heaven only knows". Spider-Man also physically interacted with anti-matter without any trouble.
Spider-Man's physiology also gives him a healing factor. Obviously he's no Wolverine or Deadpool, but he has some pretty decent regenerative feats. He recovered from the worst flu a doctor had ever seen in minutes, recovered from Swarm's bee stings the fastest, recovers bruises in implied short periods of time and regenerates broken bones within a single day. I was also going to bring up the time Spider-Man was blinded and regenerated his sight but then I realized that wouldn't be specific enough because that actually happened twice (clearly he needs to start wearing protective eyegear). The first time it took hours, the second time he got acid burns to the eyes and was blinded yet his vision began to recover in minutes at most and was fully healed a bit later.
Speed:
During the events of Amazing Spider-Man Issue 200 Spider-Man gets into a cat and mouse chase with Uncle Ben's killer without his spider-powers. Despite this he was able to blitz Uncle Ben's killer from across the room before he could react and avoid gunfire, possibly accomplishing these amazing feats via his will to defeat the murderer of Uncle Ben. With his spider-powers he's obviously much faster, to the point that I think he's probably the fastest Marvel Street Leveler that isn't specifically a speedster (like Quicksilver or Speed Demon), even if not by a massive margin. Spider-Man has caught a person moving at superhuman speed and moved fast enough that people couldn't tell his secret identity without any disguise. He's faster then the speed of thought ... sometimes. Spider-Man sometimes moves too fast for his automatic camera to catch and moved faster then a tracking computer can track. Spider-Man has outpaced an explosion before and in fact moved his entire body in a microsecond. He also implies he can think in a microsecond. This is an insanely impressive feat because a microsecond is 1 millionth of a second and moving your body any notable fraction of a meter in said time will get speeds well above the massively hypersonic threshhold.
Spider-Man, as you might imagine has a lot of bullet-timing feats. Some of the most impressive ones include dodging a bullet moving 4,000 feet per second (1,219.2 meters per second), moved in the same panel as a bullet, a drugged and weakened Spider-Man saved Vermin from bullets that were already fired, dodges machine gun bullets (I swear this series is canon despite it's art. I checked 3 times.), dodged bullets from numerous machine guns at close range and dodges advanced machine gun fire at close range. More impressively Spider-Man has a large number of lightning speed comparisons and lightning timing feats. I found 32 of them, and honestly I think I may have neglected a few just because there was so many it started to seem unimportant to note. Here's an album of them. Some highlights are Spider-Man dodging lightning and a laser at the same time, dodging lightning while weakened from tiredness, dodging amped Electro's lightning from close range, dodging the lightning of God Electro twice over (recall that Electro at the time had merged with the electrical force, and as such it's possible his lightning is moving at the maxmium speed of lightning, the speed of the return stroke), being so used to the lightning comparison that he completes the comparison and his brain working lightning fast. Why is that important? Well Spider-Man has acted on pure instinct and moved faster then his own thoughts to defeat a mind reader. It should be noted as well that Electro is not limited to the average speed of lightning for his lightning. An Electro IMMEDIATLY after gaining his powers was able to react to and tag Quicksilver, Quicksilver being a mutant capable of outpacing radio waves traveling at the speed of light. For comparison Spider-Man has actually moved fast enough that Electro had trouble following him. Now that isn't to say Spider-Man is faster then Quicksilver or even rivaling his speed. Quicksilver was clearly massively faster then Spidey in their encounter at the time and Quicksilver was most likely not using his full speed when Magneto brought him and Wanda with him on a diplomatic mission to recruit the new supervillain Electro, plus Spider-Man's feat was really more a combination of speed AND stealth rather then pure speed. That said especially given how early an Electro this is, I think it's a really good feat.
I do think Spider-Man acts as somewhat of an intermediate between the speedster street tiers and the non speedster street tiers. He's portrayed as faster then other street tiers, ranging from basically even with them to dramatically faster then them and able to blitz them, possibly due to determination buffs (though it seems much less consistently correlated with determination). Spider-Man has completely blitzed Daredevil, only able to fight him due to Spider-Man fighting suboptimally due to hypnosis. For comparison Daredevil has at least one lightning speed comparison and a microsecond movement feat. Paladin, a marvel peak human, couldn't even see Spider-Man's movements. He's dramatically blitzed Deadpool, moved too fast for Hawkeye to react too, and dodged Iron Fist's attack. He's fought and defeated numerous X-Men at once and avoided the blows of Black Panther, who even at a much earlier state had his own microsecond speed feat calced at over Mach 6000. Spider-Man also favorably compares to his villain Doctor Octopus. Doctor Octopus may be able to cover city blocks in instants but Spider-Man is even faster. He's blitzed Otto before and easily dodged around his tentacles. Earlier in the same story arc these tentacles blocked lightning from Electro and supposedly could all day.
Spider-Man also favorably scales in speed to the Fantastic Four. Spider-Man has stated that his speed and reaction time are better then the Fantastic Four and avoided attacks from Super Skrull who has the powers of the Fantastic Four. He's dodged blows from The Thing and Mr. Fantastic but the real comparison is with his long time friendly rival The Human Torch. Early on Spider-Man was clearly faster. He's avoided his fire blast normally, dodges numerous fire blasts, dodged his fire spear, kept from being outpaced in a chase, avoids the attacks of the brainwashed Human Torch and dodged fire blasts from numerous Human Torch clones at once, with the Human Torch commenting he's never seen someone move so fast. By this point The Human Torch already had hypersonic+ feats and in the same issue he says he's never seen someone move so fast, he writes this giant fire message in the sky quickly. While it's unclear exactly how they compare in modern times, Spider-Man is clearly not massively slower then the Human Torch, able to wall-crawl at the speed Human Torch flies and able to dodges close range fire blasts from an enraged Human Torch. For comparison the Human Torch has his own microsecond feat reaching speeds of over Mach 9000, over 1% the speed of light. The feat of Spider-Man moving faster then anyone The Human Torch had ever seen happened in December 1963 while the Human Torch's Sub-Relativistic Feat happened in January 1964. I am NOT kidding.
Spider-Man also kept up with the greatest speed of the original Captain Marvel though I can't find any notable speed feats for the original Captain Marvel outside of bullet-timing. That said, Peter also has scaling to Carol. He's dodged a barrage of attacks from her, disappeared from her sight, and blocked a melee attack from her during intense sparring. Carol scales to Rogue whom she took the powers of (which is consistent as Rogue shouldn't be massively faster the the other X-Men, who Spider-Man outsped numerous of earlier on) and Rogue traveled the Earth-Moon distance in a short time, likely seconds, which would get a speed above 1% the speed of light.
All of this suggests that Spider-Man's movement speed should be somewhere in the range of Mach 6000-Mach 9000 or between 0.69% and 1.02% the speed of light.
In terms of reaction speed, Spider-Man is greatly aided by his spider-sense. While I will get to that's full capacities in a section below, the spider-sense in terms of reaction speed massively slows down time for Spider-Man allow him to percieve threats and react to them even if they are much faster then he is. Spider-Man is stated to be able to have a million thoughts in 2 seconds and he notes that he can have a million thoughts in a few moments. Spider-Man says that the spider-sense slows down time to the point that the passing seconds are frozen moments in time and that life becomes a series of comic book panels and also noted that spider-sense is like freeze frame on a VCR and that his jokes are so funny because from his perspective the jokes he tells mid-combat he's worked on for hours. In combat since basically the beginning Spider-Man has used his reflexes and agility in combat to avoid hits from opponents relative to him in speed and during the story arc The Clone Conspiracy Spider-Man was able to avoid clones of all his enemies in combat via his reflexes until they degenerated due to clone instability.
While Spider-Man is definitely subluminal, his spider-sense does allow him to dodge things that move at lightspeed. He's avoided lasers on numerous occasions including explictly lightspeed ones. He's avoided light from Lightmaster on several times (1)(2)(3)(4)(5), dodged blasts from numerous Lightmasters though his aim was decreased by the split, he fought Lightmaster after he became a being of pure light and was able to see his movement and intercept him. He's avoided Cyclops optic beam which travels at the speed of light, avoided out of control optic beams and I think avoids the optic beams twice here though it seems a bit hard to tell. Spider-Man has reacted to Dazzler and her attacks which explictly move at lightspeed and even avoided a light blast from her at literally point blank range. He's dodged a lightblast from Brother Power and Sister Sun and blocked light from them with a web shield. Moonstone can project light offensively as well and Peter has dodged her light both early on and more recently at close range. If you use the movement speed figures I mentioned above, the difference between Spider-Man and light would be about the same as a normal human and a bullet, so Spider-Man can avoid light via a combination of aim-dodging, time being slowed down like a matrix scene via spider-sense, and the spider-sense's precognition telling him where to dodge. Under those situations, a human could be expected to avoid a bullet with high difficulty, similar to Spidey dodging light with high difficulty.
Spider-Man also has a few more scattered feats of reacting and dodging things that move at lightspeed outside of light specifically . He can explictly see Speed Demon moving, even if he can't hit him with Speed Demon scaling to the aforementioned FTL mutant Quicksilver in the same story as well as dodged Speed Demon trying to blitz him with a superleap. He's dodged Dagger's light knives at close range, was able to dodge with high difficulty beams that explictly were moving at light speed and was able to web swing away from Arno Stark's repulsor ray. This is relevant because if they are at all similar to Tony Stark's repulsor rays, then they should be light speed as Tony's have numerous times been noted to move at lightspeed. Also when Will-o-the-Wisp shot a hypnotizing light at Spider-Man at close range, Spidey was able to recognize the threat and turn his head away before it reached him.
He's also, as mentioned before, faster in movement and reaction time to the Fantastic Four. Mr. Fantastic's super brain actually has a reaction speed feat that is between ~ 2.4c to 12c.
Agility:
Spider-Man compliments his speed with his incredible agility and mobility. He's been said to have superhuman agility since very early in his career with the ability in his very first appearence to walk down a cable as easily as a spider glides down it's own web. Spider-Man is practically without peer in acrobatics and his balance and agility are second to none. He has been stated to move with inhuman grace and to move as fluidly as Quicksilver.
Spider-Man and his clone Ben Reily have defeated the signifigantly stronger villain for Carnage by remaining agile and striking him without return for several minutes and Spider-Man avoided Doctor Octopus's tentacles in just such a way as to tie them up. He also once jumped off a building and changed into his civilian clothing before he reached the ground.
Spider-Sense:
Spider-Man's incredible ability to avoid attacks is partially derived from perhaps his most iconic ability, the spider-sense. The spider-sense is essentially a form of precognition....his most amazing ability it tells hims the exact direction and potency of all dangers. With it, Spider-Man doesn't need to see as it guides him unerringly. It was originally stated it does this by picking up on "odd electronic impulses". Recent revelations are that the arachnofreqeuncy (technical term) works by sending a message through the "web of life and destiny", a 5 dimensional structure extending down into 3 dimensions extending across the multiverse woven by the spider-deities, and is stated to be life and destiny itself. The distortions across it are likely the electronical signals picked by the Spider-Sense. The Spider-Sense grants Spider-Man a supernatural sense of spacetime, energy and electricity and it makes sense those are connected as electrical charges are just one of the most common form of energy and spacetime does not have a seperate existence from matter-energy which cause the distortions of spacetime we call gravity. The spider-sense guides Spider-Man in combat, telling him which strategies are good and which are bad. Spider-Man has gotten better at discerning what it's telling him over time. The tingling Spider-Man get modulates with the level of danger present to give him a sense of the potency of danger. This sense can extend into the future allowing him to dodge blows before they have even been thrown. If Spider-Man really needs to focus he can also turn off his spider-sense. Regardless of whether he turns it off or an enemy does, the spider-sense eventually regenerates. Spider-Man doesn't even need to be aware to use it, for it will trigger even in his sleep. Spider-Man has also been shown to occassionally foretell the future in his dreams, which I am guessing is his Spider-Sense trigging in his sleep.
While the spider-sense does get tricked occasionally into thinking something isn't a threat when it is (most notably with the Symbiotes), this doesn't happen very often and it actually tends towards the overly sensitive. It warned Peter of a child's toy airplane, a finger gun and his alarm clock. It's sensitivity is strong enough to pick up the tiny sized Wasp (as well as tell her general size) as well as pigeons which Spider-Man uses to avoid slamming into them as well as their droppings. Despite it's sensitivity, it works at enormous ranges. Even early on it was strong enough to tell Spider-Man that the Green Goblin was somewhere in the city and later sensed a threat to the whole world and sensed an event happening 50,000,000 miles (about 80,000,000 kilometers) from the Earth. That's over halfway the distance to the Sun! That said it explictly does not sense into other dimensions. This is consistent with Spider-Verse II showing that messages have to cross the web of life and destiny into a dimension before it's picked up by Arachnofrequency. The Spider-Sense also alerted Spider-Man to an event before leading him to the event. I don't believe it's explictly said anywhere, but intuitively it seems that the bigger a danger is, the greater a distance across spacetime that Spider-Man will sense it.
Beyond danger the Spider-Sense can be used as essentially aura-reading, detecting the presences of other living beings. Spider-Man is able to sense Vulture or Kraven just being in the same area as him regardless of the danger they currently pose. It can tell him when someone is watching him or no one is around. This sensing gives him a good sense of position. He sensed Morlun's approach, Mysterio waiting for him in a building, and Doctor Octopus being just beneath him on a plane. This sensing works on non-enemies as well. He sensed the presence of Hulk and Woodgod when neither were enemies, sensed Silk in a building and told him the room The Human Torch was in. He's even suggested that his spider-sense might be able to detect Flash Thompson who at the time was just a civilian. It also acts as a literal aura-reading, sensing an evil presence (and has also sensed evil and hostility), detecting an aura of death and decay and sensing Doctor Strange's astral form. This aura reading also means his spider-sense can and has given him information about people around him. His spider-sense can read someone's intent allowing him to do things like sense that two men are thieves or sense the Chameleon trying to escape despite his disguise. No disguise can fool the spider-sense! The spider-sense can sense danger to other people, even sensing danger to Aunt May from a distant part of the city. Peter also knew Aunt May wasn't dead or he would have sensed it. He even sensed danger to the nullifier, a piece of technology. His spider-sense told him someone was suspicious, possibly told him that Jonah's son was too dangerous to be left at large and informed him of Sandman's transformation into his rock hard state. He also thought his spider-sense would give a sense of vague uneasiness around the Human Torch even when he wasn't in his flame on state presumably reacting to his potential to become danger.
The spider-sense will also give him information about objects and the general area around him. As mentioned above, the spider-sense gives Spider-Man a greater sense of spacetime around him. While blind, Spider-Man could sense the area around him was a flat expanse, was able to sense the pit under a statue, led him unerringly through a labyrinth, grants him 360 degree awareness, and sensed spacetime disturbances. The spider-sense can be used to trace objects, acting as a form of rudimentary clairvoyance. He has used it to track a helicopter, a criminal, and the villain The Beetle. He can detect and follow sensory impulses, the tiny charges given off by the brain to track people down including Doctor Doom! He can use his spider-sense to discern information about objects and often does so with technology. He's used it to help fly a plane, sense the power source for a bomb and defuse a tactical nuke. It even helped him work technology he had never seen before. The spider-sense has told Spider-Man that a wall was not real, warned him that a light fixture would fall and warned Spider-Man that smashing some glass would trigger an alarm when he was being too impulsive to notice the alarm right immediatly on the other side. It even warned Spider-Man about the contents of a drink and....somehow allowed him to read a message that had melted to illegibility.
The spider-sense's general purpose may be to warn Peter of danger but it seems to have a pretty broad definition of danger. I've already mentioned how it strives to protect Peter against the horrific terrors of toy airplanes, pigeons, finger guns and alarm clocks but it also protects him from pick pockets, being watched and if anyone would find out his secret identity. It also senses a bunch of other random negative things that might be vaguely menacing. It detected the danger posed by the imposters pretending to be Peter's parents, can sense tiny changes in the air down to small vibrations, and sensed danger over a phone. It can detect non-audible frequency waves, can pick up telepathic messages, detects electronic impulses and PROBABLY gets cable. It sensed the hostile emanations of Doctor Doom's brain, told Spider-Man he was not dead and in heaven when an ancient cult tried to convince him of such, warned him to hold his breath and sensed something vaguely bad going down in the city.
While the spider-sense does get tricked occasionally into thinking something isn't a threat when it is (most notably with the Symbiotes), this doesn't happen very often and it actually tends towards the overly sensitive. It warned Peter of a child's toy airplane, a finger gun and his alarm clock. It's sensitivity is strong enough to pick up the tiny sized Wasp (as well as tell her general size) as well as pigeons which Spider-Man uses to avoid slamming into them as well as their droppings. Despite it's sensitivity, it works at enormous ranges. Even early on it was strong enough to tell Spider-Man that the Green Goblin was somewhere in the city and later sensed a threat to the whole world and sensed an event happening 50,000,000 miles (about 80,000,000 kilometers) from the Earth. That's over halfway the distance to the Sun! That said it explictly does not sense into other dimensions. This is consistent with Spider-Verse II showing that messages have to cross the web of life and destiny into a dimension before it's picked up by Arachnofrequency. The Spider-Sense also alerted Spider-Man to an event before leading him to the event. I don't believe it's explictly said anywhere, but intuitively it seems that the bigger a danger is, the greater a distance across spacetime that Spider-Man will sense it.
Beyond danger the Spider-Sense can be used as essentially aura-reading, detecting the presences of other living beings. Spider-Man is able to sense Vulture or Kraven just being in the same area as him regardless of the danger they currently pose. It can tell him when someone is watching him or no one is around. This sensing gives him a good sense of position. He sensed Morlun's approach, Mysterio waiting for him in a building, and Doctor Octopus being just beneath him on a plane. This sensing works on non-enemies as well. He sensed the presence of Hulk and Woodgod when neither were enemies, sensed Silk in a building and told him the room The Human Torch was in. He's even suggested that his spider-sense might be able to detect Flash Thompson who at the time was just a civilian. It also acts as a literal aura-reading, sensing an evil presence (and has also sensed evil and hostility), detecting an aura of death and decay and sensing Doctor Strange's astral form. This aura reading also means his spider-sense can and has given him information about people around him. His spider-sense can read someone's intent allowing him to do things like sense that two men are thieves or sense the Chameleon trying to escape despite his disguise. No disguise can fool the spider-sense! The spider-sense can sense danger to other people, even sensing danger to Aunt May from a distant part of the city. Peter also knew Aunt May wasn't dead or he would have sensed it. He even sensed danger to the nullifier, a piece of technology. His spider-sense told him someone was suspicious, possibly told him that Jonah's son was too dangerous to be left at large and informed him of Sandman's transformation into his rock hard state. He also thought his spider-sense would give a sense of vague uneasiness around the Human Torch even when he wasn't in his flame on state presumably reacting to his potential to become danger.
The spider-sense will also give him information about objects and the general area around him. As mentioned above, the spider-sense gives Spider-Man a greater sense of spacetime around him. While blind, Spider-Man could sense the area around him was a flat expanse, was able to sense the pit under a statue, led him unerringly through a labyrinth, grants him 360 degree awareness, and sensed spacetime disturbances. The spider-sense can be used to trace objects, acting as a form of rudimentary clairvoyance. He has used it to track a helicopter, a criminal, and the villain The Beetle. He can detect and follow sensory impulses, the tiny charges given off by the brain to track people down including Doctor Doom! He can use his spider-sense to discern information about objects and often does so with technology. He's used it to help fly a plane, sense the power source for a bomb and defuse a tactical nuke. It even helped him work technology he had never seen before. The spider-sense has told Spider-Man that a wall was not real, warned him that a light fixture would fall and warned Spider-Man that smashing some glass would trigger an alarm when he was being too impulsive to notice the alarm right immediatly on the other side. It even warned Spider-Man about the contents of a drink and....somehow allowed him to read a message that had melted to illegibility.
The spider-sense's general purpose may be to warn Peter of danger but it seems to have a pretty broad definition of danger. I've already mentioned how it strives to protect Peter against the horrific terrors of toy airplanes, pigeons, finger guns and alarm clocks but it also protects him from pick pockets, being watched and if anyone would find out his secret identity. It also senses a bunch of other random negative things that might be vaguely menacing. It detected the danger posed by the imposters pretending to be Peter's parents, can sense tiny changes in the air down to small vibrations, and sensed danger over a phone. It can detect non-audible frequency waves, can pick up telepathic messages, detects electronic impulses and PROBABLY gets cable. It sensed the hostile emanations of Doctor Doom's brain, told Spider-Man he was not dead and in heaven when an ancient cult tried to convince him of such, warned him to hold his breath and sensed something vaguely bad going down in the city.
Adhesion:
Spider-Man has the ability to adhere to any surface, the legendary "stick-em power". This is most commonly used for his wall-crawling, climbing up the vertical side of a building which he can do as easily as he can walk. This works because he "apparently has the ability to mentally control the flux of inter-attraction between molecular boundary layers". You know....APPARENTLY. Basically what this means is he has a limited ability to control the positive-negative attraction of atoms on his body to make them cling to whatever he's touching, like putting oppositely charged magnets together.
When Spider-Man adheres to things nothing he's seen can seperate him from that thing, albeit the surface he's on might break. He's stuck to an out of control capsule despite wind resistance, stuck to a wall despite hurricane like winds (also stuck against power he said was like being in a hurricane) and he was able to stick to a flying jet. With just 3 fingers he could stick to an advanced vehicle moving 186 mph (~83.15 meters per second), can stick to space shuttles, and cling to a flying robot.
This adhesion can be used as an attack as well, known as the Mark of Kaine where Kaine or Spider-Man attaches their hand to the enemy's body and adheres to them, ripping the parts attached to their fingers off, creating distinctive scars. As you might guess Spider-Man in-character would almost never use this power due to it's horrific nature, only using it when extremely enraged like against Norman Osborn or against non-living entities like robots. Due to it's nature of affecting enemy atoms directly, this technique can somewhat ignore durability, for instance it can be used on an Iron Man armor.
Anti-Intangibility:
Spider-Man has been depicted with an inconsistent ability to affect intangible entities. He punched Kryllk's "temporal echo" which somehow effected his main body while Thor's strike didn't effect his temporal echo at all. Despite his villains Sandman being made of sand, Hydro-Man being made of water and Electro being made of electricity, Spider-Man still regularly effects all of them. Spider-Man has physically defeated Fireheart's internal demon. I know that may seem like just a psychadelic experience but it is later stated that the shaman's dream magic made their internal demons real. He was also able to physically effect the energy form of Lightmaster after he became pure light though on the other hand he is sometimes depicted as being unable to hit intangibles.
What seems to be the case is that his adhesion allows him to essentially stick his fists, or indeed the rest of his body to the atoms making up things that have an elemental form of intangibility but not beings who don't have any physical atoms anymore. This allows him to hit elemental intangible entities such as those made of sand, water, electricity, darkness or light but also explains why he can't effect more conventional intangibles. It also may explain how he's able to interact with things like anti-matter.
Spider-Man also beat up D'spayre who was the "embodiment of ultimate evil" but on the other hand Scorpion was also called the embodiment of all that is evil and Doctor Octopus was called evil personified so I don't think that means he can hit abstracts. A better argument is his ability to physically interact with Wayep, the Mayan God of Mischief who says that he is "the absence of warmth. I am the winter solstice. I am the darkest night." though truthfully I don't think it's a very strong argument. The story arc this happens in, Sometimes it Snows in April, takes place on Uayep, the time period in the Mayan calender where the boundary between the realm of man and the land of their gods is at it's weakest, when gods can freely intermingle with man.
Web-Slinging:
To compliment his spider-powers, Peter Parker built web-shooters that create a synthetic webbing which he uses for a large variety of purposes including swinging from place to place, grabbing things, binding people up and more. Spider-Man's webbing is likely his most impressive invention, and has been called the stuff of legends though admittingly this was the same guy who concluded that J. Jonah Jameson was Spider-Man so maybe not the most credible source. However for more credible sources both Reed Richards and Tony Stark, two of the smartest men in the Marvel Universe, have been impressed with Peter's webbing. A team of researchers working for months couldn't figure his webbing out.
Spider-Man's webbing can be a little inconsistent in terms of their strength, though there is a reason in-universe. Spider-Man by holding the trigger of the web-shooter increases the consistency and density of the webs, increasing it's difficulty to break, though obviously as he increases it's thickness the more of his finite web it takes. That said even a single thin strand of webbing can hold up a cast iron block like it's a toy. It's also noted that normal swords can't cut Spider-Man's web (though Deadpool can.)The webs have numerous fairly impressive durability feats even without scaling. Even early on they were stated to be able to hold a charging elephant, held up a water tower, held up large chunks of a building, held up a building, held up the daily bugle, held against the pressure of a river, in fact held up against a tsunami. But much more impressively is the list of people that have struggled to break the webbing to the point that it's honestly something of a binding hax. This list includes Wolverine (webbed in a way he couldn't use his claws), Luke Cage, Morbius, Wayep, She-Hulk, Kristoff Vernard (Dr. Doom's Son with his own power suit), an enraged Hercules, Bleeding Edge Iron Man, Red Hulk (also says that it could restrain Hulk several times though has stopped lately for fear Hulk will take it personally), an exemplar (think Juggernaut), Juggernaut himself, the sadly featless Aztec goddess Itzpapalotl (Spidey really needs to stop getting in fights with Mesoamerican deities), Squirrel Girl and of course Spider-Man himself. That said stopping beings like these are probably more the exception then the rule for Spider-Man's webs as he says it takes both web-shooters down to half capacity to hold a 16 ton truck. So overall, webbing durability is street level, though if he uses most of his web in his web cannisters he can bind beings vastly stronger then himself. He has at least enough web at any one time to web up a large building. Standard tactic for him is the classic shoot web in their eyes to distract them trick. He even tried this tactic against the cosmic entity The Omega. He can also create superfine webs on his own eyes to filter out certain frequencies of light to see invisible enemies though this only works on certain types of invisibility.
These webs are highly flexible, able to be stretched 50 feet, stretch out and contain a forcefield, webbed up to the height of a helicopter, and while the webs weren't able to stop it, did stretch out to cover an entire meteor showing impressive area of effect. Spider-Man's webs are also non-electrically conducive and at least some varieties are waterproof and fireproof.
I say varieties because Spider-Man actually carries several types of webs on him though it's kinda ambigious and probably changes overtime what web types are standard equipment. These include impact webbing for blunt force, magnetic webs that block radio waves, acidproof webs, hydroflouric acid webs (probably not standard equipment), general acid webbing, sonic webs which can vaporize Hydro-Man, extra-sticky liquid web, z-metal webs which can make an EMP, lead webbing for use against radioactive threats, ice-silicone webs that gives freezing potent enough to work on the Human Torch, and some kind of chemical fluid web that can block brainwaves. ... Wait what? As far as I know this was only used once to stop Doctor Octopus from mentally controlling his tentacles but could Spidey spray someone's head with that and shut off their brain? That'd be a pretty potent hax. At the very least it negates telepathy.
These webs are highly flexible, able to be stretched 50 feet, stretch out and contain a forcefield, webbed up to the height of a helicopter, and while the webs weren't able to stop it, did stretch out to cover an entire meteor showing impressive area of effect. Spider-Man's webs are also non-electrically conducive and at least some varieties are waterproof and fireproof.
I say varieties because Spider-Man actually carries several types of webs on him though it's kinda ambigious and probably changes overtime what web types are standard equipment. These include impact webbing for blunt force, magnetic webs that block radio waves, acidproof webs, hydroflouric acid webs (probably not standard equipment), general acid webbing, sonic webs which can vaporize Hydro-Man, extra-sticky liquid web, z-metal webs which can make an EMP, lead webbing for use against radioactive threats, ice-silicone webs that gives freezing potent enough to work on the Human Torch, and some kind of chemical fluid web that can block brainwaves. ... Wait what? As far as I know this was only used once to stop Doctor Octopus from mentally controlling his tentacles but could Spidey spray someone's head with that and shut off their brain? That'd be a pretty potent hax. At the very least it negates telepathy.
Web Constructs:
While he doesn't do it as much anymore, Spider-Man can make physical objects out of webbing for various purposes. These have included
Web Bolas. Has used this to blow smoke away
Web Cocoon. This could contain a blast that would destroy everything in a 3-block radius. It also shuts off thoughts and feelings. Pretty sure this is just a poetic way of saying that he's isolating himself from the world in it but in a weird way it would be humourously consistent with Peter having webs that blocked Doctor Octopus's brainwaves from reaching his tentacles.
Web Shields. These are bulletproof and can block liquid nitrogen, can block a attack from a weapon that could possibly threaten the city, block Doctor Doom's finger guns and blocked an attack from a brainwashed Thor wielding Mjolnir. It also protected against a dragon's firebreath. This isn't a particular good feat, I just thought it was cool.
Web Wings. These actually allow him to fly. Yes, Spider-Man can fly.
Standard Equipment:
Due to being a comic book genius scientist type Spider-Man has had a large variety of temporary tech but this is just focusing on just his standard equipment. He keeps them all on his utility belt.
Spider-Man obviously carries his web shooters on his wrists and also carries on his utility belt his spare web cartridges. It's possibly this is how he carries multiple types of webs. Spider-Man also had on his belt a light with his face insignia he would shine in to intimidate criminals. He doesn't use it very often these days, though he does occasionally take it out, particularly when he needs an area to be illumintated. More recently Spider-Man had a chip implanted in his brain that is supposed to block neural interference however it doesn't work too well.
Spider-Man also uses spider-tracers, little machines that give off a signal his spider-sense can pick up so he can track enemies. Recently the spider-tracers have been upgraded to pick up audio. They have a 2 year battery life and are 100% waterproof. He also has special variant types of spider-tracers but I can't tell if they are standard equipment or not. Easily the most notable if they are standard is his Arctic Vibranium spider-tracers which mess with any other metal. Either way his spider-tracers are very stealthy being undetectable to Tony Stark's sensors.
And of course, Spider-Man always carries with him delicious hostess twinkies, golden cakes with a cream filling, a big delight with every bite.
Intelligence:
Peter Parker has one of the wildest intelligence versions of power creep I've seen, going from being a good student to one of the smartest men in the marvel universe's pantheon of super-geniuses as befitting he who is possibly a manifestation of the trickster spider-god Anansi. He's got an IQ above 250 and is a certified genius who uses it in combat. He has described his insults and wit as his two finest qualities and considers his intelligence to be as strong as all of his spider-powers. As a possible manifestation of the spider-god Anansi, Spider-Man is very able to use his intelligence to trick people in combat, even completely plotting out the actions of Speed Demon in a fight with him to circumvent Speed Demon's speed. Looking into Spider-Man's brain caused Mosaic to become overwhelmed by the sheer level and depth of information. Spider-Man's brain works fast enough to rewire every machine in New York in 20 minutes and also mentally control hundreds of thousands of spider-bots into curing 1.6 million people in under 20 minutes. Also I don't know if this is an intelligence feat but when Doctor Strange and Spider-Man were trapped, Doctor Strange used his magic to swap he and Spider-Man's powers and Spider-Man learned how to use magic insanely quickly. I don't know if this is a side-effect of Doctor Strange swapping their abilities, though it doesn't seem to be as Spider-Man does mention not knowing how to use it. If it's not a side-effect of the power swap Spider-Man learned to use magic in seconds when in Marvel magic usually takes years of study to learn to use.
Spider-Man is consistently one of the strongest minds in the Marvel Universe. He has said he's about as smart as Tony Stark and Hank Pym. That said he might be being modest there as he compares really favorably to Hank Pym who has stated that Spider-Man is his intellectual superior even as a teen and that the spider-tracers he whipped up as a teen have technology that took him years to develop. Beyond that Peter also knows information about Pym Particles that Hank does not and explained Pym's microprocessors to normal civilians. Doctor Octopus who is known for his incredible arrogance and has outwit both Tony Stark and Hank Pym, has admitted that Spider-Man is his superior in intelligence and that Peter only uses his full intelligence when lives are in danger. Peter is one of the three scientific experts that Beast consults when he has a scientific problem along with Tony Stark and Reed Richards and was one of Reed Richard's elite team of super geniuses. Speaking of Reed Richards, oft thought to be the smartest non-cosmic entity who can mentally contend with multiversal abstract forces and build tech on the level of type 5 civilizations, Spider-Man actually has feats of being relative to him. Reed Richards said Spider-Man could perform many of his most impressive feats of intelligence with the right resources and believed he was smart enough to take his place on the Fantastic Four when he had to leave for a temporary period. Reed and Peter even finish each other sentences when working on science together, suggesting their thought processes mirror each other. Spider-Man was able to use science to move the Hulk from him back to Bruce Banner, undoing Loki's magic which Loki himself could not undo without likely making it worse before either Bruce Banner or Reed Richards could.
Spider-Man's specialty is biological/chemical science and Reed has said he's envious of Peter's level of biological knowledge when Peter found the answer to a problem before Reed. Peter was on a council of the smartest minds of Earth trying to find a cure for an alien virus threatening the world. Peter was the first one to find the key to solving it. Similarly Spider-Man solved in minutes a disease that had already taken people years of research trying to fix and invented a cure for a disease that turns people into werewolves. A teenage Spider-Man was able to beat Doctor Octopus's prepped technology and leave him breaking down crying over his defeat in 15 minutes using a $5 chemistry set. He's created a cure for the lizard and was even able to do the same in minutes at most, cured and depowered Electro, and reversed the mutation of an experimental cure for Morbius. He invented self-replicating nanites that prevented Norman from changing into the Green Goblin and a chemical compound that fused Doctor Octopus' arms together. He's also on numerous ocassions figured out someone's powerset after just one encounter.
Outside the biological Spider-Man is also a supergenius in the fields of math and physics. I already linked the feat where Spider-Man says he can do an unbelievable amount of calculations in his head on the fly however beyond that Spider-Man in freefall from orbit did the calculation in his head of how to fall to hit Paris on the ground, improved the Drake Equation was able to help ultimate universe Iron Man solve the equation of interdimensional travel (and bear in mind that in the ultimate universe, Iron Man atleast considers himself smarter then Reed Richards), and in seconds fixed an equation in the Wakandan Calculus used in the creation of imperfect reverbium that was exponentially reflecting energy threatening everyone there. Doctor Octopus had 5 minutes to solve the same equation and failed to do so. Spider-Man was able to solve a high order math/physics problem just because he had nothing better to do, the equation being an equation for an anti-matter bomb. Spider-Man can understand at least the basics of meta-science, the science behind all science, something very few minds in the Marvel Universe can do. He can do this to analyze large amounts of statstical data to figure out what is going to happen next, similar to psychohistory in the Foundation series, although his feats aren't quite as good as that with it. He developed a better theory and understanding of probability distibution and chaos theory then Doctor Octopus' doctoral thesis simply based on analyzing the motion of Doctor Octopus' arms, was able to solve a fake alien invasion before Iron Man did and was able to analyze data and figure out The Collective's power before Iron Man could.
Type 3 (Galactic Scale civilization with tech using that can somewhat distort the laws of physics directly): Spider-Man invents his own tech, including various spider-armors some of which have been able to contend with herald level entities. He also has other feats of creating or otherwise scaling to technological inventions that scale to entitites that can destroy planets, stars or more. Spider-Man has been able to hack an army of tri-sentinels, stronger then base sentinels who scale to Colossus, and hacked a tri-sentinel while being attacked and it was under Loki's magical control. He and Reed Richards were able to upgrade Bleeding Edge Iron Man, invented combat vehicles capable of taking on the Hulk and easily diagnosed the problem with the Quintronic Man a power armor that fought Hulk to a standstill. Beyond this, Spider-Man as a teenager created an anti-magnetic inverter that reverses the magnetic field. This was later referenced when he created another anti-magnetic inverter device that nullified intangibility. He invented a genetic isotope accelerator which removed the powers of mutants and mutates, was able to, along with Iron Man, help Noh-Varr build a spacetime continuum viewer and time machine, and in a short term alternate future created a time travel machine himself as one of his attempts to stop the Dr. Doom controlled future.
Type 4+ (Universal to Multiversal scale civilization with technology that is indistinguishable from magic): In a few hours at most, Spider-Man was able to disassemble the Enevator and recreate a portable one. The enevator is a machine that manipulates one's lifeforce directly. Spider-Man used it to transfer the Lizard's lifeforce entity and power from The Lizard into the Iguana, removing the Lizard identity from Curt Conners and also boosted the power of Moonstone hundreds of times over. He was also able to easily rewire the machines in Avengers' machines so that they can somehow work while time is frozen, somehow using the magical energy of Mjolnir to do so, which I don't know if that makes it more or less impressive, and with just the scraps available to a post-apocalyptic future managed to activate a cosmic cube. However he also has two more intelligence feats which are his most impressive feats, alongside being relative to Reed Richards and I'm not sure which is more advanced. Spider-Man and Reed Richards have fixed the hyperdimensional technology from year 3,141,592,653 which extends backwards and forwards into the fabric of reality (bear in mind that by current estimates real world humanity will reach a Type 3 civilization in a "mere" 1 million years, let alone 3 BILLION years). Spider-Man was also able to reverse engineer Terminus's sceptre, a sceptre that was a weapon used against celestials, a type 5 civilization. He did this for the purposes of nullifying Parker Particles, a type of particles he discovered tied to the forces of universal expansion growing endlessly stronger, stronger then the Hulk, the Sentry, or the Phoenix that Reed Richards was too scared to investigate the power off.
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Spider-Man is consistently one of the strongest minds in the Marvel Universe. He has said he's about as smart as Tony Stark and Hank Pym. That said he might be being modest there as he compares really favorably to Hank Pym who has stated that Spider-Man is his intellectual superior even as a teen and that the spider-tracers he whipped up as a teen have technology that took him years to develop. Beyond that Peter also knows information about Pym Particles that Hank does not and explained Pym's microprocessors to normal civilians. Doctor Octopus who is known for his incredible arrogance and has outwit both Tony Stark and Hank Pym, has admitted that Spider-Man is his superior in intelligence and that Peter only uses his full intelligence when lives are in danger. Peter is one of the three scientific experts that Beast consults when he has a scientific problem along with Tony Stark and Reed Richards and was one of Reed Richard's elite team of super geniuses. Speaking of Reed Richards, oft thought to be the smartest non-cosmic entity who can mentally contend with multiversal abstract forces and build tech on the level of type 5 civilizations, Spider-Man actually has feats of being relative to him. Reed Richards said Spider-Man could perform many of his most impressive feats of intelligence with the right resources and believed he was smart enough to take his place on the Fantastic Four when he had to leave for a temporary period. Reed and Peter even finish each other sentences when working on science together, suggesting their thought processes mirror each other. Spider-Man was able to use science to move the Hulk from him back to Bruce Banner, undoing Loki's magic which Loki himself could not undo without likely making it worse before either Bruce Banner or Reed Richards could.
Spider-Man's specialty is biological/chemical science and Reed has said he's envious of Peter's level of biological knowledge when Peter found the answer to a problem before Reed. Peter was on a council of the smartest minds of Earth trying to find a cure for an alien virus threatening the world. Peter was the first one to find the key to solving it. Similarly Spider-Man solved in minutes a disease that had already taken people years of research trying to fix and invented a cure for a disease that turns people into werewolves. A teenage Spider-Man was able to beat Doctor Octopus's prepped technology and leave him breaking down crying over his defeat in 15 minutes using a $5 chemistry set. He's created a cure for the lizard and was even able to do the same in minutes at most, cured and depowered Electro, and reversed the mutation of an experimental cure for Morbius. He invented self-replicating nanites that prevented Norman from changing into the Green Goblin and a chemical compound that fused Doctor Octopus' arms together. He's also on numerous ocassions figured out someone's powerset after just one encounter.
Outside the biological Spider-Man is also a supergenius in the fields of math and physics. I already linked the feat where Spider-Man says he can do an unbelievable amount of calculations in his head on the fly however beyond that Spider-Man in freefall from orbit did the calculation in his head of how to fall to hit Paris on the ground, improved the Drake Equation was able to help ultimate universe Iron Man solve the equation of interdimensional travel (and bear in mind that in the ultimate universe, Iron Man atleast considers himself smarter then Reed Richards), and in seconds fixed an equation in the Wakandan Calculus used in the creation of imperfect reverbium that was exponentially reflecting energy threatening everyone there. Doctor Octopus had 5 minutes to solve the same equation and failed to do so. Spider-Man was able to solve a high order math/physics problem just because he had nothing better to do, the equation being an equation for an anti-matter bomb. Spider-Man can understand at least the basics of meta-science, the science behind all science, something very few minds in the Marvel Universe can do. He can do this to analyze large amounts of statstical data to figure out what is going to happen next, similar to psychohistory in the Foundation series, although his feats aren't quite as good as that with it. He developed a better theory and understanding of probability distibution and chaos theory then Doctor Octopus' doctoral thesis simply based on analyzing the motion of Doctor Octopus' arms, was able to solve a fake alien invasion before Iron Man did and was able to analyze data and figure out The Collective's power before Iron Man could.
Spider-Man has a LOT of technological based intelligence feats. I try and quantify these using the Kardeshev Scale of Civilizations, saying that the feat is creating or otherwise equivalent to creating technology we would expect of a civilizaton of that level. Some basic equivalents for it include type 0.1 is rudimentary tools and fire usage, type 0.25 is approximately the Roman Empire. type 0.5 is the Industrial Revolution, Type 0.73 is our current area approximately, Type 0.75 is near-future technology, things that are currently rudimentary today, Type 1 is for planetary civilizations with things that we think are feasible but don't have at the moment, Type 2 is for star system civilizatons with technology that require massive amounts of energy or maybe impossible or require science we don't know yet (like FTL Travel), Type 3 is for galactic civilizations whose technology using cosmic levels of energy and can distort the laws of nature on some level but still is bound to the physics of the universe, Type 4 is for universe-spanning civilizations whose science starts to become indistingushable from magic and Type 5 is for multiverse-spanning civilizations whose science makes them indistinguishable from deities. This is a over-generalization but I've tried to categorize characters feats by these levels of intelligence and will try to provide a few feats for each level that Spider-Man has gotten too. This is not every feat, particularly for the lower tiers, same way as I don't give every superhuman strength feat at wall level, however this is every feat I found for the highest intelligence tier.
Type 0.75 (Modern technology or tech slightly ahead of our time): Spider-Man easily hacked Horizon Labs Security which is more secure then the White House, which is where the American president resides and also hacked SHIELD's satelite while under attack. He also built a homemade version of Reed Richard's neutrino catcher while in High School, incorporated nose filters into his normal suit, and built spaceshuits with flight capabilities, basically a hybrid of spacesuit and jet propulsion. He has automated facial recognition technology, that SHIELD even uses to track criminals, freezing technology he would incorporate into tiny ice pellets, and a laser weapon described as "a shoulder-mounted power plant".
Type 1 (Planetary Scale civilization with tech that should be hypothetically feasible): Spider-Man has invented hologram projectors that projected a hologram of this spider-monster and was able to re-program Mysterio's control room. He built a symbiote tracker in minutes, in 10 minutes was able to build a spider-sense jammer, and upgraded the anti-spider technology of the Spider Patrol (before beating it anyway). He was able to create a device with virtually limitless applications, a self-recharging power system and a plasma reactor which can recreate the conditions of the sun for a billionth of a second and provide enough power for 3 or 4 countries. Tony Stark asked Peter's help building the Titanomechs, superweapons of mass destruction and Peter was able to quickly figure out how to work a tremor machine that was threatening New York works. A lot of people use Spidey's invention of the webware, nanontech that reconfigures itself and assimilates technology it comes into contact with as a feat however it's suggested he didn't really design that but copied it's design.
Type 2 (Stellar Scale civilization with tech using science we don't currently understand): Spider-Man has helped Reed fix his FTL spacecraft, even reaching the root of the problem at the same time as Reed, set up a detector for inter-dimensional portals and led the development of hard-light smart walls, auto-adjusting forcefields. Spider-Man was able to hack Tony Stark's systems from a home computer. I don't know how good Tony's security systems are but given he's invented at least type 3 technology, I have to assume it's at least type 2 level, a type 2 civilization using 10,000,000,000 times less energy then a type 3 civilization for comparison. Similarly Spider-Man has built his own repulsor rays, reverses the effect of a Starktech memory eraser, and disabled Iron Patriot's uni-beam mid-combat. Spider-Man has figured out the technology of Kang the Conqueror who comes from the 31st century (while contempary estimates suggest we will reach Type 1 in a few hundred years, Type 2 in a few thousands and Type 3 between 100,000 and a million years). He also built a brain-swapping device while he was inside of Doctor Octopus' rapidly dying body.
Type 4+ (Universal to Multiversal scale civilization with technology that is indistinguishable from magic): In a few hours at most, Spider-Man was able to disassemble the Enevator and recreate a portable one. The enevator is a machine that manipulates one's lifeforce directly. Spider-Man used it to transfer the Lizard's lifeforce entity and power from The Lizard into the Iguana, removing the Lizard identity from Curt Conners and also boosted the power of Moonstone hundreds of times over. He was also able to easily rewire the machines in Avengers' machines so that they can somehow work while time is frozen, somehow using the magical energy of Mjolnir to do so, which I don't know if that makes it more or less impressive, and with just the scraps available to a post-apocalyptic future managed to activate a cosmic cube. However he also has two more intelligence feats which are his most impressive feats, alongside being relative to Reed Richards and I'm not sure which is more advanced. Spider-Man and Reed Richards have fixed the hyperdimensional technology from year 3,141,592,653 which extends backwards and forwards into the fabric of reality (bear in mind that by current estimates real world humanity will reach a Type 3 civilization in a "mere" 1 million years, let alone 3 BILLION years). Spider-Man was also able to reverse engineer Terminus's sceptre, a sceptre that was a weapon used against celestials, a type 5 civilization. He did this for the purposes of nullifying Parker Particles, a type of particles he discovered tied to the forces of universal expansion growing endlessly stronger, stronger then the Hulk, the Sentry, or the Phoenix that Reed Richards was too scared to investigate the power off.
Possible Fourth Wall Awareness:
Spider-Man has very occasionally broke the fourth wall. Also I'm not sure if these are canon (the wiki doesn't say) but Spider-Man addressed the audience and acknowledged Stan Lee. He's also aware of his own cliches.
Skill:
Since a young age Spider-Man has learned from the three greatest fighting masters of all time: Moe, Curly and Larry. More seriously, Spider-Man got a reputation early on for being an unskilled fighter though even early on he has some decent skill feats. He's implied to know some judo and knows a martial arts chop to knock someone unconcious. Through skill he was able to beat the Scorpion, a villain a bit stronger then him at the time. He had attained a fair level of skill just from sheer combat experince as well, as mentioned above he has had hundreds to thousands of fights by 1990 and said somebody has tried to kill him every year. However he was trapped between the scientist, his rational mind, and the spider, his instinctive animal side. During the 00s and early 10s Spider-Man would take it upon himself to get combat training.
Captain America taught him to focus his chi and proactively plan in combat instead of relying on the instincts of the spider. He also trained under Shang Chi to develop his own martial art "the way of the spider" that takes advantage of his abilities and would train under him for weeks until he could consistently spar with Shang Chi going beyond hunter and spider and becoming the fight itself. Post-training Spider-Man now has a superhuman level of skill. He can consistently and casually beat people who also have spider-powers via skill. He's beaten people who had his spider-powers and his spider-sense while he didn't have spider-sense via martial arts (also notes he knows nerve strikes and pressure points). For his final test from Shangi Chi, Spider-Man had to and succeded at fighting Madame Web with the way of the spider despite the fact that he had no spider-sense and she had the same powers as him, spider-sense and precognition. Bear in mind that Madame Web's precognition is strong enough to see every event that would happen in Spider-Man's life if he made a certain decision. He also got into a fight with Tarantula, an amped form of Kaine, a stronger Spider-Man clone that also was the other and likely thus had the other upgrade, an upgrade that allowed him in One More Day to physically fight with Iron Man and break his armor and allowed Kaine to kill the strongest of the inheritors Solus, stronger then Daemos who is like Morlus times 10. During this fight against Tarantula, Spider-Man's spider-sense regenerates and he was able to immediatly seamlessly merge it with his martial arts training and defeat Tarantula. He was also able to beat up a bunch of Hydra agents with no powers.
While his combat skill has radically improved, Spider-Man has always been a consistently good shot due to rigorous early hours of off-panel practice. He lined his web up perfectly with a hole and a control panel button, hits a helicopter with a tracer despite his injured arm and was able to lob a spider-tracer onto a truck with "unerring accuracy". His accuracy has allowed him to tag people faster then himself including Screwball, Speed Demon, and Lightmaster. He's also quite proficient with stealth. While lower level stealth feats of sneaking past people undetected are common such as sneaking into Felicia's room despite the guards looking for him and tagging a criminal with a tracer as Peter Parker without being seen he also has some more impressive feats such as sneaking into Latveria and causing Daredevil to call him impossibly quiet. Not bad for a guy who thinks this is stealth.
Willpower:
Spider-Man is famous for his incredible willpower and I think it's his most impressive quality. When Doctor Octopus erased most of Spider-Man's being, he was distilled down to his core, that being the man that never gives up. The real Spider-Man never stops struggling and if being Spider-Man means anything it means not giving up. Even if he was lobotmized, Spider-Man would do the right thing, that's what makes him Spider-Man. When Doctor Octopus took over Spider-Man's life, the weight of Spider-Man's responsibility began to mentally crush him and when Spider-Man showed Tinkerer his life it broke him out of his murderous desire to realize the unimaginable pain Spider-Man has been through. Spider-Man's willpower is linked to his immense courage, praised by Thor, Doctor Strange, Adam Warlock and Black Panther. His courage was strong enough that he could beat up D'spayre despite his fear aura and when he thought Mister Fear had killed Hawkeye he was able to overcome the fear potion that had prior made Hawkeye faint at just the sight of Spider-Man.
Spider-Man's willpower I have already shown can let him consistently and often push through his own physical limits in strength and he can do the same in terms of stamina and pain. Powerless he fought through the pain of a bullet wound and was able to fight through a pain far greater then removing contact lenses with a power drill or swan diving naked into a pool of needles. He's pushed through Marvel Girl's telekinetic grip which was implied to be will based rather then strength based and was able to fight through a hypnosis that convinced him that his neck was broken and he was paralyzed. Spider-Man was able to fight a machine attacking his will itself. He can do this because his will is even normally stated to be as strong as his body and will fight possession. I actually think the person was unable to tell Spider-Man's will because it's much stronger then his body. Spider-Man has been hit by a vast array of different mind based attacks of different potencies and types however probably most notable for his mind hax resistance is the time he and the rest of the Avengers and Annihilators were at the epicenter of a mental shockwave that gave Magus control of 30% of the US population and were unaffected. Given the population of the United States, this would qualify for country level brainwashing which did nothing to them. He does have more feats of resisting mind hax, but that one is clearly the highest end. However also of note is he couldn't be brainwashed until he was weakened and poisoned and he was able to resist the psychic attack of Mindworm which is implied to also be an astral attack suggesting he has some soul resistance. He was also able to fight against Mosaic trying to posess him and alter his memories inside his mind with multiple mental antibodies that mimicked his abilities. He fought through the emotional manipulation of Helminth and Psycho-Man on seperate ocassions as well as the hypnosis of the Hypno-Hustler who hypnotized a nightclub of people. Also while it's never stated to be a feat, he was unaffected psychologically by Reed sonic gun blasting the symbiote off of his person when a single telepathic yell of the symbiote in distress caused psychological damage all the way out to Chicago, a city over 1,000 km from New York! The psychological damage was strong enough that some were implied to have committed suicide over it, yet Spider-Man at point blank of the symbiote in hypothetically the most distressful situation it had ever been in was unaffected. I'm not really sure if this can be counted as a feat though since the original comic doesn't say that the symbiote does any kind of telepathic screech (as the concept had not been invented yet). Though later on in the same story arc he tanks being close to a far more powerful psychic yell that drove all the symbiotes around him to mass suicide.
Speaking of fighting inside his minds and his soul's strength, both of those powers came back to note in the Superior Spider-Man series where Doctor Octopus had swapped both his and Spider-Man's minds and killed Spider-Man in his body so he could assume Spider-Man's identity. However Spider-Man's soul lingered there and kept Doctor Octopus from killing people. While it was difficult, he was able to even forcibly some of his body parts despite Otto being in control. Spider-Man's psyche regenerated within his mind and when Doctor Octopus's careless actions threatened an innocent child Spider-Man's soul forcibly took control saving him and challening Doctor Octopus to a fight inside his mind which Otto accepted. Otto tried to wipe away Spider-Man's mental body and battlefield (all his memories) but Spider-Man's will simply pushed back against it restoring them. Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus would battle in Spider-Man's mind, Spider-Man's mental body showing the ability to reality-warp his mental battleground before summoning mental projections of all his friends and loved ones, the source of his strength who collectively overwhelmed Doctor Octopus' mental body.
However Spider-Man's will feats don't stop there. What would you say if I told you that Spider-Man's will is actually one of the strongest forces in the Marvel Universe? During One More Day Spider-Man has his conciousness stretched to "everywhere and nowhere" and maybe that's hyperbole, but Spider-Man actually has 3 really insane cosmic willpower feats. In Spider-Man (1990) Issue 17: "No One Gets Outta Here Alive" Spider-Man is killed as is a little girl he was trying to protect. Spider-Man is taken to a place beyond death where there is neither will nor desire. Regardless his soul fights Thanos, not Thanos' soul but the actual Thanos, to try and reclaim the little girl's soul, actually seeming to cause an effect to Thanos' body, withstanding a blow from him and dodging an attack from him. While Spider-Man doesn't beat Thanos, Death herself is so impressed by Spider-Man's efforts that she restores both him and the girl.
On another occasion, during The Amazing Spider-Man Issue 274: "The Soul of the Spider" the Beyonder, a god like being who at the time was nearly supreme in Marvel planned to destroy all of existence and in a desperate gamble Mephisto made a bet with him over Spider-Man. The Beyonder awoke Zarathos, the living spirit of vengeance associated with Ghost Rider and stated that if Zarathos' torment could make Spider-Man renounce his responsibility within the alloted time he would then destroy everything. Mephisto tried to trick Beyonder however Beyonder was supremely aware and easily outplayed Mephisto. However to the shock of all 3 cosmic beings; Mephisto, Zarathos and the supremely aware Beyonder, Spider-Man would not renounce his responsibility and fought through the torment of Zarathos winning the bet and saving the multiverse. Spider-Man's will was so strong that it defied the expectatons and awareness of even the Beyonder at his strongest. However even this is not his best feat. For that I will need to show the greatest feat of Spider-Man and the strongest he has ever been.
This feat takes place in Peter Parker: Spider-Man 1999 Annual: "Song of the Man-Thing". There exists in Marvel a transcendent realm called the Nexus of All Realities. The nexus is every place and every world, as well as no place and no world, the intersection of every universe. It encompasses all thoughts and dreams, a place where even sanity and logic dissolve. Every single thought and dream of all creatures alive and dead creates universes without limit in the Nexus of All Realities, containing and protecting all the infinite realities. Threats to the Nexus of All Realities are threats to all of creation and even perhaps to the Creator (likely the One Above All). It came to pass the villain Scrier attained the staff of God, used to create all things and with it planned to manipulate the Nexus of All Realities, warping every reality on every plane of existence. Of all people, Spider-Man was chosen to save the Nexus. Scrier's minion Outrider had fused with the Nexus and Spider-Man in a desperate instinct threw himself into the core, the two consciousness taking the strain of all Being on their wills. The two wills battled for the soul of creation, flung beyond the physical and quantum realms into the reality beyond all others that underpins all realities. Without Scrier and Man-Thing's support the two surely would have been destroyed. Desperate to stay sane and push through Spider-Man's mind reached out for something and found his love. A wife's tenderness, a friend's loyalty, an aunt' compassion, an uncle's inspiration. His will to saves them ripples across the quantum sea, stronger then any physical blow could ever be, to batter the Outrider. Spider-Man gives a roar of determination while realities heave around them, flinging them through the layers of dream. Spider-Man's will had won. This was not the doing of the Man-Thing, for he and Scrier had agreed to not intervene, to allow the two humans to decide whose philosophy was right by the battle of their wills and the Man-Thing only intervened to save Ellen Sallis which was after the battle had concluded. Spider-Man will was so strong as to influence and warp the Nexus of All Realities, a transcendent plane of being encompassing all of Marvel.
Weaknesses:
Spider-Man's primary weakness physically has always been biological forms of attacks. Because his powers are so closely tied to his biology, being sick drastically depowers him which was often used as a source of drama in the early issues. As he put it, viruses are the one thing his spider-strength can't fight. Most famous is the Ethyl Chloride, a substance used to kill spiders that weakens him. His tech doesn't always work right either, as mentioned the chip he implanted in his brain failed to do it's purpose, water can clog his web-spinner as can extreme temperatures, without the Other power-up he can run out of webbing, and his spider-tracers have limited range he can detect them at. There's also a reason he doesn't go into every fight all jacked up in anger and determination but instead goes in joke-y. Spider-Man's anger can drown out the Spider-Sense as his instincts for survival are overriden by a drive to beat someone's face in. Haste, fatigue and general distractions can also keep him from noticing the ol' spider-sensed ringing.
He also has psychological weaknesses. In fact he has many psychological weaknesses. He is characteristically impulsive and immature used to solving things with his fists. His immense willpower can also be his stubbornness, unable to pull himself away from a plan when he's set his mind to it, even if it's the wrong thing to do. Also because of his vast intellect, he's kind of a know it all that never knew how to fit in with peers mostly because he acted like he knew everything. A good example of this is how despite many encounters with Thor and Doctor Strange he didn't believe there was any possibility that his origin might have anything magical to do with it. Spider-Man's also a boy scout who always tries to do the right thing even when, or especially when, it makes his life miserable which has caused him difficulty when trying to do things like fight women who he doesn't want to fight. Though he makes an exception for serial killers. Villains manipulate Peter by doing things like threatening civilians. I think most of Spider-Man's losses have been due to an enemy exploiting his psychological weaknesses; either a villain exploiting his do-gooder nature, a calm patient enemy exploiting his hot-headedness, or both.
However Spider-Man's biggest weakness on a more general narrative level is neither physical or psychological. It is the infamous "Parker Luck". Things are always going wrong for Spider-Man to the point he's called it the "Parker Luck" and he's said he wouldn't be Spider-Man if things were going smoothly. The Parker Luck is instantly recognizable and was how Spider-Woman knew Peter was back in his body and it wasn't Otto. What's not often commented on is that the Parker Luck is a canonical force, Peter's aura is a bad luck hex formed of genetics and science bordering on the sorcererous according to Dr. Strange. In One More Day Mephisto stated that in nearly all of infinite parallel realities Peter ends up alone and presumably sad. Axiom of Choice demonstrates that any finite fraction of an infinite set will be equal to the infinite set, therefore the only way that makes sense assuming Mephisto is speaking the truth, is that Spider-Man ends up sad and alone in infinitely more realities then not, suggesting he may be mathematically infinitely unlucky! Now granted, this weakness may not be combat applicable. While it's in character for Spider-Man to lose the things he loves from fighting, he rarely actually loses a fight from bad luck. In fact Spider-Man has suggested that the Parker Luck may actually keep him alive so he can get beat up again.
He also was bad at driving cars. Like Goku level bad. This was including the fact the spider-sense should have hypothetically been helping him drive. That said he did eventually get lessons. Although come to think of it, I think he ends up crashing that car too. Huh.
Personality:
Spider-Man is, at heart, a spirit longing to be free. He has a youthfulness to him, a directness in thought and action and a desire to bring about fast and immediate change in the world around him. But he is weighed down, weighed down by his guilty consciousness, by the responsibility of holding the world on his shoulders. Spider-Man is always fighting forces stronger then himself, villains often literally more powerful then him, fighting forces of society and concepts of morality that he can never win against, only push off himself for the slighest moment. He can not win in direct fights, only remain agile and fleet in mind and body; using intelligence, tricks and, when it comes down to it, a sheer persistance to keep going.
This isn't truly new to him though. Spider-Man has always been looked down on by his peers and by the world, treated just like a spider, a detestable tiny thing without worth. Thrown into the fray against forces seemingly beyond him, fighting in a world full of gods and monsters with power beyond his own, what drives such a man? Spider-Man has been psychologically broken so often it's become a narrative trope of his. He makes his silly jokes so the bad guys can't see how scared he is, so he doesn't have to break down thinking about everything. The world never gives Spider-Man a break, he is constantly hated by people, his friends and loved ones constantly turn evil or die, and he himeslf nearly dies over and over. What sort of man, what sort of creature, is he that continues despite this?
When Spider-Man was pitched by Stan Lee, the pitch was met with "1,000 objections", told it would never work and put on a dying magazine to be forgotten about. He is now Marvel's flagship character and The One Above All, Marvel's aloof and distant supreme being representing it's writers, will personally come to comfort Peter, showing him some of the thousands upon thousands he's saved. Spider-man is hated on and off again by the people of his time yet in the future he's remembered as the greatest hero of all, the greatest costumed crusader, the epicenter of the age of heroes. Spider-Man has always had the odds stacked against him, and no matter what it cost him, has pushed through, enduring through the pain and chaos. Spider-Man is symbolic of that strange phenonema of human willpower. That damnable will that creates chaos from order and can not be swayed. That glorious will that never bows before evil, that endures against time and suffering. When you get back up from a fall, when you offer your hand to your neighbor who has fallen, then you are the Spider-Man. Across the world, wherever there's a hang-up, you'll find your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The world will take everything from him again and again, but he will keep going. Because he can, because he has the power too.
Summary:
+Town Level Strength, City Level when Enranged, Determined or in places sacred to Anansi
+City Level durability
+MHS+ Movement Speed, FTL Reaction Speed
+Superhuman agility and balance
+Vastly superhuman stamina (can fight thousands of times without tiring)
+Spider-Sense (Inter-Planetary Scale Precognition and Danger Sense. Can sense auras, spacetime, matter-energy, astral forms and information about people and objects. Tells him the direction and potency of danger and how to avoid it. Can provide limited clairvoyance)
+Adhesion (can stick to surfaces against massive forces trying to tear him apart)
+Anti-Elemental Intangibility
+Mark of Kain (Mild Touch-Based Matter Hax that ignores some level of physical durability)
+Regen (Low-Mid, Low Godly for his psyche which came back from being erased)
+Webbing (can create synthetic webs for movement via web-swinging, grabbing objects, or binding people. Large amounts can be used to bind people stronger then him. Variants can do additional things including sonics, EMPS, magnetization, lead, acid attack, freezing, or blocking brainwaves)
+Web Constructs (can create various objects out of webs, most notably shields that can block attacks from those who are much stronger then him and Web Wings that grant flight)
+Minor Light Emanation (Spider-Signal)
+Spider-Tracers
+Supergenius Intellect (At least Type 4 Civilization Level Intellect, likely Type 5 Level. Relative to Reed Richards who is likely a Type 5 Civilization Level Intellect, reverse engineered Terminus's staff which is anti-Celestial weaponry to nullify Parker Particles, helped fix technology from over 3 billion years in the future)
+Superhuman Skill (At least Low A Tier, possibly Mid A Tier. Beat Madame Web who had his powers, spider-sense and advanced precognition while he didn't have precognition, beat numerous spider-powered individuals without his spider-sense)
+Proficient in Stealth
+Minor Chi Manipulation
+Possible Fourth Wall Awareness
+Superhuman Courage
+Can fight on the astral and mental planes and has mental battlefield warping and mental summoning
+Absolute Willpower
+Resistance to mind manipulation (Country Scale), potential soul manipulation, radiation, poison, petrification, anti-matter, and possibly existence erasure
-Biological attacks, especially Ethyl Chloride
-Technology has shortcomings; Web-Spinners can clog, tracers don't have unlimited range, brain chip doesn't work that well
-Impulsive, Immature, Stubborn, Know-it-all. Can be manipulated because of his need to do the right thing
-Spider Sense doesn't work on things on things in other dimensions. He can also be distracted from it.
-Parker Luck (Likely not combat applicable)
-Questionable Driving Skills
All of Spider-Man's commonly requested matchups afaik are stomps for or against him. I did think of a few good fight for hims though I am under no illusion Death Battle will do any of them. I just think they're good matchup ideas.
Potential Opponents:
Drizzt Do'Urden (Dungeons and Dragons)
Both Peter and Drizzt are haunted by a father figure of theirs dying because of their actions (Drizzt's father being sacrificed when his refusal to kill a moon elf child caused his dark elf family to be disgraced) and are trying to be a good person but are constantly hated for reasons outside their control (Drizzt for being a dark elf). Both are known for their agile and mobile combat. Both have lost their sentience for periods of time and become an animalistic alter ego (The Spider for Spider-Man and The Hunter for Drizzt) which is actually how I got the idea for the fight since "The Spider" reminded me of "The Hunter". Both hold themselves to ridiculously high standards they don't for others. Spider-Man has fought many ranger like opponents with Kraven and his kin and Drizzt has fought many spider-themed opponents with spider goddess Lolth and her worshippers. The two should be fairly even as far as I know with Drizzt being a bit more powerful and Spider-Man being a bit faster, though neither completely outclassing the other. Plus it would be pretty funny to see Spider-Man's joke-making impulsive nature contrasted with Drizzt's composed quiet personality.
Next Time:
Invader Zim (Invader Zim)
Thematic connections are not as strong with this one however both Peter and Zim are characters that are looked down upon unfairly and ostracizied. Both are also known for their willpower as well as their similar character flaws. The two are fairly similar in raw stats from what I gather with Zim having perhaps higher primary stats in terms of direct strength (outside of Peter using his full strength) and reflex speeds while Peter has an advantage in secondary stats and both are also supergenius types whose technology would also be somewhat evenly matched. From what I understand their personalities would also be fairly interesting to see interact as again they share some of the same character flaws. If Peter vs Drizzt is the fight I would suggest for Base Spider-Man without optional equipment, Peter vs Zim is who I would suggest for Base Spider-Man with optional additional equipment.
Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom)
So I'm not very fond of DB doing the same characters more then once, that said while Drizzt and Zim are my picks for who should fight Base Peter without or with optional equipment, Danny is who I would pick to fight Spider-Man with the Other power-up. I didn't go over it in this blog, but the Other gave Spidey a few more abilities as well as boosted his strength and durability to the point that he scales to Iron Man which would suggest Spidey and Danny would be relatively evenly matched in strength/durability. Spider-Man has lower movement speed but higher reflex speed. It would be interesting to argue if Spider-Man's limited anti-intangibility can affect the ectoplasm that makes up ghost matter while intangible. I think it would be a pretty fair fight. It's also really thematic as Danny seems to have been inspired a lot by Spidey, both have origin stories where they were genetically fused with something that is a common fear; spiders or ghosts.
Next Time:
I want to thank blackspider2099 for their amazing feat compilation for spider-man on comicvine. I read each spider-man comic but after I finished them I would usually control + f on this list to make sure I hadn't missed something. While I don't agree with their interpretation of every feat, it's incredibly impressive. I wanna thank the makers of various respect threads I used for other Marvel characters so I knew how strong this or that person that Spidey fought in this one issue is. If there's a problem with the scaling it's probably scaling to some character that I couldn't find easy information on how strong they were. I also wanna thank my good friend ThorGundersen1058 who made this amazing trailer for my next death prediction, I thought he really captured the souls of the two characters. Finally thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed my 50th Death Analysis special.
This blog was simply amazing Imp. This is one of those blogs that puts your passion for vs debating on full display. I wouldn’t have the patience and perseverance to read through the entire history of Spider-Man, let alone spending a year to research and make a blog about it. But you managed to do it and make an extremely detailed and organized blog about it. The amount of links used to support your points alone was really impressive.
ReplyDeleteIn reading through this blog, I learned multiple surprising little things about Spider-Man. It surprised me how thoroughly he beat both Goblins, Morbius, and even Venom, etc. in the feat section, even when weakened. Just goes to show how amazingly tough Spidey can be with determination and willpower. Another thing that surprised me was his holy connection to Anansi, which can give him a power-up in the right situation. I have not heard that mentioned anywhere. Also, the Spider sense being the product of a multiversal web was crazy (I had no idea that was the explanation for how it works). Stuff like the web constructs, anti-vampire blood, fourth wall awareness, etc. were all interesting learn.
This was also a surprisingly funny blog in places between the particularly odd moments in Spidey’s long history and your silly comments sprinkled throughout. Now I know that Spider-Man can expand his chest at will and has excellent taste in desserts :D. Also, of course, there was a pillar joke :P.
Honestly, in terms of powerset, Spiderman is similar to Batman in more ways than I thought, especially with his intelligence and even having his own utility belt with webbing functions. Those intelligence feats alone...honestly I’m shocked how much you were able to find.
Your description of Spider-Man’s personality was perfect and made me smile. Your explanation of the significance behind him having spider powers and his place in the universe was really insightful. It’s super fitting that Spider-Man was considered such a risky idea for a superhero only for him to become among the most popular superheroes ever. Sad that his “Parker Luck” ended up making him live a sad life, but that is part of the reason I think made Peter Parker so relatable.
I wouldn’t have expected Drizzt or Zim as potential Spidey opponents but they both seem like well thought out concepts for matchups. Danny Phantom is more expected, but it’s nice to know that that battle can be fair given the right gear for Peter.
I Always feel like I am getting the full picture of a character’s abilities when I read your blogs. I really like how you not only discuss abilities like the spider sense but go into all the precise details of their use so that all the strengths and limitations are known to the reader. You tried your best to point out any possible outliers as well and tried to contextualize them. Explaining his technological feats using Kardeshev scale was also really impressive and a great way to qualify his intelligence.
Just a great blog that deserves to be read by many people. I would say you deserve a break, but you are already onto your next death battle analysis (which does look like a really cool idea). So all in all, great blog and I hope you had a Happy Birthday :)
This one was a LONG Time comming and that was I have to say, QUITE a payoff. This was quite honestly one of the greatest analysis blogs I've even seen, Exceeding even impressive blogs like yours on Wonder Woman and Mine on Mickey in Ambition and interms of streamlined Execution it was Far better. One of the most impressive aspects of this blog to me was how Unlike the ones on Wondy and Mickey, you largely didn't know how powerful many of the heros and villains Spider-Man managed to scale to are and had to do additional research to find that out, that sounds crazy hard on top of the sheer volume.
ReplyDeleteHonestly Spider-Man's physical stats were fairly similar to what I knew them to be, hes a little stronger than I thought but nothing too outlandish, but Holy F*** was there some outlandish stuff in here. Things like him being able to shrug off petrification, hit logia beings, Fight literally thousands of battles for days on end without rest, Regenerating from injuries (Cause every single goddamn Marvel hero has that to some degree) and cure vampires with his blood (Damn there were SO many Vampires in this) were really unexpected and cool.
Even the powers most people know about were significantly better than I thought, like his Webs being a limited Binding Hax from time to time, to his Adhesion being used to pull freaking MK fatalities and shut down an Iron-Man suit, to his Spider-Sense being a literal goddamn cosmic awareness factor even better than freaking Talim's wind. Also the Web Constructs, I'm sad to hear he doesn't use that stuff very often anymore because theres a great deal of nostalgia I have tied to those, I can at least say they are making a Comeback in outside media, as he did straight up use the Web Gliders in the newest movie. also Webs that can shut down someone's brain, thats a thing. There were a LOT of feats like that that I found hilariously ridiculous, Mostly in Intelligence, my fave being him outsmarting Doc Oc so throughly that be brought him to tears after making something with a 5 dollar Chemistry Set better than his pre prepped stuff from his lab, MASSIVE Flex. But um, being Freaking Relative to the Brain Trust Trio in Marvel, Being able to compete in Mental jumping jacks with REED RICHARDS, that is quite literally one of the most insane intelligence feats ive seen short of actual Omniscience. The Way he could make a Portable Enevator was NUTS and Extremely Haxy.
But far and away the most impressive thing here was his SHEER Willpower. I now Know why the Champion The Great Weaver picked to place in all realities, why the character representing the writers feelings in Civil War, Why the Very Mascot of Marvel is this friendly Neighborhood Street Leveler. Spider-Man having Goddamn ONMIVERSAL Willpower is completely Unbelievable but also so awesome and fitting to his very character, It doesn't Matter if you're Thanos, Zarathos or even The very fabric of Creation used by The One Above All, the WIll of a true hero will not yeild.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of when we were Joking about Chad James' comment about Carnage fighting Green Lanturn as a potential Idea but now I am unironically wondering if Spider-Man could win against him, hes God Better Willpower which means Green Lanturns attacks shouldn't work and Spider-Man is more than supergenius enough to effect the ring that way, and Hal couldn't beat him without his powers so....maybe?
back to seriousness this blog was Crazy Impressive in literally every aspect, I love how you incorperated pictures from tons of different Spider-Man canons, from the Senti series you grew up with, to the Spectacular series I grew up with, and movies from Rami to Disney it really showed how far the character has come. The Personality Section was BEAUTIFUL like Shakespeare and really captured why I feel the character has become so Iconic in a Way Stan Lee would be very happy with. Even his weaknesses tie into his character, how his emotions can effect his powers from being really careful to really strong, to even his bad luck and how his own workplace hates his guts.
The Opponents on the other hand were Freaking Perfect, I can safely say I liked each one but I do have a soft spot for it being Zim, for the combination of it being a creative Idea and after reading this blog it actually seeming like a pretty fair fight.
Anyway Happy Birthday Imp Chan, You gave all of us a Great present with this one and I'm sure Spider-Man himself would be happy to read.
This blog was absolutely incredible Imp easily one of the greatest blogs I’ve ever seen and I have so much respect for you working so hard looking into such a legendary and the face of Marvel itself. Captured everything about his story, character and what he represents and why everyone looks up to him as the greatest superhero in the world. You showed how with great power comes great responsibility thank you for making this wonderful blog for our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the big 5-O! Spider-Man, eh? What a fitting subject for such a milestone, and such an “amazing” (get it?) blog! He's always been my favorite Marvel superhero and I'm certainly not alone. This has gotta be THE Spidey blog on the web (that one was unintentional, I swear :P).
ReplyDeleteReal quick before I get to the rest of my comment, I just wanted to apologize for taking so long to write this. I read the blog way back when it came out and thoroughly enjoyed it, but due to various personal reasons that are rather off-topic here, I couldn't write out the proper review a blog like this deserved. I'm finally making the time now, so once again sorry, and hopefully this comment makes up for its own tardiness. Now back to my thoughts on your thoughts on Spider-Man!
You know, going into this, I thought I knew a fair bit about Spider-Man. I read a good number of his early comics, watched the 60s and 90s animated series, seen a bunch of movies, played some video games and absorbed my share of pop culture over the decades. But right out of the gate I was learning new things, starting with this Spider God stuff. Man, this story got a whole lot more complicated than I thought! I'll sidestep the obvious tangled web pun. That's probably my favorite part about this whole blog right there: learning so much more about Spider-Man than I ever knew, all conveniently in far less time than it takes to watch a series or read a bunch of comics. The very useful vs debating info I'll get into in a second but that aside, you create wonderfully informative summaries of characters, Imp. Thanks!
So I'm gonna go ahead and say it once again: this has gotta be the most comprehensive Spidey blog out there in my opinion. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to seriously discuss Spider-Man in the context of vs debates. Who else has gone through this much spider media and compiled this much information? Aside from the challenge inherent in tackling such a staggering volume of work, reading this gave me the impression that nailing down just exactly where Peter's stats land was pretty dang tough. Dude has interactions with way too many characters that run the entire gamut. But you did it! And it seems as consistent as it can be. Under the main stats sections, I like the speed feats the most and found the Fantastic Four ones to be particularly impressive, like the comparisons to Mr. Fantastic and the Human Torch.
For Peter's abilities, I found the Spider-Sense section to be the most interesting. Probably a common opinion but come on! It's like, his coolest power. Finding out how it works was a trip, and its supernatural basis helps to explain how it's so freakin' OP. Speaking of that, it's nice to see that it does have limitations, like dimensional boundaries. I also thought his ability to stick to things was pretty wild, particularly in how it works. I always kind of took that spider power for granted, but molecular manipulation? Crazy stuff! After you included such a comprehensive list of what Spider-Man can do with his webs, I gotta at least say what my favorite one was. I would say the ice webs because I love ice and they look so cool, but the z-metal webs that can make EMPs and the weird one-time brainwave blocking webs get special mentions too.
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The parts of Spidey's analysis that impressed me the most however, were the intelligence and willpower sections. Those feats are insane! Especially the top ones for each category. It's hard to imagine there being much in the way of smarter Marvel characters when Pete's giving Reed a run for his money repeatedly and as for willpower, I don't know if it's even possible for that highest feat to be topped in his series. I love that these are the categories that Spider-Man excels in the most, showing that beating the bad guys and saving the day isn't done through strength alone; not by a longshot. And speaking of secondary stats, I wanted to quickly mention that his fight against Madame Web described in the skill section is so damn cool. I don't know how he can pull that off, but it's a great example of Spider-Man being able to win with all the odds against him and nobody can call him unskilled ever again.
DeleteOne of the things I've come to love most about your death analysis blogs are the personality sections. If it's for a character I don't know, reading this section is a wonderful way to breathe life into them and help me come to understand who they are beyond their stats and abilities. If it's for a character I do know, the personality section feels like a celebration of everything I like about them. It's fitting that for this big milestone blog, the personality section is one of the best you've written in my opinion. It's a moving paragraph that truly captures what Spider-Man is all about. It's not the webs and the red and blue suit that make him a hero, it's his willpower; something that exists in all human beings in some capacity or another. You said it best in your blog, so I'll direct anyone reading this to go check that out if you haven't already.
The potential opponents you've selected for Spider-Man to fight are very interesting and unusual. I think you did a great job of explaining why they'd make for good fights, and it's cool how you picked one for each “form” of Spider-Man. Drizzt takes the cake for me though, I never knew how much I needed this! I'm a D&D/Forgotten Realms/Drizzt fan and I was blown away at how much Ol' Webhead and the most famous dark elf in literature have in common! And I never thought they'd be close enough for an even fight. You've made some fantastic connections here, and being inspired by The Spider and The Hunter is, well, inspired! You've struck gold Imp; just when I thought I had hit the end of the blog and the most amazing things were behind me, I get blown away by this surprise. I hope this match up can catch on, as unlikely as that is.
Thank you for making this blog and putting it out there to be read and enjoyed by people like me. It's a fantastic resource for Spidey in vs debating, the best in fact if I may be so bold. I'll certainly point anyone who wants to know how strong Spider-Man is to this blog in the future. Just like you, he's my favorite Marvel superhero, so this blog resonated especially well with me. Thank you again! Your work continues to impress, and I hope to see you for the big 100 someday.