There has been contention that the town+ showings of Spider-Man are outliers. This blog is going to generally argue against this notion but acknowledges the inherent difficulty in assessing whether anything is an outlier due to the subjectivity of the term.
An outlier is a vs term for a feat that is, and both the obd and vs battle wiki states that it is "completely and irreconcibiliy different from a character's normal displayed level of power." You'd think then it would be a fairly rare occurence, however personally I think the claim is used very often, often when the difference is wholly reconcilable with in-universe explanations.
Obviously "outlier" is going to be subjective, but then the question comes up; how many feats would someone like Spider-Man need to have at a certain level before it is accepted? 10? 20? 100? Obviously Spider-Man isn't going to reach 100 town level feats but I'm asking for a reasonable number. What number of town level+ feats would be an acceptable number to present before it is accepted?
See when I was introduced to the concept of outlier, the concept was that a character might have lots of feat on one level, then one feat massively above that, which would make that feat the outlier. Not including scaling Spider-Man actually has that array, with town to city level feats being the level with many feats and the singular planet level feat being the outlier feat (yes Spider-Man actually has a planetary feat without scaling). Outliers should not be a catch all for "This character doesn't seem this level to me so we can't use a dozen feats" because if you do that, then you are starting to override evidence by a base intuition, when evidence should always be paramount in debate.
I understand the difficulty in scaling Marvel, Marvel's internal scaling is inconsistent. However that is no argument against scaling it like any other verse. Just scale a character to their own feats and to the feats of any character that they are always portrayed as equal or above. People bring up nonsense like Black Panther restraining Silver Surfer but that's really easy to argue against just by showing that Surfer is equal to x who stomped Black Panther so it's contradictory to scale that.
The other argument is that because Spider-Man has more appearences, that means we must be more conservative in our scaling of him. Not only is this special pleading, this principle does not seem logical when attempted to be applied at any other scale. If a character has a single appearence vs a hundred chapter series, we do not say their feats are of different value or meaning. I don't see why length of series, or number of writers, means we should ignore feats.
Of course all of this is obviously dependent on Spider-Man actually having the feats to back it up. Now I don't know all the feats for the other Marvel Street Tiers since I didn't research them, I just researched Spider-Man and a little bit into the people he fought. But these are the feats I've found. This is an abbreviation, the full explanation for all the feats are in my actual Spider-Man blog:
1: Spider-Man violently destroys Doctor Octopus' arms which survived a nuclear blast usually calced to be between hundreds of tons of tnt to kilotons
2: Scales to Electro, who absorbs all the electricity of New York becoming a blindly white light across the city burning like a star or a nova before later increasing his power a thousandfold. Spider-Man still beats him physically. Electro also created an electrical storm with one blast shutting down power to New York.
3: Stronger then Captain America whose fists are like Pint Sized A-Bombs
4: Scales to Morbius who hits like an H-Bomb
4.5: Scales to Luke Cage who has his nuke feat albeit this one is relatively controversial
5: Scales to Iron Fist who has megaton feats like hitting like an H-Bomb after making his fist glow like a star, defeating Radion. Iron Fist claims he could never beat Spider-Man.
6: Scales to Deadpool who has feats in this range (though some of not legit, this nuke feat is actually pretty clear with the only arguments being he regen-ed even though his regen is far to slow for that and his costume wouldn't be there, and that being under a dinosaur somehow protected him from a nuke)
7: Hurts Carol with a punch who has feats of this degree. VS wiki apparently scales her to Iron Man for reasons that don't seem very compelling and honestly like far more of a stretch.
8: Scales to Iceman who has an 800 ton feat and created an ice city
9: Moves himself and the Hulk fast enough that the kinetic energy would be over a kiloton
10: Breaks a coil that no force on Earth could break
11: Survives Cyclops optic beams which blew off the top of a mountain
12: Survived the epicenter of a volcano explosion
13: Survived attacks from Wayep, who created a snowstorm
14: Scales to Brigham's energy which was stated to be able to destroy a city (also note that Doctor Octopus's arms are unaffected by that level of energy)
This is generally not including more sketchy things like Cyclone claiming to have the power of a 100 cyclones. It's also not including city block to multi-city block feats outside of really high end ones that support the general point.
He also has a planetary feat of surviving a blow that could shatter a world however this is what I think of as the outlier.
Spider-Man has somewhere from 10-20 feats either directly or from scaling to town to city level range depending on how you count, maybe more if there are a lot more street tier feats from others I don't know. I can't tell you whether that is consistent enough to not be an outlier given the inherent subjectivity of the term "outlier" but at some point I must ask what number of feats Spider-Man would need to be accepted at the level, especially given the high bar of being "completely and irrevocably different".
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Monday, July 20, 2020
[EXPOSED] The TRUE GODLY power of Magicka Wizards!!! (Parody)
What up guys, this is Imp here to reveal how the wizards from Magicka are MAY stronger then you can possibly imagine!
A lot of people don't understand the sheer LORE and FEATS from this series and as a result they've been massively downplayed by complete casuals, but I'm here to set the record straight.
So first off, We know that Grimnir was going to cause darkness to spread out across Midgard which wasn't even an attack technique. As such he should have multi-continent level darkness manipulation and multi-continent level attack potency which the Wizards can match.
However Grimnir was only the subordinate to Assatur who was going to destroy the entire world of Midgard, meaning he should be easily planet level, and the Wizards can easily scale to planet level.
However this is obviously massive downplay as the wizards have far greater feats of power, just by their very nature. You see in the Magicka novel it is revealed that the Wizards are the 9th element of Imbalance which causes every other element. The 8 elements that wizards use make up the entire infinite multiverse, and the 9th element that every wizard is a non-insignifigant part of creates the other 8 meaning that every Magicka Wizard is infinite multiversal.
There is actually a lot of material that supports this. Assatur, the final boss of Magicka is said to be the strongest being that the realm of Midgard will have ever known even after being drawn from the ethereal realm, meaning that he would be neccesity be stronger then Grimnir was when he had the staff of Imbalance, made from Yggdrasil which holds all the worlds. With the staff of Imbalance, Grimnir had the potential to warp the reality of the entire infinite multiverse, showing that Assatur must be at least infinite multiversal. Assatur can also casually creates vortexes, these vortexes having an infinite center containing an infinite plane of reality to bfr enemies.
Earlier in the game, the Player Magicka Wizards also beat Death, which is one of the 8 Elements, showing that they beat a force that was 1/8th of the infinite multiverse, which is consistent with the 9th element transcending the 8 elements formed from it. Death is also said in the spell destcription of summon Death to control the etherealm realm, a plane of being that could have sucked up all of Midgard. They also defeated Vlad twice and Fafnir once, the two being implied to have defeated Assatur before the game began, showing against that the Player Wizards scale to infinite multiversal power. Player Wizards also learn the spell "Vortex" which creates an infinite singularity to a space shown in the novel to be it's own infinite realm. However vortex is only made of 8 elements combined therefore each magicka element cast scales to 1/8th of infinite power.
The expansion: Magicka the Stars are Left greatly expands on this. In it it is stated that becoming a cultist gives "infinite power" yet Cthulhu and Dagon, who is a weak miniboss that Cthulhu can easily summon or revive can easily turn a being into a Cultist, showing that even fodder have infinite power. It's implied that cultists are as strong as the average wizard, which again supports them having infinite multiversal power.
Cthulhu's realm is the corpse city of R'lyeh which is large enough to contain UNLIMITED monsters, showing that it's actually an infinite sized realm, which crumbled with Cthulhu's death showing he was maintaining it. Despite this R'lyeh can be seen on the Magicka map as much smaller then Midgard, showing that Midgard is actually an infinite world, making Grimnir going to cover it in darkness and Assatur being able to threaten it are actually infinite power feats. This is consistent with Midgard being called the material realm as opposed to the ethereal realm. This also means that the distance between them which as shown on the map is larger then R'lyeh is an infinite distance and so falling from the world to the underworld in the ethereal realm which is done by one of the wizards in the novel is an infinite durability feat. This also means that Assatur's feat in Magicka 1 of weakening the barrier between the physical and ethereal realms is an infinite power feat.
However all of this doesn't hold a candle to Magicka 2. In Magicka 2 the chaotic energy of the wizard wars goes into a single person, Lok the chosen child. The wizard wars were a chaotic war of wizards from across Midgard. As Midgard is an infinite realm this means she was containing the energy of infinite beings with infinite power. At the very least with her new magic she was shown to have dozens of new elements, each one being equal to one of the 8 forces making up the entire multiverse, showing she is many times above infinite multiversal as a LOWBALL. The Player Wizards are strong enough to actually beat her showing they are definitely far above infinite multiversal.
Moving onto speed, let's start very low with an mftl feat. Magicka Wizards during the fight with Dagon in the Stars are Left dodge falling stars, whcih are clearly meteors called from deep space. Coming to the planet at such speeds would neccesite MFTL speed. That's said it's pretty clear the magicka wizards have at least infinite speed. They were able to travel up a signifigant portion of Midgard, which as shown above is an infinite realm, in finite time showing they would have to have infinite speed. There are plenty more feats of characters or their attacks crossing notable portions of infinite realms in finite times. Death is actually a travel agent who brings people between the realms which as mentioned above are infinite distance but the wizards are easily able to react to him. In the fight against Death, Death can freeze time but the person he's targeting can still respond to his attack and move and as we all know, moving in stopped time is infinite speed. However let's not downplay their speed so much as infinite is actually far slower then their true speed. The patch to the game added the fairy, a little companion that revives you once. It is complete fodder, however in the game when Vlad casts Portus on you, the fairy can physically follow you with it's speed. Why is that important? Well Portus actually transports you backwards in time, showing that the fairy, a complete fodder entity actually moves backwards in time via pure speed showing that even fodder in Magicka have immeasurable speed. Death who is far faster then the fairy is actually an omnipresent being in the magicka multiverse, being one of the 8 forces making it up and the player wizards fight Death in his own realm, showing that they have omnipresent combat speed.
Let's get onto their abilites as the Magicka Wizards have some interesting abilities. Every wizard by being part of the 9th element is naturally part of the transcedent force of "Imbalance" that makes the other elements, showing that every magicka wizard has multiversal scale chaos hax and creation.
The magic that Wizards use is stated in the novel to be things like life itself, or beams of pure cold or pure death that can tear apart causation itself showing that these are conceptual forms of attack. Being able to physically interact with them and elementals made of them shows that the Wizards are conceptual beings themselves. As mentioned their death magic peels back causation itself showing that the Wizards have a likely infinite causality manipulation, specifically causality destruction.
The Wizards also have a form of metahax with their magic "Crash to Desktop". The description of the spell holds that the wizards harnessed the power of the game's initial buggy release, showing a supergenius cosmic intellect and awareness on a meta level by the way, to cause enemies to disappear in a blue screen of death. This would be a form of metafictional erasure. It should be noted this doesn't work on a number of bossess, showing that they have a form of metafictional erasure resistance.
The vortex magicka is a pretty distinctive magicka of the Magicka Wizards, creating a tear in reality towards it's infinite center, where things are BFRed to an infinite plane of reality. They also have power nullification that scales ot their infinite multiversal power. In Magicka 1 this was limited to Nullify which was limited to magic but in Magicka 2 they recieved the strongest magicka in their universe, Disruptor which removes the powers of those who effect them and allows them to be absorbed. As this works on Magicka elements, it would by necessity be multiversal in scope.
They also have a form of regen and conditional immortality since they will always revive at the last checkpoint which is acknowledged in-universe.
As such the stats for the player wizard should be:
Name: Unknown (Player Wizard)
Origin: Magicka
Classification: Wizard, Conceptual Force of Imbalance
Tier: at least 2-A
Powers and Abilities: Magic, Conceptual Existence and Manipulation (Multiversal), Regen (Mid-Godly) and Conditional Immortality (can regen from Checkpoints which are acknowledged in-universe), Metafictional Erasure, Passive Chaos Hax (Multiversal), Causality Destruction, Element Manipulation (Fire/Earth/Cold/Water/Lightning/Life/Death Manipulation), Shield Creation, Power Nullification (Multiversal), Multiversal Singularity/Dimensional BFR, various other Magicka, resistance to their own abilities
Destructive Capacity: at least Multiverse Level+ (defeated Death, a Multiversal concept who controls the ethereal realm likely equal in size to the multiverse while much weaker, defeated Assatur who was much stronger then Staff of Imbalance Grimnir who was going to warp the multiverse, relative to Lok who had the power of likely infinite normal wizards, and had the power of dozens of elements, each being equal to one of the 8 elements making up the infinite multiverse, each wizard being a non-infinitesmal part of the Element Imbalance which is the source of and transcends the 8 elements making up the multiverse)
Range: Likely Multiversal
Speed: Immeasurable (Faster then Fairies who can follow you backwards in time via raw speed), Omnipresent combat speed (Fought Death in his own realm)
Durability: at least Multiverse Level+ (can survive attacks from Lok)
Stamina: Likely infinite (draws on the infinite mana of the multiverse)
Standard Equipment: Wizard Robes and Staff
Intelligence: Cosmically aware supergenius intellect (Wizards tapped into the bug-iness of the game to create a new magicka)
The magic that Wizards use is stated in the novel to be things like life itself, or beams of pure cold or pure death that can tear apart causation itself showing that these are conceptual forms of attack. Being able to physically interact with them and elementals made of them shows that the Wizards are conceptual beings themselves. As mentioned their death magic peels back causation itself showing that the Wizards have a likely infinite causality manipulation, specifically causality destruction.
The Wizards also have a form of metahax with their magic "Crash to Desktop". The description of the spell holds that the wizards harnessed the power of the game's initial buggy release, showing a supergenius cosmic intellect and awareness on a meta level by the way, to cause enemies to disappear in a blue screen of death. This would be a form of metafictional erasure. It should be noted this doesn't work on a number of bossess, showing that they have a form of metafictional erasure resistance.
The vortex magicka is a pretty distinctive magicka of the Magicka Wizards, creating a tear in reality towards it's infinite center, where things are BFRed to an infinite plane of reality. They also have power nullification that scales ot their infinite multiversal power. In Magicka 1 this was limited to Nullify which was limited to magic but in Magicka 2 they recieved the strongest magicka in their universe, Disruptor which removes the powers of those who effect them and allows them to be absorbed. As this works on Magicka elements, it would by necessity be multiversal in scope.
They also have a form of regen and conditional immortality since they will always revive at the last checkpoint which is acknowledged in-universe.
As such the stats for the player wizard should be:
Name: Unknown (Player Wizard)
Origin: Magicka
Classification: Wizard, Conceptual Force of Imbalance
Tier: at least 2-A
Powers and Abilities: Magic, Conceptual Existence and Manipulation (Multiversal), Regen (Mid-Godly) and Conditional Immortality (can regen from Checkpoints which are acknowledged in-universe), Metafictional Erasure, Passive Chaos Hax (Multiversal), Causality Destruction, Element Manipulation (Fire/Earth/Cold/Water/Lightning/Life/Death Manipulation), Shield Creation, Power Nullification (Multiversal), Multiversal Singularity/Dimensional BFR, various other Magicka, resistance to their own abilities
Destructive Capacity: at least Multiverse Level+ (defeated Death, a Multiversal concept who controls the ethereal realm likely equal in size to the multiverse while much weaker, defeated Assatur who was much stronger then Staff of Imbalance Grimnir who was going to warp the multiverse, relative to Lok who had the power of likely infinite normal wizards, and had the power of dozens of elements, each being equal to one of the 8 elements making up the infinite multiverse, each wizard being a non-infinitesmal part of the Element Imbalance which is the source of and transcends the 8 elements making up the multiverse)
Range: Likely Multiversal
Speed: Immeasurable (Faster then Fairies who can follow you backwards in time via raw speed), Omnipresent combat speed (Fought Death in his own realm)
Durability: at least Multiverse Level+ (can survive attacks from Lok)
Stamina: Likely infinite (draws on the infinite mana of the multiverse)
Standard Equipment: Wizard Robes and Staff
Intelligence: Cosmically aware supergenius intellect (Wizards tapped into the bug-iness of the game to create a new magicka)
Or maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't try and take the highest possible interpretation of every feat and statement you see. 😋 This is the result of me applying the same vs standards I see some people apply to one of my favorite series and hopefully you can see why I don't agree with it.
How would Spider-Man do in my favorite verses?
So an interesting thing to me is that Spider-Man is one of my favorite characters but he's not actually from one of my favorite series. Given my love of DC Comics, you'd think I would either love Marvel (since it's the other of the Big 2 Superhero Companies with a large fan overlap) or hate Marvel (because I'd be totally Team DC) but honestly I don't have strong feelings for or against Marvel as a whole. On the other hand Spider-Man is one of my favorite characters of all time, like top 5 material. So this is a blog going over how strong Spider-Man would be in each of my favorite verses.
Axis Powers Hetalia: Spider-Man doesn't honestly do very well here without prep time. He doesn't have the area of effect to effect an entire country, unless it's a micronation like Sealand (a single ship he could sink). The countries may have a hard time actually hitting Spider-Man, but he's more likely to get hit in a large scale area of effect attack then he is to wipe out the entire populace of a country.
Bayonetta: Again without prep Spider-Man would struggle here although for a different reason. While Spider-Man is physically strong enough to at least contend with second sphere angels and their demonic equivalents, they naturally exist in purgatorio, another dimension that can interact with and percieve the main dimension but not the other way around. As not even the Spider-Sense extends in other dimensions, Spider-Man would have real trouble fighting anything in the verse. Assuming he gets access to Purgatory though, he'd be about second sphere level.
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Clow Spirits, Spider-Man should be able to effect as they have elemental rather then higher plane intangibility (for instance Watery being frozen into Ice or Shadow being reduced by Sakura charging the lights of the city). Spider-Man should not only be able to compete physically with the 4 Corner Elemental Clow Spirits, strongest outside Light and Dark, but he should be able to beat thme with the same strategies that Sakura does. Sakura's a clever girl, but Spider-Man is a supergenius intellect. It wouldn't be too different to his normal fights against people like Sandman and Hydroman except the Clow Spirits are a lot less vicious, only being trouble due to being true to their element and sometimes causing mischief rather then being killers. That said I don't think he would be able to beat Light or Dark, given their cosmic level of power.
Commedia: Spider-Man as far as I can tell completely stalemates the damned as he can't affect intangible shades but they can't do anything to him with their level of strength. Even their foresight ability isn't something that would beat him as he beat Madame Web in a fight who can see the future much better then the damned. He has a massive stat advantage against any monster or demon of the Inferno and even Medusa gaze would do nothing as he has resisted petrification before. That said he obviously gets stomped by any Ascended Being. He simply has no way of negatively affecting them at all and they can casually one-shot.
Cutey Honey: Going just by original Cutey Honey, Spider-Man stomps everything in the verse just by sheer stats. Honey was originally stated to be able to die to normal gunfire, and while she got stronger, she still doesn't have feats to compare to Spider-Man's even mid range feats. The I-System's transmutation could hypothetically kill Spider-Man but he is fast enough to blitz everyone there. Witch Zora might be a trouble but she's got no way of stopped Spidey normally, while he could most likely invent a way through dimensions to get to her and while her giant sized form is impressive, he has the strength to still beat her.
Danny Phantom: So this one really depends on whether you think adhesion would allow Peter to physically effect the ghostly ectoplasm matter. If so I think base Spider-Man could maybe beat S2 Danny and relative Mid-Tiers like Skulker or Technus, with high difficulty. Spider-Sense counters invisibility although they would have a big power advantage and a mild speed advantage. If you gave him the Other amp, he would probably have a fairly even fight with S3 Danny.
DC Comics: DC doesn't have as many "mid-tiers" between street level and cosmic levels. Spider-Man would beat all the conventional DC street tiers just because Marvel has alot higher street level scaling, let alone his massive intelligence. Him vs Batman is interesting. Batman would be a fairly high tier street tier character in Marvel even despite the stat disadvantage due to sheer hax and the likes but I DON'T think he's quite Spidey's tier. It helps that while Batman is a more skilled fighter, and has more hax and general tech, Spider-Man should be arguably as smart as Batman, the two being pretty comparable as Batman has feats of being relative to Lex and Spidey has feats of being relative to Reed who is smarter then Victor, usually agreed to being equal to Lex in intellect. Batman would be a relative high tier Marvel Street Level character, like around the likes of Black Panther, but Spider-Man's near the top of the marvel street levels.
Freedom Force: I've been somewhat reconsidering FF being island level scaling to Pan, since Pan's island's size is a bit inconsistent. The High Tiers of the verse are town or island level, depending on your interpretation of some key feats. Either way I think Spider-Man would dbe a high tier, though he could either be a mid-high or one of the strongest. Though either way I think he probably loses to Tombstone due to Tombstone's intangibility and Mentor. Spider-Man can probably resist Mentor's mind hax, but Mentor has similar reaction time to Spidey, is more focused and direct in combat, and can use a multiversal sealing ability he used on Time Master. Spider-Man could possibly beat Mentor as well, depending on how he approachs it.
God of War: I know reddit unironically argues that Spider-Man would beat Kratos, but yeah Spidey doesn't get very far here. If you take a bloodlusted Spidey who uses Mark of Kain and he fights smart, I could see him taking down some high low tiers like the non-divine bosses and minibosses of Ascension and Chains of Olympus as Spider-Man can with high difficulty avoid things moving at lightspeed, and mark of kain can work on Iron Man armors, but I definitely don't think he could take on the Furies. MAYBE he could beat one of them, but even that's a stretch.
Magic Knight Rayearth: This one is just a pretty clear case of him being between two tiers of characters. Spider-Man is above all the ground forces of the series to the point it would take the greatest mage Guru Clef's full power attack to beat Spidey, and probably multiple of them, while he can blitz and one-shot. That said he obviously can't take on a Rune God, considering even in the first arc they can take on the power of the Pillar which threatened the entire world of Cephiro. That said if he was in Cephiro, I'm not sure he wouldn't immediatly become a nigh omnipotent reality-warping god, considering how strong his willpower is and how everything on Cephiro is determined by peoples' willpowers. He's got way better willpower feats then the pillar who controlled reality on a planetary scale.
Magicka: Honestly, despite a single Magicka wizard being a decently high tier Marvel Street Tier, Spider-Man probably solos Midgard. The main problem is that he can casually one-shot a wizard and they're not quick enough in reactions to put up a shield before he does so, not that they would do so given their lack of combat focus. He can also effect their elements just fine with adhesion. His spider-sense would probably give him intel on the mana being charged giving him everything he needs to beat even someone like Grimnir. On the other hand without prep he wouldn't have any way of stopping Assatur since he needed to be drawn to Midgard from the ethereal realm.
Metroid: Spider-Man would be roughly Space Pirate or Zero Suit Samus Tier physically. His enhanced versatility and powerset means he would win pretty clearly against either of those but he can't get much farther. Samus is a fair fight for Iron Man who Spider-Man struggles against. I could maybe see Peter beating Base Power Samus by web cocooning her like he did Iron Man in OMD, but that seems relatively improbable.
Okami: This one is just mean to Spider-Man. Beginning of the game Amaterasu could make a distant star with a single casual dab of her celestial brush and basic Imps are strong enough to somewhat challenge this Amaterasu. Spider-Man is essentially civilian tier.
Ouran High School Host Club: Inverse of above, Spider-Man stomps the verse. They don't even have abilities let alone stats to match his.
Over the Garden Wall: While this verse has some actual abilites, it's hard to imagine much of anything in this verse stopping Spider-Man given his massive stat advantage.
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt: I've been re-assessing whether the verse is actually way stronger then I gave it credit for, but even a lower end interpretation means Spider-Man doesn't get very far in the verse, not that the verse has a lot of fighters per se. The Good/Bad luck auras of the Angels/Demons should mess Spidey up outside of a questionable interpretation that Spider-Man's personal bad luck keeping him alive countering that. At the very least he probably can hit the Demons in their shadow form as he fought the internal demons of Fireheart made of darkness.
Pretty Cure: It's kind of hard to talk about Pretty Cure just as a whole due to it's massive length of mostly unconnected seasons but most Cures are signifigantly stronger then Spider-Man with FTL speeds and planet level power being possessed by a good amount of them. He could beat the Doki Doki Cures and he would have a fairly even fight with the Fresh Cures but the stronger cures are just out of his weight class.
Princess Tutu: Spider-Man, while not massively stronger then the high tier fighters, is massively faster and more agile, and can probably beat anyone save Drosselmeyer who hard counters Spider-Man in almost way save for the fact that Drosselmeyer would love to play with Spider-Man's tragic life. Drosselmeyer is an intangible being in another dimension both of which are hard counters to his abilities, with offensive hax Peter can't resist.
Puella Magi Madoka Magicka: Spider-Man is about on par really with most normal magical girls and witches physially. His Spider-Sense may or may not work on something in a Witch's labyrinth since it's a dimension contained within the main universe. He has a bit of a speed advantage although is at a bit of a power disadvantage, though he can more easily make it up then the inverse. That said obviously the really strong magical girls and witches will beat him, not neccesarily stats per se as I think most magical girls and witches are actually fairly comparable, it's the hax abilities they get that are really unbeatable.
Sailor Moon: Spider-Man vs a Dark Agency member would be sort of like him vs Quicksilver, albeit a Quicksilver with less combat capabilities and more hax abilities. That said he does have country scale mind hax resistance and energy hax resistance, suggesting to me he should actually be able to beat most Dark Agency Members though I really can't see him beating someone like one of the Heavenly Kings. The stat difference is just too high let alone their more versatile ability array.
Saint Seiya: There's a bit of an impasse where Spider-Man is faster then even more Silver Saints, but his actual power would be neglible, dwarfed by Seiya even before getting the Pegasus Cloth. Even if Peter was bloodlusted, Cosmo hard counters Mark of Kaine as Saints have complete control of their own atoms. I don't see him doing very well with standard equipment and no prep time in Saint Seiya. He'd be pretty hard to hit for most sub-Gold Saint level entities and he could possibly wear them down stamina-wise, but any offense he tries to throw is just negged. You can't even say he uses the anti-brainwaves web he used to shut down Doc Oc's control of his webs because the clothes are attuned to the cosmo, or spiritual energy, of the person, not their telepathic control (their sixth sense for SS)
Shamanic Princess: Spider-Man solos everyone in the verse except Yord, who completely stomps him. They have abilities that might kill him like time freezing, but their stats are only barely enough to compete with him and his Spider-Sense would warn him of the danger of time freezers. Yord I could see playing around with him, turning into a Spider-Man and fighting him to see what makes him tick, that seems very in character for both. However I can't see Spider-Man attaining enlightenment and defeating Yord since character-wise he is locked within an extremely strong dualistic system of responsibility and irresponsibility, and so can't reach the non-dualistic mind to transcend Yord.
The Powerpuff Girls: Spider-Man would be a street tier hero in the verse. He could fight the sort of low tier villains in the series like the Gangreen Gang via his intelligence, skill and other abilities but anyone who legit scales to the girls is obviously just going to stomp him. It's very much a case of him being between two tiers.
The Stanley Parable: Spider-Man can obviously beat Stanley all he like but he's not really equipped to fight the Narrator in any meaningful way.
Tokyo Mew Mew: Similar to Shamanic Princess. The Mew Mews would be very dangerous opponents for Spider-Man as their mew power would essentially undo his genetic mutation and turn him into a normal human again. That said he's got a real mobility/speed/skill advantage on them which would make him hard to hit without the spider-sense. That said he would have no real way of defeating Deep Blue without prep time. The best I could see is him somehow tricking Deep Blue into reverting Masaya identity as he has done to turn Hulk back into Bruce Banner, but that requires prior knowledge that Deep Blue is Masaya, and in a straightup fight he dies, regardless of speed advantage.
Undertale: Spider-Man easily solos all the normal monsters and the boss monsters that aren't god tiers just from massive stats. Him having no killing intent and thus no ability to exploit their weakness doesn't really matter when he just has far greater feats then them, as well as enough mobility and speed to easily dodge any danmaku he could get into. Against the Cosmics though he really isn't out of luck. I know the speed of UT God Tiers is somewhat nebulous, but even if he remains much faster, he doesn't much options against someone like Omega Flowey, who is arguably the weakest of the UT God Tiers. His webs might be able to bind him a little if you scale them off Squirrel Girl, but Flowey can just load an earlier save point. He also has no defense against metahax which they all use.
Wander over Yonder: Similar to Okami, this is a verse where every figher scales to an insane level scaling from Wander plugging a tiny black hole that had enough mass to suck the entire galaxy into it (ie had way more then a galaxy's worth of mass" with his finger. At best Spider-Man can beat random civilians if you say they don't scale to Wander but yeah.
Xiaolin Showdown: This one is kind of interesting. Physically speaking in terms of strength, durability and speed, Spider-Man is pretty comparable to Season 1 Dragons and the lower tier villains of the series. That said his skill and intelligence would be god tier, as though Chase Young was physically weakened to S1 Omi's level physically. Against actually higher threats, his spider-sense means he can react and his webbing can actually at least hold them briefly though it's unlikely he could hurt them even with Mark of Kaine. As such he would still be a somewhat relevant character later on, and could help, but wouldn't be able to beat the stronger threats in a direct fight.
xxxHolic: xxxHolic is a very difficult series to scale since so much of it is indirect shows of power and ability. There are some threats in the verse that Spider-Man can beat with raw stats and anti-elemental intangibility like nature spirits who while strong are only about as strong as his normal rogue gallery he regularly beats. Against most mental threats, he'd be handicapped by the fact that he doesn't know Japanese folklore but his actual raw intelligence is so high he'd probably still be fine. I can't see him beating big names like the Collector Ghost however, he's simply not very well equipped for it. It would be really interesting to see how Yuuko reacts to him, as she'd be able to sense his bad luck aura and probably would want to purify him (though likely would not able too).
Yu Yu Hakusho: This is another interesting one. At first it might seem like he wouldn't be able to affect anything because of spirits and demons naturally intangibility. However basic spiritual awareness in the series lets one see and interact with them, to the point that a good number of untrained humans can do it just to a stronger spiritual proclivity. Spider-Man not only has a very strong spirit canonically but underwent chi training with Captain America, so it's likely he could interact with them. If that is the case Spider-Man would probably classify as an upper B Class to low A Class fight. His strength and durability are both Upper B Class, around Dark Tournament Yusuke and Younger Toguro, but his speed is more Low A Class and he has a skill that would be very strong, like Sensui strong. He'd be a god tier fighter due to speed, skill and abilities in the Dark Tournament. Against Sensui he'd be at a massive disadvantage due to speed and a massive gap in raw power, however if he is fighting with Yusuke and co I can see Spider-Man helping a bit perhaps with spider-sense and possibly Mark of Kaine which should work on at least Upper A Class entities.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: This one is actually pretty simple. Spider-Man stat stomps anyone who isn't intangible. There are intangible entities he could beat if he could effect but anyone who stat stomps him like the Egyptian Gods are Duel spirits he can't affect naturally anyway.
Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Spider-Man is at a power disadvantage against even a Base Hero but a speed advantage. He honestly has a speed advantage with enhanced mobility compared to even a mankai hero. That said fairy barriers are something he probably wouldn't have much of a way around. I could see Spider-Man taking down vertexes but even Mark of Kaine wouldn't work on fairy barriers since it's essentially part of the Shinju. Binding with webs might work as they have stretched over a forcefield before.
Axis Powers Hetalia: Spider-Man doesn't honestly do very well here without prep time. He doesn't have the area of effect to effect an entire country, unless it's a micronation like Sealand (a single ship he could sink). The countries may have a hard time actually hitting Spider-Man, but he's more likely to get hit in a large scale area of effect attack then he is to wipe out the entire populace of a country.
Bayonetta: Again without prep Spider-Man would struggle here although for a different reason. While Spider-Man is physically strong enough to at least contend with second sphere angels and their demonic equivalents, they naturally exist in purgatorio, another dimension that can interact with and percieve the main dimension but not the other way around. As not even the Spider-Sense extends in other dimensions, Spider-Man would have real trouble fighting anything in the verse. Assuming he gets access to Purgatory though, he'd be about second sphere level.
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Clow Spirits, Spider-Man should be able to effect as they have elemental rather then higher plane intangibility (for instance Watery being frozen into Ice or Shadow being reduced by Sakura charging the lights of the city). Spider-Man should not only be able to compete physically with the 4 Corner Elemental Clow Spirits, strongest outside Light and Dark, but he should be able to beat thme with the same strategies that Sakura does. Sakura's a clever girl, but Spider-Man is a supergenius intellect. It wouldn't be too different to his normal fights against people like Sandman and Hydroman except the Clow Spirits are a lot less vicious, only being trouble due to being true to their element and sometimes causing mischief rather then being killers. That said I don't think he would be able to beat Light or Dark, given their cosmic level of power.
Commedia: Spider-Man as far as I can tell completely stalemates the damned as he can't affect intangible shades but they can't do anything to him with their level of strength. Even their foresight ability isn't something that would beat him as he beat Madame Web in a fight who can see the future much better then the damned. He has a massive stat advantage against any monster or demon of the Inferno and even Medusa gaze would do nothing as he has resisted petrification before. That said he obviously gets stomped by any Ascended Being. He simply has no way of negatively affecting them at all and they can casually one-shot.
Cutey Honey: Going just by original Cutey Honey, Spider-Man stomps everything in the verse just by sheer stats. Honey was originally stated to be able to die to normal gunfire, and while she got stronger, she still doesn't have feats to compare to Spider-Man's even mid range feats. The I-System's transmutation could hypothetically kill Spider-Man but he is fast enough to blitz everyone there. Witch Zora might be a trouble but she's got no way of stopped Spidey normally, while he could most likely invent a way through dimensions to get to her and while her giant sized form is impressive, he has the strength to still beat her.
Danny Phantom: So this one really depends on whether you think adhesion would allow Peter to physically effect the ghostly ectoplasm matter. If so I think base Spider-Man could maybe beat S2 Danny and relative Mid-Tiers like Skulker or Technus, with high difficulty. Spider-Sense counters invisibility although they would have a big power advantage and a mild speed advantage. If you gave him the Other amp, he would probably have a fairly even fight with S3 Danny.
DC Comics: DC doesn't have as many "mid-tiers" between street level and cosmic levels. Spider-Man would beat all the conventional DC street tiers just because Marvel has alot higher street level scaling, let alone his massive intelligence. Him vs Batman is interesting. Batman would be a fairly high tier street tier character in Marvel even despite the stat disadvantage due to sheer hax and the likes but I DON'T think he's quite Spidey's tier. It helps that while Batman is a more skilled fighter, and has more hax and general tech, Spider-Man should be arguably as smart as Batman, the two being pretty comparable as Batman has feats of being relative to Lex and Spidey has feats of being relative to Reed who is smarter then Victor, usually agreed to being equal to Lex in intellect. Batman would be a relative high tier Marvel Street Level character, like around the likes of Black Panther, but Spider-Man's near the top of the marvel street levels.
Freedom Force: I've been somewhat reconsidering FF being island level scaling to Pan, since Pan's island's size is a bit inconsistent. The High Tiers of the verse are town or island level, depending on your interpretation of some key feats. Either way I think Spider-Man would dbe a high tier, though he could either be a mid-high or one of the strongest. Though either way I think he probably loses to Tombstone due to Tombstone's intangibility and Mentor. Spider-Man can probably resist Mentor's mind hax, but Mentor has similar reaction time to Spidey, is more focused and direct in combat, and can use a multiversal sealing ability he used on Time Master. Spider-Man could possibly beat Mentor as well, depending on how he approachs it.
God of War: I know reddit unironically argues that Spider-Man would beat Kratos, but yeah Spidey doesn't get very far here. If you take a bloodlusted Spidey who uses Mark of Kain and he fights smart, I could see him taking down some high low tiers like the non-divine bosses and minibosses of Ascension and Chains of Olympus as Spider-Man can with high difficulty avoid things moving at lightspeed, and mark of kain can work on Iron Man armors, but I definitely don't think he could take on the Furies. MAYBE he could beat one of them, but even that's a stretch.
Magic Knight Rayearth: This one is just a pretty clear case of him being between two tiers of characters. Spider-Man is above all the ground forces of the series to the point it would take the greatest mage Guru Clef's full power attack to beat Spidey, and probably multiple of them, while he can blitz and one-shot. That said he obviously can't take on a Rune God, considering even in the first arc they can take on the power of the Pillar which threatened the entire world of Cephiro. That said if he was in Cephiro, I'm not sure he wouldn't immediatly become a nigh omnipotent reality-warping god, considering how strong his willpower is and how everything on Cephiro is determined by peoples' willpowers. He's got way better willpower feats then the pillar who controlled reality on a planetary scale.
Magicka: Honestly, despite a single Magicka wizard being a decently high tier Marvel Street Tier, Spider-Man probably solos Midgard. The main problem is that he can casually one-shot a wizard and they're not quick enough in reactions to put up a shield before he does so, not that they would do so given their lack of combat focus. He can also effect their elements just fine with adhesion. His spider-sense would probably give him intel on the mana being charged giving him everything he needs to beat even someone like Grimnir. On the other hand without prep he wouldn't have any way of stopping Assatur since he needed to be drawn to Midgard from the ethereal realm.
Metroid: Spider-Man would be roughly Space Pirate or Zero Suit Samus Tier physically. His enhanced versatility and powerset means he would win pretty clearly against either of those but he can't get much farther. Samus is a fair fight for Iron Man who Spider-Man struggles against. I could maybe see Peter beating Base Power Samus by web cocooning her like he did Iron Man in OMD, but that seems relatively improbable.
Okami: This one is just mean to Spider-Man. Beginning of the game Amaterasu could make a distant star with a single casual dab of her celestial brush and basic Imps are strong enough to somewhat challenge this Amaterasu. Spider-Man is essentially civilian tier.
Ouran High School Host Club: Inverse of above, Spider-Man stomps the verse. They don't even have abilities let alone stats to match his.
Over the Garden Wall: While this verse has some actual abilites, it's hard to imagine much of anything in this verse stopping Spider-Man given his massive stat advantage.
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt: I've been re-assessing whether the verse is actually way stronger then I gave it credit for, but even a lower end interpretation means Spider-Man doesn't get very far in the verse, not that the verse has a lot of fighters per se. The Good/Bad luck auras of the Angels/Demons should mess Spidey up outside of a questionable interpretation that Spider-Man's personal bad luck keeping him alive countering that. At the very least he probably can hit the Demons in their shadow form as he fought the internal demons of Fireheart made of darkness.
Pretty Cure: It's kind of hard to talk about Pretty Cure just as a whole due to it's massive length of mostly unconnected seasons but most Cures are signifigantly stronger then Spider-Man with FTL speeds and planet level power being possessed by a good amount of them. He could beat the Doki Doki Cures and he would have a fairly even fight with the Fresh Cures but the stronger cures are just out of his weight class.
Princess Tutu: Spider-Man, while not massively stronger then the high tier fighters, is massively faster and more agile, and can probably beat anyone save Drosselmeyer who hard counters Spider-Man in almost way save for the fact that Drosselmeyer would love to play with Spider-Man's tragic life. Drosselmeyer is an intangible being in another dimension both of which are hard counters to his abilities, with offensive hax Peter can't resist.
Puella Magi Madoka Magicka: Spider-Man is about on par really with most normal magical girls and witches physially. His Spider-Sense may or may not work on something in a Witch's labyrinth since it's a dimension contained within the main universe. He has a bit of a speed advantage although is at a bit of a power disadvantage, though he can more easily make it up then the inverse. That said obviously the really strong magical girls and witches will beat him, not neccesarily stats per se as I think most magical girls and witches are actually fairly comparable, it's the hax abilities they get that are really unbeatable.
Sailor Moon: Spider-Man vs a Dark Agency member would be sort of like him vs Quicksilver, albeit a Quicksilver with less combat capabilities and more hax abilities. That said he does have country scale mind hax resistance and energy hax resistance, suggesting to me he should actually be able to beat most Dark Agency Members though I really can't see him beating someone like one of the Heavenly Kings. The stat difference is just too high let alone their more versatile ability array.
Saint Seiya: There's a bit of an impasse where Spider-Man is faster then even more Silver Saints, but his actual power would be neglible, dwarfed by Seiya even before getting the Pegasus Cloth. Even if Peter was bloodlusted, Cosmo hard counters Mark of Kaine as Saints have complete control of their own atoms. I don't see him doing very well with standard equipment and no prep time in Saint Seiya. He'd be pretty hard to hit for most sub-Gold Saint level entities and he could possibly wear them down stamina-wise, but any offense he tries to throw is just negged. You can't even say he uses the anti-brainwaves web he used to shut down Doc Oc's control of his webs because the clothes are attuned to the cosmo, or spiritual energy, of the person, not their telepathic control (their sixth sense for SS)
Shamanic Princess: Spider-Man solos everyone in the verse except Yord, who completely stomps him. They have abilities that might kill him like time freezing, but their stats are only barely enough to compete with him and his Spider-Sense would warn him of the danger of time freezers. Yord I could see playing around with him, turning into a Spider-Man and fighting him to see what makes him tick, that seems very in character for both. However I can't see Spider-Man attaining enlightenment and defeating Yord since character-wise he is locked within an extremely strong dualistic system of responsibility and irresponsibility, and so can't reach the non-dualistic mind to transcend Yord.
The Powerpuff Girls: Spider-Man would be a street tier hero in the verse. He could fight the sort of low tier villains in the series like the Gangreen Gang via his intelligence, skill and other abilities but anyone who legit scales to the girls is obviously just going to stomp him. It's very much a case of him being between two tiers.
The Stanley Parable: Spider-Man can obviously beat Stanley all he like but he's not really equipped to fight the Narrator in any meaningful way.
Tokyo Mew Mew: Similar to Shamanic Princess. The Mew Mews would be very dangerous opponents for Spider-Man as their mew power would essentially undo his genetic mutation and turn him into a normal human again. That said he's got a real mobility/speed/skill advantage on them which would make him hard to hit without the spider-sense. That said he would have no real way of defeating Deep Blue without prep time. The best I could see is him somehow tricking Deep Blue into reverting Masaya identity as he has done to turn Hulk back into Bruce Banner, but that requires prior knowledge that Deep Blue is Masaya, and in a straightup fight he dies, regardless of speed advantage.
Undertale: Spider-Man easily solos all the normal monsters and the boss monsters that aren't god tiers just from massive stats. Him having no killing intent and thus no ability to exploit their weakness doesn't really matter when he just has far greater feats then them, as well as enough mobility and speed to easily dodge any danmaku he could get into. Against the Cosmics though he really isn't out of luck. I know the speed of UT God Tiers is somewhat nebulous, but even if he remains much faster, he doesn't much options against someone like Omega Flowey, who is arguably the weakest of the UT God Tiers. His webs might be able to bind him a little if you scale them off Squirrel Girl, but Flowey can just load an earlier save point. He also has no defense against metahax which they all use.
Wander over Yonder: Similar to Okami, this is a verse where every figher scales to an insane level scaling from Wander plugging a tiny black hole that had enough mass to suck the entire galaxy into it (ie had way more then a galaxy's worth of mass" with his finger. At best Spider-Man can beat random civilians if you say they don't scale to Wander but yeah.
Xiaolin Showdown: This one is kind of interesting. Physically speaking in terms of strength, durability and speed, Spider-Man is pretty comparable to Season 1 Dragons and the lower tier villains of the series. That said his skill and intelligence would be god tier, as though Chase Young was physically weakened to S1 Omi's level physically. Against actually higher threats, his spider-sense means he can react and his webbing can actually at least hold them briefly though it's unlikely he could hurt them even with Mark of Kaine. As such he would still be a somewhat relevant character later on, and could help, but wouldn't be able to beat the stronger threats in a direct fight.
xxxHolic: xxxHolic is a very difficult series to scale since so much of it is indirect shows of power and ability. There are some threats in the verse that Spider-Man can beat with raw stats and anti-elemental intangibility like nature spirits who while strong are only about as strong as his normal rogue gallery he regularly beats. Against most mental threats, he'd be handicapped by the fact that he doesn't know Japanese folklore but his actual raw intelligence is so high he'd probably still be fine. I can't see him beating big names like the Collector Ghost however, he's simply not very well equipped for it. It would be really interesting to see how Yuuko reacts to him, as she'd be able to sense his bad luck aura and probably would want to purify him (though likely would not able too).
Yu Yu Hakusho: This is another interesting one. At first it might seem like he wouldn't be able to affect anything because of spirits and demons naturally intangibility. However basic spiritual awareness in the series lets one see and interact with them, to the point that a good number of untrained humans can do it just to a stronger spiritual proclivity. Spider-Man not only has a very strong spirit canonically but underwent chi training with Captain America, so it's likely he could interact with them. If that is the case Spider-Man would probably classify as an upper B Class to low A Class fight. His strength and durability are both Upper B Class, around Dark Tournament Yusuke and Younger Toguro, but his speed is more Low A Class and he has a skill that would be very strong, like Sensui strong. He'd be a god tier fighter due to speed, skill and abilities in the Dark Tournament. Against Sensui he'd be at a massive disadvantage due to speed and a massive gap in raw power, however if he is fighting with Yusuke and co I can see Spider-Man helping a bit perhaps with spider-sense and possibly Mark of Kaine which should work on at least Upper A Class entities.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: This one is actually pretty simple. Spider-Man stat stomps anyone who isn't intangible. There are intangible entities he could beat if he could effect but anyone who stat stomps him like the Egyptian Gods are Duel spirits he can't affect naturally anyway.
Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Spider-Man is at a power disadvantage against even a Base Hero but a speed advantage. He honestly has a speed advantage with enhanced mobility compared to even a mankai hero. That said fairy barriers are something he probably wouldn't have much of a way around. I could see Spider-Man taking down vertexes but even Mark of Kaine wouldn't work on fairy barriers since it's essentially part of the Shinju. Binding with webs might work as they have stretched over a forcefield before.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
My favorite character for every tier
This is just a list of my favorite character for each tier of power. I should note that a character being higher here doesn't neccesarily mean they would beat characters lower. Power isn't everything in who would win in a fight. What it does mean is that the character would beat all the characters who come before them in either armwrestling or a beam struggle. I can't include the same character in multiple spots so I have to pick a level for each character, though I can use alternate continuities of the same character as a completely seperate character since they have a differnent characterization.
Below Average Human Level:
Diana (Sailor Moon)
Why she's below average human level: Diana is a small kitten and doesn't scale to the superhuman feats of either of her parents due to lack of feats and her young age plus small size.
Why do I like her: I mean, look at her she's so cute! Diana is not just adorable, but I also really like her character, her attempts to being heroic despite her small size and she even did save the universe once by watching the spacetime door for Sailor Pluto so Pluto could join the other senshi.
Average Human Level:
Kyoya Ootori (Ouran High School Host Club)
Why he's average human level: Kyoya is a normal human physically and lacks any superhuman feats.
Why do I like him: Well because he's an intelligent host with a serious exterior and a sensitive emotional interior. He's got a sad home life as the neglected third child of the Ootori family. Episode 24 centered around him was so good. There was obviously a lot of competition for this spot, but Kyoya is my current pick, possibly because I am currently in the middle of a rewatch.
Athletic Human Level:
Yugi Muto (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Why he's athletic human level: While he's not exactly superhuman, little Yugi came along way from being the weakling he was at the start. He chased a thief through a city, survived being brought through fire unconcious and survived briefly the lifeforce draining game of darkness.
Why do I like him: Yugi's a really sympathetic protagonist, just wanting to make friends and his relationship with his other self was really sweet. I also liked seeing him slowly develop himself not just as a duelist but as a man.
Superhuman Level:
Shadow Moon (American Gods)
Why he's superhuman level: Fought evenly with the Leprechaun Mad Sweeny who broke a wooden bench in half with a kick
Why do I like him: Well I mean first off any character written by Neil Gaiman is going to gold. Beyond that Shadow is such a sympathetic protagonist, the start of the novel being basically a string of sympahetizing things that happen to him and his gradual coming to awareness of the reality of the situation after being locked away from several years going from prisoner completely unaware of the supernatural to Odin's bodyguard and eventual demigod was a really well written progression I thought.
Wall Level:
sans (Undertale)
Why he's wall level: Survived the temperature of Hotland which could evaporate a styrofoam land and is relative to Frisk who could survive a large explosion.
Why do I like him: I don't think I have to explain this too much. sans is incredibly well regarded in general, being one of, if not the most popular characters to come from the 10s. My reasons are not much different from most people. He's funny, charming, cool and relatable.
Low Building Level:
Cutie Honey (Cutie Honey)
Why she's low building level: Cutie Honey is described as being stronger then any normal human weapon, including anti-tank missiles, and has a larger mech form which is this approximate size.
Why do I like her: Cutie Honey is a fun relatable heroine with cool powers and is also quite pretty. I really like her backstory and her title as the warrior of love. She's also sort of the blueprint for the relatable magical girl protagonists of later years and the first magical girl warrior.
Building Level:
Harley Quinn (DC Comics)
Why she's building level: Harley scales to numerous building level feats from DC street tiers including Killer Croc tanking bullets and train collisions or Atlanteans surviving deep underwater. Harley herself has kicked the head of the building sized Cerberus away.
Why do I like her: I think Harley is a cute, fun and interesting character. I find her progression from villaint to anti-hero to hero to be realistically written and her romance with Poison Ivy really sweet. I know in recent times some people have dismissed her as a "lol so ranDUMB XD" character ala Deadpool, mostly because both are villains turning into heroes and both have fourth wall breaking, but just like with Deadpool I find this analysis to be mostly either surface level or based of adaptations and think she has a fair amount of depth in her actual comics.
Large Building Level:
Umi Ryuuzaki (Magic Knight Rayearth)
Why she's large building level: Numerous feats in this range even strictly going by the manga, most notably Umi surviving a blow from Lafarga which vaporized the ground without even touching it calced at 9.8 tons of tnt.
Why I like her: Umi is a character I'm really nostalgic for, having liked her since childhood. Much like how my favorite character showed me you could be a cowardly crybaby and still rise above to be a hero, Umi showed me that you could be overly emotional and sensitive and still be elegant and cool. She's both the emotional one with the comical reactions of the Magic Knights and the cool elegant one.
City Block Level:
Zagato (Magic Knight Rayearth)
Why he's city block level: Zagato scales dramatically above Lafarga whose casual blow vaporized the ground without even touching it, calced at 9.8 tons, nearly city block level. He might scale to Clef's magic blast that created an explosion up to the clouds but I've always been a bit hesistant to scale that way since it's implied the reason no one in Cephiro could beat him was not because his skill in magic but because of his Rune God.
Why do I like him: Zagato may not be my favorite villain but he's everything a good villain should be in my view. He's got a powerful commanding presence everytime he appears, and even when he's not on screen his minions are constantly acting to align with his will so you feel his influence. He's entertaining to watch, especially as the truth about him slowly unreveals and his motivation is surpisingly compelling and core to not just the first arc, but becomes a central narrative point in the second after he's died.
Multi-City Block Level:
Vlad (Magicka)
Why he's multi-city block level: Vlad is one of the strongest wizards in Midgard and should easily scale to the various feats around this level like the Wizards freezing a large amount of lava or a powerful wizard moving a small hill in battle with earth magic.
Why do I like him: I go back and forth between whether Vlad or Grimnir is my favorite magicka character, but right now it's Vlad who is defintiely not a vampire. Vlad the not vampire is constantly somewhere in the midpoint between mentor and manipulator trying to both guide the wizards to save Midgard as well as further his own aim. He's almost a villain at points, trying to gain power yet at the same time given how chaotic and nonsensical the magicka world is, it's kinda hard to call it malicious. Vlad is fun to watch and while he may not be quite as compelling as Grimnir, he's more versatile becoming basically the flagship character of the series. Vlad the definitely human also has one of the most shocking plot twists in all of fiction about him. I won't spoil it but this completely unvampiric being is not quite what you may think.
Town Level:
Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
Why he's town level: There's a lot of reasons which I went into in my blog on him but basically he's got a lot of feats on this level including tanking hits from the God Wayep whose presence made a snowstorm, beat Electro who made an eletrical storm and absorbed the electrical power of the city to become supernova hot, scales to Luke Cage and Deadpool who survived a nuke, scales to Morbius who hits like an H-Bomb etc.
Why do I like him: Spider-Man is one of my favorite characters period. I thought his emotional struggles were really understandable and compelling, I think he's got a lot of really cool moments, I love the whole mythos developed during the JMS era with the scientist/spider duality, and teh Great Weaver Myth arc and I love the symbolism of Spider-Man being like the human will in it's tragic self-destruction and it's triumph against struggle.
City Level:
Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magicka)
Why she's city level: Mami's tiro finale obliterated a bunch of copies of a powerful witches, witches being able to maintain town to city sized dimensions.
Why do I like: Mami is a character I liked initially but I've only grown to love more with time and thought. In the original series I thought her emotional breakdown talking with Madoka was so moving, both her loneliness and her attempt to keep someone else from experincing it even if it would abate her own loneliness. I tend to really like maternal themed characters in fiction like Mami and her combination of elegance and compassion. Her struggle to attempt to remain controlled and unaffected by what she experienced was both relatable and emotionally compelling. It's sad how underrated she is in the fandom in general imo. I relaly love the metatextual idea that Mami represents the traditional magical girl archetype and that her death and inspiring of Madoka and Sayaka the next generation of magical girls is just like how the magical girl genre started with icons like SM and CCS, "died" during the dark age of the late 00s and was reborn with PMMM.
Island Level:
Alchemiss (Freedom Force)
Why she's island level: Alchemiss scales to supervillain tier enemies like Pan who levitated a floating island across the sky. In-game the island doesn't look very big but that may just be grapical limitations as it has it's own temple on it and is it's own map. Outside of that she scales to Nuclear Winter's whose passive presence caused a Cuban Town to have snowfall.
Why do I like her: Freedom Force is such an underrated game. Alchemiss is arguably the central protagonist of the series (it would be either her or Man-Bot). She has a full moral and character arc that's quite cool to see, she's a hero but she's not driven by typical hero virtues but by base emotional wants and it's cool to see how that's interpreted. I'm also generally a fan of the magic heroes in most series.
Country Level:
Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Why he's country level: Kurama is an A-Class Demon in his base form and a S-Class in his Yoko form. A-Classes can do things like create massive volcanic eruptions calced in the teraton range and are directly stated to be threats to countries and Yusuke and Sensui in their fight as low S-Classes were performing casual gigaton to teraton feats of pulverizing mountains.
Why do I like him: The guys on team Urameshi are all well regarded, and Kurama being the one most popular with women means it probably shouldn't be surprising ;) Kurama is elegant and pretty, has a sweet motivation for his actions, and is a delicious duality of cold and merciless with sweet and protective, like a rose hiding thorns.
Continent Level:
Diana Cavendish (Little Witch Academia)
Why she's continent level: Scales to Akko who survived a relativistic broom collision and there's shenanigans with Shiny Arc which left a crater on the moon
Why do I like her: At first I thought Diana was going to be a stereotypical shojo school bully, but instead she proved to be my favorite character in the series, elegant, strict but understanding, and complex in her relationship with Akko. I'm not gonna lie the part about Diana struggling to live up to her mother's ideals hit me really hard in the feels.
Low Planet Level:
Superman (DC Extended Universe)
Why he's planetoid (low planet) level: A lot of people miss some of the DCEU lore, possibly from not reading accompanying guides and or taking the most immediate information. Superman was described as tougher then a planet, and survived the energy of the mother boxes which do not just terraform the surface as people seem to assume, but are stated to actually destroy and recreate planets. Also while much more inexperienced he survived the power of the world engine, a machine stated in the novels to dwarf mountains, adding enough mass to the Earth to rapidly increase it's mass dramatically.
Why do I like him: Superman is such a sweetie and his DCEU equivalent is not an exception; the way he calls up his mom to ask for her guidance or the way he comforts Lois or the way he humbly asks the priest if he should give himself up on just the chance to save mankind or allows himself to be handcuffed to make people feel more secure. The DCEU treats him as the insp.iring symbol, which is exactly what I view him. I also really love the part when it is said about him that "man has always made gods in our image. Maybe he's not a devil or jesus figure, maybe he's just a man trying to do the right thing." Because like yes, yes, exactly. That is the message people should learn, the thing I want to express to them, that we're all just people doing our best. And that beautiful first flight sequence is one of my favorite scenes ever. I love him so <3
Planet Level:
Samus Aran (Metroid)
Why she's planet level: Samus has defeated the strongest enemies of the galaxy, much stronger then living asteroids leviathans that survived planet level collisions. Her rival Dark Samus survived a planet sized dimension collapsing on her yet Samus beat her after she had fused with a whole planet of phazon.
Why do I like her: There was a lot of competition for this tier but Samus won out. She's just got everything. She's a walking moment of bad*ss constantly doing awesome things. Yet she's also such a cool personality. She's a stoic pained figure, who holds her emotions tight yet acts protective and defensive of the small and innocent showing her hidden maternal side. She is the Chozo's hope for the universe.
Large Planet Level:
Omi (Xiaolin Showdown)
Why he's large planet level: Omi scales to Chase Young in strength who split the Earth at relativistic speeds calced at large planet level and considers the power of the Shen Gong Wu irrelevant, including the Lunar Locket which can move the moon at relativistic speeds which would also be large planet level.
Why do I like him: I thought Omi had a really endearing character arc going from arrogance to humility. Despite his arrogance I found him endearing since the beginning since he always came off more as an overexcited young child rather then an arrogant adult, and despite being full of himself he clearly trained very hard and didn't just expect things to work out for him. I also found his cultural naivety and tendency to mess up sayings to be very funny and sympathetic.
Low Star Level:
Superman (Smallville)
Why he's low stellar level: Superman pushed Apokalips at relativistic speeds, calced at this level.
Why do I like him: Not a lot of low stellar level characters, but I do like this version of Superman, even if the show got a bit too soap opera-y. It was cool seeing him slowly (and I do mean slowly) grow into being the Superman. Maybe I just him a thing for the shy kind quiet boys who are modern protective human beings.
Star Level:
Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls)
Why she's star level: Scales above Him who made a dimension containing it's own star and super casually reversed Earth's relativistic motion towards the sun calced at low stellar
Why do I like her: I don't know if this is narcisstic but I always like characters that remind me of them and Bubbles reminds me of what I was like at that age. She's good hearted and compassionate but doesn't have good control of her emotions and easily frightened. I fought the dichotomy of a powerful superhero being an insecure little girl to be funny and cute.
Large Star Level:
Bayonetta (Bayonetta)
Why she's large star level: Harmed the physical manifestation of Jubileus which could tank the violent explosion of Jupiter calced at large star level.
Why do I like her: Bayonetta is such a cool character. She's composed and confident while also being emotionally rich and responsive to environment. She's driven and her goals dictate the plot of the events of at least the first game as opposed to a lot of heroes that just react ot things and I just thought she was really cool and fun. I also like her deliberately feminine aesthetic and demeanor and the continued return to a powerful feminity as an ideal rather then the sad and cold trend towards androgynizing female heroes as an attempt to show their "strength".
Solar System Level:
Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Why he's solar system level: Aziraphale is depicted as roughly equal to other protagonist of Good Omens, his counterpart the demon Crowley who is stated to have created a nebula and by context probably didn't do it over a very long time. Also angels and demons are stated to be able to take any size, shape, and composition they want and the good omens universe, while smaller then ours, would take at least generations to cross in a starship
Why do I like him: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, what a dream team of writers! I know a lot of people find bad guys more interesting but I've always found the forces of light more interesting and entertaining. Aziraphale is such a great border between the ethereal perfect force of good that is angel while also being a completely believable downright human persona. I liked his adorable formal yet compassionate mannerisms and sweet nature. And his relationship with Crowley is obviously just immaculate.
Low Galaxy Level:
Post-Crisis Superman (DC Comics)
Why he's low galactic level: Post-Crisis Superman has 1 or 2 feats in this range like surviving enough anti-life to vaporize half a galaxy, scaling to Wonder Woman who has 1 or 2 feats in this range throwing Ares who could be so large his hands were the size of star systems, and scales to green lanterns who have a few feats in this range.
Why do I like him: Superman is one of my favorite characters of all time, if you can't tell by the 2 other canons of him on this list. It's almost hard to talk about because there's so much about him. There's Superman the heroic archetype, the ideal we strive towards who inspires us, Superman the man a quite humble guy who has the weight of the world on his shoulders, the alien who sees us and the beauty of humanity better then even we do and wishes to be like us...Superman is a character that fits in everywhere, a perfect icon, but beyond that whenever he's there he's one of the biggest presences. He's THE Superman and whever he is truth and justice follow.
Galaxy Level:
Amaterasu (Okami)
Why she's galaxy level: Amaterasu with her brush power spun the whirlpool galaxy and was hit by the strikes of Yami whose blows destroyed the constellations.
Why do I like her: I'm not sure well how someone who is culturally removed "gets" it but I found Amaterasu and Okami's relation to traditional folklore to be really sweet. Amaterasu despite not talking in wolf form is such a heroicly sweet character regardless bringing light both literally and metaphorically back to the land of Nippon that has fallen into darkness. Amaterasu in the game and metaphorically the symbolic sun is the light of our hopes and prayers that guides the way out of darkness.
Multi-Galaxy Level:
Manwe (Lord of the Rings)
Why he's multi-galaxy level: One of the 14 valar who helped build the universe together and each being a concept ruling over a large portion of it. Second strongest of them behind Melkor.
Why do I like him: I'm gonna be honest there wasn't many multi-galaxy level characters that I knew, that said I did like Manwe when I was researching LOTR. He was a wise and noble god-king and was a very responsible authority figure, whose sole weakness of not understanding and not being able to anticipate evil, I thought was an interesting idea.
Universe Level:
Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
Why she's universe level: Sailor Moon's lambda power restored the cosmos from it's damage, the silver crystal is the source of all energy and can be used to create a universe and she's a lot stronger then Nehelenia who maintained her own mirror universe.
Why do I like her: Sailor Moon is my favorite character of all time, and I can't go over all the reasons here. But I guess the biggest reason is what she taught me. I'm not a very brave individual by nature. I worry often and I'm terrified of people being angry at me. I'm kind of a crybaby who gets too emotional and takes things too seriously like Usagi. Usagi showed me that someone like me could still be a hero for our loved ones, because love can inspire even a crybaby into being courageous. She is the most relatable character I know and she showed me how to not run away from something scary.
Low Multiverse Level:
Kratos (God of War)
Why he's low multiverse level: Kratos and Zeus by word of god scale to Polygon Man who fused dozens of universes and is well over the level of most high end olympians who have a large number of universal feats.
Why do I like him: Kratos pre-GOW 4 was a very underappreciated character and I'm glad he's getting some love now. He's different from a lot of the strong uber masculine anti-hero types by his emotionality. As pointed out most masculine anti-heroes are cool, collected, maybe say some witty lines and have one moment of pathos rigth near the end to show they can be scary and animal. Kratos on the other hand is constantly driven by his emotionality, most often his rage and in so he is a recreation of the classic greek tragic hero who is undone by his fatal flaw (in this case rage, much like Myth Hercules who Kratos somewhat resembles). The scene where he kills himself in GOW 3 to end the cycle of patricide haunting his family has a lot more symbolism then people appreciate and his newfound attempts in GOW 4 to put aside his monsterous path and be a good father to his son are quite endearing.
Mid Multiverse Level:
Doctor Fate (DC Comics)
Why he's mid multiverse level: Doctor Fate in his merged state could affect an entire multiverse with his magic (though it's unclear whether this is the infinite multiverse of the bleed barrier or the local multiverse). For conservative assessment, I assume the latter.
Why do I like him: There's not that many mid multiverse level entities but again I do really like Doctor Fate. I like magic wielding users and I like how he's really on the border of the human/inhuman divide due to being so entrenched in the magical world. I also really like all the symbolism of having to find the balance between the lords of order and chaos, between actuality and potentiality. I have a natural and strong tendency towards order, towards tradition and safety and the known but am trying to be more comfortable with chaos and spontaneity and I thought it was very resonant.
High Multiverse Level:
Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)
Why she's high multiverse level: Sakura by EOS had transcended the magic of even Clow Reed who could warp the entire infinite multiverse with a single thought and overpowered Fei Wang Reed's spell that was going to destroy and recreate the multiverse.
Why do I like her: Sakura is one of my favorite characters of all time. Not only is she really cute and endearing but she is almost a force of pure hope and optimism and always believes things will turn out ok. If you compare my liking for Sakura to my liking of my other favorite characters, Sakura is probably the simplest but no less potent. If anything she is potent in her simplicity, she is the perfection of the classical style of magical girl trope, a girl who has the magic to make anything happen, the magic of hope. She is a friend to all she comes across, and while her presence on the panel may not be the most explosive it is still nontheless always there, shining like the star that is her symbol.
Omniversal/Transcends the concept of power
Dream of the Endless (DC Comics)
Why he transcends the concept of power: Dream is an Endless, a being that transcends creation and the sixth world, the plane of reality beyond the first five worlds including the fourth world, the world of platonic concepts and archetypes like power. The dreaming encompassess all of creation and includes beings like the leviathan of stories, an infinite hierarchy of meta-stories.
Why do I like him: As mentioned before I love Neil Gaiman's writing but Dream of the Endless I like even more so, being one of my favorite characters. Dream of the Endless is on a metafictional level the stories we tell themselves, the narrative and so reading a story about him is reading a story about stories themselves and his nature. I love that shamanistic personification thing where you humanize concepts to better understand them, and Dream's character arc is somehow both a tragedy and a beautiful transcendence, as he endeavors across The Sandman to right the wrongs he has done and to not be such an island, the lonely dream king in his castle, always weaving stories for other people but never having one himself. His personality is so entertaining to watch, being just cruel and inhuman enough for you to believe that he is some inhuman cosmic entity that is just a lawful neutral being overseeing existence, but just human and warm enough that you can understand why he does what he does. Reading about him really stretches one's mind to understand the transpersonal better then could be done normally.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Death Analysis: Spider-Man (50th Death Analysis Special)
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.
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