Tropes specific to comics stories from the main Continuity, go here. Occasionally Spidey will get sick and tired of juggling the demands of heroics and ordinary life for the benefit of an unappreciative world and hang up the web-shooters until something spurs him into action again.
Inverted in the mid's story "Peter Parker No More", in which Spider-Man suffers a mental breakdown after one emotional hit too many, and decides to all but give up his civilian identity, spending all his time in costume. Adaptation Distillation: Harry Osborn is Peter's high school friend rather than meeting him in college.
In The Amazing Spider-Man , Peter no longer creates his own web fluid, the Lizard's family is adapted out, Gwen becomes Peter's Single-Target Sexuality and becomes a mixture of herself and Mary Jane namely knowing and accepting Peter and Spider-Man and serving as confidant and partner which Gwen never did , shows up in high school rather than college, the Daily Bugle and staff don't appear at all, and Harry Osborn becomes Green Goblin rather than Norman.
He makes his own web fluid however. In many recent iterations, with or without the mask. Alertness Blink: Most times the spider-sense activates. Alliterative Name: Stan Lee , Spidey's creator, was the Trope Codifier for the trend, because he found names easier to keep track of if he used alliteration as a mnemonic.
Examples include: Randy's father Joe might also count, since his nickname is "Robbie". All of the Other Reindeer: Peter got bullied in high school because he was a nerd; meanwhile, Spider-Man gets treated like a criminal by the same media that worships all of the other super-heroes and in the case of J.
Jonah Jameson, him treating mutants the feared and hated minority of the Marvel Universe better than he does Spider-Man. All Webbed Up: Peter created a set of wrist-mounted webshooters on his own in one of the clearest displays of scientific genius on his part. The formula for his webs in particular is nothing short of miraculous, given its tensile strength and adhesive properties. It disappears after a couple hours or so, so he doesn't even leave a mess.
For a time after his first encounter with the Queen up to One More Day, Peter underwent a secondary mutation that gave him organic web shooters that functioned in much the same way as his artificial ones. There is little he can't do with his webs. Possibly justified — in real life, spiders do tend to be pretty brilliant with them.
Animal Motifs: Spidey and a good portion of his rogues gallery , to wit: Likewise, Kraven the Hunter, while not having animal powers famously wears a jacket made out of lion fur.
Sometimes lampshaded in stories such as JMS' Spider-Man , and other times deliberately invoked in-universe with Scorpion, who received his powers and codename so he could hunt Spider-Man: Animal-Themed Superbeing: Peter is Spider-Man and can crawl on walls and adhere to any surface and any angle, he also has the proportional strength of a Spider, a special spider-sense, and the agility and flexibility of a spider, or one enhanced genetically.
He doesn't have all the abilities and capacities of a spider, and some of his Legacy Character like Miles Morales have Venom Blast that resembles the spider-sting. This also establishes why Peter doesn't have organic webbing and uses web-shooters since he didn't entirely win the Superpower Lottery. Animated Adaptation: This could take a while The adaptation , which introduced the famous A Spider-Woman cartoon, courtesy of Depatie Freleng Enterprises , aired from Spider-Man , which was most famous for having him meet up with Doctor Doom repeatedly.
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends , which aired around the same time as the above series, saw the webhead team up with Iceman and Firestar , and is much better-known nowadays. The Animated Series was pretty much John Semper doing the best he could with horrible animation, censorship and Executive Meddling.
Nonetheless, the series has remained the Spider-Man animated adaptation for many fans, with Christopher Daniel Barnes ' portrayal of the character often considered one of the best. While the show does stay true to the comics through using a lot of elements from the original Spider-Man comics that were written by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; the show brought in characters, story lines, and plot elements with a similar balance of action, drama and comedy as well as a high school setting , it also tends to utilize material from all eras of the comic's run and other sources such as the more recent the Ultimate Comics , and the Sam Raimi movies though a lot of characters were patterned after their counterparts making a Spider-Man cartoon that is recognizable to both older and younger fans.
Ultimate Spider-Man is very loosely adapted from the comic book with the same name while using some elements from the and Marvel Cinematic Universe. Aiming for a more comedic tone than its predecessors, the series tries its best to put a different spin on all the old characters and try to bring in something new. Marvel's Spider-Man , Disney's newest foray into adapting the Spider-Man mythos for younger audiences.
Anime Hair: Andy is a recent example, especially in his Alpha persona while using his powers. The Anticipator: Spidey is fond of abusing his Spider-Sense for this purpose; he can sense when someone, especially an enemy someone, is coming, and can quickly set up a nice little alleyway confrontation with them. Or simply just not be surprised when someone's behind him; his Spider-Sense averts this trope happening fully to him for the same reason of his power being able to sense when someone hostile is lurking about.
Arachnid Appearance and Attire: Spider Man is a notable example for being very colorful. Except when he's wearing his black costume.
Notably, while Spider-Man is usually joking, laughing, and having a good time while fighting bad guys, when he stops quipping and gets serious, pissed, or seriously pissed, he becomes an absolutely terrifying opponent.
When he drops the "friendly" part, he pretty much codifies it. Madame Web also counts. The two Scarlet Spiders , both clones of the original Spider-Man. Spider-Gwen and Silk as well. Three villains contest for the role: Green Goblin , Doctor Octopus , and Venom.
The reason for this is that the Green Goblin died in the 70s and spent a good odd years dead before he came back to torment his foe, which is probably the record to beat for dead A-list villains. However, in recent decades Venom became more of an Anti-Hero figure with his hatred of Peter toned down. As Stan Lee put it himself: Doctor Octopus is the archenemy of Spider-Man in a very classic sense. Otto and Peter have a lot in common , both being scientists, who were bullied in school, and later got caught up in freak accidents that dramatically changed them forever.
Both received a lot of power and both decided to channel that power by adopting an alter-ego based on eight-legged animal. The difference is that Peter chose to be a superhero and use his powers for good, while Otto chose to become a criminal, who tries to get back at the world. Norman Osborn is a different story. Since his very motivation as the Goblin and later as Osborn himself is to play out power fantasies, he was angry that someone stood up against him and swiftly decided to punish the person behind the mask.
He even had to stop himself from killing the latter several times. Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: Spider-Man, pretty much an archetypal skintight-suit superhero, periodically though not invariably goes up against armored opponents of various kinds, such as the Rhino or assorted Spider-Slayer robots.
Though he averts this on occasion, building specialized suits or even Power Armor to deal with specific foes notably, in Ends Of The Earth, he built essentially Spider-Man themed Iron Man armor specifically designed to take on the latest iteration of the Sinister Six.
The Artifact: Spider-Man is fundamentally a street-level superhero like Daredevil and originally his adventures had a realism because The '60s to The '90s was The Big Rotten Apple era of New York City where real events like the blackout occurred in the page , a time of high crime statistics where the idea of multiple street-level superheroes in a single city had a little verisimilitude.
Since the era of Giuliani and gentrification however, street crime level has dropped down while highly restrictive gun laws have been put into effect. Now of course the presence and activity of supervillains does not depend on that for explanations, but fundamentally the reduction of crime should mean that Spider-Man's status as a street-level hero being so important as to make demands on his personal and professional life need more justification than " it's New York ".
The issue of gentrification and high costs in New York, and the challenge to the print media by online and the rise of cellphones and the internet has also meant that Peter's old job as a photographer for a newspaper and being the guy who "takes pictures of Spider-Man" and making a sufficient living off of that despite being paid low by JJJ and still living in New York, makes it harder to accept.
It was already dated in The Oughties that Sam Raimi 's adoption of the same came off to more than a few observers as Anachronism Stew and Raimi made it work by artificially mixing different aspects of New York history in his film. In the Ultimate Spider-Man series, Peter becomes a web designer albeit initially entering the Daily Bugle with the photographs and part of the plot had the Daily Bugle transition from a print to an online magazine. In The '60s through The '80s , when all photography was done on film and professional photographs were shot manually with analog controls i.
But this made it harder with the digital revolution and impossible in the smartphone age, as such the trope started fading in comics in The '90s and The Oughties and has disappeared in The New '10s. Ben and May Parker in the comics belonged to "the Greatest Generation" and Ben was several years older than Richard, his younger brother who is Peter's father. This kind of background made sense in that time owing to the trials of the Depression, the war years Ben was a serviceman and the generation gap, but after adopting Comic-Book Time , both Ben and May became older as Peter grew younger, making it more of a stretch, leading to recent comics to try and write May into a younger person.
Ultimate Ben and May were given a Setting Update from Greatest Generation to baby boomers specifically ex-hippies for this reason. Artifact Domination: When Spider-Man first came into possession of his symbiotic costume he was unaware that it was a living entity.
The symbiote, coming from a fairly violent species, slowly twisted Spidey into a more violent version of himself until he realized what was going on and got rid of it. Several other symbiotes exist in the Marvel Universe and the symbiote is a danger to take over its host. However most of these symbiotes have found sympathetic hosts, so it's not known how much influence they exert or how much is the host's own appetite for destruction. After leaving Spider-Man the first symbiote found Eddie Brock whose own hatred of Spider-Man and violent temper were a better fit.
Another symbiote found violent serial killer Cletus Kasady and became Carnage, a mass-murdering supervillain. After Eddie Brock rejected the symbiote, he auctioned it off to Don Fortunato who gives it to his under-achieving son Angelo, hoping the power of the symbiote will finally make him into something.
However when Angelo becomes frightened of his newfound power and refuses to kill a weakened Spider-Man, the symbiote abandons him. Agent Venom Flash Thompson is only allowed to wear the suit for 48 hours at a time precisely so it cannot take control of his mind. Aside Comment: It also has Spider-Man turning to look at the reader and saying "You've gotta be kidding! Stan Lee has said that Spider-Man was something of this for him.
He also created J. Both he and Ditko were children during the Depression and grew up with memories of poverty and having a hard luck life, which fed into the portrayal of poor working-class Peter, and the portrayal of Aunt May and Uncle Ben as Greatest Generation parental figures based on their memories of their families. Since Ditko drew and designed the comics as per the Marvel Method, some argue that Peter is more reflective of Ditko himself.
Along with teleporting between Speed dating 616 like Earth and Other Realm under his own power. Ultimate Spider-Man is very loosely adapted from the comic book with the same name while using some elements from the and Marvel Cinematic Universe, Speed dating 616. Adaptation Distillation: It was already dated in The Speed dating 616 that Sam Raimi 's adoption of the same came off to more than a few observers as Anachronism Stew and Raimi made it work by artificially mixing different aspects of New York history in his film, Speed dating 616. In The '60s through The '80swhen all photography was done on film and professional photographs were shot manually with analog controls i. Fly across interstellar distances, survive within the cold depths of space unprotected and without a space suit. This therapy also briefly unleashed John's Man-Wolf aspect before Ashley was able to help John suppress his changes once more. As Stan Lee put it himself: Since the era of Giuliani and gentrification however, street crime level has dropped down while highly restrictive gun laws have been put into effect.
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