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[PA Comic] Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - Intracranial Narratives
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[PA Comic] Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - Intracranial Narratives
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Wolverine, with mechanical webslingers?
"Oh I'm swinging, swinging over the city...oh I'm sw *SNIKT* OH FUUUUU"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
All that stuff about the web cum is totes true though.
How do you think he filled those cartridges?
However, I did see a Discovery Channel special where spider DNA was grafted into goats, and web started coming out in their milk. And now the picture of Parker swinging from the skyscrapers by strands shot out of alternating nipples will never leave my mind.
I thought it was partly his "I can stick to walls" power kicking in. Plus the whole precognitive thing so he doesn't accidentally slam himself into a building every 3 seconds.
Actually they can explosively fire out webs in some situations, for example this video of a spitting spider capturing and killing another unfortunate one that passed by it. The actual "shot web" moment happens so fast it's basically imperceptible but that other spider is doomed from the moment it runs past it (it is seriously that quick). I've even seen high speed footage of it in action (which I sadly can't find easily on youtube) and it's almost like it uses the web like a bolas to wrap the legs in place.
Spiders are actually pretty amazing animals.
Unless, like, the whole UNIVERSE is his web... nah
The "web" is the Force.
Spider-Man is a Jedi.
#episode7plotrevealed
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He does in the first ASM movie. A pretty cool touch, I thought.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/05/06
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/05/08/what-indeed-part-2
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/29/a-blatant-disregard-for-canon
Which is about as believable as anything else.
Yeah, if Peter (school field trip Peter, not adult works-at-Horizon-labs Peter) has that kind of capability then he could have been fucking Iron Man or Batman and done his superheroing without needing a bug to bite him.
I don't recall ever reading a version of his origin where the bite gave him the knowledge of how to make web-shooters.
I personally find it more convincing if he had to eat a medium-sized cow and take a nap for a few hours with every shot of webbing or end up as a severely malnourished skeletal mass dropping off of the web and hitting the ground shortly after launch.
(It'd be more exciting than the most recent movie anyway)
Charlotte's Web.
And now I can't unsee it. Goddamn it.
I doubt it.
With the mechanical ones, he'd need to puree that same cow for ingredients. There's a mass issue regardless.
At least in ASM1 they had him steal some of the technology from Oscorp (right? I forget parts of that movie).
Headcanon, probably.
He didn't invent the web, just the shooters themselves. The web is like a biosteel cable that Oscorp manufacture or something. Why nobody thought to make bad ass rope swinging wrist mounted launchers until Spidey came along, I have no idea. It also wouldn't be hard to track down who's been buying shitloads of Oscorp biosteel and leaving it hanging around NYC.
If I remember correctly, the genetically engineered spiders make that bio steel cable (web) and Peter Parker gains the ability to do so as well when he gets bitten. He doesn't steal anything from Oscorp.