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Organic Webshooters > Mechanical
- Thread starter rude
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I don't hate silk, but it makes her harder to digest, so to speak.
Ordinary people run out of fluid all the time. You just gotta eat/drink/rest to replenish.
But how would that really translate in storytelling when almost every other metahuman can use their powers as often as they want?
You'd also have to toss the "broken web shooter" scenario, which is at least as important as the one you describe
Yeah, the same limitations and dramatic moments that come from not having enough web shooter clips - or whatever - can also be had with organic web. It can be Spidey's chakra.
Mechanical for Peter Parker. It provides another understandable momentary weakness and that's a good thing and its also show of Peter's intelligence.
Other Spider characters are fair game.
Other Spider characters are fair game.
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That's an entirely different thing. That is not the same as getting slammed in the wrist by Doc Ock and having to do without one shooter for the rest of the fight.
It would expose his identity as Spider-Man, or leave Spider-Man open to legal action from Peter Parker's attorneys.
I can't tell if you're trolling at this point or if you really don't know that you're using "objectively" incorrectly.
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Peter gets slammed across the wall, breaking his wrist thus rupturing his web sacks and has to do without a shooter for the rest of the fight.
I used to hate the organic webbing but I still think it's the way to go for live-action Spidey.
He could just as easily get his wrists/hands injured or incapacitated, no?
He could just as easily get his wrists/hands injured or incapacitated, no?
By that logic, why doesn't he just extract the web fluid and sell it if it's organic?
In this scenario he's even better off, literally the only thing that can produce this.
None of those characteristics are unique to spiders, even with that combination. The sixth sense could be named anything since that's not a real attribute spiders have.
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Yes, because that's what comic readers wanted to read.
"I ruptured my web sacks!"
It's bad. No. There's a reason organic shooters have been left as dust.
But, they don't?Rude said:
Mechanical webshooters are superior in every way - especially in the tension derived from when they run out of fluid. It does in fact show Peter's gadget creation ability and prowess with technology - over them just growing in his wrists after a spider bites him.
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All of these remove what is unique about the problem. Any hero who blasts anything from their wrist or hand can have this problem. This would also mean that he now has a long-term injury instead of something he can just slap on a bench and fix, so you're greatly limiting the frequency with which this kind of problem can occur.
You're also basically melding two different things that can happen to Spider-Man into one thing, restricting storytelling possibilities
I think both might be equally relevant here.
However, to be sure, you should PM the link to it and any other organic webshooter fetish comics and I'll judge for myself.
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If he sold it, people will just be like "oh, Spider-Man uses Parker-Strands, just like every construction company worker"
It's a monstergirl fetish comic, there are driders and giantesses and shit.
Can't scale up production and reduce costs if you're the only source
I don't really think "his X is broken, he can't use it" is all that unique, honestly.
I didn't know this until you said something, but I should have known since it was on tvtropes
Yeah. A radioactive spider just happened to bite the kid who was step away from killer spider web tech.
Either way, shooting web that quickly through the air requires it to have an impractical amount of mass to be carrying around. Sorry nerds.
That's been covered in the comics before. He tried to patent it, but was told the fluid dissipated too quickly to be useful (which is kinda dumb but lol). He decided to pursue other things.
I never liked the idea of him selling the formula anyways; feels like it'd compromise Spidey's secret identity.
Happened in the same issue that came up with Slyde. Peter tried to sell his formula to 3M, but since it dissolved in an hour they turned it down. Also Slyde feeling slighted by the same company used his formula for non-stick cookware to become a thief
