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Organic Webshooters > Mechanical
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THIS. Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is a science themed superhero. He's got the neighborhood thing going on, but he is also a scientific genius.
Well, there's different kinds of smart. Besides, he's so focused on being a superhero he hardly has time for anything else. Anyway, this has been explored in more recent arcs in the comics.
wut
Organic,
Mechanic is stupid personally,
The spider bite gives him powers and stuff but he then has to invent the main spider aspect of his hero identity?
eh.
Mechanic is stupid personally,
The spider bite gives him powers and stuff but he then has to invent the main spider aspect of his hero identity?
eh.
Yeah I prefer organic, at least for the movies. The whole "shows his intelligence" is whack. It's an insane feat. If he could come up with super strong, easily produced webbing from rummaging around in the trash (MCU), how the fuck is he poor? He's a genius with a pretty revolutionary invention. You can show that he's smart without him being an absolute mastermind that apparently can't monetize.
The books going with things like Parker Industries makes it work a lot more to me.
The books going with things like Parker Industries makes it work a lot more to me.
Came into this thread expecting a natural spider to be better than some mechanical one that someone build. =x
He later developed the ability to spin webbing organically. This superhuman ability is Spiderman's most distiguishable trait that seperates him from any other superhero....
Lmao...not after Marvel watered him down.
Everybody and there momma is a Spidey and has Organic webbing. Yeesh. Shame on you Marvel for doing Peter like that. They even had the same Spider bite twice, I thought Spiders rarely bite more than once?
Lmao...not after Marvel watered him down.
Everybody and there momma is a Spidey and has Organic webbing. Yeesh. Shame on you Marvel for doing Peter like that. They even had the same Spider bite twice, I thought Spiders rarely bite more than once?
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This. Also we got so many inventive web types. Mechanical for the win.
No...mechanical is just, cooler. The organic thing is just weird...why his wrists? Why that finger motion in order to activate it if not a button? If you want to say it was the spider bite that caused it to be on the wrist, surely it'd only be on the one arm? Mechanical on his wrists is perfect for aiming and firing his webs, that makes sense for a guy who's been given these other powers. Why, biologically, would it organically grow out of his wrists and not out of his torso, for example? Or the ass end? Why did it give him spinnerets, but no other parts of a spider's anatomy? Why not extra eyes or legs?
Organic just doesn't work.
Organic just doesn't work.
I loved that they showed how he came up with the webbing in this movie. Honestly I prefer Mechanical but if Organic is done right it's done right. No need to waste a precious time explaining it.
All the people saying organic makes more sense must realize that the organic webs coming out of his wrists make even less sense.
That's a pretty stupid panel, it would absolutely have market value. Also if he's that smart and can seemingly invent super products, he could make something else for money.
Mechanical web shooters. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
All you organic guys are on the wrong side of history
All you organic guys are on the wrong side of history
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(Just to be clear, that post was meant to make me less interested, right?)
You roll with it just like something as silly as a "Spider-Sense"
Have they shown where he puts the liquid? Spider-Man would need a giant tank on his back for mechanical web shooters to work. Organic is just so much more credible.
How and in what way? How would them being organic solve this problem? Wouldn't he STILL need a giant storage tank somewhere in his body that would be incredibly conspicuous?
Tiny pressurized capsules. They fit into the wrist device and he carries spares on his belt. Artists don't ever draw the bulges for presumably the same reason they draw the spandex costumes like body paint.
Anyway, speaking of tanks, how the hell does Iron Man breath at high altitudes and in space and underwater and stuff? I guess it's the sort of thing you have to accept and just enjoy the show.
Stored in little viles. Expands when it hits the hair. Think science class vial sized but has miles of the stuff per cartridge.
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It's kind of weird to be bit by a spider and be given all of the abilities a spider has, except the one that they're most known for.
To be fair, it's kind of weird to be bitten by a spider and be given any abilities at all.
A) I know we've had this thread before
B) If I recall, Ben Reilly came up with impact webbing. Can't do that with organic.
B) If I recall, Ben Reilly came up with impact webbing. Can't do that with organic.
He didn't get 8 eyes or limbs either. Well not until later.
I prefer mechanic because my first exposure to Spider-Man was that old ass cartoon where he could not punch people(and kid me didn't know he couldn't punch people and never noticed the animation issues either haha) and that's what he had there. Plus I liked the gimmicky stuff when he would use special "ammo" and stuff, it was neat. Loved that stuff.
Not sure I understand your question. It's a substance naturally produced by his body just like in an actual spider. It's an easy concept for the audience to accept. Mechanical web shooters require such a giant leap in logic.
Don't they show Peter grabbing a bottle of liquid in Homecoming?
Cheetah-Man
Cheetah-Man
Does whatever a cheetah can
Except run fast
Can't do that
Had to build cheetah legs from scratch
Look oooooouuut,
Here comes-a Cheetah-Maaaan
Cheetah-Man
Does whatever a cheetah can
Except run fast
Can't do that
Had to build cheetah legs from scratch
Look oooooouuut,
Here comes-a Cheetah-Maaaan
Hes a smart dude that creates incredible gadgets. Organic webs, while they make sense to have as an attribute from a spider don't make sense coming from his wrists. Like all the attributes he gets are realistic to a sense except for webs from the wrist.
I like mechanical more, but since most adaptations are shitty on exploring the "genious inventor" peter, than organic makes mor sense
Like in amazing spider man they LITERALLY made peter follow some nerds to listen about eletric stuff and pendulums .... because SKATE peter parker would NEVER know about it
Like in amazing spider man they LITERALLY made peter follow some nerds to listen about eletric stuff and pendulums .... because SKATE peter parker would NEVER know about it
But we are not talking about defining features of a spider, we are talking about the defining features of Spiderman. It's like asking why Wasp doesn't have a stinger on her butt
Completely different context and message.
The web shooter thing is not supposed to just show him as a clever, quick thinking fighter.
It's supposed to show that he has the potential for a genius level intellect, but unlike basically every other Marvel super-brain
he lacks the resources and situation to really put it to use (until the recent Slott run).
The web-shooters are one way to exemplify this trait, because he is creating what is basically a space-age industrial strength material in his spare time during chemistry class.
Sometimes I think the next adaptation should have like gay or trans man spider-man ... because just being nerdy/smart don't just convey the same "shitty high school experience" peter had in the 80's =P