r/respectthreads • • Jul 29 '19

comics Respect Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 616)

"With great power, comes great responsibility."


Respect Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man!


This Respect Thread was done by /u/globsterzone, /u/TheKjell, /u/TheDrunkenDreamer and /u/KerdicZ in a group effort

Special thanks to /u/shadowsphere and /u/kirbin24 for helping us review and add some feats.


Bio: When the wimpy high-school nerd Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider while attending a science fair, he was gifted with amazing powers corresponding to the abilities of a spider! He initially used his abilities to simply make money as a wrestling star, but after his uncle Ben was killed by a burglar that Peter failed to stop he devoted his life to crime-fighting, driven by the guilt. Peter spent much of his life throughout high-school and college juggling his responsibilities as a crime fighter with his personal life and job as a photographer for the Daily Bugle, a newspaper whose editor was determined to smear the name of Spider-Man as a thief and a villain. Peter made a number of bizarre and dangerous enemies during this time, and served alongside a number of superhero teams such as the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. After graduating from College, Peter started his own business, a millionaire multi-national technology company called Parker Industries, which he then sacrificed to save the world and go back to the status quo.

Rogues Gallery:

These are the classic rogues, known by all and frequently battled by Spider-Man - who sometimes defeats them, and sometimes is defeated by them, which gives you an idea of who he is capable of fighting on the regular.


Strength

Peter has the proportional strength of a spider, which allows him to lift and strike at a level far beyond any human. However, he hardly ever uses his full strength, pulling his punches to not seriously harm his opponents.

Lifting, pushing, pulling and throwing

Striking

Leaping


Durability

Peter's body is far tougher than the average human, enabling him to remain more or less unharmed when hit with attacks that would kill most people. He tires out much more slowly than a normal human, is able to fight for extended periods of time while wounded and can hold his breath under water longer than regular humans. He has a healing factor that lets him heal from wounds very quickly compared to normal humans outside of battle. However, he has no noticeable piercing durability.

Blunt force

Energy

Mental

Chemical, drugs and toxins

Endurance

"Healing Factor"


Speed and agility

Spider-Man has the proportional speed of a trapdoor spider, with reflexes 40 times faster than normal humans. This lets him evade attacks easily and makes it much harder for opponents to dodge his strikes. His strength also allows him to move his body at superhuman speeds. In addition, he can travel very quickly by using his webbing to swing between buildings.

Combat and reactions

Agility and acrobatics

Swinging, traveling and running


Webbing

Peter's webs are stored in liquid form in cartridges on his waist and wrists. They expand very rapidly when exposed to air, and he is an expert at manipulating them into unusual and useful shapes, using them to swing around the city or capture criminals.

Strength and durability

Stickiness

Speed

Accuracy

Manipulation

Formula modifications


Spider-Sense

Spider-Sense is a "sixth sense" that warns him of any imminent danger to himself, and occasionally others nearby. It is used to avoid ambushes, as well as to help him in combat by letting him avoid attacks before they happen. It has other uses outside of simple combat precognition, as it helps him make safe choices and can even function as a kind of primitive Radar-Sense.


Wall-Crawling

Peter can make any part of his skin be adhesive. He generally uses this to climb along vertical walls and the bottom of ceilings but it has a few combat related uses as well.

Misc. usages


Intelligence

Peter Parker was a genius from a young age, creating his famous webbing at 15 years old that not even top scientists have been able to replicate. He continued his success in science throughout his life, designing many inventions. He is treated as one of the top scientists on Marvel Earth, often brought in to discuss very important matters with other top scientists, albeit far from the level of Reed Richards or Tony Stark.

General intelligence

Biology/Chemistry

Technology, inventions and creations

Quick thinking


Limits

It is worth noting that Spider-Man has very well defined limits and hardly ever uses his powers to their full extent, specially his speed and strength, for multiple reasons related to what he believes in, who he is fighting against, his mindset at the moment or simply how his day is going. He doesn't make use of any formal training and actual martial arts, so even though he has immense experience fighting, highly skilled fighters are always trouble, even if there is a physical gap between the two. Furthermore, his speed, agility and Spider-Sense, while amazing, don't make him untouchable. He is consistently tagged by slower opponents and Spider-Sense is not completely infallible either. His webshooters don't work proprerly on cold temperatures and he feels quite out of the loop whenever his webbing runs out or when he doesn't have Spider-Sense.


Misc.

Good butt

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u/SpiderManRT Jul 29 '19

After exactly 2 years, with roughly 100 new appearences and a couple dozen new feats (some very good ones included), here it is again.

This time, the physical feats of each section were ordered based on how good they are - from least impressive first, to most impressive last.

Feel free to PM us if you have a question.

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u/TheXMarkSpot Jul 29 '19

most impressive last

This is accurate in all sections, as proved by how Spider-Man’s butt is the last thing mentioned.

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u/Plormo Jul 29 '19

Batman have MEGA threat about just every post crisis feat. You guys should do the same with Spider-man.

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u/KerdicZ Jul 29 '19

We feel like Mega RTs are pointless and voted against it.

At a certain point, you are just adding 30 feats of Spider-Man lifting a car, and it makes it way harder to find the actually good feats, or any relevant info.

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u/ThespianException Aug 04 '19

This time, the physical feats of each section were ordered based on how good they are - from least impressive first, to most impressive last.

That's a really cool idea. More threads should do that.

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u/Account__8 Jul 30 '19

A good health regen feat is when he suffered 3rd degree burns in his entire body. His web shooters melted to his wrists and he was taken to a villian hospital because nobody could recognize him. I believe he fully healed in about a week.

IIRC it was in ASM 700.1-.4

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u/SpiderManRT Jul 30 '19

It's there, but in the "endurance" section.

I believe he fully healed in 3 days.

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u/HighSlayerRalton Jul 29 '19 edited Jul 30 '19

Webbing outspeeds Bowman's arrows

I don't think this is true. The webbing hits the arrows from the side, which means they didn't come behind, as appears to be the assumption. Spider-Man then swings into the area from the same side.

It's a good feat, but not explicitly out-speeding arrows.

Developed mental defenses after all the years of facing mind-controllers

One of these pages is repeated two pages after it first appears.

Knows if you miss the hyphen

These are always fun.


It's worth noting:

It might also be worth including his feats against Hydra Agents from Spider-man and Silk: The Spider(fly) Effect, as he's depowered, and ti could thus be used as a skill feat.


Otherwise, nice RT. Very user-friendly and aesthetically formatted.
I love the web-bats feat.

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u/blackspidey2099 Jul 30 '19

His Spider-Sense is dependant upon a connection to, and the good condition of, the Web of Life and Destiny, and is psychic in nature.
This leaves it susceptible to a few esoteric methods of nullifying it.

That's not consistently true - the Web of Life & Destiny has been destroyed ever since Spider-Geddon yet Peter's Spider-Sense has been fine.

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u/KlausFenrir Jul 30 '19

Dr. Peter Parker. Smart dude.

That’s fantastic.

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u/8fenristhewolf8 Jul 31 '19

Awesome thread guys. Really well done

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u/Cruden95 Sep 27 '19

I don't know if Peter made this himself, but he injected himself with a chip that prevents body switching, maybe you could add that to Intelligence

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u/sidmis Oct 30 '21

One of the best threads I've ever seen

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u/BrokenHalo-IsAwesome Jul 30 '19

Damn. I never realized Spider-Man was so badass.

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u/Xombie117 Jul 30 '19

For a durability feat, what about that time he went up against Unworthy Thing in Fear Itself after already doing numerous days of crime fighting without sleep.

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u/nearcatch Oct 30 '19

In Limits you mention that he has no formal training, but doesn’t he have a Spider-Fu he learned while his spider-sense was gone?

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u/EntityHybrid Jul 30 '19

Always love that moment vs the Phoenix Five.

Absolutely badass

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u/JamesCDiamond Jul 30 '19

Great thread!

There was a comic from around the time of the Gathering of Five storyline where Peter had to hold up the Daily Bugle building on his back. I know that he used webbing to hold it up, but can’t remember if that was before or after he stopped it collapsing - I think it was after, and the webbing stopped it collapsing in an uncontrolled fashion.

Unfortunately I can’t find the exact issue from a quick look, but https://www.cbr.com/top-five-times-peter-parker-decided-that-he-was-spider-man-no-more/ mentions it. It might be worth adding to the strength section if you weren’t aware of it - of course you can’t cover everything!

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u/TheKjell Jul 30 '19

It's from Spider-Man (1990) #98, however we thought this was way over his usual capabilities (I think this would be several hundreds tons) so we opted for not including it.

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u/Amai_M4sk Jan 05 '22

Why isn’t Kingpin in his Rogue’s Gallery?

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u/SUCCSUKE Jan 18 '22

Because kingpin isn’t just a Spider-Man villain, he is a villain of Luke cage, daredevil, punisher, black widow, Hawkeye, etc.

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u/MesaJarJarAbrams Jan 09 '20

Nice work on your RT!

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u/FurtherExplained Mar 05 '23

How isn't Peter on the level of Reed or Stark? His IQ is north of 250 and tied with Reed Richards. Stark, Reed, Doom, Pym, Octavius and tons of other people have admitted that Parker has tremendous potential and is crazy smart. Reed, Stark and Pym have all admitted that if Peter focused more on science then he could rival them and even surpass them one day.

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