Spiderman is and has been many things. A teenager dealing with superhero and high school problems, a university student dealing with superhero problems, an adult dealing with life and superhero problems. Then he made a deal with the devil and stuff happened which I don't care about because that's the day he died to me.
However, he has always been portrayed as a nice guy trying to do the right thing (One More Day being the exception of course), however, there's something that changes everything we think about the character when we give it more then a moments thought.
Peter Parker is a genius, so he has a good idea of what to do with what he has. He created the web shooter, and that is how we got his iconic Spiderman persona instead of some other animal that can climb walls. However, what he does with the web shooters speaks volumes on how much of a hero he ISN'T.
Hear me out: he created, with only household products, a chemical which when mixed solidifies into a stronger then steel material which will dissolve hours later. The material is revolutionary and earth shattering in its creation. He has single handedly created a material which can easily save hundreds, even thousands of lives around the world each year from law enforcement alone by making police shootouts and hostage situations which would end in deaths ether become a thing of the past or at the least make is almost disappear. It would make urban combat in war have next to no collateral damage as a side using it could fire indiscriminately without fear of harming civilians while still catching their opponents, making them not need to be killed in combat either. Even without alterations it could be used for countless purposes in construction and other industries, and with a few years of people at the Baxter building working on it it's unlikely for them not to find a way to make the material not dissolve, which would increase the uses for it for countless situations across dozens of industries.
And what does he use it for? To help him swing around New York and fight a few criminals. And despite him invention worth billions, making ends meet to pay the bills at the end of the month have always been a part of his story.
What we have here isn't someone who wants to help people, we have someone who wants people to be rescued by him. What we have is a person suffering from a Superhero complex.
Before anyone tries to counter with some arguments, here are a few counters for some against this:
-"He isn't doing it to stay anonymous". A normal highschooler could understand the proses of patenting materials and the use of shell corporations, a genius like Peter would easily be able to set up a system where he holds the patent to the material and receives money from it without people being able to track him. We know this can be done because most of the evil corporations in Marvel use a system like this to get away with their criminal activities without the government being able to learn about it.
-"He didn't think about it". That's not true because...
-"He tried to get someone to buy it once when he first created it". This is true, however he only tried with one person at one time without trying any harder then that. That isn't him trying to get his invention out there, that's him telling himself he tried before he goes on to use it for street level crime fighting.
However, he has always been portrayed as a nice guy trying to do the right thing (One More Day being the exception of course), however, there's something that changes everything we think about the character when we give it more then a moments thought.
Peter Parker is a genius, so he has a good idea of what to do with what he has. He created the web shooter, and that is how we got his iconic Spiderman persona instead of some other animal that can climb walls. However, what he does with the web shooters speaks volumes on how much of a hero he ISN'T.
Hear me out: he created, with only household products, a chemical which when mixed solidifies into a stronger then steel material which will dissolve hours later. The material is revolutionary and earth shattering in its creation. He has single handedly created a material which can easily save hundreds, even thousands of lives around the world each year from law enforcement alone by making police shootouts and hostage situations which would end in deaths ether become a thing of the past or at the least make is almost disappear. It would make urban combat in war have next to no collateral damage as a side using it could fire indiscriminately without fear of harming civilians while still catching their opponents, making them not need to be killed in combat either. Even without alterations it could be used for countless purposes in construction and other industries, and with a few years of people at the Baxter building working on it it's unlikely for them not to find a way to make the material not dissolve, which would increase the uses for it for countless situations across dozens of industries.
And what does he use it for? To help him swing around New York and fight a few criminals. And despite him invention worth billions, making ends meet to pay the bills at the end of the month have always been a part of his story.
What we have here isn't someone who wants to help people, we have someone who wants people to be rescued by him. What we have is a person suffering from a Superhero complex.
Before anyone tries to counter with some arguments, here are a few counters for some against this:
-"He isn't doing it to stay anonymous". A normal highschooler could understand the proses of patenting materials and the use of shell corporations, a genius like Peter would easily be able to set up a system where he holds the patent to the material and receives money from it without people being able to track him. We know this can be done because most of the evil corporations in Marvel use a system like this to get away with their criminal activities without the government being able to learn about it.
-"He didn't think about it". That's not true because...
-"He tried to get someone to buy it once when he first created it". This is true, however he only tried with one person at one time without trying any harder then that. That isn't him trying to get his invention out there, that's him telling himself he tried before he goes on to use it for street level crime fighting.
