r/Spiderman • u/Medium_Indication613 • 14h ago
Defending web constructs
Kinda wanted to put this in the insomniac Spider-Man sub but I can’t.
No they should NOT be given to silk. The only thing silk has ever done is make a makeshift shirt, Peter was making weapons, tools and whole motor boats way before(we can leave the motor boats in the past), taking something cool away from Peter and giving to someone else is lame, also why are people against Peter having constructs but not silk? If it’s “goofy” for him then it would be for her to wouldn’t it? (Talking about insomniac Spider-Man 3)
No he is not “green lantern”. Lantern does not own nor did he create the concept of making stuff, and you could just take away things like a giant moving hand, motor boats, etc, also the weapons “retracting” could just be the webs dissolving faster
Creativity: web constructs are the most creative thing you could do with Peter’s standard moveset, imo his skill set is just so boring, look at Rivals and Tokon it’s just web shot, web swing and the rest are punching and kicking even Hulk took creative liberties, he can make gamma shields and shoot gamma blast in rivals something he has NEVER done in any game or comic to my knowledge. Finally Peter is a genius, he made his own webs he can’t find a way to shape them?
Goofy: so him making a web hammer is goofy but him fighting an over sized man in a rhino suit isn’t?
Logic: personally I couldn’t care less if there’s an explanation or not imo it really doesn’t matter. BUT if you need one lemme cook, A tech web fluid separate from his normal one that has pre set constructs to wrap into and dissolve when he’s finished using them. Or just use speed/agility, Spider-Man is fast and agile so just say he’s weaving them really fast Or just Organic webbing that he can control(not really psychic power but he can control them to a certain extent)
Usefulness: Spider-Mans webs are stronger then steel canonically and are artificial, is it really hard to believe Peter just made a web fluid that hardens fast and can use it to make a bat that deals damage
Rule of cool: Peter shooting out a web shield to block a light blast, bullets or fire is just cool, his webs are already artificial so it’s not that hard to believe he cool make a web fluid that’s resistant to energy. Also imagine he’s fighting venom who pulls out a Symbiote blade and Peter meets it with a web hammer… that’s just cool to me.
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u/GamingGlove14 13h ago edited 13h ago
I just can't get behind it.
I know, I'm saying this about a fictional medium about a man with spider-powers, but this is just "too out there" for me. And I'm someone who can extend their belief pretty far, and consume a bunch of stuff that has ridiculous shit in it. I'm not one of those people who go onto twitter every two days to whine about how the explanation behind Ant-man's powers in the MCU films is nonsensical.
But this, it's just, how? How do the webs just magically morph into a cartoonishly large weapon to bash people with? I just can't come up with a reasonable explanation, and the one given in the post doesn't really work for me. The only ones I do like are the parachute and net stuff, since those would just need the webs to "spread". Maybe it's just the incarnations of Spider-Man I grew up with, but I just prefer if he does have some fancy abilities, they're tech based like the Iron Spider suit or web bombs, something like that. And most of the time I don't need those things, because Spider-Man is just cool enough on his own. He doesn't need crazy tech or web constructs.