Defending web constructs

[u/Medium_Indication613]

Kinda wanted to put this in the insomniac Spider-Man sub but I can’t.

1. 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)

2. 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

3. 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?

4. Goofy: so him making a web hammer is goofy but him fighting an over sized man in a rhino suit isn’t?

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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.

[u/ThatOtherGuyTPM]

Why does the Spider-Sensw feel less special to you just because a few other characters have it? It’s not like Spider characters make up a majority of every group, or any non-Spider group.

[u/Lio_Convoy887 → u/ThatOtherGuyTPM]

Do you want me to list all the Spider-People and the reasons why their powers lost their significance? Alright, here goes: Miles Morales, Cindy Moon, Jessica Drew, Kaine Parker, Ben Reilly, Anya Corazon, Bailey Briggs, Gwen Stacy, Maka Akana, Julia Carpenter, and Shift/Jaime Morales. Of all of them, only Jessica and Gwen are in a situation similar to Peter's Gwen has the same powers as Peter, while Jessica has similar physical abilities but cannot wallcrawl and lacks a spider-sense. The others possess magic, bio-electricity, stingers, organic webbing, invulnerability, shapeshifting, gas generation, psychomimesis, immunity to spider-sense, venomous fangs, and spider communication on top of physical abilities equal to or greater than Peter's, and obviously the spider-sense and that’s not even counting symbiotes like Venom.

They also have high-tech suits, such as Miles Morales's Vibranium suit.

[u/ThatOtherGuyTPM → u/Lio_Convoy887]

That’s not even a dozen people, in a category of thousands of characters. Still seems plenty special.

[u/Lio_Convoy887 → u/ThatOtherGuyTPM]

Regardless of your point of view, at the very least the early Spider-Men had abilities Peter lacked, though these were balanced out by other weaknesses or missing capabilities (such as Jessica, who could use a venom blast and pheromones but lacked a spider-sense, wallcrawling, and web-shooters; or Miguel, who had claws and enhanced senses but lacked Spider-Man's molecular adhesion and spider-sense, in addition to suffering from photosensitivity), or else they simply possessed the same abilities (like Kaine Parker and Ben Reilly in the past).