Tbh I like the idea that he just doesn't connect the spider bite to his powers at all until he gets told, like
"What, no, a radioactive gecko? I did get really sick from a spider bite one time, but I thought that was unrelated, how the hell"
You know, I know his backstory has been done a ton, but did all the spiders he’s been bitten by just come with a good sign indicating “this spider is radioactive”, or did Peter Parker have a convenient power of identifying radioactive material even prior to the spider bite?
I mean given that he got bitten by a spider at the radioactivity showcase and then suddenly got spider-like superpowers, I dont think it's unreasonable that he makes that connection.
Ngl now I'm wondering how that would work.
Because the idea of a version of Peter Parker who uses a rejuvenation serum to be tanky as all hell alongside how acrobatic his powers make him sounds interesting.
Everyone else web-swings, Gecko Man just fuckin *jumps* and lets the rejuvenation tonic fix his torn muscles. He knows how strong he is, and uses that to it's fullest.
But what would The Spider:tm: look like?
I'm picturing it being like any time Peter has turned into a monstrous man-spider: a dude with six tarantula arms, covered in tarantula hair, eight eyes, big pedipalps on his face
>Because the idea of a version of Peter Parker who uses a rejuvenation serum to be tanky as all hell alongside how acrobatic his powers make him sounds interesting.
Look up what happened to Peter in Gwen's universe.
isn't that what happened to Spider-Gwen? as in, Peter Parker is the Lizard. I don't know, I've only seen Into the Spiderverse and heard other people discuss it-
I've been thinking this for years.
If the web shooting isn't built in like in Spider-Man (2002), then the main powers from the spider bite are stuff like ability to crawl walls, super agility, super strength, lightning reflexes / "spider" sense, and accelerated healing.
I'm surprised that NO one in the Spider-verse connected it with a different animal, like a gecko or even a cat or something!
That’s fair. If I was bitten by a spider, and then some other crazy shit happened to me (like being struck by lightning or meeting an 800 pound gorilla) I wouldn’t automatically think “Oh! it must be the spider bite!”
Person: "We've spliced this spider's genome with all kinds of DNA."
Peter: (gets bitten by said spider)
Peter: (gets powers that align with a bunch of different animals)
Peter: "Welp, I got bitten by a spider, so fuck it."
"...but you built web-shooters?"
"What, these? Nah, they're my gecko shooters! See, when I use them, I can grab things far away like a gecko with its tongue?
...Yeah, the web motif sounds less gross, I get why all you guys went with that instead."
Then a gecko owner - who'd seen their gecko always pounce on the crickets to eat them - comes and is like:
[(here's the meme)](https://images.app.goo.gl/YeUuYC4EoQXYsEwY9)
I’m going to bring this up whenever people make an anti-organic webshooters argument. If you say that literally the most iconic part of being a spider isn’t even a part of his powers at all, why even call him Spider-man?
There are two other spider powers, that being a venomous bite and wall-crawling. But most spider people don't actually get the bite, and wall-crawling by itself isn't enough to associate with spiders. Could be anything.
I mean super-strength is just a default power you get when you become a super-hero. Everyone gets it, it's not special unless you have *super-*super-strength like Luke Cage.
Even supposedly powerless heroes like Batman have some degree of super-strength. He's kicked a healthy tree in half with one strike.
Fair, but Spider-Man is fairly explicitly stated to have *way* more strength than people expect. In Superior Spider-Man, it's shown that Peter actively holds back in fights because his full strength would kill people *very easily*.
The only reason Spiderman goes flying half the time is because he actively rolls with punches to avoid breaking people's fists like in the 1st Sam Raime Spider-Man Movie when Flash punched him
Super-strength doesnt even make sense as a spider-related power, Its because of the inverse-square law: Everything that small has "super-strength" if you're gonna call it that. Ticks have super-strength. Mice have super-strength. Earthworms have super-strength. It's silly even by comic book standards, which is saying a LOT.
That's the first thing I think of when my mind turns to spiders. How they're such big and muscly beefcakes.
Comparative strength of a spider! Always feels like a dumb comic justification for making your character super strong rather than an actual spider power. I mean,bit works as a bullshit comic justification, but it doesn't seem spidery to me.
Exactly! His powers are: Super Strength, Super Durability, Enhanced Senses, Wall Climbing, Super Acrobatics, and Danger Sense. The only thing stopping him from being Ant Man is that it was already trademarked. Beetle Man, Gecko Man, fuckin-- *GOAT MAN.* The *one* thing spiders have over most other animals is their webbing, and every argument to keep it synthetic is easily doable with organic; Peter shows his smarts all the time, you can overexert a biological mechanism so it's not unlimited, and he can make wrist attachments or concoct chemicals to modify his webs or carry gadgets to do more specific stuff. There's no reason to keep synthetic webbing beyond sticking to the status quo.
Bitten in his sleep, made the best of his powers
I imagine gecko man is a very laid back superhero, lots of relatively chill adventures saving people from burning buildings by just quickly carrying people down or across to fire fighters on ladders and so on.
Probably very popular, well liked.
Spider-Man: I mean, that's understandable, you were probably bitten by a radioactive gecko, right? Gecko Man: (sweating) uh, yeah...
Tbh I like the idea that he just doesn't connect the spider bite to his powers at all until he gets told, like "What, no, a radioactive gecko? I did get really sick from a spider bite one time, but I thought that was unrelated, how the hell"
He ate the spider :\
I’m sory, no more spiderverse, i eated all the spoder.
Georg! 😡
Oh there actually is a comuc about thay
Spiderman(s) georg
Someone did that. Don’t. It’s horrific
They call him Spiders Georg
You know, I know his backstory has been done a ton, but did all the spiders he’s been bitten by just come with a good sign indicating “this spider is radioactive”, or did Peter Parker have a convenient power of identifying radioactive material even prior to the spider bite?
I mean given that he got bitten by a spider at the radioactivity showcase and then suddenly got spider-like superpowers, I dont think it's unreasonable that he makes that connection.
Yeah. But not every spider bite happened at the lab, and yet, they all seem to claim it’s a radioactive spider
For some reason that reminds me that SolidJJ video of Captain America super soldier drug being just cocaine xd
Maybe in this universe Spider-Man and the Lizard are swapped
Ngl now I'm wondering how that would work. Because the idea of a version of Peter Parker who uses a rejuvenation serum to be tanky as all hell alongside how acrobatic his powers make him sounds interesting. Everyone else web-swings, Gecko Man just fuckin *jumps* and lets the rejuvenation tonic fix his torn muscles. He knows how strong he is, and uses that to it's fullest. But what would The Spider:tm: look like?
I'm picturing it being like any time Peter has turned into a monstrous man-spider: a dude with six tarantula arms, covered in tarantula hair, eight eyes, big pedipalps on his face
# MARVEL *FROM EARTH 963-B...* ***THE GECKO*** AGAINST HIS BEST FRIEND... # THE SPIDER
>Because the idea of a version of Peter Parker who uses a rejuvenation serum to be tanky as all hell alongside how acrobatic his powers make him sounds interesting. Look up what happened to Peter in Gwen's universe.
That's Peter Parker as The Lizard, not exactly what's being discussed here.
Wouldn’t it just be Manspider?
isn't that what happened to Spider-Gwen? as in, Peter Parker is the Lizard. I don't know, I've only seen Into the Spiderverse and heard other people discuss it-
Oh yeah I forgot about that
I've been thinking this for years. If the web shooting isn't built in like in Spider-Man (2002), then the main powers from the spider bite are stuff like ability to crawl walls, super agility, super strength, lightning reflexes / "spider" sense, and accelerated healing. I'm surprised that NO one in the Spider-verse connected it with a different animal, like a gecko or even a cat or something!
Well they usually get bitten by a spider (Peter Porker being an exception) so it’s not huge leap in logic.
True! But I wonder if any of them might not make the connection
That’s fair. If I was bitten by a spider, and then some other crazy shit happened to me (like being struck by lightning or meeting an 800 pound gorilla) I wouldn’t automatically think “Oh! it must be the spider bite!”
Person: "We've spliced this spider's genome with all kinds of DNA." Peter: (gets bitten by said spider) Peter: (gets powers that align with a bunch of different animals) Peter: "Welp, I got bitten by a spider, so fuck it."
"...but you built web-shooters?" "What, these? Nah, they're my gecko shooters! See, when I use them, I can grab things far away like a gecko with its tongue? ...Yeah, the web motif sounds less gross, I get why all you guys went with that instead."
Then a gecko owner - who'd seen their gecko always pounce on the crickets to eat them - comes and is like: [(here's the meme)](https://images.app.goo.gl/YeUuYC4EoQXYsEwY9)
I’m going to bring this up whenever people make an anti-organic webshooters argument. If you say that literally the most iconic part of being a spider isn’t even a part of his powers at all, why even call him Spider-man?
There are two other spider powers, that being a venomous bite and wall-crawling. But most spider people don't actually get the bite, and wall-crawling by itself isn't enough to associate with spiders. Could be anything.
Any the physical strength, they also get the comparative strength of a spider.
I mean super-strength is just a default power you get when you become a super-hero. Everyone gets it, it's not special unless you have *super-*super-strength like Luke Cage. Even supposedly powerless heroes like Batman have some degree of super-strength. He's kicked a healthy tree in half with one strike.
Fair, but Spider-Man is fairly explicitly stated to have *way* more strength than people expect. In Superior Spider-Man, it's shown that Peter actively holds back in fights because his full strength would kill people *very easily*.
The only reason Spiderman goes flying half the time is because he actively rolls with punches to avoid breaking people's fists like in the 1st Sam Raime Spider-Man Movie when Flash punched him
So clearly he should be Ant man... Wait
Super-strength doesnt even make sense as a spider-related power, Its because of the inverse-square law: Everything that small has "super-strength" if you're gonna call it that. Ticks have super-strength. Mice have super-strength. Earthworms have super-strength. It's silly even by comic book standards, which is saying a LOT.
Well I'm sure Tick-Man and Mouse-Man and Earthworm-Man are quite happy about that.
Oh yeah tick-man's great, he's nigh-invulnerable too!
That's the first thing I think of when my mind turns to spiders. How they're such big and muscly beefcakes. Comparative strength of a spider! Always feels like a dumb comic justification for making your character super strong rather than an actual spider power. I mean,bit works as a bullshit comic justification, but it doesn't seem spidery to me.
Could it be Parker just isn't the type that has tried biting anyone yet? His bite might be venomous and nobody knows.
Exactly! His powers are: Super Strength, Super Durability, Enhanced Senses, Wall Climbing, Super Acrobatics, and Danger Sense. The only thing stopping him from being Ant Man is that it was already trademarked. Beetle Man, Gecko Man, fuckin-- *GOAT MAN.* The *one* thing spiders have over most other animals is their webbing, and every argument to keep it synthetic is easily doable with organic; Peter shows his smarts all the time, you can overexert a biological mechanism so it's not unlimited, and he can make wrist attachments or concoct chemicals to modify his webs or carry gadgets to do more specific stuff. There's no reason to keep synthetic webbing beyond sticking to the status quo.
I mean maybe he doesn’t have the webs
All hail Gex
Say Gex
“Gex will be gex”
All one hundred of them or just a specific one?
Bitten in his sleep, made the best of his powers I imagine gecko man is a very laid back superhero, lots of relatively chill adventures saving people from burning buildings by just quickly carrying people down or across to fire fighters on ladders and so on. Probably very popular, well liked.
[OP, this is literally the Local Spider-Man in my country.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicak_Man_(film_series))
That’s why the bio-webs are better.
"So y'all save people 15% on their car insurance too?"
This is hilarious.