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Different versions of spider man8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Power-responsibility score: 1-10 Uncle Bens out of 10, depending on player. Gamerized versions of both Peter Parker and Miles Morales here make their film debut, in what is no doubt a purely coincidental Sony motion picture production. What’s his deal?: This is merely Spider-Man dressed in the funky skins of the PlayStation video game series launched in 2018. Insomniac’s Spider-Man and Spider-Man Image: Sony Picturesįirst appearance: Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018 video game) Power-responsibility score: 7 Uncle Bens out of 10. Though understandably making only a single appearance in the comics, this version of Spider-Man did receive his own action figure last year, which is more than you can say for most of us. That left him briefly without any costume to wear around town, but longtime frenemy Johnny “Human Torch” Storm lent a hand, giving Parker one of his own extra suits, a paper lunch bag to put over his face, and a “Kick me” sign surreptitiously taped to his back for good measure. At the conclusion of the famed Alien Costume Saga in 1984, Peter Parker learned to his horror that the black costume he had been wearing was actually a symbiote alien from another planet. What’s his deal?: You’re laughing? Spider-Man is wearing a spare Fantastic Four uniform and a paper bag on his head and you’re laughing? Believe it or not, this version of Spider-Man has a perfectly valid Marvel Comics pedigree. Bombastic Bag-Man Image: Sony Picturesįirst appearance: Amazing Spider-Man (vol. Power-responsibility score: 9 Uncle Bhims out of 10. After he allows his selfishness to take the life of his Uncle Bhim, he devotes himself to the cause of justice, eventually encountering the main Marvel Comics Spider-Man during the 2015 Spider-Verse crossover. Thus was created Pavitr Prabhakar, an Indian small-town boy transplanted to cosmopolitan Mumbai who is granted spider powers by an ancient yogi. What’s his deal?: The 2004 Spider-Man: India series was an unusual partnership between Marvel Comics and its Indian licensor Gotham Entertainment that enlisted Indian creators to reimagine Spider-Man in their own cultural context. Power-responsibility score: 10 Uncle Bens out of 10. In any case, this Hobie won the affection of fans by siding with the people against their corporate oppressors, leading the downtrodden masses against the establishment, and breaking his guitar over the head of the U.S. Fascinatingly, this Spider-Man was the subject of a minor dispute between his creators, with artist Olivier Coipel intending him to be a British punk of the Sex Pistols variety, but writer Dan Slott overriding the decision to establish him as an all-CBGB New Yorker. Hobie was transformed via spider bite into the punk-rocking, trash-talking Spider-Punk. ![]() Such was the case for Earth-138’s version of Hobie Brown (better known in our more familiar Earth-616 as Spider-Man’s longtime ally - yes, ally! - the Prowler). What’s his deal?: Every so often, a terrible idea turns out to be unexpectedly brilliant. Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk Image: Cody Ziglar, Justin Mason/Marvel Comicsįirst appearance: Amazing Spider-Man (vol. Power-responsibility score: No Uncle Bens here. ![]() Spider-Verse’s Jess is thus a wholesale reinvention of the concept - though comics Jess did famously have a book in which she did superhero stuff while pregnant - that owes a certain debt to her elder counterpart. Created in 1976 in a rush to stop an animation studio from grabbing the trademark to the Spider-Woman name, comic book Jessica actually has no real relation to either Peter Parker or Miles Morales, having instead acquired her powers in a bewilderingly arcane origin involving HYDRA, her geneticist father, and possibly a talking cow. What’s her deal?: Across the Spider-Verse’s Jess Drew is an original creation, but she owes her name (and overall look) to comic book predecessor Jessica Drew, the original Spider-Woman. Jess Drew/Spider-Woman Image: Sony Picturesįirst appearance: Marvel Spotlight #32 (sort of) Power-responsibility score: 4 Uncle Bens out of 10. An inverse of the classic Spider-Man, Miguel is taciturn and surly in his superhero alter ego and something of a wisecracking lothario in real life. A researcher working for the nefarious and powerful Alchemex corporation, he ultimately found himself a victim of his own experimental, spider-themed research, giving him creepily spider-derived powers and eventually a costumed identity as a hero. ![]() What’s his deal?: Miguel O’Hara lived in the far-flung Marvel future of 2099, a world dominated by corporations run rampant and dangerous innovations in genetic engineering and virtual reality. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse goes bigger, bolder, and more ambitious Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099 Image: Sony Picturesįirst appearance: Spider-Man 2099 (vol. ![]()
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