Spider-Man’s Most Radical Transformation Proves Marvel Would Do Anything for Hollywood

In the mid-2000s, Marvel Comics decided give Spider-Man organic webshootersbecoming the perfect reflection of the films directed by Sam Raimi. However, the publisher did it in the strangest way possible: by making Peter Parker transformed into a giant spider and then gave birth to a copy that turned out almost identical to itself.

Published in 2004, the comic The Spectacular Spider-Man #20 was part of the event Avengers: Disassembledwhich shook the foundations of Marvel Universe at the time. Analyzing it with a certain perspective, it is especially curious that Marvel subjected to Spider-Man to such a drastic nightmare to carry out a change in character which ended up being relatively minor.

Marvel decided to transform Spider-Man after the success of Sam Raimi’s trilogy

More than twenty years later, that Spider-Man story arc It is among the strangest episodes in the spider hero’s career. In Spectacular Spider-Man #15, Peter Parker is captured by the character known as Queenwho ends up triggering in him a metamorphosis into a spider which evolves over the next five issues.

The climax of this transformation it became even more surreal. Peter Parkerin spider form, dies, but not before giving birth to a version of himself, with all memories of Peter Parker until the moment of death of his spider form. Shortly after, the new Peter Parker discover that can generate cobwebs from his wrists.

Rather be traumatized by what you had just experienced, Peter Parker seemed satisfied with your new power upgrade. Arguably, this is more shocking than the events themselves. happened in the number. After all, this is neither the first nor the last time Spider-Man transforms into a spider. For this reason, organic web shooters became the central axis of the entire story.

In this sense, this strange transformation of Spider-Man occurred after the premiere of Spider-Man 2. As is logical, This initiative demonstrated Marvel’s interest for adopting what is perhaps the greatest contribution of Tobey Maguire’s films: organic web shooters. Still, it is strange that Marvel decided to implement it the way the publisher did.

The fact that Spider-Man had organic web shooters It was logical, since it could be understood as an extension of his spider powers. Still, it wasn’t necessarily the kind of change necessary that would justify a complete cycle of death and rebirth for Peter Parker. Furthermore, the subsequent film versions of Spider-Manas well as more recent versions of the comics, ended back to mechanical web shooters.