8 Most Embarrassing Spider-Man Moments
The Wall-crawler's least dignified moments.
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00:00Spider-Man sure is a goof, isn't he?
00:02I mean, that's kind of the whole appeal of the character.
00:04Given his setup of superpowers not making his life any better,
00:08combined with his comedic persona,
00:10it's no wonder that there are some moments where Peter falls flat on his face.
00:14And it's nothing short of hilarious.
00:16With this in mind, I'm Dan from WhatCulture,
00:18and here are the eight most embarrassing Spider-Man moments.
00:22Number eight.
00:23The Spider-Mobile.
00:25Amazing Spider-Man number 130.
00:27When Marvel Editorial signed a toy deal for a Spider-Man themed vehicle,
00:31the writer at the time, Jerry Conway,
00:34was all but forced at gunpoint to find a way to incorporate it into the comic itself.
00:39Thus, the Spider-Mobile was born.
00:41This thing had to be one of the most infamously goofy parts of the Conway era.
00:45Looking back, the funny thing about this book
00:48is how so much of it is about how this is an obviously terrible idea
00:52that was doomed to fail.
00:54I mean, why would Spider-Man need a car?
00:56Just imagine this.
00:58Quick Spidey, Hammerhead has 10 hostages at gunpoint
01:01and is going to start executing them.
01:03So please help us.
01:04Oh, but you're stuck in traffic again?
01:06Well, I guess we'll just die.
01:08It's so absurd, yet so hilarious at the same time.
01:11The Spider-Mobile would quickly exit the story
01:14as Conway had basically nothing but absolute contempt for the idea.
01:18And frankly, who could blame him?
01:21Number seven.
01:22Trying to beat up Superman.
01:24Superman meets the amazing Spider-Man.
01:26Back when Marvel and DC's rivalry was friendlier,
01:29they decided to make a big crossover between their most iconic characters.
01:33And who wouldn't want to see the amazing Spider-Man interact with Superman?
01:37So with the stars aligning like this,
01:39it was only natural that DC and Marvel jumped on it.
01:42And it doesn't take long for Spider-Man and Superman to come to blows.
01:46The resulting fight is one of the best hero versus hero fights out there
01:50as Spidey is powered by red sun radiation, courtesy of Lex Luthor,
01:55which gives him that extra edge in combat.
01:57But as Spidey learns, when that radiation goes away,
02:01he's little more than a nuisance to Superman.
02:03As short a moment as it is,
02:04the image of Spidey just wailing uselessly at Superman's indestructible six-pack
02:09is just plain hilarious.
02:11Number six.
02:12Getting stuck in the outer boroughs.
02:15Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man number 14.
02:18As Spider-Man Homecoming so aptly demonstrated,
02:20Peter is hilariously useless
02:23the second you take him out of New York City.
02:25And that joke originated in an issue of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
02:29where whilst trying to catch up with the villain of the week,
02:32Spidey finds himself stuck in the suburbs of the outer boroughs.
02:36With nothing taller than a streetlight to swing from,
02:39Spider-Man has to resort to booking it as fast as humanely possible.
02:43No tall buildings means no web swinging.
02:46And no web swinging means that he's just a weirdo in a red and blue onesie
02:50running through the suburb in the middle of the night.
02:52Spider-Man would of course manage to just barely catch up to the villain.
02:56That put him in this predicament.
02:58But I imagine he's also very thankful that everyone was asleep for this moment.
03:03Number five.
03:04The bombastic bag man.
03:06Amazing Spider-Man number 258.
03:08It really does help to have friends when you're in a tight spot.
03:11But Spidey should really know better than to ask Johnny Storm for help with anything.
03:15Long story short,
03:16Spidey lost his clothes and had to get home
03:19without people saying that Spider-Man is
03:22A. The newspaper photographer Peter Parker
03:25and B. Buck-ass naked.
03:26So in a lapse of logic so great,
03:29all sympathy for Peter goes out the window.
03:31He turned to his buddy,
03:33Johnny Storm,
03:34who offered him one of the Fantastic Four's suits
03:36and a paper bag with some holes in it to hide his face.
03:40So Spidey had to swing all the way home looking like that.
03:43Most likely confusing the hell out of a lot of people before he got home.
03:48Number four.
03:49Making web undies.
03:51Amazing Spider-Man number two.
03:52One of the most controversial parts of Dan Slott's tenure as the head writer of Spider-Man
03:57was the superior Spider-Man,
03:59where Spidey's body has his longtime nemesis,
04:02Otto Octavius, in the driver's seat.
04:04Otto, however, uses this opportunity to improve upon Spider-Man's mission as a hero.
04:09As divisive as it was,
04:11it actually turned out to be one of the best things Slott ever did with his run on Spider-Man.
04:16However, of course,
04:17the status quo beckons
04:19and Peter eventually retook control of his body.
04:21And just to go the extra mile
04:23and to prove that it actually was Peter Parker back in control,
04:26he's back in the saddle for not even five minutes
04:29before he gets all of his clothes zapped off
04:32and has to web himself up some underwear.
04:34Failing to realize until it was far, far too late
04:37that Otto had improved his web formula
04:39to make it dissolve significantly slower than normal.
04:42So when he goes to reunite with the Avengers
04:45and explain his weird behavior the past few months,
04:48he goes there wearing the pants he had on as Peter
04:50because his web undies have stuck them to his body.
04:53And to top it all off, he really has to pee.
05:01Since Peter was a teenager for longer in the Ultimate Universe
05:05than he was in the 616 continuity,
05:07we get to see him trip up a whole lot more.
05:10One of which is simultaneously
05:12one of the funniest and grossest moments in the comic.
05:15While Peter is a teenager for the entire run,
05:17Black Cat is a grown woman.
05:19At first, their relationship is about the same
05:22as it is in the main universe.
05:24But in issue 85, Black Cat is made aware of the elephant
05:28she wasn't aware that was in the room.
05:29She offers a kiss and for the first time,
05:32Peter takes off his mask in front of her.
05:35Then Black Cat realizes this whole time
05:37that she's been flirting with a teenager
05:40and promptly pukes up her last three to four meals onto the floor.
05:43While Peter watches on awkwardly.
05:46And while it isn't just Peter to blame for this,
05:48Black Cat has to hold some responsibility here.
05:50Because sure, Peter's suit doesn't give any obvious indicators of age.
05:54But one would think that his voice would really give away
05:57that he's currently going through puberty.
05:59And really, no one walks away from this situation looking good.
06:08With how often Spidey screws up on a regular basis,
06:11it was inevitable that the internet would do what the internet does.
06:14J. Jonah Jameson has dedicated his entire career
06:17to tearing down the wall crawler.
06:19Always trying to find the perfect proof
06:21that shows Spidey is a menace to society at large.
06:24It's an obsession that's sometimes justified
06:26and sometimes just played for laughs.
06:28But whichever interpretation of Jameson is your favorite,
06:31this scene would likely please all of them.
06:34Jameson is shown a new site on the internet
06:36called spiderfail.com
06:39which is exactly what it says on the tin.
06:41An online greatest hits album of Spider-Man's best goofs.
06:45From being terrorized by an old woman and her cat
06:48to slamming face first into buildings mid-web swing.
06:51It's got it all.
06:52And Jameson naturally reacts to this like a kid on Christmas.
06:56After all, this is literally everything he's ever wanted.
06:59Seeing as how this site is literally dedicated
07:02to how much of a goober Spider-Man is,
07:04the fact that it's probably still around to this day
07:07means that this moment was pretty much destined
07:09to be here on this list.
07:10And number one, he outed himself to the X-Men.
07:14Ultimate Spider-Man number 44.
07:16Ultimate Peter Parker is probably the biggest screw-up
07:19Spider-Man in the multiverse.
07:21And besides making Black Cat
07:23violently question her life choices,
07:25he also accidentally gave away his secret identity
07:28to quite a few people, namely the X-Men.
07:30Now, the X-Men are pretty nice.
07:32Well, as nice as anyone can be in the Ultimate Universe.
07:35So it isn't like Peter was in any danger,
07:38but he still likes to keep his secrets close to the chest.
07:41So when he wakes up in the X-Men's infirmary,
07:43completely naked and exposed,
07:45he laments the fact that now
07:47an entire mansion's worth of people
07:49know that Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker.
07:51Only to then be told that they didn't know his name,
07:54just his forgettable bland face
07:57that would have likely faded from memory
07:59as soon as the mask went back on.
08:00So Peter essentially outed himself to the entire X-Men
08:05for no reason.
08:06Brilliant.
08:07And that's our list.
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08:11For now, though, I've been Dan,
08:13and I'll catch you in the next one.