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I got it right away, but an even smaller amount of people would realize that there is a Manbat, a villain opposing Batman.
There is no Manspider btw, but there are a few artist conceptions, and they are horrible. Makes Manbat seem friendly.
There is no Manspider, sure. But Spiders-man is a real character, who is a sentient hive mind of radioactive spiders possessed by the spirit of Peter Parker after he fell into their enclosure and was devoured.
Comics are weird
TIL. Can I now unlearn that?
Simply replace it with knowledge of other obscure spiders' men.
Like Toei Spider-Man who was a regular motorcyclist who got a special armband from an alien from planet Spider that lets him transform into "The emissary of hell, Spider-Man". He then uses his newfound powers to stop The Iron Cross Army from blowing up the earth with the help of his giant robot Leopardon.
Wow, not only is that true, but he also had a giant robot that he used to fight monsters that was eventually used in Super Sentai!
I didn't see the bit about the robot in your comic initially, but it's really cool that this one predates the OG power rangers
Darth Maul was a spider for a while.
Nope. Those little spiders are now crawling around in your brain, and every once in awhile, out of nowhere, they'll kick one of your neurons to remind you of Spidersman, whether you like it or not.
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Damnit, I knew I should have read down to see if anyone mentioned spiders-man!
My favorite of the spider variants is spidersman. A swarm of spiders eats Peter parker and inherits his memories and abilities. So the swarm just suits up and becomes Peter parker. It's so dark, and so creepy that I love it lol. And there's a comments from miles in the miles Morales spiderman game where hesays "ya gotta watch out for spiders, man." And every time he says it I'm thinking he's telling these people to be careful of a swarm of spiders in a suit, as he's webbing up these criminals and it makes me chuckle. Like even miles is grossed out by the thought of it.
What's the timeline on that character? Wonder if someone over at Marvel was watching the Rick and Morty ep with the Vindicators and Millions of Ants.
I think it was from superior spiderman? So like 10-12 years ago?
Much older than Rick and Morty
I found this wiki listing Spiders-Man from 2018, a year after the R&M episode. Is that not the original character?
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Spiders-Man_(Earth-11580)
Oh shit, maybe I'm wrong, I thought I'd read it before Rick and Morty came out
Well @P00ptart@lemmy.world mentioned Superior Spiderman which looks like it started in 2012, but I think the Spiders-Man character didn't show up until vol 2 which was later? I dunno, it's hard to tell the timeline from the wikipedia article and I'm not sure exactly which individual wiki to check for definitive comic book timelines. I read comics stuff occasionally but I'm not very tapped into the community at large.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superior_Spider-Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superior_Spider-Man#Revenge_of_Spider-Man_of_Earth-44145
In case anyone is curious, Man-Bat, Dr. Robert Kirkland "Kirk" Langstrom:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Bat
Savage Spider-Man would visually be the closest thing I guess we have
Isn't Man-Spider what Peter Parker turned into when his six-armed mutation progressed to its end stage?