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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