Spider-Man Prove He Would Lose Against His Most Disgusting Variant
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Ben Reilly Spider-Man #3
There are few foes Spider-Man cannot eventually defeat as proven time and again throughout his Marvel Comics adventures, though another version of him would make quick work of the Web-slinger as Spider-Man proved he would lose against his grossest variant, Spiders-Man.
Spiders-Man is a version of Spider-Man who isn’t a man at all, but a horde of thousands of radioactive spiders. When Peter Parker of Earth-11580 took a tour of Horizon Labs, he was shown a massive colony of spiders who were being regularly blasted with radioactive particles in an experiment focused on genetic alterations. Parker fell into this vat of spiders and was devoured by the thousands of arachnids. Afterwards, the spiders became a hive mind entity that collectively shared Peter Parker’s consciousness, and together they squeezed their colony into a Spider-Man suit and became Spiders-Man, dedicating to being a hero in the name of the boy they viciously devoured.
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Spiders-Man has basically the same power set as Spider-Man with one added benefit. Spiders-Man can release the horde of spiders that make up his body unto his victims, exposing them to hundreds of venomous bites and psychological terror. With this power, Spiders-Man proves he can defeat a current Spider-Man of Earth-616. In Ben Reilly Spider-Man #3 by J.M. DeMatteis and David Baldeon, Spider-Man is being hunted by a foe who has the ability to shape shift into the hero’s greatest villains and fears. One person his pursuer takes the form of is the corpse of Kraven the Hunter, and from out of that corpse, the villain produces an army of spiders to
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