Why is Spider-Man so popular? What's so special about him?

Who do you think is more popular, Batman, Superman or Spider-Man?

He was the first of his kind

Teenage hero (and not sidekick, an actual independent hero) who dealt with teenage bullshit and real world problems.

He also grew up in real time, eventually getting married and getting his wife pregnant, before editorial fucked everything up and tried to replace him with a clone, caused the wife to be poisoned and miscarry, tried to stick his wife in a refrigerator, and ultimately had them make a deal with Satan to erase the marriage.

He was the first in the genre which is why he endured, even with Marvel doing everything they could to bury him

Spidey is popukar because his powers interesting and he is at the perfect power level-strong enough to make a signficant difference in nearly any situation but not so strong that there's no tension or that you have to shoehorn a weakness into every story.

He also had a great trilogy before capeshit exploded and a rogues gallery second only to batman.

>Why is Spider-Man so popular
I think its because he's a normal dude (who is crazy smart) that got super powers later in life. He isn't a mutant or a space alien, making him easier to relate to. He's also one of Marvels longest running comics so he built up a fanbase. And unlike X-men or Fantastic Four, the storylines aren't jump around the other characters.
And a hero is only as good as his villains. Spider-Man has most of the memorable villains in Marvel. The other heroes have one or two.

>Who do you think is more popular, Batman, Superman or Spider-Man?
I would saw Superman is the most well known for normies. I can't say who is the most popular.

He's a kid. Kids like superheroes.

spiderman is the most interesting and relatable character, has the coolest costume, coolest powers (batman has too many different gadgets to be as interesting, superman is too powerful).
batman had the best cartoon

For my and my nerd friends in middle school, we always appreciated the "flesh and bones" quality of Spider-Man, that he was closer to some freakishly string wiseguy than he was a demigod like supes. Even Batman is kind of invulnerable with his fucking stacks of cash and assets.

Standard empowerment fantasy

> Young boy/girl is downtrodden
> Gets fantastical power and becomes special

Used in Harry Potter, Twilight,Divergent, anything with the chosen one.

Spiderman was made at the right time in the right medium to stick to the cultural zeitgeist.

Not really, I dont know of any popular kid super heroes. Maybe Shazam? It's something old people think kids want to see (Like all those kids who loved seeing a kid Anakin Skywalker, right?)

Peter Parker is a senior in high school when Spider-Man starts in the comics, and he quickly goes off to college.

Disney has decided to make Parker a high school student for the next 3 movies, but most of Spider-Man's media has him in college or working. Not sure if you can call that a "kid"

>a rogues gallery second only to batman.

Third.

who's this takumi looking nigga in 6th panel

Literally who the image.

The only one I can spot is bizarro flash, which is just the normal flash with a Mortal Kombat color swap.
Spider-Man's minor villains are more ironic than anyone of those.

More famous, maybe.

But not better.

He's kind of the archetypical hero, isn't he? Constantly self-sacrificing for the sake of others with no desire for or expectation of personal gain; indeed he expects the opposite - that people will hate him for it. He even hates doing it himself. And his life is constazntly fucked over because of it. But he does it anyway because he thinks it's the right thing to do.

He also juggles a lot of stupid personal issues on the side, but I don't think that matters as much as his constant state of struggle does. Like, what other hero actually struggles? Captain America, Thor, Wolverine, Superman, Batman, Iron Man, The Hulk, Wonder Woman, etc.; none of them ever really struggle outside of with their inner demons or their conflicted feelings about things.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is always dealing with some insane villain fucking with Peter Parker because they've realized there's a connection (or they've seen through the mask), or he's nursing some long-term wound from a previous fight, or he's completely out of money, or someone close to him is dying from fucking cancer because they got a blood transfusion from him, or he has stumbled into some villain ten times his power level who he has to defeat by out-thinking them, or he's being hunted by the police because of some crime he didn't commit being blame on him, or somebody's running around in a spider-man outfit pretending to be him actually committing crimes, or some clone of him has popped up and is trying to take over his life, or some lunatic drugs him and buries him then assumes his identity and runs around doing horrible shit, or... the list just goes fucking on forever. He's ALWAYS dealing with half a dozen serious problem at once.

He also has a lot of... interesting enemies. Often ones designed specifically to fuck with him. Like, that's the whole purpose of their existence. It's hard to understate just how much some people hate spider-man and go out of their way to fuck with him whenever possible.

Disney's Spider-Man cartoon.

>What's so special about him?
Literally nothing, which is why he's so popular.
He's the perfect self-insert for boring losers aka. capeshit fans

Best Spidey villain?
Personally I always found Venom to be based as a character.

The Bruce Campbell Mysterio we were supposed to get.

He's relatable to the target audience.

Venom is a great villain because he isn't just a mustache twirling bad guy, he has his own sense of morality and for the most part he just hates Spider-Man he isn't robbing banks or trying to take over the world. Which is also why he makes a good anti-hero.

He also has one of the best character designs in comic books.

doc oc and green goblin are the obvious ones as far as characterization

HOLY FUCK THAT CEL SHADED SPIDEY CARTOON WAS FUCKING AWESOME WHY DID IT GET CANCELLED

Come on
>Venom
>Sandman
>Green Goblin
>Doctor Octopus
None of those in your image can stand up to the veneration of any of those, except maybe gorilla grod

underdog hero who has a very average life. I don't like him, but a lot of people can relate to him.

Its because he is relateable as a person, he doesn't get a break or a single enemy per , its always several layers of shit all coming at once and he has to juggle them with and without the costume.

He is the personification of what it means to be a man.
I grew up being the only boy in a house with 5 sisters, my dad took care of them and helped with solving problems that only a man could (fixing stuff, carrying heavy lifting, pest control, plumbing) but after he passed away they started demanding me to do all that crap, i obviously refused being the neet i am (thats how i got here) but a sense of existential dread creeped on me like watching a fish slowly choke to death outside the water, i felt like my father was that fish, although he died he lives through the things he left and the things he taught me to do ... i feel like he is present everytime i take on things he used to do and i can relive vividly him doing said things as if i was behind his eyes, i can even see my toddler self watching him do it.

Perhaps the depression most of you feel comes from the lack of that responsibility of manliness, perhaps spiderman success comes from the cathartic undertone of nerd boy growing into man to full blown übbersmench facing challenges that would crumble physically and psychologically his previous self as well any normal man.

Or at least it used to be when raimi was in charge.

Flash's third, man. C'mon.

No, Flash is third. The only way his villains became more known is because of the DCTV CW shows.

Rogue galleries

>Batman
>Spider-man
>X-men
> Superman
>Flash

I really think spiderman would work better as a period piece. It emphasises the insular nature ofthe character, his intuition and his relative obscurity.

KRAVEN

Batman > Spider-Man > Flash > X-Men > Superman

Fix'd.

Spider-man is a fan-insert. Bullied nerd gets superpowers dropped into his lap, makes a living doing nothing but taking selfies, and marries a super model. Even Superman doesn't touch that level of wish fulfillment.

Cuz the old faggot execs things "He was a loser nerd and the people who like comics are loser nerds so they can totally relate right? Go use him so we can exploit those loser nerds for all their money"

Batman and Superman. I personally only like Spider-Man when having to pick out of those three, but brainlets seem to really like the adult DC superheroes.

Historically he was the first super hero to be relatable to its core audience. Prior to Spider-Man every hero was a full grown man, masculine, strong, perfect, wise, and essentially boring and unrelatable. They weren't supposed to display weakness of any kind. It was a different time.

Then Spidey came along and fucked up that formula. He's literally a child. He's immature, has a sense of humor, and he suffers from being a nerd and dealing with his annoying foster parents. He basically prooved that even kids could be a hero.

Stan Lee created an acceptable soap opera for young boys and men (some women too).

> Magneto, Apocalypse, Sabertooth, Sinister, Blob
> Luthor, Zod, Brainiac, Bizarro, Myx

Yeah no. Flash has a weaker gallery than supes and xmen

The 90s cartoon is best animated spiderman
>Cool intro
>Has a job
>Gets shit all the time by JJ
>Gets the girl
>Good animation

Same goes with second season of Ironman with mullet Tony.
How is it the best cartoons are always from the 90s?

because he is best super hero

Sony should stop being a bitch. They should give Venom to Marvel or at least share him like they do with Spidey. I wonder if Tom Hardy's Venom is gonna do well without Spiderman.

The fantasy of superheroes for children is that they get super powers. The fantasy for adults is that they get to be someone else. As a teenage hero, spider-man offers both cool power with a tangible effect over his surroundings that are easy for the reader to grasp as well as drama surrounding trying to balance being Peter Parker and Spider-Man. He's also the only hero to cover his entire body and face making any person of with skin color able to imagine they are him.

of Marvel.

Spiderman isn't nearly as interesting as Batman. Spiderman never grew as a character, had a family, led a super-team, overcame adversity etc etc. The only storyline they do over and over in Marvel reboots is the Green Goblin friend of the family plot-meme.

>never grew up, had a family

The 90s Spider-Man cartoon was so good. It's amazing they were able to make something so good while not being allowed to use words like "kill" and "die" or show any realistic looking weapons.

Spiderman is just cool and relatable.

Also I've seen a lot of spiders, like one or two bats, and hardly any supers... so there's that

I forgot that was a thing. I thought it was the Spectacular cartoon because I've never seen it. Heard Disney's was god awful.

>>Good animation