Help me, Sup Forums. This is something that's been bothering me for a while now

Help me, Sup Forums. This is something that's been bothering me for a while now

Okay, so a few weeks ago I decided to watch the original Spider-Man flick. In this one scene, while fighting Willem Dafoe, Peter says this line: "I had a father. His name was Ben Parker"

I'm confused, isn't Ben Parker his uncle? Do Ben and May just make Peter call them his Aunt and Uncle instead of his Mom and Pep Pep? Is it just some kind of weird dialect they have going on in Manhattan?

Or is Ben also his father's name, as well as his uncle's? If so, who names their two sons the same name? Imagine calling them to dinner. "Ben, time for dinner!". Well maybe that's not the best example, because they both eat dinner anyway. Or is it some kind of French thing where they only call one sibling to eat dinner?

Can someone please clarify what he was saying? It's confusing to think there might be 2 Uncle Ben's in the series. Although that might explain why he reappears in the sequels

Ben is his foster father, you dolt.

I'll give you credit, you certainly put effort into this.

But why doesn't he just say "I had an Uncle, his name was Ben"? Unless he wanted Willem Dafoe to get confused by what he said. Maybe that's why he didn't react when the glider stabbed him, because he was thinking "Wait a second, isn't Ben his uncle?" then THWACK! That could be why he goes "Oh" right before he died, because he realized he had been tricked, or that what you said was true

It's not a troll. I really don't understand this line. Wouldn't you call your uncle your uncle, or your dad your dad? So why did he call him his father when he was supposed to be his uncle?

Also, why did Ben call Peter Michelangelo? Is that supposed to be his middle name or something? Peter Michelangelo Parker

Please tell me you're retarded

dontell harry

Obviously Ben is his dad's name as well as his uncle's name. However, his dad was Aunt May's brother, not his Uncle Ben's brother. That would be absurd. That being said, the reason he tells the Green Gremlin that his dad's name was Ben was because Uncle Ben raised him and was a father figure to him. PM me if you have any more questions.

Raimi went with the controversial choice of putting Trouble into his film bible

DON'T TELL! HURRY!

Pretty certain this is bait, but I'm still annoyed.

DO NOT SPEAK OF THE EVIL, LEST IT APPEAR!

good father figures are more considered to be someones actual father if their biological father is missing/a piece of shit/etc

delete this

It's people who ask questions like this who ruined DC by way over thinking continuity and asking questions literally no one else was.

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You're doth wrong.
It's "Dontell, hurry!"
Because Norman forgot Peter's name and thought it was Dontell. He needed help

Because Raimi made shit decisions like his cum wrists

OP I think you might actually have autism.

Some people have a close paternal relationship with a person who isn't actually their biological parent. That may lead them to consider that person to be their father, even if that man did not literally contribute the genetic material that led to their birth.

God speaks, Spider-Man

"I had an idol...his name was Adolf Hitler."

Did Raimi go too far in some places?

Think about how he said to Uncle Ben earlier "then stop pretending to be!" When uncle Ben was saying about how he knows he's not Peter's father. This ending part is a call back to that saying that Peter realizes the importance of Uncle Ben and truly sees him as his dad.

Alot of biological father's are shit.

A person who chooses to be a father to you is better than one who does it because he has to.

He wasn't Peter's uncle, his first name was Unkel. Unkel Ben. If you actually read the comics you'd know this.

Dad Hierarchy:

Father
Surrogate Father
Step Father
Absent Father
Bucket of shit
Abusive Father
Mountain of shit and vomit and piss
Narcissistic Father