I’m a superhero, or to be more precise a super-power fan there are few stories I’m working on that doesn’t in some way involve the main character having powers. I recently just fished bingeing Ultimate Spiderman (Disney XD cartoon), and I loved it. I’ve always been a big Spiderman fan (cartoons), I watched Spectacular Spiderman, Spiderman the animated series from 1994 and watched they’re of his video games. Although after watching him for a couple of years, I feel like Spiderman at least in my opinion has had the same powers for like ever. So I thought about giving him some new ones, I’ll be honest they got kind of bizarre. First, I figured giving him the ability to shoot webs on his own would work because while the web-shooters do show him genius-side it’s kinda weird he can’t just make his own. I mean, take away the web shooters, and he’s basically just a man with the powers of any bug.
Then I started thinking about what if Spiderman was exposed to more radiation and gained even more spiderlike powers. For example, claws/talons, he could sprout and retract from his fingers and fangs, after all, spiders have fangs, why doesn’t he? What if he could suck blood from people? (criminals) After all, spiders do drink the blood of other insects, shame they’re so creepy looking. After I had that idea I start comparing him to the Mosquito Girl from One Punch man, she could control mosquitos and would send them out to collect blood. She would actually get stronger and more powerful the more blood she drank. However, applying that to Spiderman gave him a vampire-like vibe a which I’m honestly not sure works for him. Not to mention if the spiders did collect blood for him how would he retrieve it? Spiders in his mouth, gross, no thanks the blood angle was strange enough. I mean he’s supposed to be a hero, not a weirdo, well, weirder. Plus he isn’t just Spiderman he’s Peter Parker to so how would fangs work if Peter Parker’s supposed to look human when he’s not Spiderman. So, then I thought, what if he could turn his powers on and off, that would make the fangs and claws retractable. Finally, I thought about making his webs could paralyze people since spider-webs (at least some) can paralyze bugs that are caught in them, I thought that would be a cool upgrade to add.
Although the more that I think about it, Spiderman doesn’t exactly need new powers since he’s weirdly OP now. The other day, I was watching Ultimate Spider-man he took down 3 villains in a row, but during the fight, Spiderman was rocking some mad plot armor in that battle. It started with like a 3 on three fight between Him, Ironman and Hulk vs. Kraven, Molten Man and the Wendigo King. Kraven and Molten man are both Spider-man villains, but Wendigo King is a hulk villain (at least in that universe he is). Plus, he didn’t actually defeat Wendigo King and Molten man, he outsmarted them. First, he trapped Wendigo King in a net and teased him, not him one of his powers it was a weapon attached to his web shooters. And, when he “beat” Molten Man he just tricked him into standing on a dock for too long until he burned through and fell into the water. Maybe I’ve been watching too much anime, but that just seems like plot armor to me (a term I hope I’m using right). In conclusion (was just going to say “Anyway” but I say that too much) if I have to the chance to upgrade Spiderman even for an episode those are the improvements I’d give him. Claws, Real webs that Paralyze anyone they touch, fangs and possibly the ability to drink blood. Little weird but that’s my idea.
The Wannabe Writer 