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Spider-Man is a timeless grapheme; drop him in any year (later 1962), in whatever role of the world, and his popularity remains sky-high. Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures proved this statement with Spider-Human: No Way Abode (2021), which may take marked the finish of the Marvel Cinematic Universe'due south (MCU) Spider-Human trilogy – and the starting time of something new.

No ane really knows where Marvel, Sony, and Tom Kingdom of the netherlands will accept the Web-Head at the moment – but that doesn't mean we can't speculate. Today marks the 20th anniversary of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002), which means we've got an excellent excuse to look at 12 of the strangest Spider-Man stories ever put to impress – or celluloid.

Amazing Spider-Man #386–388

Aunt May and Uncle Ben are core Spider-Man characters. Even when they aren't on-screen (or in-panel), their influence on Peter Parker is ever-nowadays. The aforementioned tin can't be said for Richard and Mary Parker – Peter's deceased parents. Marvel'south tried to alter that numerous times – first making them secret agents in Spider-Human Annual #5, then seemingly resurrecting them in Astonishing Spider-Man #386.

Soon, we learn that "Richard" and "Mary" are Life-Model Decoys created by the Chameleon. The Parker family unit reunion gets cutting short, and Spider-Homo trades blows with a Terminator-like version of his dad. In the end, we're left with a de-aged Vulture and tons of loose threads that volition eventually pave the fashion for one of the strangest sagas in Marvel Comics history.

Many superheroes are so deeply linked to their costumes that changing one chemical element can incite full-blown riots. Spider-Human is a rare exception to that trend; the Web-Head has worn dozens of outfits over the years, including now-iconic costumes similar the Red Spider arrange and even the Bombastic Pocketbook-Human conform.

Spidey's Symbiote costume is easily one of his most famous outfits. It debuted in Secret Wars #8 and marked the first major costume change for the Wall-Crawler. The Symbiote flung itself at Peter and bonded to his damaged costume. A fan named Randy Schueller originally conceived the Black suit, selling information technology to Jim Shooter in 1982. The strangest part of this story? Marvel only paid Schueller $220 for his idea.

Astonishing Spider-Man #100–102

"Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can." Without looking anywhere near as creepy, that is. Peter's literal and figurative humanity is a major office of his charm. The sales numbers for Astonishing Fantasy #15 would've been much lower if Spidey was covered in hair and shot webs from his, ahem, under regions.

Stan Lee and Roy Thomas gave us the side by side worst matter in Amazing Spider-Man #100; Peter creates a serum to suppress his spider powers but inadvertently gains four new artillery instead! He then spends the next few bug swinging around with eight limbs and slap-fighting with Morbius the Vampire. May the image of Spider-Human being's ridiculously buff rib-artillery exist forever burned into your mind. It certainly is for us.

Vault Of Spiders #ii

What'south that, you want more nightmare fuel? So be information technology. Direct your attention to Vault Of Spiders #2. This issue ties into the 2018 Spider-Geddon outcome. Several Spider-People (and animals in Spider-Ham's example) announced during this outcome, including Spiders-Man.

That's not a typo — this character is a walking, talking, crime-fighting colony of spiders who ate Peter Parker and absorbed his consciousness. Wait, it gets better; Spiders-Man primarily operates in "Brutal York", but he has spider spies in every corner of the multiverse. Every corner… perhaps including our own.

The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 2: #17–xx (Changes)

Marvel writers seem to get a kick out of, well, boot Spider-Man. Few characters have endured equally much tragedy, calamity, and sheer insanity equally he has. To make matters worse, these events frequently occur for the sake of a retroactive continuity change (or a "retcon" for short).

Accept the Changes storyline, for example. Peter's body horrifically mutates throughout four issues until he transforms into a gigantic spider (for existent this time), dies, then gives nascency to another homo version of himself. Peter undergoes all of this trauma… for the sake of making organic spider web-shooters canon. Want to know the strangest part? That's non the worst retcon Spidey has experienced.

Spider-Man: Ane More 24-hour interval

Oh no, that dishonor goes to Spider-Man: 1 More 24-hour interval. The mere mention of this storyline might boil the claret of longtime Spider-fans. Here'southward the thing; equally endearing every bit Peter'southward high school antics are, a lot of readers enjoy watching him mature and navigate the pitfalls of machismo. We also appreciate seeing his relationship with MJ evolve from an unrequited crush to total-blown marriage.

Dorsum in 2007, then-editor-in-chief Joe Quesada said, "screw all that, the status quo is Male monarch!" Okay, he didn't say that, but he did conceive One More Twenty-four hours. Quesada wanted Peter to be a bankrupt, single, stressed-out young adult once again, and he didn't mind killing Aunt May to make that happen. Mephisto, one of Marvel's stand-ins for the freakin' Devil, offers to resurrect Aunt May — in exchange for Peter and MJ's marriage.

For his part, Quesada genuinely apologized for One More 24-hour interval after fan backlash grew. Still, the fact remains; Spider-Homo made a deal with the Devil for the sake of a retcon. Believe it or non, we've yet to attain the bottom of this messy iceberg.

Spider-Human being's Tangled Web #21

Let'south accept a break from some of Spider-Homo's more than rage-inducing stories. Trust us, we'll need it before delving into the concluding few entries. Spider-Man'due south Tangled Web refers to a series of stories that primarily focus on the Spider web-Head's vast supporting cast. 'Twas the Fight Earlier Christmas continues that trend, albeit with a whacky, lighthearted holiday twist.

Sue Storm, Jane van Dyne, and Crystal the Inhuman are the existent stars of this evidence. They go into all sorts of holiday hijinks as they search for Christmas gifts and battle the Puppet Primary. Spidey swings in nearly the end to beat the baddies, aid Crystal buy a chainsaw for Blackness Bolt, and wish readers "happy holidays." Honestly, the strangest part nigh this story is how well it works. And the chainsaw scrap. That's weird, even with context.

The Superior Spider-Human being Outcome… Saga… Thing

We promise the title of this entry dislocated you. That way, y'all can empathize with our feel reading this storyline. The Superior Spider-Human sees Otto Octavius (a.thousand.a. Doc Ock) hang upwardly his villain jersey and become a hero. Cool — if Venom tin can change, we all tin can modify! Merely Venom didn't take to hijack Peter Parker'south body to turn over a new foliage. Md Ock didn't have to either, just you tin can probably see where this is going.

From March 2013 to September 2014, Dr. Ock ran around in Peter's body while the real Spider-Human merely sort of floated in the background. The so-called "Superior Spider-Human" committed nearly every heinous deed you lot could imagine; dude tried to seduce MJ, toyed with Aunt May's emotions, beat most of his foes to a pulp, and straight-up executed others.

The point of The Superior Spider-Man arc was to prove that Peter's idealism is preferable to Otto's pragmatist, "ends-justify-the-means" worldview. And hey, nosotros certainly agree. We're just not certain if that betoken needed to drag on for over xxx issues. Plus spin-offs. Plus tie-ins.

Maximum Carnage

The '90s were a weird time for comics. DC legitimately killed Superman for a solid year, ultra-violence was all the rage, and a slew of edgy, 'roided-out anti-heroes took the world by storm. This decade also produced Cletus Kassidy and Carnage, ii Spider-Homo villains who were similar to Eddie Brock and Venom, but with an extra dose of sociopathy.

Maximum Carnage (dis)graced the Marvel Comics universe in 1993. If you're a dice-difficult Carnage fan, this fourteen-issue storyline might float your boat. Simply almost Spider-Man fans should steer clear, lest they witness one of Curiosity's most beloved heroes merely sort of mope effectually through the entire event.

"Highlights" from Maximum Carnage include Spidey ditching his friends, many senseless deaths, a Spider-Man clone with half dozen artillery and Chupacabra teeth, the "Good Bomb", and a priest rescuing Peter from a demon-possed Hobgoblin. As we said, the '90s were a weird time for comics.

"Emo Spider-Man"

This entry probable needs niggling introduction, considering how popular Emo Spider-Man memes still are to this day. Halfway through Spider-Man iii, Peter gets infected with the Symbiote and gradually becomes darker and edgier. He's merciless to his foes, he'south abusive towards his loved ones, and he ducks his rent. What a monster, correct? But Peter doesn't terminate there; he dons all black apparel, gets an atrocious haircut, and starts… dancing.

This entire sequence is hilarious in hindsight – and information technology feels like Sam Raimi's way of sticking it to Sony as he was practically forced to include the Symbiote/Venom in Spider-Man three. But try to understand how mind-extraordinary this was for anyone who saw this back in 2007. Back then, we didn't have "Bully Maguire" memes to make sense of things. Nosotros were all just genuinely confused.

"Cadger Land"

Andrew Garfield gave a stellar operation in No Way Home. He was so great, in fact, that folks started begging Sony to release The Astonishing Spider-Man (TASM) 3. If such a matter were to always happen, I just hope the powers that be learned from the by. In the start TASM movie, Spidey faces off confronting Short Connors, aka the Lizard.

TASM wouldn't be a high-concept superhero picture show if the villain didn't accept a nefarious scheme upward his sleeve. In the Cadger's case, he wants naught more than to transform anybody in New York into lizards. That's not some sort of euphemism or slang; he wanted big, scaly reptiles to run rampant in the Big Apple. And he succeeds for a brief moment, blessing (read: blasphemous) us with an image of one-half-man, half-cadger people only sort of flopping around the place.

The Spider-Clone Saga

At terminal, we've arrived at the 9th circle. This is the big one — the story to end all strange Spider-Man stories. The Spider-Clone Saga. Many readers likely expected to find this storyline in this article, and with good reason. The Spider-Clone Saga is one of the about infamous tales in comic volume history!

Sometime editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco and assistant editor Mark Bernardo originally conceived this storyline as a "three-act play" filled with shocking twists, unexpected turns, and startling reveals. This serial initially got off to a great start, garnering critical acclamation and financial success en masse. Then it kept on going, and going, and going. A storyline intended to run for several months ran for a footling over two years.

Peter Parker was labeled a clone, prompting Ben O'Reilly to have his place. Later, it turns out that Ben was the existent clone all along. Simply wait, it turns out that Peter and Ben are both clones! Then, some dude named Kaine started ripping people'southward faces off. And so, long-dead villains came back to life with no rhyme or reason. If all that seemed contrived or sudden or overwhelming to yous, and then congratulations — yous now have the complete Spider-Clone Saga experience without having to spend a dime!