History Franchise / Spiderman

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* ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Girl}}''

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers''

Has a [[Characters/{{Spider-Man}} character sheet under construction]]. A full index of works can be found on SpiderManIndex.

* ItGotWorse: ''Always''. The one thing which you can count on from a Spider-Man story is that things can--and usually will--get a ''lot'' worse at any point.

* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: Most of the villains Spider-Man met when he was a teenager only developed a hatred for him after he kept getting in their way. One notable exception was the Green Goblin, who intended to make an impression on the New York mobs by capturing Spider-Man, who he thought would be an easy target. [[ItGotWorse It all went downhill from there]].

-->[[spoiler: '''Doc Ock:''' "No...'' [[GrandTheftMeI'm]]'' [[GrandTheftMe Peter Parker]]."]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Doc Ock:''' "No...'' [[GrandTheftMe I'm]]'' [[GrandTheftMe Peter Parker]]."]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Doc Ock:''' "No...''[[GrandTheftMe I'm]]'' [[GrandTheftMe Peter Parker]]."]]

* TheRevealPromptsRomance: With Mary Jane, sorta; its subverted quite a bit in the 616 timeline. They already had a close relationship, previously sorta dated, and Peter had proposed to her once before, and it wasn't Peter who revealed himself to her, ''she'' revealed she knew who he was and that she loved her, resulting in him proposing to her. Him being a superhero was actually a ''turn off'' (she was GenreSavvy enough to know [[CartwrightCurse that dating a hero could result in]] [[StuffedInAFridge violent death]] and that he could end up killed in action and leave her alone), but couldn't shake her feelings for him and so eventually relented and said yes. the Ultimate Universe and the Raimi films, however, its a straghter example. This is averted in the newspaper strip, where Mary Jane was already seriously dating Peter without having prior knowledge of his duel identity. After Peter revealed who he was to her and proposed, she didnt think twice about accepting.

* AlliterativeName: StanLee, Spidey's creator, was the TropeCodifier for the trend, because he found names easier to keep track of if he used alliteration as a mnemonic. Examples include: Betty Brant, Curt Connors, Spencer Smythe, Glory Grant, J. Jonah Jameson, John Jameson, Kenny "King" Kong, Otto Octavius, Peter Parker, Randy Robertson. Randy's father Joe might also count, since his nickname is "Robbie".

* TookALevelInBadass: "Kraven's Last Hunt" made Kraven a badass after several decades of being a loser villain. Similarly, Electro was given a major power increase in ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #425 to allow him Magneto-esque control over electromagnetic energies, Harry Osborn when he's AxCrazy, Roderick Kingsley when he became Hobgoblin.

-->[[spoiler: '''Doc Ock:''' "No...''I'm'' Peter Parker."]]

* WouldntHitAGirl: When he first met Princess Python, Spidey lamented that he couldn't hit her. [[EnforcedTrope It''was'' the 1960's, after all]]. Later averted with female villains like Moonstone and Titania, who Spidey doesn't hold back against.

* TheRevealPromptsRomance: With Mary Jane, sorta; its subverted quite a bit in the 616 timeline. They already had a close relationship, previously sorta dated, and Peter had proposed to her once before, and it wasn't Peter who revealed himself to her, ''she'' revealed she knew who he was and that she loved her, resulting in him proposing to her. Him being a superhero was actually a ''turn off'' (she was GenreSavy enough to know [[CartwrightCurse that dating a hero could result in]] [[StuffedInAFridge violent death]] and that he could end up killed in action and leave her alone), but couldn't shake her feelings for him and so eventually relented and said yes. the Ultimate Universe and the Raimi films, however, its a straghter example. This is averted in the newspaper strip, where Mary Jane was already seriously dating Peter without having prior knowledge of his duel identity. After Peter revealed who he was to her and proposed, she didnt think twice about accepting.

The [[Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}} arachnid-powered]] {{Superhero}} was relatively new to [[MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] when he made his TV animation debut in 1967. Peter Parker, a high school student and freelance news photographer, acquired his powers from a radioactive spider bite. As the web-slinging, wall-crawling Spider-Man, Peter fights crime while trying to keep his identity secret from his widowed Aunt May and from the public at large. The show's main contribution is the ThemeSong ("Spider-Man, Spider-Man/Does whatever a spider can...") which has become a popular standard.

* TokenMotivationalNemesis: The nameless thief who took Uncle Ben's life isn't mentioned for over a decade, until he returns and dies in the 200th issue of ''Amazing Spider-Man''.

Has a [[Characters/{{Spider-Man}} character sheet under construction]]. A full index of works can be found on {{Spider-Man Index}}.

* ArchEnemy: Several over the years: [[TheSixties Doctor Octopus]], [[NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] (most famously, for [[CompleteMonster horrible, horrible]] reasons), [[TheEighties Hobgoblin]], [[TheNineties Venom]], Carnage, Kingpin.

* BigGood: Downplayed. Although CaptainAmerica is the Marvel Universe's Big Good, Spider-Man has proven to have the potential of being as effective a leader as he is. If Steve is Marvel U's [[TheMessiah Soul]], then Peter is definitely the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Heart]]. His idealism, second only to Cap's obviously, is powerful enough to unite the most cynical of heroes and [[CompleteMonster loathsome]] villains together and/or bring out the best in them. If he wasn't a HeroWithBadPublicity, he might have fulfilled this trope a long time ago.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sensational_Spider-Man_%28vol._2%29#.22The_Last_Temptation_of_Eddie_Brock.22_.28Issues_38-39.29 Eddie Brock is dying of cancer.]] [[ByronicHero Alone, and forgotten except as a remorseless monster to the public at large,]] [[OhCrap and the remnants of his old]] [[TheSymbiote "pal"]] [[ByronicHero are floating around in his head telling him]] [[CompleteMonster that he still has one chance at revenge]] [[OhCrap by killing a comatose May Parker or just disappearing off the world with nothing to show for it.]] Or he can just sit in his bed waiting to die [[CompleteMonster with Venom tormenting him until the end of his wasted life.]] [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/3/31005/1080771-last_temptation_9_super.jpg Instead,]] [[TakeAThirdOption he]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled cuts himself trying to remove the remnants of Venom from his blood]] [[CrazyAwesome and it works.]]

* SmallNameBigEgo: If it weren't for the fact that [[TheMaryTylerMooreShow Mr. Ted Baxter]] (the former {{trope namer}}) came first, the trope might as well have been called "The Jonah Jameson".
** [[OlderThanTheyThink He did?]][[hottip:*:''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' premiered in 1970; J. Jonah Jameson first appeared in ''Amazing Spider-Man #1'' in 1963.]]

* {{Determinator}}: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Can_Stop_the_Juggernaut Nothing Can Stop The Juggernaut]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome There's a reason that Scott McCloud, Brian Michael Bendis, and David Michelinie claim this as one of the best stories in the History of Comics, it was also one of the first comics admitted to The Library of Congress, and some of the original art panels sit in The Smithsonian.]]

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