History VideoGame / UltimateSpiderMan

* LifeDrain: Rather than outright eat people like he does in the comics, Venom simply swallows them and then spits them back out.

* DuelingPlayerCharacters: Spider-Man has to go up against Venom at several points in the game.

* ProductPlacement: Multiple billboards featuring the Nokia 3230 cellphone can be found in the game, as well as two Nokia buildings. Also, guess which brand of cellphones uses Adrian Toomes.

%%* HilariousInHindsight: In ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions]]'', Ultimate Spider-Man (who is bonded with the symbiote) has his normal outfit as an unlockable. And again, with no gameplay differences whatsoever.

* InfantImmortality: Averted in a TakeThat towards the children who kept losing their balloons in the ''Spider-Man 2'' tie-in game, in the form of a little boy with a balloon... who gets nommed on by Venom.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the Ultimate comics, Venom barely was originally barely a character at all, just a blob that was always hungry and which Eddie couldn't exactly control; here even without control Venom seems to maintain some intelligence, and Eddie learns how to control it. When the comic finally adapted the game's storyline, Eddie-as-Venom ''did'' get more development and gained additional control over the Venom Suit... but was captured by the Beetle and never seen again.

** "I'm so scared I can't even finish my lame joke", says Spider-Man after seeing how big R.H.I.N.O is.

* WindowPain: Venom's first boss fight is triggered when he throws a motorcycle through the front window of a pub. Said motorcycle belonged to Wolverine of the X-Men, who is understandably pissed off.
--> '''Logan:''' "That's my bike you smashed this place up with!"

--> '''Venom''': I have absolute...''total... '''CONTROL!'''''

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Venom feels that only he should be allowed to defeat Spider-Man.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Unless you buy the special edition, you never learn what Beetle was doing attacking Spider-Man and Venom and what happens to him is never explained. [[spoiler:He was collecting samples of superpowered beings for Doctor Doom.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Peter Parker, the quintessential teenage nerd with superpowers. [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Sean Marquette has some experience voicing socially awkward guys who are pretty cute]].

* [[invoked]]TakeThatScrappy: In the video game, Venom's tutorial presents you with your first task of absorbing people so that you don't lose health, your first target? A child holding a balloon. In ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'', everyone ''hated'' the missions of helping kids who constantly lose their balloons.

'''''Ultimate Spider-Man''''' is a 2005 video game that is based on the comic ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''.

* TheCameo: Venom's first boss is Wolverine from the X-Men.
** In fact, there are cameos from all three of the other Ultimate series (at the time the game was made that is): Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four, who you can race against, and Nick Fury from the Ultimates.
* CanonDiscontinuity: It's the other way around. The videogame synced very well with the comic at the time it was released. However, scheduling issues pushed the comic's adaptation further out so that the game's storyline finally was adapted into "War of the Symbiotes", it had to be in BroadStrokes to account for all the other story elements that were already in play.

* IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon: Blow up a car as Venom and it triggers a mini game wherein a HammerspacePoliceForce comes after you. [[WantedMeter Rack up enough points]], and {{SWAT Team}}s start coming. Rack up enough points and SHIELD shows up with {{Flying Mook}}s and lasers.

* OhCrap: "I'm so scared I can't even finish my lame joke", says Spider-Man after seeing how big R.H.I.N.O is.
** Don't forget the final battle where he goes, "You again?!" on Silver Sable just before she says that she's not gonna attack him.

** Venom gains more health from civilians than he does from criminals or cops. He can also brutally kill enemies by slamming them face-first into the ground or snapping their spines like twigs.

* AmusingInjuries: Some of Spider-Man's quips lend to this. "Don't worry, nothing's broken except my spine... and ribs... and everything." is one such example, wherein he's thrown upside-down into a wall by R.H.I.N.O and peels off it like a cartoon character.

-->"Press the jump button, then press it again and I can jump in midair! [[LampshadeHanging Sure it breaks the laws of physics, but so does everything else I do.]]"

* RegretEatingMe: Whenever Venom tries to eat a boss, [[ContractualBossImmunity they invoke this on him]]. He probably shouldn't try to consume anyone made of indestructible blades, anyone made of electricity, anyone who instinctively fires machine guns, or anyone formed of a chaotic spiky symbiote.

%%* DeadpanSnarker

* AmusingInjuries: Some of Spider-Man's quips lend to this. "Don't worry, nothing's broken except my spine... and ribs... and everything."

* AntiVillain: SilverSable.

* OhCrap: "I'm so scared I can't even finish my lame joke", says Spider-Man after seeing how big Rhino is.

* RubberMan: One of Venom's stretch attack has him elongate his arm to slash opponents at a distance.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the Ultimate comics, Venom barely was originally barely a character at all, just a blob that was always hungry and Eddie can't exactly control it; here even without control Venom seems to maintain some intelligence, and Eddie learns how to control it. When the comic finally adapted the game's storyline, Eddie-as-Venom ''did'' get more development and gained additional control over the Venom Suit... but was captured by the Beetle and never seen again.

** Venom gains more health from civilians than he does from criminals or cops. He can also brutally kill enemies by slamming them face-first into the ground or snapping their spines

* WantedMeter: In Venom's minigame, the amount of points you accumulate serves as a wanted meter, with SWAT, helicopters, and eventually SHIELD showing up in waves to take you down.

* HilariousInHindsight: In ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions]]'', Ultimate Spider-Man (who is bonded with the symbiote) has his normal outfit as an unlockable. And again, with no gameplay differences whatsoever.

* {{Adorkable}}: Peter Parker, again. [[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Sean Marquette has some experience voicing socially awkward guys who are pretty cute]].

* AmusingInjuries: "Don't worry, nothing's broken except my spine... and ribs... and everything."
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: 100% completion required to play as Spider-Man in the symbiote suit. With no gameplay differences whatsoever.
** HilariousInHindsight: In ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions]]'', Ultimate Spider-Man (who is bonded with the symbiote) has his normal outfit as an unlockable. And again, with no gameplay differences whatsoever.

* BerserkButton: "That's my bike you smashed this place up with!"

* TheCameo: Venom's first boss is [[spoiler: Wolverine.]]

* CanonDiscontinuity: It's the other way around. The videogame synced very well with the comic at the time it was released. However, scheduling issues pushed the comic adaptation further out. When the game's storyline finally was adapted, it had to be in BroadStrokes to account for all the other story elements that were already in play.
* CarFu: Venom's weapon of choice. Great against helicopters.

* ContractualBossImmunity[=/=]RegretEatingMe: Venom probably shouldn't try to consume anyone made of indestructible blades, anyone made of electricity, anyone who instinctively fires machine guns, or anyone formed of a chaotic spiky symbiote.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Bolivar Trask

* DeadpanSnarker

* DoubleJump: Only Spider-Man.

* GetBackHereBoss: Oh man.

* InfantImmortality: Averted in a TakeThat towards the children who kept losing their balloons in the ''Spider-Man 2'' tie-in game.

* MythologyGag: "Madame Web is faster than you, [[LampshadeHanging and I don't even get the reference!]]"

* PunchClockVillain: Silver Sable.
* RubberMan: Venom's stretch attack.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Venom, the character itself, in the Ultimate comics he barely is a character at all, just a blob which is always hungry and Eddie can't exactly control it; here even without control Venom seems to maintain some intelligence, and Eddie learns how to control it, by the end of the game Venom seems to become much more harmless and lives on, unlike the comics version.
** In the comics, even in the story arc this game continues, Venom is not a blob and can even talk like a normal person.

* VampiricDraining: How Venom and Carnage regain health.
** Carnage actually doesn't. He can heal himself perfectly fine.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Venom gains more health from civilians than he does from criminals.

* WideOpenSandbox
* WouldHitAGirl: Spidey and Venom's boss fights with Silver Sable.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The comic adapted the game but ignored all the storylines made for it.
** It's the other way around. The videogame synced very well with the comic at the time it was released. However, scheduling issues pushed the comic adaptation further out. When it finally was adapted from the game, it had to be in BroadStrokes to account for all the other story elements that were already in play.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There were apparently plans to give cameos to TheUltimates, as revealed in the game's storyboards.
** Nick Fury shows up, at the very least.