Memes / Spider-Man

This became an Ascended Meme in Into the Spider-Verse.

I don't need tropes, I need memes! Memes of Spider-Man!

Luckily, Spider-Man is one of Marvel's most mighty makers of memorable memes, true believers!

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General

• "Bitten by a radioactive spider" is the iconic Freak Lab Accident, (rivalled only by "fell into a vat of X".) exploitable for whatever transformation or attributes someone "bitten by a radioactive [relevant thing]" could describe.
• Bitches Love Spider-Man.
• J. Jonah. Jameson:
  • "I don't need [x], I need pictures — pictures of Spider-Man!"
    • Even parodied on The Simpsons, where the Jameson Captain Ersatz is the editor of a poetry magazine. When reminded of this, he demands Petrarchan sonnets about Spider-Man. Even voiced by J. K. Simmons himself.
  • "Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?"
• In all honesty, Spider-Man really doesn't have many memorable me-OH, WILL YOU SHUT UP!◊
• And here's another meme, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
• "Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a Spider can..."^Explanation Lyrics from the 1967 cartoon theme.
  • "SPIDER-MAN! SPIDER-MAN! RADIO-ACTIVE SPIDER-MAN!..."^Explanation Lyrics from the 1990s theme, which is a metal update of the 1967 theme, right down to the repeated mention of "radioactive [spider] blood".
• "*THWIP!*"
• "One for J.J.!"
• How Do I Shot Web? (Granted, the phrase originated completely independently of Spidey. The image meme is of him because it's funnier that way.)
• 60s Spider-Man^Explanation A Spider-Man cartoon from the 60s with tons of exploitable moments due to poor animation + captions = hilarious image macros.
  • 60s Spider-Man is actually Deadpool.^Explanation The series is so bizarre that many have joked it was a Deadpool cartoon before the Merc with a Mouth was even a concept.
  • Me and the Boys^Explanation A shot from 60s Spider-Man show of Electro, Green Goblin, and the Vulture grinning in the show's typical Off-Model fashion, plus the photoshopped insertion of Rhino doing the same thing next to them, became a byword for odd, childish, heartwarming male friendship.
• Ever since he sold his loving supermodel wife to Satan in exchange for saving her, it's become something of a dark joke in the fandom that Peter is actually in love with his elderly Aunt May.
• "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"^Explanation Mary Jane knows she's a catch.
• Kaine wants to be hardcore but Houston won't let him.
  • Kaine wants to be hardcore but [Insert Current Situation] won't let him.
  • Kaine can talk to spiders.
  • The scene of Kaine web-swinging before running out of buildings, causing him to slam onto a roof. HOUSTON.
• A general meme at conventions is for a Spider-Man cosplayer to dance across the convention floor with every other cosplayer of any variant of Spider-Man to drop what they’re and immediately join in for a long train of dancing Spider-People with footage posted online to the tune of “Take on Me” by A-ha.
• Spiderman Ass Slap^{Explanation (NSFW)} Clips from a gay porn video titled "Spider Sex" involving two men dressed as Spiderman engaging in Kinky Spanking with each other, used in vines by superimposing said clips over music.
• You're too late Spider-Man!^Explanation In 2019, tumblr user koobaxion posted a picture of a Green Goblin action figure, titled "you're too late spiderman!" and captioned "WEED HAS BEEN LEGALIZED. NYEHAHEHEHAHHEHEAHHHHAH", which helloitsbees reblogged with the addition of "BUT YOU'RE THE ONE GETTING SMOKED GOBBY!" and a pictured of the Spider-Man from Spider-Man (Japan) using a machine gun. Luke Correia dubbed the post on YouTube and from there gained a memetic status, being recreated using game sprites, drawn cartoons and LEGO minifigures.
• The Spider-Man Who Laughs/The Spider-Man Who Gobbles ^Explanation  The 2023 Amazing Spider-Man run has the web slinger suffering a Face–Heel Turn as a result of being possessed by the disembodied spirit of the Green Goblin (previously exorcised from a reformed Norman Osborn)and consequently wreaking havoc with the Goblin’s arsenal. Que comparisons to Dark Nights: Metal, featuring its own Composite Character of superhero and supervillain with Batman and Joker. Bonus points for Green Goblin often sharing more than a few characteristics with the Clown Prince of Crime.
• Paul-posting ^Explanation Paul, a One-dimensional Satellite Love Interest for Mary Jane, managed to gain an ironic fandom who sarcastically praise him as the best character in the comic despite having little-to-no genuine fans. Whenever a new issue is released, discussion forms such as /co/ are quick to ask about Paul's involvement..

Raimi's Spider-Man

• Has its own page.

Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man

• One of Spidey's lines against a car thief when he pulls a knife out - "You found my weakness, it's small knives!"
• Chocolate milk killed Uncle Ben.^Explanation In this continuity, the robber Spider-Man could have stopped who killed Uncle Ben was robbing a convenience store Peter was trying to buy chocolate milk from. He even threw Peter the milk on his way out.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

• Electro, Lord of Dubstep!^Explanation Electro's leitmotif contains a lot of dubstep type music
• Denis Leary is always watching. Always.^Explanation Multiple appearances by Captain Stacy, whom Peter is imagining is just sitting/standing around watching Peter.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

• Putting pictures of Marisa Tomei side by side with either Aunt May from the comics, or Rosemary Harris or Sally Field in the role. Typically the effect is exaggerated by using a picture from the height of Tomei's career (and hence how some people still tend to picture her) in the '90s, rather than a more recent one, or straight up using a picture of her from The Wrestler, in which Tomei played a stripper.
• It's not uncommon to find photos of Spider-Man with his head Photoshopped into a prom photo, since the movie's title is named after a festive high school event.
• Soon after Civil War, Marvel started to announce the cast for the film, with new actors being added at a daily rate, and nearly every single one of them getting a special announcement. This led to some fans sardonically saying that "I, too, am part of the cast of Spider-Man: Homecoming."
• "Wait a minute... You guys aren't the real Avengers!" ^note Spidey sarcastically calling out a bunch of bank robbers wearing Avengers masks, with the shot of the robbers often being replaced with a picture of another superhero team.
  • From the trailer, there are fanmade edits or fanart related with at least with these two exchanges:
  • During the exchange "I was just trying to be like you." "I wanted you to be better!" between Peter and Tony, Tony is usually replaced with Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man, or both.
  • Following Tom Holland's performance on Lip Sync Battle, those lines are now often accompanied with images of Holland's appearance on said show and RDJ's Sherlock Holmes dressing up like an old woman.
  • During the scene where Peter and his classmates watch Captain America's fitness video, which then Peter told Ned "I stole his shield.", Cap is usually replaced with a picture of Tobey Maguire's Peter or Andrew Garfield's Peter crying (the former during Uncle Ben's death, the latter during Gwen Stacy's death), which then Tom Holland's Peter told Ned "I stole his job." And after the trailer of Thor: Ragnarok came out, Peter himself was replaced with Thor shouting "We know each other! He's a friend from work!"
• As soon as the official poster for the movie was shown, people immediately began to mock it endlessly—be it fan editing it with more characters or making comments on it.
• Captain America and patience.^note The Stinger has Cap openly telling the audience that sometimes patience will ultimately lead to disappointment. In other words, you just sat through several minutes of credits just so Captain America and, by extension Marvel, can make fun of you for it. The mutation nears levels of "I understood that reference" and "Language!"
• "But I'm nothing without [X]!" "If you're nothing without [X], then you shouldn't have it." ^note Fans have taken to repurposing this exchange and changing [X] to something else
• "So. You got detention."^Explanation This line comes from one of Captain America's PSAs. Fans tend to replace the "You got detention" line with another condescending statement, accompanied by an image of Cap sitting backwards in a chair.
• "Don't make me come down there, you punk!"^Explanation In the wake of Stan Lee's death, this line from his cameo got some mileage. Mostly portraying Stan as being Defiant to the End and threatening to come back if anything goes wrong with Marvel.
• Joking about absolutely any character in a superhero movie being played by Zendaya.
• "So [X] is Uncle Ben?"^Explanation As Aunt May's late husband has yet to be seen in this continuity, fans will cast one of Marisa Tomei's male co-stars from other films as Uncle Ben, even those who already have roles in the MCU, such as Robert Downey Jr.
• I'm stuff^Explanation A four-panel image of Peter, Michelle and Stark◊ that quickly became lambasted by the Internet, especially the panel where Michelle calls herself "stuff". The line became more associated with this stock image of Robert Downey Jr.

Spider-Man: Far From Home

• The movie's mere title cause fans to joke that MCU Spider-Man's solo movies have specific Theme Naming related to the word "home" and the next movie title will be something like Spider-Man: Home Alone.
  • #BringSpiderManHome^note The hashtag that popped up while the Sony/Marvel Spider Man rights dispute was happening in hopes that agreements could be reached for Spider Man to be included in the MCU again (they were), which also fits the “home” title themed naming for MCU’s Spider Man films.
• Given Spider-Man's now-memetic demise in Avengers: Infinity War, fans have joked that the film focuses on Spider-Man as a mound of dust on Titan for more than two hours. (Hey, that is pretty far from home!) Slightly less morbidly, others have similarly suggested it will center on Spider-Man’s adventures in the afterlife.
• The image of Tom Holland "accidentally" revealing the film's title has become photoshop bait.
• "Dead for five years? Have fun in Europe!" ^note After Avengers: Endgame revealed that victims of the Decimation were gone for five years before being revived, some fans find it funny that Aunt May would immediately let Peter go on a field trip to another country. (Although in the movie eight months have passed since Endgame so it's not immediate, and May reveals that she was Snapped so she didn’t have to live with Peter dead for five years.)
• The second official trailer gives two more:
  • Tom Holland actually warning about Avengers: Endgame spoilers and telling people who haven't watched it to go see it now before the trailer starts.
  • Spider-Man asking about the availability of the other superheroes. With only Thor and Captain Marvel hand waved out, fans were quick to answer for the other heroes and/or fill in a nonsensical third answer.
• It's become a common joke among fans, especially on Tumblr, to refer to Mysterio by the name of his actor 'Jake Gyllenhaal' while calling all other characters by their names. The joke being that Gyllenhaal is not playing a character and is indeed capable of all of the magical feats Mysterio has showcased so far.^note Since all of Mysterio's feats boil down to "actor in a mocap suit," they're not entirely wrong.
• The official posters (by Sony) for the movie have been lambasted for being incredibly boring and poorly designed, especially in comparison to the teaser poster and, really, any other MCU poster. Plenty fans have taken it upon themselves to make even worse posters to mock this. Said fanmade posters usually include a dis towards Ned as well, referencing Jacob Batalon not being credited in any of the official promotional material.
  • Taken to the next level when Samuel L. Jackson went on Instagram to criticize one of his posters with Fury's eyepatch covering the wrong eye.
    "The Actual FUCK IS GOING ON HERE???!!! #headsgonroll #lefteyemuthafukkah"
• Marvel finally figured out how to stop Tom from spoiling anything—make him babysit Jake Gyllenhaal. As seen here.
• "Everywhere I go, I see his face."^note This is the statement that Peter Parker says regarding the legacy of Iron Man. However, in a meta-twist it's also a jab by fans as to how in the following 2 months after the premiere of Avengers: Endgame, Youtube's algorithm constantly bombarded their recommendations list with videos that feature Iron Man while having the trailer is being constantly spammed as an advertisement.
• Peter Parker smiling.^{Explanation (spoilers)} A very out of context and seemingly innocuous picture of Peter Parker with a happy grin has made waves around social media, being described as an extremely frightening and stressful moment without any explanation given. This is because this is a photo of Peter that comes right after Mysterio reveals his identity as Spider-Man to the world at large.
• Spider-Man explaining to Zendaya^Explanation A behind-the-scene photo Jon Watts took happened to have Zendaya noticing and giving a disapproving look into the camera. This ballooned into a labeling meme where the suited-up Tom Holland is someone explaining or doing something while Zendaya looks into the camera like she's on The Office in reaction to what Tom is labeled as doing.
• Now that is an Avengers-level threat!^{Explanation (spoilers)} During the climax of the film, Mysterio uses the Edith drones to simulate a combination of the four Elementals to "defeat" (as he's attempting to win public faith by a big, badass threat), saying this line as he does so. People have taken this line and a still of the scene it's from, and have used it to respond to anything, threatening or not.
• Peter’s “WHAT THE F—-!” panicked reaction ^note from the mid-credits scene when his identity gets revealed. Used in response to any Spider-Man or Marvel news one deems shocking but got a bigger surge when the news about Sony/Marvel and the future of his film series being put in jeopardy came out.
  • This is actually the second time a ''Spiderman'' film ended with a Parker shouting What the F-. The first was Aunt May in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • Mysterio exposed Spider-Man so hard he had to leave the MCU. ^note In light of the Sony/Marvel fallout regarding Spider-Man heavily leaning in Sony's favour in the weeks after the news came out, a lot of jokes came out saying that the exposure worked a little too well and effectively ran Spider-Man out of the MCU altogether.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Now has its own meme page here.

Spider-Man: Spider-Verse

Now has its own meme page here.