History SelfDemonstrating / SpiderMan

Of course, yours truly has appeared in more than just movies and TV shows. Aside from the merch and the so-so popsicle, I've had several video games. Some you might know are the [[VideoGame/SpiderManAtari2600 Atari adventure]], [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2000 that low-poly escapade]], those two [[VideoGame/SpiderManTheMovie movie]] [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2 tie-ins]], and that time [[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 some Insomniacs took the wheel]]-- last one might just be the best of the bunch, by the way. Hear there's [[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 more from that 'verse coming soon]]. I've also had several games where I've teamed up with heroes like Cap, Wolvie, and others like ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'', ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes'', and so on.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Apart from right now, I do this at times though not to the extend of my "enemy"[[note]]'''Deadpool''': Hey Spidey! I'm your friend![[/note]]

* WillfullyWeak: I gotta hold back quite a bit in fights for the sake of leaving the more human criminals I fight looking, well, '''human''' afterward. Otto Octavius actually got a heaping helping of my true strength while taxiing my body around ([[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013 long story]]); met up with Scorpion one time, punched his jaw '''clean off.''' Again, not kidding about livin' up to that "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" title.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Friendly as I am - and rest assured, I will not under any circumstance kill another person, no matter how much I might want to - I do still have SuperStrength, and I '''will''' make my opponent '''really''' hurt if I have to.

* WillfullyWeak: I gotta hold back quite a bit in fights for the sake of leaving the more human criminals I fight looking, well, '''human''' afterward. Otto Octavius actually got a heaping helping of my true strength while taxiing my body around ([[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013 long story]]); met up with Scorpion one time, punched his jaw '''clean off.'''

* WillfullyWeak: I gotta hold back quite a bit in fights for the sake of leaving the more human criminals I fight looking, well, '''human''' afterward. Otto Octavius actually got a heaping helping of my true strength while taxiing my body around (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013 long story); met up with Scorpion one time, punched his jaw '''clean off.'''

* GoodIsNotSoft: Friendly as I am, and I will not under any circumstance kill another person, no matter how much I might want to, I also won't hold back in a fight, which given I have SuperStrength means I can make my opponent really hurt.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Did I mention how hot my wife is?
-->'''[[GiveGeeksAChance MJ]]''': Right back at ya, [[SignatureLine Tiger!]]

And with great responsibility, surprisingly, comes more spider-people showing up, most notably my good pal and occasional successor [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales Miles Morales]], but there's also [[ComicBook/{{Silk}} Cindy Moon]] and even [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen an alternate version of Gwen Stacy]] among them, too. I also got cloned a few times, [[DiscontinuityNod but I'd rather not discuss it.]] Especially not in detail.

* AffirmativeActionLegacy: [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales Miles]] has an African-American dad and a Latina mom, and in a few scant universes where it's lights out for me, he usually comes around to take up the mantle. In some other cases, we share the role of Spider-Man.

** In my Ultimate Universe, a boy named [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spidey after it was believed I was dead. Apparently I wasn't. But after coming back, and seeing that Miles was a good kid, and was doing a good job in the super hero department, I decided to let him officially take over the mantle, so MJ and I could try and live a normal life.

* ChippendalesDancers: Hey, what can I say. My wife is super-model level hot, and I wanted to show off for her. So I dressed down, to show off the muscles. How was I supposed to know Mary Jane was bringing a friend home!?! Thankfully, her friend thought I was handsome enough to pull it off. Still mortifying though.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: I created a spiderweb-like adhesive that would make [=3M=] jealous (aside from continuites where my body produces it), yet I can't make money or such with it.

*** And it looks like [[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 things are about to get rough again]]. So far, he's found the symbiote, Connors ends up the Lizard again with Kraven on his tail, but only Connors can help [[spoiler: save Harry]], and Venom, of course, isn't too far behind. Apparently it's not Eddie this time, either. 'Gonna have to wait to see how all this plays out...

* CloningBlues: Um, I'd rather not talk about [[Comicbook/TheCloneSaga it]] (in one cartoon I even mentioned how I hate clones). And two of copies have stuck, pun not intended, Ben Reilly and Kaine.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: I believe Static Shock from Franchise/DCComics is this to me.
* AmicableExes: Given the circumstances of why we broke up, [[note]]the whole selling our marriage to Mephisto to save Aunt May[[/note]] doesn't mean we stopped having feelings for each other, MJ and I are still incredibly close friends, and I will always look upon her as the love of my life, with her returning the sentiment. So much so, many people wonder why we aren't still together. In recent times however, its not so amicable, as apparently I did [[NoodleIncident something really bad]], and everyone agrees, particularly her new boyfriend, she was well within her right to leave me.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: If you didn't know already, I'm themed after a spider.
* ArchEnemy: I've got a few that could qualify. Doctor Octopus/Otto Octavius definitely would like to think of himself as this, while Venom/Eddie Brock was a contender before we patched things up. But without a doubt the one man I've ever, truly hated with every fiber of my being is Norman Osborn, aka. The Green Goblin. He killed Gwen,[[note]][[ILetGwenStacyDie or put her in the situation that led to her death]][[/note]], I will never forgive him for that. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Jameson's got nothing on any of these guys.]]
* ArcWords: "With great power, there must also come great responsibility." I'll always remember that, Uncle Ben.
* BadassAdorable: MJ has called me cute a lot and I can go toe-to-toe with some of the biggest heavy-hitters in the Marvel Universe, so I guess I qualify.
* BadassBookworm: You might look at me as Peter Parker and think I'm just some science dweeb (which I kinda am) but that "science dweeb" has made his own web-shooters, has an extensive knowledge of biology and other scientific fields and can kick your butt faster than you can say "Pizza Time".
* BerserkButton: [[TheLostLenore Now that she's gone]], anything that sullies my view of Gwen usually sets me off. Not even MJ is spared of this, as I briefly went off on her learning she had kept a ''giant'' secret Gwen entrusted to her [[note]]Gwen was pregnant when she left for Europe that one time, no the baby, or should I say babies, weren't mine, [[ComicBook/SinisterWar and what really happened is a long story]].[[/note]] years after she had died and we were married. In MJ's defense, she pointed out that I wasn't the only one who lost Gwen, and she was just keeping her word to honor her late friend, as well as attempting to preserve my memories of Gwen.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Look, I actively try to be, and usually am, a kind-hearted, easy going guy, but come after my family, in particular Mary Jane or Aunt May, or one of my friends, and I can get pretty nasty. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh yeah, not even if]] [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg it's J.J]] [[HonorBeforeReason you're trying to hurt.]] And don't ''ever'' besmirch [[TheLostLenore Gwen's]] good name in front of me either.
* BigBrotherMentor: Once I got a little older, I started becoming this to many of the other teen heroes who came after me. I've been in their shoes, so I know what a lot of them are facing.
* BloodKnight: Um, yeah. While I'm not as blatant about it as some, I will admit that I can find fighting crooks to be kinda fun and a bit of a stress reliever. I do try to keep this side of me in control though so I don't go off the deep end.
* BodyHorror: I've had some really bad experiences with this:
** At one point, I was so fed up with the problems I had juggling my superhero and civilian lives that I created a serum I thought would get rid of my spider-powers. I was really having an off-day when I created the serum, since it made me grow four extra arms instead.
** I've been turned into a "man-spider" multiple times, both in the comics and in the 1990s cartoon. I still shudder to think about it.
** And then there was the time that I got turned into a lizard-man hybrid after confronting the Iguana, a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to the Lizard. I was just lucky-really, ''really'' lucky-that Dr. Curt Connors managed to cure me.