History YMMV / SpiderManManga

* {{Wangst}}: Yu Komori spends less time doing Spider-Man stuff than he does angsting about how the power's too much for him and how his life sucks. It gets so bad he actually lets people ''die'' due to his inaction when he's busy angsting.

** Mitsuo from Issues 25-30, who starts off as a scummy violent misogynist who steals cars off his girlfriends and won’t hesitate to mock their looks and beat them, before becoming a murder and a crook after a blood transfusion from Yu gives him Spider-Man’s powers. Along with pushing his sister into prostitution to pay for his high school tuition while he joined the yakuza, he also graphically assaults several security guards, including gouging one’s eyes out with a wooden pole and killing another. His acts of violence and hedonism drive his sister to insanity, destroying the budding romance she had with Yu and he’s only stopped when the blood transfusion wears off, deforming him and sending him falling to his death off a building.
** The Mad Demon, a crazed psychopath who uses his heavily modified car to run down and murder innocent people, purely because he finds it fun. His body count continues to pile up and yet he still somehow manages to rally support from the citizens who see him as a vigilante cleaning up the streets from dangerous drivers. Notable in that his rampage manages to kill Yu’s girlfriend Rumiko, traumatising him so badly that when the two are finally face to face, all he can do is weep with rage, leaving the Mad Demon to be picked off by sniper fire.
** Miss Miwa, the attractive young teacher who is actually a witch, falls squarely in here. Using her hypnosis powers to destroy any one that slights her (which includes every girl at the school), her reign of terror includes causing a massive pile up of students at a stairwell which injuries many, putting every man (and pigeon) in the area under a curse that makes them all violently loyal to her and aggressively sexually charged (which includes making Yu’s friend Araki attempt to rape his own sister) and turning people into bloodhounds to kill her enemies. Her reign over the school drives everyone to madness and mass fights, murders and gang rapes break out as the staff assault the students and the students assault the staff. The campus quickly turns into a battle zone, erupting into a turf war between the second and third years which spirals into a city wide riot between the students and the police. While she excused her actions as reflecting the darkness in the heart’s of man, her terrifying powers drive the city into anarchy, only stopping when she’s shot in the head by riot patrol

** The Mad Demon, a crazed psychopath who uses his heavily modified car to run down and murder innocent people, purely because he finds it fun. His body count continues to pile up and yet he still somehow manages to rally support from the citizens who see him as a vigilante cleaning up the streets from dangerous drivers. Notable in that his rampage manages to kill Yu’s girlfriend Rumiko, traumatising him so badly that when the two are finally face to face, all he can do is weep with rage, leaving the Mad Demon to be picked off by Sniper Fire.

** Spider-Man J version of Uncle May, Mami Amano, has a lot in common with the [[Creator/MarisaTomei Aunt May version]] from ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', especially being younger than most of the adaptations of this character.

* HilariousInHindsight: Yu Komori. Does it sound [[VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers familiar?]]

** ''Spider-Man: The Manga'' (1970-1971, illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami): [[ArcVillain Kangaroo]], from issues 7-9, is a bloodthirsty, brutish American wrestler with super strength that he abuses with [[{{Sadist}} absolute glee]]. After being blacklisted by his home country's wrestling association for the way he'd [[UnnecessaryRoughness horrifically brutalize his opponents]], Kangaroo travels to Japan to extend his special brand of cruelty to the locals. Landing on Spider-Man's radar by brutalizing four Japanese wrestlers, Kangaroo proceeds to cause chaos all over the city by assaulting people, stealing, and inciting panic among the masses. After stealing a canister of highly lethal bacteria with the power to kill thousands of innocent people should it go airborne, Kangaroo uses it as a shield to gain an edge over Spider-Man in combat. Once bested by Spidey, a smug Kangaroo decides to fling the canister to the ground which, had it not been for Spider-Man's intervention, would have condemned thousands to die, purely out of rage and spite towards the masses for hating him. Despite appearing before the comic's infamous DarkerAndEdgier tone shift, Kangaroo stands out as being among the most heinous foes that this incarnation of Spider-Man has fought, even causing Spidey to temporarily quit crime-fighting out of fear of becoming as bad as Kangaroo.

* HilariousInHindsight: Yu Komori. Does it sound [[VisualNovel/DiabolikLovers familiar?]]

** ''Spider-Man J'' (2004-2005; by Yamanaka Akira): [[StarterVillain General Wasperus]] is the vicious, arrogant [[TheHeavy second-in-command]] of the mysterious [[OrcusOnHisThrone Lord Beastius's forces]]. Tasked with enslaving millions of Tokyo's citizens, Wasperus uses creations of his own, called Stealth Bees, which latch on to their hosts and turn them into prisoners of their own mind, [[AndIMustScream aware and helpless]] while Wasperus is free to use them as soldiers and as slaves to carry out his bidding. He demonstrates this on Detective Flynn, a friend of Spider-Man's who he forces to fight to the death, smugly mocking Spider-Man about his predicament while stating that he picked this method of fighting Spider-Man solely [[KickTheDog for the sake of the look on his face when forced to kill a close ally]]. When Spidey hesitates to hurt Flynn, a bored Wasperus tries to butcher Spider-Man's young friends Harold and Jean-Marie before threatening to hurt other innocent civilians as well. After freeing Flynn from Wasperus's control and chasing him to his lair, the general fights the heroes himself and states that he intends to keep Spidey alive just long enough to live with the guilt of not saving millions of innocents from enslavement before squashing him like a bug. A [[VileVillainSaccharineShow dark, serious foe in an otherwise-lighthearted and funny comic]], Wasperus proves to be this continuity's [[KnightOfCerebus nastiest villain]] by far.

* HilariousInHindsight: Yu Komori. Does it sound [[VisualNovel/''DiabolikLovers'']] familiar?

** ''Spider-Man J'' (2004-2005; by Yamanaka Akira): [[StarterVillain General Wasperus]] is the vicious, arrogant [[TheHeavy second-in-command]] of the mysterious [[OrcusOnHisThrone Lord Beastius's forces]]. Tasked with enslaving millions of Tokyo's citizens, Wasperus uses creations of his own, called Stealth Bees, which latch on to their hosts and turn them into prisoners of their own mind, [[AndIMustScream aware and helpless]] while Wasperus is free to use them as soldiers and as slaves to carry out his bidding. He demonstrates this on Detective Flynn, a friend of Spider-Man's who he forces to fight to the death, smugly mocking Spider-Man about his predicament while stating that he picked this method of fighting Spider-Man solely [[KickTheDog for the sake of the look on his face when forced to kill a close ally]]. When Spidey hesitates to hurt Flynn, a bored Wasperus tries to butcher Spider-Man's young friends Harold and Jean-Marie before threatening to hurt other innocent civilians as well. After freeing Flynn from Wasperus's control and chasing him to his lair, the general fights the heroes himself and states that he intends to keep Spidey alive just long enough to live with the guilt of not saving millions of innocents from enslavement before squashing him like a bug. A [[VileVillainSaccharineShow dark, serious foe in an otherwise-lighthearted and funny comic]], Wasperus proves to be this continuity's [[KnightOfCerebus nastiest villain]] by far.