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I hope you don't mind as this is slightly off topic but I wonder why Stan, et al had Peter Parker invent web shooters instead of him being able to produce webs organically? I might be answering my own question, here, but I wonder if it was only just to show he is a genius? 
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I hope you don't mind as this is slightly off topic but I wonder why Stan, et al had Peter Parker invent web shooters instead of him being able to produce webs organically? I might be answering my own question, here, but I wonder if it was only just to show he is a genius? 
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IMO Spider-Man is unique in that his super powers are only half of what makes him a hero, the other half is his brain. He's a hybrid of the Batman no power archetype and the traditional super hero archetype. 
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So, basically, Marvel turned Peter Parker into Tony Stark?

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I hope you don't mind as this is slightly off topic but I wonder why Stan, et al had Peter Parker invent web shooters instead of him being able to produce webs organically? I might be answering my own question, here, but I wonder if it was only just to show he is a genius?

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A whole raft of problems are unleashed by organic webshooters. Steve ( most likely) took a look at how spiders produce webbing, and saw it would not be at all convenient for the development of the character. Too many questions, like where in his body does he store all this fluid? How fast does he produce it? What happens if he runs out? Not to mention why the "shooters" are at the ends of his arms, not where they are on real spiders. (Add to this that spiders do not "shoot" their webbing, they play it out slowly.)

These were questions the Sam Raimi movies "solved" by ignoring them. Movie audiences, after all, tend not to ask such questions. Call a guy "Spider-Man" and have him walk thru walls, and most civilians wont even blink.

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I never saw Peter creating his web shooters as having a well thought out meaning. Web shooters were desired and thus wrote Peter created web shooters. Technology was created as needed without thought to how difficult or impossible it would be to create outside of a comic book reality.
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I guess it was natural that if you gave Marvel long enough they would become DC.  Legacy characters, multiple realities, etc.
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Thank you, Mr Byrne. I find the thought process into creating characters very interesting. To be honest,as a kid, I wouldn't even think to have the problems you mentioned answered, I'd have taken Spider-Man as he is but my adult mind got the better of me.
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These quotes are from two people on two separate projects.

Feige is talking about putting Spider-Man into his Marvel movies.

Slott is talking about his comics.

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JAMES: So, basically, Marvel turned Peter Parker into Tony
Stark?

SER: Yeah, he's unrecognizable from the Lee/Ditko/Romitta
character. I think I've finally accepted that and just
enjoy the (finite) run from the 1960s.

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Mark Haslett asked for context.

Well, to me doesn't matter whether they are talking about two different projects. It was a compare and contrast between two descriptions of Spider-Man.

One, the driving force is that he's a kid with incredible abilities.
The other, that he needs to realise his potential and become Tony Stark.

One sounds about right, the other .....


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"The are -- but I'll bet they don't think they are. Slott, of course, expresses the all too common fannish position the Change Is Good! And a quick review of the last forty years or so shows us how well that has worked out!"

To be fair, Mr. Byrne, didn't a lot of your best runs of Marvel/DC Comics start with a premise of "Change is Good!"

The Hulk and Bruce Banner get separated.

Namor uses the wealths of the oceans to become a major mogul.

Superman's origins from Krypton through Smallville through Metropolis get changed and over hauled.

She-Hulk becomes a break-the-fourth-wall style of comedy book.

And so on...

Reasonable comparisons, right?
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"The are -- but I'll bet they don't think they are. Slott, of course, expresses the all too common fannish position the Change Is Good! And a quick review of the last forty years or so shows us how well that has worked out!"

To be fair, Mr. Byrne, didn't a lot of your best runs of Marvel/DC Comics start with a premise of "Change is Good!"

•• Let's take these one at a time, shall we?

The Hulk and Bruce Banner get separated.

•• And that was intended to be permanent? No.

Namor uses the wealths of the oceans to become a major mogul.

•• Which he'd done before, with Stan and Jack at the helm.

Superman's origins from Krypton through Smallville through Metropolis get changed and over hauled.

•• Which had happened many times before and since, and didn't change the character.

She-Hulk becomes a break-the-fourth-wall style of comedy book.

•• Which didn't change the character.

And so on...

•• Such as?

Reasonable comparisons, right?

•• You seem to think so. There's the problem in a nutshell.

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