h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

oy i object to being refered to as a newbie,the very subject matter showed age had you visited my page links back to may,alright then if peter parker got spider powers it must follow the spider got peter parkers powers ,not that i.ve seen a square web shaped house in my part of the country maybe he could't get planning permission,

Well the spider wasn't bitten by a radioactive student..!

Apologies, Bob.

Well - in the original origin (...groan) the spider dies of radiation poisoning, understandably enough.

In the Ultimate origin it gets stepped on.

Jar Jar has a point about Pete not biting the spider... isn't there a villain called Thousand who tries to replicate the experiment and instead of becoming a guy with spider-powers turns into a thousand spiders with a single collective intelligence?

Y'know I help many other dictators to power in my spare time.

when did he die? are you sure if did not have time to mate before he died ? might he not have perchanced attempted to eat a fly but failed to kill same fly (being weakened by radiation poisoning)

No, it died.

What, so a fly with spider powers would exist?

No, the exact caption in the Spidey origin story is... hang on...

(fetches priceless comic)

'Accidentally absorbing a fantastic amount of radioactivity, the dying insect, in sudden shock, bites the nearest living thing, at the split second before life ebbs from its radioactive body!'

Geez, how many clauses in that sentence? Insect? 'At the split second'? It's only when you have to retype Lee captions you realise how terrible most of them are...

And to think that's what I asked you to do for my writing...

*runs off to check that caption*

Is that Fantastic Amount the same as the Fantastic Four's cosmic rays, d'you think??

I don't know, on the Lee-Kirby scale it seems to run Uncanny-Amazing-Incredible-Mighty-Fantastic, in terms of low to high. So if the spider did get a Fantastic amount, then seeing as Spidey is only Amazing a lot of radioactivity got wasted.

So not a very efficient experiment, then...

I wouldn't have said the X-Men were Uncanny... Incredible maybe... but they're born with it!

Most of the others are part of the Napalm Hall of Fame...

Is Thor mighty?

X men are Uncanny, it's in the title. Amazing must outrank Uncanny cos Amazing Spiderman walked through the Uncanny X men without even sweating at one point in Secret Wars.

Thor is indeed Mighty, and I'd suspect he's a bit more powerful than the Incredible Hulk. But obviously not a match for the Fantastic Four, who are the MU's premier bad-asses.

Can't help sniggering at the crappy Wasp...


So what's the bad guy rating?

Diabolical, Deadly, Devious?

Iron-Man?
Silver Surfer?

Yeah, well, that's where it gets tricky, cos the villains don't get their own books. Iron Man is, I think, indestructible, but in any case I'd put him between Uncanny and Amazing on the K-L scale. Silver Surfer is capable of fighting off big hitters like Hulk and beat Green Lantern outright when at full power, so he's at least Mighty, shading inot the lower reaches of Fantastic.

(God, I sound like a TSR sourcebook...)

What was the Silver Surfer doing with that DC scumbag?

Well are the Four Fantastic alone, or as a group.

The Avengers as a package come as Mighty.

Oops, forget Daredevil, Elecktra and Punisher!

see post 107 so if peter parker was being fed upon by headlice/fleas perchance need i say more

DC scumbag?

Hmmm.

Daredevil, Punisher and that crowd probably tip the scales at about Uncanny - Punisher's last ruck with Wolverine looked pretty evenly matched until the fight was stopped (admittedly because Wolverine had been soaked in petrol and was about to be set on fire).

Green Latern = DC scumbag!

Green Latern = typo.

Green Lantern = one of the greatest, most innovative superhero comics of all time, and the first mainstream comic to even attempt to reflect moral and social complexity.

DC *invented* superheroes. Without DC there wouldn't *be* Marvel comics. You can't go around calling them scumbags.