"With great power, there must also come great responsibility."
--Spider-Man
The Start Of It All
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Peter Parker was sent to live with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben at the age of six when his parents die in a plane crash overseas. He became a model student, minus the shyness which caused him to be somewhat of an outcast. During an outing to a public exhibition demonstrating the safe handling of radioactive laboratory waste, Peter was bitten by a spider, but not just any spider, no a radio-active
spider which caused a mutation to take place inside young Peter’s DNA coding giving him incredible strength, agility and the ability to cling to walls.
Peter did what any teenager would do and entered a contest to win some cash; all he had to do was stay in the ring with a professional wrestler, which he did thanks to his new powers. A TV producer watches the match and talked Peter into a TV
show with his ‘act’, which makes Spider-Man an immediate super star! However his
glory doesn’t last long. After his TV debut, he failed to stop a robbery because
“That’s not my problem.” He was only in for the fame and fortune not to take the
responsibility that came with these new found powers.
Due to some higher intervention the robber Peter failed to stop ended up murdering
poor old Uncle Ben. After panicking when Ben charged the burglar, trying to get
him to unhand his wife, Ben was mortally wounded and knew that he couldn’t be
saved. The fact that his death could have been postponed by himself, Peter
decided then on to stop all the criminals and make the world safe, and it would
be, until the next issue came out. 34
spider which caused a mutation to take place inside young Peter’s DNA coding giving him incredible strength, agility and the ability to cling to walls.
Peter did what any teenager would do and entered a contest to win some cash; all he had to do was stay in the ring with a professional wrestler, which he did thanks to his new powers. A TV producer watches the match and talked Peter into a TV
show with his ‘act’, which makes Spider-Man an immediate super star! However his
glory doesn’t last long. After his TV debut, he failed to stop a robbery because
“That’s not my problem.” He was only in for the fame and fortune not to take the
responsibility that came with these new found powers.
Due to some higher intervention the robber Peter failed to stop ended up murdering
poor old Uncle Ben. After panicking when Ben charged the burglar, trying to get
him to unhand his wife, Ben was mortally wounded and knew that he couldn’t be
saved. The fact that his death could have been postponed by himself, Peter
decided then on to stop all the criminals and make the world safe, and it would
be, until the next issue came out. 34
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Spider-Man does seem to be a real straight arrow stand up hero. He was a little slow on the start but with some Devine intervention or karma, however the viewers/readers want to interpret the completely avoidable death of Uncle Ben. He doesn’t seem to kill his enemies, more often they kill each other for him. He changed sides in the Civil War story arc, but he went from Iron Man’s side to Captain America’s side, so really he didn’t go to a bad side, just a different political one. Even though if he is taken over by venom he does make up for his betrays and other digressions, so he’s not such a bad guy, keeping in mind when he discovered his powers he was only fifteen. So comparing him to Judas is a tad extreme but the guy did cause someone who had no problems with killing innocent people run right by him, because he didn’t think it was “his problem”, much like Judas selling out Jesus for his own personal gain. 36