Spidey was a science nerd - plus, with his set of powers, you need to be able to figure out how they can actually be used in each situation - shooting webs out of one's hands or wrists doesn't apply to as many situations as just being impermeable to bullets and the like.
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Madrigal Costello - Mar 04, 2004 11:48:43 am PST #4048 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2004 11:53:27 am PST #4049 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Spidey was a science nerd
In high school. Who wasn't?
[rhetorical, please don't answer]
Mr. Fantastic -- that's a brainiac. Batman, all sorts of mad skills.
But there are tons of heroes and villains who don't possess a fraction of Superman's skills and get along just fine with a mostly average IQ.
Admittedly, he did create the web serum himself. As I said, my biases.
Superman, apparently, is canonically bright.
Steph L. - Mar 04, 2004 11:54:40 am PST #4050 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Admittedly, he did create the web serum himself.
Not in the movie. Grumblegrumble. t /Spidey purist
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2004 11:56:30 am PST #4051 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not in the movie.
Remind me -- how did that go? And did you see they're in talks for Spidey 3? I want my X3, dammit.
erikaj - Mar 04, 2004 11:58:23 am PST #4052 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
Spiderman has funny lines in the comics. Good comic timing's smart.
Lyra Jane - Mar 04, 2004 11:58:38 am PST #4053 of 10000
Up with the sun
I just thought this instantiation of it made no sense.
I thought there were meteor rocks in the puddle the telephone pole collapsed into, which of course explain everything.
The place where I thought a character was being stupid was when Lana came out of the house into the rain to see Adam. She should have dialed 911 and stayed put. (Yeah, Chloe and Jonathan were in danger -- but when aren't they?)
And I never thought of Clark or Superman as being especially smart, but I really don't know comics canon at all.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2004 11:59:34 am PST #4054 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Good comic timing's smart.
Eh. I've known dumb funny comedians. I don't lend it much credence.
I mean, it's sexy, but not always smart.
sumi - Mar 04, 2004 12:00:34 pm PST #4055 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Do you think it's an innate sense? Like being able to carry a tune or something?
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2004 12:01:51 pm PST #4056 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Like being able to carry a tune or something?
Yerp.
JohnSweden - Mar 04, 2004 12:02:34 pm PST #4057 of 10000
I can't even.
I mean, it's sexy, but not always smart.
Parker's a total brainiac (heh), one of the [many] things that made Tobey McSquid so unbelievable for me, but on a human scale. I think Supes is supposed to be inhumanly smart, something that Tom Welling is struggling to portray to us with the writing he is working with.
t /sarcasm