10 Crazy Things You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy Spider-Man

4. And Also A Teenage Science Genius

Not that he's totally without his nerdy qualities or anything. Whilst it was the radioactive spider bite that kick-started Peter Parker's superhero career, he doesn't just rely on the abilities that little accident endowed on him. Nope, he rushed home and €“ along with putting together a perfectly serviceable costume for somebody who's shown no interest or particular aptitude in textiles before or since €“ decided he needed to develop his own equivalent of the webbing spiders excrete from their butts. Only he decided his web fluid would be fired from his wrists, because that's less disgusting and probably makes for a better aim. Since then he also used his scientific prowess to boost the tech carried in his suit and make some pretty high-end inventions like miniature tracking devices. We would like to remind you that all of this happened when Peter Parker was still in high school. He was, like, 15-years-old. And he was making breakthroughs in chemical and mechanical engineering that an experienced, professional and tenured scientist would kill for. The spider bite didn't increase his intelligence none, so far as we can remember, which means that all the inventions he came up with during his early career as Spider-Man were completely off his own back. So along with not being a dork, he's also more of a genius child prodigy than a bookworm. How was a teenager doing stuff as advanced as Tony Stark, with a fraction of the resources, education, or finances? Dunno. Just did, didn't he.