10 Reasons Why Spider-Man Is Marvel's Greatest Superhero

10. His Powers

The danger with superheroes is that there needs to be a balance between making them powerful enough to take on their villains, but not powerful enough that the villains stop being a credible threat. Superman may have won the superpower lottery, but the fact that his weakness is so specific means that you're just waiting for someone to whip out the Kryptonite, and do the same story all over again.

Spider-Man doesn't have that problem. What he does have is super-strength, wall-crawling, athleticism, and limited precognition, combined with his signature homemade web-slingers. He's a credible threat to his rogues gallery, and more than a match for the average thug, but it never comes at the cost of making him too strong, so any match-up is always going to be unpredictable.

Sure, he'll win, but that doesn't mean Vulture won't get a lucky hit in, or Doc Ock won't be able to subdue him with a new gadget.

Not to mention that Spider-Man's powers are insanely cool. Who wants to fly around New York when you can swing around like Tarzan?