10 Times Spider-Man Has Been Outwitted

5. Green Goblin Hacks Spider-Man's City - Superior Spider-Man Vol.1 #27

This story, written in 2014 by Dan Slott and pencilled by Giuseppe Camuncoli, only sort of counts as Spider-Man getting outwitted - because, while Superior Spider-Man is indeed a Spider-Man story, Superior Spider-Man is not Peter Parker.

During Otto's body swap with Peter Parker - a story that nearly made it onto this list - Otto took up the mantle of Spider-Man, determined to prove he was the superior vigilante.

Looking to streamline the whole "swing around the city looking for crime" process, Otto invented hundreds of Spider-Bots to trawl the city scanning for criminal activity, which he could act on only if he was needed. For a while, the new system worked like a charm, but Otto's celebration was short-lived - for soon after, the Green Goblin made his move.

In his arrogance, Otto had never installed a failsafe for if his Spider-Bots were hacked - and that's exactly what happened. Overnight, the Green Goblin rendered Otto's early warning system useless, and when he and his Goblin Army stormed New York, the Superior Spider-Man was completely caught off-guard. Otto Octavius has always prided himself on his intelligence, but against the Green Goblin, that very pride was his undoing.