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

2. People Still Think He's A Menace

The X-Men face a similar problem in the Marvel Universe, and we've trouble getting our head around that one too: how come everybody's fine with masked vigilantes when they're the Fantastic Four or the Avengers, but the mutant population and Spider-Man are treated as an outright threat and menace, despite never showing any evidence that they're bad people? With the X-Men it's apparently a latent prejudice against their kind, but most of the big superheroes people go ga-ga for are, technically, genetic mutations. Just not from birth. What makes even less sense is that Spidey would get singled out, above all other superheroes in New York city, for being a menace. What does he do that, say, Captain America or the Human Torch doesn't? We're not sure, but we know J Jonah Jameson's got something to do with it. As editor of the Daily Bugle he made it the company line that the web head wasn't to be trusted, and spun every good deed he did in some negative fashion, implying he was more supervillain than hero. Still, even if you take that as the starting point, surely the Daily Bugle on its own wouldn't have that much of an influence over people's perceptions? Maybe if the rest of the media portrayed Spider-Man in a similar way, but for the most part there's no way of reporting on what he gets up to without heavily implying that he's a good guy. So why still the antagonism? Well, to keep the story interesting and the character unique, of course €“ but as for reasons that are in-universe, we're at a loss. Just accept it and move on.