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

9. So Many Symbiotes

The original appearance of Spider-Man's infamous black suit was a pretty cool reveal in an otherwise kinda disappointing miniseries (Secret Wars, where a whole bunch of heroes and villains got zapped up to an alien planet by some douche called The Beyonder who made them fight in a gladiatorial arena kinda setting). Even cooler was where the creative teams of the era took that new suit, with the starting point of it just being a neat, sleek outfit change evolving to the eventual reveal that it was not a suit so much as an alien being which had bonded to Peter Parker's person and, along with augmenting his already impressive power set, was also affecting his personality and turning him into a bit of an asshat. Plus he had a permanent five o'clock shadow, which isn't a good look for anyone whose name doesn't begin with C and end with lint Eastwood. Less cool was what happened after Spidey realised the alien suit's sensitivity to loud noises, availing himself of its influence by subjecting it to the ringing of a church's bell tower. The symbiote, as it came to be known, found its way onto Eddie Brock, a rival journalist who had it out for his friendly neighbourhood webhead. The psychotic anti-hero Venom was born, and he was fun, for a while. Then the symbiote coughed up a kid, who bonded with convicted serial killer Cletus Kasady. He was a little annoying and €œEXTREME!€ nineties-like. Since then the pair of them have birthed multiple other symbiotes that have become more and more derivative and dull bad guys, but all of which are equally powerful. This point's two fold, really: first of all, you have to accept that there'd be this many alien beings running around Earth causing trouble without SHIELD €“ or the symbiotes themselves, wherever they originate in the cosmos €“ getting involved, and that people actually wanna see more Venom Lite villains. It's probably not gonna change any time soon.