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

5. Peter Parker Is A Huge Dork

Now something we absolutely cannot abide is the concept that Peter Parker is a total social outcast, a nerd who was bullied his whole adolescence and was equally downtrodden once he reached adulthood and started being stepped all over by landlords, employers and love interests alike. The reason the characterisation of Peter Parker as a useless, gross dork €“ which the comics still try and push, all these decades after he graduated Midtown High School and quit it with that weird white shirt/black tank top combo €“ doesn't work is because he so clearly...isn't. There's one thing to tell us our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is a friendless geek, but then when we're shown the exact opposite of that, it's a little hard to take. Peter Parker clearly isn't a geek. Well, he is so much as he's a bit clumsy and is a bit of a bookworm, but other than that? Ever since his first appearance he's had multiple girls fighting for his affection. Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane €“ the latter of whom, might we remind you, is a professional supermodel €“ are the two big loves of his life. But then there was Betty Brant, J Jonah Jameson's secretary at the Daily Bugle who had the hots for the (much younger) Peter, and wasn't afraid of telling him. Felicia Hardy, confident enough to wear the skintight costume she dons to be Black Cat, was also crazy about him. Then you get into all the people in between, and you might as well say he was bitten by a radioactive Casanova! If that was a thing. Still, despite the clear evidence to the contrary, we just accept old Petey Pants as a socially inept geek with nothing going for him. Apart from the abundance of charm, multiple suitors, bags of close mates, and the superhero biz.