10 Most Ridiculous Things Spider-Man Has Survived

1. Turned Into A Spider Monster - Changes

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Likely the most absolutely outrageous, ridiculous thing to ever happen to Spider-Man came back in 2004 - Spectacular Spider-Man #20, to be precise - as the seeds were beginning to be sown for what would ultimately be Spider Island.

There, Peter Parker was turned into a giant 'spider monster', became pregnant, died, and was reborn as his regular self but with organic web shooters instead of the mechanical ones he'd previously been using. Yep, this was a strange, strange time for the Spider-books, and nothing summed up that strangeness quite as well as Changes.

For context, this bizarre turn of events all happened thanks to Adrianna Soria, aka the Queen. A radiation-infused failed S.H.I.E.L.D. experiment of the 1940s, Adrianna surfaced decades later as a villain intent on turning as many people as she could into twisted spider monsters.

The Queen was able to do just that to anybody with an insect gene buried within them, but the slightly head-scratching part of all of this is that spiders are not actually classified as insects. But comics logic, right?

Either way, what played out was one of - if not the - most bizarre situations that Peter Parker has ever found himself in, which, given the history of Spider-Man, says a lot.

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