10 Problems With Spider-Man Nobody Wants To Admit
5. Most Of His Villains Suck
Look, everybody loves Spider-Man, but he was far from perfect even before Dan Slott or Joe Quesada got their shot at messing him up. What character who's been around for fifty some years, has been written and drawn by countless creators, and has been adapted to film, television, games and the like in numerous different countries isn't going to collect a few issues in that time?
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a roaming, pentagenarian superhero does. Whilst Spider-Man sometimes appears to have a rogues gallery that rivals even Batman's colourful cavalcade of villains, a lot of the bad guys the web head has come up against over the years have been...not so good. Which is to say awful.
It's easy to rag on, say, Tyepface (even his creator does that), but to be honest, most of his iconic enemies are kinda goofy too. An issue of Deadpool the Merc With A Mouth summed it up: The Vulture looks like Larry David bitten by a parakeet, The Rhino is ridiculous... but the worst must have been Doc Ock. He looked like Elton John on stilts.