10 Times Spider-Man Won A Fight He Should Have Lost

J. Michael Straczynski's run on Amazing Spider-Man is a polarizing one: He did some great work in turning Peter Parker into a believable adult, and even made Aunt May into a relevant character instead of a heart attack waiting to happen.

Critics, though, say that the latter half of Straczynski's run focused too much on strange magic. Others said that Straczynski ignored Spider-Man's existing rogue's gallery, creating his own far-less-memorable villains.

But there was one villain created by Straczynski that has stuck, Morlun, a type of indestructible vampire that feeds on spider totems, which made him particularly hungry for Spider-Man.

And here's the thing: Morlun, if he wasn't so interested in showboating, could have killed Spider-Man during any of their first meetings.

Morlun hit as hard as the hulk. He never tired, barely flinched when Spider-Man punched him and could track Spidey even when he was hiding out as Peter Parker.

In the end, Spider-Man relied on science -- tainting his own blood so that when Morlun fed on it he weakened himself nearly to the point of death -- to defeat his new foe. That's satisfying. But before Spider-Man figured this out Morlun had numerous opportunities to kill him. Instead, Morlun toyed with his foe, for fairly inexplicable reasons, giving Spider-Man the chance to to win another seemingly unwinnable fight.