10 Wild Versions Of Spider-Man That Could Actually Work On Film

Assuming the What If...? producers were to stick with the anti-horror sentiments currently preventing them from embracing such ideas as Man-Spider or Patton Parnel, Spiders-Man could offer Disney+ the homerun they need to justify a story involving real spiders. There's no ghastly transformation here, just a bunch of cute spiders piling on top of each other inside a costume. It's practically just a slightly more disturbing take on the "three kids in a trench coat" gag.

Spiders-Man, like many Spider-Men on this list, was created for the Spider-Geddon crossover event. His origin in the Vault of Spiders tie-in explains that his universe's Peter Parker fell into a pit of experimental spiders who essentially devoured him and absorbed his consciousness as the new foundation for their hive mind. They now suffer something of an identity crisis, believing themselves to be the real Peter Parker despite also theorizing that the real Peter likely died that day. This belief in Peter's apparent death ultimately causes a grief-ridden Spiders-Man ultimately to cut ties with Gwen Stacy when she discusses plans to turn "Peter" back to normal.

Despite his dark origins, Spiders-Man still provokes some twisted laughs here and there with frequent casual references to his hunger for human flesh. He may gross out his fellow Web-slingers, but he does so with just enough self-awareness to allow for some meta-humor if Sony ever wanted to include him in their Spider-Verse.

With many characters showing up to that universe already fully developed, Sony could neatly avoid the more disturbing elements of his origin while still enjoying the sheer novelty of a Spider-Man who does whatever ten thousand spiders can.