I wish I could cite some pages or panels for this, but I just imagine Spidey climbing out from under some rubble with his mask ripped (you know the way they do) and boom, the whole sinister six is there. Nobody does resigned badass like Parker. Batman is close second.

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This was the world that I had created. I know what I have to do to fix it...to make things right. There's no problem that can't be solved.

They really amped that up for Ultimate. Bendis got this part of Parker straight on.

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I think that's what I'm trying to cite. He's on the White House lawn facing the Ultimate U's Sinister Six. Man I wish there was a better way to find pages and/or panels online.

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This was the world that I had created. I know what I have to do to fix it...to make things right. There's no problem that can't be solved.

Also, nobody gets their costume effed up like Spider-Man.

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Do not bore me with such trite cliches. For I have you in my clutches, and should I choose, I could snuff out your insignificant lives in an instant.

That's from Ultimate Six, issue #5-6.

Also, I love Spider-Man. I thought he was alright before I got into the comics, but the more I read the more I see why he is the most popular Marvel character. There has been no other comic which is as consistently good as Spider-Man has been for me.

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Seconded. After the very early run, I guess 20 or so issues in, Spider-Man hasn't dipped in a noticeable way. It also has the most interesting arcs of the rest of the comics I have read so far. A couple of individual issues are better, but not 1 title is.

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Nice you like me pals.

But seriously, Spider Man put me into hero's comics, and you simply got to like this guy, he got nice storys, nice villains, many strong supporting characters, and in the early run, that panel on ASM 50. I'm learning and loving doing the order (ok, sometimes hating too), some heroes on Earth-616 I really no nothing about, but it is all due to Spidey, if it wasn't for him, I would never be here.

I am a fan no doubt, so I'm suspicious to say.

He has the benefit of being a street level hero, and therefore more relatable. The other big street level hero of the time, DD, could have gotten the same love, but his villains were really really dumb.

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