So recently, at least at the time of this video being recorded
it was revealed that Spider-man Homecoming will showcase
Spider-man having those webbing wings under his arms
in at least one costume.
I presume they'll be some sort of costume change throughout the movie.
And presumably, this is to help him fight the Vulture who is the villain of the movie,
is it "Vulture" or "The Vulture"?
Anyway, reports have come out that Spider-man will at one point in the movie
use his web wings to glide from tremendous heights!
But hold on now,
has Spider-man ever actually used his web wings to glide in the comic books?
I mean, what are the actual functions of those things?
So to answer this questions let's go ahead and take look back
all the way at the beginning of Spider-man's career
with Amazing Fantasy #15.
Now, I'm actually going to cover going to be covering a little bit of costume creation in a future video
so I'm going to save most of the information for that video.
But, just to give you quick rundown originally Jack Kirby was supposed to design the costume
but Stan Lee didn't really like it so he gave it to Steve Ditko
and Ditko drew up the classic Spiderman costume that we all know and love today.
And that cotume was complete with
Webing under the arms... for watever reason
Now I think it's important to remember here
that the original Spider-man costume in the context of the comic book story
was not meant to be a Superhero costume.
Spider-man wasn't immediately ushered into the superhero business
he got his powers, and he used it to make money.
And of of course, a couple ways he did that is through a wrestling career,
very brief and short lived
but also through a career in TV entertainment.
So it very likely that Peter Parker designing his costume was only trying to go for flair and style
instead of functionality.
This is where I'd probably have someone like Joel come in whose like a big wrestling fan
and be like "yeah look at all these wrestling costumes"
I don't have time for that
you've seen wrestling, you get the idea.
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Now to solidify the idea that there was really no function to the web wings,
uh, we get the very first issue of Amazing Spider-man (annual) #1
showed us a very detailed breakdown of
everything his costume functions as,
as well as all of his powers and abilities
as Spider-man. Now you'll notice that
there's really no call to attention on
the web wings as a functional part of
the costume which I think says a lot
considering that they were very detailed
in this breakdown I mean they talked
about every other minute detail of his costume
costume including how his
including how the sleeve length was very important.
So you would think that if these were meant to
be used for gliding that Marvel would
say so in these very specific pages but, nothing.
Interestingly though on another
page we get to see a couple things that
his webbing is capable of one of them is
functioning as a parachute.
You'd think that if his plain old webbing can be
used to glide via a parachute like
construct then perhaps his underarm
wedding doesn't do anything.
Spider-woman on the other hand has had under arm wings
wings that were used for gliding or help with flight.
My friend Dylan would hate me
if I didn't at least point out that
that Spider-woman and Spider-man are not
related in any way other than just
having similar name and in this
particular case a very similar costume choice.
Only again hers seems to actually
function whereas Spider-man's just looks cool I guess,
cool I guess or at least Ditko thought
or at least Ditko thought it looked cool.
as other writer and artists started getting on the books,
the web link is kind of shrunk away into nothingness.
They still appear in comics from time to time
it really just depends
it really just depends on whether the artist wants to draw them
but for the most part because they didn't really serve a function
really serve a function that kind of
they kind of were just swept under the rug.
Now even though, I can't recall the time in the
comics when Spider-man has used his web wings to glide
wings to glide I'm still kind of
I'm still kind of real excited to see what the movies is gonna do with them.
I mean spider-man web swinging
through the city is always super fun to
watch and now with that additional element of the gliding ability
it could be some cool stuff.
What do you think though,are you excited about the idea of
Spider-man possibly gliding in the Homecoming movie
or do you think just "we don't need web wings"
Heck even if you don't care one way or the other
about him gliding are you at least excited to
see that original costume on the big screen.
i'm sure we'll have other
I'm sure we'll have other modifications to modernize it
but still web wings, are they even called web wings I've just made that conclusion all on my own.
wings i've just made that conclusion on
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