TOP 10 ALTERNATE SPIDER MAN SUITS PART 2
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Welcome back to top 10 nerd.
I’m your host kelly paoli and today we’re back at it again with your favourite web slinger,
Spider man.
And his costumes.
Many of our favourite heroes and villains have been known over the years to don alternate
costumes, whether it’s due to an alternate universe or just a shift in their story arc,
and Spidey is no exception.
So let’s jump into our part 2 of the top 10 alternate spiderman suits.
10 Future Foundation Spider Man Suit The Future Foundation is a superhuman school
founded by Reed Richards to train the next generation of heroes, and Spider Man joins
the team after Johnny Storm’s will asks him to do so.
So what does it do?
Aside from never getting dirty - convenient considering it’s colour - it’s made of
third generation unstable molecules, which gives him the ability to change into it with
just a thought.
It can also turn entirely black as a stealth mode feature.
9 Spider man unlimited - web cape From the 1999 animated tv series, this suit
strayed from the original red and blue.
With red and black, that is.
The suit’s mask has black covering the front of Spidey’s face, and even jazzed out his
calves and feet.
It even has the spider ensigna on his forearms, along with a web cape.
The suit was made up of nanotechnology that he discreetly borrowed from Reed Richards
that also includes built in web shooters, stealth technology and anti-symbiote sonic
weaponry.
Cool.
8 Tron Spiderman A product of the Marvel Iron variant covers,
this Tron Spiderman was unfortunately just the suit he wore on the cover of Amazing Spider
Man 651.
But it’s still pretty damn cool.
Marvel released these variants as a cross promotion with the release of the Tron Legacy
film, and partially to celebrate the acquit ion of Marvel by Disney.
The covers also make an appearance in the film in the basement lair of character Roy
Kleinberg.
7 House of M Spiderman
That butt.
Similar to the classic spiderman suit but slightly altered design on his lower half,
the House of M Spiderman is famous in this alternate universe for being an actor, wrestler,
businessman and of course superhero.
He’s believed to be a mutant, but when it’s revealed that he isn’t he faces a whole
lot of discrimination, and even his mutant fans become the victims of hate crimes because
of it.
6 Scarlet Spider In 1994, there was an arc in which Peter Parker
had a clone who was convinced that he was the true Spider-Man.
The clone, Ben Reiley, first appears in Web of Spider-Man vol 1 #118 and has fashioned
his own spiderman costume.
After fleeing new york he picked up a string of odd jobs by faking his credentials, and
eventually returned, becoming the scarlet spider and working along side an initially
reluctant peter parker.
There’s a whole lot more to this long and complicated arc we won’t touch on, but for
the sake of this number - sleeveless spider-hoodie!
Woo.
5 Spiderman Noir Set in 1933 during the Great Depression, Spiderman
dons a much darker suit in this 2009 alternate universe story arc.
This time around, his abilities aren’t as strong as the original spiderman although
he’s more acrobatic and uses his webs more so as nets.
But he carries a gun to help compensate, and his powers were given to him by a spider god.
But hey, at least he looks like a total bad ass.
4 Spiderman 2099 Miguel O’Hara is the man donning this spidey
suit that appears in the Marvel 2099 comic book line.
It takes place in a futuristic New York in the year 2099, where scientists are attempting
to recreate Spider-Man’s abilities.
Miguel is a geneticist part of this project, and half of his genes are replaced with a
spider’s, giving him abilities similar to the original Spider-Man.
He dons a suit he once wore for the Mexican Day of the Dead festival since it’s made
from unstable molecule fabric, and is the only material he owns that wouldn’t shred
from his newly acquired spider talons on his hands and feet.
3 Captain Universe From Earth 91110, this Spiderman costume first
appeared in an issue of What If in 1991.
The Enigma force aka the uni-power bonded with Peter, giving him the power cosmic of
Captain Universe.
Which basically gave him a massive trump card against any other hero or villain - matter
control and manipulation, energy emission and absorption, invulnerability, cosmic senses,
god like stimna, hyper space travel, you name it.
Eventually Peter realized it was corrupting him and his sense of responsibility, and gave
up the uni-power, only for it to briefly enter a doombot, and come back to him.
He ditched it again which caused him to lose his spider powers.
2 Ultimate Spiderman - Miles Morales Miles is the second character to take on the
Spider-Man alias, appearing in Ultimate Fallout #4 in 2011 after Peter Parker’s death.
In a suit quite similar to Peter’s, Mile’s wears a black and red variation, which during
a battle with the Kangaroo early on in his crime fighting career he ponders whether the
costume is in bad taste.
The costume was given to him by SHIELD, and first uses Parker’s web shooters (given
to him by May Parker), although he eventually gets his own from SHIELD too.
1 Classic Suit How could we not bring up the original spidey
suit?
First appearing with Peter himself in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962, the original classic
spider man suit initially had webbing beneath the hero’s arms that would gradually disappear
over time.
Jack Kirby originally designed the character that Stan Lee would critique as “captain
america with cobwebs”, and Steve Ditko would later take over the character.
Kirby has said that Ditko was the one who I quote “got Spiderman to roll, and the
thing caught on because of what he did.”
And that the costume completely covering Spider-man’s body made him easily for readers to identify
with.
There we have it friends!
Which alternate suit is your favourite?
Are there other heroes or perhaps a villain you’d like to see us do an alternate suit
list on?
Let us know in those comments below!
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