Greetings Nerdy list aficionados welcome back and it’s time to revisit our friendly neighbourhood
spider-man or well some alternate versions of him at least. Spider-Man has alternates
coming from all corners, parallel universes, alternate timelines, legacy characters, clones,
there’s plenty of spidey to go around so it should be no surprise that when it comes
to strongest alternates we’re already on to Part 2. These are the Top 10 Strongest
Alternate Versions of Spider-Man Part 2. I tried to pick a range so it’s going to get
eclectic, let’s get started.
10 – Superior Spider-Man – Now the Superior Spiderman was a series in the main 616 verse
that ran from 2013 to 2014. So how is this an alternate version do you ask. Well for
this period of time Doctor Octopus had implanted his mind into the body of peter parker who
had “died” at the conclusion of the dying wish storyline. This led to the 2013 run where
Octavius was Spider-Man he kept functioning as spider-man albeit a more abrasive and slightly
tyrannical one. While he possessed all of spider-man’s powers, abilities and at the
time his assets as Peter has his life together and was running a company at the time he also
possessed something else his own intellect and villainous tendencies. Octavius at times
seemed to think on a larger scale for example commissioning spider-bots to patrol the city
and help him in his battle against crime. Little things like that to make himself more
efficient and that extra efficiency was definitely a strength in his favour. Now while it’s
interesting to see Otto try to be Peter. The thing that always traumatizes me about these
stories is people not catching on. Oh perpetually stressed Peter always tried to juggle everything
suddenly is super organized and also ruling his area with an iron fist seems legit. I
would be so mad when I got my body back It’s like when Tony’s armour kidnapped him and
pretended to be him and no one noticed for a bit, horrifying.
9 – No More – Now this is another what if style alternate emerging from the No More
story arc in Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man. In this story a trip back in time
results in Peter Parker creating an alternate timeline though divulging some information
to his past self that makes him not want to be spider-man at all. The reason he sees what
we all see Peter’s life is a hot mess, friends dying, friend becoming villains, just villains
everywhere constant stress with great power comes frequent narrative drama. So this Peter
sets upon the path to become a successful industrialist married to a very much alive
Gwen Stacy. In this world peter uses his money to fund resistance operations and superheroes.
Resistance because Norman Osborn has conquered the world and imprisoned iron man and the
fantastic four. Now mileage varies as to whether or not Peter not being spider-man would have
resulted in this but hey that’s what these storylines are for. This Peter’s power comes
from his influence, wealth and reach, and some would argue he is doing more good this
was. Someone just needs to take out Norman. There are different forms of power guys. And
being strong doesn’t guarantee success you know some of the alternates on this list are
dead. Sidenote anyone else remember that retcon where gwen was having an affair with norman
Osborn before she died cause reasons. Retcons ruining everything for everyone except for
the handful of people that like the shift.
8 – Peter Spector – Infinity Warps, yes you heard that right infinity warps not wars
though the warp universe does arise from the infinity wars storyline when Gamora used the
stones to fold the universe in half. Which created Warp World which was essentially another
amalgam universe just between Marvel characters rather than marvel and dc fusing characters
together. From this fusion we get Peter Spector merging Spider-Man and Moon Knight. The story
is essentially moonlights with some spiderman elements thrown in after his uncle ben and
aunt may are murdered by Goblin by night a fusion of norman Osborn and jack russel a
dying peter is revived by master weaver the deity of the spider totems to be it’s avatar
and is granted spider powers. However it also splits his personality into 4 people but that’s
no big he becomes the arachknight and fights crime by night and is a ceo by day and also
by night because they have crazy hours. So he’s got a bit of a getting powers directly
from master weaver boost plus come on ceo resources.
7 – Venomverse – The venomverse was a 2017 limited series clearly hoping to follow
in the footsteps of the massively successful spiderverse comics which had occurred in 2014,
but been revisited many times since. The crux of this is maninverse venom being recruited
by a version of Doctor strange to help in a war between the venoms and the poisons.
Poisons being creatures that feed on symbiotes, hailing from a universe overrun by them, bonded
to heroes absorbing them and becoming a poison version of them. Kind of like the thing. So
venom must lead an army of alternate universe venom's in battle which leads up to spiderman
a peter parker who in this universe took the symbiote back after it left eddie brock so
of course he’s spider-man but augmented with all of the symbiotes abilities as well
and later poisons abilities because he gets consumed by one pretending to be aunt May
which adds psionic energy to his repertoire and even more strength cause the poisons abilities
are augmented by the fact that they form a permanent bond with their host. Though because
of that once the bond is formed they can’t jump hosts. Peter in this universe gets blown
up cause with great power does not come immunity to bombs.
6 – Goblin Earth 21205 – This Peter Parker starts off on a similar path to the 616 Spider-Man
until Gwen Stacey is killed at that point he snaps and murders the green goblin. He
then changed his alias as the Goblin he was targeted by the inheritors pseudo vampires
who feed specifically on the life force of spider totems. So Goblin Peter has all of
spider mans abilities plus a goblin’s tech his glider is actually called the demonic
glider. And he uses pumpkin bombs most fans think of his as just an alternate hobgoblin.
5 – Spiders Man Earth 11580 – No that Spiders is not a typo this Peter Parker is
actually a collection of Spiders sharing a hive mind and coming together to form his
body. This occurred as a result of you guessed it a horrible lab accident when Peter was
invited by Max Modell to go visit his company horizon labs while there they were watching
a giant spider colony that modell was bombarding with radiation you know for science when peter
fell in and was devoured but not his consciousness no that was absorbed by the spiders. Taking
on his personality and developing a thirst for justice these spider fight crime in what
they call “Cruel York”, where’s the strength well these spiders can deform and
swarm as jack o lantern learned when he slashed open the costume and just got covered with
spiders disgusting also extra power boost for squicking out people with arachnaphobia.
He’s a walking nightmare.
4 – Spidercide – Spidercide is one of the many clones to emerge from the neverending
clone saga which was dragged out by the editors at the time for years. Like most of the clones
this one believed he was the true Peter and confronted the others namely spiderman ben
riley and Kaine. However it turned out he had been engineered by the jackal to be a
killer and take out all the other versions. He was also engineered to have some extra
abilities beyond Peter’s traditional power set. The most notable the ability to alter
his molecular structure. Meaning he could do things like stretch like Mr Fantastic,
but he can also shape shift, control his density or turn himself fully or partially into a
liquid. He’s a terminator it’s really amazing they survived him. So how did this
character die what with all these assets…he fell off the top of the daily bugle. Yup listen
when the writer wants you dead you die.
3- Anansi – From Spider-Man Fairy Tales part of the Marvel Fairy Tales limited series.
Spider-man fairty tales was second in a series of 3 and was published In 2007. This collection
featured a story about Anansi the first spider man you’ll be familiar with him if you’re
up on your west African mythology or if you've read Gaiman’s American Gods. Anansi is a
trickster god who takes on the form of a spider. So In marvel Kwaku Anansi was the first spiderman
who sold himself to the sky god nyame in exchange for wisdom which he passed on to spiders through
whom he tries to instill that the greatest power is friendship and cooperation. Why so
high up well they say knowledge his power and Anansi’s got a lot of that
2 -Spider Boy – This character comes from the amalgam universe wherein the heroes of
DC and Marvel were fused together after a series of lead up team up crossover comics.
This occurred in the mid to late 90's. This character was Peter Ross and was a combination
of Spider man and Superboy. The result of Cadmus creating a clone of Peter Parker he
was later adopted by Thaddeus Ross. He has some of superboys abilities which allow him
to shift gravity which ups his power scale giving him some supermanesque abilities and
we all know how powerful superman is. Spider-Boy is a n agent for Cadmus tasked with fighting
genetic monstrosities. So can we talk about how one of the taglines for his arc after
getting engaged to mary jane the insect queen was now he faces his biggest adventure marriage,
no one should be exposed to that much cheese.
1 – Ai Apaec (Apoch) – The decapitator, best name just the best inspires fear this
is another God this one for one of the moche peoples in peru in south America. He resembles
a man with the lower body of a spider which aids in the mutil limbed appearance in the
black spider man costume he sports, though that was partially achieved thanks to genetic
modification courtesy of norman Osborn. A cruel god he was captured by government officials
and kept underwater in a maximum containment area. Along with some of the marvel universes
most dangerous criminals he later ends up joining osborns dark avengers team, as their
Spider-Man and has been a staple of that team since. People like him he’s a cool evil,
chaotic character, who may or may not be dead but he’s a god so probably not. So why is
he the strongest oh no flimsy in name God tier status for Ai, on top of all your usual
fair, strength, durability, dense skin, relflexes, agility. He also has a regenerative healing
factor , is functionally immortal or in tick terminology is nigh invulnerable. He also
is venomous with fans and a poison bite. So to anyone going up against that good luck.
So those were some strong alternate spider men, people get so creative with spider man
I love it. He’s such a versatile character. Let’s get a little niche which era of spidey
is your favourite I will always have a soft spot for the 90s animated series extreme edge
theme and all. Some say that was the first true crossover universe. Let me know your
fave iteration down below.
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