Spider-Man Shows How Strong He Is

Everyone forgot the one rule. Don’t mess with a Spider-Man who isn’t making jokes

Spiderman is WAY stronger than his friends and enemies credit him for. His main 'weakness' is that he holds back super hard. He can stop a runaway train with his grip strength. Catch a bus falling full of people. If he so chose, he could rend everyone around him limb from limb. He doesn't because he's gentle and cares for others. But he's a lot like Superman or The Flash in that way. Knowing how destructive he could be and why it's important to hold back. Doing it so long that everyone thinks his limits are far lower than they really are.

A Spider-Man not talking is the equivalent of A Batman laughing…

I always love when Peter just casually uses his super strength and other heroes are surprised by just how strong he his. "Is he strong? Listen, bud. He's got radioactive blood."

It's not only that he's strong, which he is, but it's that he's a fast thinker. Nimble in both mind and body. And he's real good at improvising.

"If Cap wanted to lay you out, he would." Me: No, Tony, he really wouldn't.

If you flipped spidey into a villain, he would be like a villain for entire superhero teams, not just one hero. His powers are INSANE if used without remorse, and dont forget the genius level intellect. Im sure he could come up with so many ways to weaponize his spidey sense and web shooters for super murderous intent. Also, he wouldve probably made himself a suit of armor to augment his powers. Xmen would have their hands full against evil spidey

I like to think that Spiderman's jokes and quirky personality is just a coping mechanism for all the tragedies the sadistic writers did to him, and as someone who was raised by a deeply traumatized person (my dad had a very horrible childhood), they then to lash out. And when they lash out...they don't hold back..

People need to be reminded that Spider-man always pulls his punches. But when he stops joking around and doesn't pull them. He's absolutely unstoppable.

They all kinda forget how formidable Spidey is when he needs to be. You have to be at least approaching author levels to really put him out of a fight.

Spiderman is definitely one of my favorites, but let's take a minute to admit how well cap delt with the whole thing, no aggression, he just wanted to help his friend through whatever was going on, albeit he would have been slowing Peter down but nonetheless, cap is a true leader.

For those who don’t know, Doctor Octopus once possessed Spider-Man in the comics and punched Scorpion. However, since he didn’t know Spider-Man holds back, he accidentally punched Scorpion’s jaw clean off.

Imagine if Peter did this in the MCU. Jaws would drop in the cinemas/theatres.

Marvel has Spider-Man's full capabilities on their official website. Just in terms of what he's physically capable of, writer's downplay him a lot. Unless you have super speed, or can simultaneously attack him from so many different directions that it's impossible for him to avoid all of them, like surrounding the entire area he's in with some sort of field, you're not even supposed to be able to touch him because his spider sense and reflexes are so finely tuned he'll dodge things he's not even consciously aware of. When it comes to him attacking others, I think a lot of people forget that Spider-Man is one of the few super heroes who genuinely does not want to hurt anyone. He only hits people as hard as he thinks he has to. Even the MCU shows that he's a lot stronger than people think. Very few characters in the movies could have held that boat together the way he did when it was cut in half. Cap couldn't have done it. He struggled with a helicopter, and that boat was a lot bigger than a helicopter. The only MCU heroes I can think of that could have pulled off a similar feat are Thor and Hulk.

It always brings a small smile to my face when reading the comics, when a character doesn’t take a ‘serious’ Peter seriously, and is shocked at how strong he is when he’s not pulling his punches.

Spider-Man is always underestimated by his enemies and comrades. Yeah, he’s optimistic and has a witty sense of humor but the fact that he holds back on his full strength a lot just shows that you REALLY don’t want to be on his bad side because when he gets real serious, he can be pretty scary. The man literally picked up a tank, held up a plane and a huge part of a building.

I love how they alluded to his strength in the MCU Civil War movie. Cap realizes how strong Peter is which is why he finds his way out of the fight by making that plane walkway fall on him knowing he was strong enough to hold it. Really hope we get to see more of that in the future.

As so many have stated, Parker's greatest ability is that no one ever truly knows how powerful he TRULY is. He's a lot like Clark Kent/Superman in that regard. They both spend a LOT of time and energy actively avoiding getting into a physical fight, and when it happens they hold back their full strength, only using it when it is 100% absolutely necessary. I think the only times I have seen Supes not hold back was against Darkseid and Doomsday. Not sure about Parker, but I can't imagine what threats he would face aside from some uber characters like Thor, Hulk, and the cosmic beings would warrant him just unleashing it all.

I keep thinking back to that scene were he absolutely flattens Kingpin after taking his suit off to teach him a lesson. Iconic stuff right there.

If Peter was not holding back, he could rip Steve Rogers limb from limb with ease.