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:[Cueball is shown floating on the wind, attached to a large balloon. The balloon is made of spider silk.] | :[Cueball is shown floating on the wind, attached to a large balloon. The balloon is made of spider silk.] | ||
| − | :Cueball: Ooh, that looks like a good spot to land, eat some bugs, and make an egg | + | :Cueball: Ooh, that looks like a good spot to land, eat some bugs, and make an egg sac! |
:Caption: ♫''Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can''♪ | :Caption: ♫''Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can''♪ | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
Revision as of 04:42, 1 September 2014
| Ballooning |
 Title text: Time to dance in front of Mary Jane! If I'm lucky, she'll turn out not to practice pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism! |
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- [Cueball is shown floating on the wind, attached to a large balloon. The balloon is made of spider silk.]
- Cueball: Ooh, that looks like a good spot to land, eat some bugs, and make an egg sac!
- Caption: ♫Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can♪
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Ballooning is a legitimate and natural type of movement for spiders http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ballooning_%28spider%29 Sebastian --141.101.98.59 05:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
I personally saw several spiders swinging on web cords. The problem with Spiderman usual method of moving is that spiders can't shoot web so far. Also, I suspect that they use the swinging not as method to travel, but as part of building web. -- Hkmaly (talk) 09:57, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
- That sounds a lot like the "Pendulum Traverse" (Google that for a good description if you need it, Wiki just has it as a sub-item under a glossary), although I'm personally an expert in neither arachnology nor rock-climbing so I might be wrong. For those spiders you mention, whether they're swinging with an actual aiming point at hand or it's just a behaviour that creates a random opportunity to extend the web size (along with breeze-assistance, it must explain a number of web-bridgings you can encounter) and thus is an evolved activity that has net benefit... I don't know. Like I said, I'm not an expert. ;) (But I bet if anyone can find an actual paper on the subject, it'd be a good inclusion for the article above!) 141.101.98.8 10:40, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
Am I the only one to think that the general concept of ballooning would actually be cool to see in a Spiderman movie, comic or video game? For example, in a situation where Spiderman is in a location that offers no support to swing anywhere, and a villain has overpowered him (e.g. he is fighting Sandman in a desert, and losing). So, apparently, he has no way out, except that he survives by building a kite out of his web and flying away! And to drive the point home further, he exclaims: "Yes, I can do WHATEVER a spider can!" 108.162.229.212 18:41, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Isn't it far more likely that "Mary Jane" is a reference to Peter Parker's love interest? I doubt that was intended as a reference to the Tom Petty song. 173.245.52.121 11:03, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
