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    Character » Spider-Man appears in 17242 issues.

    Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider as a teenager, granting him spider-like powers. After the death of his Uncle Ben, Peter learned that "with great power, comes great responsibility." Swearing to always protect the innocent from harm, Peter Parker became Spider-Man.

    Is he a street-leveler or not ?

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    Erkan12

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    Poll Is he a street-leveler or not ? (170 votes)

    He is a street leveler 39%
    He is not 61%

    I see most people saying Spidey is street-leveler in battle forums, and some of them disagrees. Actually I am not sure about this either, his power-set is really good (super strength, super reflexes, wall crawling, spider-sense, webbing etc.) however he always fights against street-leveler threats and some times he has hard times against it.

    What do you think it is ?

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    @homifred said:

    This is a tough question. One could say Spider-man is a low powerhouse or a mid tier hero. He's stronger than most (if not all) marvel street level heroes and his speed is truly amazing. In the end, it depends on the author. For example, when Spider-man was first introduced he was completely incapable of being injured by ordinary humans or means. A refrigerator would fall on his head and Peter would be entirely unfazed. A peak human would punch him in the face and hurt their hand in the process while Peter just stared completely unimpressed.

    Before the Superior Spider-man, Peter was going to apprehend Mysterio only to be punched in the gut. He doubled over as if he was sucker punched by Thor. Afterwords, during the American Son storyline a flashback was shown where Peter and Harry got involved in a bar fight and Peter walked out with a black eye and several bruises although no normal human should be capable of harming him.

    Honestly, he's like Batman. He's whatever the writers want him to be.

    Alpha level Spider-man? Sure, have him defeat Firelord, punch Gray hulk into orbit and punch out Galactus (all of which he has done).

    Powerhouse? Why not? Have him land a 52 ton jet (still can't believe that happened).

    Street-level hero? Yep, after staggering the hulk we should disappoint the fans and let him get humiliated by Daredevil and Captain America (which has also happened because, let's face it, They are awesome... ).

    Personally? I view Spider-man as an upper mid tier hero. When Peter pulls out the stops he really goes all out. He's faced off against the fantastic four twice (once to the death) and dished out as much punishment as he received every time. How many can say that?

    Even the inexperienced Spock was capable of putting up a fight against the avengers until he became distracted. (They also weren't holding back as ghost Peter noticed and half heartedly protested against.)

    Mostly this.

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    @angelalfonso i agree. his power-lvl is amazing. but i think he is more than a street leveler

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    #53  Edited By The_Waffle

    yeah well in a few months Peter is gonna become mr international anyways, >:(

    #thanksalotslott

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    Peter walks a thin line between a street level adventurer and a super powered sci fi fantasy. Peter psychologically equates his metahuman power relative to his emotional nature as a common street vigilante and underdog common man, he contrasts his true nature as a gifted super human wonder with the delusion of him being a normal yet self sacrificing average joe and it sometimes hurts him because he represses his true passionate talents from being one of the greats in Marvel but choosing to be sidelined and working under the radar due to his family and friends, which is noble but it's simplistically pointless(in more than one way) and overall super irresponsible because working above the heroic communities notice would eventually bring attention towards villians(villians would also be under the radar of heroes if the hero they persue barely has any attention from heroes) and would endanger the life of a solo acts friends since theres no one to have his back when he fails to act on time on a civie that may or may not be a cast member and gets hurt because Spider-Man didn't have help nor did he consider the possible variables of being in places where dangerous criminals could still be a threat to others and he is unable to get to the scene on time due to limits and whatnot. He's not Superman or Batman (he can't travel at super sonic speeds/see clear detail of every possible danger and make a plan) and stop consecutive villians from killing or causing chaos in different places in the city. Plus his family gets discovered and put in danger all the time so he holds no forethought of him effecting the people he loves as Spider-Man before a villain takes action.

    But hey must be a relatable everyguy! But seriously, it shows something that is plainly odd for a concept as Spider-Man. It's like his world nerfs his true awesomeness and holds him back because he's pretty damn amazing when he is forced to do things he normally wouldn't take to doing, which makes him like us but also makes him ineffectively stupid since he's always going outside his comfort zone and ends up being more special than he is totally making a moot point of being as normal and as down to earth as us. I think this concept worked when Lee/Ditko wrote Peter, he was the perfect archetype of a realistic depiction of a young hero with a shit ton of potential but not to big to be a godly legend like Cap, IM, and Goldielocks. But now, this is irrelevant, Peter hasn't been a realistic down to earth guy since Jerkins and JMS started writing him and now he's finally now reaching his batman status as a street level god and it only took about 60 years and a reboot of amazing spiderman.

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    A guy who can lift more than 50 tons cannot be a street-level.

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    Like other users said, he's more of a low-level powerhouse.

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    At his core, Spidey is and always will be a street level hero. Despite his high end feats, he still pales in terms of strength, in comparison to real powerhouses like Thing, Hulk, Iron Man, Captain Marvel etc.. that's why he can never be considered a true powerhouse. He's also a street leveler in terms of personality and day to day activities. As in, he's usually found taking down muggers and purse snatchers, something you rarely see Iron Man do. Again, despite his high end feats, he's still a very grounded character, and that's where he's more suitable. Unless he's teaming up with other characters or its plot induced, Spidey feels extremely out of place in the more surreal and grand scale settings powerhouse superheroes are usually found in. I'd prefer to consider Peter a high tier street leveler than a low-level powerhouse.

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    #59  Edited By kcomicfan

    he is a street leveler. but he rides the line between a street level and mid teir hero

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    even though spider-man has stated himself he is more like a street level hero, his feats show him to be a low powerhouse or a high end mid tier hero. hes extremely powerful and fast!. his feats show him to be a low level powerhouse such as lifting buildings, heavy objects and moving thousands of tonnes up in occasion. there's a time he lifted an entire underground lab, it was impressive. he also shattered a boulder that landed on his back and he sent she-hulk flying in a punch. he's extremely fast, he was once explaining his spider-sense and by the time the man even touched the trigger, he was gone. he dodges bullets like every-time. he has toyed with thor by bouncing around him so fast, it looks like he was teleporting, he kept on tagging him like it was dodge ball. honestly think he is a high end mid tier hero or a low level powerhouse.

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    A guy who can lift more than 50 tons cannot be a street-level.

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    He is a street leveler superhero, may be the most powerful one hero of this type can be, being almost a powered house. Common criminals practically don't have a chance against Spidey, but he have a very powerful gallery of rogues: Venom, Green Goblin, Scorpion, Rhino and Sandman can challenge the web-head.

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    Spiderman is pretty damn useless and mundane in a long term usage of his powers vs. other Superpowered meta humans, thats why now he's using science at almost stark levels to increase his versatility and won't be worthless outside of street activities. And honesly Bank Robberies and Common crime is so beaneath him it's embarresing to say he's the only one who can pull it off compared tp street levelers who are realistically centered around crime and urban settings. Spider-Man is unbalanced to say the least. His enemies are either to strong or too weak to fight him(all of them are tailored made to only fight Spider-Man since as villians they too are worthless outside of city limits), so he has to be nerfed or buffed in competance to put in effort in stopping them.

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    He's the boarder.

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    He should be the pinnacle of a street leveler. People overrate his strength level especially with feats such as supporting a building and plane but those were feats with adrenaline not his base strength. It was specifically described in The Amazing Spiderman ultimate guide book feats above his level including the ones I've just listed are all adrenaline feats. People can overrate how much a tank or train cart could weigh when he lifts one. In a card it stated spidey can hoist tanks while stating he's strength level is 10 tons. Train carts can weigh in the 20 tons and tanks can weigh even at 6 tons. People give his feats too much credit as highball them with specific research on the vehicle he lifts. Based of guides he's a 10-15 tonner which spider propionate strength too which makes it appropriate for spiderman strength since spiders can lift 170 their weight which is 13 tons for peter. Keep in mind spiderman isn't that bullet resistance to bullets.

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    #67  Edited By gingerpenny

    @thitiki: Spider-Man is just one of those Street levelers that can tango with the powerhouses, similar to Captain America, Batman, Wolverine, etc. For example this is where The Punisher falls short, although my favorite Comic Book character/hero, when he comes against a powerhouse he usually gets the crap beat out of him, looses and/or gets away by the skin of teeth.

    This not being the case at all for any i mentioned above...

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    Definetly , Can't beat Batman Wolverine , even red hood.

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    #69  Edited By Green_Tea
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    And it's not even his best strength feat

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    No he's a low-tier powerhouse

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    He was

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    I view him as the highest possible street level. Maybe I would consider VERY low tier powerhouse.

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    #73  Edited By Cybernetics

    No, Low-Mid Tier

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    Depends on what is considered Street Level and if you use stuff like scaling, high-ends, outliers and what you consider consistent.

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    He has street level enemies and solves street level cases but he himself could be a bit above.

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    He's street level. So as most of his enemies. One way you tell is by the damage/destruction that results in some of his fights. Can handle being slammed through walls and on hard/concrete ground.

    @homifred said:

    This is a tough question. One could say Spider-man is a low powerhouse or a mid tier hero. He's stronger than most (if not all) marvel street level heroes and his speed is truly amazing. In the end, it depends on the author. For example, when Spider-man was first introduced he was completely incapable of being injured by ordinary humans or means. A refrigerator would fall on his head and Peter would be entirely unfazed. A peak human would punch him in the face and hurt their hand in the process while Peter just stared completely unimpressed.

    Before the Superior Spider-man, Peter was going to apprehend Mysterio only to be punched in the gut. He doubled over as if he was sucker punched by Thor. Afterwords, during the American Son storyline a flashback was shown where Peter and Harry got involved in a bar fight and Peter walked out with a black eye and several bruises although no normal human should be capable of harming him.

    Honestly, he's like Batman. He's whatever the writers want him to be.

    Alpha level Spider-man? Sure, have him defeat Firelord, punch Gray hulk into orbit and punch out Galactus (all of which he has done).

    Powerhouse? Why not? Have him land a 52 ton jet (still can't believe that happened).

    Street-level hero? Yep, after staggering the hulk we should disappoint the fans and let him get humiliated by Daredevil and Captain America (which has also happened because, let's face it, They are awesome... ).

    Personally? I view Spider-man as an upper mid tier hero. When Peter pulls out the stops he really goes all out. He's faced off against the fantastic four twice (once to the death) and dished out as much punishment as he received every time. How many can say that?

    Even the inexperienced Spock was capable of putting up a fight against the avengers until he became distracted. (They also weren't holding back as ghost Peter noticed and half heartedly protested against.)

    Mostly this.

    Just pointed to point out that, as the case with Thor, the latter was holding back.

    He should be the pinnacle of a street leveler. People overrate his strength level especially with feats such as supporting a building and plane but those were feats with adrenaline not his base strength. It was specifically described in The Amazing Spiderman ultimate guide book feats above his level including the ones I've just listed are all adrenaline feats. People can overrate how much a tank or train cart could weigh when he lifts one. In a card it stated spidey can hoist tanks while stating he's strength level is 10 tons. Train carts can weigh in the 20 tons and tanks can weigh even at 6 tons. People give his feats too much credit as highball them with specific research on the vehicle he lifts. Based of guides he's a 10-15 tonner which spider propionate strength too which makes it appropriate for spiderman strength since spiders can lift 170 their weight which is 13 tons for peter. Keep in mind spiderman isn't that bullet resistance to bullets.

    He's never lifted a plane.

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    #77 takenstew22  Moderator

    Yes, but he's a very high level one.

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    Yep, peaking at it.

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    #79  Edited By CENTURlON

    Spiderman is not my favorite charterer but he is not street level. He has taken on the hulk

    he is super fast

    and he has been in more than street level missions

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    I'd say he's either somewhere in middle tier or very low powerhouse. But Street Tier is just to low. His powers go together perfectly and there is no such thing as a street tier that would last 5 seconds against him. I don't think I wank Spidey I just simply form an opinion on what he's done. Because official Marvel stuff is broken. They said Spidey is the 4 strongest character in the marvel universe just behind Thor, Hulk, and Thing. Which is upside down.

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    I also find this hilarious because in almost every battle vine people say he's at most top street tier and there are people here saying he might be powerhouse.

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    #82  Edited By Cybernetics

    He was a Street Level many decades ago.

    Now he is Mid Tier now, a very low one along Iron Fist.

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    Low powerhouse

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    I consider him low mid by this point. 98% of street tier guys (even top ones) wouldn't be able to beat him.

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    I personally consider him the top of street level, although you could definitely make an argument for him being low mid.

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    #87  Edited By thigfa

    Considering his feats, speed and most importantly his spider sense, he's easily a Mid Tier or Low Powerhouse character now and has been for quite a long time.

    Without Spider-Sense though, I'd put him in a lower tier since he becomes extremely vulnerable without that power.

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    He is in that limbo between street leveler and mid-tier.

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    His heart is in the streets of New York. He doesn't need to jump on a plane and fly to Germany (I'm looking at you Tony Stark.) to get into a fight. But he will rise to the occasion if needed.

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    I’d say street level, but with the maxed out stats of one without being considered a true mid.

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    He is around town level and massively hypersonic+ speed, so no he is far above what you call a street level tier.

    What the heck, what did he do to be town level?

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    #94  Edited By Antebellum

    Yes, he is.

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    He is among the Top.

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    @power_hunter said:
    @jonathancarlton said:
    @power_hunter said:
    @jonathancarlton said:

    He is around town level and massively hypersonic+ speed, so no he is far above what you call a street level tier.

    What the heck, what did he do to be town level?

    https://www.fanverse.org/blogs/spider-man-feat-spider-man-saves-the-hulk.22488/

    Sure, now show the other 10982028398 showings he has below City-Block level. It's ridiculous to use outliers when discussing a character's power level.

    A character who is many tonners weaker than Spider-Man has this many consistent feats over here:

    https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Matthew_Schroeder/Deadpool:_Merc_with_the_Durability

    So 5 City-Block/Multi-City block feats.

    5 feats way below that level(he wouldn't be able to survive the following without healing factor):

    Street-Level

    Building level

    Wall level

    Street-Level

    Street-Level

    Also he is consistently hurt by regular bullets/blades(Street-Level).

    So, what's more consistent, your feats, or my feats?

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