Web Shooters

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Origin

Mechanics

The trigger lies flat in his palm and requires a quick double tap of his middle and ring finger to activate. This keep him from accidentally discharges his web when making a fist or holding an object. Each shooter has an adjustable nozzle to allow for strong strands for web-slinging or wide dispersal for web nets, shields, cushions, and more. The shooter’s nozzle reacts to minute flicks of Spider-Man’s wrist to adjust the spray.

Each shooter has a compartment for a small cartridge of concentrated web fluid which he had developed at home using a chemical set he had. He keeps spare cartridges in a belt under his costume for easy access. In later times, he improved them by installing a rotating carousel that automatically reloads a web cartridge should the current cartridge inside the chamber of the webshooter runs out of web fluid. A steel pin breaks the cartridge, ready to shoot web for webswinging or ensnaring villains. The webshooter is also prone to malfunction, thus Peter needs to have constant maintenance to prevent his webbing to explode and tangle himself.

His clone, Ben Reilly, use a modified webshooter that is much the same as Spider-Man's but the difference is that it is worn outside his costume. Peter daughter from an alternate future, May "Mayday" Parker, aka Spider-Girl, use the same webshooter her "Uncle" used. As a Valentine's Day gift, Peter gave Mary Jane a modified webshooter disguised as a bracelet that she can use for self-defense.

Webbing

When Spider-Man taps into his webshooter trigger, the web fluid is shot from a small nozzle. When the web fluid comes in contact with the air, it solidfy into a rope-like material that Spider-Man use to webswing across the New York skyline. The harder Spider-Man taps into the trigger hard enough, the nozzle widens its opening, making the web coming out of the webshooter wider. The webbing produced by these cartridges is ultra-strong, but dissolves in about one hour’s time. This is why New York City isn’t covered in discarded webs. Spider-Man has improved his webbing formula over the years as he gained access to better labs and chemicals, and he has also developed variations on his web fluid formula for use against specific villains such as when he fights Venom he has an extremely strong and sticky webbing, insulated webbing against Electro, acidic webbing to melt through Rhino's tough hide and flame-retardant webbing to fight fires or fire elemented enemies. When Spider-Man fought the Blob, he intentionally took one of his web cartridge and threw it towards the villain, the cartridge broke, exposing the web fluid in the air, overwhelming the Blob into a mesh of webbing, leaving him stuck for the police to arrest him. Ben Reilly, aka the Scarlet Spider,develop his own special web called Impact Webbing, a ball of web that engulfs a villain into a coccon and Stingers, darts that has a sedatives to tranqulize anyone hit by it.

Organic Webbing

In the story arc, Avengers Disassembled, Peter has evolved biological webshooters located in his forearms. He developed spinnerets under his forearm that can trigger in a similar means to his original webshooter, but without the burden of constant repair of the device and costly web fluids. The strength and elasticity of the organic webbing is unknown but it is speculated to be more stonger than the synthetic and is said that it depends on Spider-Man's current health and nutrition. Unlike the synthetic webbing, the orgain webbing last for a week until it dissolves. But ever since One More Day, Peter has lost the ability of organic webbing and is therefore using his webshooters again.