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    Web Shooters

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    Web Shooters are Marvel superhero Spider-Man's main defensive weapons and tools. He mainly uses this to shoot webs from his wrist, and a pair was even handed down to his daughter, May Day Parker also known as Spider-Girl.

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    Origin

    Operating Web-Shooters
    Operating Web-Shooters

    When Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider, he found he had the proportional speed, strength, and agility of a spider, as well as the ability to stick to walls. This inspired him to create his signature weapon and most used tool of all, his web-shooters.

    Fitting around each wrist, Spider-Man's web-shooters are easily concealed under his costume like a magic trick.

    Mechanics

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    The trigger lies flat in his palm and requires a quick double-tap of his middle and ring finger to activate. This keeps him from accidentally discharging his web when making a fist or holding an object. Not only does it need a double-tap, Spider-Man's web shooter also needs a strong amount of pressure to activate, beyond what a normal human can produce. 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 web shooter runs out of web fluid. A steel pin breaks the cartridge, ready to shoot web for web-swinging or ensnaring villains. The web shooter is also prone to malfunction, thus Peter needs to have constant maintenance to prevent his webbing from exploding and entangling himself.

    Later added was a voice-activated function. This allows him to shoot continuous blasts of webbing in different directions and forms. It is unknown what else the function can do at the moment.

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

    Webbing

    When Spider-Man taps into his web shooter trigger, the web fluid is shot from a small nozzle. When the web fluid comes in contact with the air, it solidifies into a rope-like material that Spider-Man uses to web-swing across the New York skyline. If Spider-Man taps the trigger hard enough, the nozzle widens its opening, making the web coming out of the web shooter 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 elemental enemies.

    When Spider-Man fought the Blob, he intentionally took one of his web cartridges 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, developed his own special web called Impact Webbing, a ball of the web that engulfs a villain into a cocoon, and Stingers, darts that have a sedative to tranquilize anyone hit by it.

    Organic Webbing

    In the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies (Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man 3), Peter had organic webbing generated by glands in his forearms. This was controversial with fans at the time but proved popular with general audiences.

    To capitalize on this, Marvel decided to introduce the organic web-shooters into the comics during the Avengers Disassembled crossover. In the story arc, Peter evolved biological web shooters located in his forearms. He developed spinnerets under his forearms that can trigger in a similar means to his original web shooters but without the burden of constant build, repair, and upgrade of the device and costly web fluids. The strength and elasticity of the organic webbing are unknown, but it is speculated to be much stronger than the synthetic and is said to depend on Spider-Man's current health and nutrition. Unlike synthetic webbing, organic webbing lasts 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 web-shooters again.

    In Other Media

    Film

    Spider-Man Trilogy

    The prototype web-shooter on display at E3
    The prototype web-shooter on display at E3

    Prior to this, there were plans to have the web-shooters appear in Sam Raimi's original Spider-Man movie. This was changed to organic web-shooters in the finished film. Despite this, the props from the movie were still displayed before its release.

    Amazing Spider-Man movies

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    The web-shooters appear in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In the first movie, it is shown that the webbing was developed from a bio-cable sold by OsCorp, which was made from the webs of the genetically engineered spiders that bit Peter. Peter jury rigs his first pair of web-shooters from a pair of wristwatches but uses a more professional set in the sequel.

    Marvel Cinematic Universe

    The web-shooters in the Civil War
    The web-shooters in the Civil War

    Peter's homemade web-shooters are featured in Captain America: Civil War. After meeting Peter, Tony Stark creates a more advanced version of the web-shooters, complete with a built-in Spider-Signal. The new web-shooters are explored in greater detail in Spider-Man: Homecoming, where it is revealed that they have various settings, such as rapid-fire webs and taser webs. In contrast to the comics, the web-shooters are worn outside the costume instead of underneath.

    Television

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    Though Spider-Man's web-shooters appear in most adaptations, Ultimate Spider-Man is notable for introducing an updated model developed by S.H.I.E.L.D. at Nick Fury's behest. The more advanced web-shooters display a variety of special uses, such as web parachutes and electrified taser webs.

    Merchandise and toys

    From ToyBiz
    From ToyBiz

    Toy replicas of Spider-Man's web-shooters have long been a popular seller, starting in the 1990s. Variations of the web shooter toy have been released multiple times throughout the years by a few different companies, usually to tie into the movies or TV shows. Stephen Kimble successfully sued Marvel after claiming they stole the idea for the toy from him and received a cut of the royalties for many years until production switched from Toy Biz to Hasbro, resulting in a lengthy legal dispute.

    Some Peter Parker action figures have also come with sculpted and detailed web-shooters.

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