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Chris Wallace
11-20-2004, 07:20 PM
If you were unfamiliar w/the comics, would you think the spider-sense only alerted him to threats he couldn't see or wasn't aware of?
TNC9852002
11-20-2004, 08:38 PM
I don't think I've ever read a Spider-Man comic.. :(

-TNC
Chris Wallace
11-20-2004, 10:44 PM
Ok-so answer the question.
Alexander
11-20-2004, 11:01 PM
Usually, the Spider-Sense works when the writer REMEMBERS that he DOES have a Spider-Sense. David Michelinie managed to NOT use Spidey´s sense during eleven issues, simply because he forgot that he had this power!
Chris Wallace
11-21-2004, 07:57 PM
Eleven issues? I didn't know that. But it has nothing to do w/the question I posted.
Alexander
11-21-2004, 09:07 PM
The spider sense is supposed to alert him about upcoming threats of any kind. He can use it for anything, from avoiding sneak attacks to dodging bullets (seriously!).

Except when they want to put Spidey in some kind of REAL danger. That´s when the Spidey sense is conveniently dropped.
HerosOnFilm
11-22-2004, 04:28 PM
If you were unfamiliar w/the comics, would you think the spider-sense only alerted him to threats he couldn't see or wasn't aware of?

If I was unfamiliar, yes, I would get that impression. Take the cafe scene...he didn't know Ock was going to throw that car at him and MJ!
Chris Wallace
11-22-2004, 05:45 PM
Thank you, HOF, for actually addressing the question.
SpiderGurl
11-24-2004, 06:33 AM
I agree with HOF, he knows his spidey stuff.... :spidey:
Chris Wallace
05-17-2006, 03:21 PM
Anyone Else?
Trevor Goodchild
05-17-2006, 05:50 PM
Heh...I'm not sure, I can't predict alternate realities now, can I?
But, if I was interested in it and actually played enough attention to every effect…I would say no.

But anyways, come on people, not this again?
Even if he does alert him of every danger or not, who said Spidey is fast enough to react to it all the time...or better yet, let me rephrase the question - who said Spider-Man is fast enough to react to all the different danger alerts coming at him in a row, like say...Goblin fists?
Geko
05-18-2006, 01:23 AM
Well, based on the first fleshed out instance of Spider-Sense, the fight with Flash, I would believe that, when threatened, Spidey becomes hyper-aware of EVERYTHING around him
Chris Wallace
05-18-2006, 08:18 AM
Heh...I'm not sure, I can't predict alternate realities now, can I?
But, if I was interested in it and actually played enough attention to every effect…I would say no.

But anyways, come on people, not this again?
Even if he does alert him of every danger or not, who said Spidey is fast enough to react to it all the time...or better yet, let me rephrase the question - who said Spider-Man is fast enough to react to all the different danger alerts coming at him in a row, like say...Goblin fists?
Ok-those of us in the know are well aware that the ability to detect danger is nullified if there are threats everywhere. It'd be like someone w/a metal plate in his head, a huge belt buckle, pins in his hip, a metal watchband, eight chains around his neck, a ring on every finger & a pocket knife going through a metal detector.
Trevor Goodchild
05-18-2006, 08:29 AM
Dude, but it all really in fact is.
Geko just clearly pointed it out.
Peter was well aware of every attack Flash and his sidekick did and he was quick enough to dodge them all. While in a fight against the Green Goblin or Dock Ock he couldn’t, both being much faster and stronger than an average human beings and, in addition, Spidey still learning of all his powers in one case and having problems with them in an other…
Chris Wallace
05-18-2006, 09:54 AM
"Dude, but it all really in fact is."
Huh?
matthooper
05-18-2006, 02:15 PM
If you were unfamiliar w/the comics, would you think the spider-sense only alerted him to threats he couldn't see or wasn't aware of?

Yes.
Trevor Goodchild
05-18-2006, 03:13 PM
"Dude, but it all really in fact is."
Huh?
...nevermind...
Spydey_27
06-16-2006, 04:18 PM
If you were unfamiliar w/the comics, would you think the spider-sense only alerted him to threats he couldn't see or wasn't aware of?


Yes, yes I would...:up:
Chris Wallace
06-16-2006, 04:54 PM
I remember there was this one time he was trying to disarm a bomb, & his spider-sense was blaring relentlessly. He said something along the lines of "Like I didn't know this was dangerous!" But in the cartoons & movies, we only really see him getting alerts from unseen or unannounced threats.
Eggyman
06-16-2006, 06:41 PM
I think the point is thou, that in the cartoons and movies they dont need to show the spidey sense when the threat is obvious, but that doesn't nessasarily mean it doesn't happen. Any form of visual entertainment has to rashion how much it shows; too much information is no information at all. where as books and comics feed off detail, it's what makes them rich - so the more detail given will enhance the experience.
Chris Wallace
06-17-2006, 12:24 PM
Yes-I'm well aware of that. It's just that the result is an unintentional miseducation.
Ongie
06-18-2006, 10:16 AM
If you were unfamiliar w/the comics, would you think the spider-sense only alerted him to threats he couldn't see or wasn't aware of?

Yep.
tzarinna
07-01-2006, 12:37 AM
I would have to say yes as well
spideydave
07-11-2006, 10:18 AM
Usually, the Spider-Sense works when the writer REMEMBERS that he DOES have a Spider-Sense. David Michelinie managed to NOT use Spidey´s sense during eleven issues, simply because he forgot that he had this power!


BLASPHMEY!!!!
Chris Wallace
07-11-2006, 10:51 AM
Seems a goofy thing to overlook.
Doctor Octopus
07-22-2006, 06:59 AM
If you were unfamiliar w/the comics, would you think the spider-sense only alerted him to threats he couldn't see or wasn't aware of?

Just watching SM-2??

Yes. Every time it went off it was for dangers he did not actually see.
Chris Wallace
07-23-2006, 04:37 AM
Like the car & the rapidly approaching end of the line for the train.
warpdrive
07-23-2006, 04:46 AM
I think it more like a six sense I even heard in old spider-man comic that a villain commented on the difficulty of catching him, "its like he has some sort of six sense or somwthin' ":spidey:
Chris Wallace
07-23-2006, 06:55 AM
It is. And it in fact reacts to all dangers (Except for Venom, Carnage, & for some odd reason clones) regardless of whether or not he's already aware of them. Now sopme writers like to argue that it does not respond to anyone whom he doesn't consciously deem a threat. Example: He knows Aunt May would never hurt him, so if she came up behind him wanting to hit him in the back of the head, he'd never know. I think that's just stupid. But I digress.