World Why does Spidey quip?

[Sawyer]

Someone mentioned it being a defense mechanism?

 

[Norman Osborn]

Someone mentioned it being a defense mechanism?

1/ To anger his opponents into making mistakes
2/ So he doesn't have to think about the danger he's in....keeps his mind off the fact that the guy standing across from him wants to eat his brains

 

[The Joker]

1/ To anger his opponents into making mistakes

It works very well on Ock :

 

[Scissors]

*prints out comic page*

thanks for having a new page at my spidey collection,doc

it worked on the hulk too

spidey: hey you green-big-smelly-gamma-dude!

hulk: u insult hulk?!?

(dutch spiderman comic)

 

[3dman27]

1/ To anger his opponents into making mistakes
2/ So he doesn't have to think about the danger he's in....keeps his mind off the fact that the guy standing across from him wants to eat his brains

i agree with this

 

[walternewell]

Drives his opponents nuts, plays on their egos. It's a classic tactic.

 

[Dr.Dude]

For his early, teenage years as Spidey, I tend to like the Ultimate explanation --- constantly making the quips keeps him from realizing the absolute danger he's in and just pissing his pants (metaphorically ).

But as he gets further in his career and more experienced, I think it drifts away from that and, while being a technique to anger his opponents, I also think its in some ways an escape --- he can escape from the ordinariness of being himself, Peter Parker, by swinging around town as the confidant, cocky Spider-Man and letting loose with the barrage of jokes and clever, ego-bruising insults he'd never say as Peter.

In some sense, with some of the less homicidal enemies that he quips at the most, like the Rhino, I think its possible Spidey sometimes could even humorously think of them as being like old sparring partners, and probably rarely if ever takes them seriously. Obviously this wouldn't be the case with the major badguys like Ock, Kingpin, Carnage, etc.... but that goes without saying.

 

[webhead731]

It also makes the reader laugh.

 

[3dman27]

and to releive stress[and belive me tanling with spidey's rogues gallery would stress ANYONE]

 

[November Rain]

to be fair, i think it may be more of an ego based thing. Parker still has a lil of the flamboyant wrestler in him, the same figure that perhaps let his uncle's killer glide right by him.

besides, all the stress the has pent up over his day, week, is releaved while he's spider-man so all the frustration that is passed on to him he uses to lash out on others.

Since spidey started out being a hero at a young age, he probably wasn't mature enough to deal with certain emotional situations so this was his outlet. probably over the course of time, his life has indeed improved but he still uses these quips since he's realised that they can also form a means of a useful distraction and work in his favour.

 

[November Rain]

It works very well on Ock :

this was a sad comic, Ock was actually looking for a cure for either cancer or HIV wasn't he?

 

[The Joker]

this was a sad comic, Ock was actually looking for a cure for either cancer or HIV wasn't he?

Yeah, he was looking for a cure for HIV for his former love Mary Alice Burke. Very touching issue.

It was the first time we learned about his past too, and what shaped him into what he has become.