So this is my first complete Spiderman story. Pretty short but this kind of took I different route than what I was expecting when I started. I just went with the flow. I watched both of the Amazing Spider-Man movies last night and instantly fell in love with them, now theyare my favorite movies. Great animations considering... its freakin Spiderman! I may or may not have been kinda sorta fangirling all over the place...
Disclaimer: I do not own Spiderman or the Amazing Spiderman even though it is so epic! Even though I may be amazing too I am not nearly amazing enough to create SM! :'( :'( I'm making myself sad.
Enjoy!
New York City. The Big Apple. Home to many, many people, innocent civilians as well as wanted criminals and villains. Also home to a certain spider themed superhero.
To some –most really- Spiderman was a menace, a criminal just like those he supposedly brought to justice. He was an unwanted vigilante that should be locked away. He was not unaware of this, the fact that most people, people that he daily risked his life to protect, hated him, wanted him gone. It bothered him more than he would have liked.
But, what kept him going, what drove him to continue to help these cold, hateful people (people he heard an actual fan of his call spidey-haters), was the fact that he knew there were still some people who believed in him. People who saw him as a–their hero, a protector. What he was trying to be. He knew there were people who looked up to him, maybe even saw him as a symbol. A symbol of hope.
This encouraged him to lie to his dear Aunt May and keep secrets despite how much he hated it, all just to protect her. To sneak out of his window at all hours every single night. To be late for or even skip classes, school. To push away friends so they wouldn't get to close to his secret. To put up with the ridicule and hate from those he protected. To take on the big baddies and nearly get killed every day. To go out every day and night only to come back with new bumps, bruises, cuts, burns, broken or fractured bones, torn muscles , concussions, bullet wounds… the list goes on and on… It was all to protect the city, even those who hated him.
And yet despite all he did, every time he turned on the news, or looked at a newspaper, or even walked out the door, he would hear the reporters call him a menace and talk about the newest warrant for his arrest, see the word menace or wanted above his picture or by his name, hear people talk about 'that menace Spiderman' and how much they want the 'wall-crawling menace' to get shot by the police.
He knows all this. He hears, sees, reads it all. But he also knows that without him, who else would stop people like the Lizard? Who else would stop people that weren't really people at all? The police could only handle so much of it and he had the power to handle the rest. It was now his burden, his responsibility to protect the innocent people of New York who couldn't protect themselves.
So he would fight. Fight for everybody, the so-called 'spidey-haters' and the spidey-lovers alike. Because he knew that with his great powers came his great responsibility.
First off, both of The Amazing Spiderman rocks! #2 was as epic as #1 so watch it!
Of course I watched 1 for the first time a few hours after watching 2 in the theaters so some of 2 was confusing. Can't wait for it to come out on DVD!
*cough cough* Anyway, was it good? Bad? Hope you enjoyed shorty up there. Review!
