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* [[Iron Man]]'s enemy, Ezekiel Stane, discovered a way of reducing the energy consumption of the body to only 7%, the best use of this: Repulsor bolts from his hand, [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|is not like he can fight the hunger or something.]] |
* [[Iron Man]]'s enemy, Ezekiel Stane, discovered a way of reducing the energy consumption of the body to only 7%, the best use of this: Repulsor bolts from his hand, [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|is not like he can fight the hunger or something.]] |
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* [[Spider-Man]]'s webbing. Real life spider silk is, pound for pound, stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar, as flexible as yarn, and incredibly lightweight. It's also prohibitively hard to manufacture, as spiders don't "farm" well. Peter Parker somehow has managed to manufacture synthetic spider silk that's cost-effective enough for him to always be in supply; while it does dissolve after about an hour, no adhesive company seems interested in buying the formula and tweaking it to last longer. |
* [[Spider-Man]]'s webbing. Real life spider silk is, pound for pound, stronger than steel, tougher than Kevlar, as flexible as yarn, and incredibly lightweight. It's also prohibitively hard to manufacture, as spiders don't "farm" well. Peter Parker somehow has managed to manufacture synthetic spider silk that's cost-effective enough for him to always be in supply; while it does dissolve after about an hour, no adhesive company seems interested in buying the formula and tweaking it to last longer. |
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** His Spider-Tracers are another example, small "bugs" that he uses when he needs to [[Trick and Follow Ploy|track down a foe]], which he has attuned to his own Spider-Sense. There was even a short arc where he had temporarily lost his powers and considered marketing them after adapting them to more conventional frequencies. |
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** Parodied in ''[[Avengers Academy]]'': Spidey explains to the students in class how [[Ambition Is Evil|he was wrong for trying at first to use his powers for financial gain]] instead of [[Comes Great Responsibility|helping people]] and the students ask why he didn't just patent his webbing and make millions that he could donate to needy charities. Spidey counters that he'd have to give up his secret identity to patent it, but one of them points out he could have used proxies in the form of shell companies to hide the source of the webbing. |
** Parodied in ''[[Avengers Academy]]'': Spidey explains to the students in class how [[Ambition Is Evil|he was wrong for trying at first to use his powers for financial gain]] instead of [[Comes Great Responsibility|helping people]] and the students ask why he didn't just patent his webbing and make millions that he could donate to needy charities. Spidey counters that he'd have to give up his secret identity to patent it, but one of them points out he could have used proxies in the form of shell companies to hide the source of the webbing. |
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*** Or, alternately, Peter could just license his patents to somebody who already knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, is rich enough to pay Peter lots of royalties, and already has an interest in marketing all sorts of advanced technologies. Such as, oh, ''Tony Stark''. |
*** Or, alternately, Peter could just license his patents to somebody who already knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, is rich enough to pay Peter lots of royalties, and already has an interest in marketing all sorts of advanced technologies. Such as, oh, ''Tony Stark''. |
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