Ultimate Spider-Man: Difference between revisions

* [[Animal Motifs]]: It's the same rogues' gallery.

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Kraven the Hunter. He's built up as a highly skilled warrior who decided to take down Spider-Man. Peter isn't even remotely interested in fighting him (he'd just beaten Doctor Octopus at the time) but when Kraven insists, Peter simply dodges a few times then knocks him out with a single blow.

* [[Arch Enemy]]: Norman Osborn, Kingpin, Dr. Octopus, Mysterio.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Notable in the Venom arc, when Eddie Brock's former roommate lists off the reasons why he hates him; he always lies, he freaks out when girls reject him, and he gets Cheetos crumbs on everything.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Peter Parker

* [[Beat Panel]]: Used regularly ([[Decompressed Comic]] and all that), but possibly most amusing in 118:

<[[Love Triangle|Peter, Kitty and MJ]] glare at him><br />

'''Johnny:''' And now you're-- And she's--<br />

'''Johnny:''' Oh. }}

** Another brilliant instance is when Jean Grey tells Peter he's the first guy in months not to immediately picture her naked.

'''Peter:''' Okay, now. }}

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: More like a pair of Betty and Veronica ''balls''. At any given moment beyond a certain point, Peter will be torn between two of the following: Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, Black Cat and Kitty Pryde. Though who plays what role and to what extent there is an actual Betty and Veronica role is thoroughly explored and played with, this trope sees a lot of general use throughout.

** Justified in the case of the supposed cure. {{spoiler|Mary Jane was injected with what was likely a different version of the serum, since it was concocted by an evil clone using damaged equipment and incomplete notes. One may be cured and the other may not. It could also depend on the dosage.}}

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Possibly Peter. At one point he runs through a short list of the hot girls he's met through being Spider-Man.

* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: After {{spoiler|Gwen's death}}, Peter decides to give up being Spider-Man because he feels he's not making any difference. This lasts ''less than a week'' when he comes to the immediate realization that he simply ''can't'' ignore people in distress, no matter what.

** {{spoiler|Even the new anti-mutant laws which forbid the use of mutant powers did not stop Kitty Pryde from playing superhero and saving the life of her ex-boyfriend more than once.}}

* [[Cloning Blues]]: The Clone Saga, which features a total of five clones of Peter, one of which is female, and a {{spoiler|Gwen Stacy clone}}. The latter two became major characters.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: The Bombshells are a mother/daughter supervillain pair who both (especially Lori the daughter) swear like marines. Peter {{spoiler|and Jessica}} constantly call them out on it. They are cute, though.

** Peter also gets ''really'' pissed off with the [[Ultimate X-Men|X-Men]] [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/240093.html after they finally undo] a [[Freaky Friday Flip]]:

'''Colossus:''' Why am I an #$@#$@? I was just standing here. }}

* [[Cool Big Sister]]: Ultimate Gwen Stacy comes across as this rather than a [[Love Interest]].

* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Averted this time- Norman WANTED to be recognised for his work in this version (he never had any crazy plans about taking over the criminal underworld) but there was just two problems with his plan to sell his super-soldier goblin formula to the government: a) his formula sucked and b) he was a psychotic murderer.

** Lampshaded when Mysterio is introduced.

** Peter actually does this quite often, thanks to taking the [[Comes Great Responsibility|"Power and Responsibility"]] message ''very'' seriously. It's averted again when he tries it on Shocker {{spoiler|when Shocker [[Not So Harmless|captures him, chains him up and tortures him]].}} Shocker, who IS actually a mechanical genius, tells Peter how he had a legitimate job at Roxxon Industries inventing powerful weapons, until [[Start of Darkness|they took his stuff and fired him]].

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: {{spoiler|Kitty Pryde. After the events of Ultimatum, she developed Super Strength and Invulnerability. If the Ultimate X-Men/Ultimatum Fantastic Four annuals are used as a reference, she should be able to smack around superhumans like The Thing with ease.}}

** [[That Man Is Dead|A similar trait]] [[The Spectacular Spider-Man|has been reused more recently.]]

* [[Dope Slap]]: From chapter 119, while talking to a certain [[Playing with Fire|fire-wielding character]] who's having a bad day:

'''Spider-Man:''' <[[Dope Slap]]> }}

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: {{spoiler|Gwen Stacy}}'s death, so much so that Bendis {{spoiler|brought her back}}.

** Also {{spoiler|2 of the clones from the clone saga -Ultimate Kaine and Ultimate Tarantula-}} who were not only killed off with casual disdain but whose deaths weren't even given more than a moment's acknowledgement.

'''Peter:''' This is weird. Well, let's go. }}

*** That's not paraphrasing, that's ''the actual dialogue.''

* [[Heroic BSOD]]

* [[Heroic Bystander]]: ''Hollywood'': A black stunt double in a Spider-Man costume brains Doc Ock with a camera.

** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], of course.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|They didn't call the last storyline "The Death of Spider-Man" for nothing. Peter takes a bullet meant for Captain America, but forgoes treatment to save his friends and family from the attacking Sinister Six, finally succumbing to his wounds after putting down the Green Goblin.}}

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: The Shocker, particularly after his big [[Motive Rant]]. To a lesser degree, the Hobgoblin (very sympathetic, but not really around enough for the perennial failure necessary to be this trope. Worth an honorable mention though).

* [[It Got Worse]]: Describes Peter's life pretty well, lampshaded during ''Ultimatum:''

** And after {{spoiler|the Hulk, he finds that an army of mystical beasties escaped Dr. Strange. Yeah, ''Ultimatum'' was not kind to anyone. Ironically, ''Spider-Man'' was the only series that didn't rack up a casualty list in the event.}}

** Also the whole "Ultimate Chameleon" arc.

** Because its all set in about the same six months, yeah, Decompression at its finest.

** Bendis stated when the series hit 100 issues that his intention was for 100 issues to equal roughly 1 year.

** Subverted, when he started dating Kitty & he tried to pull this on her - she pointed out that it's not a problem with her as she's one of the X-Men, and she can turn intangible.

* [[Jerkass]]: Flash Thompson

** And one more girl has indeed showed up : Lana Baumgartner, {{spoiler|a.k.a the Bombshell daughter}}, new transfer student. Time will tell if she will really be a part of the equation, but things are off to a good start!

* [[Male Gaze]]: Peter is standing in a lift next to Elektra and can't stop staring at her but glances away every time she looks at him.

'''Elektra:''' [[My Eyes Are Up Here|Stop staring at them.]]<br />

'''Spider-Man:''' What? No. What? I was--<br />

* [[Super Serum]]: Oz, Norman Osborn's attempt at creating a replacement for the long-lost [[Super Soldier]] serum that created Captain America.

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: When Peter, Bobby & Johnny fought the Serpent Squad

** There was also the time when Johnny said he'd just made out with a hot girl that Peter knew as Spider-Man, and Peter listed all of the girls he'd met as Spidey.

'''Peter:''' That I'm not dating and in love with. }}

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Peter delivers a rather poignant one in issue #65, about why Flash is likely going to be a horrible person as an adult. Subverted, in that Flash ''doesn't actually hear it'' and it comes as a result of Kong trying to defend Flash's [[Jerkass]] tendancies again.

** Captain America delivers one to Peter in issue #156, calling him out for acting like an [[Shaped Like Itself|immature teenager]] instead of a soldier & behaving irresponsibly. Whilst Cap has a point ''based on his own experiences with Peter'', Peter is also justifiably insulted and asks if Cap's now "going say something ''more'' insulting?". Of course, {{spoiler|Cap is proven ''horribly'' wrong throughout the remainder of the arc}}.

** In issue #160, Peter delivers one to {{spoiler|Norman Osborn, [[Punctuated Pounding|while beating him down.]]}}

* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: Defied. Spidey initially assumes this is what Nick Fury is talking about when he says that he's not going to do anything to him while he's still a kid, telling him to enjoy his solo time before he's 18. Peter takes this as a warning that he'll be imprisoned or experimented on when he comes of age, and berates Fury for this. Fury cuts him off, saying what he ''actually'' meant is that when Parker turns 18, he's going to be allowed to officially ''join'' the Ultimates as a peer and work alongside the other established heroes.

* [[This Is Sparta]]: Some quotes in the series have examples of this trope.

** Issue #160. {{spoiler|Peter dies.}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Peter & Aunt May get to simultaneously pull this on each other during the Clone Saga.

'''Peter:''' You knew {{spoiler|my dad was alive}} and '''you didn't tell me!!!''' }}

* [[Whip It Good]]: Montana

* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Things are looking up in Peter's life. He's well liked by the general public for once and no longer viewed as a criminal. He's getting official superhero training to prepare him for a life of government sanctioned celebrity level superheroism. He's been guaranteed a high paying job at [[Iron Man|Stark Industries.]] JJ knows he's Spider-Man and not only gives him his old job back but also gives him a payraise, an infinite get-out-of-jail free card that let him ditch work to be Spider-Man, and free college tuition should he survive long enough to go to college. Peter even gets his old girlfriend back as a cherry on top. {{spoiler|Almost immediately after this turn of good luck he [[Taking the Bullet|takes a bullet meant]] for [[Captain America]] and dies in a [[Dying Moment of Awesome|final battle with the Sinister Six]].}}

* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Lampshaded.

'''Mary Jane:''' You should put it back. }}

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: It's a teenaged Spider-Man. ''Of course'' this trope applies. After the Human Torch & Iceman joined the cast, this trope applied to them as well.

* [[You Killed My Father]]: {{spoiler|Gwen}} believes this of Spider-Man for a long time, even when it was obviously not true.

* [[Your Mom]]: Peter once used one of these when he was confronting a gang of street hoodlums, then immediately [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] the fact that humour of that kind was normally beneath him.

'''Hoodie One''': IZZAT HOW IT'S GONNA BE!? (attacks Spider-Man) }}

 

** This borders on [[Harsher in Hindsight]] (and a little bit [[Hilarious in Hindsight|hilarious]]), since Miles always wanted to meet Peter. He does, just not the one who he expected.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Though Miles is in no way the supreme snarker that Peter Parker was, he is learning, and like Peter can be rather sarcastic in his inner monologues. In issue #07, he gets in a couple of [[You Fight Like a Cow|battle quips]] during his battle with Omega Red, even mentally scolding herself for how bad they are, and Omega Red actually takes one of the quips as a sign that it's the same Spider-Man:

'''Spider-Man:''' I did? ''*inner monologue*'' He did. Crazy. }}

** Definitely in the blood. After Miles [[Heroic BSOD|mopes]] through dinner:

'''Jefferson:''' Congratulations, it's a teenager. }}

* [[Death Glare]]: One of the residential staff in Miles' dorm gives Miles an insanely evil one for a non-villainous side-character (Miles had just sneaked around the RA and into his dorm without the RA noticing). It doesn't help that he's randomly got ''striking'' hazel eyes.

* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|I Let Spider-Man Die]]: Part of the reason why Miles became Spider-Man is that he feels that his inaction when he received his powers caused Peter's death. In his mind, if he decided to meet Peter, maybe he could have saved him or at least helped him.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Miles has one once his uncle The Prowler begins blackmailing him.

'''Ganke''': Aw, dude. }}

* [[Idiot Ball]]/[[Distress Ball]]: Got tossed around a bit in the 5th issue, when Electro awakes. [[Iron Man]] tried to take him head-on, but had...some logical weaknesses. Hawkeye, likewise didn't have any plan B after "put an arrow into it" ([[Annoying Arrows|a distraction in the first place]]). Spider-Woman, presumably not being experienced with Electro, just pounces on him and gets electrocuted for her efforts. [[Nick Fury]] and co. do get him pinned down, despite him being [[Immune to Bullets]]. But the absolute Emperor of this trope has to be the hospital nurse who gave Electro 10ccs of anesthetic instead of 100ccs as prescribed.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Multiple characters when they see the new Spider-Man, and even more when some of them conclude he's the same as the old one. The Prowler has a magnificent one in issue #9 as he gradually learns just how powerful the Scorpion is.

* [[Poke the Poodle]]:

'''Spider-Man''':(immobilized) [[Oh Crap|Ggnn!!]]<br />

'''The Ringer''': '''Come on!! Come on!'''<br />

'''Spider-Man''': I really can't!! Hello!! }}

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: Non fatal example:

''SMACK'' }}

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Kitty Pride, Johnny Storm & Bobby Drake all left the title following ''The Death of Spider-Man'' and joined the new X-Men team.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Upon defeating Omega-Red, there's a panel of Miles punching the sky in victory. Everyone around is just totally disgruntled, picking up hats and broken stuff, ignoring him.

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]:

'''Spider-Man''': All I need to do is smack the crazy ''off'' his face and this is--uh-oh. }}

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: The editors mention numerous times on the letter pages that the appearance of [[All Webbed Up|Web-Shooters]] is predestined and unavoidable.