Why does Spider-Man have so many animal themed villains?

i want you to google "Spider"

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>>86645076
>name is spider-man
>spider
>man
>spider
>why does he have so many animal themed villains?

>we want the German audience

It's goes with his spider theme. All his animal based villains are natural predators of spiders.

At one point they tried to explain it with some magical totem-themed shit.

>>86645076
Why does Batman have so many animal themed villains?

>>86645124
Octopuses are natural predators of spiders? Neat.

>>86645154
If you're in the water and small enough everything is your natural predator.

>>86645124
Today I learned rhinos are the natural predators of spiders.

>>86645124
Ah yes, vultures, the ever-present threat to spider-kind.

Because he lives in the concrete jungle.

>>86645154
of course, octopi and spiders are natural enemies, forever at war for the coveted spot as "the first thing people think about when hearing the phrase "eight-legged""

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>>86645195
Why does Kingpin hate Spidey so much anyways?

>>86645076
because they are fake totems

>>86645076
>so many animal themed villains
>posts a picture of Kingpin

New York is a concrete jungle

>>86645142
>Scarecrow
>Joker
>Poison Ivy
>Zsasz
>Ventriloquist
>Mad Hatter
>Black Mask
>Ra'as al Ghil
>Anarchist
>Hugo Strange
>The Riddler
>Two-Face
>Killer Croc
>Killer Moth
>Firefly
Doesn't seem like many to me

>>86645882
>conventionality forgot Penguin and Cat Woman

>>86645440
Because Kingpin is The Rhino's secret identity.

>>86645440
Because Kings are one of the spider's natural predators

>>86645124

>Rhino
>Octopus
>Cat
>Jackal
>Raptor

>natural predators of spiders


Dude....

>>86646492

I fucking kek'd

>>86646131

>Catwoman
>Villain

Wew lad

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>>86645114

>>86646492
what about Kings who ARE Universal spiders?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XI_of_France

>>86646601
The Spider King obviously had issues with the Rhino King, Vulture King, Octopus King, and King King

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>>86646492
Goddamn

>>86646492
>not pins

>>86646554
>Is a villain for the first thirty years of her existence
>thirty years of being an anti-hero somehow erase this

WEW
E
W

>>86645076
He's amassing his furry squad.

>>86645124
This may be one of the greatest /co/ posts ever made.

>black cat
>she's actually white

>>86645076

What's a Mysterio

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>>86645076
Pretty sure because Stan Lee.
>inb4 he never created anything
He came up with silly names/concepts, other people made them work.

Hell he's still fucking doing it
http://variety.com/2016/film/asia/stan-lee-monkey-master-china-india-coproduction-1201866632/

In other words: it's easy to think of animal-themed characters and it works, like aliterattive names.

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I liked the JMS totem posers concept and I'm running with it.

>>86645425
Spiders technically have 10 (sometimes more) limbs though.

>>86649419
Scorpion's tale looks like a big green dick there

>>86649419
I'd read a run about one of Spidey's villains actively trying to tap into their totem powers.

>>86645076
>insect-themed superhero
>animal-themed villains
idk you tell me

>>86645124
Man, goblins sure are a spider's most natural enemy.

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>>86649496
it's tentacle themed!
and bondage.
and brainwashing/hypnosis/pheromones
Octopus, Sandman, Hydro, Silk, that JMS female villain

>>86645139
I actually enjoyed that explanation.

>>86645124
I'm not even sure if this post is serious or not but I can't stop laughing

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>>86655657
tying the bondage knot when?

>>86645076
Read Coming Home.

>>86645425
That's more like natural enemy.
But I admit I always did think that was the shtick of their rivalry.

>>86645142
It's goes with his bat theme. All his animal based villains are natural predators of bats.

>>86649419
Did they every try to explain the Goblin with that?

>>86645124
How can this be? Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom!

>>86645124
Spider robots the natural predators of spiders...

>>86656068
I didn't know fireflies ate bats

>>86645124
I'd be willing to say a spider's enemy is MAN.

And it was a MAN who killed Uncled Ben.
So yeah.

>>86649477

Thats completely incorrect. All spiders have 8 legs. All arachnids for that matter do, its what makes them arachnids. You might be thinking of their feelers that are near their heads, which aren't limbs but sensory organs.

>>86656119
Newspaper editors are the natural enemies of spiders!

>>86656543
of course, without them people wouldn't have rolled-up newspapers to whack spiders with

So Kraven the Hunter has an excuse to team up with him.
>Kraven, no that's not a real rhino.

>>86656251
>>86645124
yea i was under the interpretaton that spiders' natural enemy were the hunters, then goblins

>>86645596
never got the cleverness behind this until you spelled it out for me, even though it isnt very clever since almost none of his villains are jungle animals

>>86656077
Goblin Totem duh

>>86645124
My grandpa was having trouble with Spiders in his plot where he grows beans and potatoes and whatnot.

I suggested he introduced some natural predators to take care of them without pesticides.

Fucking rhinoceroses keep trampling everything, now.

No spiders, though. 10/10

>>86656099
Which is why they all job to Spider-man

>>86647089
she was an anti-hero from the begining

>>86645124
Ah yes, vampires. Jealous of the spider's bloodsucking habits, they declared eternal war against them.

>>86656496
>All spiders have eight legs. Spiders also possess a pair of shorter limbs called the pedipalps, that in males serve as sex organs.

>>86645076
According to JMS, animal-totems like Spider-Man and the Black Panther naturally attract pretenders out to kill them.

But we do not speak of Spider-Totem nonsense here.

>>86645076
Holy fuck, this thread.

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>>86656783
I hate that this makes any kind of sense.

>>86645425
Where were you during the Octopus-Spider war?

>>86657689
then why'd you bring it up dingus

>>86656783
Holy shit you mean all those robots was just a waste of time?

>>86656077

Yes. He's the Devil.

>>86645124
Rhinos, octopus, chameleons, fishbowls, lions, holes, fat bald men, goblins, space goo, bunnies.

>>86645124
I can see sand being the natural enemy because they can't blink. But sandman isn't much of a problem to spiderman

>>86657689
The Spider-Totem shit was cool, I liked that it gave an angle for mystical stories while still allowing for the traditional science based interpretation (both of which JMS did).

Morlun was really cool in his initial appearance, it was when Slott made Spider-Verse that the totems got shitty

>>86660957
except for that alt u sandman that killed that alt u spider-man