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Related: About this forumThe horrible truth about Spiderman’s Anatomy
I was on a panel a few weeks ago discussing mutations, and what they can and cannot do. Spider-man was one of the topics, because the sad truth is that the Comics industry has conspired in a G-rated cover-up to hide his terrible, terrible affliction.
Spider-mans spider webbing talent isnt what you think it is. Sure, male spiders do have special appendages on the front of their bodiesthey are really noticeable boxing gloves. They actually can be up to 20% of a male spiders body weight.
Those are not, however, what spiders shoot silk or webbing out of. These pedipalps have one function. SEX.
That white, sticky stuff Peter Parker is shooting out of his wrist? Um. Yeah.
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dkf
(37,305 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,927 posts)Are you TRYING to get this thread locked?
Warpy
(111,406 posts)that the poor man can't even clap his hands.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I'm just trying to picture how the comic book creators or the film producers would make THIS work...!
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/the-horrible-truth-about-spidermans-anatomy/
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I can't even remember the first time I heard the word, but I have a distinct impression that it made me laugh. I suppose I was thinking of the musical number "T'ain't nobody's business if I do" or something!
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
Superman is an alien, an extraterrestrial. His humanoid frame is doubtless the result of parallel evolution, as the marsupials of Australia resemble their mammalian counterparts. A specific niche in the ecology calls for a certain shape, a certain size, certain capabilities, certain eating habits.
Be not deceived by appearances. Superman is no relative to homo sapiens.
What arouses Kal-El's mating urge? Did kryptonian women carry some subtle mating cue at appropriate times of the year? Whatever it is, Lois Lane probably didn't have it. We may speculate that she smells wrong, less like a kryptonian woman than like a terrestrial monkey. A mating between Superman and Lois Lane would feel like sodomy-and would be, of course, by church and common law.
chalky
(3,297 posts)"But with kryptonian muscles behind it, Kal-El's semen would emerge with the muzzle velocity of a machine gun bullet. (*One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?*)"