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“ | My roommate disowned me. My parents were killed in a freak thumb wrestling accident. My life sucks ass. But this city needs a hero, someone who will bring justice to criminals. And it is I, Manspider, who will be the one to do it. | „ |
~ Manspider's inner monologue before setting out to pursue his goals |
Manspider is the titular main protagonist of the sketch-comedy YouTube video, MANSPIDER! by Smosh. He is Anthony Padilla's "superhero" alter-ego after biting a radioactive spider. Although he swears to preserve justice against criminals, he goes about it by attacking anyone he perceives as bad.
Biography[]
Anthony became Manspider while he was working at a construction site. During his shift, he found a radioactive spider, and tried to get it to bite him, thinking it would turn him into Spider-Man. The spider however, didn't want to bite him, so Anthony bit the spider himself, thus becoming Manspider.
With his transformation, Anthony returned home. His new look startled Ian, who asked him what happened. After explaining his encounter with the spider, Ian asked if he was Spider-Man now, to which Anthony corrected him, declaring himself "Manspider". He confessed to Ian that he can't climb walls or shoot webs, much to Ian's disappointment, but reassured him that he still had superpowers, showing he can do use his extra legs to lightly hit people. He does this on Ian, which annoys him, making him punch Anthony in the stomach. Anthony fell to the ground and cried out in pain, stating that fists are his Kryptonite.
Later, in the park, Anthony looks around from the top of a playground as he thinks about the events that have happened to him recently. Ian kicked him out and his parents died in a freak thumb wrestling accident. He declared to himself that he would be the one to fight crime and bring justice. Yet just as he stepped down, he slipped and fell off the playground slide embarrassingly.
Anthony quickly got back up and saw an old man feeding squirrels. Thinking the man was littering, he punched the man in the face and knocked him unconscious. Later, another man asked if anyone wanted to go skinny dipping while he removed his towel. Anthony declared that no one does before whipping the man with a towel, which causes him to fall into the pool and die. A girl in the vicinity complains that she wanted to take a skinny dip. Anthony initially let her, but as soon as she turned around to jump in, Anthony hit her with the towel, killing her too.
After the pool incident, a woman spot Anthony on the sidewalk, thinking he's Spider-Man. Anthony knocked her out to correct her. He does the same thing when a disabled boy calls him the same name. Anthony then erroneously hit an old man who rightly calls him Manspider before he realized his mistake.
Anthony then spotted a boy named Billy Hamburger being bullied in the alley and told the bullies, "Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" The bullies point out they're roughly the same size and weight as Billy. Anthony challenged the two of them to fight and charged in to beat up the bullies, performing an airborne kick. The scene cuts to Anthony shown on a stretcher being wheeled into a hospital's emergency room, having been badly injured as he cries for his mother.
A narrator closes a book called "Crappy Superheroes' stating the events of the video have come to an end and hopefully Manspider is never heard from again. As he said this, Anthony ran into the frame and punched the narrator out a closed window of a high story building before flipping him off six times over.
Victims[]
- Narrator #2 - Punched out of a skyscraper window to his death.
Trivia[]
- Manspider also appeared in the Smosh video "GUYS' GUIDE TO HUGGING GUYS" when demonstrating "The Manspider Hug."
- It is revealed in the outtakes of MANSPIDER!, that the camera man had fallen into the pool during the filming of the skinny dipping scene.
- His name is shared with another villain.
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