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This article is about Spider-Man from the Web of Shadows game. If you are looking for other incarnations, see here.
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Black Cat: Well darling, I promised you this city, and it's yours. What do you desire? We wait your commands sir. Spider-Man: I always believed that with great power came great responsibility.... Black Cat: And now? Spider-Man: I never knew what power was.
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~ Spider-Man embracing the symbiote's dark influence.
Peter Benjamin Parker, better known as Spider-Man, is the titular main protagonist of the 2008 video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, a game that gives the player the choice to go down the path of villainy and evil or heroism and justice. This article focuses on the evil half and writes about the game's "what if" situation where Spider-Man becomes a supervillain.
Peter Benjamin Parker was once a nerdy teenager whose life changed once he went on a school field trip. There, he was bitten by a radioactive super-spider and watched how his entire body begin to change. These changes made up him inhumanly durable, strong, and fast, as well as allowed him to sense nearby danger and scale 90 degree angles. He later built a pair of web-slingers that fired indestructible spider-webbing, sewed up a spider suit, and become the loyal protector of New York City under the vigilante alias Spider-Man.
At some point, he was bonded to the Venom symbiote, which made him more aggressive and violent, and boosted his powers tenfold. After he removed it, the symbiote ended up in the hands of the disgraced reporter Eddie Brock (who blamed Parker for the loss of his career), creating Venom. The two tangled a couple of times before declaring a temporary truce. Said truce was broken a few years later, with Brock again Spider-Man's enemy.
As a villain in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows[]
During a one-side fight with Venom, Spider-Man acquires his symbiote suit again, but the difference is that the suit isn't trying to control him, and stays passive, but influences his temper. He develops a selfish attitude, brutally beats criminals, and threatening villains such as Vulture to not get in his way, does anything to get the job done, frees Rhino from prison in exchange of his help in stopping the symbiote invasion, and convinces Electro to vent his hatred against the symbiotes, responsible for what happened to him and his sister. He uses his symbiote instead of his normal red and blue suit, but he seem to care about Felicia and rekindles his relationship with her, cheating on Mary-Jane, later making a copy of his symbiote for Felicia in order to heal her wounds after a fight.
Later after he has freed Vulture from the symbiote, he listens to Vulture saying that Venom cannot be stopped by the Tinkerer's device, and if he lets the device work his power from the symbiote will vanish forever. Vulture convinces him to destroy the device and embrace the power of the symbiote, who covers his former red suit, permanently bonding with him. Spider-Man replies that Vulture is right on one thing, that it's only about him and Venom, and nobody should interfere, pushing the device off, with Black Widow asking what was going on, and he responds by saying that he spared Venom three days ago, and that he's going to die.
Widow then replies that she knew that Spider-Man could never save the city, but it's interrupted by Venom, who has invaded the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier, and Spider-Man orders Vulture to bring him to the Helicarrier. Vulture gives him advice on how to stop Venom, and wishes him luck, joining the battle along with Rhino, Electro, Black Cat and Spider-Man for the Helicarrier, who armed the bombs in order to destroy the Helicarrier and Venom.
When Spider-Man is ready to arm the bombs and it's teased by Vulture, Venom appears as a giant five-headed monster. Spider-Man tells him why he did this. Brock wanted to protect the innocent, but Venom responds that Brock is a small part of them, and that Spider-Man's power will complete him. Spider-Man refuses and they begin to fight, where he destroys his other four heads, and shoots the bombs, making Venom fall off, but he grips on at the last moment. Spider-Man then lures Venom by calling Brock, who appears out of the giant symbiote, but tells Spider-Man that he cannot control it anymore, and calls for help on a platform, with Spider-Man shouting to take his hand. Depending on player choice, Spider-Man will either temporarily remove the symbiote in an ill-fated attempt to help Brock (which results in Brock killing himself to destroy Venom once and for all) or trick him and throw him into one of the Helicarrier's wings, killing both Brock and Venom and causing the Helicarrier to crash into the Hudson River.
Endings[]
In two of the four endings, if Spider-Man turns evil and becomes the ruler of the symbiotes, then it branches in two variants depending on the last choices.
Villain Ending: If the player chooses the Black Suit option after defeating Symbiote Black Cat, she joins him to lead the symbiotes and becomes his new lover.
Anti-Villain Ending: If the player chooses the Red Suit option after defeating Symbiote Black Cat, Spider-Man would rule the symbiotes alone, vowing that Mary Jane would be at his side.
Spider-Man then maliciously raises his hands as the symbiotes cheer him on.
In both endings, the game ends with Black Widow appointing the symbiote-possessed Wolverine (who was torn apart by Spidey earlier to remove his symbiote) to seek Spider-Man out "dead or alive".
As a villain in the Nintendo DS version[]
The DS version of the game has a similar story, but instead of 4 endings, it only features two.
Spider-Man deals with an ongoing symbiote invasion, and gets infected with one and regains his Black Suit, now with the ability to activate and deactivate it. Spider-Man assissts Green Goblin and re-activates power in the area to enable a bomb set up to take out symbiotes. Later in the game, Spider-Man assists him again, commenting that Green Goblin will actually do something, and helps him set up bombs. While this doesn't seem to make a change in Peter's personality in gameplay, helping Green Goblin influences Peter into embracing the symbiote's power and becoming a supervillain, as evident by the end of the game.
Spider-Man later in the game locates Venom and battles him, but the villain merely states that he isn't the one behind the invasion, but rather one, powerful Super Symbiote that he was looking for as well. Spider-Man finds the Super Symbiote and beats it, and escapes the collapsing symbiote hive.
Nintendo DS Ending[]
Unlike the PC version, the DS game features two versions instead. To get the evil ending, you must help Green Goblin twice.
After Spider-Man defeats the Super Symbiote, he is shocked to learn that he was now in charge. The symbiote infected civilians begin worshipping Spider-Man as they say that New York is in his rulership, much to his surprise and satisfaction. Taking on the role of ruler of all the symbiotes, Spider-Man embraces super-villainy and abandons his morals, ending the game with the line, “Great power. Great responsibility… Ehhh… great power is plenty.”
