Rationale Behind Spidey's "thwip" Two-Finger Motion?
Jun 1, 2019 14:06:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2019 14:06:52 GMT -5
Well since people are trying to apply real world thinking to Peter's inventions, let's start with the reality check that lots of talented inventors die broke and in obscurity for any number of reasons. Some don't have the legal or business acumen the navigate the labyrinth which is the patent process. Some do, only to find someone else has already patented something too similar and they are denied and cannot exploit the idea because someone got there first with something similar. Sometimes corporations buy up patents and let them lie fallow rather than exploiting them because it would compete with other money making products they are currently exploiting.
Finally, for someone like Peter who is paranoid about keeping his identity secret (to the point he was ok with his photos of Spidey being uncredited so he couldn't be tied to Spidey), how would it look if all the patents to Spidey's equipment were from a guy named Peter Parker-let's leave a trail of bread crumbs for all those psychotic super-villains and super-science evil organizations like A.I.M. right to Aunt Mays' doorstep. Tony Stark had the advantage of having the infrastructure in place from his father's company to fund his R&D and to create a path to market for his inventions, a legal department to handle all the patenting and trademark issues, etc. Reed had an academic background and obviously knew the ins and outs of patenting his creations and access to labs for R&d as the FF funded a lot of their operations through his patent profits, etc. Peter, a high school kid from Queens had none of these advantages and connections to help monetize anything he did. He was a prime candidate for being talented inventor who dies broke and in obscurity if he hadn't been bitten by the spider, perhaps he may have been recruited by Oscorp, who would have left him penniless and unknown after they took his best and brightest ideas.
Also of note as to organic webs, not all spiders are webspinners. Some species do not make webs, so it would depend on what species of spider bit him whether he had organic webs or not. And webs shooting out his butt might not have gotten past the Comic Code Authority in the 60s.
-M
Finally, for someone like Peter who is paranoid about keeping his identity secret (to the point he was ok with his photos of Spidey being uncredited so he couldn't be tied to Spidey), how would it look if all the patents to Spidey's equipment were from a guy named Peter Parker-let's leave a trail of bread crumbs for all those psychotic super-villains and super-science evil organizations like A.I.M. right to Aunt Mays' doorstep. Tony Stark had the advantage of having the infrastructure in place from his father's company to fund his R&D and to create a path to market for his inventions, a legal department to handle all the patenting and trademark issues, etc. Reed had an academic background and obviously knew the ins and outs of patenting his creations and access to labs for R&d as the FF funded a lot of their operations through his patent profits, etc. Peter, a high school kid from Queens had none of these advantages and connections to help monetize anything he did. He was a prime candidate for being talented inventor who dies broke and in obscurity if he hadn't been bitten by the spider, perhaps he may have been recruited by Oscorp, who would have left him penniless and unknown after they took his best and brightest ideas.
Also of note as to organic webs, not all spiders are webspinners. Some species do not make webs, so it would depend on what species of spider bit him whether he had organic webs or not. And webs shooting out his butt might not have gotten past the Comic Code Authority in the 60s.
-M
