That would be like saying you were excited about having tacos for dinner, but you never actually bought the meat, cheese or toppings. Just plain silliness.
Well fear not true believers. I'm going to make up for the lack of Spidey related posts starting right now and I'm going big right out of the gate.
How big is big, you ask. How about I start by busting one of the greatest myths in comic-dom.
"With great power comes great responsibility". Never has a more awe-inspiring phrase ever been spoken... or in this case, written.
For those of you who have been living in The Vault for the last 40 years or so, 'With great power comes great responsibility' is the motto by which Peter Parker/ Spider-Man lives his life.
Without that simple principal to help guide him, who knows what kind of man Peter Parker would have become. Let alone what kind of hero.
I guess we all owe Uncle Ben a debt of gratitude for that... You know. For when he sat Peter down on their front porch and as the sun slowly set in the distance, Uncle Ben explained the concepts of power and responsibility. You remember that, right? It was in Amazing Fantasy #15... The big talk... The one where Uncle Ben says that famous phrase, ' With great power comes great responsibility'. You really still don't remember it?
I suppose I can understand you forgetting. Especially since Uncle Ben never actually said it.
That's right fellow nerds, go ahead and pick
your mouth up off the floor, because you heard me correctly. Uncle Ben never
gave Peter any such advice. No matter how many people or movies cite him as the
source.
In fact, if anyone deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for Cool
and Inspirational motto’s that will be quoted over and over again forever, it
would be the narrator of that issue.
Not that I’m trying
to take anything away from Uncle Ben. I’m sure he had a lot of deep and
meaningful things to say that affected Peter’s life. Just not this one really big really important thing.
Oh, here's another nugget of related Spider-man trivia for you.
The saying, ' With great power comes great responsibility' was not the only phrase the writers were considering. There were actually over 80 other possibilities being tossed around. Some were okay and some were so bad all I could do was shake my head, sigh and lose all faith in humanity.
Its lucky for us they chose the one they did, but just to show you how wrong things could have gone, I've selected a few sayings from the list of other possibilities and posted them below.
- With great power comes other stuff
- Don't screw up, Parker!- You take the good/ You take the bad. You take them both and there you have... The Facts of Life
- Good deeds are the sprinkles on life's ice cream
- Kick butt. Take names. Let God sort them out.
- don't be a zero. Be a Hero
I could go on, but trust me, they don't get any better. No sense in putting you through all that pain and suffering. The premier is in just two days and this is supposed to be a happy and joyful time. And so maybe Uncle Ben didn't say 'With great power comes great responsibility'. You know he eventually would have said it, so I still give him credit.
Now go dig out your favorite Spider-Man t-shirt, pre-buy your tickets online and I'll see you at the theater.
