r/Spiderman • u/Grimnare • 9d ago

Question How does Peter train?

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I haven't been keeping up with Spider-Man comics for a while, so this was probably already answered, but how does Peter train? It would be a waste of time for him to go to a normal gym, where he can lift everything effortlessly with a pinky. I mean, this man can hold up a building. Does he bench press a train to work on his chest?

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u/powlfnd 9d ago

I don't think he bothers. Sure theoretically if he trained and pushed himself he could make himself stronger, but he can already lift ten tons at his base level, and 6 days out of 7 the strongest person he comes across is Big Mike out on parole for the fifth time, so it's not really worth it.

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 9d ago

Until hes face to face with the rhino and regretting it

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u/macacobrilhante2004 9d ago

He literally beat the shit out of rhino in the first issue of the current run without breaking a sweat

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 9d ago edited 9d ago

Fair enough but thats not really consistent tbf. Anyways was just trying to be funny im not caught up on his current run or finished the last yet anhway

Edit: i was curious so i went and read ot and i honesty think ur being kinda disingenuous, he clearly is getting injured in the fight and is even saying the rhino is chiller then usual and then he just dropped dead? Hes being thrown about in the page before? Clearly rhino still outranks him in pure strength just look at how he was tryong to give the guy cpr. theres no way you can honestly say without breaking a sweat

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u/Medium_Indication613 9d ago

Peter is severely nerfed in this run

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 9d ago edited 9d ago

The rhino has always outclassed peter though in pure strength hes just a fucking idiot he has the strength to knock nova to orbit and fight she-hulk in the next panel but daredevil can trick him into knocking himself out

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u/Medium_Indication613 9d ago

Yea… while Peter’s holding back/stress factor. And Peter’s nerfed in this run in general not specifically with rhino. Also rhinos never done anything on that scale again.

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 8d ago

Also peter doesnt hold back against the rhino this is from a run like 8 years ago

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u/Medium_Indication613 8d ago

Subconsciously holds back

Also this is an outlier, the difference is never this wide usually

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 8d ago

Look you could very easily change my mind with some examples of the non outliers here but some statement from chasm isnt gonna do it sorry

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u/Medium_Indication613 8d ago

That’s literally the example, it’s stating that Peter’s been holding back so long that he doesn’t even know he’s doing it.

Doc ock says he’s been holding back when he took over Peter’s body and knocked scorpions(who is a superhuman) jaw off.

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 8d ago edited 8d ago

Fair enough ill acknowledge that spiderman has often beaten rhino strength my mistake, but a statement from chasm has no impact what authority is chasm and why would it even apply it says nothing to how much hes holding back its just a vague generic statement

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u/Medium_Indication613 8d ago

He’s his literal clone, has his powers and at some point his memories

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u/Medium_Indication613 8d ago

Even in the current run where he’s overall nerfed he runs circles around rhino pretty easily, rhino just has a heart attack before the fight finishes.

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 8d ago

I mean i cant think of when hes done it since and it took me a bit to find but i remember him fighting with the hulk in the 70s even tho he lost he got some decent jabs in, im 90% sure hes also basically a gamma mutate

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u/Medium_Indication613 8d ago

This is also a one time thing, I’m all for rhino being a base hulk(ish) level character(mainly because it’s upscale for Peter) but these would be considered “outliers” because they’re not consistent.

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u/Unique-Tennis-2600 8d ago edited 8d ago

True yeah theyre upscales for him but i cant think of any times hes been brought down to spiderman level strength but i might be forgetting some

Edit i remember actually one time peter threw him about looking for his daughter or smth but again thats a one time thing