Why Spider-Man Fights Like That - Fighting Styles in Games Explained
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Date: 2023-12-10
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-thetruth2258
The way of the spider. It's a fighting style he has developed on his own, which works very well for him. Since he also uses his webs, and spider sense to their absolute function and potential. Not to mention that even though spiderman isnt -buff- like the Hulk, he is by no means a weakling. He can hold his own with even the Hulk himself(spiderman can potentially lift 100 tons, due to his strength, skills, agility, speed, gadgets, webs, spider sense, and now combine that with a fighting style that fits him well. VERY OVERKILL.
Sometimes it just make you question how he controls his punches, just so he doesnt kill people when fighting them.
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The way of the spider. It's a fighting style he has developed on his own, which works very well for him. Since he also uses his webs, and spider sense to their absolute function and potential. Not to mention that even though spiderman isnt -buff- like the Hulk, he is by no means a weakling. He can hold his own with even the Hulk himself(spiderman can potentially lift 100 tons, due to his strength, skills, agility, speed, gadgets, webs, spider sense, and now combine that with a fighting style that fits him well. VERY OVERKILL.
Sometimes it just make you question how he controls his punches, just so he doesnt kill people when fighting them.
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-megatrondon4611
You have no idea what you're talking about. Spiderman is so strong due to his powers that he struggles to pull his punches and has to take his non powered enemies hits like they've actually landed a strike to prevent their fists from shattering.
This was portrayed well in the MCU. Spiderman leisurely catches the winter soldier's fist mid air and inspects the -metal arm- approvingly in the MCU's Civila War. In the Infinity War, spiderman casually stops an attack that would've struck an immobilizer Iron Man. The enemy who's name escapes me was robust and strong enough to take hits designed to punish the hulk.
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You have no idea what you're talking about. Spiderman is so strong due to his powers that he struggles to pull his punches and has to take his non powered enemies hits like they've actually landed a strike to prevent their fists from shattering.
This was portrayed well in the MCU. Spiderman leisurely catches the winter soldier's fist mid air and inspects the -metal arm- approvingly in the MCU's Civila War. In the Infinity War, spiderman casually stops an attack that would've struck an immobilizer Iron Man. The enemy who's name escapes me was robust and strong enough to take hits designed to punish the hulk.
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-razeenrajaful
Saying he doesn't have the strength but relies on his agility alone is like saying Muhammad Ali was only fast and didn't have any knockout power. But for both Ali and Spidey, speed is there main strength, for Ali because he was faster than he was strong, for Spidey because he was too strong so he has to hold back. Also I'm surprised at the lack of Muay Thai with how many elbows and knees he uses but especially Taekwondo. I mean, his arsenal is 90% kicks and just like Boxing is the best punching martial art, Taekwondo is the best kicking martial art, and he uses a lot of Taekwondo moves, like a lot.
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Saying he doesn't have the strength but relies on his agility alone is like saying Muhammad Ali was only fast and didn't have any knockout power. But for both Ali and Spidey, speed is there main strength, for Ali because he was faster than he was strong, for Spidey because he was too strong so he has to hold back. Also I'm surprised at the lack of Muay Thai with how many elbows and knees he uses but especially Taekwondo. I mean, his arsenal is 90% kicks and just like Boxing is the best punching martial art, Taekwondo is the best kicking martial art, and he uses a lot of Taekwondo moves, like a lot.
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-BigStarRealFamous
Wait, so your thesis is that in the Spider-Man game, Spider-Man's fighting style is a combination of three fighting styles and one of those fighting styles is Spider-Man's fighting style? I mean, you probably just could have said it was a combination of those two fighting styles and talked about the comic book influences separately.
That may have made the video seem less cohesive, but at least then it wouldn't be thoroughly underwhelming when you get to the third one and you're like, -Oh, Spider-Man fights like Spider-man. Sure. -
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Wait, so your thesis is that in the Spider-Man game, Spider-Man's fighting style is a combination of three fighting styles and one of those fighting styles is Spider-Man's fighting style? I mean, you probably just could have said it was a combination of those two fighting styles and talked about the comic book influences separately.
That may have made the video seem less cohesive, but at least then it wouldn't be thoroughly underwhelming when you get to the third one and you're like, -Oh, Spider-Man fights like Spider-man. Sure. -
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-samuraisharkie
Everyone always says it-s most definitely Way of the Spider, despite that being something that most definitely didn-t happen in Insomniac-s Spider-Man, never mind the fact that Peter was fighting as Spider-Man for years before that event ever happened. More than enough time for him to develop his own fighting style. I-m also pretty sure there are several accounts in different media of Spidey developing his moves through online research, watching videos and reading. Pretty fitting for a superhero that-s also a major nerd.
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Everyone always says it-s most definitely Way of the Spider, despite that being something that most definitely didn-t happen in Insomniac-s Spider-Man, never mind the fact that Peter was fighting as Spider-Man for years before that event ever happened. More than enough time for him to develop his own fighting style. I-m also pretty sure there are several accounts in different media of Spidey developing his moves through online research, watching videos and reading. Pretty fitting for a superhero that-s also a major nerd.
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-Nimasho2go
I mean, Spider-Man is inhumanly strong. It is said multiple times that he holds back so as not to kill people, so the argument that he uses Lucha Libre to fight because he can't overpower his enemies is kind of a false flag. He can do it easily, so it's more likely that he does it because of the acrobatic spectacle. He has been known to sling insults and one liners all throughout fights, so he's not above using some over the top moves to throw his opponents off and confuse them.
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I mean, Spider-Man is inhumanly strong. It is said multiple times that he holds back so as not to kill people, so the argument that he uses Lucha Libre to fight because he can't overpower his enemies is kind of a false flag. He can do it easily, so it's more likely that he does it because of the acrobatic spectacle. He has been known to sling insults and one liners all throughout fights, so he's not above using some over the top moves to throw his opponents off and confuse them.
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polygon
Ok so you said he had three influences for his fighting style, you talked about capoeira & luche libre, so whats the third influence? I know you talked about his experience in comics, but I was expecting a here's a third or another real world example instead of: here's three influences capoeira, luche libre, and he had multiple fights with baddies. end video. what's the third influence? because the final talking point is more general than anything that the other two had.
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Ok so you said he had three influences for his fighting style, you talked about capoeira & luche libre, so whats the third influence? I know you talked about his experience in comics, but I was expecting a here's a third or another real world example instead of: here's three influences capoeira, luche libre, and he had multiple fights with baddies. end video. what's the third influence? because the final talking point is more general than anything that the other two had.
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-gunbladeuser19
Spiderman has to use fighting forms that work with his web-slinging momentum. Peter Park is only like 5ft 8in and at the most like 170lbs with his muscles. He swings around to throw as much of his mass with momentum to make heavy hits. So if he misses a hit he also needs to agile and flexible enough to rebalance himself make a counterstrike. It's what you gotta learn to do when you're the smaller fighter in a big fight.
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Spiderman has to use fighting forms that work with his web-slinging momentum. Peter Park is only like 5ft 8in and at the most like 170lbs with his muscles. He swings around to throw as much of his mass with momentum to make heavy hits. So if he misses a hit he also needs to agile and flexible enough to rebalance himself make a counterstrike. It's what you gotta learn to do when you're the smaller fighter in a big fight.
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polygon
He doesn't do Way of the Spider in this game. This is Spider-Man at his most core, high school/university days. I understand they had him learn martial arts in the comics, but that's not Spider-Man at his most core. He'd be way overpowered then. Plus, this game wouldn't feel like a Spider-Man game, it's just feel like a heavily modified Batman Arkham game with Spider-Man as the main character.
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He doesn't do Way of the Spider in this game. This is Spider-Man at his most core, high school/university days. I understand they had him learn martial arts in the comics, but that's not Spider-Man at his most core. He'd be way overpowered then. Plus, this game wouldn't feel like a Spider-Man game, it's just feel like a heavily modified Batman Arkham game with Spider-Man as the main character.
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-leonorf2730
Big fan, but this specific video was extremely hard to watch with recent revelations on the long-term effects of TBI in mind.
That capoeira head kick made me feel physically sick, like I had clicked on the wrong gif on reddit. The video is honestly excellent, but gleeful depictions of people getting seriously injured is not what I watch Polygon content for.
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Big fan, but this specific video was extremely hard to watch with recent revelations on the long-term effects of TBI in mind.
That capoeira head kick made me feel physically sick, like I had clicked on the wrong gif on reddit. The video is honestly excellent, but gleeful depictions of people getting seriously injured is not what I watch Polygon content for.
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-Karliff5
Considering Spider-Man has enough physical strength to bench press a building and always pulls his punches against non-powered enemies, his Capoeira style moves make a -lot- of sense if you consider that maybe he doesn't put his strength behind those strikes, instead allowing just the centrifugal force to provide the energy of the blows.
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Considering Spider-Man has enough physical strength to bench press a building and always pulls his punches against non-powered enemies, his Capoeira style moves make a -lot- of sense if you consider that maybe he doesn't put his strength behind those strikes, instead allowing just the centrifugal force to provide the energy of the blows.
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polygon
-spiderman doesnt always have the strength. -
meanwhile, spidey in canon can lift 50 times his body weight, and is easily strong enough to rip limbs off of human beings on a whim. he uses fluid motions because he needs to pull his punches for fear of turning criminals into meat juice with one punch.
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-spiderman doesnt always have the strength. -
meanwhile, spidey in canon can lift 50 times his body weight, and is easily strong enough to rip limbs off of human beings on a whim. he uses fluid motions because he needs to pull his punches for fear of turning criminals into meat juice with one punch.
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-g. i. e
Late comment, but this was a very very cool video, if Pat wants to do more of this, all of the characters in the Arkham series have very distinctive fighting styles that would probably make for a fascinating exercise to dissect.
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Late comment, but this was a very very cool video, if Pat wants to do more of this, all of the characters in the Arkham series have very distinctive fighting styles that would probably make for a fascinating exercise to dissect.
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-edwardnygma8533
4: 43 I mean, he doesn't use the strength to do so, but he totally could. He's constantly holding back and pulling his punches when fighting so he doesn't kill anyone outright.
Mostly.
-side-eyes Brian's video-
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4: 43 I mean, he doesn't use the strength to do so, but he totally could. He's constantly holding back and pulling his punches when fighting so he doesn't kill anyone outright.
Mostly.
-side-eyes Brian's video-
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-marylandman8638
From every Spider-Man game I-ve played, Peter seems to fight like a Pro Wrestler or a MMA Fighter. I know in the comics he-s learned Martial Arts from other heroes like Black Widow, Captain America, & Iron Fist.
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From every Spider-Man game I-ve played, Peter seems to fight like a Pro Wrestler or a MMA Fighter. I know in the comics he-s learned Martial Arts from other heroes like Black Widow, Captain America, & Iron Fist.
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-hoodlum4511
My take of Martial arts of spider-man
Capoeira
Taekwondo
Lucha libre/wrestling
Karate (spidey's uppercut is literally Ken's shuryukin come on guys)
Muay Thai
And jiu jitsu
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My take of Martial arts of spider-man
Capoeira
Taekwondo
Lucha libre/wrestling
Karate (spidey's uppercut is literally Ken's shuryukin come on guys)
Muay Thai
And jiu jitsu
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polygon
Spider man dances while fighting. Considering the fact that being annoying to his enemies is Spidey-s style, I love how he fights liek he-s dancing while cracking jokes (Or quips, you can say)
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Spider man dances while fighting. Considering the fact that being annoying to his enemies is Spidey-s style, I love how he fights liek he-s dancing while cracking jokes (Or quips, you can say)
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-diogocampos1855
When I was playing spider man I noticed the technics are capoeira because my friend trains that martial arts, I've seen the performance before without using the internet.
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When I was playing spider man I noticed the technics are capoeira because my friend trains that martial arts, I've seen the performance before without using the internet.
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-jeiku0719
Spider Man should use Muay Thai IMO, solely because it's known as -The Art of Eight Limbs- due to the employment of elbow and knee strikes. Or maybe I just like puns too much.
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Spider Man should use Muay Thai IMO, solely because it's known as -The Art of Eight Limbs- due to the employment of elbow and knee strikes. Or maybe I just like puns too much.
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-adams00111
Capoeira is badass because the dance like movement is there to teach how to dodge gunfire by moving sideways (remember 19th century guns werent automatics) smart and cool.
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Capoeira is badass because the dance like movement is there to teach how to dodge gunfire by moving sideways (remember 19th century guns werent automatics) smart and cool.
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-entropias_gonos
Was the 3rd influence. the comics! Weren't you already trying to dissect the reason Spider man fights like that in the comics also! Am I missing something here?
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Was the 3rd influence. the comics! Weren't you already trying to dissect the reason Spider man fights like that in the comics also! Am I missing something here?
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polygon
Fun fact: shang chi trained spider-man till the point spidey made his own martial arts, it's called -way of the spider-, I wonder if in the mcu they'll fight each other
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Fun fact: shang chi trained spider-man till the point spidey made his own martial arts, it's called -way of the spider-, I wonder if in the mcu they'll fight each other
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polygon
Now I-m no martial artist but are we gonna ignore the way he fought in the cutscene where he fights some homeless dudes? Someone give me a fighting analysis on that.
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Now I-m no martial artist but are we gonna ignore the way he fought in the cutscene where he fights some homeless dudes? Someone give me a fighting analysis on that.
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-spideratty1517
If you think about it Spider-Man is stronger than the world breaker hulk because he is pretty much a god tier hero because he is the ultimate spider totem
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If you think about it Spider-Man is stronger than the world breaker hulk because he is pretty much a god tier hero because he is the ultimate spider totem
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-TheDancerMacabre
Spiderman also poses like that because he sells the pictures of himself.
He needs to look stylistic and attention grabbing so he can sell the photos
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Spiderman also poses like that because he sells the pictures of himself.
He needs to look stylistic and attention grabbing so he can sell the photos
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-jasonallen4999
Since you did Spider-Man. You guys should totally do Silver Sable because Spider-Man states that she just might be the best pure fighter he's ever seen.
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Since you did Spider-Man. You guys should totally do Silver Sable because Spider-Man states that she just might be the best pure fighter he's ever seen.
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-g3njutsu
This is super interesting! Spider-Man is my favorite superhero and one of the reasons for that is his fighting style that is so fascinating and fun to watch!
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This is super interesting! Spider-Man is my favorite superhero and one of the reasons for that is his fighting style that is so fascinating and fun to watch!
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-Abbot-sy3ip
If you've played the silver lining DLC in one mission spiderman tells sable he get his moves from watching movies. So yeah. That's one thing
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If you've played the silver lining DLC in one mission spiderman tells sable he get his moves from watching movies. So yeah. That's one thing
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-Eclipsed_Archon
-A sense of fun, and a pleasure of movement that is quintessentially Spider-Man-
That's one of the best lines I've ever heard.
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-A sense of fun, and a pleasure of movement that is quintessentially Spider-Man-
That's one of the best lines I've ever heard.
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polygon
Thank you for this great video. Can-t wait to replay the game on ps5. Sometimes there are just things that we gamers take for granted.
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Thank you for this great video. Can-t wait to replay the game on ps5. Sometimes there are just things that we gamers take for granted.
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