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Warning ! Spoilers forThe Amazing Spider - Man # 2ahead !
WhileSentryis often referred to as " Marvel’sSuperman , " due to their similar powerfulness , that title really should go to the friendly neighborhoodSpider - valet de chambre . Superman has a luck of emulator in comics from Marvel and other publishers , but the latest issue ofThe Amazing Spider - Manproves that when characterization , story , and morals are taken into account , it ’s the Wall - Crawler who truly has the most in common with the Man of Steel .
It ’s really only at a cursory level that Sentry fits the placard . He has some of the same power — flight , impregnability , and superhuman physicality to name a few . But a lot of superheroes have this same power set , even if at a comparatively diminished electrical capacity . Besides , if that ’s the only deciding factor , there are figures like Ikaris , Hyperion Blue Marvel , and Gladiator who can all be rotated into Sentry ’s time slot . Truthfully , most of the comparisons are simply interested with whichMarvel character can beat Superman in a conflict . No rational comic devotee would submit Spider - Man as an solution . Yet if considered from a holistic position , Peter Parker hail nigher to Superman than any of those names .
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The Amazing Spider - Man # 2by Zeb Wells and John Romita , Jr. opens with Norman Osborn arriving at Peter ’s apartment , making the Heron intelligibly unquiet . But the former Green Goblin has wrench a new leaf , and now he is really assay to compensate his wrongs , pop by giving Peter something he desperately needs : a caper . Some readers might be surprised at Peter ’s flying willingness to accept Norman ’s change of kernel , but it should n’t be that lurid when taking into accounting the kind of man Peter is . Spider - Man almost always judge to show some compassion to his massive rogues picture gallery , a trait that ’s evident before even calculate for how many ofPeter ’s enemies are hoi polloi he knows . This kindness towards his enemy is the characteristic that aligns Superman and Spider - Man the most .
Peter has developed almost probationary human relationship with some of his foes , peach with them throughout and after their encounters as he attempts to get through to them . He is always undertake to facilitate them see their salutary nature . Most heroes turn a loss any and all empathy when it comes to their archenemies , but that is n’t the case for Peter , or for the Man of Tomorrow . In the acclaimedAll - Star Supermanby Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely , Clark visits Lex Luthor on death words and charges his bane to apply his intellect to make the human race a better post before they both cash in one’s chips . “ I sleep together there ’s good in you , ” he say to a man who has despised him and actively tried to ruin his repute multiple times .
DespiteMarvel ’s many reboots and sliding timescales , Norman is still the man who shoot down Gwen Stacy in most iterations of the universe . For Peter to have any modicum of grace left for someone like that is part of what pee-pee him such an emblematic character . It is this abyssal depth of empathy and notion in the potential for redemption — not a simple power set — that is genuinely evocative of what the Man of Tomorrow act . WhileSentryis for sure a hero sandwich in his own rightfulness and can also leap tall buildings in a single stick to , Spider - Manwill always be Marvel ’s trueSuperman(although , the red and aristocratical costume helps too ) .
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