Why does Spider-Man have so many animal themed villains?

Ah yes, vultures, the ever-present threat to spider-kind.

Because he lives in the concrete jungle.

of course, octopi and spiders are natural enemies, forever at war for the coveted spot as "the first thing people think about when hearing the phrase "eight-legged""

Why does Kingpin hate Spidey so much anyways?

because they are fake totems

>so many animal themed villains
>posts a picture of Kingpin

New York is a concrete jungle

>Scarecrow
>Joker
>Poison Ivy
>Zsasz
>Ventriloquist
>Mad Hatter
>Black Mask
>Ra'as al Ghil
>Anarchist
>Hugo Strange
>The Riddler
>Two-Face
>Killer Croc
>Killer Moth
>Firefly
Doesn't seem like many to me

>conventionality forgot Penguin and Cat Woman

Because Kingpin is The Rhino's secret identity.

Because Kings are one of the spider's natural predators

>Rhino
>Octopus
>Cat
>Jackal
>Raptor

>natural predators of spiders

Dude....

I fucking kek'd

>Catwoman
>Villain

Wew lad

...

what about Kings who ARE Universal spiders?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XI_of_France

The Spider King obviously had issues with the Rhino King, Vulture King, Octopus King, and King King

Goddamn

>not pins

>Is a villain for the first thirty years of her existence
>thirty years of being an anti-hero somehow erase this

WEW
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He's amassing his furry squad.

This may be one of the greatest Cred Forums posts ever made.

>black cat
>she's actually white

What's a Mysterio

Pretty sure because Stan Lee.
>inb4 he never created anything
He came up with silly names/concepts, other people made them work.

Hell he's still fucking doing it
variety.com/2016/film/asia/stan-lee-monkey-master-china-india-coproduction-1201866632/

In other words: it's easy to think of animal-themed characters and it works, like aliterattive names.

I liked the JMS totem posers concept and I'm running with it.

Spiders technically have 10 (sometimes more) limbs though.

Scorpion's tale looks like a big green dick there

I'd read a run about one of Spidey's villains actively trying to tap into their totem powers.

>insect-themed superhero
>animal-themed villains
idk you tell me

Man, goblins sure are a spider's most natural enemy.

it's tentacle themed!
and bondage.
and brainwashing/hypnosis/pheromones
Octopus, Sandman, Hydro, Silk, that JMS female villain

I actually enjoyed that explanation.

I'm not even sure if this post is serious or not but I can't stop laughing

tying the bondage knot when?

Read Coming Home.

That's more like natural enemy.
But I admit I always did think that was the shtick of their rivalry.

It's goes with his bat theme. All his animal based villains are natural predators of bats.

Did they every try to explain the Goblin with that?

How can this be? Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom!

Spider robots the natural predators of spiders...

I didn't know fireflies ate bats

I'd be willing to say a spider's enemy is MAN.

And it was a MAN who killed Uncled Ben.
So yeah.

Thats completely incorrect. All spiders have 8 legs. All arachnids for that matter do, its what makes them arachnids. You might be thinking of their feelers that are near their heads, which aren't limbs but sensory organs.

Newspaper editors are the natural enemies of spiders!

of course, without them people wouldn't have rolled-up newspapers to whack spiders with

So Kraven the Hunter has an excuse to team up with him.
>Kraven, no that's not a real rhino.

yea i was under the interpretaton that spiders' natural enemy were the hunters, then goblins

never got the cleverness behind this until you spelled it out for me, even though it isnt very clever since almost none of his villains are jungle animals

Goblin Totem duh

My grandpa was having trouble with Spiders in his plot where he grows beans and potatoes and whatnot.

I suggested he introduced some natural predators to take care of them without pesticides.

Fucking rhinoceroses keep trampling everything, now.

No spiders, though. 10/10

Which is why they all job to Spider-man

she was an anti-hero from the begining

Ah yes, vampires. Jealous of the spider's bloodsucking habits, they declared eternal war against them.

>All spiders have eight legs. Spiders also possess a pair of shorter limbs called the pedipalps, that in males serve as sex organs.

According to JMS, animal-totems like Spider-Man and the Black Panther naturally attract pretenders out to kill them.

But we do not speak of Spider-Totem nonsense here.

Holy fuck, this thread.

I hate that this makes any kind of sense.

Where were you during the Octopus-Spider war?

then why'd you bring it up dingus

Holy shit you mean all those robots was just a waste of time?

Yes. He's the Devil.

Rhinos, octopus, chameleons, fishbowls, lions, holes, fat bald men, goblins, space goo, bunnies.

I can see sand being the natural enemy because they can't blink. But sandman isn't much of a problem to spiderman

The Spider-Totem shit was cool, I liked that it gave an angle for mystical stories while still allowing for the traditional science based interpretation (both of which JMS did).

Morlun was really cool in his initial appearance, it was when Slott made Spider-Verse that the totems got shitty

except for that alt u sandman that killed that alt u spider-man