“When You First Started Playing With Yourself”… Hahahahaha Roger, Never Get Tired Of This Video!

When I first fell in love with Spider-Man as a child it was because he was funny.

Whilst Superman and Batman might have cracked the odd joke, they were mostly pretty sober and straight arrow about their business.

Spidey though, he was the guy who you could guarantee would throw out a snarky quip to mock his enemies or sardonically reflect upon his lot in life.

That was what hooked me into him and made me then see all the other wonderful things about him and his world. Although I couldn’t lift a bus or swing from a web, I could crack a joke or two.

Although a sense of humour wasn’t devoid in other Marvel heroes, it was much more pronounced Spider-Man to the point where it was a genuine ingrained character trait. It is as iconic a part of what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man as the webs or the spider bite or anything.

And the thing is…that was all Stan Lee.

No. I do not just mean he was the guy responsible for most if not all of the dialogue so he gets the credit for that.

I mean…that was literally Stan’s personality.

Stan put a part of himself into all his characters but it’s unofficially agreed upon he put more into Peter Parker than his other creations.

Peter was in part Stan’s author avatar playing out a superhero melodrama of life experiences Stan himself dealt with or had witnessed. Even his intended wife, Gwen Stacy, was based upon Stan’s own life Joan (who ironically if you read up on her sounds more like Mary Jane who wound up being Spider-Man’s actual wife).

This especially applied to his sense of humour. A greater sense of humour flavoured the Marvel heroes in a very different way to the DC ones, but in Spider-Man’s case it went beyond that. As I said it was an ingrained trait within him because it was an ingrained trait within Stan himself.

Read or watch any given interview or statement by Stan and 99% of the time you will find more than a few jokes, wisecracks or bits of snark.

Compare if you will Spider-Man’s jokes…

To Stan Lee’s rapid quips in any given interview.

They are so similar because Peter was Stan and Stan was Peter.

Nothing breaks my heart more than Zuko thinking that he’s being welcomed home only to realize he’s meant to be a prisoner....

— clarice lispector, the stream of life

Ekaterina

Little things I loved about Venom (2018)

(people seemed to like the one i did for Love, Simon so here we go away)

Eddie was right, Anne is a suit is 👀👌

the part with Anne leading Eddie to the bedroom with her tie was amazing, Eddie is such a bottom I just can’t

Drake telling the little girl that she’s in charge (I know he’s a dick but that was cute)

the bartender shutting Eddie down

Eddie’s whole interaction with Maria

“Meditation doesn’t work because I bought a DVD from your cousin and it’s in Mandarin.”

also, in that scene, you could see how much Eddie wanted to help

“How’s Mr. Belvedere?”

Eddie getting suspicious when Maria wasn’t there to charge him for the newspaper

the whole part with him calling Skirth out for obviously following him (I love the parallel of him seemingly talking to himself when talking to her vs seemingly talking to himself when talking to Venom)

Eddie immediately trying to help Maria despite not knowing if it would put him in danger

the whole chase scene sequence in the woods

*grabs steak and bites it* “That’s dead!”

the lobster tank

Dan, very patiently, trying to talk to Eddie in the lobster tank

Venom randomly blurting “Food!” because big mood

Eddie screaming when he first saw Venom in the mirror and knocking himself out

the neighbor’s reaction to Venom

“Is there a parasite that could make me climb a really tall tree but like super, super fast?” Eddie you dumb bi disaster

the entire chase scene through the city, especially the angry reaction to ‘parasite’ and Eddie and Venom bantering

“Oh, that was pretty cool, I’m not gonna lie!”

pretty much all of the dialogue of that scene

“I am Venom and you are mine” wow, okay, you possessive bastard

Venom correcting Eddie to say 'we’ instead of 'I’

Eddie protecting his security guard friend

Venom admiring the city while Eddie’s just worried about the height

“No, we do not eat policeman!”

Eddie and Venom running after Anne like in that vine, you know the one

Eddie asking for help like a reasonable person, his voice breaking and everything

Venom immediately liking Anne

“Aww, that’s nice.”

“You can hear him?” “All the time.”

Eddie’s it’s been less than 48 hours don’t be overdramatic

Riot bonding with a little girl, it added an extra creep factor that was just perfect

Eddie getting pissed at Venom and Venom insisting that he can heal him and telling him not to listen to Anne and Dan

“You were killing me? What happened to we?!”

because 1. Eddie pretty much calling Venom out for being a loser and 2. Eddie was already pretty committed to being a we

Venom using the dog as a host and Anne immediately recognizing them

the whole exchange with Drake/Riot

Eddie holding his own without Venom

Eddie making out with Venom/Anne without any hesitation

Venom admitting he’s a loser

“You. It was you, Eddie.” Fucking iconic.

Eddie and Venom reaching for each other

“You talk too much.”

Riot stabbing Eddie, I literally gasped even though I already knew it happened

Venom crawling over to Eddie while vaguely romantic music played in the background

“Traitor.” “Have a nice life.”

“Goodbye, Eddie.” Like c'mon, how am I not supposed to view this as a romance

Eddie (not very successfully) hiding Venom from Anne

Stan Lee’s cameo!!! Especially Venom asking, “Who was that guy?”

the whole ending scene that tied a bunch of stuff together

that post credit scene!!! I mean!!! Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady!!! Him writing 'Welcome Eddie’ in blood!!!! The setup for Carnage!!!!

anyway Venom (2018) is one of the best romantic comedies I’ve ever seen and all the critics who gave it bad ratings are dumb cowards

Goodnight Iron Man

Rami Malek and Joe Mazzello in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

I am a hopeless romantic who SOMEHOW cannot fathom sweet talk directed at me.