5 Spider-Man Comics Darker Than Any Batman Story 

I really miss 80s Spiderman, when dark stories had meaning and purpose, and weren't written purely to shock.

100% of comments are roasting the guy in the video lol

Comments: 99% the jokes are cringey 1% Other

As cringey as he may be, he is still funnier than amy schumer.

Really, not gonna talk about Osborn's illegitimate children from when he raped Gwen Stacey growing up and being trained to kill Peter, because they were told that he killed their mother? Not dark enough for ya?

so thats why in marvel vs capcom 3 if you beat firebrand with spiderman he says “ *You know you sort of look like the guy who ruined my marriage* “

Peter: *Reveals his identity to the world* Everyone in his rogues gallery: *Goes after him and his loved ones* Peter: :O

Bruce: My parents died... Peter: That's cute.

I think the worst part about eating your son would not be digesting him, but then having to shit him out again...

Dear God, 20% of this video is Tony standing around looking at the camera waiting for jokes to land. Stop it Tony.

You know what’s the darkest Spider-Man story He’s still haven’t got his pizza in pizza time

99% saying he is not funny 1% wants to know the names of the god damn comics

And again...too many silence moments. Its not fun when you push it

I don't know? Nothing can really top Batman accidentally getting a kid killed by a trash compactor. Edit: Nvm. Eating your own son is much worse.

The awkward silences are literally killing me

He never mocks Kingpin. He actually never speaks during the fight

Oh....we're still doing the old.....outdated.....overly done cringy pause comedy......!?!?

There were many awkward silence moments throughout this video. Great video though, thanks for dredging up memories of the clone saga I had long ago repressed away in my brain.

Everyone comes back to live but what about Stacy's mom? She's got it going on, I hear.

I have Kraven’s last Hunt. My mom bought it without neither of us knowing what was coming. I finished it at school and hid it in my backpack when I saw the suicide so the teachers wouldn’t decapitate me in public.

Holy shit. His cringey jokes made this vid unbearable.

A video showcasing the most terrible dark, horrible and disturbing moments of spiderman...... all while having a hipster making awful puns and jokes to jolly piano cartoon music in the background.

Ben: I have been killed and brought back to life again and again and again it's horrible Deadpool: AM I A JOKE TO YOU

See, Spider-Man is one of my favorite characters, and when Marvel stops protecting him and lets him out of the normal comfort zone, it is such a stark contrast to his normal persona. This is why, I so badly want to see his darker stories brought to life on the big screen, or even in a well done Netflix show, something to show us the darker side of Peter Parker and alternative Spider-Man characters. Do them as R-rated, and not hold back. Kid friendly is all well and good, but us adults want to see the darker stories brought to life, and done so with great attention to detail with story, even if the stories are slight retellings.

The dead jokes and long pauses take a great video... It's like instead of just having an ice cream cone you're having an ice cream cone while stepping in shit.

Spiderman made me learn all about cloning, at the age of 10. Now im an environmental scientist.

“when peepee puts on the black suit, he does some pretty bad things”

"Darker than Batman" You do realize that in the new comics, Batman killed his entire bat family, turns children into mini jokers, poisons Superman and made him kill Lois Lane and proceeds to kill everyone on earth, then moves on to other Universes where he joined other Dark Knights that also massacred their own worlds to wreak havoc in the multiverse?

Just a reminder that the law in Civil War was for superhumans to reveal their identity to the government, not the public. Peter got his friends and family killed because he believed strongly in something he didn't read past the headline. He's the superhero version of everyone's crazy aunt on Facebook.

Spider-Head "Don't Deal With The Devil"

"Embarrassingly goofy guy." Let that sink in..

OKAY RU-vid I WATCHED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!?!?!?!

The long silent pauses were *very* annoying. Becides that it was a good video

Dude, the list was pretty good. You were cringy AF though.

Batman: I'm the darkest hero ever. Spider-Man: 2:20

7:18 Me and the boys

Too many pauses that went on for a second or two (or more) too long.

Your long silence awkardness is too cringey

WHY DIDNT YOU TELL THE COMIC OF MARVEL ZOMBIE WHEN HE EATS MJ AND HIS AUNT

The Kraven, 4 part series back in the late 80's-early 90's was epic.

Kraven's Last Hunt still stands as the best Graphic Novel/Story-Arc I've ever read. The feeling of dread, anxiety, the display of compulsion, seeing how disgustingly far one would go to to "earn" something (in this case, taking down Spider-Man) it's such a brilliant arc. Life in the Mad Dog Ward was pretty good too, also loved Superior (weird concept, but loved how it was done)

Added to my cringe compilation

Could've cut AT LEAST 2 minutes off this video if you'd excluded the cringey attempts at jokes.

The green “EVERYTHING” ???? Me: “5 seconds later” OH! 🤣 I get it

Great list, the narration of the stories was awesome, but the jokes were fucking terrible. And not just for this list but for the other “5 Darker comics” list. Seriously the joke writers should be charged with war crimes.

Work on the jokes, almost all of them are long pause jokes >_

I remember number 3, my favorite. He destroyed Fisk, threatened him, threatened every prisoner watching and then swung out

Connors: no! You can't just eat my son! Lizard: ha ha! Kiddo goes CHOMP!

Not as dark as emo Parker in Spider-Man 3. Scary...

Sooooooo..........you talked about gwen stacy coming back to life...and you said Stacy's dad but..... *STACY'S MOM HAS GOT IT GOING ON*

RIP Stan Lee Excelsior

Batman: "cute stories kid"

These dont seem darker than "The Batman Who Laughs"

Actually Venom never touched Mary Jane he only scared the s*** out of her.

The bad comedy makes me feel like I'm in 2003.

Video was great, jokes were pretty bad my man.

Love the list, absolutely hate the forced ‘humor’

Sacrifices his life, MJ's love and their future child... to resurrect May... an Old women who might not have lived long enough to see said future child... Seriously... that's Canon? I mean, i love may, everyone does, but lets be realistic here...

I never knew Rhino, Electro, and Hobby died

miles morales is pretty damn dark

I can't stand his "I'm trying to be awkward" sense of humor, waaaayyyyy over done

You're trying too hard.

When death loses its permanence in a story, all of the growth of said character as well as the development of the characters still living through the experience and reconciling with the resulting trauma is potentially made null and void. I imagine this could be the case especially with Spider-Man, a hero who is initially motivated in large part from death. If it wasn't for Uncle Ben's murder, Spider-Man may never have been truly born as a hero, relegated instead to a gimmicky pro-wrestler at best and maybe a criminal at worst. Spider-Man came into his powers as a young and impressionable teenager who was everyone's punching bag and although he has always been a good-hearted youth and smart as hell when it came to academics, he was still a maladjusted young teenager with very little good in his life outside of his family and his potential for a bright academic future. He could've gotten his powers, discovered that his new physicality and abilities could benefit him in ways nothing had before, and this could've lead to extreme behavior that would set him down a dark path before he even knew it, maybe even to the point where there would be no chance at going back. It's not because he is or ever was a bad person, but an acknowledgement that he began as a troubled one. As we all grow and mature, we have our personal struggles that can be more difficult to handle than we realized at the time, and sometimes it might take an extreme change for us to fully understand and grow further as people, and this is true for Spider-Man as well. The extreme of gaining super powers could've been an extreme to take Peter down a road that the hero we know him to be would never dare to follow. In that same vein, the extreme of Uncle Ben's preventable murder was what put things into perspective for Peter, and ultimately lead him down the path of the hero and the man who strives to not only fight crime, but to be better than the man he could've become. If anything, Spider-Man is a character initially built from death, so if there was ever a character who would only be done a disservice by the sudden resurrection of those he has lost, it would be Spider-Man. Before anyone says that Batman is a better example, I respectfully disagree. Batman, although he was both broken and re-forged by the loss of his parents, their death was never truly something he could've prevented. What could a young child do to stop a fully-grown assailant with a gun? Nothing. What could a sixteen year-old with incredible powers enhancing every facet of his physicality making him unto a god when compared to some random thug with a gun do? Everything...anything...if only he had made the conscious choice to do it back when he could. He couldn't have known what would happen to Uncle Ben, but he could've taken the selfless route by stopping the criminal even though he seemingly stood to gain nothing from it while also putting himself in harm's way, something only a true hero would do. If anything, I think that makes Spider-Man's initial failure to act even more significant in a way. With great power comes great responsibility. Peter Parker had the power to act that Bruce Wayne spent his life dedicating himself to, and it was Peter who failed to act when he could have. Peter learned from all of this, even though he did so the hard way. He rose above and from then on sought to be the kind of man his uncle always knew he could be. It was death that originally drove Peter to heroism, and it wouldn't be the last one, either. He is a hero who rises from the ashes of tragedy and death. Despite the grim nature of it all, to take away that experience and suffering would have only served as slap in the face to all that he is and what makes him truly special. If you think I'm wrong, that's understandable and I respect your opinion, but no one would agree with me more than Spider-Man himself.

You can tell he was about to scream at the end

Too many long pauses

Cringe

When I came to the comments I didn’t not expect to see all of these.. Great video and I really love the host!

Happy now RU-vid ? I watched the damn video. Now...GET OFF MY RECOMMENDED !!

Drink water every time he tells a bad joke

Yea boy! Spider-Man's my favourite superhero as well. The Back in Black story really did demonstrate just how powerful Spider-Man is when he's not holding back. One of the few times where, even though he is still holding back A LOT, it's less than usual

Finally!!! Another Web head, he's my fave too. Dude is just awkward and super cool at the same time

Jesus I really need to get back into comics. I never knew Peter was so dark

Batman the man who laughs makes this look like child's play. Please let's try a little harder , ok?

Kraven's last hunt is one of my all time fave comic stories. It was the first comic story that I read as a kid that just really shocked me. This was before I was hip to things like Watchmen or Killing Joke. And you're right. it is because before that Spidy was just the fun dude. The Clone saga though, that broke me as a Spiderman. I was 13 back in 1995 when it came out and I remember being totally bummed out by the ending. Kain was a cool villain though.

Grim hunt was so damn good, especially when he went full predator on the kraven family.

Spider-Man sings to Sandman….” I gotta jar o’ dirt, I gotta jar o’ dirt..and guess what’s inside it?” …..(crickets chirping)

I would consider spider man maximum carnage the darkest spider man comic I read. Carnage kills the asylum staff gets a team of super powered villains together and actually wins. Sure Spider-Man, venom, cloak, dagger, and black cat manage to stop him but he has already leveled the city and killed thousands of innocent people.

weeelll the music isnt quite fitting haha

None of these pale in comparison to the level of darkness that is, "Dark Nights Metal: The Batman Who Laughs"

I thought it was cool, keep it up dude you're doing great 👍

I GOT THAT SANDMAN JOKE.

I guess Marvel Zombies bits were too low hanging fruit. It may have been cheery, but Spidey was the only one among all the zombiefied heroes to constantly admit how wrong it is what they're doing. Plus I remember MZ spidey being mentioned in another dorkly bit.

"No! No. No..." that Joke was way too drawn out

the batman who laughs is darker than all of these

If this guy was on stage for comedy, I would yell “GET OFF THE STAGE”

Why does everyone have to have an akward persona to market but it feels forced rather than actually imperfectly endearing

These jokes were so bad. They were funny. I fricking love your channel :3

7:17 half of the boys are there

More like Peter... Darker?

Squirrel Girl: "she talks to Squirrels..." and defeats Thanos.

Batman is MUCH darker, and by the way much more realistic which makes it even darker

I just realized that I read the comic he talks about for number 2, and yeah, it's dark

If you could cut out the cringy "comedy" moments and just stick to the story telling, this would have been actually enjoying to watch.

I wish you were funny

Non of these are as dark as "Death Of The Family" "Death In The Family" "Death of Damien Wayne." And "The Killing Joke"

Spiderman is cool and a little intimidating most of the time but when he comes after you and dosent talk or joke at all it can be EXTREMELY scary and frightening.

Man your jokes are bad no need for it as well

What about that time when the goblin got gwen pregnant when Peter and her we're dating

Back in Black is literally one of my favorite comics of all time.

The third comic was so dark I don’t even want to hear it again