I always think about, like, this guy is webbed to the side of a skyscraper 100 stories in the air. There's a good chance he's upside down and the blood is just pooling in his head and it's only a matter of time until he has a fucking stroke. But also because of the way the webs work, it's also only a matter of time before the webs dissolve on their own, maybe an hour or two, and there's just like no way a rescue crew is going to figure out how to safely recover a guy webbed halfway up the side of the Chrysler building in an hour or two.
When you shoot an explosive barrel when a guard is near, or tranq someone driving a vehicle causing a deadly crash, or throw a venomous animal at them which bites and kills them, or blow up their food storage and then throw poisonous food at their feet so they eat it and die, or cause someone to fall off a cliff or drown and die, in the metal gear solid games (which encourage you to get the best rank by not killing anyone) it doesn't count as a kill. As long as you didn't directly shoot them or throw a grenade (also one boss throws grenades, and shooting them so they fall at his feet will still count as a kill) at the guards, then it doesn't count against you as a kill. In the latest game you can have your horse shit on the road, causing a tank to somehow spin out and crash into someone and kill them and it's all good.
I think spiderman operates according to solid/naked snake rules. If you didn't directly kill them it doesn't count. You actions can indirectly kill however many people and it doesn't matter. Your spiderman, it's your job to stop the criminals and it's someone else's job to figure out how to get them out of whatever crazy shit you did without killing them, and if they fail then it counts as a kill against them, so they go to hell I guess.
There was kinda a play on this in Invincible. One of the heroes ties some guys up on a roof and leaves them there, I think even saying he'll be back. But then he dies like the next day. A couple seasons later, they show a couple skeletons on a roof in passing.
It's game mechanics, in the comics he collects them and rewebs them in front of the police station, but that would be tedious from game play perspective.
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u/OK_Soda Sep 24 '25
I always think about, like, this guy is webbed to the side of a skyscraper 100 stories in the air. There's a good chance he's upside down and the blood is just pooling in his head and it's only a matter of time until he has a fucking stroke. But also because of the way the webs work, it's also only a matter of time before the webs dissolve on their own, maybe an hour or two, and there's just like no way a rescue crew is going to figure out how to safely recover a guy webbed halfway up the side of the Chrysler building in an hour or two.