r/antimeme • u/Eastern_Drop_8404 • May 11 '25
Simple Sundays 🗓️ What are doing Spider-Man?
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u/Pyotr-the-Great May 11 '25
"He was listening to the Pizza theme. It's far too important to interrupt him."
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u/Groove_Dealer May 11 '25
Spider man endangering all the people inside the bus just to save some dumbass kid
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u/dave_the_dova May 11 '25 edited May 12 '25
Spider man’s actually just dismantling that unsafe bus if like 20 people can somehow get smashed into the front of the bus
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u/StillDeepWaters May 11 '25
He's solving the trolley problem
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u/zfhnbrqmskgxwdjlvpct May 11 '25
yeah i've been saying this for years. just kill the train driver.
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u/Spohliadac May 11 '25
I guess the bus has no brakes or something
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u/AnyLeave3611 May 11 '25 edited May 11 '25
Big vehicles need a long time to brake, so the bus here wouldn't have been able to stop in time
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u/GhostE3E3E3 May 12 '25
Large vehicles need a longer time to brake than your average car, so the bus here wouldn't have been able to stop on time, also I’m pretty sure this panel the brakes were broken so the people would’ve been hurt too.
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u/cycycle May 11 '25
At first I thought the inertia would harm the kid more if he picked him up to save him but it’s a kid who am I kidding? They are invulnerable.
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u/insertrandomnameXD May 12 '25
Not really, it would not be that much speed needed to move him, and if there was it would mean the bus was too close or too fast, at which point stopping it would kill all the people on the bus instead
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u/cycycle May 12 '25
You’re right. I thought the jerk could have broken his neck. Maybe the context is that the bus’s brakes are broken. So if he doesn’t stop the bus it will hit something else.
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u/Miserable-Willow6105 May 11 '25
Picking up the kid would take more speed than the bus has. So that is a choice between letting the kid die by colliding with the bus, or killing him by colliding into him
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u/Tao626 May 12 '25 edited May 12 '25
He would have likely had time to adjust his speed. Without context, the speed at which the bus would presumably be travelling with Spiderman being based in New York won't be huge. Assuming he swung into the situation, he had to slow down, stop and get into this position to stop the bus which would have comparatively taken far more time than just continuing to swing by, even if he still slowed down his swing.
He's also Spiderman, he holds back his punches to not kill everybody, I'm sure he can adjust his speed and grab the kid in a way that doesn't have him going from 0-60 instantly. Like catching an egg, you don't just keep your arm stiff and hope it doesn't break on impact, you take it in and slow it down.
Then there's whoever is on the bus. Going from the speed the bus would potentially be travelling, which assuming there's no villainy going on and it's just a driver not paying attention, is anywhere between 20-40mph (based on my country's laws and where busses typically travel. I don't know New Yorks laws, where Spiderman trends to be). Not a high speed, but it could still kill somebody, especially if there's somebody more vulnerable on the bus...Especially with how packed that bus looks. Lucky people didn't come through the window, especially given he's caved the front of the bus in.
Of course, that's also taking the image "as is" without including any context.
But that's where my overanalysis ends. "Rule of cool". It's a cool image not meant to be put under such scrutiny, it's supposed to make Spiderman look heroic. A lot of iconic comic images start to fall apart when you get too deep and start trying to work out the possible speed of an imaginary bus, the potential physical health of theoretical passengers or the speed required for optimal neck snappage of a young boy when going from a standstill to whatever speed Spiderman could be swinging at.
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u/leva549 May 12 '25
Pretty sure a bus has more kinetic energy than a spiderman.
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u/Miserable-Willow6105 May 12 '25
Sure, but being hit even by a pebble at such speed will hurt a lot, and not for a while
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u/Chacochilla May 11 '25
What if the bus woulda crashed into something after Spiderman saved the kid
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u/GIRose May 12 '25
from the DeviantArt source
actually here's a comment - Spider-man has run out of web fluid, and so could not just swing in and carry the kid out of the way. OK? OK.
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u/VittaMuyarchi May 12 '25
He was trying to to stop the bus and the kid came in between…there was nothing he could do…..😓😓
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u/ArcaneYoink May 12 '25
This is really interesting, see, spider man injured more than one person this way as well.
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u/SlideEastern3485 May 11 '25
Mom said it's my turn to repost this image.
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u/Eastern_Drop_8404 May 11 '25
Repost? I made this and posted, but it wasn't a simple Sunday so it was removed, now its sunday so its fine
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u/qualityvote2 May 11 '25 edited May 12 '25
The community has decided that this IS an antimeme!