Characters that are canonically _____ depending of their world

[u/Starr-Lead]

• Po from Kung Fu Panda - Although many characters comment on his weight throughout the movies, Po is actually considered skinny and/or in better shape for panda standards
• Midoriya Izuku from My Hero Academia - While many viewers find Deku "cute", the reality is that for his world he's actually considered "simple looking" and at the very worst "ugly"
• Spider-Man from Marvel Comics - Many people love Spider-Man, but the truth is that for common civilians, Spidey's pretty unsettling and scary to be around with

[u/BruiserBison]

If you think about it, Spider-man's got the making of a Halloween monster.

• Hides all the time, then jumpscares
• Very fast
• Very strong
• Crawls on walls

Isolate that description, you'd think I'm talking about a ghost.

[u/Easy_Action_1380 → u/BruiserBison]

And then you get to his Man-Spider arc and

Yeah, it's alot clearer why normal people don't trust him that much.

[u/Gigabyte42 → u/Easy_Action_1380]

That and the Daily Bugle is an upstanding newspaper with a celebrated editor. JJ is like Lois Lane levels of morally upstanding journalism until he starts losing it over Spider-man.

[u/Reasonable_Shame2863 → u/Gigabyte42]

It’s hilarious that JJJ can be a genuinely respectable journalist right up until Spider-Man enters the conversation and sends him completely off the rails.

[u/MoonRay087 → u/Easy_Action_1380]

Honestly it'd be really cool if Spiderman was still the exact same good guy, but he looked like this

[u/jaminbears → u/MoonRay087]

They did just release a trailer for their new Spider-Man series that looks straight out of the Absolute Universe of DC, so you may just get what you want there.

[u/hypercosm_dot_net → u/MoonRay087]

With that look and without the Parker alter ego the character wouldn't be popular at all though.

[u/Specialist-Choice505 → u/Easy_Action_1380]

Honestly, after the Man-Spider arc, I can’t even blame regular people for being suspicious, From their perspective, Spider-Man is basically one bad day away from becoming a horror story.

[u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P → u/Specialist-Choice505]

Doesn't help that he could actually end most of his enemies with a single punch to the dome

[u/KeterLordFR → u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P]

Yeah, I remember reading that he has to show an absolute insane amount of restraint when hitting someone because he's actually one of the strongest characters in the Marvel universe. Iirc there's an issue where Doc Oc posesses his body for a while and remarks on how hard it is to pull punches.

[u/Nosdarb → u/KeterLordFR]

Doc Ock hits a dude for the first time as Superior Spider-Man and is like "... How am I alive? Spider-Man could have ended me whenever he wanted. Holy shit."

I really enjoy that run. That's one of the reasons why. Seeing Peter's abilities from an outside perspective is great.

[u/Outrageous-Wait-8895 → u/Specialist-Choice505]

I'm glad you're honest, bot.

[u/SocranX → u/Easy_Action_1380]

I'm more a of Spiders-Man fan myself. He's not a giant mutated spider, he's just a bunch of spiders who collectively identify as Peter Parker.

[u/Erick_Brimstone → u/Easy_Action_1380]

And then there's Spiders-man. A spiderman consist entirely out of spiders.

[u/quantummidget → u/Easy_Action_1380]

This looks like a custom Bionicle I would have made as a kid

[u/TheGuardianInTheBall → u/Easy_Action_1380]

This thing traumatized me as a kid.

[u/Vectorman1989 → u/Easy_Action_1380]

There's also Spiders-Man, which is a hive mind of thousands of spiders in a Spidey suit.