Spider-Man is famous for cracking jokes, usually just for his own amusement. It doesn’t matter if his audience is an older villain with no sense of humor or a fellow Avenger long accustomed to his antics - his quips fly as frequently as his webs. But at least one time, Spidey found himself the butt of the joke in a situation involving his arch-villain Doc Ock, mind-swapping and... webbed underwear.
The setup involves Spider-Man and Doc Ock trading brains - which isn’t completely foreign territory for the superhero, considering Superior Spider-Man.
During his tenure as the Superior Spider-Man, Doc Ock improved several aspects of Parker’s crime fighting arsenal, including his web formula. The result was a much stronger web; so strong, in fact, that it created problems for the real Spider-Man once he regained his body. In The Amazing Spider-Man #2, Captain America asks Spider-Man (after his consciousness has been returned) why he’s wearing pants instead of his usual uniform upon arriving to Avengers Tower. Spider-Man launches into a long-winded story to reveal that his clothes evaporated in a previous fight. He had to cover his nether regions in webbing, not realizing that Doc Ock had strengthened his web formula, resulting in his pants getting permanently stuck to the web underwear he had fashioned.
his share of team ups with Spider-Man over the years, looks un-amused by Parker’s story. Iron Man jumps at the opportunity to give Spider-Man an immediate medical scan just to make sure there’s no trace of Doc Ock left still rattling around in Spidey’s brain.
Once the scan was complete, the Avengers felt convinced that the old Spider-Man was in fact back and that Doc Ock’s grip had loosened for good. Yet after hearing the outlandish story surrounding his web underwear, it should’ve come as no surprise to the Avengers that only Spider-Man could manage to get himself into such a ridiculous predicament in the first place.
