Ultimate Spider-man Mobile

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Batman's vast array of vehicles have become amongst the most recognizable in pop culture, having taken on numerous forms since the debut of the first Batmobile in 1939. While none have gained the same notoriety, there have been other superheroes with dedicated vehicles. Although it may seem counterintuitive, one Marvel superhero received their own vehicle as well, though not for very long.

Making its debut in The Amazing Spider-Man #130 (By Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, F. Giacoia, D. Hunt, Artie Simek, and P. Goldberg), the Spider-Mobile was the Web-Slinger's alternate method of transportation for a short period of time. However, it never took off in the way he expected.

When Spider-Man is swinging through the streets of New York City, he is approached by Carter & Lombardo, an advertising agency hired by Corona Motors, who are looking to promote their new non-polluting internal combustion engine. To do so, they ask Spider-Man to partner with them, advertising the Corona Motors engine by driving a Spider-Mobile, fitted with it. Initially, he turns down the offer, calling it a dumb idea, though he later has a change of heart after realizing that he could use the money.

With the help of the Human Torch, Spider-Man builds the car and takes it on the road. But since he never learned how to drive, he wreaks havoc on the streets. After using it to take down Hammerhead, Spider-Man is tricked by Mysterio and crashes the car into the Hudson River. Unable to find the remains, Spider-Man reverts to his old methods of fighting crime.

He eventually finds his lost car hidden in the shadows of an alley. To his surprise, the car attacks him, trying to run him over. Though he is able to outmaneuver it, he gets caught in his own web and lands in the back seat. The evil Spider-Mobile then leads him to the lair of the Tinkerer, who had modified it in an attempt to take him down. The two battle it out and Spider-Man recovers the car, returning it to Carter & Lombardo, ditching the vehicle for good.

Years later, after the establishment of Parker Industries, Peter constructed a new version of the Spider-Mobile. The new model was sleeker than the original and could drive up walls and deploy mechanical spider-legs. He used it while in Shanghai to take down the Zodiac, but it was rarely seen following the event. The original car was later found by Deadpool, who repainted and deemed it the Dead-Buggy.

Although it was never as practical for the hero as the Batmobile, Spider-Man's initial decision to use the Spider-Mobile was out of necessity, as the hero was constantly dealing with problems and in dire need of money. Unfortunately, in typical Spider-Man fashion, it turned out to be a detriment to him. The car has since appeared in a handful of stories, and even made a cameo in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in Peter's lair. Overall, despite its short-lived existence, the Spider-Mobile left its mark on the Spider-Man mythos, though not in the way one would think.

The Spider-Mobile first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #130, where automobile company Carson Motors came to Spider-Man with an offer: build a car that utilized their revolutionary non-polluting engine. Spidey initially refused, due to the fact that he could travel great distances via web-fluid (and also presumably because he lived in New York, where it's easier to catch a taxi than drive your own vehicle). But Peter Parker's life being what it is, he eventually took up the job to help pay his rent, and with the help of the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, constructed the Spider-Mobile. The Spider-Mobile had built in web-cannons and airbags filled with Spider-Man's web-fluid, staying on theme with the web-slinger's motif/genius with gadgets. Its headlights were even larger versions of his Spider-Signal!

Despite all of its tricked-out gadgets and gears, there was one problem with the Spider-Mobile: Spider-Man didn't know how to drive it, as he'd never gotten a driver's license. After a crash course, he managed to use the Spider-Mobile to capture the gangster Hammerhead. A second outing against longtime foe Mysterio didn't end well, as the Master of Illusions caused Spidey to crash the Spider-Mobile in the Hudson River. The Tinkerer would dig out the Spider-Mobile and retrofit it into a deadly weapon, but Spidey stopped it in its tracks. True to the "Parker luck," Spidey ended up having to repay Carson for the damage.

Another version of the Spider-Mobile exists in the Multiverse, and it happens to be sentient! Peter Parkedcar lives a double life as the Amazing Spider-Mobile, taking photographs for J. Jonah Jalopy and fighting car-themed supervillains. During the original Spider-Verse storyline, Parkedcar joined forces with Miles Morales to recruit other Spider-People who were being hunted by the vampiric Inquisitors. He'd also return to fight the malevolent Shathra, who was aiming to destroy the Web of Life and Destiny that connected all Spider-People. Parkedcar proved to be invaluable to defeating Shathra, for he was one of the few Spider-People she couldn't corrupt due to his armored chassis. Once again reuniting with Miles, Spider-Mobile managed to travel to other realities to recruit a trio of "Spider-Bots" including the mecha Leopardon and SP//DR, the robot driven by Peni Parker. Together they managed to help the other Spider-People beat Shathra.

Those tenets play a large role in the storyline of Across the Spider-Verse, especially when it comes to the conflict between Miles and Miguel about canon events. Miguel reveals that the spider that bit Miles was intended for another world, and that he was never meant to be Spider-Man. But Miles is more than willing to throw himself into danger to save others, especially his own family. Those are the kind of attributes that have made Spider-Man a character that continues to endure to this day, and helps make each and every person in the Spider-Verse stand out. Especially the one that happens to be a giant car.

When I wrote up Gameloft's Dark Knight Rises mobile game for Android and iOS earlier this week, I compared it to their previous release, The Amazing Spider-Man, and for good reason. The games are very similar, both were released to tie in with a big summer movie, use the same "virtual joystick" control scheme, and the settings are even similar -- you could almost believe that Spider-Man takes place during the day in the same place as TDKRTMG's night. The real difference is where the games draw their influences: While Dark Knight is clearly meant to echo Rocksteady's Arkham series, the Spider-Man game takes its cues from the Activision/Neversoft Spider-Man games that started way back in 2001.

While the two games share the same kind of open-world environment punctuated by missions, Spider-Man puts a much bigger influence on free-roaming, letting the characters web-sling around a miniaturized version of midtown Manhattan to their heart's content between missions. It's actually the most fun part of the game. Gameloft (which provided CA with a free review copy of the game) has copied the nice-looking motions of Spider-Man swinging and spinning through the air from more recent console titles like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, a game that was as notable for how fun it was to get around as it was for its hilariously ridiculous plot.

The encouragement to wander around comes in the form of "Breaking News" alerts that inform Spider-Man of gunfights and car crashes around the city that he can go and help out with instead of getting on with the actual storyline. They're more than a little repetitive, and it's essentially just grinding for levels, but it's fun enough to do that it actually does help pad out the game and give it that time-wasting element that makes it worth the $6.99 you'll be paying for it. That's also what gives the game one of its most distinctive and intriguing elements.

In addition to just letting you know that the side missions are available, the "Breaking News" bar across the top of the screen also operates on an unseen timer; if you don't get to a mission before it expires, it will straight up yell at you for letting people die.

The best one -- and by that, I mean most guilt-inducing -- comes when you don't show up at one of Manhattan's many car accidents, letting you know that a woman died "because no one bothered to help her." And even if you do compete the missions, if you don't do them fast enough, the "News" comments on how your rescue of the injured driver "may have done more harm than good" and how you really suck at helping out the police:

It's a really nice touch, especially since it represents something that the movie it ties into left out. It's enjoyable stuff -- even if that "virtual joystick" is still awkward as hell to control sometimes.

\nWhen I wrote up Gameloft's Dark Knight Rises mobile game for Android and iOS earlier this week, I compared it to their previous release, The Amazing Spider-Man, and for good reason. The games are very similar, both were released to tie in with a big summer movie, use the same \"virtual joystick\" control scheme, and the settings are even similar -- you could almost believe that Spider-Man takes place during the day in the same place as TDKRTMG's night...\nRead More

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