Description[]
Marvel vs. DC. The season 5 premiere demonstrates the animalistic powers these two heroic teens wield.
Introduction[]
Wiz: The role of a superhero can often be an incredibly taxing one. But even when thrust into life-threatening battles, it is always important to keep a kind and upbeat attitude.
Boomstick: Because the real superpower is a positive attitude. As well as having the abilities of an animal.
Wiz: Spider-Man, Marvel's web-slinging champion.
Boomstick: And Beast Boy, the changing Teen Titans member. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Spider-Man[]
Wiz: The world of Marvel is one filled with many famous superheroes. There's the grizzled anti-hero Wolverine, the pinnacle of patriotism Captain America, and the talkative merc he-who-shall-not-be-named.
Boomstick: But very few superheroes reach the same level of love and popularity as the one, the only, Spider-Man.
Wiz: But before Spider-Man, there was Peter Benjamin Parker, a down-on-his-luck teenager from New York city.
- Background
- Real Name: Peter Parker
- Age: 17
- Height: 5'10
- Science major
- Bitten by radioactive spider
- Known titles; amazing, fantastic, ultimate
- Had more girlfriends than any other superhero
Boomstick: Peter was raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, after his parents were killed in a plane crash, because they were secret agents! But don't feel too bad for him, because May and Ben were pretty much the best legal guardians anyone could ever ask for. And I know, I've asked for them for a long time using Yellow Pages. I'll tell you, the people on the other end of the phone when I called that number were very rude!
Popup: Peter's parents were once impersonated by his robots employed by his foe the Chameleon.
Wiz: Good parentage aside, Peter's life as the school nerd was fairly uneventful. But that all changed with the school trip to the Oscorp Labs.
Boomstick: There, they were trying to replicate on the biggest scientific achievements in the world; the super-serum that gave Captain America his powers. And how did they test it? By putting it inside of a spider.
Wiz: I may be a mad scientist, but even I think that putting a power enhancing serum inside of an arachnid is a bit of a bad move, because it ended up getting loose. From there, it found its way to Peter's hand.
Boomstick: And with a single bite, Peter was forever altered, which is another way of saying he went through super-puberty.
Wiz: That's actually a pretty accurate statement all things considered; he grew bigger, gained better eyesight and got really ripped.
Boomstick: But this 'puberty' was a little different, because his gave him superpowers! The first thing he did with them? Try and make some money in the wrestling ring. Can't really blame him though. If anyone ever had powers, they'd probably try using them to make a quick buck as well. But unfortunately, it led to Peter making the biggest mistake of his life.
Wiz: By allowing a thief to get away, Peter also allowed him to fatally shoot Uncle Ben.
Boomstick: So now Peter can't eat any Uncle Ben rice...I don't know why I said that, I'm sorry.
Wiz: Realizing that his own selfishness had cost him the only father he had ever known, Peter resolved to now go by the words of his uncle; With great power, comes great responsibility. And that is how he donned the mask and became the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
Boomstick: With all the powers of a spider! Does that mean he can make fully grown men shriek if he's spotted in the shower?
- Powers and Abilities
- Super strength
- Super speed
- Super flexibility
- Accelerated healing
- Wall-crawling
- Web-Slinging
- Used with web-slingers
- Various different mods
- Spider-Sense
- Way of the Spider
Wiz: I was talking more along the lines of his wall-crawling. By altering the attractions of his electrons in his hands and feet, Spider-Man is able to cling to any surface.
Boomstick: He can run up walls or even the face of a skyscraper. Try to book that root for a jog local marathon runners! And it wasn't just climbing on walls that spider bite gave him. It also made him incredibly strong, able to easily bench press over 50 tons.
Wiz: Spider-Man is also rather well-known for his amazing athleticism, which combines his superhuman speed, superhuman stamina and superhuman agility to enable him to leap through the city of New York like a damn acrobat out of hell. Eh?
Boomstick: Wiz, the puns are my job. Also Spider-Man's, because he makes a lot! Like he does with his webbing.
Wiz: Actually, that's just in the original trilogy. And kind of in the comics until he lost it. But in all honesty, it's much simpler to talk about his Web-Slingers. Created by Spider-Man himself, these wrist-mounted devices contain a concoction that replicates webbing, only it's far more stronger and readily available.
Popup: The webbing can be fired out at 300 PSI. That's enough force to smash through concrete!
Boomstick: At least he doesn't shoot it out his butt! It would smell awful. Aside from the usual swing-rope generating, Spidey can leave behind web bombs, web traps, web snares and even construct his webbing into all sorts of shapes, like a shield or a parachute. He even used to have a pair of wings which did nothing.
Wiz: But above all else, Spider-Man's signature power is his Spider-Sense.
Boomstick: It works like an early warning system/omnidirectional radar, alerting Spider-Man to all sorts of danger coming his way.
Wiz: Whilst it is up to Spider-Man is actually react to the danger, his speed and senses back each other up on both ends. But even after all that, there's one power of Spider-Man's that trumps all others...
Boomstick: Here we go...
Wiz: His raw intelligence.
Boomstick: Yeah, I get it, he's a smart guy.
Wiz: Smart? Smart!? Wiz, he's considered by Hank Pym to be an intellectual superior. You know, the guy who created the incredible shrinking Pym Particles? He even understands the extra-physical forms of two of the Fantastic 4 members, of whom he was even a temporary member of.
Boomstick: Okay, I take it back; he's smart as #$%&!
- Feats
- Reacted to a projectile in a microsecond
- Lifted a massive locomotive device
- Has been part of the Avengers and Fantastic 4
- Considered by Hank Pym to be more intelligent than himself
- Ripped through Doc Octopus’ robotic arms
- Battled Spider-Slayers and other Spider-Men
- Defeated Venom, Green Goblin, Doctor Doom, Hulk, Firelord
Wiz: During his lengthy career as a superpower, Spider-Man has gone up just about any adversary in the Marvel universe you can think of.
Boomstick: You could gather every Marvel character in one location, throw a rubber ball into the air and chances are it will always fall on someone Spider-Man has tangled with.
Wiz: Like one of his his many archenemies the Green Goblin, or Doc Ock. In one of their battles, Spider-Man was able to tear straight through his robotic tentacles. They were able to survive a 2 kiloton nuclear explosion, but Spider-Man was able to tear through them like paper.
Boomstick: And remember the Spider-Sense? Well, it can anticipate light-speed attacks. And even without it, Spider-Man is crazy fast, being able to destroy an incoming projectile in a microsecond. According Huesito88, this means he could of have to reacted at Mach 7500+.
Popup: Although the details of this was said by Spider-Man in a monologue, it can be supported by Silk's Mach 9000 dodging feat, as she has the same powers as he does, and the instances of her dodging his attacks are attributed to a faster Spider-Sense (Huesito88).
Wiz: He has defeated some of the toughest foes around, including the likes of Doctor Doom and even the Hulk, his webbing alone capable of restraining him. He can even match those with the same powers as his, robots specifically designed to kill him and alien symbiotes who not only copy his powers but grow stronger with each generation.
Boomstick: So does he have any weaknesses at all?
Wiz: Of course. His lax nature even in battle can make him careless and his durability does have limits. Aside from that, he does possess specific weaknesses to special poisons and Spider-Sense dampening abilities. But when it comes to Spider-Man, there's one important thing to remember. Spider-Man isn't the strongest, fastest or even smartest hero around. But when the time comes, he will always find a way to win.
Boomstick: Swinging from a web, just like a spider can!
Beast Boy[]
Wiz: As the son of two environmental scientists, Garfield Logan was often brought by them whenever they went to other countries to work on their research.
Boomstick: Guess they couldn't find a babysitter or something huh. Anyway, they ended up regretting that when in West Africa, Garfield ended up bitten by a monkey carrying the deadly disease known as Sakuita.
- Background
- Real Name: Logan Garfield
- Age: 16
- Height: 5'8
- Member of the Teen Titans
- Bitten by a diseased monkey
- Was an actor in a Star Trek rip-off
- Has dated Raven, Terra and a princess
Wiz: Desperate to save his life, his parents injected him with a highly experimental serum to combat the effects of the disease. It worked, save for a few side effects.
Boomstick: Most notably, it turned him into a little green man. Now his skin's gonna clash with all his outfits.
Popup: In an alternate continuity (Young Justice), Garfield gained his powers and green skin via a blood transfusion with Miss Martian.
Wiz: Which raises the question; how exactly does a medicine turn someone green? But honestly, that wasn't the strangest thing that came out of it. The cure ended up giving him the power to change into any animal he wanted. So, all-in-all, a good trade off for being permanently discolored.
Boomstick: But if you thought tragedy had been adverted, you were wrong, because soon Garfield's parents passed away due to getting caught in a boating accident.
Wiz: But Garfield wasn't on his own for long, because he was soon recruited by...
Boomstick: The Teen Titans!
Wiz: No, actually, the Doom Patrol, when they came to save him from being killed by his new legal guardian for his inheritance money. They're one of the more obscure DC superhero teams.
Boomstick: Ah, I gotcha. And it was there that they gave him the name Beast Boy.
Wiz: Actually Changeling, but he soon changed it to Beast Boy. Around the same time the Doom Patrol eventually disbanded due to team losses and personal issues.
Boomstick: And from this experience you would have though that he would have learned not to join a group who let their emotions control them, but the Titans actually ended pretty much becoming his new family.
Wiz: And in spite of his signature childishness and jokes, Beast Boy has proved himself an invaluable member of the team, thanks to his aforementioned animal transformation abilities, which allows him to become any animal on the planet he is currently on.
- Powers and Abilities
- Superhuman strength
- Superhuman speed
- Animal transformations
- Birds
- Mammals
- Insects
- Reptiles
- Amphibians
- Amoeba
- Fish
- Dinosaurs
- Phoenix
- Heightened senses
- Ninjistu knowledge
- Healing factor
Boomstick: Bears, lions, eagles, lizards, snakes, insects, frogs, barnacles, Beast Boy can do them all. He can even turn into a single-celled amoeba.
Wiz: Is isn't just animals that Beast Boy can become. He can also transform into long-extinct dinosaurs like a T-Rex or Velociraptor.
Boomstick: And a bunch of others with completely unpronounceable names. I knew I should have paid more attention to Dinosaur King, but right now just now he can become those flying dinos and the ones with those clubbing tails and spiked backs. And each one of Beast Boy's animal transformations are far stronger than your average run-of-the-mill creature, capable of going into battle against super powerful super-villains. Hang on, I have a question; how does Beast Boy remain fully clothed after transforming back to normal? Wouldn't his clothes get shredded?
Wiz: Actually, he has a special jumpsuit created from Martian tech that expands with his form without getting damaged.
Boomstick: Guess I was wrong; his green coloration does go well with some outfits. In this case, purple alien ones.
Wiz: Even without his transformations, Beast Beast is no pushover. He has superhuman attributes of speed and strength and enhanced senses. He even knows the art of ninjistu and has been trained in hand-to-hand by Tim Drake, the third Robin.
Boomstick: So in spite of his loud mouth, he can be rather stealthy when he wants to be. But back to the line of transformations, which involves being able to become freaking aliens!
Popup: Beast Boy is also capable of shifting into other humans, but as his green skin would remain.
Wiz: Well, only when he's on their planet, requiring the electromagnetic field of such to do so. But Beast Boy's most notable, and likely powerful transformation, is his phoenix form, packing enough literal firepower to counter the abilities of Holocaust, who caught the aforementioned phoenix formed Beast Boy in a building destroying blast. It can take up to 110 tons of TNT to destroy the largest buildings.
Popup: The requirement for a planet's electromagnetic field means that Beast Boy cannot transform into a Kryptonian animal like Krypto the Super Dog, as Krypton was destroyed.
- Feats
- Withstood an attack that destroyed a building with his phoenix form
- Dodged lightning bolts
- Lead several different teams of Titans
- Once regrew a limb
- Can survive hits from Cinderblock
- Transformed into aliens on other planets
- Defeated Gemini, Deathstroke, Cinderblock, Terra, Madame Rouge
Boomstick: That's not to say that none of his other animal forms pack any less of a punch, as he's often able to knock down the villain Cinderblock, who's able to take on Beast Boy's fellow Titan member Cyborg, who was able to tip an entire building with power equal to 1.7 tons of TNT (DMUA).
Wiz: Speaking of fellow Titans, before they actually became members, Beast Boy did battle against the brothers Thunder and Lightning, who's names accurately tell you about their abilities.
Boomstick: Lightning is able to fire blasts of lightning and Beast Boy can weave his way around them like a snake. Especially when he becomes a snake.
Wiz: To dodge lightning in the way he does, Beast Boy would have to be reacting at about Mach 4000 (Monkey Dunno).
Boomstick: Beast Boy may not be the only DC superhero to be capable of using the powers of an animal, looking at you Vixen, Animal Man, but he has certainly established himself as the most noteworthy. He's even managed to lead several offshoots of the Teen Titans himself, so maybe he's not as goofy as most people think.
Wiz: Oh, he definitely is, but can certainly reign it in when the situation calls for it, and he honestly has a much more notable weakness.
Boomstick: Yeah, he can't shape-shift if there's something strong enough constricting around him. That's how he ended up being beaten by being put inside of a rabbit suit.
Wiz: But there's a reason why the Teen Titans remain as strong as they are, because with someone like Beast Boy on their team, ready to help either on the battlefield to as a dependable friend, they wouldn't be what they are today.
Boomstick: And neither would Beast Boy.
Interlude[]
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set, time to end this debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
The Battle[]
In the city at nighttime, a green cheetah ran down the street.
Beast Boy: Oh, I'm so late! They'd better save me some pizza!
Suddenly, a bolo made of web flew through the air and wrapped around the cheetah's hind legs, sending it rolling down the street to turn back into Beast Boy.
Beast Boy: Ow! What the...
He looked up to see Spider-Man crouching on a bus stop.
Spider-Man: Hey kid, you know you can't be running around as the fastest land animal whenever you want to.
Beast Boy: Kid? You're not older than I am! And as for what animal I am, it's my body, my choice!
He quickly transformed into a honey badger, slashed apart the webs, before transforming back to normal and getting back to his feet, his fists clenched. Spider-Man's eyes rolled upwards before leaping off the bus stop and to the ground, prepared for a fight. Beast Boy transformed himself into a gorilla, roaring and beating his chest at his foe. To this, Spider-Man fired two webs to the buildings on either side of the street, pulled himself back and launched himself straight towards the green gorilla.
FIGHT!
Spider-Man's self-launch slammed him feet first into Beast Boy's crossed gorilla's arms, pushing the ape backwards before the former leaped back off the gorilla. Beast Boy roared and leaped at Spider-Man, bringing down both his fists in a smash which Spider-Man darted backwards to avoid. Not letting up, Beast Boy then swung his arms at Spider-Man in a attempt to swat him, only for him to dodge every time. Growing frustrated, Beast Boy attempted to grab Spider-Man, only for him to leap into the air and bring down both his fists onto Beast Boy's head, stunning him for Spider-Man to then flip backwards and deliver a kick to his face.
Spider-Man: Monkey see, monkey do!
Beast Boy shook off the stun and glared at Spider-Man.
Beast Boy: I'm an ape!
He then transformed into a green porcupine.
Beast Boy: Well, now I'm a bear, but you get the point!
He flicked his back towards Spider-Man, sending spikes flying towards Spider-Man, who leaped into the air and twisted to avoid the barbs. However, upon landing, Spider-Man found himself beset by the bear-shaped Beast Boy, who delivered a strike across his face and then to his gut, causing Spider-Man's eyes to bulge out before getting another strike the side of the head that knocked Spider-Man back to the ground. The bear Beast Boy then leaped into the air and turned into an armadillo, curling up to drop down at Spider-Man and try to smash his head in, only for Spider-Man to roll to the side to avoid it. He shot out a web to snag the armadillo Beast Boy before drawing him closer, causing him to uncurl and expose his soft belly for Spider-Man to punch him, causing him to go back to his human form and fly back. The web snag was still stuck to him however and Spider-Man used it to pull him towards him a second time to score another punch on the Teen Titan, sending him flying back a second time. Once again, the web strand didn't snap and Spider-Man pulled him back for another hit. But Beast Boy was ready this time, and so transformed into a kangaroo. As soon as he came close enough, he delivered a powerful kick to Spider-Man, sending him flying backwards to smash against a wall, scattering bins everywhere. Spider-Man shook his head to clear his dizziness and his eyes widened when he saw a massive green bull charging towards him. Before it collided straight with him, Spider-Man planted both his hands on the wall above him and lifted himself upwards, avoiding the charge of the green bull as it smashed through the wall and into the shop behind it.
As the dust from his attack settled, the bull Beast Boy looked around himself to try and spot his red clad opponent. However, he made himself known by landing onto Beast Boy's back and leaning down to speak into his ear;
Spider-Man: You remember what the old saying about a bull in a china shop?
Before Beast Boy could react, Spider-Man shot a gob of webbing straight into his eye. Beast Boy let out a bellowing "moo" and bucked Spider-Man off his back, swinging his face about to try and rid himself of the webbing covering his face. Spider-Man landed against the wall, remaining their with his wall-crawling and watching as Beast Boy bucked about in frustration.
Spider: Yeesh, temper, temper! Yikes!
He leaped away as Beast Boy followed the sound of his voice and leaped at him, smashing his horned head into where he had been just a second before. Spider-Man landed on the ground, the broken china on the ground rustling under his feet once again alerting the blinded Beast Boy to his position, who lurched himself to the side to cry and crushed Spider-Man with his girth. Spider-Man once again avoided him by moving backwards, before shooting out two webs to snag the large cupboard behind Beast Boy, yanking on it to bring both the structure and its contents onto the green bull. It remained buried for a brief moment, before the debris was knocked away as Beast Boy transformed into a giant squid, using his tentacles to grab some wreckage and hurl it at Spider-Man, who darted and weaved around the projectiles before snagging one with a web shot, hurling it back towards Beast Boy with a grunt. It completely missed when Beast Boy turned into a rabbit and leaped off the projectile as it flew at him, then transforming into a tiger and bearing down at Spider-Man teeth bared. His jaws clamped down onto Spider-Man's arm as he rose it to defend himself, knocking him down onto the floor in the process, before using the bite-grip to hurl Spider-Man away. He hit the floor and rolled before the tiger Beast Boy leaped at him again, fangs and claws ready to tear him to shreds. However, as both the claws came slashing down, Spider-Man caught the wrists and drove both of his feet into its underbelly, propelling it over him and out the store window, smashing it pieces and sending him back into the street. Spider-Man groaned as he picked himself up.
Spider-Man: Public damage...Jameson's gonna have a field day with this.
Spider-Man leaped out the broken window onto the street, only to discover that Beast Boy had vanished from sight. But his Spider Sense quickly picked up the presence behind him; a chameleon that had blended itself to the wall it clung onto behind Spider-Man before it transformed into a snake and lunged at Spider-Man, ready to bite him. But thanks to his senses, Spider-Man was able to whip around in time and fire a gob of webbing that trapped the snake Beast Boy within a sphere of webs. However, it was quickly sliced apart by Beast Boy now in the form of a Velociraptor, who then lunged at Spider-Man, slashing at him with his bladed toes. In response, Spider-Man constructed a shield of webbing in front of him, which was able to hold up somewhat against the barrage of slashes as Spider-Man continued to add more webbing to the shield. However, it couldn't hold up against Beast Boy's next move; whipping around, he transformed himself into a club-tailed dinosaur, swinging said tail at Spider-Man. It tore straight through Spider-Man's shield and struck him straight in the midriff, sending him flying backwards with a crunch. But as he flew back, he fired a web that latched onto the same tail that had struck him, pulling himself back towards the green dinosaur and sliding below it. Planting his hands on its underbelly, Spider-Man pushed upwards, sending the green dinosaur flying up into the air with Beast Boy yelling in surprise before crashing down on his back. Spider-Man planted his hands on his hips as he watched Beast Boy struggle to get back onto his feet.
Spider-Man: What's wrong? Got no more tricks?
Beast Boy: Oh trust me, I've got tricks. Or should I say, T-Ricks.
Spider-Man: Sure, why not. Why though?
Beast Boy's shape suddenly changed and he rose above Spider-Man as a massive T-Rex.
Spider-Man: Oh, that's why.
He leaped backwards as Beast Boy clamped his jaws at him. Spinning a web to latch onto a building, Spider-Man swung his way through the city as the green T-Rex pursued him, mashing his jaws together threateningly. As the chase occurred, the two soon came close the edge of a busy road, with vehicles zooming back and forth. Spider-Man landed on the roof of a bus and watched as the T-Rex Beast Boy weaved between the lanes of cars continuing his pursute. As he came within range, he chomped at Spider-Man, who somersaulted back from the attack and continued to do so at the rest of his bites. Eventually, he leaped off the end of the bus and onto a truck transporting a load of cars. Weaving between the transported vehicles, Spider-Man clung to one, on the opposite side of what Beast Boy would be on, looking side to side in search of the color green. Suddenly his Spider-Sense went off, causing him to tense, but at first he didn't see anything.
Until a flash of green caught his eye, and he turned his head to see a green pigeon flying at him. Before he could react, it transformed back into a T-Rex and clamped its jaws around him.
The T-Rex stood there as the vehicles around it served away, the drivers panicking as seeing the dinosaur, keeping its jaw shut.
Beast Boy: Ugh...this guy tastes weird.
Suddenly, his jaws vibrated and were suddenly pushed over by Spider-Man.
Spider-Man: Your breath reeks!
With a burst of strength, he forced the jaws open enough for him to get himself out of the T-Rex Beast Boy's mouth. Once he was free before the jaws snapped shut again, Spider-Man fired a web onto the side of the reptilian muzzle and started to swing around Beast Boy, progressing further down and weaving a massive amount of web around the T-Rex, slowly tying it up. Beast Boy attempted to wriggle his body in an attempt to break the webbing, but it slowly drew tighter until Spider-Man landed right behind him; with a tug on the web strand, he fully tightened the web, including the section around Beast Boy's legs, causing the T-Rex to helplessly topple forwards and smash painfully on the ground.
Beast Boy: Curse these tiny dinosaur arms!
He heard another 'thwip' of a web being shot and Spider-Man landed on his head, looking into one of his large eyes.
Spider-Man: You give up now, kid?
Beast Boy narrowed the eye Spider-Man looked at.
Beast Boy: Not until I turn up the heat!
Spider-Man suddenly felt the scales he was standing on heating up and he launched himself up as Beast Boy transformed into a phoenix, burning away the webbing and allowing himself to soar partially into the air.
Spider-Man: Okay, I'm no longer in the mood for hot wings.
Beast Boy spread his fiery wings and fired off arcs of fire across the road, which exploded all around Spider-Man as he dodged and swung around the projectiles. Seeing Spider-Man avoid his initial barrage, Beast Boy then sent out a wave of fire below him, forcing Spider-Man to snag a traffic banner with a web and haul himself up to avoid being scorched. However, this had the unintended result of leaving him exposed in the air. Beast Boy narrowed his avian eyes at Spider-Man and prepared a blast of fire. But Spider-Man acted first, firing a spherical device straight at Beast Boy; a Web Bomb. It exploded in a cascade of webbing, coating the fiery bird in the strands and patches. Before Beast Boy could focus on burning it away, Spider-Man fired a strand of web to latch onto the phoenix and started spinning around the green bird multiple times, slowly wrapping it in a cocoon of webbing. Beast Boy attempted to increase his flames as much as he could, but the webbing was wrapped around him too much, and it slowly constricted him until he was forced to transform into a small mouse. Using his teeth, he nibbled a tunnel through the webbing, popping out the top. He shape-shifted back into his normal form.
Beast Boy: Okay spider-dude, I'm back and ready to-!
Suddenly, a web strand shot down from the sky and stuck straight on the top of Beast Boy's head before Spider-Man free-fell from the sky a ways in front of Beast Boy, holding the other end of the web strand stuck to Beast Boy's head; as he fell, the strand was strung over a traffic post, hauling Beast Boy into the air head first. This allowed Spider-Man to perform a swinging kick towards the wide-eyed Beast Boy, who desperately transformed between all manner of forms to try and escape, from a snake, wolf, and even a lama, but they all remained trapped, allowing Spider-Man to deliver a powerful double kick to his midriff, sending Beast Boy back into his human form. The power of the kick, combined with the upwards pull on Spider-Man's own weight, tore Beast Boy's head from his neck, sending his headless body flying backwards to crash onto the ground as Spider-Man landed on his feet.
Spider-Man: Oops.
Beast Boy's head, still stuck to the web strand, landed behind him, startling him.
KO!
Outcome[]
Boomstick: Wow, when people say spider's are scary, they aren't kidding.
Wiz: Beast Boy's vast array of animal transformations certainly kept Spider-Man on his toes but the thing is Spider-Man has had a lot of experience against nearly anything Beast Boy could throw at him.
Boomstick: That's a given, considering that a vast majority of Spider-Man's foes were animal themed, like the Gibbon, Kangaroo, the Rhino and even the Walrus. Also, the drawback of Beast Boy's transformations is that whilst there were a lot of them, they all kind of offered pretty much the same powers, such as enhanced strength, and claws and fangs.
Wiz: And ultimately, they wouldn't be much to help Beast Boy against the Spider-Sense, especially as it could alert Spidey to sneak attacks from even the tiniest animal forms. And yes, whilst it is true that Spider-Man himself needs to react to the Sense's warnings, he was certainly fast enough to outpace Beast Boy at every turn. By scaling him to Silk, this would make him about 2 times faster than Beast Boy.
Popup: Transforming into a cheetah may have given Beast Boy a boost in speed, but there's no evidence it would increase it to a degree that would overtake Spider-Man. Also, it would not change his reaction speed.
Boomstick: And Beast Boy's feats of power with his Phoenix Form and scaling to those Cyborg fights fall short to Spider-Man's ability to break through 2 kiloton surviving metal tentacles. And we all know what some of you must be thinking; "Could Spider-Man even beat Beast Boy's phoenix form?"
Wiz: The simple answer; yes, actually. Let me explain; Spider-Man has developed a means of countering the Human Torch in battle, by using a special non-flammable web. And honestly, even if he didn't have that specific web on him, Spider-Man's usual strategy of webbing up his opponents would actually work in his favor from the set-top.
Boomstick: As we said before, Beast Boy finds it hard to transform into larger forms if he is confined with a strong enough material. Considering Spidey's webs can restrain people like the Hulk and the Thing, they would more than qualify.
Popup: This is the reason why Beast Boy could not transform into an amoeba, go into Spider-Man's body and expand to tear him apart from the inside out.
Wiz: It also helps that Spider-Man is considered by Hank Pym to be an intellectual superior, so could feasibly come up with a strategy to take down Beast Boy's phoenix form, like maybe using his webbing to deprive it of oxygen for fire to burn.
Boomstick: And why stop there? He could come up with means to defeat nearly any of Beast Boy's forms on the fly. And with his Way of the Spider, which made use of his Spider-Sense, he could absolutely dominate in close quarters combat.
Popup: Beast Boy’s heaviest transformation that is, at the same time, most combat applicable, is the Argentinosaurus huinculensis dinosaur at 106 tons. Spider-Man once pushed past his limits to lift a 130 ton locomotive and could feasibly do so again considering their battle was to the death.
Wiz: Beast Boy was a versatile opponent for anyone to take on, but Spider-Man's physical strength and speed and his wealth of intelligence and experience was too much for the Teen Titan.
Boomstick: And thinking about it, Peter Parker was a Spider-Man, but Garfield Logan was a Beast Boy. Guess all that's left to do is show our respect to the webbed.
Wiz: The winner is Spider-Man.
Next Time[]
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Trivia[]
- Connections: Both are animal themed superheroes who gained their powers from being bitten by an animal. Both are also known for their jokes and wisecracking and in spite of being relatively youthful are still competent and seasoned heroes.
- Animation Style: 2D.
- OST: 'Power of a Beast', referring to Spider-Man's motto of 'great power', Beast Boy's own name and the fact both their powers came from and revolve around animals.