Uncle Ben is Disappointed

[@vVRichardVv]

Peter takes pictures of himself as spiderman and sells them for money. He is making money off of his powers.

[@reacher8042]

It's like a money glitch. Should've just monetized it somemore

[@m-w-y7325]

well actually its more along the lines of taking pictures of himself using super powers and selling them to a Newspaper that's dedicated to make him look bad cause of those super powers he has, its pretty damn pathetic really, earning from your own bad rep as a super hero, and not even enough to rent a house but just an apartment.

[@mantraki]

He used to have a house during the Ben Riley era, I dont remember what was the excuse to stripe the house from him​@@m-w-y7325

[@armorcombatsystems6935]

Still waiting for a superhero to be an onlyfans model.

[@GreenGuy502]

Taking pictures of yourself and selling them for money sounds pretty awful

[@zath6425]

Honestly the idea of Dr. Strange giving Peter five minutes with Uncle Ben is so sweet.

[@dazzlethestar151]

It actually happened in the comics, that's what this was based on :)

[@cristroye7165]

Why couldn’t he give him 6 minutes?

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

@@dazzlethestar151yeah the fact they didn’t add this to No Way Home: criminal

[@Extradecentskeleton]

My favorite moment in all spider-man comics

[@Subpar1O1]

​@@cristroye7165Because 5 is a more rounded number than 6, and Strange is a perfectionist

[@jayknight1099]

"Fiscal responsibility, Peter. With great power comes great fiscal responsibility. BTW don't sell your soul for May she can handle herself."

[@evrint]

"She can hop in the infinite pain and darkness!"

[@danpaz9485]

Yeah I looked it up on wikipedia, its was originally a quote not used by any characters but rather a caption in the older comic's last panel back in 1962. I would honestly like if this quote you got was actually in the comics, like some sort of alternate history stuff or something

[@taxcollector9543]

I know the intention of the "May can handle herself" just being some wacky stuff about Ben not caring too much about her But I am completely sure she'd sell her soul to the devil, and then go to the horned beast and actually beat them in a 1v1 If there is a doomslayer to the Marvel universe, it is Aunt May.

[@NickNieves112]

Pretty sure that was about him making a deal with Mephisto to save her lol.

[@Amogus-i6i]

"Invest bitcoin peter"

[@Dogan_TM]

Uncle Ben coming back from the grave just to say he was disappointed in Peter sounds like something that would genuinely happen in a modern Spiderman comic.

[@almondmagnum8604]

There was that elseworld (Earth-11638) where Uncle Ben lived, and was able to guide Peter into being a successful business man in addition to being a very successful Spider-Man. The most powerful hero on Earth, I think. (Please don't look up how that happened. Or how that ended.)

[@yohhh6715]

@@almondmagnum8604Yeah they totally didn't trap other spidermen and drained them of their power haha

[@originsmenagerie9920]

Poor Spidey doesn’t deserve the crap he goes through 😢

[@EmptyMan000]

@@almondmagnum8604 Indeed and that Spiderman turned into an asshole, coincidence?

[@rargafragaman]

Kinda happens in the last amazing fantasy miniseries

[@bigyoshi5170]

I imagine Uncle Ben would be disappointed at the fact countless Spider-People at the Spider-Society just let him die an infinite number of times

[@turbo8584]

thats universe 616 whole difrent thing

[@Ocelot835]

I mean there was this one universe where he stayed alive... as the only survior in post-nuclear world

[@SgtPotShot]

I mean, as far as they know, that means ripping a hole in the fabric of reality. Can't blame them too much. I can blame Miguel for being an asshole & not explaining it well, though.

[@eon1014]

Yeah, but he’d also probably feel a bit better when he learns that there’s a few versions of him who got spider powers and became superheroes instead of Peter.

[@johnfsenpai]

Bro it's a canon event

[@HiddenMistEnforcer]

Well that's not fair at all...Peter never started that company, Dr. Octopus did. Peter just ran it into the ground. Hell, he even lost the trademark for Spider-Man through it.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

Uncle Ben:...Not really helping case Pete: I know

[@mttylerdurden9]

He had to run it into the ground to keep doc ock from trying to reclaim it when he was working for hydra.

[@anhadbrar2834]

I don’t know about this storyline. I know he had it and then I thought some reality altering event occurred

[@HiddenMistEnforcer]

@@mttylerdurden9 Still doesn't change the fact that the company fell into his lap. He couldn't even try to make a new company if he wanted to after his Doctorate was revoked (that Otto earned).

[@philw3039]

@@anhadbrar2834 Doc Ock inhabited Peter's body for awhile and started the company during that time. Peter eventually got his body back and...lost the company (wasn't really his fault). He also lost the entire fortune he earned paying off lawsuits I think.

[@Gojirawars03]

I love how this short actually acknowledges that Uncle Ben never actually DID say the “Responsibility” line in the original comic. It was a narration box after Peter caught Uncle Ben’s killer that people always quoted. It was retconned into something Uncle Ben said later on. Edit: Ok so people are making a fuss over my word choice in the replies. Let me clarify. One way or the other, the idea of Uncle Ben being the one who coined the famous phrase was established later in Spider-Man’s comic history, and was eventually used as the baseline for famous adaptations like the 90s cartoon, Sam Raimi movies, and so on.

[@joshuamccoy3632]

That's interesting! I know this was meant to be funny but legitimately it's interesting that he never actually said that. Most of us were tricked to believe that he did. Wow!😮

[@walternelson2687]

I had to sit there for a solid minute trying to remember the Anthology part I read before I realized it was true.

[@orderflowarchives]

He said it in the movie so they rolled with it

[@Ramen-4-Life]

We've been Mandela Effecting ourselves for DECADES

[@henrypeters5291]

@@joshuamccoy3632 Again he did say. It is just a retcon. And unlike a lot of retcons it does not contradict anything that happened previously because you cannot prove he did not say it some point.

[@FloatingOer]

-Peter: "With great power comes great responsibility." -Ben: "You know I wasn't talking about superpowers right? Like that wasn't even a thing back in my day. I was talking about money Peter, money is power and with lots of money comes the responsibility to invest wisely." -Peter: "..."

[@MichaelHolland-r7h]

I mean true, Uncle Ben never knew Peter had superpowers, and I think he said it to him way before Peter got powers so clearly Ben didn't mean that.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

​@@MichaelHolland-r7hBen never actually said that.

[@matityaloran9157]

@@MichaelHolland-r7hIn the 2002 movie, he was talking about situations where it was or wasn’t appropriate to use physical strength

[@kingsuperbobboy]

​@@davidwuhrer6704The first time he said it was Spiderman vs Wolverine 15 years before the first movie

[@favoritemustard3542]

The ppl correcting David forget he's referencing the JJ toon we just watched lol (yk the one where Uncle Ben said he never said that?)

[@geardog24]

Ben: You know there’s nothing after this. Infinite darkness… Peter: Well that can’t be, because I sold my marriage to the Devil to bring Aunt May back. Uncle Ben: …. where did I go wrong with you?

[@ArcCaravan]

Spidey's met deities connected to afterlifes, right?

[@RogeTheVirus]

Multiverses: Oh you didn’t I just like fucking with him, all of him and hers actually its quiet hilarious

[@CCaseyTnT]

Well, technically, if he's back in this clip, he never actually went to the afterlife. His soul would have just been placed somewhere to the side, a sort of limbo if you will, where he would experience darkness, pain, and darkness.. Did I mention Darkness?

[@gregorywalpole8442]

Peter: Well, actually *she* sold our marriage to prevent Aunt May from dying, I didn't want to but she said we could just... get married again later. It's been over a decade since then. She's currently shacking up with some guy named Paul... Uncle Ben: You know what? The infinite darkness and pain are starting to look better and better. Compared to what you've got going on, at least. You want in? I hear Sheol's got much more affordable leases than New York...

[@ketto2034]

​@ArcCaravan on multiple occasions heck this proves it even more by the fact Doctor Strange has brought back his uncle Ntm multiverse and ntm him overall just knowing multiple people who've Come back to life and is good friends even at that moment with atleast Reed Richard's and some what connected the X Men even if he did fight them in the Civil War both of whom probably could have rescued May

[@johnyoung1097]

The ultimate low blow to Peter Parker is realizing Ben wasn’t the role model he was portrayed to be.

[@ImperativeGames]

He actually sounds like a sane good man. Unlike Peter who is definitely insane.

[@JonNargodian]

Yeah that's called becoming an adult... Pete's a late bloomer.

[@wanderingstorytellerj7758]

Nah, the ultimate low blow would be if Peter suddenly remembered that the neighbor who molested him as a child actually was Uncle Ben. No joke, they did a PSA comic where young Peter was assaulted and had to change the attacker from Uncle Ben to some random white-haired teenager.

[@blakes8901]

why. why WHY WOULD YOU PUT THAT INTO MY CONSCIOUS BRAIN YOU PSYCHOPATH

[@johnyoung1097]

@@wanderingstorytellerj7758 bro… imma need some proof on that. That’s wild! What’s it called imma look it up.

[@thedoge7743]

The fact that uncle Ben is in this video for 4 minutes 12 seconds implies Peter explained his entire spider man backstory in 48 seconds

[@changvasejarik62]

All Star Superman proved great origins can be done in 4 short parts. Radioactive spider. Arrogant failure. The power of responsibility. Condemned by marvel executives.

[@Fireborn-o4v]

I expected peter to fu*k it up, but Ben doing it is unexpected

[@jaidora]

That’s also part of the Spider-Man curse

[@deltagamma4618]

You can swear here, sir.

[@vasconcelos7356]

just say fuck

[@MagicCardboardBox]

"There's nothing after this, Peter-" "I made a literal deal with the literal Devil- I mentioned my marriage, right? Th-the first time not the Paul- anyway, are you sure you didn't just go to hell?"

[@MusicoftheDamned]

I honestly wouldn't put it past Mephisto to somehow screw over Ben Parker's soul specifically given his hard-on for making Peter suffer (like the Marvel editors and execs). Sadly Ben is still pretty on-point about everything else in-universe.

[@vasenkasi4846]

Well, it was a gift from Doctor Strange. He has gone to Hell, but I don't recall if he has ever visited to Heaven.

[@peenutsbr]

to be fair, some intrepretetions of hell are just a dark void

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@vasenkasi4846 Yeah, I'm unsure if Doctor Strange himself has gone there in-universe. Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure Peter has and, even more funnily, know The Fantastic Four have despite Reed Richards (still?) not believing in magic or the supernatural.

[@kneeofjustice9619]

@@MusicoftheDamnedThis reminds of Eddie from the challenge “The Boys”. The took Moist critical to a haunted jail and he wasn’t buying it at all and Eddie was like “Charlie is such a skeptic, that if a real ghost appeared right in front of him, he wouldn’t believe it.”

[@thomasmedveddubois4566]

Probably best that Peter never mention the fact he give his unborn baby to *The DEVIL*

[@magdalenomartinezjr8805]

@@thomasmedveddubois4566 or Paul, or that time he worked for his girlfriend's murderer, or that he donned said murderer's alter ego

[@lorenzobuero7115]

He literally mentioned that when he said he kind of got married end had a daughter but not

[@Ash-Winchester]

@@magdalenomartinezjr8805 Paul being with MJ is not a bad thing.

[@Nick-mp1zh]

@@Ash-Winchester The love of his life ditching him for a guy she just met, when that guy is partially responsible for the death of an entire planet, is not a bad thing?

[@reddytoplay9188]

The guy who pushed peter into the portal instead of having MJ (the one without superpowers) go through it? You think that's a good thing? Man's either malicious with wanting Mary Jane or incredibly stupid ​@Ash-Winchester

[@RockySamson]

Ben: “There’s nothing after this, Peter, it’s just pain and infinite darkness.” Peter: “Oh how the hell would you know?? You didn’t even realize you were dead five minutes ago, and now you’re accessing memories you couldn’t possibly have?! If you remember infinite pain and darkness, I got some bad news for you, but do me a favor when you go back and say hi to my kid.”

[@sdagoth3037]

"say hi to my kid" 💀

[@captaincritter6173]

Doctor Strange: “So…….. how did it go?” Spider-Man: “Well, he got shot again, somehow.”

[@LaffyTaffy04]

Doctor Strange: Oh yeah, that was me. Can't just let dead guys roam around, loose ends and all that. Spider-Man: STRANGE, WHAT THE F-!

[@sakharhareem]

@@LaffyTaffy04 Doctor Strange:iT IS WHAT IT IS

[@CyanRooper]

IT'S A CANON EVENT, PETER!

[@captaincritter6173]

⁠@@LaffyTaffy04 Doctor Strange: “Yeah…. sorry about that, but hey, at least you had a good moment with your Uncle Ben right?” Spider-Man: “Well no, not exactly. Besides, if that was you that ran past me, what happened to your magic? I know you can fly or at least teleport. So why did you run all the way to the top of the building, wearing that goofy disguise? Also, if I was talking to Uncle Ben, who clearly was a ghost. How were you able to harm him with a regular gun, a pistol in fact?” Doctor Strange: “I can’t answer any of those questions, Peter.” Spider-Man: “What do you mean you can’t? It was my birthday! I think I deserve an answer!”

[@LaffyTaffy04]

@@captaincritter6173 Dr. Strange: The will of the universe is beyond human comprehension! Enjoy the time you have with the ones you love and- hold on a moment. Yes Wong? Wong: You just wanted to use the ghost gun, didn't you? Dr. Strange: NOT NOW, WONG!

[@BR-jw7pm]

And to think, this is only the SECOND worst scenario for Peter caused by Dr Strange

[@darksideofevil13]

What's the first?

[@ser777XD]

What is the first one?

[@edmg7]

Are there even more than that in the comics?

[@BR-jw7pm]

@@darksideofevil13 I was referring to No Way Home

[@edmg7]

@@darksideofevil13 I think they mean No Way Home.

[@johnbaker7322]

"I was talking about financial responsibility Peter. How could you have missed that? You mean you aren't at least working construction with that super strength or something? You're not using your intelligence OR your strength to support your aunt even though I'm dead?"

[@clementgoh9270]

That's what Ares did. He got a job as a construction worker making 44 dollars an hour.

[@eugeniaamariei8626]

​@@clementgoh927044 dollars? In this economy?

[@robertkovarna8294]

But Peter's got the best job ever. Delivering pizza.

[@God-Level-Threat]

As a life long Spider-Man fan, this was the most painful video of yours I've ever watched. Because it's like 95% true.

[@carlrood4457]

When you look back and really examine things, he's kind of a self indulgent man-child. For example, he mainly focuses on one responsibility that technically isn't really his as he's not a law enforcement official, or anything. He bails on friends and family all the time. He could probably do a lot more good just selling his web formula in a more permanent form. Heck, what does he do to "clear his head" when things get tough? He puts on the costume and starts swinging around. In other words, runs away.

[@Gotten1888]

may is the true immortal, also in constant agony because of being stuck as old

[@nothingwrong2293]

​@@carlrood4457jesus, I can almost smell reddit. That interpretation is almost as bad as "Batman just beats up poor people". He feels responisble not because he's forgotten that he has no legal obligation to help people, but because he could've done the right thing but chose not to and suffered the consequences. Imagine basing your morality on the law. The "bails on friends and family" take is insane. "Sorry random citizen, I know you're in danger and I could help, but I haven't seen my girlfriend in a while, maybe next time?"

[@erichzannbusoumuzan]

@@carlrood4457 I don't know man, from what I've seen the entire balance hangs on him putting on a costume and going into the fray. If he did what you suggested the entire city would've been either destroyed, turned into a militaristic city-state under the Kingpin's thumb, overrun with Symbiotes, sucked into a black hole, or even became a portal for Darmammu. Even on the lesser scale we would have hundreds of people eaten alive in the sewers, the police-state with constant curfews and lockdowns thanks to police matching up against violent super-freaks, SEVERAL 9/11-equivalent events and an international incident that would lead to a war.

[@ComicWriter-ml3qt]

@@carlrood4457I think you just made the Spider-Man version of “Batman beats up the mentally ill and doesn’t use his wealth to help Gotham”

[@justarandomdude1810]

If you think about it, this video is in line with how horribly the writers treat Spidey. Getting him excited on his birthday by giving him a chance to meet Uncle Ben, only for him to be extremely disappointed in him and change his entire way of thinking, is the true Marvel way to end a spidey comic

[@BrokenValentine-333]

Relatable birthday

[@kingbash6466]

Funny thing is that the afterlife actually does exist in the Marvel universe, so this implies Uncle Ben did go to Hell after he died.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

Well yeah, this Uncle Ben is a capitalist. The Bible is actually _really_ explicit about the fact that capitalists go to Hell. Like, you literally cannot get more explicit.

[@reginaldwooster235]

Darkness and pain, yeah doesn't exactly sound like paradise.

[@Amogus-i6i]

The uncle ben appeared in front of Peter, is not real but a fraction of him. The real one gone to heaven. So what peter talking to Ben is fake, he has no soul. Just like Vision from wandavision

[@johay899]

@@Amogus-i6i either that or could be the version of uncle Ben from the ghost spider universe in which Peter Parker became a billionaire and harvested other Spider-Man to increase his powers

[@BrokenValentine-333]

Marvel NYC may as well be Hell itself

[@eon1014]

Plot Twist: It wasn’t actually Dr. Strange who summoned Uncle Ben back from the dead, but Mephisto. This is just his way of screwing with Peter yet again.

[@zoro115-s6b]

Maybe it wasn't even Ben, maybe it was just Mysterio.

[@pogggaming4470]

@@zoro115-s6b4:26 Karmas a bitch ain’t it?

[@divp-]

@@pogggaming4470 LMAO!!!

[@johay899]

I think this could be the version of uncle Ben from the ghost spider universe in which Peter Parker became a billionaire and harvested other Spider-Man to increase his powers This does seem like something Mephisto, could do either way whether it’s an alternate version of uncle Ben or Mephisto pretending to be him

[@eon1014]

@@johay899 Yeah, I read that story too. That wouldn’t really work here, because Peter has already met that alternate version of Uncle Ben before, and he would recognize him.

[@johnplays7600]

As depressing of an idea as this is, it's genuinely really cool to see that even despite knowing he was completely wrong about uncle ben, Peter still wants to help people and live by "with great power comes great responsibility."

[@cheifhog2552]

I mean no, it’s actually pretty terrible. His entire worldview is proven to be false, but he’s so married to a lie he feels he can’t abandon it. That’s not something to be proud of or happy about. That’s a kind of enslavement to be dreaded. The kind where one locks himself in a prison of his own design.

[@aquashuriken1634]

​@@cheifhog2552kinda weird to view "continuing to be altruistic even after your role model turns out to be shitty" as a bad thing.

[@chaosstar4683]

@@aquashuriken1634 Yeah I think chiefhog has an ego problem

[@meepmeep1330]

I imagine at 4:20 this is just the exact same guy who originally shot uncle Ben and he just instinctively knew that somehow he came back and had to finish the job

[@marcen12]

I woke up my boyfriend cackling out loud at this.

[@Firemaster27]

“This Paul fella has hurt my boy one too many times.” “This is what I promised my brother.”

[@SariatheFrostMage]

I like the idea of Doctor Strange giving Peter five minutes to *not* talk to Uncle Ben, but to instead get ready to fight the robber instead. I think that's a better joke waiting to be had.

[@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511]

Me recuerda a cuando hace poco booster gold trato de salvar a los Wayne solo para terminar causando una especie de Flashpoint

[@asrifalse]

The fact that it is more believeable that Peter is having a nightmare than Uncle Ben never intended to "scar" Peter for life makes me nervous

[@johay899]

This seems like I’m a Mephisto plan

[@TheMorteReport]

"5 minutes, make the most of it" Video is 4:55. Nice.

[@briansmith48]

Well, Peter is the one who left early. 😆

[@Romashka_Sov]

4:28 actually, everything after that is an ad

[@favoritemustard3542]

Romashka, Brian already covered why. I think it was still attention to detail on JJ's part.

[@Deathmare235]

@@Romashka_Sovngl I hate the ads

[@RealClassics277]

Whoa, what was that?? I got taken to a rap video, which I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna add to my Watch later.

[@vullord666]

3:35 I feel this so much. Marvel needs to stop insisting on maintaining the status quo with Peter. It still astounds me that one more day is a comic. Like the fact that someone actually wrote Peter making a deal with the devil to trade his marriage for bringing his old dead aunt back to life. Let the grown man grieve and move on like his aunt would want.

[@MalachiLper]

Especially since just a few comics before that, he came to term with the fact that his aunt is going to die. That comic would have been fixed so easily if instead of his aunt, it was his wife that was shot, and giving Peter the chance to save her life but lose all memories of their time together, or grieve with her passing.

[@Eisenwulf666]

​@@MalachiLperTHIS! btw the fact that all the other superheroes just said:" Your aunt got shot? Lol. Lmao" is so stupid. I could get Strange, but Iron Man? Reed Richards? There are, plural, x-men that could cure her. Even supervillains, for a price. Dr.Doom would have done it for free just to spite Richards.

[@atemplarknight8886]

​@@Eisenwulf666That would have been actually hysterical if Doom said he'd cure may to spite Mephisto or Richards

[@Mister_Oddity]

Marvel hates Peter's ass

[@Eisenwulf666]

@@atemplarknight8886 yeah, characters acting in a way that fits their personality and opening the door to new plots( Peter is indebted to Doom now, maybe he has to do some odd job for him, maybe that will come to haunt him later, maybe Doom made clones of Aunt May with shenanigans ensuing..),i don't know, like a comic maybe? Or, and hear me out on this, make a wishy washy pseudo philosopical bs story about an unborn daughter, with possible futures that will never happen and a faustian pact with the devil like it's freaking 1832, making Peter look like a special child, all the other chatacters like douches, MJ like a non entity and breaking decades of established lore just because you wanted to reset the title. How does that sound? (btw, not that anybody cares, but in Faust the demon is very open about the pact Dr.Faust is making, it even warns him to stop before it's too late. Because otherwise Faust would look like a victim of a more intelligent and powerful being, not as the romantic anti hero he is supposed to be. Because Goethe knew how to write and had a vision.)

[@level5650]

Ever since Canon Events were introduced I always imagined that learning about them would be a cosmic horror story for Ben. Imagine learning the cosmically-ordained, ineffable destiny for every single instance of you in every possible universe is to die to traumatise your adopted son.

[@oneovertwo1186]

Hey, not every single one, there's the universe where Uncle Ben is the Spider-Man & *everyone else* dies instead.

[@killmenowprettyprett]

there's one universe where Aunt May dies instead

[@TheRedMage01]

Ben is alive in the current Ultimate Spider-Man run but May is dead instead and Peter's life in the universe is actually pretty good

[@treimanator2.028]

There's no actual canon event in marvel comics

[@matityaloran9157]

Yeah, I suspect Beyond the Spider-Verse will reveal Miguel was wrong about that

[@skyslasher2297]

1:03 Actually Peter did try to continue making money off of Spider-Man but after becoming a vigilante Jameson's bad press made getting gig's impossible.

[@Amogus-i6i]

How much money?

[@skyslasher2297]

@@Amogus-i6i few hundred to appear in talk shows and wrestling events.

[@briansmith48]

Silver Sable did offer him a job on her squad once. But... he turned it down. 😅

[@skyslasher2297]

@@briansmith48 she’s an assassin tho right probably involved killing people. Think Tombstone from Spectacular when he offered Peter a job.

[@briansmith48]

@@skyslasher2297 . She leads a mercenary army that mostly hunts down old Nazi's.

[@nofacedgoldfish6216]

"With great power, comes great responsibility, and great opportunity. And in order to to live up to all that responsibility, you need to use every opportunity to get all the power." ~Future Peter Parker, Spider-Men: Edge Of Time

[@cq.cumber_offishial]

its edging time

[@howieedits9426]

In the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, Norman Osborn has a twisted version of the saying. "With great power, comes great reward."

[@nofacedgoldfish6216]

@@cq.cumber_offishial And just like that, you've ruined the game for me. You win.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

With great power comes great irresponsibility. "If I mess up, someone else gets punished."

[@Bluesit32]

This actually happened...to a point. Peter went through fighting EVERY BATTLE HE EVER FOUGHT all over again in order to go back in time and warn Mr. Fantastic not to activate a machine and instead let Strange handle it. For it, Strange gave him five minutes with his uncle.

[@AbderianForge]

Like to fight him?

[@R2121]

@@AbderianForge Strange: "Peter, for doing me a great service and saving the world... Again. I've decided to bring your Uncle Ben back to life for, like, five minutes, so you can have a chat and really get some of that emotional baggage off your chest." Peter: "Aww, thanks, Stephen. Though five minutes seems like entirely too little time, don't you think? Can't give me, like, an hour or twenty-four hours?" Strange, ripping Ben's soul from the afterlife: "Just for that, I'm going to ruin him for you. He was a money greedy old man who always wanted you to use your gifts to get ahead in life. To build a future that was greater than his or May's. I know for a fact he never said 'With great power comes great responsibility.' That's a thing you made up in approximately every universe. I know BECAUSE I CHECKED." Peter, wrapping boxing tape around his hands: "Someone's getting decked in the schnoz now. So finish up bringing him back. We're throwing down."

[@PeteTheGrouch]

@@R2121 Looking back on it, five minutes really DOES seem kinda stingy... especially considering the crap Peter had to go through to get there!

[@koelee]

I like to think that uncle ben wasn't just magically going to be sent back to the afterlife after the 5 minutes. Strange instead just hired a guy to kill him again after the time was up.

[@Zongleflork-z7j]

It was destined to happen: 4:20

[@Nothightho]

It was his ride back to the afterlife

[@Amogus-i6i]

You mean, canon event

[@SlayXemnas]

Ben: "Why does your life suck so much? You have powers. You have the ability to make it better." Peter: "Dude, you have NO idea how much the writers love to see me suffer..."

[@TheStickCollector]

Probably why he doesn't want any part of these stories

[@HaywoodStudiosOfficial]

As someone who read the original comics from the 1960s, I can confirm that it was not Uncle Ben who said, ""With great power, comes great responsibility." That quote came from Peter himself.

[@gabrielandriel8960]

1:17 Half true, Ben says that for the first time in 1987's Wolverine vs Spider-Man, but yeah, that wasnt there in the first 25 years of Spider-Man's comics (tho it was in a cd album, if I'm not mistaken).

[@mrfox9090]

Well, Uncle Ben was kinda useless in the first comic

[@Amogus-i6i]

All of this was a lie?

[@gabrielandriel8960]

@@Amogus-i6i What are you talking about?

[@divp-]

@@gabrielandriel8960 They're talking about all of this, I think that was pretty clear. (Yeah, I haven't the foggiest either ;-p.)

[@APAMVs]

3:05 Didn't expect Uncle Ben to say the F word with such power 😂

[@markiplieristhebestpizzato2743]

Thats when i realized huggbees was voicing uncle ben.

[@Amogus-i6i]

No wonder where did bully maguire get this heritage from

[@ppppr]

my gaurd fallen and couldn't get up . .

[@APAMVs]

@@ppppr ..what?

[@LordNifty]

This video does remind me of how little sense it makes for Peter Parker to work as a newspaper photographer rather than a science or engineering position he would make more money with and be better suited for. It makes sense for Clark Kent to be a newsreporter at a major newspaper because he learns about people around the world who could use his help as Superman, and Clark does explain that.

[@EverythingNerdySNES]

I feel like Pete could've brought up that he has friends who have actually gone to the afterlife

[@carlrood4457]

And met several spirits and demons.

[@philw3039]

@@carlrood4457 He's actually met God

[@EverythingNerdySNES]

@@philw3039 the one-above-all?

[@viniciushenrique6672]

​@@EverythingNerdySNES Yup.

[@johay899]

Mephisto/uncle Ben: are you sure about that? could’ve just been clones for all you know. spider-Man:Uncle Ben… that wasn’t your voice Mephisto/uncle Ben:.. 0 do you like sports? still, so anything else you wanna tell me about? spider-Man: punches Mephisto Mephisto: why did you do oh no(notices illusion is gone) Spider-Man: everything that happened you had to imitate uncle Ben you’re going down now (goe mode)

[@mikemcconeghy4658]

Yeah, Spidey in the comics always did have a sucky life. It seemed like the message was, "You don't really want this, kids. Read our comics, but don't wish for this."

[@matityaloran9157]

I’m not really a comics enthusiast so I could be wrong about this but I thought the point was that being a hero was an awful and thankless position which didn’t help him at all but Peter persisted in his heroics anyway because it was the right thing to do

[@somerandomguy9891]

I remember the animated show. There's a flashback in which uncle Ben says that quote. And I swear that the responsibility thing was about being responsible when using the power, not about being obligated to use it to the greater good.

[@SirsasthNigam.]

actually it was "With Great Power , there must also come Great responsibility"

[@Sephiroth144]

AND it was a narration box, not Ben saying it. I mean, Ben was dead by then, and twas no flashback. "And a lean, silent figure slowly fades into the gathering darkness, aware at last that in this world, with great power there must also come - - great responsibility!" - Amazing Fantasy #15, 1962

[@SirsasthNigam.]

Yeah I like that it was something Peter said not Ben

[@HawthorneVampire]

So Doctor Strange brought in the variant of Uncle Ben that never said “With Great Power comes Great Responsibility.” and he was still alive with Aunt May. That means saying the line got him killed.

[@dazzlethestar151]

2:23 At least he didn't mention Paul.

[@marcushojunyong]

I’m sorry, the name Paul is not registered to my Marvel Database. Did you mean “the biggest loser in all comic continuity”?

[@jimmydesouza4375]

I am not a comic book reader. Who is this paul person?

[@gluttonyzonde4132]

​​​@@jimmydesouza4375basically peter was married to mary jane in an apocalypse and paul was the only other guy and peter got sent to another world, and time worked differently so mj got with paul and had kids and paul now constantly is in peters life despite stealing his woman (if im not mistaken this is the main continuity peter as well or the real main comic run peter parker that's been around for decades)

[@Gazpacho834]

@@jimmydesouza4375 Paul is MJ's new boyfriend she got from being stuck in an alternate dimension (Universe? idk) for a few years while Peter was on normal earth only a month or less passed for him. I copied and pasted from reddit

[@calemr]

​@@jimmydesouza4375To add on to what other people said: He just keeps showing up, frequently one upping Peter, and to much of the fanbase, he's become kind of an embodiment of the writer's and executive's Refusal to let anything good happen to Peter Parker. The execs want people to like him. Instead, the fanbase cheered when his kids disintegrated in front of him because they just hate him so damn much.

[@shyguymike]

‘Darkness and unending pain’ sure sounds like there is something on the other side. Just not the specific something Peter imagined Ben would be in though.

[@njivwathomassilavwe2056]

We don't talk about Paul

[@blackday1013]

The metacommentary on May was the best. She is a woman beyond definition.

[@alessandroaleman4512]

To anyone wondering, this is a meme based on issue 500 of amazing spiderman, where peter ACTUALLY meets ben for 5 minutes and talks to him

[@phromkatv]

Those words come from the narrator from one of the first Spiderman issue and tecnically it was Peter Parker himself to say it, because the narrator implied that Peter understand that "From great Power comes great Responsabilities." That mean that it was Peter who came up with that quote.

[@angrybread478]

Ben saying there's nothing in the afterlife and then just describes Hell

[@ahmad55]

Uncle Ben’s right “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” was said by Stan Lee in the narration. He said to us that Peter has to learn that lesson not Uncle Ben.

[@memehawk12]

God damnit peter how could you forget it's always about upwards mobility.

[@WerewolfGuyyy]

How the hell does all the billionaires in the marvel universe not make sure there is at least 10 grand a month in peters account They know his identity, I'm sure the IRS can be told to leave him alone by SHIELD.

[@OmniGman]

Because they are intentionally written as not giving a rat's ass about him except when it's convenient for them.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

The IRS is not beholden to SHIELD. SHIELD itself is weird. I remember when it was a sort of police unit of the UN, but now it is part of the USA government? The Pentagon office in Hollywood said they couldn't advise on the MCU because they didn't know how to fit SHIELD into their organigram. Anyway, if SHIELD is based in the USA in any way, it is beholden to the IRS, not the other way around.

[@jacksmith-mu3ee]

Bcz that's communism

[@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511]

​@@OmniGmanimagino que porque sería sospechoso que un adolescente - adulto joven se vuelva millonario de la noche a la mañana

[@OmniGman]

@@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511 I promise that rich people have dozens, if not hundreds, of different tricks to work around the IRS. Heck, Tony Stark could literally just give Peter a well-paying job, with good health benefits, that only exists on paper, and no one would question it as long as Peter wasn't paid too much money.

[@SSkk129]

Since peter can jump around high buildings and monitor from far, if he wanted, he could have learned many business secrets and earned money from them. He sells his pictures to earn money. Compared to other superheroes, i would say his main job is being superhero and being photographer is a sidejob, just to survive.

[@almondmagnum8604]

He doesn't even need to do something that immoral and illegal. If he'd focused on being a scientist and engineer, he could have made a fortune off the patents (easier in the Marvel Universe than Real Life), but every good thing he has, every lucky break, he lets his Spider-Man double life destroy it.

[@2picklesanddishsoap547]

Bringing back Uncle Ben only to have him be severely disappointed by Peter seems like something the writes would 100% do

[@khansahb-o4e]

Leave it to a father figure to leave feeling you utterly disappointed in yourself.

[@TheBlazingBronzeBro]

Learning that Uncle Ben never originally said the iconic line is crazy to me.

[@ezronco.8671]

Yeah I was surprised when I read the amazing fantasy 15 issue and yup uncle Ben didn’t say it Peter was the one who came up with it or the narrator did.

[@Tembai-Last]

​@@ezronco.8671 Yeah, it was the narrator and the point is to show Peter realize that lesson after Uncle Ben death and he found his killer. He realized it himself and i liked that better actually

[@miguelcarunchod.1493]

For anybody who wonders: The quote was originally said by Winston Churchill "Where there is great power, there will always be great responsibility". Seems like the original writers just read it somewhere and created Spiderman's uncle Big Ben. XD

[@matityaloran9157]

And even Churchill was quoting other people when he said that

[@superjlk_9538]

This is one of my favorite comic book moments. It’s so beautiful that they got Romita Sr. back to draw it

[@mrfox9090]

?

[@Arakus99]

@@mrfox9090 this video is a silly comedic version of a scene that actually happened in the comics, Peter did actually get to talk to Ben for 5 minutes

[@theglobalgambit]

This Uncle Ben certainly crushing Spidey’s pure idealism with his cold hearted realism 😂

[@Nobody-hw6jv]

Sounds more like cynicism

[@topcatfan]

"realism" what are you on?

[@mr.l8723]

This is how Spider-Man becomes evil

[@Superman-jr1rm]

"Realism" in the context that if a genius individual with spiderman powers would have the basic common sense to realize using his gifts and intelligence to make money thus being able to help more people in other ways like selling his web formula for example there is absolutely zero reason for peter parker to ever struggle with bills or other mundane life issues

[@zoro115-s6b]

@@Superman-jr1rm What you forget is that the rules of superhero universes prevent super-tech from ever becoming widely utilized, and that even if they didn't, the rules of Spider Man means that him trying to make money like that would somehow backfire horribly.

[@artosbear]

The sound design of having the background go from like music that's kind of nostalgic to the rising emergency sirens as Uncle Ben's disappointment becomes clear is brilliant. It's very excellent.

[@Navonex]

Happy birthday from doctor strange, 5 minutes make the most of it. The video end at 4:28 Even the parodies hate Peter Parker.

[@UnnecessarilyReal]

While he didn't say it in Amazing Fantasy #15, it has been recalled by characters multiple times in the main line run to be something he said frequently until it was retconned that he said it in his final moments

[@somedudewatchintv5297]

Doctor Strange messed up, this Ben was from another universe clearly.

[@lol_vevo]

"With great power, comes great rentability" - Uncle "$100" Benjamin

[@DavidMay-cc1xo]

"Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can be no responsibility" - Winston Churchill

[@gideonbrown4215]

Uncle Ben TECHNICALLY said it, just not when you'd think he did. The phrase "with great power comes great responsibility" was originally spoken in a side note in Spidey's debut comic. The phrase wasn't tied to Uncle Ben until 1972, and even then, it was only alluded to.

[@TolietWater]

In actual 616 canon it was established in 1987

[@FoolsGil]

Being real for a second, there is no reason why Spidey willingly puts himself through what he does. There are hundreds of superheroes, plenty that he looks up to that uses their powers and still take care of themselves.

[@azozazoz9196]

This is gold. And yes, that's based on issue 500 of Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski and the late John Romita Sr.

[@star4326]

This is absolutely something marvel writers would put Peter through, dude absolutely CANNOT be happy

[@Gotten1888]

I keep expecting them to pull something like this, maybe he liked Paul more then Peter, as he knew him as a kid

[@OmniGman]

They absolutely would. Wells had all of Peter's birthday party guests scolding him because he came to where they were holding the surprise party (that he didn't know about) earlier than they expected. Even Flash, who knows Peter is Spider-Man, and should have known better. Yeah. It was clearly meant to be funny, but it just came off as mean-spirited, especially since some of the guests were actually glaring at him for unintentionally ruining their surprise. Oh, and the bad guy Peter was fighting earlier (a super intelligent robot) figured out who he was, and wished him a Happy Birthday even as Spider-Man pulled the plug on him. MJ could not be bothered to wish him a Happy Birthday, but his enemy, an artificial lifeform who he was essentially killing by shutting them down, still did!

[@TheRedMage01]

The new Ultimate Spider-Man has it pretty good right now

[@benjaminbaer9712]

"There's nothing after this Pete, just pain and darkness." Pretty sure that's hell, uncle Ben. You went to hell.

[@aaritmitra625]

To be fair, Uncle Ben, none of this is Peter's fault. It's Marvel Editorial's

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

They think we couldn't empathize with a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist.

[@OmniGman]

​@@naamadossantossilva4736 Looks at the Iron Man movies and Batman's everything… Yeah. No way we could empathize with, and admire, a character like that… 😂

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Spiderman is a Superman parody. Both work for a newspaper while having superpowers. Both wear red and blue. Nobody knows what Clark Kent is doing or what the Daily Planet is paying him for, or how much they are paying him. He occasionally answers the phone, and he seems to have acted as a bodyguard for some of his colleagues when doing field work, but most of the time he's not even in the office. But he has superpowers. Peter Parker has superpowers. He's a photoreporter freelancing for the Daily Bugle, he gets paid a pittance which barely covers rent and groceries. His free time is spent cooking up glue and mending his costume. He's a university dropout because arresting petty criminals doesn't leave him much time to study. He's not even a good photographer at first.

[@11338325]

"With great power comes great responsibility" is a proverb popularized by Spider-Man in Marvel comics, films, and related media. Introduced by Stan Lee, it originally appeared as a closing narration in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15, and was later attributed to Uncle Ben as advice to the young Peter Parker. The expression's connection to Spider-Man's Uncle Ben was a later development. While Uncle Ben had only two lines in the original story, later stories and flashbacks set when Ben was alive retroactively made the phrase one of his homilies to Peter. The first mention of Ben saying the phrase to Peter was in 1972, when Ron Dante (of The Archies) included it in his album Spider-Man: A Rockomic. However, this attribution would not catch on in the comics for at least another decade. The earliest appearance of a direct reference to Ben telling Peter the phrase is the 1987 Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1 by Jim Owsley, M. D. Bright, and Al Williamson. The first showing Ben saying this to Spider-Man was The Amazing Spider-Man (Ser. 2) #38 in February 2002. So yes, Uncle Ben actually did say that.

[@ChristochatBTW]

"The best part is he didn't, it was the narrator of the comic"

[@TonyTylerDraws]

Dr. Strange did in fact do this for Peter; he pulled Ben from the past literally as he was getting shot. AND THEN HE SENT HIM BACK

[@dspace4514]

Ben: Well at least you are adored by the people you save, right? Sure you're not in it for the fame, but you must be seen as a great hero, huh? Peter: Weeeeell... *Points at Daily Bugle Billboard* Ben: Why does he have a Nazi mustache?

[@ppppr]

1:33 sounds straight out of rick and morty, from the acknowledgement of a catchphrase to the tone 🎉

[@ManuelRiccobono]

4:06 that is literally NOT true. Peter knows that, because he met SATAN in the comics

[@Amogus-i6i]

That's Mephisto. He's different than Satan

[@tybotomusrex870]

@@Amogus-i6iisnt mephisto just comic book satan?

[@Redhead-pf8le]

@@tybotomusrex870 And embodiment of Marvel writers Literally, they admitted that they use Mephisto when they don't know what to do with a plot and that's how One More Day happened. and the one plot iwth Doc Ock in Peter's body

[@videobeetle8]

"Peter Parker, Disgraced Tech Mogul" is such a funny and true statement that should preface every interaction anyone has with him

[@Artemas_16]

Well, that darkness thing cannot be true. Besides the obvious hell with Mephisto and such, when Doc Ock kills Peter, he goes to heaven and talks to deceased characters.

[@Shadowkey392]

Actually, he DID say it. ORIGINALLY “with great power comes great responsibility” was the closing caption of the very first Spider-Man comic, but later stories and flashbacks made it clear that it actually was something Uncle Ben often said to Peter.

[@aidenp8661]

didnt realize it was huggbees until around 3:30 minutes when it most sounded like him and i had to check for proof. this is cool af

[@Revolution-U]

I'm glad someone brought up that uncle ben never said the whole "With great power comes great responsibility" line that's been bothering me for years now also some random robber spawning from thin air just to shoot uncle been got me way more than it should.

[@ashha1594]

I love that THATS why he is dissapointed

[@Soul93Taker]

No wonder Peter is doomed, he's dressed like Sandman and Sandman ain't got no soul

[@gregjensen5826]

Peter Parker making a living taking pictures of himself makes him sound like he's on OnlyFans.

[@genki1164]

Damn. Not even JJ can give poor Peter a nice day without ruining his life just a little bit. Truly captures the spirit of Spider-Man!

[@ThePsych123]

"there is no afterlife" says the ghost

[@stvia]

What he meant was "With great power comes great responsiblity. The responsibility of financially caring of your family that is"

[@oldmanwaterfall]

First part of the vid was so wholesome. Then it got awkward, then disappointing, and the end was just dark. Perfect video.

[@RandomEditz54]

In the original comic, uncle Ben didn't say it, but it later was given to him and Stan Lee gave the thumbs up, so it's not true that he "never said that". He just didn't invent it

[@castle9165]

It took me until 2:15 to realise Ben was just Huggbees. It was the “well alright, that’s at least somethin’” that gave it away.

[@goodie2goodie1]

It's just the way he says 'something'

[@blakethebeast3174]

Pete should mentioned how many times he's saved the world, he surely would have scored some points on the Uncle Ben Meter. Then again, Marvel's Earth is in danger so many times a week I'd be shocked if Ben himself didn't save the planet at least once when he was younger. It's all relative and I'm just waiting for that retcon in the comics where Ben scolded an alien armada into leaving.

[@theskull1030]

You know, it would've been really fitting to wait a couple of days and post this in November the 2nd. Although, the last joke seems to imply he didn't come to visit from the world of the dead, but was actually revived.

[@mas8705]

*Sees Ending* I see Strange basically has a personal vendetta against Peter if he decided to bring back Ben just long enough for him to get gunned down again.

[@MexiCayde-6]

I'm glad someone else said it, yeah the line comes from the end of the first comic when Stan is talking directly to us the audience. In iterations afterward he says it but in the OG run, we never see him say those words. Maybe it was implied that he did, but we don't know and that line didn't even really come back in that form for the first 50 issues. I mean they allude to it in Spider-Man no more but yeah, never said. Now because ASM writers are hacks that's the only lesson they bring up, and pretty much never anything else.

[@battlesheep2552]

It's funny how the only people who stay dead in comics are Uncle Ben and the Waynes. Not even Aunt May is exempt from the infinite cycle of torture for our entertainment.