50 Fun Facts About Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4)

In Marvel's Spider-Man (2018), the Perfect Dodge skill counters an attack with a web shot to which part of the enemy?

The face. The dodge has to wait until the spider-sense halo flashes a second time, brighter and bluer, and the webbing then blinds the attacker long enough for Spider-Man to move in and hit back.

What does Peter hunt for across the city in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) to recover keepsakes from his early days?

His old backpacks. Peter stashed them around the city while still at high school and learning his powers, and each now yields a memento of an old adventure plus a token to spend on new suits.

Which supervillain leads the masked Inner Demons in their bid to seize New York's underworld in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Mister Negative. His touch corrupts whoever it reaches, and the writers gave him a wrong to avenge, a childhood experiment that killed his parents, so that he would be 'a hero of his own story'.

What is the name of the deadly bioweapon at the centre of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Devil's Breath. Oscorp made it by accident while hunting a cure for a fatal inherited disease, and a child it was tested on survived with strange powers and a lifelong grudge.

Who voices Peter Parker in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Yuri Lowenthal. He recorded Spider-Man's phone conversations twice, once calm and once out of breath, so the game can switch takes from one line to the next when the player starts swinging or fighting.

Which job does Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) give Peter?

Research assistant. Creative director Bryan Intihar said the team wanted 'a job that maybe people didn't expect', built on the scientific talent the comics have always given Peter.

Why does Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) skip Peter's origin story?

Everyone knows it. Lead writer Jon Paquette said 'everyone kind of knows Spider-Man was bitten by a spider', which let the story open on a seasoned hero of 23, the age when most people cross into adult life.

Who is Peter Parker's mentor and employer in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Otto Octavius. The writers made him a soft-spoken optimist and a friend, not the usual megalomaniac, so that his fall into villainy as Doctor Octopus would land as a tragedy.

What job does Mary Jane Watson hold in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Daily Bugle reporter. The writers passed over her comic-book careers because none let her take an active part in the plot, whereas a journalist can chase the story herself, as she does in her own stealth missions.

Which villain does Spider-Man defeat in the opening mission of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018), creating a power vacuum?

Wilson Fisk. Jailing the Kingpin backfires: he had boasted of being the one who kept order in the city, and with him gone the masked Inner Demons move in on his empire.

What is the homeless shelter run by Martin Li called in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

F.E.A.S.T. The writers tied the charity's kindly founder to the people Peter loves so that, when his other life comes out, the hero is squeezed from both sides at once.

Which office does Norman Osborn hold in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Mayor of New York City. After an attack on his own re-election rally he hires Silver Sable's private army to take over from the police, and by the story's end he has resigned in disgrace.

Whose father is killed when the Inner Demons attack a ceremony honouring him in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Miles Morales's. Officer Jefferson Davis had just been commended for helping Spider-Man foil a Demon raid; afterwards Peter befriends the grieving Miles and finds him volunteer work at a shelter.

Where is Martin Li imprisoned after his first defeat in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

The Raft. The supermax does not hold him long: a mass breakout frees him and four more of Spider-Man's old enemies, who join forces under a new leader as this game's Sinister Six.

Where does Doctor Octopus release the bioweapon in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018), starting the outbreak?

Times Square. The release spreads sickness through the city, martial law is declared and Spider-Man is blamed for it, so the hero spends the last act as a fugitive in his own home town.

What is the name of the armoured suit Peter builds for the final battle of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Anti-Ock. Peter builds it after Doctor Octopus leaves him badly beaten, and unlike most suits in the game it has no comic-book ancestor: Insomniac's artists designed it from scratch.

What impossible choice confronts Peter at the end of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Save Aunt May or cure the city. With a single dose of antidote, Peter gives it up to make a vaccine for everyone; her death echoes Uncle Ben's, caused this time by a selfless choice.

What does Miles reveal to Peter three months after the outbreak in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

He has spider-like powers. A lab spider that hitched a ride out of Norman's penthouse on Mary Jane's jacket had bitten him, and Peter replies by joining him on the ceiling.

Who is shown in stasis in Norman's secret lab in the final scene of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Harry Osborn. Friends think he is travelling in Europe; in truth he is dying of the illness that killed his mother, and a black, web-like substance in his tank stirs when his father touches the glass.

Whom does Stan Lee's cook call 'my favorites' in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Peter and MJ. Lee, who helped create both characters, plays a diner cook glad to see the estranged couple together again, so the writer is in effect talking to his own creations.

J. Jonah Jameson has swapped newspapers for which medium to rant about the hero in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

A podcast. Co-writer Christos Gage scripted most of the rants, claiming 'a special insight into the voice of a grouchy middle-aged man', and used the phone-in show as a Greek chorus on events in the city.

What did Marvel leave Insomniac free to pick for the game that became Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

The superhero. The team picked Spider-Man because, as creative director Bryan Intihar put it, a hero who makes mistakes is easier to relate to than a billionaire or a god.

Which earlier Insomniac game provided the traversal foundation for Spider-Man?

Sunset Overdrive. The 2014 game was an Xbox exclusive, yet its free-flowing movement system and its engine became the base on which PlayStation's web-swinging was built.

Which publisher had held the Spider-Man game licence since 2000 before Sony and Insomniac?

Activision. Marvel's games chief closed the 16-year chapter in a sentence, praising 'a long history of success' with the publisher before adding that Spider-Man's future on consoles lay elsewhere.

At which event did Sony first reveal Marvel's Spider-Man in 2016?

E3. Marvel used the reveal at Sony's press conference to announce a change of strategy: no more games rushed out to meet a film's release date.

Which birds does the hero chase across the rooftops to earn Research Tokens in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Pigeons. They are the lost pets of Howard, a man evicted from his home, and Spider-Man has to out-fly each one across the skyline to return it and bank a token.

What did a fan persuade Insomniac to hide on a cinema marquee in Marvel's Spider-Man, with unhappy results?

A marriage proposal. The couple split up weeks before release and the message shipped anyway, so Insomniac offered to patch it out.

The 90-second 'Be Greater' advert for Marvel's Spider-Man premiered during the opening game of which league's 2018 season?

The NFL. Sony bought the slot to launch the game like a blockbuster film: the kickoff broadcast drew some 19.5 million viewers, and its marketing chief called the advert one of the most expensive PlayStation had run.

Why is Manhattan in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) cut into about 800 tiles?

Memory limits. The whole island would not fit in the console's memory, so tiles behind Spider-Man are dropped and those ahead swapped in, about one a second at top swinging speed.

What colour was added to Spider-Man's traditional red and blue for the Advanced Suit of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

White. Art director Jacinda Chew treated the suit like athletic compression wear in which each colour is a different material, and white marks the toughest, a carbon-fibre-like armour over the chest, hands and feet.

The Advanced Suit's footwear in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) was designed to resemble what, in place of knee-high boots?

Sneakers. Art director Jacinda Chew asked what a young would-be superhero living in 2018 New York would be influenced by, and settled on athletic gear, down to sneaker treads on the soles.

Which two villain fights were merged into one battle when act three of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) was trimmed?

Vulture and Electro. Creative director Bryan Intihar said things 'weren't clicking' in the overgrown third act, and the pair were saved when someone mocked up a quick version of a two-on-one fight in the sky.

Which composer, known for Netflix's Daredevil and the Maze Runner films, scored Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

John Paesano. He said he scored the game 'more Peter Parker than Spider-Man', keeping one theme for the man behind the mask and threading it even through the villains' music.

What system does the optional fast travel use in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

The subway. It is strictly optional, and Game Informer's reviewer wrote that web-swinging was so much fun he never once took the train.

Which villain sets the timed combat, stealth and traversal challenges in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Taskmaster. The mercenary who can copy any fighting move he watches sets the trials from the shadows, then steps out to fight Spider-Man in person, twice.

What is the name of the combat resource built by chaining attacks in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Focus. A full bar buys an instant finishing move, but it can also be spent a little at a time to heal, so every fight asks whether to hit harder or stay alive.

What were the three original difficulty levels of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) called?

Friendly, Amazing, Spectacular. Each is borrowed from the title of a Spider-Man comic, from Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man upwards, and a later update added a harder fourth named Ultimate.

Which internet controversy over Marvel's Spider-Man did Insomniac later parody with photo-mode stickers?

The puddle downgrade. Fans comparing two versions of one scene spotted a smaller puddle and cried foul; Insomniac insisted nothing had been cut back, then added cartoon puddle stickers to photo mode.

What is the collective name of the three-episode DLC pack for Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

The City That Never Sleeps. Sold as one pack but released a chapter a month from October to December 2018, it follows a single gang war that breaks out once the main story's villains are locked up.

Which character's return to New York drives the first DLC episode of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Black Cat. In The Heist, Felicia Hardy, a master thief and Spider-Man's ex, turns up stealing for the mob with motives of her own, and the job sets off the gang war that fills the next two episodes.

Which mobster tries to take over the Maggia in Turf Wars, the second DLC episode of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)?

Hammerhead. When his ambush wipes out a whole police squad, Captain Yuri Watanabe, Spider-Man's steadiest ally on the force, snaps and sets out to take her own revenge on the mobster.

The 'Bombastic Bag-Man' suit in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) pairs a paper bag with which team's costume?

The Fantastic Four's. It restages a 1984 comic in which Peter, just parted from his alien black suit, borrows a spare uniform from the Human Torch, who adds a paper bag to hide his face on the way home.

Which game's Sony first-party launch record did Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) narrowly beat?

God of War. Kratos had held Sony's record of 3.1 million for only a few months, and Spider-Man's 3.3 million in three days was helped along by copies packed in with a red limited-edition console.

Which actor's movie Spider-Man costume was added free to Marvel's Spider-Man in December 2018 after months of fan demands?

Tobey Maguire. An unresolved tease that summer had some fans hounding the developers for the suit from Sam Raimi's films; it arrived five days before Christmas with the line 'we obviously never stopped listening'.

Which title knocked Marvel's Spider-Man off the top of the UK chart after three weeks?

FIFA 19. The football game also topped September's monthly chart after only two days on sale, though Spider-Man's first month still outsold those of Uncharted 4 and Horizon Zero Dawn.

Which series did critics repeatedly compare the combat of Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) to?

Batman: Arkham series. IGN said the combat 'owes a lot' to it, though USgamer called the comparison 'a bit off', arguing that Spider-Man dodges where Batman counters.

Why did the PS5 remaster of Marvel's Spider-Man recast Peter's face?

To match his actor. Insomniac said a new face would sit better on the facial performance already recorded, so Ben Jordan replaced John Bubniak as the model while the voice stayed the same.

In Across the Spider-Verse, the hero of Marvel's Spider-Man cameos as a member of whose Spider Society?

Miguel O'Hara. The Spider-Man of 2099 leads the team, and the films had nodded to the game once before: its Advanced Suit hangs among the spare costumes in Into the Spider-Verse.

In the 2020 spin-off, where has Peter gone while his protégé protects New York?

Symkaria. He goes to photograph a civil war in Silver Sable's homeland and leaves the city to a hero with barely a year's training.

Who voices Venom in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (2023)?

Tony Todd. Players first heard him in a single line, spoken by Venom at the very end of the sequel's 2021 reveal trailer, and Insomniac named the Candyman star as the voice that same day.