How I Write Clips(@PerellClips):The most interesting thing about Spider-Man isn't that he was bitten by a radioactive spider. Harlan Coben on what makes him a fascinating character: "Spider-Man, Peter Parker, gets bitten by a radioactive spider. That's not the most interesting part to me. Then he becomes kind of a dick and wants to just be Spider-Man to make money and get girls and be famous. He develops tremendous vanity." "And one day, a robber runs past him and he doesn't stop him. And that robber ends up killing his uncle Ben that night, the man who was raising him. That guilt is what makes Spider-Man become Spider-Man and dark."

2026.09.15 17:30

The most interesting thing about Spider-Man isn't that he was bitten by a radioactive spider. Harlan Coben on what makes him a fascinating character: "Spider-Man, Peter Parker, gets bitten by a radioactive spider. That's not the most interesting part to me. Then he becomes kind of a dick and wants to just be Spider-Man to make money and get girls and be famous. He develops tremendous vanity." "And one day, a robber runs past him and he doesn't stop him. And that robber ends up killing his uncle Ben that night, the man who was raising him. That guilt is what makes Spider-Man become Spider-Man and dark."