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Spider protection and recovery efforts
Spider protection and recovery efforts are conservation actions for threatened spiders: legal protection, habitat management, captive rearing, and translocation, with habitat protection the most effective measure.
Spider pulsar
A spider pulsar is a millisecond pulsar in a tight binary orbit whose wind strips, or ablates, its low-mass companion, dividing into black widows and redbacks.
Spider Sabich
Spider Sabich, born Vladimir Peter Sabich Jr., was an American alpine ski racer who competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and won the World Pro Skiing Championships in 1971 and 1972.
Spider silk
Spider silk: protein fibres (spidroins) spun by all spiders; dragline silk reaches 1.7 GPa strength with high toughness from β-sheet/amorphous structure; recombinant production enables biomedical and textile uses.
Spider taxonomy
Spider taxonomy: the classification of order Araneae, begun by Clerck in 1757, now 139 families, 4,527 genera, and 54,150 species in the World Spider Catalog, with Mesothelae, Mygalomorphae, and Araneomorphae as main lineages.
Spider trickster traditions in world folklore
Spider trickster traditions are folktale cycles in which a cunning spider outwits stronger opponents, best known through Anansi of the Akan and found across West Africa and the Americas.
Spider vision
Spider vision is the visual system of spiders (order Araneae), built from up to four pairs of camera eyes; only a minority, including jumping spiders, resolve sharp images and color.
Spider wasp
Spider wasps (Pompilidae): cosmopolitan solitary wasps, about 4,855–5,000 species, that paralyze spiders with sodium-channel toxins and provision single eggs; includes the tarantula hawk, rated 4 on the Schmidt pain index.
Spider web
Spider web: silk structure built by spiders from protein fibre via spinnerets to catch prey. Orb, sheet, tangle, funnel types; viscid glue versus cribellate Velcro-like capture silk; stickiness constrained by thread strength.
Spider-Boy
Spider-Boy is a Marvel Comics name shared by Bailey Briggs, Dan Slott's 2023 retconned child sidekick of Spider-Man with extra eyes and spider speech, and Peter Ross, the 1996 Amalgam Spider-Man/Superboy hybrid.
Spider-Girl
Spider-Girl is the Marvel Comics superhero May "Mayday" Parker, daughter of Spider-Man and Mary Jane in the MC2 Earth-982 future, created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz in What If? #105 (1998), distinct from Anya Corazon and Maka Akana, who also used the name.
Spider-Gwen
Spider-Gwen, also Ghost-Spider, is Marvel's alternate-universe Gwen Stacy of Earth-65, bitten by the radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker. Created by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez in Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014), she starred in Spider-Gwen (2015) and the Spider-Verse films voiced by Hailee Steinfeld.
Spider-Ham
Spider-Ham (Peter Porker, Earth-8311) is Marvel's anthropomorphic pig Spider-Man, created by Tom DeFalco and Mark Armstrong in Marvel Tails #1 (1983), flagship of Star Comics' 1985-1987 series, and a John Mulaney-voiced star of Into the Spider-Verse.
Spider-Man
Spider-Man, the Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) as Peter Parker, a Queens teenager with spider powers bound by Uncle Ben's great-responsibility maxim, later joined by Miles Morales and film stars Maguire, Garfield, and Holland.
Spider-Man (1967 TV series)
Spider-Man (1967 TV series): the first animated Spider-Man adaptation, 52 episodes on ABC and in syndication, 1967-1970, made by Grantray-Lawrence and Krantz Films and famous for its theme song.
Spider-Man (1977 film)
Spider-Man (1977) is a CBS made-for-TV movie directed by E.W. Swackhamer, starring Nicholas Hammond as the first live-action film Spider-Man; it piloted The Amazing Spider-Man series and saw overseas theatrical release.
Spider-Man (2000 video game)
Spider-Man (2000) is Neversoft's action-adventure game, the first 3D Spider-Man title, released August 30, 2000 by Activision for PlayStation, Dreamcast, N64, PC, and Game Boy Color; Metacritic 87 on PlayStation, cosmetic web-swinging, sequel Enter Electro.
Spider-Man (2002 film)
Spider-Man (2002) is Sam Raimi's superhero film starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, with Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin. It opened May 3, 2002, was the first film to top $100 million in an opening weekend, and was 2002's highest-grossing film.
Spider-Man (2002 video game)
Spider-Man: The Movie is Treyarch's 2002 Activision action-adventure tie-in to the Raimi film, released April 16, 2002 on PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC, and GBA; Maguire and Dafoe voiced roles, over one million units shipped day one, and its success led to Spider-Man 2 (2004).
Spider-Man (2017 TV series)
Marvel's Spider-Man (2017) is a Disney XD animated series about Peter Parker, successor to Ultimate Spider-Man. 57 episodes, 3 seasons, 2017-2020, ending with Maximum Venom; Robbie Daymond voices Peter.
Spider-Man (2018 video game)
Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) is Insomniac Games' open-world action-adventure for PS4, released 7 September 2018, starring an experienced Peter Parker swinging through Manhattan; Metacritic 87, later remastered for PS5 and PC.
Spider-Man (पवित्र प्रभाकर) (Pavitr Prabhakar)
Pavitr Prabhakar (पवित्र प्रभाकर), Spider-Man India, is Marvel's Indian Spider-Man of Earth-50101, created in 2004 by Kang, Seetharaman, and Devarajan; powered by a yogi, he starred in Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Spider-Man (スパイダーマン) (Japanese TV series)
Spider-Man (スパイダーマン, Supaidāman), or Japanese/Toei Spider-Man: 1978–79 Toei tokusatsu series, 41 episodes on Tokyo Channel 12, with Takuya Yamashiro, the Iron Cross Army, and the giant robot Leopardon that shaped Super Sentai.
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 2 (2004) is Sam Raimi's second Spider-Man film, starring Tobey Maguire and Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus; it grossed about $790 million worldwide and won the Oscar for Visual Effects. Distinct from the 2004 and 2023 video games of the same name.
Spider-Man 2 (2023 video game)
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (2023) is Insomniac Games' PS5 action-adventure sequel starring Peter Parker and Miles Morales against Kraven and Venom (Harry Osborn). Sold 2.5 million in 24 hours, scored 90 on Metacritic, PC port January 2025.
Spider-Man 2099
Spider-Man 2099 is the Marvel Comics superhero identity of Miguel O'Hara, a geneticist of Earth-928's year 2099, created by Peter David and Rick Leonardi in 1992; known for talons, venomous fangs, organic webbing, and the Spider-Verse films.
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, and Topher Grace.
Spider-Man 3 (video game)
Spider-Man 3 (2007) is Activision's open-world action-adventure tie-in to the Raimi film, developed by Treyarch, Beenox, and Vicarious Visions across eight platforms; 4 million units shipped, Metacritic 63, black-suit rage mechanic, delisted digitally.
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981 TV series)
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981) is an NBC animated series, also called the Spider-Friends cartoon, running 24 episodes across three seasons to 1983, teaming Spider-Man with Iceman and the show-created Firestar.
Spider-Man collected editions
Spider-Man collected editions are Marvel's trade paperback, hardcover, and omnibus reprints of Spider-Man comics, spanning Omnibus, Marvel Masterworks, Epic Collections, and Essentials formats covering Amazing Spider-Man from 1962 onward.