There is no more iconic phrase in all of the mythology of Spider-Man. “With great power comes great responsibility,” Uncle Ben told his nephew Peter Parker before he died. He is so linked the statement to the origin of the character which, of course, we heard in Sam Raimi’s adaptation for the big screen in 2002.
Cliff Robertson was in charge of pronouncing the transcendental line in the sense of duty for the superhero, but the truth is that the wall-crawler did not receive that lesson from his uncle. In Amazing Fantasy #15, the first comic in which Spider-Man appears, no character mentions the phrase, but the person responsible is Stan Lee himself in his role as narrator. Here you can read it in the vignette that closes the story.
And Peter’s main regret over the years was that he could not save his Uncle Ben for the simple fact of having ignored the thief, not because that phrase weighed on his conscience. With everything, Marvel little by little was introducing the statement in the collective imagination of the character, although without a scene occurring in which the old man actually said it.
For example in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1 In 1987 it was established that it was Ben who said the phrase, while in Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #38 February 2002, J. Michael Straczynski endorsed that idea in an emotional issue about Spider-Man. Precisely a few months later, the adaptation in the flesh arrived in movie theaters, a moment in which Raimi took the opportunity to make Ben shine just as he accompanied his nephew to the center of New York.
Thus, the production from more than two decades ago is mainly responsible for creating the so-called Mandela Effect, which has led to the misconception that Ben Parker was the one behind the birth of Spider-Man.
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