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- noun something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
Etymologies
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Audiences were stunned when, after a long and promising lead-up to the film, we were inundated with two different song and dance scenes from our wall-crawler.
Spider-Man 4: Villain Roll Call « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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"Spider-Man 4" will focus on the character's early high school years, as published in Marvel Comics "The Ultimate Spider-Man", that defined Parker's adult life as the radioactive spider-bitten wall-crawler, aka 'Spider-Man'.
Archive 2010-07-01 Michael Stevens 2010
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Sam Raimi himself has commented on the frequent speculation that the living vampire Morbius would terrorize our friendly neighborhood wall-crawler.
RUMOR: Black Cat For Spider-Man 4? « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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And as Bono talks about the new album and the other new album from them that will drop later this year, he's also talking about his work on Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, next year's Broadway production featuring the wall-crawler.
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The wall-crawler flips between his standard costume for speed and the black suit for strength as he brawls with enemies.
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Black Spider (created in 1940) - Unlike the famous wall-crawler, Black Spider doesn't have super powers or an elaborate costume.
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As I was breathlessly telling Alex tonight, my ideal reboot would have been to return to Peter Parker's high school days, with him established as the wall-crawler, and simply tell a great Spider-Man story from that point forward.
Update: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does Whatever a Reboot Can « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Black Spider (created in 1940) - Unlike the famous wall-crawler, Black Spider doesn't have super powers or an elaborate costume.
September 2008 2008
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Venom getting his own movie would probably be one of the worst things that happened to the wall-crawler universe!!
Bring On Venom! Sony Moving Forward With Venom Spin-Off! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I wouldn't complain if New York's favorite wall-crawler was hanging out with a bad-ass Capatin America, Samuel L Jackson and RDJr.
Marvel Announces Next Four Films - Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Avengers! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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