Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for All-Out Avengers #5
In the latest issue of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man takes on the current roster of Earth's Mightiest Heroes...and actually wins. Believing that the Avengers have been mind-controlled and the Avengers believing the same about him, New York's original Webslinger has no choice but to resist Earth's Mightiest in an attempt to free the minds of those who've long been his friends and frequent allies.
In the new All-Out Avengers #5, Spider-Man believes he needs to get a device known as a resequencer to a scientist friend who can deactivate it and restore the Avengers' minds. However, the Avengers believe that Spider-Man is one whose mind is affected. Likewise, they're more interested in exercising caution and are unwilling to run the risk of every mind in the city being scrambled if the device is deactivated improperly. Due to the inability to establish trust, Spider-Man takes on the entire roster of Avengers in a bid to ultimately save them. As such, Spider-Man is fully unleashed in this issue as he effectively incapacitates several of Earth's Mightiest while slipping through the fingers of literal gods such as Thor.
Spider-Man vs. Avengers Proves Why He's Marvel's Best Hero
Having planned for the eventuality of having to take on the Avengers in their mind-controlled states, Spider-Man's powers and intellect make for an amazing and spectacular combo, first compromising Iron Man's armor before dodging She-Hulk and giving Captain Marvel a literal mouthful of webbing. Not only that, he then faces Blade, Black Panther, and Captain America simultaneously and impressively holds his own. After handling the epic trio, Spider-Man hilariously evades Thor himself by ditching the top half of his costume.
While the Avengers eventually rally and surround Spider-Man, the real kicker is that Peter was only stalling. He was never trying to get past them as it's revealed he'd already given the resequencer to a bike messenger to deliver before the fight, using the battle to keep Earth's Mightiest busy long enough for the device to be deactivated. As such, Spider-Man won his fight with the Avengers before it had even begun.
By the issue's end, it's revealed that both Spider-Man and the Avengers had been mind-controlled thanks to two versions of reality coexisting simultaneously, a temporal and spacial anomaly courtesy of the Avengers' new foe calling himself the Grand Manipulator (whom Captain America rightly guesses is a puppet for the Beyonder). At any rate, this issue proves Spider-Man's ongoing prowess as an A-list Marvel hero, proving that he can effectively give most Avengers a run for their money when push comes to shove. All-Out Avengers #5 is on sale now from Marvel Comics.
