Why is Ironman, Batman, and Superman all spelt as one word but Spider-man has a hyphen?
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Why is Ironman, Batman, and Superman all spelt as one word but Spider-man has a hyphen?
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Because it helped distinguish him from those other guys.
Stan Lee explained it was put there to make the name stand out from other superhero names.
>Iron Man
>one word
>spells it ironman
just ousting yourself as a casual from the get-go, eh?
how can you tell the hyphen while talking?
hyphen-sense
He just knows.
Superheroes can sense that kind of stuff
I forget, did Doom know that was Steve?
Woah, that's 4th wall levels of awareness there.
It's as simple as listening for a slight pause
There's:
>Spiderman, which would have no pause at all between Spider and man--like Batman or Superman
>Spidermin, which is just Spiderman said fast
>Then Spider-Man, which has a slight pause between Spider and Man.
holy esl
Because Peter is a fricking nerd who would care about that sort of thing.
I was reading the 2004 run of marvel age Spider-Man and funny enough there was a bit where he was specific about the hyphen
How do you pronounce the hyphen? Do you put a pause between saying "Spider" and "Man?"
I swear to god i've seen JJ go on a rant and say SPIDER-HYPHEN-MAN
Such cringe art and dialogue. What a shit run.
Marketing.
Literally because people might’ve otherwise confused it with Superman. Both start with s and end in -erman, with a p in there and the same number of syllables. It was just to make sure there wouldn’t be any sort of error there
The same reason he wears a uniform and not a costume.