There are very strange camps of Spidey fans when it comes to humor in Spider-Man comics, movies, & games:

Spider-Man should make jokes.
Vs.
He shouldn& #39;t make jokes.

Spider-Man should be able to screw up and be the butt of a joke.
Vs.
He shouldn& #39;t be the butt of jokes.

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The answer to all of this is:

Yes.

He should be ALL of these contradictory things.
It& #39;s a matter of context.

He tells jokes to disorient bad guys.
To put innocent bystanders at ease in stressful situations.
To bag on himself in his own inner-monologue.
We& #39;ve all seen this.
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Sometimes he screws up.
Sometimes his pants rip.
Sometimes Johnny Storm tapes a "Kick Me" sign on his back.
He can be the butt of jokes.
Stan Lee himself wrote TONS of scenes like this.

However...
3/

There& #39;ll be times when things get serious.
When someone Spider-Man cares about has been hurt.
When the lives are on the line.
Or even the whole world is at stake.
And he& #39;ll get deadly serious.
We shouldn& #39;t see him joking during the Night Gwen Stacy Died or Kraven& #39;s Last Hunt.
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Sometimes people equate "I prefer things this way" to "It must ALWAYS be this way".

But w/ Spidey, the real answer is: With thousands of comics, lots of movies, and dozens of games, there& #39;s a broad interpretation of how Spidey can be portrayed.
And they& #39;re all equally valid.
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