Yeah, of all the games so far they seem to be using his intelligent side the most, I think the most we've seen of that in other games were just some different types of webbing (Like ice or fire), but even those weren't used much.
Oh yeah, definitely, writters shouldn't be writing him like some inexperient amateur, he's been at this for too long and was actualy pretty competent even when starting out lol.Maybe I wasn't clear; I didn't mean Peter should be the master of everything but that he should have mastered the things he is good at: basically being a hero and being a scientist/inventor, and in general being more self-assured and less immature.
Yes, he does sabotage himself, that I didn't deny, it just doesn't happen on the way Otto said it, because Otto says he sabotages himself because he doesn't think he's worth it (Gwen in ASM#23 vol 4 said something similar about him, but about his own happiness), it's not the case, because again, if it were he would have left Horizon Labs, or not be be feeling really out of place while working there. The way he sabotages himself is by grossly understimating his own potential, and not thinking ahead.But I think it's pretty clear that Peter does sabotage himself, even in Slott's run. He didn't get the Horizon job until Aunt May asked Marla to ask Max Modell to give him a chance; it's not like Peter even bothered applying for a scientific think-tank job. Same with Parker Industries; he could have started a company like literally whenever but he never did until Ock forced him to take the reins. The fact that he was able to make both situations work so well is just testament to how smart he is, but even then he ended up self-sabotaging PI by deleting all it's data for no reason and not making a back-up. And of course, despite being more than capable of building another company or working at another think-tank, he self-sabotaged himself after it was over by just becoming a science writer at the Bugle.
One thing that's worth noticing though, at the beginning of Brand New Day in ASM #546 it's pointed out while he's looking for other jobs, that he doesn't much in the scientific background to even get the job of a lab assistant, so trying to work on Horizon Labs, specialy at the position he got, yeah I don't think it'd work, he should still have tried, but like I said, he understimates himself, but anyways, he only got the job because of Marla's recommendation to begin with (He kept it because he was good at it, not denying that, but it was the connections that got him to that point).
That's the thing though, the way Otto worded it in Superior #30 seemed to be pointing out that Peter does hate himself to an extent so he sabotages himself because of that, and while he does sabotage himself, again, it's another kind. And he didn't seem guilty at all about his success Horizon Labs era, he was pretty happy to actualy have his shit together, there wasn't any guilt at all, nor did he seem guilty about his success during the PI era, he was also pretty happy during that, so that's a case of an informed flaw because the way it actualy happens in other stories, and Slott's own, is not even close to being what the characters say.I feel like your examples that he was happy when his inventions were helping people aren't really valid, since Peter doesn't secretly hate himself or anything, it's just that he feels guilty being successful. TBH I kinda feel like the whole self-sabotaging trait is just a manifestation of editorial mandate rather than being a real character trait of Peter's, but it would be super interesting if the writer's took it and ran with it since we could get a few awesome stories out of it IMO.
Lol yeah, I noticed that too, hell I think that's how Batman defeats villains once in a while too, can't win, learn weak point, then win, certainly seems to be what's going to happen in the current Batman story (Stopped at #42, dunno what happens after, not really a fan of Tom King's Batman to be fair)Yeah, in some ways Peter was the origin of the Batman with prep meme lol.
Wouldn't say that's exactly recent, back in Acts of Vengeance, when he got Captain Universe's powers, in Spectacular #160 he got really pissed that people were treating him worst than ever, although it seems that more recent comics are using this more often.
Many reasons were made why he keeps joking, Spectacular #6 (The interview with JJ) he says that he jokes to calm down everyone and himself as well, which makes sense considering the kind of situations he's put in, and honestly it's actualy a good thing he keeps joking, on the times he actualy goes quiet when fighting it can be really unnerving lol.That, to me, is a big part of the reason he's constantly quipping and joking in costume; it's not that he wants people to take him less seriously, he just wants the people that aren't criminals and supervillains to not be afraid of him. Does he take it too far sometimes and end up coming off ridiculous as a result? Yes, but that's not so much because he is ridiculous, as it is him trying to put people that would naturally be scared of or uneasy around him at ease by coming off as nonthreatening as he can manage. While that is a sign that he's a fundamentally good and heroic person/character that wants to be, first and foremost, a protector of the innocent as opposed to a predator upon the guilty, it's a flaw in the sense that it does make it harder for him to be taken seriously. And yes, he does sometimes have no choice but to trade on that fear and unease that he unintentionally invokes in people to get them to listen or take him seriously.