In issue 5 of Chip Zdarsky's run: "He's pure power and he doesn't even know it. He's the best of us." In that same issue, Spider-Man confronts Matt on his downward spiral and demands that he step back from the superhero life until he can get his s*** together. Something to that effect.
The spider is always on the hunt.
I think heroes that don't know Spider-Man that well don't necessarily respect him as much as they should. But I think any hero with even a relative amount of experience with him know that he's very special.
I think a lot of people act more annoyed, which can sometimes give the appearance that they don't respect him. But a lot of heroes respect and like him more than they sometimes will let on. Hulk and Wolverine for example have both indicated in thought bubbles that they like Spider-Man more than they care to admit at times.
Yeah but thats bendis "chaos magic isn't real". He never got upset ignoring history. He more or less wrote a kid spidey and not a hero with over 30 years of history who was as much of a pro as iron man by this point.I am not surprised so many people said Captain America. But I am surprised at the Spiderman answers. In the few modern titles I have read that had Spiderman with any other hero other then Fantastic Four or Daredevil, like when he was on the Avengers I see Spiderman written as a jokester and the other heroes treating him as such.
In avengers 1 vol 3 sandman defends spidey after one of the avengers disses him saying he is worth three of him! They did a issue where spidey has been missing amd most of the heroes want spidey back. Even cap says "We do what we do becouse he does what he does. We can't fight kang or ultron if we are dealing with kingpin or dr ock."
Great line from that issue. In two what if stories where spidey dies hulk gets upset over it even saying he liked spidey. Marvel forgets they were friends in the 70s but two of the what if writers at least remembered it.
Captain America without a doubt.
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"One of the maddening but beautiful things about comics is that you have to give characters a sense of change without changing them so much that they violate the essence of who they are." ~ Ann Nocenti, Chris Claremont's X-Men.
Among the in-universe general public, across the board, I'd agree it's Cap. However, Charliehustle425 and Frontier touch on some important nuance.Cap represents conventional, white, male America. I can see the general public of many other countries having reservations about him.
I can see some women in the MU's US much preferring Captain Marvel or She-Hulk, or - especially in New York - African Americans preferring Luke Cage.
I don't see too many MU/US residents disliking Captain America, but I can see how some might have other preferences.
Especially in the era of crossovers and events happening so often. As an avenger he won over wolverine and iron man. Cap had ben shown to respect him.
As for the most resected.
Cap (at a low ebb now but most know better)
The Thing
Luke Cage
I agree spiderman is respected by those who know him. He has people he can count on in every team. I wish he was back on one, but because of his many guest spots and the run of MTU he got to know a lot of characters. It is not long before others she his serious side.
True, but it's the ideal/romanticized white, male American view and the corporate superhero landscape is nothing but idealistic.
Nevertheless, this is why Black Panther is close behind him; because he's the leader of the most powerful nation on the Marvel Earth.
So, I can see T'Challa being respected by people of color all over the planet and Cage is a good candidate but he's too localized and most people would not know who he is in China let alone Wyoming; but I think the OP is asking for the 616 as it is and as the 616 stands it most likely is Cap.
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Cap easily.
I remember an issue of Spider-Man where Storm and Jean Grey got into it and Cap stepped in and they immediately stopped fighting.
Some of us wait, some of us act.
Yeah. Steve is the most respected across the board but certain pocket communities have their own Capain America. Cyclops for a long time was sort of considered the Captain America for mutants at least until the Schism/AvX stuff completely flipped that on him. Luke Cage is the Captain America of Harlem. T'Challa obviously is the Captain America of Wakanda. And I think to a lot of YOUNG super heroes Spider-Man is sort of their Captain America.
I do agree that Cap is probably the all-around champion in this category. He's probably the one character that most every good-guy in the MU would listen to, maybe not agree with him, but would at least shutup long enough to hear out.
Still, it's the exceptions I find interesting. i.e. Does the 616 corporate world find Iron Man most trustworthy because he's one of them?
I would think a lot, especially those outside the mainstream, have an affinity for Spider-Man because he could be anybody under that mask. So there's no reason to suppose he's not like them.