who knew that scene was inspired from the comics?
The famous Lunch That Would Never Land.
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so flash did this even before tobey maguire's spiderman.
Barry predates Spider-man in being the nerd who become a hero. Barry was just older and lacked Peter's wit.
I don't think Barry was treated as much of a nerd in the same way Peter was until much, much later.