Highlights
- Spider-Man's friends play important roles in his life and have strong bonds with him.
- These friends offer support, assistance, and friendship to Spider-Man, showing their loyalty and commitment to him.
- Spider-Man's friendships with these characters provide emotional and heartwarming moments, emphasizing the importance of friendship and connection in his superhero journey.
Marvel’s most iconic superhero is Spider-Man, and since the character has been swinging through comic pages, video games, shows, and movies for the past 60 years, it makes sense that he would’ve made a few friends along the way. Whilst most heroes and villains can’t stand Spider-Man’s constant quips, he’s a loyal friend who puts others before himself. After all, with great power, comes great responsibility.
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Spider-Man has seen plenty of friends in his time in the spandex, and Spider-Man’s best friends deserve some recognition as they leap from Marvel pages. Whether it’s friends who help on the day-to-day business of being Spider-Man, or those who are there for him for better or worse, Spider-Man may seem a mess at times, but these friends always have his back.
7 Flash Thompson, Agent Venom
Whilst high school may have been difficult for Peter Parker since he didn’t quite fit in, it was made even harder thanks to the bully, Flash Thompson. However, as the two got older, and became adults, they managed to turn this mutual dislike for one another into one of the best bonds in comics, and they became a great bunch of buddies for Marvel readers to smile at.
Their turn from bully and victim into close friends made for a great pairing that people could aspire for. The fact that Peter’s high school bully was not only Spider-Man’s biggest fan but now a friend of Peter himself, made their time as Spider-Man and Agent Venom a special one.
6 Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange and Spider-Man are not strangers, and although people might recognize their time together in the MCU, their bond is much more magical in the comics. Spider-Man and Doctor Strange have helped each other multiple times, and for anything involving magic, Spider-Man is always at the doorstep of the Sanctum Sanctorum.
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Not only is their friendship a great pairing, but one of the most notable acts of friendship is when Doctor Strange gives Spider-Man a birthday present: five minutes with Uncle Ben, an emotional moment where Peter can tell Ben everything he missed after his death. A touching gift like this is hard to forget.
5 Deadpool
A match made in Heaven, or Hell, Deadpool and Spider-Man seem like the greatest duo one could conceptualize. Not only do they both wear red, but they both seem to be unable to shut up. Their love of pop culture references and grilling other people makes them an inseparable duo, even if Spidey can get far too sick of Deadpool sometimes, especially with his behavior and actions.
In an adorable action, Deadpool started to take on board some of Spider-Man’s heroic responsibilities and views, and they even gave each other matching Holiday sweaters where they called themselves “Bad besties for life!” It’s adorable, even if their morals clash sometimes, it won't break their friendship.
4 Wolverine
Wolverine is far older than Spider-Man, and most of the time, he is grizzled and impatient when it comes to Spidey’s methods and jokes. However, they have been through the thick of it, and it’s hard not to love Wolverine. Whether it’s in video games or comics, the duo have had quite a great relationship, although, it’s had its downsides.
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Yet, these downsides show how close they are, as they constantly come around now and again. Peter even threw Wolverine out of a penthouse window once. Their bond goes deeper than the fact that they are both heroes, as they have shared their traumas, and their worst moments, bringing them very close together over the years.
3 Luke Cage
Luke Cage and Spider-Man are both considered Street-Level heroes of New York City. This means that they are more actively involved in the community, and stop criminals and gangs, rather than venturing to space to battle the bad guys that threaten the world. Those are more secure for Avengers characters.
As Street-Level heroes, Luke Cage and Spider-Man have become pretty close, especially when the duo joined the New Avengers team. The two trust each other, and they will always be there, like the time Luke’s daughter was taken by Skrulls. This unstoppable duo is a great pairing of friends.
2 Miles Morales, Spider-Man
Whilst Peter may take more of a mentor approach to Miles Morales to help the duo become the perfect Spider-Man/Men, they still have a great friendship that forms from their age, as Miles Morales is far younger and inexperienced by the time the two met, and it gives way for a great relationship where Peter can teach Miles all he knows, the failures and the successes.
Peter and Miles appreciate and trust each other, and together, they are a great duo for stopping the crimes of New York City, the destination to which they were both born and the place they will forever call home. They mutually share their secret identities and do not hesitate to ask each other for help.
1 The Human Torch
Spider-Man and the Human Torch have been best friends for decades. They are quite similar in both their age and the jokes that they like to make. There is a great depth to their friendship, and the duo have even lived together as roommates before in the comics. It’s always great to see these two interact, and there are some emotional moments between them that solidify their friendship.
When Johnny Storm died, the Fantastic Four was missing a member, and Johnny offered Spider-Man to take over the absent role of the Fantastic Four, providing his First Family with a new member whom he cherished just as much as his sister and his superhero group.