Famous Spider-Man Movie Sequences Reimagined As R-Rated Scenes

In a gory new video, a team of VFX artists reimagines what iconic Spider-Man sequences would look like if they had been rated R. Despite involving a good amount of fighting and death-defying sequences, Spider-Man films have always been family-friendly fare. While characters do occasionally die in Spider-Man, the deaths are usually relatively bloodless and not shown in graphic detail.

Even Spider-Man himself avoids major injuries and can fall the length of a building with barely more than a scratch to show for it. 2004’s Spider-Man 2 even has some fun with this idea by having Peter Parker lose his powers for stretches of the film. One sequence, in particular, involves Peter slamming into a wall and then bouncing off a parked car before limping away holding his back and groaning. Spider-Man, in all three film iterations of the character, doesn’t typically get more than a bloody nose and a few cuts and bruises after a major fight. Arguably the most graphic and visceral Spider-Man fight in any of the films was Tobey Maguire’s climactic fight against Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin at the end of the first film.

In a new video from Corridor Crew, the VFX house responsible for the popular VFX Artists React series, scenes from an array of Spider-Man movies are reimagined to be gory and R-rated. The idea behind the video is that Spider-Men in certain timelines are completely incompetent and that Mobius, Owen Wilson’s character from Loki, is traveling to each timeline and overseeing their deaths. From exploding into a shower of blood upon impacting a building to having his arms ripped off while attempting to stop a train, these incompetent Spider-Men meet grisly, R-rated ends. Check out the full video below:

The team at Corridor Crew doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to killing Spider-Man and all of the sequences are about as R-rated as something can be. While all of the death scenes are shocking, the one that stands out is the iconic train-stopping sequence from Spider-Man 2. On top of showcasing a truly gruesome death, the scene also shows the inventiveness and creativity of the VFX artists can employ in their work, with Spider-Man actually shedding his shoes and using his feet to sling webs before ultimately collapsing to the sidewalk below and being crushed by the falling train.

While the reimagined sequences are equal parts entertaining, hilarious and horrifying, they also reinforce why there has never been an R-rated Spider-Man film. It just feels wrong having such extreme levels of blood and gore in a Spider-Man movie because the character is inherently youthful and fun. Peter Parker is just a kid trying to navigate high school and the problems that come with being a teenager and having people die in explosions of blood and gore just doesn’t fit with that.

Source: Corridor Crew/ YouTube

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