About

Peter Parker's Spider Bite is an exploitable 4-panel image series that, in the first two panels, features Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker in the 2002 film Spider-Man getting bitten by a radioactive spider and becoming the titular hero. In the second two panels, a person is "bitten" by an object and undergoes a similar, humorous transition, becoming a hybrid of a human and the object they were bitten by.

Origin

The first iteration of the comic appeared on June 25th, 2016, on the Indian website 24×7daily.com.^[1] In the comic's second two panels, a man is bitten by a dog to become Indian film actor Kamaal Rashad Khan (shown below).

Spread

On September 18th, redditor CaptainFiddler posted a variation of the template to /r/funny^[2] which joked that a person using the popular Snapchat Dog Filter had been bitten by a dog. The post, shown below, got over 5,300 points.

In the coming months, dozens of variations appeared, mostly on Reddit, as users began incorporating increasingly absurd transformations, including memes such as Left Shark and Trebuchets. On March 21st, 2017, the format began growing popular on me_irl following a post from mandamelon^[3] that featured a transformation into a box-human hybrid and gained over 20,900 upvotes (shown below).

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