This question bothers me and the people best suited to answer this question of course are my fellow CBM aficionados. I will try to answer the question myself but I know there will always be a bigger geek out there.
The scenario in the movie Spider-Man 2: Peter Parker, who we all know is our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man, is on top of a speeding train, having a slugfest with his eight-limbed nemesis Dr. Octopus. We know that Spidey has the proportionate strength of a spider, which translates that he should be superhumanly strong; this is because his strength was enhanced when a genetically engineered spider bit him. In the other corner, Doc Ock was bonded with four mechanical arms due to an experiment gone wrong, if I remember correctly never was it stipulated in the movie that this incident gave him super-strength. This is where my dilemma comes in, Spider-man from the looks of things is really swing some heavy punches and hard kicks. Doc Ock is receiving some of these to his body and face. I love watching boxing and solid punches like those should have dropped Doc Ock (I am running with the notion that Doc Ock has no enhanced strength).
So, HELP can somebody explain this “logically” to me (this means I appreciate it if nobody reasons out that it was that way only because Raimi thought it looks cool).
My personal thought on this is that Spider-man just held his punches, but I think that would be ridiculous, considering he has to save the people in the train and he doesn’t have time to waste.
This is the time where I defer to you guys and your learned opinions. You know where to write them. vvv
For those who have no idea what I am talking about here's an extended Spidey and Doc Ock train fight:
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