Has anyone noticed just how bad Spider-Man is at lying?
And not like the normal way you’d expect.
Like this man will disappear during a major distasteful or while a monstrous villain is about and yet won’t just claimed to have been swept away/kidnapped to explain why he suddenly disappeared.
Like take TAS for example. He goes missing for like two days while transformed into Man-Spider, yet when returns he claims to have just been on a job for J. J. This is despite the fact that a much more convenient explanation would have been to just say that Man-Spider kidnapped him. People already thought he kidnapped Morbius so why not? For that matter why not just say Morbius did it and reveal he had been transformed into a bat person. Not only would this get people on the look out for the right person but it’d also clear his name. But no, instead he goes with the answer that makes him look like a jerk, but also rises suspicions from Jameson.
And this happens constantly, especially in Spectacular Spider-Man and the Marvel’s Spider-Man show. At least Ultimate had a tendency to lampshade his terrible lies and played them off as jokes.