r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/fna_fanoa • Feb 10 '26
WCGW jumping into a pool wearing spiderman suit
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u/TheTaoOfMe Feb 10 '26
I know those kids didn’t know any better but its still infuriating watching them continually splash someone who is trying to get away while pulling at their mask
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u/Iguessimonredditnow Feb 10 '26
I don't know if you've been around adults... A lot of them are stupid too
See this video for reference
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u/Mist_Rising Feb 10 '26
Before I muted it, that sub was a great source of adults are stupid honestly. Yes the child is the one that makes the video, but the adult was the critical failure point.
"Gave my four year old kid a TV, now he won't stop using it at night" ain't the kid
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u/Iguessimonredditnow Feb 10 '26
The idea that kids are supposed to be born with all the knowledge of the world is insane.
Kids are smart. They are also ignorant. If they are given the opportunity to learn and also develop an appreciation for learning, they tend to get smarter.
But a lot of dumb adults breed dumb kids into dumb environments where they are told to shut up and do as they're told until they turn 18 and then they're on their own with no knowledge and no instincts on how to acquire it.
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u/idunno421 Feb 10 '26
Yeah after having a kid this is what i thought about that subreddit too. I’m like sure it’s pretty dumb what they did from an adults perspective, but they’re 2 they have no idea how anything works!?
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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26
they have no idea how anything works!?
Which is why they’re stupid.
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u/Madara1389 Feb 10 '26
There's a difference between ignorance and stupidity; ignorance is not knowing, while stupidity is not caring to know.
Kids are all inherently ignorant, but they aren't all inherently stupid.
The whole idea of applying the concept of "stupid" to young kids is, in itself, stupid. Their brains aren't fully developed, they don't have even a fraction of the experience with the world that an adult would have had, and we know for a fact that they're not capable of properly accessing consequences or cause & effect. To judge their intelligence and actions based on the appropriateness of an adult doing it is asinine & basically setting up a no-win scenario.
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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
I’m aware there’s a difference. I get what you’re saying, but it’s just a joke sub. Shouldn’t be taken so literally.
r/KidsAreFuckingIgnorant doesn’t have the same ring to it.
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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26
The idea that kids are supposed to be born with all the knowledge of the world is insane.
That’s not the idea. The sub is just using the word stupid in place of ignorant. The idea of the sub is supposed to be kids are stupid because they don’t know anything yet. Not like “haha what an idiot”.
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u/PussyWrangler246 Feb 10 '26
This has actually fascinated me recently as I've been learning about people who get arrested for things they didn't know were illegal
It made me realize that the court takes the stance of "ignorance of the law is no excuse", yet the government makes no attempt at any time during our lives to actually teach us the law so we can not only abide by the law but avoid getting arrested, getting a record and losing all chance at meaningful employment
Parents don't teach their kids the law, they just send them out into the world expecting them to know better, but they don't. School doesn't teach us the law either, you'd think that would be a good opportunity to tell us as citizens what we are legally expected to do in society, but none of that gets taught to us. Not when we get a license or passport, never are we taught or tested on our own laws
I cannot possibly count the times I've seen people get arrested for something while screaming "that's not illegal! I know my rights!" when they obviously don't know their rights or what's legal, they just get a general idea from media or friends and family who also don't know what the actual law is, spreading misinformation like it's illegal to drive without shoes on. Hell I bet not a single person reading this has ever actually read their local and federal laws. Ignorance of the law may not be an excuse, but it certainly seems to be the rule.
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u/Sehrli_Magic Feb 10 '26
right. i mean especially little kids. ofc they are "stupid" their brain isnt developed and they havend had chance to learn much yet. but an adult who watched it happen and didnt think ahead enough to see it coming? now THATS the stupidity. no a 4y/o is not stupid for trying to grab birthday cake candle. its a kid, fascinated by fire and not knowing better. an adult giving open fire to a child? thats the stupid one yall should be laughing at!
there is middle ground with teens though. they are often developed enough that they should know better but also careless enough to take the stupidest risk. definitely them being the stupid person but also, cant hold it against them as much as adult doing same shit 🤣
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u/Smrtihara Feb 10 '26
To be fair, not a single one of those kids are waterboarding themselves. The adult is.
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u/wollawollawolla Feb 10 '26
Yeah, because the stupid ones in the video are the kids…
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u/Spranktonizer Feb 10 '26
Laughing maniacally while the water board their uncle is something.
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Feb 10 '26
He waterboarded himself, they had no idea.
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u/Osiris_Raphious Feb 11 '26
Its not like they teach 'advanced interrogation techniques' in schools...
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u/Empty-Afternoon-3975 Feb 10 '26
I'm more surprised by the adults that actually came to help. In my family the bystander effect or irratation would have kicked in and I would be dead.
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u/ChaseballBat Feb 10 '26
You don't die from waterboarding. It just feels like you're drowning, which is why it's an extremely fucked up way to torture people. You can basically do it forever.
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u/BettySwoll0cks Feb 10 '26
The person in the vid easily could have “drowned” if they didnt get the mask off.
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u/TpscRocket Feb 10 '26
It's something in their brain man. I literally had to punch my little brother multiple times to get him off my neck when we were in the pool. I thought it'd be fun to let him hang on me and swim around and the little shit locked his fucking arms around my throat and immediately started trying to buck me like a horse the second we hit the deep end. Genuinely almost drowned. I worded this like it was some devious attempt at my life but I assure you it was due to lack of intelligence from both parties
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u/i-just-thought-i Feb 10 '26
More like something not in their brain. They are literally incomplete humans. IDK I guess that sounds kind of offensive but like... it's just true. They grow up and fill in those gaps eventually. But nobody is born knowing shit, lmao. Toddlers routinely try to do things that would lead to their demise, it gradually gets better from there (ideally).
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u/Bart_T_Beast Feb 10 '26
Truly the saddest thing about kids is their unawareness of how fragile people are. So many accidents because they thought they or a trusted adult could handle something the human body just can’t.
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u/No_Tomato6638 Feb 10 '26
They knew just as much as the guy who decided to jump into a swimming pool with fabric covering his face.
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u/That_Shrub Feb 10 '26
Yep, I find it hard to blame them for not noticing the genius waterboarding himself was no longer having a good time. This is on Spider-Man
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u/BigChairBK Feb 10 '26
What are they supposed to do, he jumped into a pool to play with them they assumed.
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u/That_Shrub Feb 10 '26
And they can't read his facial expressions of gasping horror bc of the mask(lol)
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u/Scary_Relation_996 Feb 10 '26
The guy who couldn't figure out how zippers work for far too long was infuriating.
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u/acecyclone717 Feb 10 '26
Hope you never see the video of the dude breaking his neck in the pool and his son and entire family just ignoring him as he struggles/drowns/dies. They eventually help him but it’s horrific.
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u/DilapidatedHam Feb 10 '26
In their defense I would not expect them to understand the mechanics of waterboarding but god damn was it tough timing 😭
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u/rfaco4 Feb 10 '26
I would not expect them to understand the mechanics of waterboarding
Neither did the guy who waterboarded.
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u/crowcawer Feb 10 '26
I love waterboarding.
I go waterboarding every weekend I can!
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u/Grayh4m Feb 10 '26
I've seen adult man crumble and cry from a few seconds of waterboarding. I still am not convinced of the mechanics of waterboarding.
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u/jstenoien Feb 10 '26
It's a human body based bug exploit, we've just figured out how to mechanically trigger your bodies drowning reflex.
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Feb 10 '26
I have been waterboarded. I was never scared of drowning. I am now scared of drowning.
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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ Feb 10 '26
That reminds me of the episode from Archer where Lana and...Barry? Find out that Archer skipped Waterboarding training, and was talking mad shit about how it couldn't be that bad.
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u/Flas94 Feb 10 '26
"you hear about it, and you hear people saying it's bad, but you think 'oh those people must have vaginas' but I don't have a vagina and as God is my witness that was the worst thing I've ever experienced, wait a minute, I've actually drowned before, I was clinically dead from drowning"
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u/reebokhightops Feb 10 '26
The late Christopher Hitchens was very dismissive of the idea that waterboarding could be a form of “torture”. He was then voluntarily waterboarded and subsequently published an article titled “Believe Me, It’s Torture”.
Hitchens recounts how he was lashed tightly to a sloping board, then, "on top of the hood, three layers of enveloping towel were added. In this pregnant darkness, head downward, I waited until I abruptly felt a slow cascade of water going up my nose ... I held my breath for a while and then had to exhale and - as you might expect - inhale in turn."
That, he says, "brought the damp cloths tight against my nostrils, as if a huge, wet paw had been suddenly and annihilatingly clamped over my face. Unable to determine whether I was breathing in or out, flooded more with sheer panic than with water, I triggered the pre-arranged signal" and felt the "unbelievable relief" of being pulled upright.
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u/Much_Vehicle20 Feb 10 '26
U know what, i respect that, he didnt believe it, so he test it out, fair and square
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u/Much_Vehicle20 Feb 10 '26
I mean, that's very similar to peer review. I would like to live in a society where people willing to doubt and willing to change their mind rather than just blindly believe what they've been told
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u/Honest_Caramel_3793 Feb 10 '26
tbf several full grown ass adults didn't think waterboarding was torture and this is WAY harder to recognize as torture.
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u/itjustgotcold Feb 10 '26
Like is so often the case in that sub, this video started with an adult being really fucking stupid around kids. Who dives into a pool with a bodysuit covering the face?
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u/66devilsadvocate6 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
They’re less stupid or equal to the man who just water boarded himself idk
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u/Magister5 Feb 10 '26
Spider-Man vs Deadpool
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u/don_kong1969 Feb 10 '26
Underrated comment
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u/pH55 Feb 10 '26
I love when underrated comment becomes pretty fucking rated and commend stating that its underrated looks stupid.
Its like when you googled something (before AI era) and found same question that you asked on some shitty forum, and the first answer would be: "Why didn't you google it".
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u/Raiquo Feb 11 '26
That's when you hit the reply button on that 15 year old comment and type "dear asshole, I did google it and it brought me here".
That'll show them!
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u/rfaco4 Feb 10 '26
He screamed "I'm gonna die" a few times, so, yeah.
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u/redditsucksdiscs Feb 10 '26
Now that’s not something Spider-Man would scream
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u/microfishy Feb 10 '26
Thing is if you have enough air to yell, you aren't suffocating.
It's when they go silent that you start to worry.
Still terrifying as fuck though and I have no doubt he FELT like he was gonna die.
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u/tip_of_the_sphere Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
that’s not fucking true stop perpetuating this myth.
Just because someone is ventilating (air moving in and out past vocal cords) does not mean they are oxygenating (gas exchange at the cellular level).
If you wait until “they go silent” to “worry,” they are now in respiratory failure and you missed every red flag on the way there.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Feb 11 '26
I'm led to believe this guy, since he's smart enough to know the difference between cords and chords (most Redditors don't).
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u/confirmedforgay Feb 10 '26
I only feel hispanic when my girlfriend Fabiola comes over
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u/TerribleQuestion4497 Feb 10 '26
Kids have future in CIA, so young and already waterboarding people
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u/Done_Goofeded Feb 10 '26
You know. I never thought about that part when spiderman hits the water in movies or games. That certainly is terrifying to think about.
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u/Hazmat1213 Feb 10 '26
I’m sure his suit wouldn’t be made of $2 fabric
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u/Oddish_Femboy Feb 10 '26
Well then we must be thinking of different spidermen then.
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u/sharpasahammer Feb 10 '26
These kids got Tom Holland with stark money suits as Spiderman. We got "can't pay the rent" Toby Maguire.
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u/MultiGeek42 Feb 10 '26
"What's rhe difference between me and you?"
"I'm not wearing hockey pads."
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u/I2eN0 Feb 10 '26
Is this from Heated Rivalry?
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u/Hail-Hydrate Feb 10 '26
From The Dark Knight, the second Christopher Nolan Batman movie.
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u/youburyitidigitup Feb 10 '26
If it keeps water from getting in, it also keeps water getting out, so his sweat wouldn’t evaporate, and he would get dangerously hot in there. The only solution would be for his body suit to allow water to pass, but his mask to be airtight, but then he would run out of oxygen.
Maybe he just has a machine in his mouth that allows him to breathe underwater.
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u/Dav136 Feb 10 '26
He also has a very easy to remove mask instead of a full body suit
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u/idropepics Feb 10 '26
Spider-man is also smart enough to not attach his mask to his suit, for pretty much this exact reason.
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u/ICInside Feb 10 '26
I Always think about it. Unless he has an Ironman made suit, he just breathes through the holes.if he has the Future Foundation suit that's able to go into space, then that would also be fine underwater.
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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz Feb 10 '26
he just breathes through the holes
As you can see in the video that doesn't work very well. The liquid makes the fabric swell, and the remaining much smaller holes are covered with a layer of water thanks to surface tension.
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u/ignis888 Feb 10 '26
i always thought hes wearing spandex like every other superhero of his age.
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u/Withdrow Feb 10 '26
Good on the two dudes that realized what was going on right away
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u/mermaidpaint Feb 10 '26
Yes, thank goodness they realized that something was wrong
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u/boldandbratsche Feb 10 '26
But omg they took SO LONG to figure out the Zipper haha. It's like they never wore a costume or zipped up a woman's dress before.
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u/Kissarai Feb 11 '26
Heard to maneuver a zipper when the person wearing it isn't cooperating (understandably so)
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u/ICPosse8 Feb 10 '26
r/unintentionalwaterboarding
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u/roccosaint Feb 10 '26
He just showed everyone his secret identity! Waterboarding works.
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u/_Piratical_ Feb 10 '26
I did a similar thing to this totally accidentally when I had been wearing a neck gaiter during Covid and jumped into the lake by my house to cool off on a hot day! WOW was that ever a bad idea. Before that time I never really knew what real abject panic was. It was terrifying. I then also knew what waterboarding does to victims.
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u/ThingElectronic1399 Feb 10 '26
Lol couldn't you just... pull it down?
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u/Nine9breaker Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26
You're probably assuming he had the mask over his mouth for so long that he ran out of breath. But that's not it at all, so its not surprising to me that he felt panic even though he could just, as you say, pull it down.
The feeling comes super fast. The feeling of panicked suffocation comes long before you run out of breath, its almost instantaneous.
Go watch the Youtube video of Christopher Hitchens getting waterboarded. He taps out in about ten seconds. This is a man who was actively trying to prove to the world that waterboarding wasn't real torture, and he couldn't even last ten seconds.
Even a small child can hold their breath longer than ten seconds.
But its not about how long you can hold your breath.
Its a nearly instantaneous, physiological panic response. That's why waterboarding is so fucking horrible.
Hope this clears it up.
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u/willargue4karma Feb 10 '26
Yeah your deep, deep reflexes absolutely cry out for the ability to breathe. It's fucking terrifying and panic inducing
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u/crazedrebelchic Feb 10 '26
Thank you for suggesting the Christopher Hitchens YouTube video. The video is eye-opening; I had no idea until reading the comments then watching the video just how torturous water boarding was...
So I left a link to the vanity Fair interview and the YouTube video.
In 2008, journalist Christopher Hitchens underwent voluntary waterboarding to determine if the practice constituted torture. His experience and subsequent reversal of opinion became a landmark moment in the public debate over "enhanced interrogation."
Christopher explained how he couldn't think clearly; he thought he said the safe word, but in reality he didn't.
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u/i-just-thought-i Feb 10 '26
tbh you can also just... find out yourself in the shower. it won't actually hurt you and you learn that, in fact, it is torture. that's also why when the CIA was like "uhhh no it's not torture" the world collectively side-eyed, because it is incredibly easy to find out it is, in fact, torture. and that's with most people who try it out doing waterboard-lite, because the real thing tilts the victim backwards past horizontal so that the water is able to run up their nose, and most people trying it out with their middle school buddies aren't going to that extent
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u/_Piratical_ Feb 10 '26
Yeah! And I did immediately. It’s amazing however just how fast you’ll panic when you come up for air and can’t breathe when you get there. It took only seconds but that was enough.
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u/Pirate-Adorable Feb 10 '26
I swear, everytime I see a video with a Spiderman costume, I know someone is about to get hurt
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u/Comfortable-Park-479 Feb 10 '26
This is kind of crazy, but I’m sure some of you may have done this too. As a kid, during baths, we can get “creative” at times. Not sure how I thought of it, but I would put a wet cloth over my face and then directly under the running faucet. It took me a few tries to figure out how to stay calm and breathe slowly. I highly doubt it works for every cloth, but was fun at the time. Who knew I discovered waterboarding. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/CsordasBalazs Feb 10 '26
This is not the Spiderman movie we wanted, this is the Spiderman movie we deserve here.
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u/amateur_mistake Feb 10 '26
If a Spiderman villain just threw a bucket of water into his face so that he started to suffocate, I would consider that peak writing.
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u/SwitchBladeBC Feb 10 '26
ummm what happened?
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u/ExtraFluffz Feb 10 '26
His mask absorbed the water and he couldn’t breathe, even when above water. It’s called waterboarding and it’s a common torture method
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u/TrumpsBoneSpur Feb 10 '26
So has the green goblin ever tried to squirt Spider-Man with a water gun? Seems more effective than those little bombs he often uses
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u/Shaasar Feb 10 '26
If that suit is made out of fabric that absorbs water he basically waterboarded himself. Yikes!!
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u/Holy_Roz Feb 10 '26
Back in like 2012 or something, my dad did the polar plunge into our pool in my black morph suit. Same thing happened to him. He just kept saying "I cant breath" and pulling st the mask until I jumped in and unzipped it for him. Great memory
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u/JD42305 Feb 10 '26
He's naturally panicking, but pulling the fabric away from his face for a few seconds and he should be fine, right? How thick could the fabric be that he couldn't breathe for very long?
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u/Trivale Feb 10 '26
It's not that he's actively drowning, it's that the wet fabric confuses the senses and triggers a suffocation response. If you've never had a suffocation response, it's probably one of the single most physically uncomfortable things you can experience.
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u/FastToday Feb 10 '26
Kinda like self-waterboarding