Spider-Man has too many abilities
It's not necessarily a problem, but it is striking to think about just how many different abilities Spider-Man has.
-> Super Strength -> Super Durability -> Super Agility -> Wall-Climbing -> Web Shooters -> Genius Intellect -> Spider Sense
One could write a Spider-Man tale while bringing attention to a fraction of these. Similarly, if you split up Spider-Man's ability set within two or more characters they would seem to be full-fledged superheroes too.
Consider a character with super strength and durability. This is a complete power set, and one that many characters do have. Consider another character with super agility, wall-climbing and web shooters. This is also a complete power set, and makes for a character that might appear to be Spider-Man at a cursory glance.
Spider Sense by itself is such an insanely strong power. It is a supernatural form of precognition that does not have any physical limits. It has a far greater scope than a danger sense that merely evaluates one's surroundings. Spider Sense activates for future dangers that have no tangible indicators, such as a person's intentions or rare probabilities. Spider-Man has at times taken advantage of the Spider Sense to win at poker, track people and navigate a minefield. One could be a superhero with this power alone.
Genius-level Intellect is the kind of superpower that is awfully common in comic books. And perhaps the reason is that it can be used in a variety of different ways, such that any two superheroes with solely that ability can have completely different secondary power sets with it. It's a little surprising that the most common incarnation of Spider-Man only uses it to create his web shooters and web fluid.
Having this slew of powers all in one person does make for an incredibly fun character. I maintain Spider-Man could be himself with fewer of those, but if I had to pick one to reject, I couldn't say. They're all powers of Spider-Man, which he uses for good.









