Beyonder Spider-Man Explained: Feats & How Powerful Is He?

Spider-Man is one of the oldest Marvel characters, and over the long years of the character’s existence, he was re-imagined through numerous alternative versions. He gained some powers, lost powers, gained a symbiote, you get the gist of it, but in one storyline, Spider-Man held the unimaginable powers of the Beyonders. It was a rather short time period. Still, the Beyonder version of Spider-Man had quite the potential. Let’s see how exactly Spider-Man gained the powers of Beyonder and how powerful he was. 

Spider-Man briefly got Beyonder’s powers in ‘Spider-Man & the Secret Wars’ #4. After Doctor Doom concocted a plan to transfer the Beyonder’s powers to himself, he briefly had to transfer those overwhelming powers to Wolverine and Spider-Man. It happened for only a fraction of a moment, and during that time, Spider-Man re-created reality, resurrected Uncle Ben, and made himself the hero of all humanity. Peter quickly lost these powers, and Doom decided to erase any recollection from Spider-Man and Wolverine’s minds that they had them in the first place. 

Now that we’ve given you a brief overview of the situation, it’s time to explore it in a bit more detail. If you’re interested in the events that led to the creation of Beyonder Spider-Man, stay with us and keep reading! 

Spider-Man got Beyonder’s powers in ‘Spider-Man & the Secret Wars’ #4

The ‘Secret Wars’ storyline is one of the best that Marvel ever created. It featured a wide variety of superheroes and supervillains alike who were battling it out on the Beyonder-created Battleworld for dominance.

The specific issue that we will be discussing today is ‘Spider-Man & the Secret Wars, ‘ a storyline that describes the events of Secret Wars but through Spider-Man perspective. We know that the core of Beyonder’s powers and abilities is reality manipulation and basically a recreation of everything in a way that he sees fit. He lured some of the most powerful characters in the history of Marvel (like Galactus) to Battleworld, and most were initially powerless to do anything against it. 

The Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and plenty of other powerful superheroes were pitted against the likes of Molecule Man, Galactus, and various other dangers that Beyonder could come up with. Meanwhile, Doctor Doom hatched a plan to win the war on the Battleworld and gain everything, the powers of the Beyonder himself. 

When Beyonder tore the galaxy apart to create the Battleworld, he tore entire cities from the Earth to use them to form the arena. One city that found itself on the Battleworld was Denver. 

Denver found itself in the middle of Secret Wars, and Ben Grimm and Spider-Man were sent to investigate the area (still inhabited by regular humans) since it appeared that a large concentration of aliens and other creatures known as Spindlies were terrorizing the citizens. While there, The Thing and Spider-Man heard rumors of Doctor Doom hanging around the place and decided to shadow him until they discovered his true motives. 

Doctor Doom eventually discovered they were shadowing him and decided to blow their cover. Doom also revealed that he was looking for “test subjects” to transfer a huge amount of power to them, and he considered both Grimm and Parker decent candidates for the job. Both Spider-Man and Grimm refused Doom’s deal. 

At that time, Reed Richards contacted Grimm and Parker through hologram and told them that a large group of aliens were moving in their direction. Richards also decided to make an alliance with Doom since it’s only with combined efforts that they can beat the alien horde. Richards’ plan was successful, and the invasion was repelled momentarily. Doom was also pleased because he found two willing subjects for power transferal, Marsha Rosenberg and Mary McPherran. 

How did Spider-Man get the powers of Beyonder? 

Now, the Avengers and the rest of the heroes were at one point forced to engage Galactus in a fight who used his reality-altering powers to mess with their minds. At one point, it appeared that they were victorious in the fight, but as it turned out, somebody was actually consuming Galactus’ powers, and that somebody was Doctor Doom. 

Doctor Doom needed Galactus’ powers in order to challenge a far greater fish in the sea, the Beyonder himself. Soon after that, Spider-Man and Wolverine started hallucinating. Spider-Man saw the deceased love of his life, Gwen and Wolverine saw Jean Grey. They knew that some kind of illusion was at play since their manifestations disappeared completely. 

The two were then transported to an alien dimension outside of linear time where monstrous things came to life, the manifestations of both good and evil, their present, their past, and their future. Doom was battling it out with Beyonder and managed to absorb his powers, but before he could transfer the powers to himself, he needed a sort of conduit, and Wolverine and Spider-Man proved perfect for the plane. 

At first, the power of Beyonder jumped to Wolverine, who was heavily hurt at the time, and then it jumped to Spider-Man. 

How powerful was Beyonder Spider-Man? 

Beyonder Spider-Man had the power to recreate reality in whatever way he saw fit. He created a new world with Parker City, brought from the 32nd century, and became the ultimate hero. After Green Goblin killed Uncle Ben, he effortlessly brought him back to life. He continued bringing Uncle Ben back to life throughout the whole ordeal, even though it was obviously destined that Uncle Ben would die. Still, Spider-Man proved that he had enough juice to do so. 

Beyonder Spider-Man was powerful enough to defeat dozens of the most powerful villains at the same time by rearranging their molecular structures. Spider-Man described those powers as a “Celestial bartering system,” but the one in which he has the final say since everything that he imagined became reality. 

In one of the panels, you can see Spider-Man defeating Galactus single-handedly.

Spider-Man, however, ultimately lost Beyonder’s powers, as Doom took them away and erased any memory of them from Peter Parker’s mind. So even though Spider-Man in this form was basically omnipotent and omniscient, it didn’t last all that long and was never meant to last long as it would completely defeat the purpose of Parker’s journey and what it means to have superpowers. 

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