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Peter Parker Casually Steals Pivotal Evidence In A Major Crime
The romantic subplot of the first Spider-Man 2 features Peter Parker wooing Mary Jane Watson, while also trying to juggle literally all of New York City's crime. One night, Peter shucks his great responsibility to see Watson perform in a play, but while on his way there, his lady-slaying scooter gets run down in a high-speed car chase.
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"Honeys love that economical transportation."
Parker chases down the car as Spider-Man, while the inexplicably inept police take turns crashing their vehicles and flipping into bystanders. After preventing a few pedestrian deaths, Parker finally subdues the two gun-toting criminals. Unfortunately, he's now running late. To save time, he suspends the criminals from a streetlight and drives their car to the theater -- the same car that is serious, important evidence in an ongoing crime.
When he arrives and parks in a tow-away zone, a nearby officer threatens to seize the suspicious-looking vehicle. Parker wasn't planning to keep it, so he shrugs it off. Peter just gave that officer some extra motivation to run the car's plate number and, were that to happen, the cop would discover that it was literally just involved in a high-speed chase with shots fired in downtown Manhattan, including the destruction of multiple police cars.
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Even the Blues Brothers think they need to tone it down.
Then Peter would have two options: lie about driving the car during the chase and plead guilt to a litany of crimes, or admit to being Spider-Man and plead guilty of a litany of crimes. Saving five minutes risked Peter's anonymity and the safety of his loved ones, plus hugely inconvenienced the very police force he's trying to help. But then again, it was a pretty sweet car. Who are we to judge?
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Clark Kent Publicly Annihilates A Semi-Truck, Risking Everything To Show A Dude Up
In Man Of Steel, Clark Kent works at a truck stop, pre-journalism career. There, he stops an asshole trucker from sexually harassing a waitress. Then this happens:
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Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures
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