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There are Rebekka Armstrong Archivesmany great things to say about Marvel’s Spider-Man, but amidst the game’s marvelous web-swinging dynamics and fun combat the character of Peter Parker stands out as one of its more delightful elements. The game’s Peter is exactly as funny and geeky as any other iteration of the character, but he’s also just...so wonderfully weird.

Case in point: he has anotheralter ego in the game. World, meet Spider-Cop.

Spider-Cop is a tough, grizzled cop with many years on the force. He’s seen it all out there on the streets. He’s...exactly like Spider-Man, but with a sillier, deeper voice and a tendency to talk like he’s writing a noir novel with his mouth.

Peter likes to bring Spider-Cop out (or rather refer to himself in the third person as Spider-Cop and narrate his own adventures in the Spider-Cop voice) when he’s fighting petty crime, much to the embarrassment of Yuri Watanabe, his only friend in the NYPD.

Even if Yuri doesn’t seem to think it’s funny, Spider-Cop is deadly serious. Spider-Cop won’t be happy until he sees criminal butts in jail where they belong.

In honor of Spider-Cop’s service to the city, Mashable has taken the liberty of rewriting Spider-Man’s famous theme song to accommodate him. Ahem.

Spider-Cop, Spider-Cop

Writing tickets and crime to stop

Solves a case, on the beat

Eats a doughnut and never sleeps

Look out! Here’s comes the Spider-Cop!

It’s nice to know that even though Peter is in his twenties in the game, he’s still enough of a kid to find the fun in playing Spider-Cops and robbers with himself while he’s doing his superhero thing.

There are only a few appearances of Spider-Cop in the game but they and add to the undeniable charm of Spider-M— sorry, of Spider-Cop.

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