Battle Damaged Spider-Man

We've got a bunch of Marvel reviews to do, way more than a weekly Marvel Monday can handle. So let's spin off all the various Spider-Man ones for... Webby Wednesday? Webnesday? Eh, we'll figure something out. The amazing Spider-Man uses his sensational spider-powers to protect society from the world's most dangerous supervillains. It takes all of his superhuman strength, speed, and agility to fight the forces of evil. He often faces insurmoutable odds and is forced to combat numerous opponents at the same time. Not even his amazing early warning "spider sense" can always keep him from being hurt while in battle. However, Spidey's incredible determination and will to win lets him triumph in battles against impossible odds. In the process, his world famous red and blue costume is often torn to shreds. It's a good thing that our hero created his own costyme and knows how to sew up a replacement. Where else can a superhero bring their costume to be mended? If that seems like a lot more text than you expect from Hasbro in 2025, you're not wrong: that comes from the 2001 ToyBiz Spider-Man Classics "Battle Ravaged Spider-Man," while the actual marketing copy for this figure two dozen years later says The bite of a radioactive spider granted Peter Parker spectacular arachnid-like abilities. He learns that with his great power there must also come great responsibility. Thanks for nothing, Hasbro. This figure is based on the same sculpt as Maximum Spider-Man, which makes sense since that's the current pinnacle of their quality. But that alone wouldn't be enough to warrant paying double the actual value, so you wouldn't be reading this review if that's all they did. Amazingly, Hasbro actually sculpted every little bit of battle damage on this suit, not just relying on paint. And that's not just the rips in the cloth, the scrapes on his bare right arm are sculpted in, as well. Ultimately, the only molds that are actually reused are the feet, the upper left shin, the knees, the hips, the lower torso, the hands, the left forearm, the elbows, the left shoulder, and the pec hinge parts. Wow, this is what toymaking is supposed to be like! The paint is clean, even when you've got pale pink skin next to dark blue tights. There is one small mistake, though: if you shine a strong light on the exposed skin below his right knee, you'll see that there are two sculpted cuts, similar to the ones on his shoulder, but they don't get the same red paint app. Boo! On the ToyBiz figure whose bio we quoted, the lower half of Spidey's mask was ripped away, showing us his determined grimace; when they did a similar one for the first Raimi movie, he was missing an entire lens from his mask, revealing even more of his face. For this release, we can see a little bit of his jaw, and a spot where his hair is spilling out. Not much. That'd be okay, if we also got an even more beat-up mask to swap for it, but we don't. What we get instead is a fully unmasked face, again similar to the Maximum Legends release, but no longer smiling, and his slightly different hair. There are cuts on his forehead, cheek, and lip, and his left eye has been sculpted to look swollen shut. Neat! They might have gotten away with simply painting the eye to look bruised (which they did still do), but sculpting the squint is a superior choice. The figure has all the fancy articulation, as well as fists, thwips, and splayed hands. His only accessories are a webline and the web shield we've seen a few times. Using a shield to protect himself makes sense, if he's getting beaten up so much, but we'd still rather have had another head, with more damage to the mask. Alternately, you know what would have been fun? Do an alternate piece that would plug into the wrist socket in lieu of a normal hand, and make it look like he's quickly fashioned himself a cast or a sling out of his webs. They do removable bracers all the time, this would be the same kind of idea. Since this is a Magic the Gathering figure, it costs $20 more than normal, and it includes a single Magic card. Not even a double-sided one, like Man-Wolf had, just a single normal card. The art does show him battle-damaged, and he's even using the shield, but this is still an utterly lackluster inclusion and does not help the value of the figures in any way. Spider-Man getting his butt kicked is a longstanding tradition, so it's always kind of fun when toy companies do "battle damaged" versions of him. This one is honestly pretty great, since they actually sculpted all his damage rather than just relying on paint to sell the idea. And considering all those new molds would have been at least somewhat expensive, you can probably count on seeing them reused at some point in the future, hopefully without needing to spend an extra $20 on a piece of cardboard to get them. -- 12/17/25 Want to buy a Magic card? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.