I genuinely forgot this was supposed to be a joke video like 10 minutes in and actually got really into it. Absolutely amazing video.

"Able to run faster than an average wall" Okay... yeah... that's actually amazing. Kudos to whoever wrote that.

I love how he says "he's so dumb he tries to eat a hot dog with no mouth" rather than "with a mask over his mouth" as if he thinks spider man isn't wearing a costume and he just looks like that

"Able to run faster than an average wall" best line ever

18:13 Nah, that's a weak take. Armless Tiger Man's message is that human resilience is the greatest power of them all. The man lost both arms and still could not be stopped. In my town, there's a place called the Maritime Heritage museum, and they've got this one sailboat on display. It's a single person craft. well maintained, especially considering it's gotta be like 60 years old by now. It was built by a guy who used to clear tree stumps with dynamite, until one detonated prematurely. Blinded him and blew off his hand. He didn't STOP making sailboats because of that, no, no- that was when he STARTED making them. This guy had ONE HAND and NO SIGHT and he BUILT SAILBOATS. People COMMISSIONED HIM for them! He made GREAT SAILBOATS!

"You're up against the wall, and I am the fucking wall" - The Wall, talking to Spiderman (presumably)

I'm only guessing, but I assume The Wall was created SOLEY for the visual gag of a background prop rushing into the foreground and ambushing actors. You never expect a wall to just move out and attack, so it made for a visual surprise

The wall teaches us this: No matter how much suffering and misfortune you endure, how much damage you cause in your cry for help, no matter how heroic the figures you seek out are. Sometimes you get overlooked. Sometimes you aren't taken seriously. Abuse and sexual assult survivors aren't believed (especially male ones), people who develop horrible medical complications aren't acomedated, people suffering from trauma are rejectes as agressive and hostile. Sometimes when things suck, we don't get help, so if you can, you better make damn sure you do what you can, because it's too easy to ignore, even spiderman can fall into that trap, but thankfully it doesn't take a superhuman to help, just a hero, people like my mom who have housed and cared for people suffering from trauma, abuse survivors, and so many others, despite her own struggles leaving her bedridden for days at times. They teach us so, because if we stop to think about these characters we can't help but feel the urge to reach out a hand.

4:48 Possibly the saddest death in cartoon history, the way the actors preformed and the level of intensity in those scenes was immaculate, 10/10 acting

I can’t believe that Spider-Man could be unironically inserted into the “it’s about the Mets baby the Mets!” Meme and it would be completely in character and canon compliant

The fact that this was condensed into an hour is honestly insulting and deeply saddening. I wish to see the full raw massive uncut thing

"I CAN BE PRETTY STUPID WHEN I WANNA BE" is a golden line

31:19 I love how the brick he ‘punches’ out of the wall is just sitting on the ground in the previous shot

The "real" ending to The Wall's story is: shortly after his encounter with Spiderman, having learned nothing and continuing to be a jerk, he picked on the wrong superhero and was savagely murdered by Kool Aid Man.

This man made a documentary about an evil brick wall, yet the "I'm filming this on a 3DS" line is what does me in.

Man I actually cried during the part about Simon. Then the Wall came back into play and hit me like a brick.

this reminds me of a game i played when i was little. I'm not from an english speaking country, i'm italian. when i was like 5 my grandma gave me this superhero costume. i dressed up and my mom asked me what hero i was. i just randomly made a sound that sounded english to me, and i said "i'm wall man". my mom explained to me that wall was actually an english word , So i started playing in my head this game where i was wall man. i had power of creating walls out of nowhere, super strenght, speed, and vision. then i added the avengers, 'cause in my head i can be the leader of the avengers. i slowly started adding every hero and protagonist of every show or movie i liked: star wars, pokemon, dragon trainer, inazuma 11, and countless others. and every time i added a new universe i had an adventure in that universe and became the strongest in what the story was about. (the strongest jedi, the strongest pokemon trainer, the strongest dragon trainer, etc. ...). so i basically created an universe where i was the strongest being, i invented a backstory, new planets and solar sistems, new enemies, and every game i played was connected to it: i played with legos? they where on a mission in the lego world sent by wall man to defeat the bad guys. then when i became 10 i started losing interest to it, and eventually i just stopped playing the game, but i will forever remember wall man as the greatest hero of fiction.

The pure implication of there being a "Gorilla limit" is exactly what I love about classic comics

"You're a wall now!" The only thing that would've made this funnier would be if his civilian identity was called Mark Wallberg.

"Suddenly, Dracula appears" is the funniest thing I've seen in ages

The line at 42:12 about Ice King's personality slowly blending into the jokes he made is tragically not just a problem in fiction. For context, my grandfather has some serious problems like long term memory loss and serious dementia. The jokes he used to tell me and his other grandkids slowly became his whole personality as he aged, and it's now to the point where no one can tell whether he's aware of how ridiculous the things he does are or if he genuinely has no grasp on reality. He used to make this joke where he would act like he was scared that his grandkids would hurt him whenever they were going to give him a high five. Now he genuinely cowers when someone tries to give him one. No one even knows if he's being serious. Adventure Time clearly used this as a part of the story to representing aging and the decay of the mind, and it's scarily close to how things can happen in real life. I may start watching the show if that's how well done it is in every episode.

So you basically did an analysis of Spider-Man's most forgettable villains, and an analysis of sympathetic villainy, all with the motif of The Wall? Brilliant.

Segment about Mindworm just broke me. It remind me of a friend from school, who just suffered a lot and a has some mental problems. After his mother death from cancer, he was depressed and due to his mental state he lost his chance to form a relationship with a girl that he loved very much, then he had to study for a profession that he hates, because his relatives insisted so, after the girl he was in love with announced a betrothal with some guy, he began to drink a lot, as a result, he provoked several drunkards, and they inflicted serious wounds on him. Before his death, he said that he would rather die like this than live with the pain he experiences every day 24/7. Almost a year later, I'm still thinking about him, and how we could help him if we were more serious about his well-being.

I actually found myself coming back to this after reading the Squirrel Girl comics. A lot of these themes are integral to that series and its appreciation for the underappreciated and often goofy minor villains that litter comic book history, with her befriending characters like Brain Drain and even coming to blows against Spider-Man at one point over whether Kraven The Hunter could be redeemed.

Everything since this channel's inception has lead to this moment, you've made me proud

I think the "I wonder who won" line in the Wall comic is meant to have a double meaning. Spider-Man and The Wall both got kicked out of the park, neither won the fight, and neither achieved what they wanted. It's like, "I wonder which one of *us* won".

This is one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen, it went from the Wall, to nepotism, to JJ Abrams kid, to drugs, to weird ass Superman covers, to Gorillas, to armless tiger man, to rocket racer, to Big wheel, to speedball, to mind worm, to Cartoon Network, to adventure time, to some personal story in high school and then somehow circling it back to the wall

11:42 Quick reminder that some of the Flash's most well-known villains are Captain Boomerang (throws boomerangs), Captain Cold (freeze gun), Heat Wave (fire gun), Mirror Master (goes into mirrors), The Trickster (has a bag of lethal tricks) and The Top (The Wall but spinning top). The closest thing The Flash has to a decent normal villain is Reverse Flash, who is The Flash but evil.

Just so everyone knows, the Marvel Database article on the Wall was changed because of this video and the strengths was changed to "The Wall has been seen moving faster than an average man, let alone a brick wall."

I once contemplated covering this fiend and shuddered in terror at the thought. You're a brave man for risking your mental health by creating such an amazing video.

I love how no one can describe anything that happens in Adventure Time without being forced to leave out a ton of lore. I imagine the original script having 20 extra pages describing the Christmas episode and a breakdown of Princess Bubblegum's whole biology and history, to explain where he got the soup. Every tap of the delete key a torture.

Don Bluth once said that children can accept anything in a story as long as there's a happy ending.

Absolutely brilliant. I have no other words to describe this.

“Gorilla limit” caused me to laugh hysterically for a good 10 minutes

The most important lesson I learned from Gumball was to not clone your friend and mass murder the clones. It's a very timely and meaningful lesson.

The awkward silence between you and the wall, and the squeaking of your shoes is another layer of comedy

The “Wall that you’ll never Crawl” scene will be remembered right next to Iconic Comic moments, Such as Batman snapping the Joker’s Neck in the Dark Knight Returns..Truly a Masterpiece.

Never thought I’d hear someone talk about adventure time when talking about Spider-Man … Then again I never thought I’d hear a villain that *moves faster then the average wall*

I just can’t get enough of Simon and Marcy in the show. Their relationship is just so beautiful and sad, obviously until the end, and it was one of the best things I’ve experienced on television

Holy crap by the end I totally forgot this video was about a dumb wall character and ended up crying multiple times. Amazing writing and a really great message holy crap good job. This really felt like a extended TED talk and it was incredible lol!

Kite-Man is unironically my favorite stupid villain. His character really deepened in the last 20 years or so. He's a humbled guy who understands everyone finds him dumb or annoying, but in the end he reassures himself and keeps going forward. His character is all about being humble enough to see himself for who he really is, while at the same time knowing when someone's opinion of him is worthless or is worth listening to. He's about self confidence, while also being self aware. Kite-Man, hell yeah.

“Suddenly, Dracula appears!” Now that’s how you introduce conflict

The way you make Spider-Man seem so wholesome and selfless, I love him as a hero so much thanks to you. No wonder he is THE staple of Marvel. Beloved by all, and I see why.

I had an existential crisis whenever I gave a homeless lady $20. About 2 or 3 minutes after I had done that good deed, and I was feeling really good about it, I stopped and realized that I might not have done that out of the goodness of my heart. I may have been doing it just for me. The crisis occurred right then, whenever I realized that altruism might not be a real thing. A similar crisis that Spider-Man recognized whenever he set off to help Mindworm. I had to go to my priest and confess this to him, but he reassured me that yes, altruism does exist. All he had to do was point out the fact that human nature sometimes seeks out true altruism whenever one person chooses to die for someone else. There are just so many examples of this happening.

Jesus Christ I got such insane whiplash after that adventuretime section suddenly going back into The Wall. I completely forgot this was a Spider-Man video because of how well you retold the story of Ice King and Marcy. Overall amazing video because every time it switches to another section I get roped right back in instantly! Extremely well done!!

This may be a joke video, but goddamn Mindworm’s fate made me sad bruh.

The moment he started talking about the surge of gorillas on comic book covers, I knew I would be laughing way too much

2:55 So that's the origin of the greatest Marvel character Paul

Someone help me out with the Armless Tiger Man. Like, I get that he lost his arms in an industrial accident and used his newfound hatred of machines to develop his mouth and legs to make up for the loss. And I get the working for the Nazis. And I get ending up in Hades as part of Pluto's jury in a trial against Zeus. That all makes perfect sense. But where does the Tiger Man part come from? As far as I can tell, he was already a Tiger Man when he lost his arms in the accident. Are Tiger Men a thing? Is he a mutant? Did one of his parents fuck a tiger? Why is Tiger Man a Tiger Man? Why?

You know, all jokes aside, I do like the idea of a villain who can disable Spider-Man's ability to stick to walls. I know that's just a silly line he said because he's a wall but it really got me thinking about that idea

I genuinely hope you aren't permanently insane due to this gem of a video essay. Thanks for this 5 star delve into obscure characters that are otherwise overlooked. Good job!💯

I didn't expect a detailed analysis of some of my favourite moments from Adventure Time out of a 52 minute long video about a humanoid wall, but damn was I pleasently surprised. I've been re-watching the show with my SO mainly because I wanted her to experience moments like those, and tbh I think you summed up their resonance better than I ever could. Subbed immediately

The "gorilla limit" is probably one of the funniest things I've ever heard

i believe him being named "joshua" is a reference to the golem of prague, who in some versions is named Yehoshu'a (hebrew predecessor of joshua). this could be taken in so many interesting directions.. golem stories are already about otherment, power, and golems themselves are in a place between dead and alive or jew and non jew or with a soul and without. i wish i was a comics writer so i could take this

48:45 first rule of Minecraft, always build a fake throwaway house, most folks, even that guy, would wait long enough to verify, if they don't grief the fake house show them the backup fake house, after a few years then show them the real thing

The actual topic was incredible, but the moments of silly fun and sincerity with the live action moments is actually my favorite part here. I don't know what to describe this video as, but I just gotta say it's hella good

So... the real tragedy of The Wall is that he could have been tragic, but never was. That's an interesting take. Honestly, turning a minor villain made of bricks into a metaphor for emotional withdrawal is brilliant. Imagine a story that starts with The Wall attacking a baseball game, but afterwards him and Spider-Man have a long, in depth conversation where The Wall truly opens up about his own emotions. That would honestly be a brilliant story.

Alex this is genuinely a masterpiece. A beautifully curated balance of insight, humour, emotion, depth, philosophy. Just wow. Almost made me forget that this is just about a fucking wall.

That... was something else. You made something serious out of something so stupid and you gave it so much effort to the point it was not only serious, but the ending you gave it was perfect. How you are not really used about talking to the camera, the destroyed minecraft base or the bloopers at the end making the live action scenes was very nice. I like your style of videos and yea sure you might not have a lot of them, but damn you put so much effort into them even though they might be stupid you make such nice points that made me thing about some things. Which doesn't happen usually. If the star rating was still on youtube i'd give you 5 stars for this video and i'd hope that this video would have been on the front page. This was a very nice video. A good mix of comedy and tragedy. 👍

when "I remember you" came out I was so amazed by the lore and heartfelt moments of this world and then "Simon and marceline" came out. I have no words. The citadel came and and I was hooked but then I stopped following the series after losing cable. Coming back to it as a grown man it feels so nostalgic

The wall should be brought to the MCU as the next villain. His story is so amazing 😪

This is why I love James Gunn's ability to give one-off comic book characters great relatable stories. I hope there will be more stories like this for these minor characters.

I remember my favorite quote from the Wall movie, when the Wall tragically sacrificed himself so that he could save the universe. “That wall sonovabitch! I’m gonna miss him!”

I came here to see a goofy wall, stayed for the lore explanation, and by the end I forgot that I clicked on this video to see a funny wall

"it can be hell if you're wearing diferent clothes, imagine being a fucking wall!" thats a brand new sentence right there

The mix of both genuine, thoughtful analysis and ridiculous fun with friends is genuinely inspiring. Thanks for sharing The Wall with the world.

This is probably the only universe where i watched the entire video from start to end, but i don't regret it, i get to know about the beauty of Simon & Marcy, the minecraft anarchy server betrayal, and the hilarious The Wall trailer. Absolutely worth my time.

1:00 "I HAD TO CONDENSE THIS INTO AN HOUR". The biggest flex I've ever heard 😂

beautiful. a testimony to how it doesn't matter whether the idea is chessy or absolutely silly, as long as you write and execute it well. it goes the other way too: it doesn't really matter if your idea is revolutionary if you wrote it badly and executed it poorly. and i love how this acknowledges how you can apply this in life: it doesn't really matter who you are, but what you do and how you do it.

"Suddenly, Dracula appears" I am brokenhearted and put aghast by this stellar storytelling.

16:06 I feel like Armless Tigerman is about not using Revenge as the main goal of your life, as you'd soon become Tool of your own Hatred. I mean, he wanted to get revenge on all machines and ended up getting killed by a gun, a machine.

I have never watched a video that touched me and made me reflect as much as yours, you did an excellent job, everything about it is perfect.

Having Spidey only communicate through speech bubbles is actually pretty ahead of it's time seeing how they did similar things in Into the Spider-Verse like the "Bagel!" graphic. I hope if we get a second Into the Spider-verse that we get a lil' shoutout to the Electric Company Spider-Man that's be awesome lmao

I'm picturing a version of the wall that becomes the wall and looks at himself and goes, "Welp, my life is ruined." and starts wondering what to do with his life. Most people that look strange like him spend their time fighting Spiderman, and his old community has rejected him, so that's just what you're supposed to do, right? Besides, anyone in a costume like that's probably up to something even if he saves the city sometimes, (the news says so) might as well make sure he doesn't have time for that. After his first confrontation with Spiderman he isn't even arrested, just a kid out of his depth. He struggles to continue his education despite his newfound appearance, but his isolation pushes him to seek out the only community of people he might find common ground with. In time he forms connections with the other villains at the bottom of the pecking order, usually people more broken than him, and sometimes acts as muscle or a distraction, eventually even acting as a middleman. (a few powerful figures will 'shoot the messenger' out of rage or on a whim, but for someone as durable as the wall, something needs to be premeditated to actually pose any threat) In time his social skills surpass how much he can actually help in a fight, and he moves more into the background, becoming even more of a coordinator. He still doesn't have a clear goal, but has begun to gain actual disdain for Spiderman, for being both physically and mentally well (unlike himself and most of those around him) who has become accepted by the media, unlike most people who wear costumes, suffer freak accidents, or were simply born different. He becomes well known for making alliances that actually hold, and tends to act as a figurehead for the larger ones, even if he doesn't actually lead them at first. Not sure where to take him from there, whether he becomes sorta like a kingpin with funkier minions, or whether he eventually leaves that life behind and takes a role to keep people like his younger self on the right path. To help give them an option other than beating up others like them, regardless of what side they'd be on.

The sheer greatness of this video has earned my sub. I don't care that I haven't watched any of your other videos or that I may never. This one video is enough.

Genuinely one of the best vids I’ve watched on KZfaq and I’ve listened to the the first 30 secs like 10 times and I still can’t get it out of my head

Fun fact, the only way I ever knew about Big Wheel was because he was my favorite boss in the Mysterio's Menace spiderman game for the GameBoy. I always wondered who the hell he was considering he was the only villain I hadn't heard of in that game. They really went with BIG WHEEL instead of like, Venom or something

45:30 The Wall's backstory being the result of a lack of OSHA compliance making him the OSHA equivalent to Poison Ivy, causing havoc and *meting out vengeance* to those he deems as endangering others with careless ignorance of safety rules. Like Smokey The Bear if he broke people's legs for starting wildfires with a careless cigarette.

here's one wall you'll never crawl

the trailer and the irl segments had me in tears numerous times

15:01 Correction: Jackson Weele NEVER drowned, all thanks to the vehicle's watertightness. He also realized how messed up his actions were and decided to walk to his home, ready to face the consequences: his wife learned what he has done and left him, then he got incarcerated. This is also when he decided to join Villain Anonymous, a group for villains to redeem themselves in 12 steps. Another guy took the mantle of Big Wheel, as Jackson's "successor" later on. Edit: changed the time stamp, somehow I put it wrongly

Ice Kings full backstory really hit me hard as a young teen, that shit was sad. It made me realize that sometimes things are awful, and they might not ever get better. But you can at least try your best to be happy. It broke my heart when Adventure Time showed me there wasn't anything that could really fix ice king.

49:04 really changed my life tbh.... That whole speech was something i really needed to hear... Thank you for being such an amazing creator/person 🥲❤️❤️❤️

Imagine the potential. Whenever someone casually says the word wall, this character snaps into your mind and you tear up. There's a real strength in associating your tragic characters with dumb everyday things.

I appreciate how it’s implied in this video that, if Joss Whedon’s father and grandfather are both tv writers… that makes him the biggest nepotism baby of them all.

The umpire coming back to life really ruins it for me,character deaths don’t even matter anymore cause they always seem to come back when the plot needs them to

I remember Spidey Super Stories. Not only did adapted the stories from the Electric Company show, they also created stories in that manner. One story stood out is when the demi-god Thanos went to Earth to rob banks and it took the combine force of Spider-Man and Hellcat to stop him. The last panel of the story shows Thanos escorted by the police to their squad car in handcuffs!

This is the video that made me subscribe. The fact that you had the balls to talk about a wall and why he should be in the MCU for an hour should earn you more subscribers

TBH, The Wall could be a great allegory for severe disability. A physically fit young man who suddenly, due to an unknowable accident, becomes an armless, bumbling being who struggles to perform basic human tasks. There could be a lot of tragedy, with Wall seeing himself as an inhuman monster while Spiderman tries to tell him that he's still as human as everyone else. Maybe Wall wants to crush and break people because he wants them to suffer as he had, or maybe he just wants to be seen and known. An anthropomorphic wall is way too interesting what the hell.

I take your point here, but I think that you're being overly harsh on Armless Tiger Man. Unlike the other villains you mentioned, Armless Tiger Man is a genuinely powerful concept. This is a guy who was maimed in a factory accident, and instead of placing the blame on the societal factors that led him to being forced to work in dangerous conditions, he swears vengeance against literal inanimate objects. There's a lot that can be said there - About misdirected anger, about industrialization, about disability, and probably some that I can't think of right now - It's just that no one has ever *tried* to tell those stories.

cant wait for sony to turn this guy into a threat-

Honestly your live action adaptation was just the most beautiful thing I've seen in my life.

A'ight I got a hot take with The Wall's inclusion in the Spider mythos and you gonna have to bear with me for this one. I kinda was in the mood to write an arc where Spidey's Spider Sense goes batshit crazy, it stings, he flinches mid swing, it gets out of control in a fight, etc. and while at first he soldiers on through these growing pains, it goes so out of hand it creates a delusional vision of past dangers, like it memorized these moments and Peter falls for it, reacts to say, the time Gwen fucking fell of the bridge and jumps, only to realize "Wait I'm actually gonna hit New York's pavement, what the fuck am I doing?" So let's say that either the FF or whoever is available at the time find a way for him to undergo some kind of treatment to completely neuter Spider Sense. Like it's the only way he doesn't go fucking insane. And he tries to fight crime and it truly feels like bullshit for once. Spidey presses on, but it's a fucking lot he has to be aware of and it's not something he can simply get accostumed to. This culminates in him after the plot of the week, or whatever arc underwent at that moment and out of the fucking blue, while his hand rests on the walls of an alleyway, we slowly get to see a face emerge from it. Then an arm and a leg. And the frame of The Wall, popping up behind Pete and patting his back, giving a little pep talk while Peter just turns flabbergasted. Stunned into silence, he doesn't even say anything he just lets him speak. And then The Wall walks away. He decides he's gonna catch up with him. He doesn't even remember but he's grateful he didn't break his skull open, in fact, he's almost convinced The Wall isn't even from the same continuity. And he does admit he lived through fucking Battleworld and it can be asume he found his way to main Marvel continuity. And it humbled him. Like he's just some dude that has no idea where his powers come from and he acted tough shit trying to make a fuss on the Mets stadium, but the increasing insanity of Marvel's cataclysmic events and rise of both heroes and villians that populate the planet - And beyond - wore him down. Sure, he's an immovable wall, he still has his confidence, but he mellowed out because the world as is was exhausting to deal with. So what does The Wall do? Being a villain wasn't what made him what he is, which is why he hides in the streets and suprises criminals, protect hobos, shit like that, mess with the Kingpin's men by "living inside their walls". He adapted in spite of a missing piece, and he builds himself up time and time again. "All in all, it's just another brick in The Wall, so I just reinforce on what's missing". And Spidey actually listens. Sure, it doesn't click. It's the ridicolousness of The Wall giving him a pep talk that takes him out of the crucial lesson. But he does consider this like catching up with an old acquaintance, and he acknowledges he'll take that advice, it helps Spidey get motivated. He's THE Spider-Man, he can and will find a way to reinforce himself to compensate for the missing piece. So in the same bench where Morgan Freeman had left them after interrupting the game, they contemplate about watching the Mets play some time in the near future. And th- And then they kith.

The trashiest part about the Abrahm comic story is that it RIPS-OFF the Spider-Girl origin to an absurd extent. Peter crippled? Yup. Mary Jane dead? Yup. Child inherits the mantle years after the dad gives up? Yup

I've watched this video more times than I can count with my two hands and I still find it a fascinating documentary on grief, loss, self-loathing and redemption. You're a master storyteller. Cheers to you.

Almost shed a tear there. Your videos are so good. You kind of inspired me to watch adventure time. I always thought it was a kid show but you’ve showed me otherwise

Alex you haven't failed me thank you for this rollercoaster of emotions

This morning I was thinking “man, it’s been a while since I’ve really laughed at something, I wonder when I’m gonna find something that genuinely makes me laugh hard again.” Turns out I would find it today, in this video. Specifically part 2 when you listed the different spider man and gorilla stories, but the entire video was great. Not only comedically, but as an analysis as well. Great job!

I loved the (presumably) original music you created for the trailer at the end. Nice 80's vibe.

I was not prepared for what I thought t be a meme video that I found at 2am last night to end up being one of the most touching and heartwarming videos I’ve watched in the last 12 months. Thank you