we liked to pretend we were superheroes.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, and first appeared in the anthology comic book \"Amazing Fantasy\" #15 (August 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. The character is conceived as an orphan within the Marvel Universe named Peter Parker being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City after his parents Richard and Mary Parker were killed in a plane crash. Lee and Ditko depicted the character as having to deal with the normal struggles of adolescence and financial issues with a large array of supporting characters such as J. Jonah Jameson, \"Daily Bugle\" editor and smear campaigner of Spider-Man and classmates such as Flash Thompson, Harry Osborn and romantic interests, Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson. His origin story depicts him as being bitten by an radioactive spider and spider related power and abilities, such as the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-webs using wrist-mounted devices of his own invention, which he calls \"web-shooters\", and react to danger quickly with his \"spider-sense\", enabling him to combat his many variety of superpowered foes such as Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin and Venom.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Spider-Man has got to be my favorite superhero of all time."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why is that?  What do you like most about spider-man?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The whole orphan dynamic with him in the Marvel Universe is one of my favorites."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've always wondered why Stan Lee made him an orphan?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm not sure honestly, him being an orphan makes him a bit more of an interesting character, especially compared to other Marvel heroes. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I suppose it's easier to be a superhero without family ties."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah and this also allowed him to be depicted with normal struggles of adolescence."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think you are right!  Superman and Harry Potter were orphans too."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah they were! He also deals with stuff like financial issues."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What kind of financial issues do superheros have?"}]