Peter Parker vs. Seth Brundle (Lyric Meanings)

In this mostly story based rap battle by Moleman Nine Thousand, teenager Peter Paker; unbeknownst to some as Marvel’s web-slinging Spider Man, faces off against Seth Brundle; the tragically mad scientist from David Cronenberg’s reimagining of The Fly along with appearances by his future son, other Spider Man characters, and the band Europe. I actually this essay way back in March this year and I’ve kept it safe for quite a while until now. So without any more explanation, here are the explanations for each verse:
== Part 1: ==
Peter Parker:
Thanks for the ride there, Uncle Ben; I shouldn't be long, so don't go far.
(Our story begins with teenager Peter Parker as portrayed by Tobey Maguire in the Sam Raimi films [2002-2007], as he gets a ride to somewhere by his paternal uncle, Ben. He thanks him for being dropped off and promises that this will be a quick affair, telling him not to go too far off.)
I'll get the scoop on Brundle, then earn cash enough for my own car,
(Peter Parker’s part time job is a news photographer, mostly for capturing photos of his alter-ego, and to “get the scoop” means to receive information on what is going on and later inform the public it, which is what he will do with Seth Brundle’s latest invention and hopefully get enough cash to buy his own car; a reference to the first movie where Parker sees two newspaper ads for a car and an offer of $3,000 prize money for anyone that could survive three minutes in a wrestling ring with Bone Saw McGraw. He does this in order to impress Mary Jane Watson.)
'Cause when the Bugle wakes 'em up to this real-life Amazing Fantasy,
(The Daily Bugle is the name of the New York City tabloid newspaper industry that Peter Parker works for and Amazing Fantasy was one of the original titles used for Marvel comic books during the 1960’s. Parker mentions that by the time the Daily Bugle spreads gossip about this technological advancement… )
Our sales'll smash the Globe, and Triple-J will pay me handsomely!
(…their sales will be phenomenal and extend worldwide. The Daily Globe is the name of a rival newspaper that existed within the Marvel universe and later went out of business. But even if the Globe were to exist within this rap battle, Parker says that their sales will be trumped financially thanks to the Bugle’s coverage of Brundle’s Telepods. John Jonah Jameson is the boss of the Daily Bugle who serves as Parker’s employer and will pay him an extraordinary amount, yet has a huge grudge towards Spider Man who he considers a threat and demands Parker to capture photos of him when he can.)
Who am I? Just your friendly neighborhood rookie reporter,
(“Your friendly neighborhood Spider Man” is a catchphrase often uttered by the web-slinging superhero when he provides service to the local community or when someone asks who he is. But because Parker has yet to turn into Spider Man, he makes a variant on the phrase with “rookie reporter.”)
Looking into you and your machine that breaks time-space's borders.
(Peter informs Seth that he will be investigating both him and his Telepods that “will bring an end to all concepts of transport, of border and frontiers, time and space;” like Seth said in his movie.)
I trust you won't mind my swinging-by; I won't disrupt at all:
(Peter is confident that Seth has no qualms with him stopping by to get a report on his newest invention and that he doesn’t mean to cause a ruckus. “Swinging by” is a reference to Spider Man’s method of transportation by shooting web slings to attach from building to building.)
I'll be as harmless an observer as a fly upon your wall!
(To be a “fly on the wall” means to be an unnoticed observer of a particular situation. In a subtle mix of wordplay and foreshadowing, Peter sarcastically tells Seth that doesn’t mean to cause any disruption or trouble to his work.)
Seth Brundle:
Wait, who let you in?! Press can't yet be let to see my labor's fruits!
(Seth Brundle, played by Jeff Goldblum, is shocked to see someone let Parker in unsupervised and tries to kick him out in order to keep him from revealing his newest invention, much like how he begged Veronica to keep them secret at the beginning of the film.)
Boy, you're in Pleasantville no more; trespassers here will be rebuked!
(Pleasantville is a 1998 historical comedy-drama about two siblings who wind up trapped in a 1950’s TV show set in a small Midwest town with Stepford-like residents who seem a bit too happy and Tobey Maguire played David in the film. Seth reminds Peter that he‘s no longer in his happy little world and will be forcefully kicked out for walking into the premises without notice.)
Poor Peter Parker's but a pitiful, nearsighted little geek-clown;
(Seth Brundle sees Peter Parker as nothing more than a short pathetic fool who he calls “nearsighted” due to requiring glasses before the spider bites him and further insults him by calling him a nerd.)
When he comes into my parlor uninvited, he'll get beat-down!
(Seth once again reminds Peter Parker that he will get roughed up very badly for coming into his warehouse uninvited.)
Like your playdates with ol' Skip, I won't let you go unmolested.
(Skip is a minor villain from an earlier issue named Spider Man and Power Pack #1 who was invented to teach children about the real-world dangers of child molestation. In one particular scene, Skip shows Peter Parker some pornography when he went to his house and he suggests him to “touch each other like the people in the magazine.”  Peter is horrified by this yet was “too frightened to leave,” implying Skip molested him in some way. Peter works up the courage to cut him away from his life and go tell Aunt May & Uncle Ben what happened that day. “Unmolested” means to not be pestered and left in peace. Using wordplay, Seth Brundle tells Peter Parker that he will not let this battle be finished without Parker getting interfered, much like Skip did to him during their “playdates.”)
Feel that tingling? That's your common sense saying: put this schtick to rest, kid!
(One of Spider Man’s many abilities is a psychological awareness called the “spider sense” where his body activates a tingling sensation that allows Parker to be wary of incoming threats. However, Seth Brundle interprets Parker’s tingling as his common sense telling him to retire his “nerdy” act.)
You're erected by that redhead Watson chick; that much is plain,
(Mary Jane Watson is one of Spider Man’s many girlfriends in the comic books and is easily recognized by her long scarlet coloured hair, thus making her a redhead. She is Parker’s main love interest in the Sam Raimi movies and is played by Kirsten Dunst. Seth Brundle points out that Parker is aroused over her and that he’ll do anything to win her over, which is ironic considering the many short break-ups they went through over the films.)
But if you think she'll get with you, you've hit a different Mary Jane!
(Mary Jane is one of the many names given for the psychoactive recreational drug known as Marijuana, a type of cannabis plant, in which the main side effect includes the THC ingredient that alters your brain and causes you to hallucinate things, known as getting high. In another bit of clever wordplay, Seth tells Parker that he must be high on drugs if he thinks Mary Jane will ever end up with him.
Peter Parker:
It's clear you don't get out much, sir, and though I didn't mean any trouble,
(Peter starts to become aware of Seth’s unkempt appearance since his wardrobe consists of five identical sets of clothes, which was an identical habit of Albert Einstein, and was done so he wouldn’t have to waste mental energy deciding what to wear each day. He also adds that he didn’t mean to stir up any disruption with Seth, but as he points in the next verse…)
If a dick is what you choose to be here, brace for my rebuttal:
(Since Seth decided to act like an asshole in his first verse, Peter warns him to be ready for his counter-attack. The “butt” in “rebuttal” could also be a bit of wordplay with “dick” considering their both private parts of the human body.)
I can weave a tangled web of words to rival Walter Scott;
(One of the most famous lines in Walter Scott’s historical romance poem “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field” is this excerpt: Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive! [Some people often misattribute this verse to William Shakespeare] Peter adds a bit of wordplay to the quote by saying that he can blurt out a number of freestyle verses to catch Seth off guard, further hinting to his future superpowers later on in the song.)
A natural at diss-selection who knows how to take a shot!
(Natural selection is the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution. “Diss” in a rap song means to disparage or insult another person or group. With even more wordplay, Parker says that he has innate talent at disparaging Seth with each shot he takes.)
Seth Brundle:
Your style makes me want to vomit; I spit gold when my fly verses bloom:
(Seth tells Peter that his freestyle makes him feel nauseous and about to blow chunks. Brundle is known to suffer from motion sickness as he threw up in a car during childhood and throughout his mutation, Seth is no able longer to digest food like real humans do as it hurts his rapidly-falling teeth. He now has to use vomited corrosive enzymes [nicknamed by him as “vomit drop”] on his food in order to digest it. The next line is a pun on both his actor’s name and the word “fly” which Brundle says that his raps are “fly” enough to produce gold.)
Mind-blowing rhymes so sick, they'll make your head asplode like Scanners!
(Scanners was a 1981 horror film by Canadian director David Cronenberg, five years before he made The Fly. The “scanner” in particular is someone with unusual telepathic & telekinetic powers and the main conflict of the film follows the weaponry company, ConSec, seeking them out to use for their own gain. In one of the most memorable scenes which occurs right at the beginning, one of the more powerful scanners named Revok [Michael Ironside] volunteers to demonstrate his powers, but ends up killing one of the ConSec executives by causing his head to violently explode in a puddle of blood and guts galore. This scene is a common GIF to find online and is sometimes equipped with the caption “MIND BLOWN.” Seth says to Parker that his rhyme skills are so sick, they’ll violently blow his mind away.)
Be afraid, very afraid: I'll mess you up worse than my first baboon;
(Seth Brundle tells Parker to “Be afraid. Be very afraid” which was the same warning Veronica gave to Tawny when Brundle tries to get her in the teleportation pods, and that he will mess him up worse than his first baboon, which Seth kept as a pet and used for a test to see if the machine could successfully teleport living beings. Sadly, it did not and the gory details will be explained in the next verse.)
Leave you turned inside-outwards in a most grotesque of manners. 
(The grotesque result of the baboon’s failed teleportation caused the ape to turn inside out with its blood and organs all over the machine, yet still alive and screaming in pain. Eventually, Seth reprograms the computer to cope with organic matter and successfully teleports a second baboon, but a deleted scene shows Seth working the telepod into a merging machine and uses the second baboon and a cat as a test subject. As to be expected, things don’t go well as the two are fused together into a horrible, agonizing mess that attacks Seth and causes him to beat it to death with a metal pipe. While explaining the sudden absence of the baboon throughout the rest of the movie, the scene was ultimately cut due to being too violent and it made Seth look even more unredeemable. Brundle however, isn’t hesitant to say that he will rip Parker out from the inside like the machine did to his first baboon. 
Peter Parker:
You may think you'll change the world, but I'll be having none of that crap:
(At the beginning of the film during his first date with Veronica, Seth says that “he is working on something that will change the world” in which he refers to his telepods. Parker however, sees him as overly-confident and does not believe what he has to say.)
I've seen transport-pods more practical in West Virginia transit!
(Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit is a transit system in West Virginia’s Morgantown which connects between its downtown area and the campus of West Virginia University. WVU doesn’t appear in any of the Spider Man movies, but its auditorium was used for filming the bank robbery in the 2004 sequel. The vehicles were made from an Alden Starr car with one running at a time and regularly seeing more than 16,000 riders per each day. While they do look a bit clunky and have a steadily declining reliability rate with a new vehicle system proposed to replace it, Parker considers West Virginia’s transit system to be more “functional” than Seth’s teleportation pods.)
As a Trekker, I'd suspect your tech's a clone-creating deathtrap!
(The concept of teleportation devices was first demonstrated in the popular science fiction series Star Trek. It was commonly used by Kirk, Spock, and Bones to warp themselves when exploring new worlds at the request made to Commander Scotty. However, one of the few scenes in the series that touched on the subject of teleportation gone wrong was in The Motion Picture when two subjects that were being beamed up to the ship got stuck in the teleportation process, causing them to dematerialize and vanish into thin air. Given that Parker is a huge Trekker, the derogative term used to refer to a fan of Star Trek, he knows that Brundle’s invention is only bound to cause terrible accidents and almost serves as foreshadowing for what’s yet to come.)
To be backing it, Bartok must make Oscorp look soundly-managed.
(Oscorp is a fictional organization in the Spider Man universe owned by Norman Osborne, who is one of Spider Man’s biggest adversaries and is the main villain of the 2002 movie with the super-serum causing him to go insane and develop super-strength abilities. Compared to the super-deadly telepods and it’s “unaware” backing by Bartok Science Industries; the corporation owned by Anton, the main villain of The Fly II, Parker says that even Oscorp has better work and financial ethics compared to them.
Seth Brundle:
Sure, that ape became spaghetti, but my finished pods aren't deadly:
(While acknowledging that the first telepod test may have turned his baboon into an inside-out pile of innards he refers to as “spaghetti,” Seth firmly holds on to the belief that his pods aren’t “lethal,” which is a bit of tragic irony that we’ll see unfold eventually.)
I'll bet you and Borans both an arm-and-leg; my bone saw's ready!
(Stathis Borans was played by John Getz and was the only actor to reprise his role for the sequel. In the original film, he was an editor for Particle Magazine who sparked Veronica’s interest for journalism and sent her to get the scoop on Brundle’s invention. Borans in particular gets on Seth’s nerves for dismissing him as a “con man” and “useless” as well as being Veronica’s ex. An “arm and leg” means to cost a large sum of money in which Seth sees both him and Parker as desperate for cash. Further playing with the analogy, Seth says that he will use a bone saw to cut off both of their limbs. The last line is also a reference to the wrester Parker takes on in the first movie who yells out “BONESAW IS READY!” to entice excitement in the ring.)
I'm the next big step for mankind, and with one small leap, I'll prove it,
(Seth makes a slight variation on the infamous words uttered by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20th 1969 as follows: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” He crowns himself as an evolutionary milestone as is going to prove it by jumping into the telepod.)
So computer, start the countdown up, and Europe, cue the music!
(Seth initiates the computer built into the telepod system to start the countdown for the teleportation procedure and then orders Europe, a Swedish rock bank founded in 1979 with vocalist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum, bassist Peter Olsson, and drummer Tony Reno to play a song for the event.)
Joey Tempest:
Ooooooooh, it's the final countdown…
This dude's teleporting…
The final countdown…
Uh-oh, there's a fly there!
It's the final countdown, final countdown, ooooooh-ooooooooh… now give me my check!
(“The Final Countdown” is the first single from the band’s third studio album and was based on a keyboard riff written by Joey in 1981, while also taking some cues from David Bowie’s “Space Odyssey.” The most well known performance of the song took place in Stockholm, Sweden on December 31st 1999 as part of the Millennium’s celebrations. Here, Europe is once again performing their famous song, but instead of singing about humanity leaving an uninhabitable planet, they are now narrating Seth’s teleportation while realizing that a fly has entered the pod’s chamber, serving as a catalyst for the rest of the rap battle. As soon as the song ends, Joey demands that he be given his paycheck, implying that they performed for Seth on the promise of earning money.)
== Part 2: ==
Computer:
TELEPORT SEQUENCE SUCCESSFUL; FLY AND BRUNDLE FUSED TOGETHER.
(The computer announces that while the teleport sequence was a success, both Seth and the fly have now been fused together due to being in the same place, same time.)
Seth Brundle: 
Wait, a fly? Oh my: that may be cause for worry, but whatever;
(Seth is initially shocked at first to learn that he was fused with the fly and raises a slight bit of concern over it, but chooses to ignore it.)
It most likely matters not. I'm in one piece and feeling fine, too;
(Despite his worries, Seth nonchalantly dismisses the “genetic fusion” as he is still human at the moment and is mostly “feeling fine.” Of course, Seth will be ultimately proven wrong much later.)
The far worse concern in bug-terms here's that spider right behind you!
(Seth Brundle notices a more “bugging” concern over a spider right behind Peter Parker. This would be none other than the bio-engineered experimental arachnid that escaped from the genetics laboratory of Columbia University and bit Peter Parker during a field trip there.)
Peter Parker:
Ouch! TheDingDangDoong spoke truthfully; that really does hurt brutally,
(The spider bites Peter Parker’s hand and causes him to feel great pain which despite calling Seth a “Ding Dang Doong,” makes him admit that he was right about the spider behind him.). 
And yet, on top of all the pain, I feel sensations new to me:
(The venom caused Peter to fall ill as he barely arrives home before collapsing onto his bed. Once he wakes up however, he discovers that his genetic makeup was seemingly unharmed yet his body changed dramatically overnight by becoming slightly more muscular.)
Sixth sense, strength and agility straight out of some film trilogy!
(On top of strength, Parker also gains the ability to shoot webs from his arms, becomes super-agile, and gains a supernatural power known as “spider sense” where it allows him to detect danger before it happens. The “film trilogy” is a reference to Sam Raimi’s Spider Man each having three films.)
Uncle Ben: 
Remember, though: with great power comes great responsibility!
(“With great power comes great responsibility” is a proverb commonly uttered in the Spider Man comics and is sometimes used in politics & monarchy, law enforcement & public safety, journalists & book authors, as well as various media and memes. Despite not originally being attributed to the character in Amazing Fantasy #15 where the quote first appeared, the line is often attributed to Uncle Ben who says it to Parker during their last conversation in some of the adaptations and comic series, as well as flashbacks to when Ben was still alive.)
Peter:
Oh, drop the preachiness, and quit pretending you're my father!
(Just like in the film, Parker loses his temper over Ben’s speeches and tells him to stop pretending like he’s his father.)
I'd be rich if all old Benny's lectures netted me a dollar.
(“If I had a dollar for every time” is an idiom often used to refer to an indicated event that occurs so frequently and that if it given a small amount of money for each time it happens, it would add up to a larger sum. Parker says that if all of Ben’s wisdom earned him a dollar, he’d be a rich man.)
As is, I'll use my new spidey-skills to further my finances;
(Continuing on the subject of money, Parker was a poor photographer who needed financial help from May long after graduation. Now that he has new “spidey skills,” he figures he can use them to further advantage his financial skills and is further motivated by an ad that offers $3,000 prize money for anyone who could survive three minutes in a wrestling ring against champion Bone Saw McGraw.) 
Thus, I'm off to be a star, so: so long Seth, and goodbye glasses!
(Peter Parker decides to become a wrestling star so he can earn the prize money and leaves Seth Brundle behind along with the thick-rimmed glasses he no longer needs as he can see much better with his new powers. “Be a star” could also refer to his movie becoming a huge blockbuster success.)
Seth Brundle:
That rad-spider's bite's made Parker think he's Superman, apparently;
(Seth notes that the radioactive spider’s bite led Peter to believe he’s a big-shot superhero with extraordinary gifted power and compares him to Superman: a superhero from DC Comics who also has super strength and similar ethics, thus leading Brundle to conclude that Parker is a rip-off of Kal-El.)
My guess is: in a couple weeks, he'll be in chemotherapy.
(Seth makes a little quip that sooner or later, Peter Parker will end up becoming hospitalized due to the radiation caused by the spider bite that will lead him into needing chemotherapy in order to survive.)
As for myself, methinks I'll go hit up some drinking joint;
(Seth announces that he will go visit a bar, no doubt the same one where he brings a woman named Tawny back to his warehouse for sex and tries to forcibly transport her before Ronnie catches him.)
First, though, I'll grab my wallet, which, of course, I trust won't be pur-
Burglar: Yoink!
(As Seth goes to get his wallet, it is stolen by a burglar named Dennis Carradine, a small-time crook who in the film, robbed a fight promoter of his money after previously cheating Parker of the prize.)
Seth:
Aaah, someone stop that man… no! Peter, why didn't you provide support?
(Much like in the original film where the promoter yells at Peter for letting the thief get away out of spite, Seth chews him out for not doing anything to stop the robbery.)
You could have caught that thief just like the fly I earlier absorbed!
(Seth points out that Peter could have used his newly-found web slinging abilities to catch the thief and bring his wallet back, much like how he absorbed the fly’s DNA genes during the teleportation.)
Peter Parker:
Well, why on Earth should I have helped you after all the crap you've said?
(Parker spitefully justifies his reasons for not helping Seth on account of him being rude and arrogant towards him in the beginning of the song.)
I fail to see how that's my problem!
Uncle Ben:
*GUNSHOT* Oh noes; I am dead.
Ganon: DIE!
(Parker tries to dismiss the thief’s getaway as no big deal to him in a line similar to what he said to the promoter. Unfortunately, he spoke too soon as just like in the movie, the robber from before “shoots” Uncle Ben on the sidewalk, steals his car, and causes him to pass away. The “DIE” at the end is said by Ganon as he appears in the infamous and memed-on Phillips CD-I game “Link: The Faces of Evil” where in a cutscene preceding the final battle, he says the following: “Join me, Link, and I will make your face the greatest in Koridai! Or else you will die!”)
Peter:
NOOOOO; The only father that I've ever known's been killed!
(Despite how impatient and tempered he was with Uncle Ben, Parker is devastated to see that the only father figure he once had is now gone. The “NOOO” also refers to Maguire’s usually overactive performances in the films, particularly the scene where Mary Jane is almost crushed by a falling building as well as an episode of The Animated Series where he cries “NO” in anguish after watching a water clone of Mary Jane fade away [different voice actor and continuity, but still].)
I could have saved him; now, I have to spend my whole life with that guilt.
(Upon realizing the fact that the man who “shot” Uncle Ben was Carradine, the same person who robbed the cheating promoter/Seth Brundle, Parker feels absolute grief over the fact that in letting Carradine go, he caused someone to die and had he stopped him, Benny would still be alive.)  
I pledge to heed his wisdom moving forward from this fateful night;
(Parker decides to move on from the tragedy and forever listen to what Uncle Ben told him the last time they ever met; inspiring him to use his powers not for money, but for the greater good.) 
Need no Kenobi tricks to know to go home and rethink my life…
(Obi Wan Kenobi is a character from the Star Wars series and is one of the last remaining Jedi Knights during the Original Trilogy. In one scene during A New Hope where him, Luke and the droids are interrogated by patrol Stormtroopers, Obi Wan Kenobi uses the Jedi mind trick to convince them that “these are not the droids you are looking for” which works as they make it out unscathed. During one scene in Attack of the Clones where him and Anakin are searching a Coruscant bar for assassin Zam Wessell, a Balosar named Elan Sleazebaggano asks Obi Wan if he wants to buy some death sticks only to be convinced to “go home and rethink your life” through a Jedi mind trick. Parker however, says he doesn’t need any Jedi mind tricks to get his life back on track. Peter Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a fan of Star Wars as he uses the “Snowspeeder tactic” from Empire Strikes Back to take down Giant-Man during Civil War and his friend, Ned, owns a LEGO set of the Death Star.)
Seth Brundle:
Ha! You're too weak to even man up and go catch the guy who did this;
(Seth finds it hilarious that Peter Parker is too timid and puny to catch the man who killed Uncle Ben. And while Parker did catch the man who “shot” him, he ends up falling off a balcony due to recognizing him from before and dies on the spot, which means he technically got away from being punished by the law. It’s also revealed in the third movie that Dennis was only an accomplice to the scene of the crime and that someone else murdered Ben. So while Peter Parker was out looking for his uncle’s killer, the real perpetrator had already gotten away.)
Now, next time you bump into him, they'll want you to show forgiveness.
(Seth suspects that the next time Peter Parker encounters Dennis, everyone will want Peter to show him compassion, playing on how easily accepting and forgiving he is.)
Anyways, go mope for months on end at where your uncle's grave is;
(Seth tells Parker to get lost for a very long time and mope around town looking for Ben’s burial spot.)
I've got sugar to consume, and one hot date with Geena Davis!
(Veronica “Ronnie” Quaife,” the love interest of Seth and Stathis’ ex, was played by Geena Davis in the 1986 movie, though was replaced by Saffron Henderson during her brief role in the sequel’s opening. During the earlier parts of his transformation before the body parts and skin start falling off, some of Seth’s symptoms include a huge addiction to sugar treats and increased sexual activity.)
== Part 3: ==
*A brief time period shift occurs as Peter Parker goes around New York City, using his gifted powers to catch criminaks while Seth has sexual intercourse with Veronica, foreshadowing what’s yet to come as the narrator caps off with ”Some time later...”*
Peter Parker:
Yo, I'm back with patriotic tights and my own hero-name;
(Peter Parker returns with a red leotard suit covered in silver-lined webbings similar to that of a spider’s web, angular eye-lenses, and blue highlights around his sides and legs. While it may have not intentionally been made to serve as a patriotic symbol for America, his costume does share the same colours as the United States flag. During the timeskip, Parker also came up with his own hero name that he will reveal in the next verse.)
The Spider-Man is what they call me, and web-slinging is my game!
(In the 2002 film, the origin of Spider Man’s name comes from the announcer who gives this persona onto Parker during his wrestling stint. During his costume planning, Parker decides to use this nickname. Web-slinging is just one of the many superpowers Parker was given and can use them to tie up criminals, swing around New York City’s skyscrapers, and yoink people away from danger.)
It's not exactly public knowledge, but I figured you should know:
(What Parker is gonna tell Seth may not be publicly well known, yet he figures he should know what is about to said.)
I've rose from tragedy, while… sheesh, you really have let yourself go!
(Peter Parker says that while he has moved on from Ben’s untimely death, he is put off by Seth Brundle who is slowly starting to deteriorate with pieces of his skin falling off and his human looks fading away due to his genes getting mixed with the fly.)
Seth Brundle:
Oh, I'd say you're the one who's lost it, to consider that suit fetching!
(Despite his rapidly collapsing condition, Seth claims that Parker is the one who’s “truly lost” if he considers his costume to look good.)
This ain't lucha libre, Rikochet; go back to costume-sketching!
(Rikochet is the main character of a 2002 Mexican-American animated series named ¡Mucha Lucha! which was the first series to be made with Adobe Flash and follows three friends in Luchaville, a fictional Southern California town, who each wear a mask-costume and have their own signature move. Seth likens Spider Man’s costume to a lucha libre wrestler, harkening back to Parker’s wrestling ring stint, and tells him to go back to the drawing table for more interesting designs, which is what Parker did in his notebook as he made several drafts while brainstorming the Spider Man costume.)
Think you're some red-white-blue widow? Boy, you're longlegs-level timid,
(Peter Parker thinks of himself as a strong superhero who strikes fear into the hearts of criminals like a black widow, but Seth Brundle sees him as a weak and very thin man. “Longlegs” is a type of spider known for their freakishly long legs and Brundle makes a wordplay with both that and “long-level.”) 
And I'll shatter you like windowpanes at an abortion clinic!
(In the middle half of The Fly, Veronica discovers that she is pregnant with Seth’s baby during the earlier phases of his transformation. She chooses not to tell to Seth about this, but then he overhears her persuading Stathis to get a doctor to perform immediate abortion. While she’s in the clinic waiting for the procedure to begin, Seth smashes through the windows of the operation room and abducts her up to the roof where she begs her to carry the child in the hopes that it will be the last remnant of his humanity. Seth is saying that he will physically break Parker like he did to the glass wall.)
Peter Parker:
Wait a minute, you poor devil; I get why you're so disheveled:
(Spider Man suddenly has an epiphany as to why Seth has become so gross-looking and considers him unfortunate due to the circumstances he is facing.) 
You fused with that fly on some molecular-genetic level!
(Spider Man realizes that during Seth’s teleportation with the fly, the computer was confused by the presence of two lifeforms in the same fly and fused them together on a “molecular-genetic level.”) 
Now, that raises quite some questions here regarding mass-criteria,
(Spider Man finds that Seth Brundle’s fusion transformation leaves a lot to be asked regarding the genetic and scientific criteria involved. But as Spider Man points out…)
If you didn't also get mixed-up with billions of bacteria!
(One of the plotholes of The Fly [1986] is that the human body is loaded with over billions of bacteria, yet when two biological beings are merged with the transporters, none of the bacteria merges with the two specimens. Peter Parker considers the Brundlefly’s transformation to be mostly scientifically inaccurate.)
Seth Brundle:
I make up in raw power what I may have lost in charm;
(Seth admits that while his scientific experiment may have resulted in the loss of his good looks and body parts, he proudly acknowledges the super-human skills that have been given to him such as the ability to jump great heights, cling onto walls, and being able to perform activities for a longer period of time.)
Can straight-up split a sucker open in a wrestling match of arms!
(One of the more extraordinary yet deadly abilities demonstrated by Seth Brundle comes in a scene during early transformation where he challenges a very-muscular bar patron to a wrestling match of arms only for him to tear open the flesh of the other man’s arm, revealing the blood and bones within, causing him to scream in terror, witnesses react in shock, and Seth quickly flees the scene.)
Unless you'll grow an extra four of those, comparing us is groundless.
(The Six Arms Saga was a 1971 story arc where Peter Parker becomes tired of being Spider Man during a depressive period and so he brews a chemical cocktail intended to eliminate his spider powers. But not only does it increase his spider powers even more, it also gives him an additional set of four arms. This series is known for being the first appearance of Morbius; the Living Vampire. Seth says that until Peter can do the same as he did in that story arc, comparing their strength and power is baseless.)
Bring your frenemy Flint in; then, maybe we'll talk change-profoundness.
(Flint Marko [sometimes named William Baker] is a muscular supervillain from the Spider Man series known as Sandman who has the ability to shapeshift into sand, turn giant, and was one of the main villains in Spider Man 3. It is revealed by Captain Stacy to Parker that Flint was the one who shot Uncle Ben instead of Dennis Carradine, which sparks vengeance in him as he fights Flint over the matter who gets away. When Flint encounters the Venom symbiote who just infected Eddie Brock, he convinces the former to team up with him and capture Mary Jane so they can lure Spider Man into facing them both until he is subdued by Harry. Once Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote are blown up, Flint tells the truth to Parker that he was only trying to carjack Uncle Ben at gunpoint for money to use as medical treatment for his daughter’s unspecified illness and Ben tried to reason with them, but Carradine arrived and startled Flint, causing him to fire the bullet that took Ben’s life. Ever since then, Marko felt regret and fades away into the wind as a trail of sand while Parker lets go of his hate-fuelled grudge. Seth tells Peter that if he were to bring in his half-nemesis/half-ally Flint in for their comparison of raw strength, maybe he’ll begin to have deeper insight and understanding.)
Peter Parker:
Your sheer arrogance is plain as my newspaper boss's spins;
(Spider Man compare’s Seth pro-founded ignorance over his physical & mental condition to J. Jonah Jameson, the boss of the Daily Bugle who despite being Parker’s employer, has a huge grudge against his superhero alias and constantly paints him as a menace in the headlines while letting actual villains take the credit.)
"Help me! Help me!", you'll soon be squealing as this spider closes in!
(Near the end of the original 1958 Fly movie, Francois Delambre and Inspector Charas discover the mutated creation of Andre Delambre’s head and left arm on the body of a housefly that has been tangled up in spider webbing as a big, scary arachnid advances on him. Throughout the whole scene, Andre repeatedly yells “Help me!” in a high-pitched voice until the spider bites into him and is given a mercy kill by Charas who throws a rock that crushes the both of them. Spider Man is saying that Seth will yell in helpless despair while he makes the final move on him.)
I'm straight-Spectacular; Sensational! Your shambling isn't scaring me;
(Spider Man boasts himself as powerful and amazing with references to two of his series: “The Spectacular Spider Man” being an animated series that ran for 26 episodes between 2008 to 2009, and “The Sensational Spider Man” being a comic series that ran from January 1996 to November 1998. Spider Man also says that Seth’s shambling appearance could do less to frighten to him.)
You're less a threat than Stockman, your own Ninja Turtles parody!
(Baxter Stockman is a mad scientist from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series who was the creator of the Mousers; machines meant to seek out and destroy sewer rats, and he too like Seth is a half-human, half-fly mutant [incarnations may vary]. Despite hailing from a usually light-hearted series made for children, Peter Parker considers Seth to be less intimidating than Baxter as despite his acidic vomit, superstrength, and dishevelling appearance, he is not of much a fighter and can barely do anything to defend himself.)
Seth Brundle:
Could you repeat that last part? I was tidying my museum:
(At this point in the rap battle, Seth Brundle’s skin starts to become all lumpy and many of his body parts begin to fall off. Seth claims that he couldn’t hear Peter’s verse as he was busy working on converting his medicine cabinet into a personal collection which he dubs in the film as the “Brundle Museum of Natural History” which the contents of will be revealed in the next verse.)
A collection of vestigial souvenirs; you wanna see 'em?
(Throughout Spider Man’s verses, Seth has been collecting the various body parts that have been falling off him like his ears, fingers, and teeth which he places in glass beaker jars. He daringly inquires Parker if he wants to view them like he did with Veronica.)
I'm becoming something never seen before: a Brundlefly,
(Just like in the film near the culmination of his metabolism, Seth makes a proclamation that he is becoming “something that never existed before” which he dubs as the Brundlefly.)
Who'll make you swallow his acidic disses; then, perhaps you'll die…
(One of Seth’s more devastating fly-abilities is the ability to spit out acidic vomit which eats away at Stathis’ right hand and left foot in the film. The Brundlefly says he is going to make Peter swallow his disses so hard, he’ll die from how acidic they are. The line at the end is a reference to a variation of a lyric from the nursery rhyme “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” which Seth utters after finding out about his condition.)
Peter Parker:
Yeah, it's quite clear your tale won't end with dreams of happy butterflies;
(One of the two alternate endings originally shot for David Cronenberg’s The Fly featured a pregnant Veronica and Stathis in bed as a couple where Ronnie wakes up from a nightmare about having Seth’s baby. Stathis calms her down and assures her that the baby is his. The film then cuts to a dream she has of a cocoon hanging from a tree that hatches into a butterfly-winged baby and flies off toward a light in the darkness. The scene was shown to test audiences who outright rejected it [so did Jeff Goldblum] as they felt Veronica ending up with Stathis undermined the tragedy of the film and that the baby looked unconvincing. Spider Man says that just like the movie, there will be no “happy ending” for Seth Brundle once this battle’s over.)
You'd have been better-off if that machine had left you vaporized!
(Spider Man bluntly tells Seth that things would have been for the best if the telepod turned him into a pile of ashes during the transportation. One of the more well known scenes from Avengers: Infinity War comes at the end of the film where despite the hero’s attempts to stop the Mad Titan, Thanos collects all six Infinity Stones and uses the Gauntlet to wipe off 50% of all living things in the universe. Many of the heroes and civilians turn to ashes of dust that drift away into the wind, the most particular one being Spider Man who says “Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good.”)
You're too much fly for any guy; even The Offspring would agree!
(“Pretty Fly [For a White Guy]” is a 1998 song made by American rock band The Offspring which is about a “wannabe gangsta” who immerses himself in hip-hop culture to make him feel tough, trendy, and attract women. However, Spider Man makes a pun by saying Seth Brundle has so much “fly” in him that even The Offspring would find him off-putting.)
My powers are a gift; you're cursed to die as a monstrosity!
(Spider Man’s powers gifted him with super-strength, agility, and inspired him to use them for good while Seth Brundle’s powers only caused him to go delusional beyond repair, made him reject his humanity, and the fly’s primal instincts began to take over. Parker adds that the scientist is doomed to die a monster with no chance of recovery.)
Seth Brundle:
Well, if I'm but an insect woken from its dream of being a man,
(Near the final phases of Seth’s transformation, the fly’s mind and instincts start to take over him as Seth rambles about being an “insect who has dreamed of being a man” and that “now the dream is over with the insect awakening.”)
Perhaps you'll help me to be truly human. See, I have a plan:
(Despite the beef and sparring they had with each other throughout the entire song, Seth sees potential in Parker for helping him get his humanity back as he explains his plan in the next verse.)
Though there may be no cure for my most Kafkaesque of transformations,
(At this point, Seth’s transformation is beyond a simple cure and the insect he mutated with is about to merge from within, but he proposes a “solution” that may help him out. “Kafkaesque” means to have a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality. It was named after Franz Kafka, the author of “The Metamorphosis” which was an influence to the film.) 
Your humanity-retaining genes shall be its mitigation;
(Even with his spider superpowers, Peter Parker is still fully human and Seth Brundle deduces that his DNA, when spliced with him, will reduce the severity and painful conditions of his transformation.)
Combination, Parker! Dive with me into the plasma-stream:
(Much like he did with Veronica in the original movie, Seth Brundle resorts to “genetic combination” as a last resort and urges Peter Parker to “dive with him into the plasma stream,” which could be a variant to this line uttered by Seth in the film: “Drink deep, or taste not, the plasma string.” which is a reference to a quotation from Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism.”
We'll be the insect Firestorm; a single-body super-team!
(Firestorm is a DC Comics superhero who is a fused combination of Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein, first debuting in March 1978. Much like how he told Veronica that they would be the “ultimate family and an entity more human than I am alone,” Seth persuades Parker to help him become a single bodied being just like Firestorm. “Insects” and “super teams” could also be a reference to the many bug related superheroes you see in the comic book industry then and now.)
Peter:
I'll never join you, freak!
Brundle:
A pity; we'll do things the hard way, then.
(Seeing that the Seth he once knew is beyond saving, Parker refuses to give in to his demands. Enraged, Seth says that he has no choice, but to go through the genetic transfer in a forceful manner. By this point of the song, what barely resembled Seth’s face completely falls apart as his shell-like skin molts to reveal the disgusting Brundlefly creature in its final stage.)
Computer, instigate the sequence; Joey, sing that tune again!
(The Brundlefly commands the telepod computer to start the transfer procedure while ordering the band, Journey, to play an encore for “The Final Countdown.”)
Joey Tempest:
Ooooooooh, it's another countdown…
The Brundlefly's bonkers…
Another countdown…
Now Pete's in the pod-thing…
It's another countdown, 'nother countdown, ooooooh-ooooooooh… man, this is so fucked up!
(As the Brundlefly loses all rational thought and forcibly locks Peter Parker in the telepods in order to retain his humanity, Joey Tempest and his band sing a reprise of their iconic song now known as “Another Countdown,” narrating everything that happens while noting that this entire situation is psychologically screwed up.) 
*Peter punches a hole through the telepod's glass door surface, shoots a webbing through it and onto a connective cable on the ground outside, and then reels it in violently, severing the cord. Noticing this act of sabotage as Peter proceeds to unlock and exit his now nonfunctional pod, Brundle attempts to take leave of the still-working pod holding him, but is a second too late and becomes fused with broken pieces of the apparatus itself. Emerging from a third telepod, the resultant hunk of twisted flesh mixed with chunks of metal then collapses onto the floor with a hideous, gurgling scream.*
Brundle:
Well… at least I still- *Explodes for no apparent reason*
(It is unknown what Brundlefly would have said before his explosive death, but its possible that he would referenced the line “At least I still have my personality” from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Prehibernation Week” where during a search and rescue effort for SpongeBob led by Sandy, one of the background fishes named Clay looks into a sulfuric field pipe for him only to be blasted with a gust of hot air that horrifically burns his skin, but leaves him alive to say this phrase.)
== Part 4: ==
*A brief time skip occurs where several years pass by Spider Man is still the same age and portrayal as Tobey Maguire, but is now facing off against Martin Brundle; the protagonist of The Fly II.*
Spider-Man:
There ain't nobody like me but me, bar all business with the Jackal.
(Even after the brief time skip, Spider Man in this battle is still the Sam Raimi version of Peter Parker, saying that there can be nobody else like him. Though there are other Marvel characters who have taken on the Spider Man alias like Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, Peni Parker, Spider Ham, and a few others. One of the more niche villains is Miles Warren who was once a biochemistry professor at Empire State University and created a Man-Jackal based on the Evolutionary’s New Men work which he eventually based his villain alias off of. One storyline had him turn to a method of cloning humans after the death of Gwen Stacy, his crush who he blamed Spider Man for killing. While analyzing the cell samples used to make his clones, he discovered that Peter Parker was Spider Man when browsing through his. One of the Parker clones he makes [Kaine Parker] manages to escape before Miles considers killing him over his degeneration. Jackal was also a key player during the Clone Saga where Parker is “revealed” to be a clone and the “real” Spider Man is actually Ben Reilly.)
Ripping brutes new ones out on the streets, like:
Aleksei Sytsevich:
I'm in the battle! *Ooomph!*
(Spider Man says that he will gladly take on any wanna-be thug who dares to commit more crimes in the city of New York. Appearing very briefly in this verse is Aleksei Sytsevich, a former Russian Mafia thug best known by his alias, the Rhino, which he elaborates his namesake with a powerful suit of armour modeled after the hide of a rhinoceros. Aleksi appears in The Amazing Spider Man 2 in which he has a very limited amount of screen time despite appearing a lot during the promotional material. He is first seen in the beginning serving as a driver during the hijacking of an Oscorp van containing plutonium vials until Spider Man intervenes and leads to his arrest. Near the end of the movie, Aleksi breaks out of The Vault holding him prisoner and discovers a large metal exo-suit created by Oscorp. Dubbing himself as the Rhino, he goes out to cause terror in New York City which hasn’t seen Spider Man since Gwen Stacy’s death during his confrontation with the Green Goblin. A child dressed up as Spider Man steps in front of the Rhino trying to make a stand until Parker arrives on scene, with the Rhino charging towards him as he leaps in the air using a manhole cover as a weapon. And the film ends there, making it ambiguous as to whether or not Spider Man defeated him since any future Marc Webb films were cancelled. The line Aleksi utters in this battle is a reference to Chester a. Bum’s [Doug Walker] “review” of The Amazing Spider Man 2 on Channel Awesome.)
Spider-Man:
I'll tackle any lab-freak and their every next of kin,
(Having been through with Seth Brundle, Spider Man will not hesitate to start a fight with his spawn, Martin Brundle. “Lab freak” may refer to some of the several mad scientist villains Spider Man fought over the years like Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, and The Lizard.)
So do yourself a favor, stranger, and just turn yourself right in.
(Spider Man is allowing Martin to make a compromise by turning himself in so the battle can quickly come to an end.)
Martin Brundle:
Hello. My name is Martin Brundle. Insert Princess Bride quote here.
(Martin Brundle, played by Eric Stoltz, introduces himself to the rap battle by making a reference to a line from The Princess Bride while using the stock “Insert x here” phrase commonly used in software and web applications as to advice the viewer to imagine a certain type of content written in place. The quote in particular refers to Inigo Montaya, played by Mandy Patinkin, who seeks vengeance against the Six-Fingered Man that killed his father with his own prepared speech as follows: “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Martin warns Peter that he is about lay revenge on him for killing his father near the end of the first rap battle.)
I'm not like other heirs to mantles of your foes of yesteryear:
(Martin assures Spider Man that he is not a copycat of his father or like any successor to some of Parker’s previous enemies.)
Meet the most interesting insomniac this side of DC Pierson;
(Martin Brundle is an insomniac, which is a person who is unable to sleep. Donald Charles Pierson IV. Is an American author who is best known for the book “The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To.”) 
My genetic symbiosis makes for something truly fearsome!
(From the very beginning of his birth, Martian was a genetic fusion of human and housefly, the mutation initially manifesting itself as simple accelerated aging. By the age of five, his insect heritage starts to manifest and then culminates in his body encasing itself in a cocoon. When emerged, he transforms into a large insect like creature with truly fearsome power as elaborated in the next verse.)
Not the wretched wreck my dad was; I'm a monster on a mission,
(At this point in the song, Martin Brundle’s genetics change as he transforms into a large insect-like creature with four arms as seen in the sequel while stating the differences between him and his father. Even though Seth had super agility, raw strength and the ability to dissolve flesh with his acid, he was merely a tortured soul with a distorted appearance, very little fighting skills and couldn’t properly defend himself. Martin on the other hand is a dangerous, fully viable hybrid creature with more strength, deadlier acidic vomit, and was mostly due to his insect heritage being a “natural” part of the evolution rather than an accidental genetic fusion.)
With a tongue so sharp, call me the first true insect politician!
(During a scene with Ronnie in the first movie, the transforming Seth Brundle informs her about the basics of “inset politics” which they don’t have due to being very brutal, have no compassion, and cannot compromise. The insect cannot be trusted, but Seth mentions that he would like to be the first “insect politician.” To have a “sharp tongue” means the characteristic of speaking to others in a harsh, critical, or insulting. In a stealth insult towards government politicians, Martin Brundle says that his rap verses are harsh enough to consider him the first real insect politician.
I drop verses rapidly as my progress through childhood;
(Throughout The Fly II, Martin suffers from a genetic disease that causes him to age faster than a normal human being. For example, he would be 3 years old yet had the look of a 10 year old boy. And when he turned 5, he already appeared to be in his 20’s. Martin says that he drops rap bars faster than he went through his entire childhood.)
Spit Venom, driving you more mad than any emo costume could!
(Just like his father, Martin Brundlefly’s form has the ability to spew acidic vomit which can melt away people’s flesh. Venom is one of Spider Man’s biggest adversaries which is a sentiant alien Symbiote that takes on an amorphous, liquid-like form, and thrives by bonding with a [usually] human host. The most notorious one being Eddie Brock. The Venom Symbiote is one of the three major villains in Spider Man 3. It first lands in a park while Peter and Mary Jane are having a romantic afternoon. Sensing the power radiating from Peter’s body, it hitches a ride on its motorbike and bonded with Peter’s body while he slept, blackwashing his suit and using his body as a joyride around the city. Peter is initially shocked by its appearance at first, but quickly embraces the power that came from it. Unfortunately, the symbiote influences the dark side of Peter’s personality as it causes him to become arrogant, cruel, and vengeful; lashing out at Eddie Brock, vowing murder on the Sandman, and severely disfiguring Harry Osborn. Peter attempted to cut himself off from the parasite, but its power was too addicting to fully quit. After accidentally striking Mary Jane over a heated debate, Parker realizes what the symbiote was doing to him and went to a nearby church where his accidental ringing of the bells weakens the alien due to sonic vibrations being its one weakness. It gets subdued long enough for Peter to shed it off and would go on to infect Eddie. Martin says that he will “spit”verses to drive Parker to the point of the insanity even further than the Venom Symbiote could while calling him “emo” as a way of mocking certain scenes from the third movie.)
No swatter's big enough to squash me; hell, I'll take on whole attack teams!
(Flyswatters are a rectangular or round sheet made of mesh, vented material attached to a lightweight wire or metal handle which home owners regularly use to swat down annoying flies. However, a swatter required to take down Martin in his fly form would have to be about the size of a house or blue whale. Martin goes on to state that even if a SWAT attack team was deployed to stop his rampage, he would take care of them like no problem.) 
Here's a sadist choice: swap genes with me, or relive your wack dance scene?
(In Spider Man 3, the Symbiote starts to take full effect on not just Parker’s superhero alias, but along with his normal life as his costume is entirely black and his hair is almost “emo” like. He goes around town dancing to 1970’s funk music and pointing to random girls. One of the more crucial scenes comes near the end of the second act where the symbiote’s influence really takes its toll on Peter and Mary dumps him for another man. Peter takes his other girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, to a jazz club where MJ was working and upstages the show by playing the piano with the band and launching a full dance routine which causes Gwen to leave after realizing it was done to make MJ jealous. Peter attempts to talk to Mary Jane before the bouncer tries to throw him out. Parker proceeds to get into a fight with the bouncer and Mary Jane tries to talk him out of it, only for Parker to smack her in the jaw so hard, it causes her to fly in the ground. Parker realizes the consequences Of the symbiote’s influence and flees the scene. Here, Martin Brundle is offering Spider Man the most cold-blooded of options: Swap genes so Martin can retain his humanity while Parker becomes a fly monster, or refuse and be forced to repeat the embarrassing dance sequence of Spider Man 3.)
Pumpkin-bombs can't match the terror I'll rain on your parade today,
(The weapon of choice used by the Green Goblin in the first Spider Man movie are explosive grenades designed to look like a miniature Jack-o’-lantern that in one scene he uses to blow up a balcony during the Oscorp Unity Day Festival and uses another to disintegrate five boardroom executives. To “rain on your parade” means to prevent someone from enjoying an occasion, event, or to spoil someone’s plans. Martin makes a wordplay on both events by saying that no pumpkin bomb will outmatch the devastation he’ll lay onto Parker during the rap battle.)
 With force enough to flush your itsy-bitsy bitch-ass straight-away!
(“The Itsy Bitsy Spider” is a popular nursery rhyme that originated in 1910 which was originally just called the “Spider Song” and used “blooming, bloody” instead of “itsy, bitsy.” Whichever version you prefer, the song tells the story of a spider ascending, descending, and reascending the downspout/waterspout of a gutter system. Martin makes wordplay on both the song and “bitch ass” by saying that he has enough power to flush Spider Man’s weak ass away.)
Spider-Man:
So, seems "like dad, like son" is just the way the Brundle story goes;
(Spider Man is in no way surprised to see that Martin didn’t stray far from the Brundle family tree, which is somewhat of a diss to the sequel as it repeats a lot of the first movie. “Like father, like son” was also the official tagline for the movie’s poster.)
To think: if only Seth had stuck to teleporting pantyhose.
(During their first stint with the telepod, Seth demonstrates its “scientific capability” to Veronica by using one of her stockings as a test object. The teleportation is a success and Veronica considers writing a story about it, but learns that Brundle thought their meeting and the telepod story was “off the record” which leads to a whole chain of events that kickstart the tragic plot. Parker states that if Seth had continued teleporting ladies pantyhose, his life would have been better off by a long hold and spare Martin from being born into the world as a monster.)
I needn't Aunt May's prayers ensuring my deliverance from this evil:
(Aunt May Parker is Peter Parker’s adopted maternal parent and the widowed husband of Uncle Ben. In the first film after Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin learns of Spider Man’s true identity, he attacks Aunt May at her home while she was praying, which Green Goblin demands her to say the final verse of the Lord’s Prayer: “Deliver us from evil. Amen.” While Aunt May is normally supportive and caring for Peter Parker, he says that he doesn’t need her religious guidance in order to defeat Martin Brundle.)
I'm the cityscape's Tarzan; you're just a Disney-esque cheap sequel!
(In this line, Spider Man compares himself to Tarzan, a fictional feral child who was raised by apes and swings from vine to vine to make his way through the jungle, much like how Spider Man uses his web shots to travel from building to building at the speed of sound. Martin and his film, however, are compared to the Disney direct-to-video sequels that are usually seen as inferior to the original and were made with much cheaper animation. The Fly II received mostly negative reviews and the effects were seen as clumsy compared to the first movie. Ironically, Spider Man and the rest of the Marvel characters are owned by the Disney corporation along with 20th Century Fox, the studio distributor for the Fly movies.)
Yeah, you may come straight from your mom's worst nightmares, but honestly,
(After finding out she’s pregnant in The Fly 1986, Veronica has a nightmare of her in a hospital operation room going into labor as the doctor’s keep telling her to push. She does so, but ends up giving birth to a long maggot-like creature that causes her to wake up scream. The scene was frightening enough to make it onto Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments list. The opening of The Fly II is similar to that scene only the creature she gives birth to is a lot smaller and is simply a larval sac containing a mostly-human baby as Veronica dies from either shock or complications in giving birth. Peter Parker admits that Martin’s mutated form is enough to scare some people like his dead mother, but prepares for a rebuttal in the next verse.)
Compared to Carnage, Carl King and Kraven's craze, you're hardly scary.
(In this verse, Peter Parker rattles off at least three adversaries of his that are much more threatening and nightmare-inducing than the Martinfly’s appearance. The first one is Carnage, who just like Venom, is an amorphous parasitic Symbiote who requires human body hosts. The most notorious one alongside Karl Malus and Norman Osborn is Cletus Kasady. Whereas most of Spider Man’s rogues were ordinary people who underwent some personal tragedy or an accident that caused them to be evil, Cletus was already a very dangerous serial killer who was psychopathic even as a toddler. And whereas Venom mostly limits his evil deeds towards Parker and has a bit of conscience inside him, Carnage lacks empathy and prefers to carry out his evil deeds on just about anyone like he did in Maximum Carnage and Absolute Carnage which required an entire team in order to stop him. The next villain is Carl King, a bully from Parker’s high school grade who was even more relentless than Flash Thompson. Unlike most villains who took a while to figure out Spider Man’s identity, Carl was right there when he saw the radioactive spider pierce Parker’s hand and being the self-entitled brat he was, he breaks into the exhibition on the very same night and EATS the spider that affected Peter. He somewhat succeeds at getting spider-related powers like Parker did, but not the way he anticipated as his body soon becomes infested with thousands of spiders known as The Thousand who eat his internal organs, bond with his consciousness, and wear his skin as a shambling mass of hatred. One of his more despicable assets is the ability to consume the innards of others and use their skin as a result. He does this to his mother, his father, homeless people, children, and J. Jonah Jameson’s secretary. The last villain he mentions is Sergei Kravenoff, a Russian born-Africa big game hunter known by his alias Kraven the Hunter. While he may not be as intimidating as the previous two villains, Kraven’s ultimate goal is to kill Spider Man in order to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world and is granted immortality after his resurrection. In the 1987 issue “Kraven’s Last Hunt,” Kraven tracks down Spider Man and finally shoots him “dead.” Donning a copy of his costume, Kraven goes around New York brutally attacking criminals while successfully capturing Vermin, whom Parker needed Captain America’s help to defeat. When Spider Man is revived and goes to confront Kraven, the latter does not fight back, considering himself the victor and releases Vermin who defeats Spider Man yet is stopped by Kraven from killing him. He frees Vermin and tells Spider Man he can pursue him if he likes, but that Kraven’s hunting days are over. Kraven retires to his home, reminiscing about the past and peace how now feels, committing suicide with a rifle. Martin not being scary could also be a dig at how much lamer the effects in the second film were compared to the original.)
You, Superior to me?! Doc Ock was less a wannabe,
(Superior Spider Man was a superhero comic book series that ran from January 2013 to June 2014. The main premise for the series is that Otto Octavius [best known by his alias, Doc Ock] takes over the body of Peter Parker and allows Peter to die in Otto’s body, but is reformed by being affected by Peter’s memories and determines himself to become both a Spider Man than Peter was, and a better man that Octavius was. Most fans generally hate this series who saw it as an insult to Peter’s legacy and that Doc Ock was too repulsive to be redeemed. Criticism on the series has softened over the years, but compared to Martin Brundle, Peter Parker says that not even Doctor Octopus was as big a copycat as him, once again pointing out how The Fly II rehashes most of the original.)
So don't seek vengeance for your evil dad; look how that went for Harry.
(Harry Osborn, played by James Franco in the Raimi films, was the son of Norman and Peter Parker’s best friend who becomes jealous of Parker as Norman favours him over his own son. In the final battle of Spider Man [2002], the Green Goblin is impaled by his own jet glider and pleads Peter not to tell Harry about his misdeeds. When Harry finds out about his father’s death, he vows revenge against Spider Man, but thanks Parker for being his friend. In Spider Man 2, Harry forms an alliance with Doctor Octavius to get rid of Spider Man and in one scene where he’s captured and brought to Ock’s lair, Harry goes to assassinate him when he takes off his mask and is shocked to find that Peter is under the costume, letting him get away. Near the end of the film, Harry gets a hallucination from his dead father to avenge him, but Harry smashes the mirror out of refusal only to find the Green Goblin’s equipment that was stashed behind by Peter. In Spider Man 3, Harry adopts the New Goblin persona using a modified version of Norman’s suit and jet glider. In one fight, Harry‘s glider gets tripped by one of Peter’s webs that causes him to crash and suffer amnesia damage. And in another fight, Symbiote-Spidey deflects one of Harry’s pumpkin bombs back at him which detonates and badly damages the right side of his face. When Mary Jane is kidnapped by Venom and the Sandman, Parker begs for Harry’s help on behalf of Mary Jane, but he refuses. Once his butler, Bernard, tells him the truth about Norman’s death, Harry decides to join Peter in his time of need by attacking the Sandman while Parker focuses on Venom. But when Venom is about to impale Peter Parker with the New Goblin’s glider, Harry leaps in front of him and takes it in the stomach, severely hurting him. Once Venom is killed and the Sandman vanishes, Harry dies in Mary Jane’s arms. Peter Parker is advising Martin Brundle that he shouldn’t be avenging on account of his tormented dad, or else he’ll end up like his best friend.)
Martin Brundle:
I made sure my father's tragedy would not run in our family;
(Unlike Seth who was ignorant, violent, and insane during his metamorphosis, Martin was full of kindness and compassion even when his fly traits began to kick in. He hold onto hope that the Telepods could provide an analysis on his body and find a “gene-swapping” cure that would substitute his own mutant DNA for healthy DNA from a subject, yet rejected knowing this process would mutate the owner, unlike Seth who forcibly tried to teleport with Ronnie and unborn Martin into one entity. Martin reverts back to his human form for this verse.)
Lived happily, bar comics, though things happened no less graphically!
(The ending of The Fly II is a lot more “happy” compared to the original. Whereas the original ends with Seth getting mercy killed, Stathis unconscious, and Ronnie crying over his dead body, the sequel ends with the fully transformed Martin breaking into Bay 17 and grabbing Bartok who forces him to type the password for the Telepod: “DAD.” They both hop into the machine as Martin gestures Beth to activate the gene-swapping sequence. Despite Bartok’s protesting, Beth complies and Martin is restored to his fully human form as he reunites with her. Though Martin does acknowledge that it was not without its darkest moments as the fly genes are now transferred over to Bartok who is transformed into a freakish monster that gets confined in the same pen he previously held the deformed dog in. That’s without even getting into some of the carnage the Brundlefly laid on security members like the poor guy who gets his head splattered by an elevator. “Lived happily bar comics” could refer to the IDW series known as “The Fly: Outbreak” which immediately takes place after the second movie, where Martin tries to cure Anton of his mutant condition only to accidentally cause a transgenic outbreak that infects anyone who’s exposed to it.)
Man, I got laid at five; that Melrose Place chick did the honors.
(Beth Logan is the love interest for Martin Brundle in The Fly II and is played by Daphne Zuniga who also played Jo Reynolds in Melrose Place and Princess Vespa in Spaceballs, a movie directed by Mel Brooks who [without intentional credit] produced the 1986 Fly movie. Both Martin and Beth end up having sex at one point before his cocoon phase begins, but no frontal nudity is involved.)
You've got less on me than what Sam Raimi did with "Lizard" Connors!
(Curtis Connors is a scientist from the Spider Man series who lost his arm in an explosion and devoted his life to creating a serum that would regenerate his lost limbs. Using DNA from reptiles, who can naturally regenerate, Connors was sure the serum would work and injected it into his system. While the arm managed to regenerate, the reptilian DNA mixed with and altered his own genetic system, causing him to become a vicious supervillain named The Lizard. Curt Connors appeared in Spider Man 2-3 where he was played by David Baker, but never got the chance to turn into the Lizard. One of the planned drafts for Spider Man 4 would have finally featured David Baker as the mad-scientist reptile, but it never happened as Raimi’s series was officially cancelled and replaced with the reboot Amazing Spider Man film in 2012. The Lizard did appear in that movie and was the main villain, but was played by a different actor, Rhys Ifans. Martin says Parker has got less beef with him than Connor’s potential wasted by the director.)
I concoct lyrics from scratch like pod props on my movie's set,
(Martin says that he can make any of his rap verses straight from the drawing table like artists do when making movies. Case in point, the designers in charge of jotting down the blueprint manuals for the Telepod props used for filming The Fly movies.)
And constitute a force more Sinister than any crook sextet;
(The Sinister Six are a group of supervillains in the Marvel comic series formed by six of Spider Man’s biggest adversaries: Mysterio, Electro, Scorpion, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, and Doctor Octopus as the foundation’s leader. However, Martin says that his sheer, raw power alone is far more “sinister” than any of those villains combined.).
Your weak webs can't halt the pain-train I drive! This ain't no grand prix race,
(During his fight with Doctor Octavius near the climax of Spider Man 2, Doc Ock sabotages the controls of a New York City subway train and gives Parker the choice of either following him and leave the passengers to die, or save the people and let him go to commit more crimes. Parker chooses the latter as he uses his web slingers to create a giant web to act as a catching net for the off-rail tram which works at the cost of Parker collapsing from exhaustion and his identity being exposed, which the passengers choose to keep secret out of respect. “Pain train” is generally used to refer to the act of dealing great pain upon an opponent, which Martin says that not even Parker’s spider webs can be able to stop. He also compares this battle to a grand prix race which is explained in the next verse.)
Because this Martin Brundle has the speedy skills to win first place:
(Continuing with the Grand Prix analogy, Martin John Brundle is a British former racing driver and has been deeply immersed in the Formula One since 1984 with 14 International Sports Car race wins. During production of The Fly [1986], Seth’s last name was chosen after the Grand Prix racer, despite the character suffering from motion sickness. When the sequel was in development, it was only natural that the son of Brundle would be given the same first name as the race car driver. Just like his namesake, Martin Brundle says he has all the fast skills needed to win this battle.)
Watch me rampage relentlessly through a complex casually as a walk in the park,
(Martin reverts back into his fly form near the end of the battle as he goes on a murderous rampage through the Bartok Science Industries complex as if it was a piece of cake.)
Melting off my foes' faces as if they had gazed into the Covenant's Ark!
(During the Martinfly’s tyranny in The Fly II, the mutated creature ends up spewing acidic vomit onto a security guard’s face which causes it to melt as he rips it off while screaming in pain. The scene is similar to the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazis finally obtain the mystical Ark of the Covenant and open it only for haunting spectres to fly out and kill them with lightning bolts. The three leaders who looked into the object itself proceed to have their faces melt off or explode in bloody chunks.)
I'll put this born loser right out of his misery like that poor Golden Retriever;
(In The Fly II, when Martin at the age of three [yet looks ten years old] finds a room full of laboratory animals, he befriends a Golden Retriever. The next night, he returns to bring it some food, but discovers its not there. While searching for the dog, Martin enters an observation deck looking over Bay 17 where Seth’s remaining telepods are being used by scientists to replicate his experiments and the Golden Retriever is chosen as the test subject. However, the experiment goes horribly wrong and the dog, while still alive, is horribly deformed and highly aggressive. In the aftermath, the dog is forced to crawl into a confined chamber with only a small bowl of liquified food. When Martin returns to the dog years later, the mutated creature still recognizes him and Martin tearfully euthanizes it with chlorine to end the suffering while apologizing for what they did to him. Martin says that he will end Peter Parker’s misery the same way he did to the mutated Golden Retriever.)
Revel in wrecking you worse than Al-Qaeda tainted your twin towers teaser!
(The original teaser for the 2002 movie that was shown in theaters around 2001 did not contain any actual footage from the finished film and instead consisted of a mini-movie where Spider Man thwarts a bank robbery by trapping the perpetrator’s getaway helicopter in a giant web spun between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. On September 11th 2001, the Al Qaeda terrorist force led by Osama bin Laden launched a terror attack against the United States with four hijacked airplanes smashing into the towers (along with the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania plains field) that caused them to be destroyed and killed more than 5,000 people on that very dark day. Out of respect for the fallen, the teaser was immediately pulled from theaters & home video by Sony and a poster that showed a reflection of the Twin Towers in Spidey’s lenses was also recalled. Another Spider Man product heavily effected by 9/11 was the PlayStation 2 video game Spider Man 2: Enter Electro where the final level would have taken place on top of the World Trade Center with the electrical bad guy destroying a portion of the North tower. Predictably, the Twin Towers were rethemed to a generic building and a pivotal cutscene that featured the Mighty Thor was consequentially removed. The game was originally released on August 26th 2001, but due to many of the copies being recalled in the wake of 9/11, all of the original versions are now considered “lost media” and are very hard to find in retail stores or even online for that matter. The episode “Duel of the Hunters” from the 1990’s Spider Man cartoon was removed from post-9/11 broadcast syndication on account of references to the 1993 WTC bombing. The One World Trade Center that was built in replacement was going to appear in the Playstation 4 Spider Man video game, but was removed for unknown reasons. Back to the rap analysis, Martin Brundle says that he is going to damage Parker’s reputation even worse than Al Qaeda did to his tie-in properties.)
If a second lady-love's not something you're prepared to lose,
(Gwen Stacy is a Marvel character who serves as the secondary love interest for Peter Parker, was played by Bryce Dallas Howard in Spider Man 3, and dresses up as Spider Woman in an alternate universe. In the original comics, both her relationship and Parker’s were strained as she blamed Spider Man for the death of her father at the hands of Doc Ock and MJ’s unexpected popularity among fans soured things further in a meta sense. One of the more infamous storylines involving her was Issue #121 where Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin kidnaps Gwen Stacy and throws her off Brooklyn Bridge. Spider Man shoots a web strand at Gwen’s legs and catches her, but her neck is broken by the whiplash from her sudden stop and results in her death. It was also used for the near finale of The Amazing Spider Man 2. This scene had a huge impact on not just Spider Man, but comic books as a whole with many people believing Peter himself caused her death and that it brought an end to the Silver Age of Comics. It caused great repercussions as Mary Jane became a more mature, compassionate woman and draws her friendship with Parker into a closer romantic one. However, Martin is telling Parker that if he’s not ready to lose his second romantic interest, then he should brace himself for the rebuttal he serves him in the next verse.)
Then for the love of Lee, stop giving MJ cancer with your splooge!
(Spider Man: Reign was a four-issue comic book limited series written by Kaare Andrews from December 2006 to March 2007. The story takes place 30 years into the future where a late 60s/early 70s aged Peter Parker is haunted by memories of his deceased wife Mary Jane who appears as a recurring hallucination in the series. It is eventually revealed that the cause of her death was cancer that was brought on exposure by Peter’s radioactive semen during intercourse over the years. Reign received moderately positive reviews from critics and Complex ranked in their 2011 list of “Top 25 Spider Man Stories of All Time.” However, it was highly controversial due to its lack of originality, fierceness, invention, and the revelation of Mary Jane’s death being sighted as “slightly inappropriate” and “pornographic.” Martin pleads to Parker that if he doesn’t want to lose any more of his desired love interests, then he shouldn’t be having sex with them, at least not without protection, due to the radiation in his semen. “For the love of God” is a phrase used to express exasperation or implore someone not to go through with a heinous action. Only Martin substitutes “God” with the last name of Stan Lee, who was one of the key founders of Marvel Comics and helped co-create several of the franchise’s popular characters like the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Spider Man himself who was also created by Steve Ditko.)
I used to think you couldn't Turn Off folks worse than with your Broadway play,
(Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark is a Broadway musical play directed by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger with music by Bono & the Edge. The play is notorious for being the most expensive Broadway production ever made and the many troubles that took place during production, namely the actors getting injured during stunt performances which caused the opening night to get delayed and many critics sought to review the “unfinished” version in protest which led to a complete retooling of the show with Julie replaced by creative consult Phillip William McKinley and longtime Marvel writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa brought in to revise the script. Turn Off the Dark reopened on June 14th 2011 with mixed reception that praised the visual effects while calling out little enthusiasm for the book’s material and score. Martin makes a pun on the “title” by saying that Parker’s Broadway play greatly alienated a lot of people. However, he’s about to offer him an antithesis in the next verse.)
But firing Garfield was a more disgraceful deal than One More Day.
(Andrew Garfield is a British-American actor who played Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider Man films which were made after Sam Raimi’s Spider Man 4 was cancelled in 2010 and was directed by Mark Webb. The first film was released in June 2012 and the second would come out in May 2014. The Amazing Spider Man 1 and 2 are widely disregarded by many critics and comic book fans due to being darker and grim, adding way too much detail, trying to be two things at once, delivering exposition for characters we never get to see or know, never used “With great power comes great responsibility”; not even for the primary instalment, the first movie being a retread of the 2002 film as even the new characters were just stand ins for the older versions, and that the second movie shared the same flaw as the third Raimi film: too many villains in the kitchen. And with Sony axing Marc Webb’s planned trilogy after the disappointment of the sequel and focusing on expansion of four spin-offs along with Spider Man’s introduction to the MCU, many plot threads ended up getting unresolved like the Sinister Six’s formation, “Who was the guy that visited Curt Connors in the ASM1 credits scene?” and “Where are Parker’s real parents now?” One More Day is an infamous Marvel 2007 comic four-part series with the story involving Aunt May getting shot as Spider Man seeks help to save her life. He runs into the demon Mephisto [he utters ONE MORE DAY in the final verse of the music video], who offers to save her life if Spider Man gives up his marriage with Mary Jane. They both agree to the deal and this part of their history is erased so that, effectively, they were never married. Additionally, Mephisto erases the world’s collective memory of Spider Man’s secret identity which was exposed in Civil War #2. While made to set the stage for a restructuring of future titles, many fans consider this to be the worst Spider Man story of all time, mainly due to the decision of abruptly ending Peter and Mary’s marriage which generated outrage from fans and critics alike, causing a heavy downward shift of sales from readership. The events of “One More Day” were heavily panned upon the series’ conclusion with the only praise going towards the artwork. However, Martin considers the “firing” of Andrew Garfield to be even more unforgivable than the entirety of One More Day. The speculation of him being let go emerged from the hacking of Sony’s emails in May 2015, suggesting it was done because he didn’t show up for an event in Brazil where The Amazing Spider Man 3 was set to be announced by Sony boss Kaz Hirai with a release date slated for July 2017. Garfield himself insisted that he didn’t turn up because he had a jetlag induced sickness and that he didn’t really consider it as a firing from Sony, but rather that he “didn’t compromise and was only being himself.”)
Announcer:
Who won? Who’s next? I decide! Moleman’s Epic Rap Battles!
(This part is a variation on the ending of Epic Rap Battles of History videos where the announcer asks the viewer which rapper won the battle and lets them decide who gets to show up next. It then cuts to the the title name of the series which the announcer yells out loud. Here however, the announcer says that only he gets to decide who will be featured in the next rap battle. Moleman’s Epic Rap Battles is named after Hans Moleman, a supporting character from The Simpsons who is a very old, finds himself in very unlucky situations, and says a lot of bizarre phrases.)
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