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Introduced by <a href="/wiki/Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a>, it originally appeared as a closing narration in the 1962 <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Fantasy" title="Amazing Fantasy">Amazing Fantasy</a></i> #15, and was <a href="/wiki/Retcon" class="mw-redirect" title="Retcon">later attributed</a> to <a href="/wiki/Uncle_Ben" title="Uncle Ben">Uncle Ben</a> as advice to the young <a href="/wiki/Peter_Parker" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Parker">Peter Parker</a>. The idea—similar to the <a href="/wiki/1st_century_BC" title="1st century BC">1st century BC</a> parable of the <a href="/wiki/Sword_of_Damocles" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword of Damocles">Sword of Damocles</a> and the medieval principle of <i><a href="/wiki/Noblesse_oblige" title="Noblesse oblige">noblesse oblige</a></i>—is that power cannot simply be enjoyed for its privileges alone but necessarily makes its holders <a href="/wiki/Moral_responsibility" title="Moral responsibility">morally responsible</a> both for what they choose to do with it and for what they fail to do with it. After it was popularized by the Spider-Man <a href="/wiki/Media_franchise" title="Media franchise">franchise</a>, similar formulations have been noticed in the work of earlier writers and orators. The formulation—usually in its Marvel Comics form—has been used by journalists, authors, and other writers, including the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=With_great_power_comes_great_responsibility&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Precursors">Precursors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=With_great_power_comes_great_responsibility&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Precursors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikimedia_responsibility.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Wikimedia_responsibility.jpg/220px-Wikimedia_responsibility.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Wikimedia_responsibility.jpg/330px-Wikimedia_responsibility.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Wikimedia_responsibility.jpg/440px-Wikimedia_responsibility.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1309" data-file-height="1443" /></a><figcaption>Screenshot of the use by <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimedia">Wikimedia</a> of the phrase in the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>'s guidelines for how to edit <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Reminders that power is to not be used for wrong and should not be exploited at will are at least as old as the <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legend</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sword_of_Damocles" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword of Damocles">Sword of Damocles</a> preserved in the 1st century BC <a href="/wiki/Tusculanae_Disputationes" title="Tusculanae Disputationes">Tusculan Disputations</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman</a> orator <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Probably retold from earlier but now lost accounts by <a href="/wiki/Timaeus_of_Tauromenium" class="mw-redirect" title="Timaeus of Tauromenium">Timaeus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus</a>, Cicero relates that the courtier Damocles was overjoyed at the chance to trade places with the <a href="/wiki/4th_century_BC" title="4th century BC">4th century BC</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_tyrants_of_Syracuse" title="List of tyrants of Syracuse">tyrant</a> of <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a> <a href="/wiki/Dionysius_I_of_Syracuse" title="Dionysius I of Syracuse">Dionysius the Elder</a> for a day. His happiness was abruptly ended when he found that a <a href="/wiki/Xiphos" title="Xiphos">sword</a> had been suspended above the <a href="/wiki/Throne" title="Throne">throne</a> by a single <a href="/wiki/Horsehair" title="Horsehair">horsehair</a>, indicating the worry of <a href="/wiki/Monarch" title="Monarch">monarchs</a>—particularly <a href="/wiki/Tyrant" title="Tyrant">tyrants</a>—over the precariousness of their rule. The historical Dionysius was known for treating his subjects harshly and was deposed twice, eventually dying in exile and poverty in <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinth</a>. </p><p>An early <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> parallel appears at the end of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Parable_of_the_Faithful_Servant" title="Parable of the Faithful Servant">Parable of the Faithful Servant</a> as related in <a href="/wiki/Luke_12" title="Luke 12">Luke 12</a>:48: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παντὶ δὲ ᾧ ἐδόθη πολύ, πολὺ ζητηθήσεται παρ’αὐτοῦ, καὶ ᾧ παρέθεντο πολύ, περισσότερον αἰτήσουσιν αὐτόν</span></span> (<a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Greek</a>:<span class="nowrap"> </span><i>pantì dè hō̂i edóthē polý, polý zētēthḗsetai par'autoû, kai hō̂i paréthento polý, perissóteron aitḗsousin autón</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is rendered in the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a> as "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more" and in the <a href="/wiki/New_International_Version" title="New International Version">New International Version</a> as "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked". </p><p>An <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> parallel appears in a <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith</a> traditionally attributed via <a href="/wiki/Abd_Allah_ibn_Umar_ibn_al-Khattab" title="Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab">Ibn Umar</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Prophets_in_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Prophets in Islam">prophet</a> <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Muhammad</a>: <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">كُلُّكُمْ رَاعٍ وَكُلُّكُمْ مَسْؤولٌ عَنْ رَعِيَّتِهِ</span></span> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>:<span class="nowrap"> </span><i>Kullukum rāʿin wa kullukum masʾūlun ʿan raʿiyyatihi</i>), "All of you are shepherds and each of you is responsible for his flock"<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or "herd".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The full hadith describes the responsibility of leaders, <a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">imams</a>, husbands, and wives both for the actions and well-being of those entrusted to their care. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety" title="Committee of Public Safety">Committee of Public Safety</a> published the following as part of its 8 May 1793 "Plan of Work, Surveillance, and Correspondence" (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Plan de travail, de surveillance et de correspondance</i>): <i>Ils doivent envisager qu'une grande responsabilité est la suite inséparable d'un grand pouvoir</i>, "[The representatives of the <a href="/wiki/French_National_Convention" class="mw-redirect" title="French National Convention">Convention</a>] must understand that a great responsibility is the inseparable result of a great power".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar phrasing is sometimes misattributed to the French writer <a href="/wiki/Voltaire" title="Voltaire">Voltaire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 27 June 1817, the British <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">member</a> of <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne" title="William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne">William Lamb</a> proclaimed that "the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility" during debate over the suspension of <i><a href="/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-hansard_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hansard-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> amid the rioting and disorder of the economic crisis and poor harvests following the end of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Relating Lamb's speech, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Curson_Hansard" title="Thomas Curson Hansard">Hansard</a> retold his argument that "his friends would, perhaps reproach him with instigating ministers to curb the press; but nothing, he assured them, was farther from his mind. He was aware of the great benefit the country derived from the liberty of the press, and nothing could induce him to concur in any measure that might tend to injure it; at the same time he was free to confess, that its state had an influence on the vote he gave on the present question".<sup id="cite_ref-hansard_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hansard-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While <a href="/wiki/Under-Secretary_of_the_Colonial_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Under-Secretary of the Colonial Office">undersecretary</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Office" title="Colonial Office">Colonial Office</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> stated that "I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility... in South Africa, above all other Colonies, we are provided with a most sure foothold for intervention in behalf of the natives. We have greater power and therefore greater responsibility. A self-governing Colony is not entitled to say one day, 'Hands off; no dictation in our internal affairs,' and the next day to telegraph for the protection of a brigade of British infantry," during a 1906 debate about the <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_South_Africa" title="Ethnic groups in South Africa">native people</a> of <a href="/wiki/British_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="British South Africa">South Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Railing against <a href="/wiki/Harold_Harmsworth,_1st_Viscount_Rothermere" title="Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere">Lords Rothermere</a> and <a href="/wiki/Max_Aitken,_1st_Baron_Beaverbrook" title="Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook">Beaverbrook</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mail" title="Daily Mail">Daily Mail</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">prime minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Baldwin" title="Stanley Baldwin">Stanley Baldwin</a> complained in a 17 March 1937 speech: "What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, but power without responsibility, the prerogative of the <a href="/wiki/Harlot" class="mw-redirect" title="Harlot">harlot</a> throughout the ages".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As prime minister himself, Churchill addressed <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard</a> in 6 September 1943 to encourage Americans to greater efforts in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, particularly in cooperation with the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>. "Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle... The price of greatness is responsibility. If the people of the United States had continued in a mediocre station, struggling with the wilderness, absorbed in their own affairs, and a factor of no consequence in the movement of the world, they might have remained forgotten and undisturbed beyond their protecting oceans: but one cannot rise to be in many ways the leading community in the civilised world without being involved in its problems, without being convulsed by its agonies and inspired by its causes. If this has been proved in the past, as it has been, it will become indisputable in the future. The people of the United States cannot escape world responsibility."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Various <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">presidents</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> have expressed similar ideas. Recalling press complaints of his prosecution of the <a href="/wiki/Vicksburg_campaign" title="Vicksburg campaign">Vicksburg campaign</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> wrote in his 1885 <a href="/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_U._S._Grant" title="Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant">memoirs</a> that "I took no steps to answer these complaints, but continued to do my duty, as I understood it, to the best of my ability. Every one has his superstitions. One of mine is that in positions of great responsibility every one should do his duty to the best of his ability where assigned by competent authority, without application or the use of influence to change his position."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After discussion of banking and shipping reforms, <a href="/wiki/Anti-lynching_movement" title="Anti-lynching movement">antilynching legislation</a>, and other issues, President <a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">William McKinley</a>'s 1899 <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Union" title="State of the Union">State of the Union</a> letter closed with the admonition that "Presented to <a href="/wiki/56th_United_States_Congress" title="56th United States Congress">this Congress</a> are great opportunities. With them come great responsibilities. The power confided to us increases the weight of our obligations to the people, and we must be profoundly sensible of them as we contemplate the new and grave problems which confront us. Aiming only at the public good, we cannot err."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1908 letter from <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> to the British historian <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Trevelyan,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet">George Trevelyan</a> noted that "I believe in a strong executive; I believe in power, but I believe that responsibility should go with power, and that it is not well that the strong executive should be a perpetual executive".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a radio address summarizing his 1945 State of the Union letter, <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt" class="mw-redirect" title="Franklin Delano Roosevelt">Franklin Roosevelt</a> spoke against "<a href="/wiki/Power_politics" title="Power politics">power politics</a>", stating that "in a democratic world, as in a democratic Nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the first episode of the 1948 <a href="/wiki/Serial_film" title="Serial film">serial</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Superman_(serial)" title="Superman (serial)">Superman</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_and_Martha_Kent" title="Jonathan and Martha Kent">Eben Kent</a> (Edward Cassidy) tells his adopted son <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Clark</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kirk_Alyn" title="Kirk Alyn">Kirk Alyn</a>) that "because of these great powers—your speed and strength, your x-ray vision and super-sensitive hearing—you have a great responsibility."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_Spider-Man_media"><span class="anchor" id="Spider-Man"></span> Use in <i>Spider-Man</i> media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=With_great_power_comes_great_responsibility&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Use in Spider-Man media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Peter Parker principle" redirects here. Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Peter_principle" title="Peter principle">Peter principle</a>.</div> <p>The specific phrasing "with great power comes great responsibility" evolved from <a href="/wiki/Spider-Man" title="Spider-Man">Spider-Man</a>'s first appearance in the 1962 <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Fantasy" title="Amazing Fantasy">Amazing Fantasy</a></i> #15, written by <a href="/wiki/Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a>. It is not spoken by any character, but instead appears in a narrative caption of the <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic book</a>'s last <a href="/wiki/Panel_(comics)" title="Panel (comics)">panel</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-CBR_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBR-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>And a lean, silent figure slowly fades in the gathering darkness, aware at last that in this world, with great power there must also come -- great responsibility!<sup id="cite_ref-:0_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The expression's connection to Spider-Man's <a href="/wiki/Uncle_Ben" title="Uncle Ben">Uncle Ben</a><sup id="cite_ref-CBR_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBR-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a later development. While Uncle Ben had only two lines in the original story, later stories and flashbacks set when Ben was alive <a href="/wiki/Retcon" class="mw-redirect" title="Retcon">retroactively made</a> the phrase one of his <a href="/wiki/Homilies" class="mw-redirect" title="Homilies">homilies</a> to Peter. The first mention of Ben saying the phrase to Peter was in 1972, when <a href="/wiki/Ron_Dante" title="Ron Dante">Ron Dante</a> (of <a href="/wiki/The_Archies" title="The Archies">The Archies</a>) included it in his album <i>Spider-Man: A Rockomic</i>. However, this attribution would not catch on in the comics for at least another decade. </p><p>The earliest appearance of a direct reference to Ben telling Peter the phrase is the 1987 <i>Spider-Man vs. Wolverine</i> #1 by <a href="/wiki/Jim_Owsley" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Owsley">Jim Owsley</a>, <a href="/wiki/M._D._Bright" title="M. D. Bright">M. D. Bright</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Al_Williamson" title="Al Williamson">Al Williamson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CBR_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBR-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The series finale of <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man:_The_Animated_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Spider-Man: The Animated Series">Spider-Man: The Animated Series</a></i> makes reference Ben saying it in January 1998 too. He asks "Do you remember what I taught you about great power?" and a version of Peter replies "Yes. With great power there must also come great responsibility." </p><p>The phrase gained more popularity and <a href="/wiki/Pop_cultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Pop cultural">pop cultural</a> significance following its utterance in the live action film <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_(2002_film)" title="Spider-Man (2002 film)">Spider-Man</a></i> (2002) directed by <a href="/wiki/Sam_Raimi" title="Sam Raimi">Sam Raimi</a>, in which it is spoken by both Ben (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Cliff_Robertson" title="Cliff Robertson">Cliff Robertson</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Parker_(Sam_Raimi_film_series)" title="Peter Parker (Sam Raimi film series)">Peter</a> (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Tobey_Maguire" title="Tobey Maguire">Tobey Maguire</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBR_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBR-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase is spoken by <a href="/wiki/Richard_and_Mary_Parker" title="Richard and Mary Parker">Richard Parker</a> (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Campbell_Scott" title="Campbell Scott">Campbell Scott</a>) in an extra scene from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_2" title="The Amazing Spider-Man 2">The Amazing Spider-Man 2</a></i> (2014).<sup id="cite_ref-Trailer_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trailer-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The full phrase appears in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man:_No_Way_Home" title="Spider-Man: No Way Home">Spider-Man: No Way Home</a></i> (2021), spoken by <a href="/wiki/Aunt_May" title="Aunt May">Aunt May</a> (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Marisa_Tomei" title="Marisa Tomei">Marisa Tomei</a>) to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Parker_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe)" title="Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)">Peter</a> (portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Holland" title="Tom Holland">Tom Holland</a>) moments before the former's death. Maguire's Parker also recognizes and finishes the phrase when Holland's Parker tells his alternate versions about May saying it to him. Multiple different variations of the phrase were also spoken throughout these films and other media, including by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Molina" title="Alfred Molina">Alfred Molina</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Otto_Octavius_(film_character)" title="Otto Octavius (film character)">Otto Octavius</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_2" title="Spider-Man 2">Spider-Man 2</a></i> (2004), by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Sheen" title="Martin Sheen">Martin Sheen</a>'s Ben in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_(film)" title="The Amazing Spider-Man (film)">The Amazing Spider-Man</a></i> (2012), by Holland's Peter to <a href="/wiki/Tony_Stark_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe)" title="Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)">Tony Stark</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_America:_Civil_War" title="Captain America: Civil War">Captain America: Civil War</a></i> (2016), by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Tyree_Henry" title="Brian Tyree Henry">Brian Tyree Henry</a>'s <a href="/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Comics_characters:_D#Jefferson._Davis" title="List of Marvel Comics characters: D">Jeff</a> to <a href="/wiki/Miles_Morales" title="Miles Morales">Miles Morales</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man:_Into_the_Spider-Verse" title="Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse">Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse</a></i> (2018), and by <a href="/wiki/Colman_Domingo" title="Colman Domingo">Colman Domingo</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Norman_Osborn_(Sam_Raimi_film_series)#Your_Friendly_Neighborhood_Spider-Man" title="Norman Osborn (Sam Raimi film series)">Norman Osborn</a> in the animated series <i><a href="/wiki/Your_Friendly_Neighborhood_Spider-Man" title="Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man">Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man</a></i> (2025). </p> <blockquote><p>"Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind." — <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Molina" title="Alfred Molina">Alfred Molina</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Otto_Octavius_(film_character)" title="Otto Octavius (film character)">Otto Octavius</a> — <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man_2" title="Spider-Man 2">Spider-Man 2</a></i> (2004) </p><p>"You are a lot like your father. You really are, Peter, and that's a good thing. But your father lived by a philosophy, a principle, really. He believed that if you could do good things for other people, you had a moral obligation to do those things! That's what's at stake here. Not choice. <i>Responsibility</i>." — <a href="/wiki/Martin_Sheen" title="Martin Sheen">Martin Sheen</a>'s Ben Parker — <i><a href="/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_(film)" title="The Amazing Spider-Man (film)">The Amazing Spider-Man</a></i> (2012) </p><p>"When you can do the things that I can, but you don't... and then the bad things happen... they happen because of you." — <a href="/wiki/Tom_Holland" title="Tom Holland">Tom Holland</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Peter_Parker_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe)" title="Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)">Peter Parker</a> — <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_America:_Civil_War" title="Captain America: Civil War">Captain America: Civil War</a></i> (2016) </p><p>"With great ability comes great accountability." — <a href="/wiki/Brian_Tyree_Henry" title="Brian Tyree Henry">Brian Tyree Henry</a>'s <a href="/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Comics_characters:_D#Jefferson_Davis" title="List of Marvel Comics characters: D">Jeff Davis</a> — <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man:_Into_the_Spider-Verse" title="Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse">Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse</a></i> (2018) </p><p> "With great power comes great respect." — <a href="/wiki/Colman_Domingo" title="Colman Domingo">Colman Domingo</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Norman_Osborn_(Sam_Raimi_film_series)#Your_Friendly_Neighborhood_Spider-Man" title="Norman Osborn (Sam Raimi film series)">Norman Osborn</a> — <i><a href="/wiki/Your_Friendly_Neighborhood_Spider-Man" title="Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man">Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man</a></i> (2025)</p></blockquote> <p>Contemporary reinterpretations of Spider-Man, including Raimi's 2002 film as well as the <i><a href="/wiki/Ultimate_Spider-Man" title="Ultimate Spider-Man">Ultimate Spider-Man</a></i> comic, depict Ben as saying this phrase to Peter in their last conversation together. Comic book writer <a href="/wiki/Greg_Pak" title="Greg Pak">Greg Pak</a> opined that the motto was "one of the greatest single moral injunctions in all of <a href="/wiki/American_pop_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="American pop culture">American pop culture</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The formulation created by Marvel has been used by journalists, authors, and other writers,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">Representative</a> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Neal" title="Richard Neal">Richard Neal</a> on the occasion of the release of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump" title="Tax returns of Donald Trump">tax returns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=With_great_power_comes_great_responsibility&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noblesse_oblige" title="Noblesse oblige">Noblesse oblige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sword_of_Damocles" class="mw-redirect" title="Sword of Damocles">Sword of Damocles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)" title="Power (social and political)">Power</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral_responsibility" title="Moral responsibility">Moral responsibility</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Courtney">"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" (Leonard H. 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