The Great Fire of London, in September of 1666, is rightly remembered as a human catastrophe. By the time it was put out, after raging through the capital for four days, around 13,000 buildings were destroyed and 100,000 people were homeless. As the largest city in Europe this did not just affect England. International trade was disrupted, and people across the continent heard about the fire. In fact, prints of the Great Fire were still being sold one hundred years later across Europe.
OKAY SO I ACTUALLY THINK I DID THIS ONCE BEFORE FOR THIS GIF BUT I’MMA DO IT AGAIN
AS SILLY AS IT LOOKS, THIS IS ACTUALLY SHEER BRILLIANCE ON SPIDEY’S PART IF WE MAKE ONE ASSUMPTION:
The building is on fire.
Now, I don’t know the context of this scene, so I could be dead wrong. But in the event of a building fire when the windows are closed, the rising air pressure within the building due to the heat often causes the windows to seal shut. This is EXTREMELY SUPER DANGEROUS, because if enough pressure builds up, the windows can burst and shatter. GLASS SHARD GRENADES, BASICALLY.
What Mr. Peter Parker is doing here is to essentially glue one side of the window with an extra-strong glue net, THEN break the glass to create a hole and let the pressure out. But because he glued it, while some pieces will indeed fly off, the number of shards that will shatter is kept to a minimum.
Now, with that hole in the window, with all those sharp pieces of glass around it, it’s not safe to climb out! So now that the pressure sealing the window shut is relieved, he can open the window safely and climb out, presumably taking anyone else trapped inside with him.
SO THERE YOU GO. IN A CERTAIN CONTEXT, which may or may not actually apply, THIS GIF ACTUALLY MAKES A HELLUVA LOT OF SENSE.
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