Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a musical with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, and a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger, with revisions by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The musical is based on the Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published by Marvel Comics, as well as the 2002 film and the Greek myth of Arachne. It tells Spider-Man's origin story, his romance with Mary Jane and his battles with the Green Goblin. The show includes highly technical stunts, such as aerial combat scenes and actors swinging from "webs".
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark episode "I Am Spider-Man", which first aired September 23, 2012, features a Spider-Man musical, with Flash Thompson playing the web slinger. In "Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3", if Deadpool is fighting Spider-Man, Deadpool says that he will "rough [Spider-Man] up like a Broadway musical!" If victorious, he tells Spider-Man that "maybe it would have helped if [he] turned off the dark!" "Simpsons Super Spectacular" issue #14 features a parody musical featuring Bart Simpson's favorite superhero Radioactive Man. The story chronicles the many disasters that befall attempts to produce a musical featuring the hero titled "Turn up the Silence". Also, at