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A Spider-Man cosplayer saved the day for one man trying to cross the street
Dressed as Spider-Man, Christopher Hellenthal hopped out of his truck to help someone in need.
NewsbyTrent Cannon, Senior Contributing writer
Published on Mon Jul 27 2026
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The great thing about Spider-Man isn’t that he’s got all these cool powers or that he’s super smart; no, the best thing about him is that he’s always got time to help anyone. He’s the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, after all, so it isn’t unusual to see him help someone cross the street or carry their shopping. Turns out, that isn’t confined to his comic book form, as one Spider-Man cosplayer was caught on camera helping someone in a wheelchair get across a busy intersection.
Christopher Hellenthal was on his way back from his job at a trampoline park in Jonesboro, Arkansas, when he saw a man in a wheelchair struggling to cross the street. Hellenthal put his truck in park and jumped out to help the man get to the other side of the road before the light turned green. Which would have been a heartwarming but hardly news-worthy encounter if it weren’t for one thing: Hellenthal was wearing a $200 Spider-Man costume at the time.
“I told him, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve got you,’” Christopher Hellenthal said in an interview following the incident. “It happened really fast. I just kind of skedaddled out of there because the light turned green.”
We imagine it was a rather bewildering experience for the man in the wheelchair. Hellenthal says he was wearing the suit on his way home from his job at a trampoline park, which was hosting a superhero-themed-event for kids. “I wanted a suit that would look real to them.”
“He’s always been my favorite superhero,” he added, who wore a (much smaller) Spider-Man costume to meet Stan Lee at a Chicago comic book convention when he was 8 years old. “He’s got problems like regular people. He’s not rich, and he’s real humble, not like Tony Stark.”
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Trent Cannon: Trent is a freelance writer who has been covering anime, video games, and pop culture for a decade. (He/Him)
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