Marvel couldn't do it, DC/Warner Bros won't do it, but President-elect Barack Obama pulled off the movie team-up we've all dreamed about by hooking up both Spider-Man and Superman to do some community service at a DC Elementary school.
The actors were there at Abram Simon Elementary as part of the president-elect’s call to community action on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Supposedly the super-duo had never met and this was the first time that they had been in the same room together.
Though Maguire was kept busy screwing panels of the shelves together, a short time later, as Routh pulled books from boxes to stack them in the newly built cubbies, he happened across a — no joke — Spider-Man book, and walked it over to his super-brethren.
“I think this is yours,” he said, handing Maguire the book. The web-slinger laughed, and the actors shook hands and chatted for a few moments before Routh walked back across the room to shelve “I Can Read: Spider-Man 3, Meet the Heroes and the Villains.”
“I think I can probably beat them all up,” Routh said. “Just kidding.” Crisis averted.