In 2013, this Spider-Man sculpture was erected at the Lotte Shopping Center in Busan, South Korea.
Just your average, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man with a massive boner.
So this Spiderman statue got erected in Korea...
This well-hung sculpture was wrought by the hands of artist Eunsuk Yoo.
However, the fact that Spidey's stiffy overlooked a children's playground was too much for some people to swallow.
Lotte Shopping Center began receiving a lot of complaints about the statue, Kotaku reported.
The artist was asked to take the statue down or modify it.
But Yoo chose to take Spider-Man down, boner and all.
Yoo said he wanted to show that "natural physical phenomenons" that occur in the morning can also be applied to upstanding superheroes like Spider-Man.
On his Facebook page, Yoo said that while he was disappointed, he understood how this piece could be interpreted as lewd or offensive at a place like a shopping mall. He said he would try and reach out to the public with better work next time.
Ultimately, this Spider-Man's erection turned out to be his gift and his curse.
