A guy, a whole lot smarter than any of us, once told me that with power comes a great deal of a responsibility. And that's not just for people with powers, like me. I think it goes for everyone. So, I'm just going to live my life that way, and everything else is-- noise.
- —Spider-Man to Ned Lee
Early Life[]
Peter's Parents, Richard and Mary Parker, alongside Edward Brock Sr. were geneticists at the Life Foundation and were on a quest to heal humanity of disease and illness such as Cancer. Their plan was to use an alien lifeform they found from a meteorite known as "The Symbiote", as they found the alien lifeform contained mysterious properties that could heal it's host from any disease. Later on, Richard and Mary had a son named Peter who was essentially raised by science along with his best friend Edward "Eddie" Brock Jr. Peter was later left in care of his Aunt May and Uncle Ben after his parents (along with Eddie's parents) mysteriously died in a plane crash. So he was continued to be in care of his Aunt and Uncle.
Peter grew up with the mystery of his parents' disappearance, becoming an outcast outside of home. While Aunt May and Uncle Ben raised Peter as if he were their own child. Ben and May taught Peter to be responsible and studious. At the age of ten, Peter was first introduced to science when Ben took Peter to science camp where he met the genius in charge named Otto Octavius. Once Peter began an experiment of his own but it backfired and the other children laughed at him. Dr. Octavius comforted Peter by telling him that their laughter was meaningless, and science would justify their actions. Peter remembered those words and looked up to him as a mentor. For the next twelve years he became more studious with the goal to continue his father's legacy in science.
During middle school he would also develop a frenemy rivalry with jock Flash Thompson. And later on during his first years years in high school, he met Harry Osborn and the two became best friends. He would also and catch the eye of fellow classmate and crush, Gwen Stacy, a fellow science prodigy like him.
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Peter Parker
Season 1[]
Origin[]
During his sophomore year of high school at Midtown High, Peter's academic record and grades allowed him to be one of the students to visit the Oscorp Tower, Manhattan, with biologist Dr. Curt Connors as lead scientist. While roaming one of the Oscorp labs that had a device called the Isotope Genome Accelerator, Peter was bitten by a spider that had been exposed to the accelerator's radiation during its demonstration. Peter didn't know it, but the spider bite mutated his DNA and his body began reacting to new changes. Peter experienced nausea, exhaustion and spastic reactions from the mutation process. The spider's mutated venom, imbued Peter with the sensory perception of immediate danger which he later dubbed "Spider-Sense", Increased speed, increased agility, increased stamina, a healing factor, and the ability to stick/crawl on surfaces. He had more energy then normal and has his senses enhanced greatly. Peter became the next generation super-soldier with additional attributes of a spider. Peter arrives home early and passes out with the bite wound swollen. The next morning, Peter wakes up to find himself sticking to the ceiling, realizing he can climb on walls.
During School, One of Flash's buddies Kenny Kong attempted to kick Peter to humiliate him in front of everybody. Peter then suddenly anticipated Kong and threw him to the ground, breaking his nose as he landed face first onto the floor. Peter already began showing signs of developing his spider sense as his reflexes were acting automatically so he ended up mistakenly taking Flash and his group of enraged buddies single-handed. In fear, Peter runs outside of the school, trying to get away from himself. Away from what is happening to him, not realizing how fast he is going. He then runs right in front of a speeding delivery truck. Peter's spider powers saved him as he unconsciously jumped over the speeding truck. As he runs away from the scene, out of sight of people, he begins too tests his arms and legs, feeling the strange energy pulsing through his muscles. He begins hyperventilating in fear and due to his spider-powers developing he nearly passes out. Back at home, after researching about spiders and Peter's own blood under a microscope, Peter developed a fair understanding what was happening to him. It was genetic mutation. Because he kept his mutation a secret, his aunt and uncle had a fight with him as he unsuccessfully defended his reasons for skipping half a day of school and raising his hand against his bullies the same day. It resulted in Kong's parents demanding the Parkers pay restitution for medical fees and damages done to their son. Uncle Ben and Aunt May weren't happy for what Peter had done. To Peter's dismay, he felt he was wrongly accused of an incident he didn't start and only rightfully acted in self-defense. It was while in the middle of that heated argument that he discovered his fingers had stuck to the wall so tight that he ripped the paint out of the wall. After being sent to his room, Peter is experiencing more random spastic reactions as his body is trying to adjust to Peter's new powers. Peter would later patch things up with his uncle the next morning.
Irresponsible[]
On the following day, Peter is assigned to work with Gwen Stacy for a lab project in Biology class. Peter wants to do the lab project on spiders. To know more about them. Because he wants to know more about himself. But he doesn't want to tell Gwen that. Fortunately for Peter, Gwen doesn't seem to really mind actually as it would be a lot more interesting then what the other classmates are studying, Peter and Gwen's relationship started to grow from their as the pair are learning about each other. Later that night as Peter was writing the term paper, Peter was curious about his powers and abilities. He climbs onto the roof and leaps to the house next door. The heights don't scare him in his surprise. He leaps from roof to roof, running along the peaks until finally leaping to a streetlight and doing a full flip around it and lands. On the very next day after school, Peter tested out his new spider abilities in a junk yard to see what he can do with his new powers. He than goes to an abandoned shed and uses his new-found powers to swing from chains hanging from the ceiling and is amazed at the results of the spider bite. A few days later, Peter then used his powers to become a masked wrestler to earn money and to test his powers further. He easily won the money and left the scene in a matter of minutes. He then faked a letter to his uncle and aunt, as an "anonymous" donation from the school, to pay back their expenses due to the Thompsons. Aunt May and Uncle Ben completely bought the ruse and accepted the money. Two weeks later after showing some caliber against Thompson, Peter's physical ed coach had him join the football team as their new star player. Peter quickly rose to acclaim as he effortlessly out-scored the visiting team.
As a wrestler
After winning the game, Peter went straight to his secret wrestling gig. Peter was then speaking with the ring announcer/manager about coming up with a new nickname to go buy for his wrestling guise, he eventually coined up the name "The Astonishing Spider-Man" for Peter. He returned home, only to find his family waiting for him. Uncle Ben and Aunt May confronted Peter over his dismal drop in grades, not arriving back at curfew and not answering Ben's calls. Ben and May presumed that his new-found jock life has affected his sense of responsibility over his academics and suggested ending his budding sports career. Ben wanted to understand the source of Peter's recent rash of behavior, but Peter couldn't explain himself. Ben then talked about responsibility and relating it back to his father and how Peter should live by his father's philosophy, that "With great power, comes with great responsibility, not choice." .Peter could only react in sadness and anger and storms out to be alone. Later while Peter is leaving a local convenient store, There was a robbery in progress. Peter came across a gang of thieves running from the cops. Being too self-centered on his own problems to care about a robber, he allowed one of the thieves to escape.
Attempting to head back home, Peter discovers the street filled with bystanders and paramedics. His uncle had been carjacked and fatally shot in the chest while he was out looking for Peter. Then, Peter watches his Uncle perish as they comfort each other and his uncle dies which makes Peter heartbroken and cries. Peter learned from the police reports of the same robber hiding himself inside an abandoned ACME warehouse. Peter; now filled with rage dawns his spider costume once again and runs off to confront his Uncle's killer and finds him in the warehouse. After disarming him and getting a good look at his face, Peter realized it's the very same robber he let off earlier. Peter than left the killer for the cops to arrest him. Overcome with guilt Peter remembered His Uncle Ben's words of wisdom, "With great power comes great responsibility", which inspired Peter to serve and protect others. He develops a web-like fluid and the "web-shooters" to fire it, and overtime, He then created a full red and blue suit for himself, which would become his first real Spider-Man costume.
Learning to crawl[]
Since gaining his new powers and a new aim in life, Spidey took down street level crooks and began disrupting gang operations throughout the city during his first days as Spider-Man, with his activities quickly earning him a mythic status among the people of the city however, getting admiration from workers, civilians, store owners, etc. The cops felt bothered by his motives. Eventually Peter was introduced to his best friend's father Norman Osborn who took an immediate liking to Peter when he was informed that Parker could understand his work.
Peter Parker as Spider-Man
Meanwhile, unknown to Peter, Norman Osborn and Oscorp are investigating the appearance of this new hero Spider-Man. Anxious to develop his Oz Serum, Osborn orders the capture of Spider-Man, Peter, on the other hand, was struggling to help Aunt May pay off the accumulating bills and due to his new-found sense of responsibility, he quit the football team and wrestling to extend his time as a crime-fighter. His actions caught the attention of the public and Police Captain George Stacy, who was also Gwen's father. While Peter and Gwen struggled to admit their true feelings, the pair are offered an internship at Empire State Univeristy where they meet their new classmates and mentors, Dr. Maria Connors and her husband Dr. Curtis Connors from Oscorp, who would visit the lab with their son Billy Connors. But when he learned high school interns didn't get paid, he sought a job at the Daily Bugle for money. Spider-Man later on fought and defeats his first supervillain The Vulture and The Enforcers in the process; sent by crime boss known as Kingpin who wanted him executed for foiling his operations. While Peter was heading to school, he came across some regular level thieves that were robbing the bank, There names were Flint Marko and Alex O'Hirn. Spider-Man disabled the two and tied them up for police to arrest them but it cost him to be late for class.
Law of the Jungle[]
Peter then meets Dr. Connors again back at Oscorp, by helping him complete his regeneration serum to regrow his missing arm using Reptilian based genetics. After hearing over a police radio about a giant lizard rampaging on the Manhattan bridge, Peter quickly rushes to the bridge to stop the creature. While there, Peter suits up in his spider suit and spots the lizard being attacked by S.W.A.T. teams and police officers. Spidey manages to intercept with Lizard but was still unable to fight him. As the lizard was too fast for his reflexes. Several canisters dropped to the ground from above and exploded. Spidey was able to peer through the smoke as he watches the lizard crashing into cars and swiping his claws against the surrounding S.W.A.T. team. He then rescues a small child from a burning car while the Lizard escapes. After the fight, Peter returned to the bugle and sold his pictures of the Lizard and Spidey's standoff to the daily bugle, where Peter discovers that Jameson is running a smear campaign against Spider-Man. Jameson thought Spidey and the lizard where in on the attacks in which Peter tried to convince Jameson that Spider-Man is one of the good guys but Jameson doesn't buy it.
"Connors, listen to me! this isn't you!"
Peter goes to meet with Dr. Connors at Oscorp, and very quickly realizes that Connors had mutated himself into the Lizard. Peter later follows Connors into the sewers and also get pictures of him for a cash reward at the Daily Bugle. After some time, he is attacked by the Lizard. While trying to communicate with him, they end up on a subway train fighting both inside, outside, and underneath it. Finally, Spider-Man falls off the train and Connors escapes. Peter had left his camera in the sewer, which the Lizard finds and realizes Peter is Spider-Man. The Lizard later attacks the school in an attempt to kill Peter and prevent him from further interrupting his plans (despite Peter trying to reason with him), but when the fight continues for too long, the police arrive, and he is forced to retreat. Peter then follows the Lizard and finds his lab. After finding video files in the makeshift lab, Peter discovers the Lizard is planning to use a device capable of creating a cloud carrying a serum large enough to cover an entire city to transform New York into lizard creatures like himself. He very quickly realizes the device is located at Oscorp. Peter then rushes to Oscorp, in an attempt to retrieve the device and save all of New York City. On his way, Peter is attacked by the NYPD. He is shot in the shoulder, which briefly knocks him unconscious. Temporarily subdued, he was cuffed and the cops attempted to unmask him. Before they succeeded however, they were attacked by a group of humanoid Lizard people who were bystanders transformed by the Lizard. He manages to save a few officers before they were mauled to death and escaped capture. Peter broke free of his bonds on the rooftop and pushes on as the town was under attack and in complete chaos below him.
All the while hearing a police report of the Lizard being spotted attacking Oscorp. The wounded Spider-Man gets to the lab where he meets Martha Connors who informs him the the creature had already taken the Neogenic Recombinator but had successfully develop an antidote and gave it to Spider-Man. He than pursues and fights the Lizard once more on the rooftop, but is soon restrained by his tail. Martha Connors follows suit to help Spider-Man by shooting the Lizard, giving Peter time to stop the Lizard cloudburst while Martha uses liquid nitrogen grenades to freeze the Lizard, making him more vulnerable. He then manages to get to the chemical device and switches the reptile serum with the antidote Martha had made.
As Martha tries to appeal to Connor's psyche, the lizard eventually breaks free and attempts to stop Peter, but fails, and the antidote cloud reverts the citizens back to normal, except the Lizard as he remained unaffected by the cure and escapes in defeat.
The Hunter and the Hunted[]
A week later, a growing number of humanoid Lizard people began to spike up again as the Lizard is kidnaping innocent civilians and tranforming them into the Lizards in the sewars and unleashing them upon the populace. Spider-Man visits ESU and had another stronger antidote created by Gwen Stacy and Martha Connors, the wife of Curt Connors to hopefully reverse the effects of the genetically altered lizard DNA that had turned Curt Connors into the monster. The next day in class, Peter's history teacher Mr. Wallace calls him over to his desk. He reveals to him that his grades are slipping in his class. Peter was never good in History to begin with but with him secretly being Spider-Man every night and fighting crime usually leaves him exhausted in school, causing his grades to slip even more. Wallace Suggested he be tutored by Gwen Stacy. During lunch, Gwen sat down with Peter and Harry. Peter on the other hand asked Gwen if she could him bring his grade up in his History class, which she accepts in exchange to help her out with Biology. On the next day at a local café, Peter was studying with Gwen when he seen a news report of one of the underground Subway stations being attacked by the Lizard creature. Thinking it could be Connors, Peter quickly got up from his and apologized to Gwen before leaving the café. leaving Gwen confused. While swinging towards the station, Spider-Man hears several loud screams as he sees several civilians running away in fear. Spider-Man swung forward, right into the subway entrance. The loud growling and snarling let him know Connors is nearby and is this time terrorizing afternoon goers. Spider-Man flung himself down, right on top of the head of the Lizard. The Lizard grabbed Spider-Man before he flung the wall crawler down to the ground as he was trying to get the creature to drink the antidote. the Lizard jumped forward, jaws bared. Spider-Man dodged.
The two fought for a little bit until the monster was suddenly wrapped up in a net and Spider-Man rose up to his feet, and saw Sergei Kravinoff or also known as "Kraven the Hunter". Kravinoff's a mercenary, most known for being a skilled hunter in the known world by men who fear him. As soon Kraven had his sight on the Lizard, Spider-Man intervenes and the two briefly fought; trying to keep Kraven occupied long enough for Connors to escape Kraven's wrath. Kraven provided a reasonable challenge and was very close to killing the wall crawler when the Lizard leapt at Kraven and grabbed the hunter from behind. Spider-Man dropped to the ground trying to catch his breath. Kraven was pulled backwards, before the mighty hunter wrestled the creature to the ground and stabs him with his dagger.
Spider-Man shot a line of webbing, to wrap around the dagger and managed to jerk it out of Kraven's hand. The Lizard than grabbed Kraven and thrown him into the air, right off of the platform and right onto the subway tracks. The hunter was stunned momentarily, giving Lizard time to escape. Spider-Man soon follows. He track to to the Connor's house and attempted to kidnap both Jason and Martha. Thankfully, a line of webbing shot out. It wrapped around the hand the Lizard, pulling the creature towards Spidey, saving both Martha and Jason. A line of webbing shot the Lizard right in the eyes, to blind the beast. Spider-Man leapt up, as the Lizard was preoccupied with removing the webbing from his eyes.
Spider-Man began to pry the jaws of the Lizard open and uncork the vial. The liquid was inches away from the Lizard's mouth but the beast gave a primal roar, before it threw Spider-Man off. Spider-Man rolled over, miraculously not spilling the vial and the Lizard swung its tail at Spider-Man and was knocked against a tree. knocking him unconscious. The Lizard stood right over Spider-Man. The creature stepped to finish off the wall crawler, but before then, a series of darts connected right to the back of the Lizard. The Lizard turned with a loud roar as Kraven stepped back in surprise, none of the darts penetrating the skin but the hunter was undeterred. With a jump, he wrestled the Lizard down to the ground. Kraven rolled the Lizard over, before he forced the beast's head into the ground. In seconds, his great strength had rendered the creature unconscious, but not dead. It would fetch a much larger price when alive. The head of Spider-Man rose up, in time to see Kraven tie the Lizard up, Spider-Man tells Kraven That Lizard isn't a creature, it's a human who made a mistake and can be cured, but Kraven just responded with a cruel laugh and said he'll will just get higher price on the black market for this Lizard creature. Spider-Man rose to his feet and attempted to stop Kraven. They fought for a little while until a siren was heard nearby. He had no desire to fight the police, so he leapt up, before he knocked Spider-Man to the ground.
A line of webbing wrapped around Kraven's feet and crashed to the ground face first. Spider-Man leapt up and caught Kraven with a series of punches to the face. Kraven forced himself up, but Spider-Man slid underneath his attack, before he managed to take Kraven's tranquilizer gun from him. Spider-Man shot two darts into Kraven's neck then punched out Kraven, leaving him unconscious and webbed up to a tree. Suddenly, The Lizard hoisted Spider-Man up into the air and tossed him to the ground. The wall crawler leapt into the air but the tail swung into Spidey's rib cage, leaving Spider-Man stunned for a moment. The Lizard than kidnaps Martha and leapt from car to car, before he scaled up the building with the greatest of ease. Spider-Man shakily got to his feet and chases The lizard, leaving Kravinoff to the authorities. Spider-Man follows him to the Bronx Zoo. Spider-Man enters the lizard room where Connors has taken refuge. Connors knocks him out and Gwen arrives to help him out. When he regains consciousness, Spider-Man comes up with a plan to trick him into the Polar Bear pond. They almost succeed when Connors is alerted by Spider-Man's cellphone ringing. Jason then arrives and tries to talk some sense into his father, but it is useless and Spider-Man leaps in to get Connors into the pond. Spider-Man pours the cleanser into the mouth of Connors who, as a result, returns to normal, his arm lost once more. Grateful, Connors told Spidey that he'll help him with any problem he could help with and returned Connors back to his family.
The next day, Peter gets the Lizard photos published in the Bugle and gets the money he needs. However, when Gwen, and the Connors find out, they are outraged that Peter took pictures of the family for personal gain and say he has lost their trust. Although Martha understands the difficult choices that Peter had, she fires him. Peter arrives back home and enters his bedroom, where he picks up his Spider-Man mask and stares at it, frustrated about his reputation. Blaming the events that gave him his powers. He then threw the mask against the wall when he sees a photo of himself with Ben. Realizing that he had saved Curt either way, he decides to continue being Spider-Man as he was still needed whether if he'd liked it or not.
Shock 'Till You Drop[]
Parker then noticed that his aunt was having trouble paying the bills given to her, as he looked at them, and saw that they were all past due. Peter then swung over to Osborn's house to help Harry study, but then he received an e-mail from the Daily Bugle saying that they liked his photos, and wanted him to come to the Daily Bugle immediately to get a paycheck for photos of Spider-Man. Peter left Harry hanging just so he could get his paycheck. When Peter arrives, Jonah then gave him his money, and asked for a new set of Spider-Man pictures by deadline, which was two hours. He later tried stopping a crime that night, which was caused by Alex O'Hirn. He trounced him as usual, but a new villain known as The Shocker came in, whose vibro-shock units on his hands create strong punches and vibration waves that knock Spider-Man off-balance. Spider-Man’s punches are deflected by Shocker's vibrating body and escaped. It looked like Spider-Man was finally beaten when he was crushed by a garbage compacter, thanks to Shocker. However Spider-Man survived, but lost his paycheck unfortunately. He got a new one, and gave Jonah the photos. Harry complained on how Peter totally left him hanging, but he promised that he would help him out later. Spider-Man then foiled another robbery from Marko and O'Hirn, and told them to tell Shocker that he wanted a rematch. However, thanks to foiling that robbery, he bailed out on Harry again. When Peter tries to apologize, Harry instead tells him to forget it and calls Peter worthless out of anger and frustration. There were then weird tremors going off in a straight line in New York, and Parker realized that it was Shocker. He then went after Shocker, and fought him and his gang at St Gabriel's bank. However, when Shocker's gauntlets began to run out of power, the odds were stacked against his favor and Spidey quickly defeated him, saving the day. He then gave his photos to the Daily Bugle, and got his money to help his aunt May with the bills.
Enter Sandman[]
Desperate for the capture of Spider-Man for his company's sakes, Norman Osborn started a partnership with the Kingpin to help capture the web head by creating Meta-Humans. Peter had to contend with Flint Marko and Alex O'Hirn, two more crooks that he constantly arrested except now they became supervillains. Spider-Man encountered Flint (who now goes by the name Sandman) after he hears a bank robbery taking place downtown. Spider-Man spots Marko fleeing to a workshop and intercepts him. Spider-Man was taken by surprise of Marko's sudden new powers which gave Marko the upper hand as he proves to be an opponent to be reckoned with. Spider-Man battled the Sandman but was forced to flee when his mask ripped open. Back at the Parker residence, Peter's years of learning how to knit finally paid off as he's repairing his spider mask in the living room after his encounter with sandman. But just as he hears the front door unlocking from outside the house, it was Aunt May! Peter quickly runs back into his bedroom and changes into his robe that was laying on his chair just before Aunt May opens the door to his bedroom to see if he was home and too remind him of a miss call from Gwen. Gwen made plans with Peter to go on a movie date tomorrow night with her and her best friend Cindy, Peter happily accepts.
Meanwhile, Sandman goes on a crime spree across town, robbing ATM machines and banks with relative ease. As Peter arrives at the movie theater to meet up his friends inside, Peter spotted Sandman again as a sandstorm looking for trouble. Seeing that he can't ditch his responsibilities as Spider-Man, he texts Gwen telling her that he's going to be a little late and quickly suits up as Spider-Man. When Flint hijacks an armored car, Spider-Man got his photo camera ready takes him on again. During the fight, Marko seemed to get the upper hand. However, his overconfidence eventually gets the best of him, and Spidey manages to defeat him by leading him towards a construction site and drop a large pile of wet Quick Drying Cement which hardens and encased him as statue. After the battle, Peter became exhausted and the only on his mind at the moment was sleep, he finally goes home and got some rest. Later next morning, Peter woke up to missed calls and angry texts from Gwen, he'd forgot all about the date they had last night. After turning in some photos from last night's battle, and receiving his first paycheck, Peter later meets up with Gwen at a local coffee shop to apologize and made up for it. But just like everyone else, Gwen becomes a little annoyed by Peter's recent behavior and flakiness.
Stung at first sight[]
A few days later O'Hirn was approached by Hammerhead to have him donned the rhino-like mech suit from Oscorp and takes up the alias Rhino. Wrecking havoc in the city trying to catch Spider-Man's attention. Ditching his history test, Spidey intervenes and fight ensues. While combating and riding on top of Rhino, he was impressed at the design of the suit and decided to perform a stress-test on his webbing while at it. After knocking Spider-Man clear across the street into an office building, the Rhino was confronted by the the Army, but had no ability to take down the brute and takes them all out. Spider-Man lures him away before anyone gets hurt. Rhino chases after the webslinger to a construction site and attacked on RHINO's back with a wrecking ball, hitting his blind-spot. Peter pried open the armor plating of Rhino to expose the power core. Though impressed by the tech, he jammed the bar into Rhino and incapacitated him. Spider-Man ripped his armor open but Alex O'Hirn leapt out of the machine and tried to flee but was quickly incarcerated by Spider-Man and learns of the Kingpin's true identity from O'Hirn, which was Wilson Fisk. Even though the day was saved, this cost Spider-Man to miss his history test and now has to make up for it. Eventually, Peter came across Maximus Gargan, a mutant who was also subjected Norman's experiments and was endowed with the powers of a scorpion and is equipped with an experimental mechanical power-suit and a cybernetic tail.
Spider-Man fought Gargan at the public mall right after attacking it to get Spider-Man's attention and saved a child from an explosion. Scorpion proved to be one of the most dangerous opponents that Peter ever fought as his powers rivals that of Spider-Man's. Gargan outmatched and defeated Spider-Man in battle but before he could kill the wall-crawler, Gargan is under fire by police and was forced to escape. Unknown to Peter, Norman was observing the fight through a built in camera in Mac's eye lenses but it became clear to Peter that someone's directing Mac during the fight; telling him what to do and threatening him.
Spider-Man then escapes to find Gargan but didn't have any luck. Gargan was later seen again causing collateral damage in the streets, attacking anyone near him, Spider-Man arrives once again and managed to save a few civilians caught in the attack. Their rematch eventually takes them into Grand Central Station. In this environment it was a pretty even match until Max started spraying his acid everywhere not leaving Spidey many safe surfaces to cling too, the acid even melts his webs! When the police intervenes again, Gargan tries escape from Spider-Man through the subway tunnels with Spider-Man chasing him. They fought once more inside a subway train until Spider-Man came out on top and removes the control chip from Scorpion's mask after damaging it from the battle, severing his connection to "the voices". Even though Mac is free from Norman's control, Scorpion was driven to madness and starts to feel extremly paranoid that Oscorp will come for him after Spider-Man confesses that he was made the way he is by Oscorp. When Spider-Man asked him what else he knew about Oscorp, Max attacked him and made his escape.
Spider-Man leaves out of the subways tunnels to look for Scorpion but he was long gone, Spidey had hoping that this would be the last time he ever confronted Gargan. Spider-Man than thinks back at what Gargan said and wonders if Wilson Fisk was behind the creations of these supervillains, or better yet; if he really was the "kingpin of crime" he's been hearing about. Later in the night, Spider-Man headed to Fisk's office. While he was busy at the gala, Peter attempted to find evidence to arrest him, however, security cameras caught Spider-Man and Fisk intercepted him.
As Spider-Man confronted Fisk in his office, Fisk reveals to him that he is indeed the Kingpin and said that he ran all of the organized crime in Manhattan, and was fine with occasional heroes but not mass saviors like Spider-Man. He offers to pay Spider-Man if he avoids his crime and only fights low-level crime. Peter refuses and goes in for an attack but was quickly subdued and outmatched Fisk, as he was much bigger and stronger than Spider-Man himself. Fisk than calls in security and tells them that Spider-Man was trying to steal from him, his security than opens fire on Spider-Man but manages to escape. Peter managed to safely return home, but he felt defeated and humiliated in the process. At home, he found Aunt May depressed. After much reassurance of his love for her, Aunt May admitted she greatly missed Uncle Ben.
Out of Reach[]
"Stay out of my way"
In between this time, Peter's old mentor Otto Octavius awakened from his coma after an experiment gone wrong. The accident turned Dr. Octavius into Dr. Octopus. Awakened, he discovered the very scientific tools he used to help him with the experiment fused to his flesh and spine and can completely control them only with his mind. Becoming (possibly) insane due to brain damage from the accident as he sees himself as "superior" than anyone he knows. He then escapes the hospital, and decided his first order of business was to kidnap his abusive father Tobert Octavius for revenge after what he'd done to him as a child and embraced the name Doctor Octopus. Few days later, Norman Osborn was making his public announcement over his Apply Energy Station to the media when Octavius attacked his power plant to steal some power converters after realizing he needed a longer-lasting source of energy for his arms. Peter saw the attack as well and tailed a helicopter as a shortcut to intercept Dr. Octopus.
Spider-Man fought him but didn't manage well. Spidey was beaten, caught and thrown out of the facility, with Otto considering Spider-Man's defeat as a warning for him to "stay out of his way." knocking him unconscious with one of his web-shooters crushed in battle. Spider-Man was then met by Capt. George Stacy and his SWAT team. Stacy unmasks him, but Peter is woken by his spider-sense, and knocks Stacy down before he could know who he is. After webbing the eyes of the officers and easily defeating them, Spider-Man quickly grabbed his mask and plunges into the water and manages to barley escape the pursuing S.W.A.T. team. However, during his escape, an officer shoots him in the leg.
At the Parker residence in the basement, Peter watches the news as they blame the incident at the apply energy station on Spider-Man. Peter is very frustrated about the blatant lies the media spreads about him, while completely demoralized from the failure of stopping Octavius.
Back at home, Aunt May notices Peter's bruised face and is limping because of the fight. He covers the fight up by saying he accidentally fell off of flight of stairs. Peter went to his basement before preparing for dinner and tries to fix his damaged web-shooter before facing Octavius again, only to discover that he doesn't have enough resources and the components to fix it unfortunately. The next day, at school, Peter was invited by Gwen to dinner at her house to meet her family. After Aunt May dropped him off, he was soon greeted by Gwen's mom at the door and they soon begin dinner. Dinner was going pretty well until after Gwen's younger brother ask him if they caught that "spider-guy" yet, Peter and Stacy then get into a debate about who is doing a better job at protecting the city. After dinner, Peter and Gwen go to her apartment building's roof where the young couple could spend some time together alone.
Ten minutes later, Peter hears police sirens and spots a line of Police cars below him responding towards an incident. He then spots Capt. George Stacy entering a police car outside of the apartment. After having suspicion that it could be Octavius again, Peter leaves dinner and suits up as Spider-Man. Peter learned Octavius had kidnapped Maria Benson for ransom from Maria's mother Lisa Benson, who didn't have patience to fund Ock's experiments. Peter web-slung over to Benson's home to investigate. Once there, he conveniently overheard Capt. George Stacy and his Police Officers talk to Lisa Benson about her daughter's kidnapping. Unfortunately, his curiosity got the best of him as he extended his head out in the window too much. Police Officers saw him and fired at him, but Peter managed to escape and went home. The next day, J. Jonah Jameson went on live T.V. to appeal to Octavius to hear his demands. However, Jameson lost his temper, angering Octopus. He demanded that Jameson personally deliver the money. Unknown to Jameson, Spider-Man trailed on top of Jameson's limo to the meeting place to stop Octavius with one working web-shooter. Dock Ock waited for Jameson near the designated location and turned over his limo and grabbed Jameson. However, Spider-Man lifts the limo off of him and was met by Capt. Stacy yet again, who orders Spider-Man to surrender. However, Spider-Man was able to convince George Stacy of his trustworthiness and they both team up to go after Ock.
They chase Ock to an abandon warehouse and came to the hostages rescue. He faced Doctor Octopus to an even fight while Capt. Stacy and his officers managed to rescue the hostages. While the fight continues, Spider-Man is trying to convince Ock that he can help him. Realizing he can't continue his original plan, Octavius took his father and warned Spider-Man if he comes to Tobert's rescue, he'll kill him. Octopus then takes his father to the top of the empire state building and dangles him with one of his tentacles, stating he's better than his father in every way. Spider-Man then comes to Tobert's rescue, begging Octavius to stop. Otto, unfazed by the hero's pleads, simply tells Spider-Man that he warned him and knocks his father of the thirty story building. Spider-Man tries to stop him, but Octavius stops him before Tobert hits the sidewalk below, killing him instantly. The enraged Spider-Man and Doc Ock then battle again, Spider-Man preformed better but still got caught by Ock's tentacles. Fortunately, Spider-Man whipped up a chemical at ESU before encountering Octavius again and uses it to fuse two of his mechanical arms together. He distracted Ock long enough for him to counterattack; he successfully beaten Ock unconscious and was successfully taken in by the authorities.
Later that night, Spider-Man speaks with Captain George Stacy who admitted that he was wrong about the young hero, with the latter saying that while he doesn't approve of his vigilantism, he'll set it aside.
When Sparks Fly[]
Peter meets up with Gwen at the library (also being late as usual) where they both tutor Flash Thompson for his biology class. Even though Peter and Flash felt irritated towards each other, Gwen convinced Peter to help her tutor and befriend Flash. After class, Peter and Gwen were heading to the football field, Peter and Gwen made plans to go out to the carnival Friday night to make up for the movie date. After school, Peter meets up with Harry at the local Ditko's café and apologies for his flakiness and invited him to date night at the carnival.
During the night of Peter and Gwen's date at the carnival, the pair met up with Harry, Randy Robertson, Cindy Moon, Flash Thompson and his friends. As the night progressed happily it was cut short however when the power at the carnival shut out, prompting Peter to leave his friends and go investigate as Spider-Man. Upon arriving at the scene, he ran into Max Dillon, a electrician who has gained the ability to generate and control electrostatic energy. As Max was surrounded by the police, Spider-Man attacks and immobilizes Max in his webbing. Max, confused and angry, repeatedly tells him to leave him alone, before being forced to fight back. Spidey then made a few attempts to avoid his attacks though he was soon struck by Max. Max then try to escape but was being shot at by the NYPD police. This prompted Max to attack the officers, and actually killing people, putting everyone at the carnival at great risk! As all this was going on, Spider-Man jumped right back in to the fight and managed to save few civilians from getting killed, including Harry and Cindy Moon while Gwen on the other hand managed to save a little girl from falling debris.
Before anyone else could get killed, Spider-Man grabs a fire hose and tries to spray Dillon down but Dillon manages to fire an electric discharge at Spider-Man, frying him alive while at the same time draining Max Dillon from his powers as Spider-Man and hosing him down with water. Both Spider-Man and Max suddenly collapsed to the ground. Spider-Man then regains consciousness moments only to see a black van pulling up filled with what looks like a squad team. The stunned Spider-Man watches as they grab and put Dillon in the van. One of the agents then began walking towards Spider-Man while he was still stunned but Spider-Man quickly gets back on his feet and escaped. Peter then switches back into his civilian clothes and met back to his friends with Gwen infuriated and fed up with Peter's flakiness. Meanwhile, Max Dillon was brought to Norman Osborn who uses Max to hunt down and deliver Spider-Man too him. And in return, he would work on a cure for his powers. When Max asked him how can he find the hero, Norman instructed him to find the photographer at the Daily Bugle. Later on the next day, Harry confronts Peter about him running off from his friends like he did last night and was pretty mad at Peter. He explains he was trying to help with the situation but Harry doesn't buy it.
While Peter is coping over the break up between him and Gwen, and everyone basically being mad at him, Peter arrives at the Daily Bugle to turn in more photos to Jameson for. Peter then receives some break up advice from Betty Brant, just as Max Dillon appears who would now go by the name "Electro" thanks to Jameson's editorials. Electro questions everyone for "The Photographer". He then demands that J. Jonah Jameson to tell him where he is, as he knows someone here that photographs Spider-Man for them. Jameson spots Peter hiding and lies to Electro about not knowing where he is, giving Peter signals to leave. Peter then showed up as Spider-Man and the two fought it out while the others quickly evacuated the building. They then bring the fight outside as it was starting to pour down rain, Electro then blasts Spidey through an apartment window and crashes into a college student's room, Spidey cracks a witty joke to the student then heads back out into the fight only to discover that he had disappeared. There was then a citywide blackout and Spider-Man realized Max had taken out the Oscorp's Apply Energy power station to recharge himself. Spider-Man swung to the power station where he confronted Electro. While Spider-Man dodges Electro's attacks, Electro begins to solidify himself from all of the electricity that he's absorbing, making him more powerful. Spidey then gets hit by Electro and skids across the ground violently as he's landing. As Electro is absorbing more and more electricity, Spider-Man then formulated a plan to overcharge Electro like a battery. After getting a Electro's attention, he hides behind a wall while the fully charged Electro is looking for him. His plan almost succeed when Electro is alerted by Spider-Man's cellphone ringing. Electro then suddenly appears in front of him, grabs him and flew up in the air while holding Spider-Man by the throat. Spidey manages to break free and punches Electro repeatedly until they both land back on solid ground, causing a small explosion.
Spider-Man then immediately jumps up and lands a spinning kick to electro's face, causing another explosion and Spider-Man was flown back like a ragdoll and fly through a metal power grid. Spider-Man slowly gets up and head for the control room to turn on the generator. There, he finds an electrician named Brian B according to his name tag; who was hiding from Electro. Spider-Man then offered Brian his help of defeating Electro. Spider-Man was then shot out through the window by Electro and begins to grow in size. Spider-Man then tries to get Electro near the generator, while a Daily Bugle news helicopter appeared above them with Ned Leeds inside recording the whole battle with the camera. As Spider-Man and Electro began to fight for a second time, Spider-Man managed to reconnect the main power lines with his webbing and Brian turned the power back on. Electro was overcharged as planned, and promptly exploded. However the explosion created a chain reaction, causing the generators and the power grid towers to explode. The news helicopter that Ned Leeds and his camera man were in was hit by the shockwave of electricity and begins to spin out of control, Spider-Man sees this then quickly climbs up unto a roof and catches the helicopter with his webline and pulls it before the helicopter could hit the ground.
As the helicopter skids across the ground, the weaken and exhausted Spider-Man walks towards Ned Leeds and his camera guy. Ned thanked Spider-Man for stopping Electro and asked for an interview and Peter obliged. Ned Leeds then asked, "Who are you?" and "Why the mask?" Spider-Man explained that he accidentally received powers and wanted to do the responsible thing by using it to do good. And before the tired Spider-Man can say anything else, one of the grid towers explodes above them and begins to tumble down on them, Spider-Man quickly grabs both Ned and the cameraman on his back and runs away from the collapsing tower. After Ned notices they left the footage back at the helicopter, the camera man takes out the footage he caught on his phone to show Ned but immediately flies out of his hand, Ned then shouted out his name in fury. Spider-Man then jumps out of the way of the collapsing tower as it lands on the helicopter. Spider-Man then put Ned and the cameraman down and watches as the city's power began to turn back on and Spider-Man ensures that the police would come and pick them up and webswings away. Later on, Peter tries to get a hold of Gwen again but she doesn't respond back to his texts.
Reaction[]
Peter attends the World Unity Fair with Betty Brant while taking taking photos for the Bugle. Having a crush on her, Peter attempted to ask her out but but she turns him down, telling him she's dating Ned Leeds. However, the festival was attacked as their were people falling from a balcony when a new villain Green Goblin attacks the fair. Slipping into his suit, Spider-Man fights off the Green Goblin and saves several people from falling debris and catches a woman from falling and fights the Goblin. Seeing a child beneath the falling debris after Goblin sends out a missile from his glider, Spider-Man is too far to do anything about it. However, at the last moment, Captain Stacy pushes the child out of the way, getting buried under the rubble in the process. Spider-Man then defeats the Goblin but is forced to let him flee and rushes to George's aid, pulling him up onto the rooftops in order to get him to help. However, George has been fatally wounded and is about to die. Spider-Man unmasks himself to George as Peter Parker out of distress which confirms George's suspicions that the wall-crawler is really Peter Parker all along. As Captain Stacy is dying, Stacy admitted that he was wrong about Peter and that city does need him. He warns Peter that with being a superhero, he will make a lot of enemies and that people (sometimes closest to him) will get hurt. Before he dies, he made one final remark to Peter: to keep Gwen out of it for her own safety. Peter initially agrees to it and watches sadly as the captain passes away.
Spider-Man was later wrongfully accused by the media for Stacy's death, therefore (alongside Goblin), becoming a fugitive from the law. One week later, Peter and his Aunt May then goes to George Stacy's funeral and ignores Gwen the following days per her father's request. While Peter is left depressed, losing George in much the same way as his Uncle Ben. Parker blames George's death on himself and wonders if Spider-Man was somehow responsible for all the villains he encountered. And With his secret identity making his life impossible as well, Peter is considering hanging up the suit for good. A few days later, a conflicted Peter was walking home with Harry when they encounter a drive by shoot out between the police and Green Goblin's gang. Peter and Harry manages to find cover but Peter then leaves Harry and heads towards the shootout, telling him he's gonna take pictures for the bugle. Peter suits up as Spider-Man to stop the car chase. Spider-Man disables one of the gangs vehicles and quickly took out the thugs. However, just before Spider-Man was able to interrogate one of them, Green Goblin caught and dragged Spider-Man throughout the streets via his glider.
Eventually Spider-Man was able to break free from Goblin's grasp as Goblin offer a deal of working together. However, Spider-Man refuses the Goblin's proposal, the two engage in a fight. Spider-Man sustains deep cuts all over his body from one of the Goblin's weapons. With the Goblin's weapons and combat, including bombs that was filled with a gas that nullified his wall-clinging ability and spider-senses, he gains a slight advantage. The fight continues on the Williamsburg bridge where Spider-Man manages to save quite a few people from harms way, including successfully saving a bus full of civilians with his webline before they fall to their inevitable deaths. The fight continues at a nearby factory where Spider-Man begins to tire rather quickly then normal. Eventually, Goblin finally manages to ambush and defeat his adversary Spider-Man, successfully unmasking him to reveal his true face. Peter then quickly breaks from his restraints and escapes, Goblin gave chase but looses Peter in the process. Later, the unmasked Peter is seen sitting on top of the rooftop, thoroughly scared out of his mind for not just himself, but for his friends and family now that The Green Goblin knows who he really is under the mask.
Ultimatum[]
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When Peter returned home from school the next day, Osborn's personal assistant came to retrieve him, finding out that Norman Osborn extended an invitation to him. Aunt May lets him go and Peter rides in the back of the limo to the Osborn Penthouse where he was greeted by Harry at the front door. Harry tries to cheer his best friend up and talked about double-dating with Cindy and Gwen, but realizes that him and Gwen aren't together anymore, Peter tells him it was fine. Harry excused himself as Harry's father wanted to talk to him. Peter nervously entered Norman's room as his spider senses were going off, seeing him replaying the fight against Electro. Norman appeared before him and told Peter his Spider-Man days were over unless Peter accepts his "generous proposal". Revealing himself as the Green Goblin that Peter fought. Norman then began to argue that there's nothing that people like more than seeing a hero fail and they'll turn against him. Norman explained that since Norman has beaten him, Peter is his property and being uncooperative would lead to the deaths of Gwen Stacy, Aunt May, and even his own son Harry. Norman also warned he would torture him to the edge of death and let him recover just to repeat the process to strip him of his humanity. Thoroughly scared out of his mind, Peter left without dinner and returned home. Once home, Aunt May wondered about this trip and Peter reacted in anxiety. Peter was so scared over Norman's threat that he just hugged Aunt May.
A few days later, Peter remained being just Peter Parker and not Spider-Man for the time being and Aunt May noticed his recent behavior. He's coming home from school earlier now like she wishes from him but has been so reclusive, noting that he been acting "mopey", or more so than usual but Peter assures his aunt that everything's was fine. Unknown to Peter however, Harry tells Gwen the reason for Peter's flakiness was because of his photography position at Bugle, and helping his Aunt May, after hearing this, Gwen stops by the Parker residence to apologize to Peter for the misunderstanding. Even though Peter was very glad to see Gwen again however; he remembers the promise he made to Gwen's dying father and rejects Gwen, telling her they cannot have a relationship. Aunt May hears this and asked him why, but tells her that he's just no good for her but Aunt May goes out of the way to note how inherently good he is and convinces him to go after Gwen, which he does and the pair are back together when they both shared a kiss on Stacy's doorstep.
Spider-Man Strikes Back[]
Regaining confidence in himself again, Peter dons the Spider-Man suit again and declares the take down the Green Goblin once and for all. Before he could do that though, Spidey pays a visit to the new chief of police Capt. Jean DeWolff and tells her that Green Goblin and Kingpin are working together and set up a warehouse that the Goblin and Wilson Fisk are using to run guns into the city, with photo evidence to prove it as he did recon on the base prior. Even though Jean doesn't trust him at first, Peter convinces her enough to trust him and leads an attack on the base with Spider-Man covering them. As Jean and the police are shutting the down the criminal operation and taking arrests, Spider-Man heads deeper inside the base to find Fisk and Goblin but was met with resistance with Kingpin's Enforcers but Kingpin double crossed the goblin and had the enforcers terminate both Spider-Man and the Goblin. Goblin was put out of commission by Fancy Dan after shooting him with his dual pistols and Spider-Man was left alone to deal with the three while Kingpin and his partner Hammerhead escaped. Spider-Man succeeds in knocking out the Enforcers however and proceeds to fight the Green Goblin. During battle, Spider-Man was hit with Goblin's hallucinogenic gas to wear Spider-Man down but Peter managed to overcome it's affects. Peter attempts to revive the good-natured Norman within the Goblin, but to no avail. Peter engages the Goblin in combat and eventually deflects one of Goblin's pumpkin bombs which causes him to crash into a mixture of live wires and chemicals and a fire starts.
Spider-Man rushes over not wanting to kill him, but Norman doesn’t know where he is or why he’s in costume. Not wanting to destroy his reputation or Harry’s feelings, he’s quickly changed out of his costume for the police to take him to a hospital. Peter later meets up with Harry, Gwen and Cindy where they visit Harry's dad at the hospital. Harry tells Peter that he totally lost his memory and couldn't remember anything in the past six months, including his time being as a criminal (unknown to Harry); relieving Peter, hoping that'll be the last of the Green Goblin's reign of terror, reintroducing himself to Norman as Harry's best friend. Peter returned back home to May's that night with Gwen walking him home. Peter later visits his Uncle Ben's gravestone, understanding that he has a responsibility to continue protecting the city and Gwen as well and vows to continue protecting New York City as Spider-Man.
Season 2[]
New Year, New Problems[]
Peter’s following summer vacation had been spent taking down crooks and occasional Supervillains. The news and a local podcast station states that Spider-Man appearances are increasing. As Peter is getting used to the ins and outs of the superhero world, the public are divided on rather they should see Spider-Man as a menace or a savior to the people. However, Peter was still blamed by the media for Captain George Stacy’s death, declaring the new chief of police Captain Jean DeWolff to outlaw vigilantism in New York and formed a specialized police force to deal with criminal metahuman threats such as Spider-Man, despite him helping the police take down one of the Kingpin and the Green Goblin's criminal operations. However, the Goblin's body was never found and evidence that Wilson Fisk, a supposedly wealthy entrepreneur and esteemed benefactor is really the Kingpin at all were either wiped clean or not found either; further making Dewolff even more suspicious of Spider-Man. In an effort to clear his name, Peter doubled his efforts to fight crime, allowing Spider-Man to take over a majority of his life. At some point, Peter finds a second temporary summer job as a Pizza Delivery Boy, although Peter is thinking about quitting his current job at the Bugle due to Jameson’s smear campaign on Spider-Man. Meanwhile, buisinessman Sam Bullit is running for mayor in New York. He made a campaign ad that featured Spider-Man, promising to end public threats and vigilantism such as Spider-Man if chosen to office. This is all of course bad news for Peter, as anti-Spider-Man rhetoric in the city, and especially among the police force, makes web-slinging more difficult than ever.
Peter continues dating Gwen at the time. Even though her father Capt. Stacy requested him to avoid her in order for her to stay safe, Peter believes that he could protect her from any danger. But unknown to her, Peter sees a visions of her late father, Captain Stacy, making him feel guilty and conflicted. However, Peter promises that the same fate would not befall Gwen.
To Kill a Spider[]
While Spider-Man was swinging home, he is being ambushed by several flying explosive drones, sent by Spencer Smythe to measure the wall-crawler's abilities. The drones attempt to destroy Spider-Man, but he manages to stop them. Spider-Man clears the scene wondering who is after him this time. Elsewhere, Wilson Fisk is annoyed at Spencer for his failure. However, Spencer reassures him by showing him his Black Widow Spider Slayer robot, which he plans to use to destroy Spider-Man. While in class, the social studies teacher tasked the students to choose their hero and explain their reasons behind choosing that hero. Peter smirked at the idea as Peter himself is Spider-Man. However, Peter ultimately chose his Uncle Ben as someone he looks up to. Later at a gathering, Kong discussed his concern about meta-humans with Peter, Harry, Gwen, Kong and the rest of his peers. He theorized their appearance, especially Spider-Man is the prelude for more terrible things to come; "At least that's what J Jonah Jameson said" he added. While his classmates, particular Flash Thompson, were fans of Spider-Man, Peter pretended to believe his alter-ego to be a menace in order to distance himself from his secret identity in the eyes of others. Flash however, didn't take Peter's opinion on Spider-Man lightly. Out of nowhere, a new red-head student dressed in risqué clothing started arguing Kong's point of view. She rationalized that a person's talent is their power, regardless of supernatural abilities. Confused of her identity, the girl introduced herself as MJ. It's her first day. As Peter returned home to May, he discovers that MJ's also gonna be they're new next door neighbor.
Meanwhile, as Spencer prepares the Black Widow, Spencer shows his son Alister why he is working for Fisk. Fisk Industries offered to implant Allister with a makeshift metal spinal cord, giving him the ability to walk again if Spencer successfully destroyed Spider-Man. The following day, Kong decides to pull one of his usual pranks on Peter by kicking Peter while he's bending over his locker to prove his suspicion about Peter as Spider-Man to Flash. Peter sensed immediate danger, but also realized he had to take a hit to protect his identity. Unable to tolerate bullies, MJ came out to defend Peter. She pulled out a knife and threatened to stab Flash for future actions; unfortunately, MJ dropped her knife for everyone to see and was punished for carrying a concealed weapon in school.
Later in the day, Spider-Man was web-slinging across town when a thief took a woman's bag in broad daylight. Peter took the opportunity to take a part of his frustrations from Flash out on the thief. After taking down the robber, he returned the bag to the lady, but she ran off in fear of him. Coincidentally, JJ was also part of the crowd. Peter pretended he only recognized him now as the publisher of the Daily Bugle that slandered him. Instead of hurting him, he joked that his published works was hilarious. But as soon as JJ returned to his office desk, he discovers that his office chair was covered in web fluid with his butt was seemingly fused to his chair, an infuriated JJ came to a conclusion that Spider-Man must've pulled an elaborate prank on him, causing him to call Spider-Man a "feckless, treacherous, unhinged menace!" in outrage; much to Spidey's amusement. While in social studies class, they continued the discussion about metahumans and politics. Liz voiced her displeasure over the subject as she herself fears mutants.
MJ returned to class after her concealed knife incident. Both Peter and Harry was impressed with MJ as her personality made the teacher ignore her. Peter comes to one of his school's football games and meets up with Gwen on the bleachers, along side Harry and his date Cindy. Harry and Cindy later invites the pair to Coney along with others to celebrate the football game win. The next night, Peter, Gwen, MJ, Harry, Cindy, Randy Robertson go to Coney Island, while there, MJ starts to take Peter around, much to Gwen's displeasure, and the two have a fun time. Later, Flash puts on a fake Spider-Man costume to scare Parker. Unknown to both Parker and Flash, Spencer's spider seekers spot Flash in the costume and mistakes him for Spider-Man! As the fake Spider-Man arrives and threatens Parker, the Black Widow crash lands in front of them and targets Flash, but the real Spider-Man arrives to fight the Spider Slayer. Eventually the Black Widow renders Flash unconscious and takes him back to Horizon Labs where the fake Spider-Man was unmasked and revealed to be the famed high school football star Flash Thompson. Flash is shocked and quickly puts his mask back on. He gets up and runs away as Kingpin's task force arrives at the lab to eliminate the wall-crawler. The other men caught up to Flash and had him surrounded as Flash tries to back away.
Alistair questions the events as he thought they were turning Spider-Man over to the police. Spencer tells him that Fisk had other plans for him. Just as the men are about to execute Flash, the real Spider-Man arrives and stops them. One of the men summons the Black Widow, which battles Spider-Man once again. As the Kingpin's men continue to fight Spider-Man also, a fire breaks out. While one of the scientists takes Alistair out of the lab while Spencer stays and fight Spider-Man using the Black Widow. However, as the Widow is destroyed, Spencer tries the controls but nothing happens. He turns and finds the room filling with smoke.
In the rafters, Flash approaches Spider-Man and takes off his mask saying that he didn't look too good back there. Flash tells Spider-Man he was a big fan and apologizes for what happened. He worries that anyone will find out and asks him not to say anything. Spider-Man says he won't, and notes how much trouble this costume attracts. Spider-Man grabs him and swings away. Outside, the scientist pushes Alistair with other workers by their side. Alistair stops them and turns back to the smoking building wondering if his father got out. Just then, an explosion rocks the entire facility. The whole building is engulfed in flames and collapses. Alistair sits there stunned then turns away grimacing. The next day at school Peter watches, as Flash boasts about his experience. Peter, needing to keep his identity as Spider-Man secret, of course cannot say anything otherwise. Also, MJ takes an interest in Peter’s recent injuries tells her it was from the Black Widow attack at Coney Island. MJ gets very touchy with him and Gwen takes notice of this. Meanwhile Kingpin approaches Alistair, who is grieving after his father's demise. Kingpin offers a laboratory for Alistair to use to construct more Spider Slayers robots to destroy Spider-Man.
Personality[]
You! are very irritating.
Really? i like to think i'm more charming than irritating.
- — Doc Ock and Spider-Man
This version of Peter Parker is generally a mature, geeky, and very intelligent 16 year old kid. As Spidey, He is brave and righteous hero with an indomitable sense of justice and responsibility. To those in authority and the public, he is seen as an outlaw and vigilante, someone just as dangerous as those he has brought in. Before the death of his Uncle Ben, Peter was content with using his newly gained powers as a vehicle for fame and fortune, joining his school's football team and using his powers to help win several games, and even using them to win a wrestling match. During this time, Peter was arrogant and vain, caring about himself and his image more than doing the right thing, such as when he didn't stopped an armed Burglar because he simply just didn't care.
After the death of Uncle Ben, Peter learned what truly mattered in life and decided to use his powers not for fame or fortune, which led him to a path of heroism. Selfless and brave, Peter took the lessons from his late uncle to heart and used his powers with responsibility and protected civilians from the criminals and villains that would risk their safety. Peter is also almost incapable of doing anything evil or unjust, and will struggle against doing such things.
He tends to place himself as "The Jokester" in a situation where he'll crack a joke, which he often uses as a defense mechanism in dangerous situations, especially against his foes which get them to drop their guard, making them more susceptible to attack and oblivious to their impeding demise. Even at times where he's scared out of his mind or is in tense situations, he'll crack a one liner too light heart the mood as Spider-Man. But whenever a life is in danger, he will stop telling jokes and take the current situation seriously. Similar his 616 counterpart. He is a very intelligent specifically in science, mathematics, mechanics, biology, and physics. He is smart enough to perfect his father's webbing formula and is capable of constructing his own mechanical web-shooters. He gathers science books and novels such as The Hunger Games and The Hobbit in his room, along with his Spider-Man costume. Peter is capable to come up with clever strategies to beat his opponents due to his scientific expertise.
Peter is a friendly, good-natured, high-spirited and caring young man who shows his loved ones constant respect and affection. He is also socially awkward and sometimes gets nervous and babbles. As much as he hates crime and superhumans who use their powers for evil purposes, killing and torturing his enemies is the line he'll never cross, even though he did potentially killed Electro by overcharging him with energy. However, his killing of Electro wasn't intentional, but overcharging him seemed like it was his option to beat him at the time and had a strong belief that he would potentially harm others if he'd didn't. Peter is deeply loyal to his friends and families. Unfortunately his double life often prevents him from being near those he loves, and he can only use his photography position so many times. This causes many to feel that he is actually disloyal and flaky.
As much as he hates the thought that they think less of him he knows he must maintain the double life for their safety. Spider-Man's plight was to be misunderstood and persecuted by the very public that he swore to protect. J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of The Daily Bugle, launches an editorial campaign against Spider-Man. Despite the negative publicity and public reception, Peter continued on with his superheroics knowing that the job needed to be done whether people appreciated him or not.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
Spider-Man possesses the powers of a Spider, granted to him from an genetically modified spider. His DNA has been rewritten from that spider giving superhuman strength, speed, toughened flesh and numerous arachnid- like abilities. His powers include:
- Spider-Sense: Spider-Man possesses an extrasensory "danger" or "spider" sense which warns him of potential immediate danger by the manifestation of a tingling sensation at the base of his skull, and links with his superhuman kinetics, enabling him to evade most any injuries, unless he cognitively overrides his automatic reflexes. The sense also can create a general response on the order of several minutes: he cannot discern the nature of the threat by the sensation. He can, however, discern the severity of the danger by the strength of his response to it. His spider-sense is so powerful that he can even sense danger from literally miles away. Sudden and extreme threats can cause his spider-sense to react with painful intensity. Spider-Man can choose to ignore his spider-sense, and distraction or exhaustion can lose its effectiveness. Spider-Man's fighting style incorporates the advantage that his "spider-sense" provides him. His body begins to produce more adrenaline after the sense is triggered, an extension of the 'fight or flight syndrome. This ability is limitlessly passive and limitlessly uncontrollable and the sense also gives him other sensory abilities such as:
- Echolocation: When deprived of his eyesight, Spider-Man can use his spider-sense as a radar similar to the radar sense of Daredevil.
- Accelerated Perception: Spider-Man can see and hear anyone and anything at an accelerated rate. Spider-Man can see and hear things that travel at the speed of light or faster and react to it before it could even touch him.
- Vibration Sensation via Webbing: Spider-Man's senses evolved to the point that he is able to sense vibrations transmitted on his webbing. Spider-Man can utilize this to find beings or objects within buildings or other places by the vibrations they emit when moving.
- Superhuman Strength: Spider-Man possesses the proportional strength of a spider, allowing him to have significantly greater strength than that of ordinary humans and most superhumans, making it impossible for any normal human to overpower him, however with enough force, Spider-Man can be hurt by objects and weapons. Spider-Man's physical strength is sufficient to lift and throw objects as heavy as most standard automobiles with ease. He's so strong, that he is capable of breaking a door open with just a single kick. He could also pull apart guns, swing at high velocities on a rope or web, able to hold a van with one hand while hanging from a web and halt a large bus from crushing a civilian, even catching a flipped automobile. He must also pull his punches and kicks unless fighting someone of similar or greater physical durability. Otherwise, his blows would prove fatal to a normal human being.
- Superhuman Durability: Peter's body while not indestructible; is physically tougher and more resistant to some types of injury than the body of a normal human. His body is more resistant to impact forces than anything else. He can withstand great impacts, such as falling from a height of several stories, survive being thrown around violently at high speeds or being struck by a incredibly strong opponent, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no discomfort. While not invulnerable nor immune to pain, he is capable of sustaining a fall onto a car, withstand powerful lightning bolts, concussive shock waves and inhumanly strong strikes, only being momentarily stunned. He has even been hit through steel and brick walls and survived both with no injury other than a sore body.
- Superhuman Jumping and Leaping: Spider-Man's physical strength also extends into his legs, enabling him the ability to jump and leap to a height of several stories in a single bound. As a result of the spider's bite, Spider-Man can jump and leap much higher than a normal human, easily capable of jumping and leaping from one building over a street to the next.
- Superhuman Speed: Spider-Man possesses the proportionate speed of a spider, due to this, Spider-Man's reflexes are faster than an average human by about the factor of 40 (he is always able to dodge bullets at an accelerated rate that is so fast that they appear in slow motion) and is capable of running and moving at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. With his quick reflexes, it can help him in both hand-to-hand combat and shooting web. He could easily catch up with accelerating cars while on foot.
- Superhuman Senses: His senses appear to be heightened, especially when used in conjunction with his spider-sense. After getting his powers, he soon found that his eyesight was repaired, discarding his glasses. Whenever his spider-senses is triggered, he is able to see people or things a distance away and see anyone and anything at an accelerated rate however. While using his spider-sense, he can sense vibrations to detect potential enemies much like most real spiders. His senses are so sharp, that he can detect a hollow area under a solid steel floor by walking over it.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Spider-Man's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about 35 times greater than those of an ordinary human. In combination with his spider-sense, the speed of his reflexes allows him to dodge almost any attack, including gunfire, even in close range. his reflexes is so advanced, he could even dodge some multiple attacks from The Lizard and Electro's lightning bolts. Spider-Man's spider-sense allows him to preempt danger before it happens which helps him to react in advance.
- Superhuman Stamina: He has a greater stamina than a normal human meaning he can perform physical activities for an extended period.
- Superhuman Equilibrium: Peter is able to perfectly balance on any object no matter how small or narrow with little effort even with two fingers.
- Enhanced Hearing: Peter is able to hear any danger, via spider sense while he hear that it also may warn him of any danger. hearing is superhumanly acute and enables him to detect sound at virtually any frequency, and he possesses the potential to detect, sort out, and correctly identify sounds through thick steel doors, and across considerable distances.
- Superhuman Agility: Possessing the proportionate agility of a spider, Spider-Man is far more agile than normal humans and most other superhumans. He is able to perform acrobatic and gymnastic moves such as swinging from webbing around New York.
- Wall-Crawling: After being bitten, Peter's skin grows a sharp, "barbed" like material and this allows Peter to cling to surfaces (especially concentrated in his hands and feet) with an upper limit of several tons per finger. This ability appears to be consciously used. Although can be activated by stress or altered states of consciousness as seen once when he awakens from slumber. He is capable of using this combined with his strength to uproot objects from their place without having to fully use his hands.
- Healing Factor: Spider-Man's metabolism allows him to heal faster, more extensively and efficiently than normal humans and most other superhumans. After getting his powers, he soon found that his eyesight was repaired, discarding his glasses. Without treatment, most minor injuries heals in a matter of hours and serious injuries in a matter of days. He healed from the slashes that were on his chest and a gunshot wound to his left shoulder without medical attention. After his final battle with the Green Goblin, the wounds was completely healed the next day. It is unknown if his healing is fast enough to effect his aging.
- Night Vision: Spider-Man received enhanced night vision, allowing him to see in pitch-black conditions.
- Psychic Alignment with Arthropods: Peter's spider-sense improved, creating a psychic alignment with his environment, specifically a more emphatic and sympathetic relationship with spiders and insects. While connected to the varying populations of spiders, he is unable to communicate with them directly or command them however.
Abilities[]
- Peter, you don't need to study. You're, like, the smartest guy I've ever met.
- —Mary Jane to Peter Parker
- Genius-level intellect/Expert scientist/Skilled tactician: A keen-minded individual from a young age, Peter displayed a natural understanding and quick capacity to learn, making it hard for his Uncle, Ben Parker, to help Peter with his homework by the time the latter was 12. Peter is also very well-read, greatly impressing the award winning Curt Connors with his up-to-date knowledge on his technical and complex work with recombinant DNA, gene splicing, genetic reorganization, and radical mutation. He would go on to impress famed scientist and philanthropist Norman Osborn to where he offered him a position at Oscorp due to his high intelligence and knowledge in various fields. Peter goes from a science whiz in high school to a laboratory assistant of Dr. Curt Connors at Oscorp for a short period of time. He is smart enough to perfect his father's webbing formula and to construct working mechanical web-shooters at age 16. Upon starting his crime-fighting career, he created a device out of a cell phone to listen to police recordings about the crimes that are currently happening. Peter is also capable to come up with clever strategies to beat his opponents due to his scientific expertise. He also solves a formula that is key to creating the formula that mutates Curt Connors into the Lizard. According to Parker, his IQ is north of 250.
- Science Major: His knowledge of science has impressed the likes of Norman Osborn, Rihanna Warren, and Curt Connors. Considered a genius by Harry, MJ, and Gwen. He is a brilliant individual, with exceptional skill in practically every field of science, with expertise in applied science, chemistry, photonics, physics, biology, engineering, and mechanics. He is an accomplished chemist and physicist. He possesses enough confidence in this field to invent his trademark web-shooters.
- Expert Engineer: Parker has an affinity for working on and building computers, and has become an expert when it comes to creating new technology. As such, he constructed his own web-shooters along with his Spider-Man Suits. Peter has been able to use his amazing intellect and resources in his basement workshop to create many inventions such as his famous web-shooters and Spider-Tracers.
- Computer specialist: Peter is adept with computers, he was able develop a program on his mobile smart phone to help him track down criminals he was targeting via his Spider-Tracers.
- Skilled deceiver/Manipulator: Despite Peter's somewhat awkward demeanor, he can be deceiving if need be. Peter can conjure convincing excuses for his absences and injuries, such as when he blamed a dog for his limp when he was really still recovering from being stabbed in the leg by Lorina Dodson. Some people even doubted the Spider-Man's existence, namely Captain Stacy.
- Indomitable Will: Peter has a strong Force of Will, and is almost incapable of doing anything evil or unjust, and will struggle against doing such things.
- Skilled Photographer: Peter is a very skilled photographer and works for the Daily Bugle as a photographer.
- Skateboarding: Before the genetically-altered spider bite, Peter is a very skilled skateboarder and skated everywhere he went.
- Web-Slinging: Peter uses his web-shooters to travel by swinging on web-lines. He uses his superhuman speed and agility to swing high and rapidly from place to place. He seems to be able to cover much of the city in a considerable amount of time. Spider-Man was able to keep pace with Rocket Racer at his best speed.
- Skilled Acrobat/Free-running: Due to his superhuman agility, Parker is an excellent athlete, excelling in all gymnastic fields and being able to perform every acrobatic stunt ever performed, including others that can never be performed by even an Olympic acrobat thanks to his great strength and phenomenal equilibrium. Peter also uses his acrobatics to help fight his enemies with ease and to escape pursuit in his vigilante activities as Spider-Man.
- Skilled Combatant: While never trained extensively in hand-to-hand combat, Peter's powers combined with his intelligence and combat skills, Peter is able to utilize an devastating acrobatic fighting style that makes him a formidable opponent and allows him to easily take down thugs, cops and even the more physically powerful beings. Peter has defeated criminals, Flash Thompson, wrestlers such as Bonesaw McGee and Crusher Hogan, various meta-humans such Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, The Lizard, Sandman, and Kraven The Hunter. In battle, Peter tends to use punches and kicks.
- Skilled Marksman: Due to Spider-Man being a crime-fighter for over a year, he is a very skilled marksman; as he is able to aim at his targets by hitting them with his webs via shooting them from his Web-Shooters. He usually shoots to blind, silence, or restrain his opponents in battle. Peter is able ensnare and latch onto Vulture's Exo-Suit with little effort despite the rig moving at incredible speeds at times. He was also able to ensure Shocker's gauntlets with webbing to disable them from far away in mid air.
- Stealth: Despite his bright red and blue uniform, Spider-Man can effectively hide in the dark to avoid being seen, especially by police cruisers. He was able to survey Wilson Fisk's criminal base of operations and gather evidence without getting spotted.
- Knitting: After starting his crime-fighting career, Peter was able to create his own costume.
Strength[]
Class 10 or more. As Spider-Man has not fully grown into adulthood, he is not as strong as his Earth-616 counterpart yet, however he is portrayed as being sufficiently strong enough to lift conventional vehicles and cars. Spider-Man is currently capable of lifting 10-15 tons.
Weaknesses[]
- Limited Durability: Although Spider-Man is incredibly durable, he does have his limits. Objects, weapons or other superhumans with enough force can injure him.
- Limited Strength: Although Spider-Man is incredibly strong, he does have his limits. He was hardly able to match the Lizard in terms of physical strength.
- Spider-Sense Disruption: Spider-Man's Spider Sense can lose its effectiveness if it is blocked or temporarily weakened by specialized equipment, toxins or drugs. It also would not trigger if it detects something that is not registered as a threat like his friends or his aunt. When deprived of his spider-sense, Spider-Man becomes vulnerable to threats and attacks and web-slinging requires most of his concentration. This was shown when Green Goblin uses a special types of Pumpkin Bombs that emits a tranqulizing gas which nerfed his spider-senses.
- Bad Luck: Not exactly a flaw or a disadvantage in his crime-fighting, Peter Parker's life is generally a complicated one. Peter has been forced in numerous occasions to lie to people close to him, be late in his commitments, get away from people and so on for the sake of his secret identity. This inherent difficulty to get his superhero life a secrecy, matched with the number of superhuman events and beings in New York and simply coincidence has in turn, lead Peter to aggravate people around himself, even ones close to himself, and to, more often than not, run into trouble and embarrassment. As Peter often remarks whenever he misses an opportunity to better his social life, or even get to School on time, (due to his super-heroics), which Peter himself call this "Typical Parker Luck."
Paraphernalia[]
Equipment[]
- Web-Shooters: Peter created twin devices that he could strap to his wrists that were capable of shooting a special web fluid at high pressure and speed. This mechanism ejects an advanced adhesive, releasing web-fluid in a variety of
Peter Parker wearing his Spider-Man suit
configurations, including a single rope-like strand to swing from, a net to bind enemies, and a simple glob to foul machinery or blind an opponent. Also, Spider-Man moves through locations by shooting a web-line and attaching it to an object (most often a building). He then swings, shoots another web-line, attaches it, and repeats the process. The device has an LED light that lights up whenever Peter shoots his webs.
Web Fluid: A unique fluid developed by Peter that he uses to fuel his web-shooters, allowing him to shoot webs. According to Peter himself, web line’s tensile strength is estimated to be 120 pounds per square millimeter of cross section. On contact with air, the long-chain polymer knits and forms an extremely tough, flexible fiber with extraordinary adhesive properties. the webbing's tensile strength is stronger then both Steel and Kevlar combined. The webbing is so strong, that it can even hold an entire person up by a single string, stick someone onto a wall, stick something together and so on. The webbing is also more elastic than rubber. After approximately 3 hours, the fluid will lose it's adhesiveness and melt into liquid. Because the fluid almost instantly melts from solid to liquid when under shear pressure, and is not adhesive in its anaerobic liquid/solid phase transition point, there is no clogging of the web-shooter’s parts.
- Web-Cartridges: A utility belt that Spider-Man don't usually wear often, this belt is completely visible on the outside, it holds his web fluids in a way so he can easily make a quick reloading.
- Utility Belt: Peter wears a utility belt to hold his web cartridges, that are used to refill his web-shooters; when fighting crime as Spider-Man.
- Modified Camera: Peter Parker/Spider-Man possesses a camera that can take pictures automatically at high-speeds and Peter himself uses the camera to take pictures for the Daily Bugle.
Spider-Man's Suit: Using his knitting skills, Peter eventually crafts a costume that would become his 1st official Spider-Man suit. This make him more mobile when fighting crime or swinging around the city and to hide his identity. However, since the suit is mostly made from spandex, it does not offer much in terms of protection however as it can tear easily by impact with objects and more, but it is a major upgrade from the prototype suit however.
Former Equipment[]
- Proto Suit: Peter wore an outfit during his first few appearances as a small-time wrestler and eventually a vigilante crime fighter after pledging his life to becoming the heroic Spider-Man. This outfit is made out of some clothes of his and the design of it resembles that of Scarlet Spider's costume from the Mainstream Universe, albeit a more homemade version. It sported a blue cut out hoodie with a giant spider logo sprayed on at the center, r and a red long sleeve shirt under it. His mask is just a red ski mask with only his eyes showing, fingerless gloves, a pair of red and white running shoes and a pair of red sweatpants. Later on Peter would equip himself with his initial prototype web-shooters for traveling around the city and aiding him in crime fighting. The web-shooters can be visibly shown on both of his wrists.
- Gene Cleanser: An antidote Peter used to cure a scientist named Doctor Curtis Connors from his Lizard form.
- Skateboard: Peter owns a skateboard that he used to get to any location even before his spider bite. His board also expresses his love for science since he has written scientific equations and formulas all over its deck.
Transportation[]
- Web-Shooters: Spider-Man uses his web-shooters to travel by swinging on web-lines. Combined with his spider abilities, he can move at amazing speeds throughout the urban chasms of Manhattan.
Weapons[]
- Web-Shooters: Spider-Man's webs can be used to ensnare and immobilize his opponents in combat.
Notes[]
- This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of Astonishing Spider-Man and is an adaptation of Peter Parker/Spider-Man. The original character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15.
Trivia[]
- Peter's locker number is #15; this is a reference to Amazing Fantasy #15, Peter's origin story and debut in the comics.
- Peter was born on August 10 1997.
- Peter listens to indie rock music.
- Peter Parker is 16 years old in this universe.
- Peter mentions that he wants to become a scientist when he grows up and planned to work at Oscorp someday.
- Peter hates sour cream on his tacos.
- Parker is a fan of the film Rear Window, as seen by a poster in his room.
- Peter's favorite movie franchises are "The Lord of the Rings" and "Star Wars". He even has a frame photo of him and his Uncle Ben building a Lego model of a Death Star when he was a child.
- Peter in this universe was bitten by the genetically-enhanced spider while in Oscorp, like his Amazing Spider-Man movie counterpart.
- Spider-Man's costume in this series was inspired by the one featured in the 2012 film, The Amazing Spider-Man.
- Peter Parker was originally gonna have organic webshooters instead of mechanical webshooters in this adaption but this idea was later scrapped to show off his intelligence.
- Peter Parker has been Spider-Man for at least a year in.
- When he was a child, Peter used to believe that his parents were secret agents and that the supervillain Red Skull was the one that organized their deaths.
- Peter enjoys old films such like Paper Moon (1973) and Rear Window (1954) and collects memorabilia from them.
- This version of Peter Parker is also Christian.
- The Wrestler Costume Peter has constructed bares a striking resemblance to Ben Reilly's original Scarlet Spider outfit from the 90's.
- This version of Spider-Man potentially appears in Spider-Geddon #4 as part of the multiversal Spider-Army assembled to fight the Inheritors. It can be presumed that Peter took part in the final stand against the Inheritors, and was then sent back to his home reality following their defeat. It's unkown when this event took place within Earth-12199's timeline but it could be assume that this took place between season 1 and 2.
- There's a running gag throughout the series that he is small and scrawny looking, possibly due to only being a teenager.