Spider-Man (Raimiverse)

Peter Benjamin Parker

• Superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, and durability
• Precognitive Spider-Sense that warns him of danger
• Hairs on hands and feet allow him to scale any surface
• Organic webbing generated in spinnerets in wrists
• Mild healing factor

• Spider-Sense can be overloaded by imminent catastrophic danger or through deliberate manipulation of microwave frequencies

As Spider-Man, Peter is proven to be a brave and righteous hero with an indomitable sense of justice and responsibility. Since the death of his wise and beloved uncle, Ben Parker, Peter's vow of responsibility had led him to a path of heroism and humanitarianism.

To those in the authorities, Peter (under the persona of Spider-Man) was seen as an outlaw and vigilante, someone just as dangerous as those he brought in. Over the years, he gradually became respected by the authorities, those are the NYPD and NYFD, as well as the citizens of New York City, despite J. Jonah Jameson considering him a masked menace.

Peter is individualistic as he works by himself. This was caused when he was a social outcast in his youth. This had gradually lessened when he became best friends with Harry Osborn and then the boyfriend of Mary Jane Watson.

Peter also has a sense of humor, and often cracks jokes as Spider-Man, such as fighting Bonesaw McGraw, making a joke to insult him and his wrestling uniform, and when fighting supervillains, such as Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Sandman.

Peter was originally shy and awkward towards his life-long crush, Mary Jane, as he had a hard time talking to her and making conversations with her. Since he didn't want her to get hurt by his enemies, he wanted to be friends with her, but after Mary Jane discovers his superhero identity, she decides to be with him no matter what risks can be caused.

Peter Parker was born in August 1983 to Richard and Mary Parker, who died in a plane crash when he was just four years old. After being taken in by his uncle Ben and his aunt May, Peter grew up in Queens, New York City to be an incredibly intelligent but socially inept high school student. His best friend was his classmate Harry Osborn, and he harbored a crush for his next-door neighbor Mary Jane Watson. He also formed a close relationship with Norman Osborn, Harry's overbearing father who viewed Peter as more promising and impressive than his own son.

While attending a field trip to a science lab, Peter was bitten by a genetically engineered super spider, which mutated his cells and gave him spider-like abilities, including enhanced strength and durability, the ability to stick to walls with his bare hands, and shooting strong web-like fluid from his wrists. Wanting to impress Mary Jane and earn money, he became a masked wrestler known as "The Amazing Spider-Man". After his first match, however, the wrestling ring refused to pay him, and so he allowed a thief robbing the place to escape.

Unbeknownst to Peter, the thief assaulted and murdered his Uncle Ben later that night. Overcome with guilt, Peter was forced to truly accept the meaning of Ben's lessons of power and responsibility that he'd tried to teach him. With that in mind, he then decided to take the Spider-Man identity and become a super hero with his abilities. Saving people and stopping crime all around New York City, Spider-Man became a quickly recognized hero of the city, celebrated by most. By setting up cameras around the city to photograph his deeds as a hero, Peter also got a job as a photographer for the Daily Bugle, under the control of the shrewd J. Jonah Jameson, who hated Spider-Man and wished to paint him as a menace.

Soon after Peter's graduation from high school, the sadistic and vicious super villain known as the Green Goblin emerged and began causing chaos across New York City, armed with a mechanical glider, green body armor, and explosives, along with enhanced strength. Peter battled the Goblin as Spider-Man on a few occasions, with the Goblin even trying to convince Spider-Man to join him in his quest of anarchy. Spider-Man turned him down and their rivalry grew, leading to the Goblin eventually discovering Peter's identity and attacking his aunt in her home, then kidnapping Mary Jane and nearly killing her.

The two engaged in their final battle, a vicious brawl that led them to an abandoned building and resulted in them both being badly beaten and battered. Peter discovered that the Goblin was in fact Norman Osborn, who had formed a monstrous dual identity in a lab experiment. When Norman tried to attack Spider-Man from behind with the blades on his glider, he jumped out of the way and they pierced through Norman's stomach, fatally wounding him. As he bled out, he pleaded that Peter not tell Harry about his identity as the Green Goblin, and died shortly after. Honoring his dying words, Spider-Man brought his body to the Osborn home and left without saying anything, leading to Harry vowing revenge on Spider-Man as his father was laid to rest.

Two years later, Peter had started college and moved into his own apartment, but began struggling balancing his personal life with his work as Spider-Man. He was fired from his job as a pizza delivery boy, began showing late for class and missing his homework, and began missing meeting up with his friends and event Aunt May. He began to feel stressed out and exhausted, pushed further when his idol, the physicist Otto Octavius, was driven insane after a set of mechanical tentacles were fused to his body in an explosion and began warping his mind.

Once the press had dubbed him "Doctor Octopus", Octavius went on a crime spree across the city to attempt to rebuild his fusion reactor, the machine that caused the explosion, despite its potential to destroy New York. Spider-Man battled Doctor Octopus, but this combined with the pressure of everything else, including Mary Jane getting engaged to Jameson's son and moving on from him, began to fuel Peter's emotional instability, and at the height of his stress, his spider powers began failing him. He decided he didn't want to be Spider-Man anymore and began enjoying his life again, doing well in class and reconnecting with Mary Jane and May, as Doc Ock continued to terrorize the city.

While trying to reconnect with his aunt, he revealed that his selfish actions had led to Ben's death, which May, at first hurt, forgave Peter for, and her words about heroism and truth made Peter reconsider his position about not wanting to be Spider-Man. When he began reconnecting with Mary Jane later at a coffee shop, the two began to consider their romantic feelings for the other. This was interrupted by Doctor Octopus, however, whom Harry had told to find Peter if he wanted to find Spider-Man, since Peter took pictures of Spider-Man for the Daily Bugle. Doc Ock kidnapped Mary Jane and told Peter to have Spider-Man meet him at the clock tower later. Accepting his fate, Peter realized he'd have to sacrifice his happiness to do the right thing, and so became Spider-Man once more to fight Doctor Octopus.

Spider-Man arrived at the clock tower and battled Doctor Octopus in a long, ferocious fight that ended in Doc Ock's victory and him taking a chained-up Spider-Man to Harry's home, where he acquired the rare mineral tritium to power his completed reactor in exchange for delivering Spider-Man. Harry, still furious at Spider-Man over his father's death, prepared to kill him, but first removed his mask to see his best friend underneath.

Shocked and betrayed, he allowed Peter to go free when Peter explained he had to stop Octavius to save the city. Spider-Man arrived at Doc Ock's lair where he had Mary Jane next to the activated machine, and the two fought one last time before Octavius unmasked Peter and was convinced to try and wrest control of his tentacles. Once he did so, he was forced to pull his reactor into the river to stop it, and he drowned with his creation, saving the city.

Peter saved Mary Jane just in time, revealing his identity to her, and explaining that they could never be together as long as he was Spider-Man because of the risks, despite him loving her dearly. However, Mary Jane declared her love for him too, called off her wedding with Jameson, and convinced him to be with her despite the risks.

Months went by, and life became easier for Peter, as the city began to embrace him for the first time in his career, he was once again the top of his class and he was planning to propose to Mary Jane. However, his friend Harry who had learned his secret attacked him. Peter was forced to defend himself and knock Harry out. Peter would learn that the head injury would give Harry amnesia. Around this time, he discovered that the real killer of his uncle was Flint Marko, who later became the Sandman. While on a date with Mary Jane, an alien symbiote attached itself to Peter Parker's costume. It increased his strength but influenced his behavior for the worst. He fought Marko again and seemingly killed him. Once Harry regained his memory Peter and he fought, this time ending with Peter disfiguring Harry's face with a pumpkin bomb.

After some time, Peter got rid of the symbiotic costume when he learned it was slowly corrupting him, but the symbiote would survive after nearly being destroyed by Peter and bonded itself to Eddie Brock, transforming him into the monster known as Venom. The monstrous Venom kidnapped Mary Jane, and when Spider-Man attempted to save her he was brutally beaten by the combined powers of Venom and Sandman. He was saved by Harry, who had seen the error of his ways and decided to help Peter fight Sandman and Venom. When Venom attempted to impale Peter, Harry jumped in front of the glider, mirroring the way his father died. Peter then used one of Harry's pumpkin bombs that ended up annihilating both the symbiote and Eddie Brock, whom Peter tried to save despite everything that Brock had put him through. In the end, he forgave Marko for killing his uncle, and attempted to rekindle a relationship with Mary Jane. Years after the death of Harry, Peter and Mary Jane had made their relationship work, despite the complications of Peter's obligations as Spider-Man.