Spider-Man (Marvel)/Synopsis

This is the story of the web-slinging superhero, Spider-Man, from Marvel Comics.
==History==
===Early life===
Peter Benjamin Parker was born to his parents, Richard Parker and Mary Parker, but soon became an orphan at the age of six when his parents were killed in the airplane accident overseas. He went to live with his beloved Uncle Ben Parker and Aunt May Parker, in Forest Hills, New York City. Peter was extremely smart and bright in science which is one of his favorite subject, having won several scholarships and became a high honored student at Midtown High School, but Peter's shyness and scholastic interest often made him a social outcast led by his high school bully, Flash Thompson along with his classmates.
===Becoming Spider-Man===
While attending a public science exhibition, demonstrating the safe handling of nuclear laboratory radioactivity waste material, sponsored by the General Techtronics Corporation, Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider that had been irradiated by a radiation particle accelerator used in the demonstration. Then suddenly, Peter discovers that he has superhuman spider-powers and abilities from the radioactive spider that bit him such as superhuman strength, speed, agility, jump, reflexes, stamina, durability, coordination, and balance, wall-climbing ability to climb on walls and roofs like a spider, and sensing danger with his precognition ability called "spider-sense"; these spider-power traits caused him to immediately associated with the spider bite as Peter decides to test out his superpowers.
Encountering an ad offering a cash prize for staying with a professional wrestler in the ring for three minutes, Peter decided this would be an excellent way to test his powers. Wearing a mask to avoid potential embarrassment, Peter used his superpowers to easily defeat his opponent in a first match. A TV producer observed his performance and convinced him to go on television with his 'act.' Peter begins to develops a web fluids that allows him to shoot his artificial spider-webbing of his own design through small, wrist-mounted devices and calls them "web-shooters". Peter creates a red and blue spider-themed costume with a mask on in order to hide his secret identity, and calls himself "Spider-Man", becoming an immediate sensation.
Spider-Man made his first appearance on television, but failed to act to stop an escaping thief, claiming that it was not his responsibility to do so. Peter forgot the incident as his fame rose, but one night he returned home to learn that Uncle Ben was shot and killed by a criminal when he surprised him. Enraged, Peter changes back into Spider-Man costume and web-swings into action across the city to hunt down his uncle's killer having learned that the police had the burglar responsible held up in a warehouse which he knew where it's located since it's been deserted for several years. Spider-Man manages to track him down and fiercely overpowers him by knocking him out with one punch, before Spider-Man can kill him, he is shocked to realize that his uncle's killer was the same thief he let escape, which Peter inadvertently has led to the cause of his uncle's death. After handing the criminal to the police, a guilt-ridden Peter breaks into tears, blaming himself for not stopping him when he had the chance. Filled with remorse, Peter realized that "with great power comes great responsibility", this motto inspires Peter to use his spider-powers to fight crime by becoming a masked-spider-costumed vigilante superhero known as Spider-Man.
===Taking on Great Responsibility===
Spider-Man starts using his spider-powers to fight crime, but the first problem he faced as Peter Parker, was the lack of money, due to his Uncle Ben's death, despite becoming a web-slinging superhero.
Because his Aunt May was too weak to work and Peter was seen as fragile, he decided to get a job, even though Aunt May wanted him to become a scientist instead, but was unaware that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Peter even thought about using his superpowers of a spider, as Spider-Man, for crime, but snaps out of it, and decided against it after thinking about how his Aunt May would react to Peter in jail if he ever does so.
However, it was seeming impossible to Peter Parker to find a job to pay his growing debts. Spider-Man attempts to continue his career as a TV star, but was not able to, due to J. Jonah Jameson, the loud mouthed arrogant editor and owner of the NOW magazine and the newspaper Daily Bugle. Jameson started a campaign against Spider-Man, stating that he was a bad influence on children and a criminal for taking justice by his hand, referring to the situation with the burglar. These protests start taking effect and turning the public against Spider-Man, causing Spidey's manager to leave him, impeding him to get money even as Spider-Man.
Peter searched through the wanted ads, only to be rejected by all the employers. Not being able to use his superpowers as Spider-Man infuriated Peter, and his fury only intensified after seeing his Aunt May selling her jewelry to try and earn some money.
Spider-Man's first heroic action was to save Jameson's astronaut son, John Jameson, from an accident in a deviated space capsule. Spider-Man hitched a ride on a small airplane, spun a web to pass by a capsule, and then climb aboard. Spidey then attached the missing capsule piece- allowing it to land safely. Although Spider-Man helped to save John, Spidey was still blamed by an ungrateful J.J. Jameson for the accident. Later, trying to find a way to make some money, Spidey tried to intrude into the Baxter Building, battling the Fantastic Four, as a way of showing them his power, but the team refused Spider-Man's entry after explaining to him that they did not get paid for their actions and that they were a family, not an enterprise.
Later that day, the Russian criminal and master of disguise known as the Chameleon used Spider-Man's identity to steal defense missile plans. The real Spider-Man was used by Chameleon as a pawn to escape the scene without problems. After avoiding the capture by the police, Spider-Man defeats Chameleon in a helicopter and attempts to hand over the criminal to the police, but Chameleon escapes to avoid being arrested, and tries to disguise as a police to find his way out, but however, Spider-Man used his spider-sense to sense and see through the disguised Chameleon. Spider-Man grabs Chameleon, but however, Chameleon tries once again to frame Spider-Man by making the police to think that Spider-Man is a crook as Chameleon, and the police tried to stop Spider-Man from attacking one of "their officers", just as Chameleon planned, but Spider-Man defeats Chameleon by inadvertently tearing up the Chameleon's police jacket revealing his phony Spider-Man costume underneath, thwarting him and his evil plans once again. Peter finally found a way to make money when the Daily Bugle asked for photos of the winged criminal known as the Vulture. Spider-Man defeat the villain, not only that, Peter also found a way to take photos of himself as Spider-Man, which caused J.J. Jameson to hire Peter to get him pictures of Spider-Man, under the condition that the publicist would not ask Peter how he took the pictures.
Early in his career, Spider-Man fought and defeated another few supervillains including the mysterious Tinkerer, Doctor Octopus or known as "Doc Ock", a good scientist who in an accident had four extra metallic arms attached to his back, Sandman, a criminal turned into the sand with shapeshifting powers, Doctor Doom, the arch-enemy of the Fantastic Four, the Lizard, a brilliant scientist turned a giant reptile; the Fox (in his first team-up with the Human Torch); the Living Brain (a machine gone crazy), Electro, a former electrician who in an accident was turned into a human battery, Big Man and his Enforcers, Mysterio, an illusionist who tried to make Spider-Man seen as a criminal, the Green Goblin, a mad criminal who possess the enhanced goblin-powers and abilities and as well as his pumpkin bombs, gadgets, and his levitated glider, wants to be the new king of the underground and will soon become Spider-Man's arch-enemy, the most deadliest foe at the time, and Kraven the Hunter, who tried to hunt Spider-Man. Several of these villains would form the Sinister Six, under the leadership of Octavius himself, a team who tried to get Spider-Man by kidnapping Aunt May and trying to force Peter to "call" Spider-Man, but they failed, having fallen defeat at the hands of Spider-Man.
During this time, Peter dated Betty Brant of the Daily Bugle, although Liz Allan had a crush on him. At the same time, both Peter's Aunt May and their neighbor, Anna Watson, were constantly encouraging Parker to date Anna's niece, Mary Jane Watson.
Before his high school graduation, Spider-Man continued to fight off menaces, including the Circus of Crime, Scorpion, the Beetle, again Mysterio (who pretended to be a renowned psychiatrist in an attempt to make Spider-Man believe he was insane), Spencer Smythe's Spider-Slayers, the Crime-Master, and the Molten Man. He also assisted the Avengers in defeating a Spider-Man robot created by Kang.
===A Hero in the University===
Peter Parker eventually graduated from high school and was enrolled at Empire State University on a science scholarship, meeting new classmates in university such as his best friend Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy. Even though he got off to a bad start with them, due to being worried about his Aunt May's illness, finally Peter became friends with them, as well as his high school bully, Flash Thompson. Spider-Man fights and easily defeats criminals who works for the Green Goblin, who returns after a period of absence and discovered Spider-Man's secret identity, kidnapping him and revealing his alter-ego, Norman Osborn, Harry's father. Spider-Man fought and defeated the Green Goblin later on by sending him to a disconnected and high-voltage wires that were socked in chemicals, causing Norman to suffer amnesia as he couldn't be able to remember either Spider-Man's alter-ego, or his Green Goblin persona
During that time, Spider-Man fought new foes such as the Cat Burglar; the Rhino, a villain in an armored suit who tried to kidnap John Jameson; Shocker, a criminal with shock wave gauntlets; as well as teaming up with Dr. Strange to defeat the wizard known as Xanadu. Also, Peter finally met Mary Jane Watson, but at that time he was interested in Gwen, so Mary Jane would start dating Harry. Weeks after the return of Kraven the Hunter and battling a new Vulture, Peter started wondering if he may be better off not being Spider-Man, leaving his Spider-Man costume behind. Crime rose and a Kingpin appeared in NY, who abducted J. J. Jameson. Peter was forced to return his red and blue Spider-Man suit and his heroic identity as Spider-Man.
A mystical artifact called the Tablet of Life and Time, exhibited in ESU was stolen by Kingpin, the Tablet passed over many people who tried to get it, including Spider-Man, Shocker (who was working for Kingpin), and Man Mountain Marko (who was working for the Maggia family). Finally, the Tablet got to the Maggia boss, Silvermane, who forced Doctor Curt Connors to translate the tablet. Connors managed to create a powerful rejuvenation serum from it. Silvermane drank it and became a young man again. But the serum made Silvermane regress beyond birth. Meanwhile Connors, as the Lizard, escaped.
===The Death of the Stacys===
Soon after, Doctor Octopus managed to get his metallic arms again and broke free from prison. After Spider-Man thwarted his attempt to hijack a plane, he started attacking the city's main power plant. Although Spider-Man escaped from Ock, Spider-Man was attacked by surprise by Ock the next day. They battled on a rooftop and Spider-Man used augmented web fluid designed to negate Ock's tentacles from properly communicating with him which unfortunately go out of control and destroy a stone chimney Captain Stacy died while saving a child from falling debris. Before dying, Stacy revealed to Spider-Man that he knew his identity, and asked him to take care of Gwen which he promises to do but blames himself for his death, having come to see Captain Stacy as the closest thing he's had to a father since his uncle's murder.
Being accused of Stacy's death, Spider-Man faced some heroes who wanted to take him to authorities, such as one of the members of the superhero mutant X-Men, Iceman and the beginner hero The Prowler. Peter even went to London to prevent Gwen's departure forever, after her father's death though ultimately didn't approach her as he had been forced to act as Spider-Man while there and feared she would figure out his identity as if Spider-Man and Peter Parker are one and the same in London.
Things got worse. Harry fell into LSD addiction and Peter and Mary Jane took care of him. This problem made Norman Osborn remember his Green Goblin persona and returned to him, battling Spider-Man, who manage to manipulate the Goblin by making him decline his alter-ego after seeing the dire status of his son. Soon after Gwen would return from London and the two resumed their romantic-relationship.
With his secret identity lately making his life impossible, Peter tried to give up being Spider-Man to be with Gwen and created a cure for his powers, but instead it made him grow four extra arms, although he's still retain his powers. With the help of Curt Connors, he tried to find a cure, fighting Morbius the Living Vampire, a human to accidently injected the bat serum on himself that transforms him into a vampire with superhuman abilities and his alter-ego in the process. Spider-Man finally returned to normal while retaining his spider-powers and his youth, even if it meant interfering in a gang war between Doctor Octopus and and a new villain Hammerhead and battling Hulk (whom Spider-Man fought for the third time ever since his first encounter with his nemesis, Green Goblin) in Canada.
Norman Osborn's memory of his alter ego and insanity began resurfacing in the stress of his company going under and Harry's struggle through withdrawal, and he blamed Spider-Man for these events and so he became the Green Goblin and kidnapped Gwen Stacy. Spider-Man found them at the Brooklyn Bridge, where they fought and the Goblin knocked Gwen off the bridge. Tragically she died when Spider-Man attempted to stop her fall with a web-line to her leg, the sudden stop, and whiplash breaking her neck. The Goblin fled, and Spider-Man swore revenge and begins searching for him. The vengeful Spider-Man attacks the Green Goblin again and nearly beats him to death in a battle but stops himself from killing him not wanting to become a monster like the Goblin, who then attempts to summon a glider to ambush Spidey from behind, but Spider-Man used his spider-sense to sense an incoming attack, and dodges it, and the glider instead kills the Goblin accidentally at the end of the battle, the Green Goblin was presumed dead (apparently) for 23 years. With Peter deeply affected by Gwen's death, Mary Jane chose to help and be there for Peter through his grieving.
Being accused of the death of both Stacys, and as well as Norman Osborn whose bodies had been found void of the Goblin equipment, Spider-Man was confronted by heroes such as Power Man/Luke Cage, and The Punisher. Later, it was revealed that Harry had suffered a psychotic break upon discovering his father's dead body and had been the one to remove the equipment and had discovered Peter's secret identity and became jealous of the time Mary Jane had been spending with Peter. After blowing up their apartment, he kidnapped Flash Thompson, Mary Jane, and Aunt May. Spider-Man managed to find him at his father's old home and defeated him, but refuse to kill his best friend, but instead leaves him to the authorities. Harry was sent to an asylum where therapy cured him of his mental breakdown and developed partial amnesia, and forgot Peter's secret.
===The Clone Saga===
After finding a new apartment, Peter began a relationship with Mary Jane though their romance hit a snag when, after returning from a trip to France, Peter found Gwen Stacy waiting for him outside his apartment. With the help of Ned Leeds, Spider-Man found out that this Gwen was a clone created by the Jackal, who after defeating Spider-Man with the help of Tarantula, was revealed to be Peter's professor Miles Warren.
After kidnapping Leeds and Spider-Man, Warren explained to the hero that he had loved Gwen and blamed Spider-Man for her death. And after managing to clone a frog, he used a blood example obtained from a class project from Gwen to do the same. Later, Spider-Man was left unconscious in a stadium, and awoke to find himself face to face with his clone whose creation had led to the Jackal learning Peter's secret identity and the Jackal reveals he had given the clone identical memories of Spider-Man leading up to the confrontation and that he no longer knows which is the clone and which is the original. The two battled in blind fear of being the clone while also attempting to save Ned from a bomb. Then, Gwen's clone made Jackal realize everything he had done was wrong, and then sacrificed himself to save Ned from the bomb's explosion which killed him and the Spider-Clone.
After this Peter was left in turmoil over not knowing rather or not he was the original or the clone and so went to Kurt Connors to run tests to determine what he was through in the end during a moment of crisis when his mind drifted to Mary Jane, he realized he must be the original since he possessed an emotional attachment to her while the clone would only have memories to draw upon. Content with this knowledge, Parker chose not to look at the results of the tests and took the corpse of his clone and buried it in an industrial chimney, while the clone of Gwen Stacy left New York.
Later, Betty Brant married Ned Leeds. Spider-Man faced Harry's psychologist, Bart Hamilton, who became the third Green Goblin and had captured and framed Harry to have retaken the Green Goblin Identity, after various encounters, died in an explosion during a fight with Harry. Peter proposed marriage to Mary Jane, but she would not accept, making their relationship falter and MJ went to Florida with her Aunt Anna. Meanwhile, Spider-Man meets a female cat-burglar named Felicia Hardy also known as the Black Cat, they star off as enemies, but soon became crime-fighting partners.
Spider-Man managed to clear his name, while Peter Parker graduated from ESU and entered his graduate studies. Also, Spencer Smythe, the creator of the Spider-Slayers, died from illness after trying to kill Spider-Man and Jameson, the men he blamed for ruining his life.
===A "friend" from outer space===
As Peter continued to live on his own, his Aunt May decided to transform her home into a senior citizens' boarding house. At one point Spider-Man began a romantic relationship and heroic partnership with the Black Cat, developing feelings for her, strong enough to the point that when she was hospitalized following an encounter with Doctor Octopus that he took a break from college to afford her treatment.
Spider-Man was among the heroes kidnapped by the powerful Beyonder to fight in his "Secret Wars". When his costume was damaged, Spider-Man tried using the futuristic technology on the Beyonder's planet to repair it, and instead, replaced it with an alien "symbiote" which transformed into a black version of Spider-Man's costume, perhaps based on that of the newly appeared Spider-Woman. Peter used the symbiote for his costume, which was capable of transforming into street clothing as well as generating webs. Soon after his return, he decided to drop out of ESU which caused a strain on Aunt May and she ceased talking with Peter for a time. Later, Mary Jane returned to Peter's life which also strained his relationship with Black Cat due to her jealousy of Mary Jane.
Afterward, a man named Puma dislocated Spidey's arm. Spider-Man passed out pushing it back into place. Black Cat saved Peter from Puma and left Peter at home. MJ came over to visit because she thought Peter felt let down by something and tried to have some fun. But Peter shoved MJ out of the door when his Spider-Sense went off. Just as Peter shut the door, Puma crashed in. During the battle in another building, Puma confirmed that Spidey's web was organic. After the battle, Peter returned home and Mary Jane told him that she knew that Peter Parker was Spider-Man all this time. Peter tried to convince her that she was wrong, but Black Cat came in and MJ left. Cat said MJ is nobody, and Peter snapped at her. When she started to leave the suit webbed her hand, Felicia (thinking he'd done this on purpose) decided to stay. Peter noticed that the costume behaved strangely, so he sought help from the Fantastic Four's Mister Fantastic, who discovered the costume was a living organism. He helped remove the costume by force, and kept it at the Fantastic Four's headquarters in captivity.
The symbiote would later escape, attempting one final time to merge with Peter after tricking him into putting it on after imitating one of his Red-and-Blue costumes and was driven off by the vibrations of a church bell through as a last favor to Peter, it pulled him to safety before abandoning him and merging with one of Spider-Man's critics, Eddie Brock, creating the villain, Venom who would stalk Spider-Man from the shadows for a while before revealing himself. Shortly after this, the Black Cat would take it upon herself to make cloth-based copies of the Black Suit as she found said design more appealing than his usual costume and gave them to Peter as a gift though due to his experience with the symbiote he was hesitant to wear any of them and only gave in after his last remaining Red-and-Blue suit was badly damaged. Peter began to become suspicious of Black Cat's recent secretive behavior regarding her newfound powers and after an ordeal with the Wilson Fisk where her bad luck powers nearly got him killed and her continued refusal to talk about them, he chose to end their relationship due to this as well as her disdain towards his real identity.
As Spider-Man, Peter met and fought alongside nearly every hero in Manhattan, if not the world. Although he fought alongside the Avengers many times, he tried to join their number when he learned of the financial stipend their members received. Peter helped them stop an invasion and subsequent breakout of the energy research and villain internment facility, Project Pegasus. Spider-Man was deemed, however, to disrupt the team's cohesiveness (perhaps due to either his loner nature, lack of experience, or annoying sense of humor), and was denied membership. Later, however, Spider-Man met the international mercenary Silver Sable, often working on her behalf.
Soon after, Peter and Mary Jane resumed their relationship and he proposed again this time she accepted and they were married. Soon after their return from their honeymoon Spider-Man was seemingly killed by Kraven and buried alive for 2 weeks in a coma-like state while Kraven took on his identity when he finally awoke confronted Kraven in a final confrontation before capturing Vermin who Kraven had captured single-handedly and instilled a fear of Spider-Man. Venom would finally makes his appearance by confronting Mary Jane in her apartment and traumatizing her to the point that she begged Peter to stop wearing and destroy the Black Suit replicas given to him by the Black Cat and so Peter returned to wearing his traditional costume before confronting Eddie Brock who he defeated by forcing the symbiote to choose between Peter and Eddie with the symbiote being so conflicted that it caused a chain reaction that knocked the symbiote and Eddie out cold.
Jonathan Ceasar, a highly influential multi-millionaire who owned their apartment building, became obsessed with Mary Jane and kidnapped her, locking her away inside their apartment building for some time until she escaped and he was put in prison though he used his influence to evict them from their apartment and have Mary Jane blacklisted from getting modeling jobs and they were forced to move in with Aunt May briefly. Peter's old friend Harry Osborn leased the couple a loft in the condo that Harry and his family were also living in. Mary Jane's cousin Kristy also temporarily moved in with the Parkers at one point.
At this time, Spider-Man once again allied with the Avengers to stop the alien Nebula from destroying reality with her Infinity Union. An increasingly unnerved Spider-Man, unaccustomed to dealing with cosmic-scale menaces, accidentally allowed Nebula to absorb the power of the Infinity Union, although the Avengers, Spider-Man, and the alien Stranger thwarted her regardless. Parker was told again that Spider-Man might not be suited for Avengers membership, although later he was inducted into their number on a provisional basis.
Peter later returned to his studies and postgraduate work as a lab assistant at Empire State University. During this time, Peter was briefly endowed with the godly-powers of Captain Universe, to stop a series of robots, including the mutant-killing Sentinels. Once the menace was defeated, the extra powers left him.
Also around this time, Harry Osborn would reclaim his identity as the Green Goblin following the events of the inferno crisis which added to the stress caused by his company beginning to go under caused him to remember both his insanity and his irrational hatred of Spider-Man who he remembered to be Peter. After taking a modified version of the Goblin formula, he stalked Spider-Man for weeks out in the open until Peter eventually struck him only to discover Harry's newfound superhuman strength. Following Harry attempting to murder all his father's old business partners at his townhouse in an explosion, Peter raced to stop him as Spider-Man but however, Harry subdued him with a drug that left him immobile but alive. Spider-Man reminded him that not only was Mary Jane still in the house but also his son Normie, causing Harry to snap out of his insanity and save them both as well as go back for Peter and barely get him to safety before the building exploded. Tragically however the modified Goblin Serum within Harry was lethally poisoning him and he collapsed, Peter, rode with him in the hospital to the ambulance where he died en route but not before the two affirmed that despite everything they were still best friends.
===The Second Clone Saga===
Aunt May supposedly suffered a debilitating heart attack. This also led to Peter and Mary Jane to discover that the Spider-Clone had survived the First Clone Saga and had gone into voluntary exile for 5 years after realizing he was the clone and had taken on the name of Ben Reilly. Ben Reilly created a similar spider costume, dubbed the Scarlet Spider by the Daily Bugle, and helped Spider-Man in his adventures. A shocking discovery was made when a scientist ran tests on Peter and Ben, revealing that Ben was the original Peter Parker and Peter Parker himself was the clone. The revelation tore Peter apart to the point that he struck Mary Jane before running off in shame and was manipulated by the returned Jackal to work for him before being snapped out of it by Ben and they defeated the Jackal and the other Spider-Clones. Shortly afterward, Mary Jane became pregnant. Peter and Mary Jane briefly moved to Portland, as Peter was forced to retire from being Spider-Man when his powers began to fade away as a side effect of some minor cellular damage and he took this as an opportunity to start a family.
Ben Reilly eventually assumed the identity of Spider-Man himself, since the second villain by the name of Doctor Octopus tarnished the reputation of the Scarlet Spider and he chose not to use Peter's costume and instead made a new costume of his own to utilize. Eventually, the Parkers moved back to NYC due to missing home and Peter took a job with the Daily Bugle and was soon admitted to the hospital after suffering strange symptoms which turned out to be a side effect of his powers returning to him. Mary Jane, meanwhile, was to give birth to baby May Parker but was rushed to the hospital under the pretense of a medical emergency after going into Labor early.
While this was happening Peter discovered that the doctor who had run the tests on him and Ben had a suspicious background and so might have faked the results and so he suited back up as Spider-Man to fight with Ben against the mastermind behind the Clone Saga, Norman Osborn, the original Green Goblin, who had survived being impaled by his glider due to his powers which had healed him, returns and utilized the belief that he was dead to work on destroying Peter's life from the Shadows by trying to drive him insane and confirms that Peter Parker is the original Spider-Man when the Green Goblin tried to kill Peter Parker. Spider-Man engages the Green Goblin in fierce fight, and during the battle, Ben Reilly jumped in front of the Goblin's glider, sacrificing himself to save Peter. Spider-Man, enraged by Ben's death, overpowers and defeats the Green Goblin, before heartbrokenly bidding farewell to Ben, who then degenerated like all other clones upon their death, proving to Peter Parker, that he was truly the original while Ben was a clone.
===The Final Chapter===
After many more months of adventuring, Norman Osborn returned to take control of the Daily Bugle after planting evidence that suggested he wasn't the Green Goblin as well as framing Spider-Man for the murder of a common crook with his webbing. He angered Peter, which caused Spider-Man to brutally beat Norman, which was all caught on a hidden camera in his house. The recording was shown to the media and increased pressure was placed on capturing him. To continue his crime-fighting career and investigate the fraudulent claims, Peter relinquished his Spider-Man identity while creating four unique and separate ones: Dusk, Hornet, Prodigy, and Ricochet. As these alter egos, Parker was to determine that Osborn had hired the villain Trapster to create the webbing similar to his own that was used in the murder and convinced the criminal to come forward to the police. This led to the exoneration of Spider-Man, at which point he resumed his Spider-Man identity.
When the Avengers were attempting to reform their number after disbanding for a year after the crisis known as Onslaught, Spider-Man was contacted due to his past affiliation with them. However, by his own choice, Parker decided to dissolve ties with the Avengers.
Later Peter discovered evidence that his and Mary Jane's daughter May hadn't been miscarried but instead abducted by Norman Osborn though it turned out that it was Aunt May who was still alive; the woman who seemingly died was in actuality a genetically modified actress who had been put up to it by Norman. Parker, Mary Jane, and Aunt May moved to an apartment in Manhattan. Parker had promised Mary Jane to give up his Spider-Man identity, but he would continually sneak out at night as Spider-Man. Their marriage began to strain, in part because of Mary Jane's new modeling career and in part because she rediscovered Parker's secret. Before they could reconcile, however, Mary Jane was supposedly killed when her airplane exploded. For a long time, Parker refused to believe her dead, but eventually grew to accept it and tried to get back into dating and began to enter a relationship with a fellow student at the university though dumped her upon realizing he was being used to get answer sheets for tests.
Parker discovered Mary Jane was alive, captured by a villain who had been stalking her before her airplane flight and been kept captive for months. After a brief reconciliation, Mary Jane requested to leave Parker once more, saying that she needed time to adjust by herself due to the trauma she had endured and she moved to Los Angeles.
===A New Lease on Life===
Peter soon took a job as a teacher at his somewhat beloved Midtown High. After getting this job, he encountered a strange old man named Ezekiel who possessed powers very similar to Spider-Man. He knew Peter's secret identity and talked to him about things about his powers he had never thought of, like, "Did the radiation enable the spider to give you these powers? Or was the spider trying to give you those powers before it died?" After many questions, telling Spidey his powers were 'totemistic' in nature and showing Peter what he could have done had he stayed in showbiz, Ezekiel warned Peter about a totemistic vampire-like predator named Morlun, who was sent to slay all spider-powered individuals like Spider-Man and Ezekiel. After ignoring the warnings of Ezekiel, and being defeated by Morlun, Spider-Man attempted to get Ezekiel to help him. With Ezekiel refusing to do so, Spider-Man went after Morlun again after Spidey found him terrorizing the innocent people.
After being nearly beaten again, Ezekiel helped Spidey but seemingly perished. Spider-Man then injected himself with radiation at a nuclear plant, which hurts Morlun, thus enabling Spider-Man to defeat him. However, after the brutal battle, Spider-Man returned to his apartment and fell deep asleep. Aunt May came by, only to find that Peter had severe wounds and scars, and a tattered Spider-Man costume on the floor. After a day of coming to grips with the fact that Peter was Spider-Man, Aunt May revealed that she knew and their relationship became stronger than ever.
Missing Mary Jane terribly, Peter went to go see her but found her not home as she ironically had gone back to their apartment to see him. By pure chance, they would encounter each other at an airport during a detour on their return trips and they happily reunite. Spider-Man's life soon took a surprising turn when a new supervillian known as the "Queen" invaded New York and utilized her ability to control others through dormant Insect Genes to try to force Spider-Man into becoming her mate, delivering a kiss that gradually mutated him into a giant spider that she controlled. Unexpectedly the giant spider suddenly died due to complications of the mutation though miraculously Spider-Man emerged from the husk with evolved strength and Spider-Sense along with the ability to produce biological/organic webbing from his wrists without the need of his main trademark artificial web-shooters.
Later still, after a breakout at the Raft Security Prison, Spider-Man joined the New Avengers. Peter, Mary Jane, and May, moved into Avengers Tower after an enemy destroyed both Peter's and May's places.
Around this time Peter soon began to experience strange symptoms such as dizzy spells and blackouts as well as visions of Morlun and Spidery Imagery and soon learned he was dying which eventually causes him to snap and seemingly kill a supervillain known as Tracer though he turned out to be a robot. He sought out help on his illness from the superhero community but none could provide an answer or solution and so he decides to make the best of his remaining time by first using the dooms time platform to see his parents, attempting to win money at Las Vegas to support MJ and Aunt May after he's gone, and watching the earth from Space with MJ.
Morlun finally catches up with Spider-Man and a fight ensues that stretches from the Bugle to Empire University before Spider-Man seemingly takes control the unscathed Morlun rips out and devours one of his eyes before savagely pummeling him into a bloody unconscious mess though he chooses to spare him for the moment and leaves. Taken to the hospital, it determines that his injuries are too severe and he'll soon die. While MJ visits the still unconscious Peter, Morlun comes to finally finish him but when he threatens MJ, Peter lurches up as a creature more spider than a man and kills Morlun by biting him in the neck with his fangs, before returning to normal and dying in MJ's arms.
However, Peter soon is resurrected after his body goes missing, having an unknown spider power which was to renew himself physically at least once in his lifetime via a cocoon where he embraces the totemic Entity known as the Other. As a result of embracing his "Other," his powers change as he gained greater speed, agility, poisonous, razor-sharp stingers located within his arms; night vision; increased sensory awareness via vibratory patterns transmitted through the hairs on his body and his web lines; a greater clinging ability; and equal superhuman strength to carry heavy objects on his back.
===Civil War: War at home===
Despite misgivings and with the support of his family, Spider-Man initially sided with Iron Man in support of superhero registration. Convinced by Tony that the other superheroes needed to see a commitment from the pro-registration side, Peter even went as far as to unmask himself on live television. However, fighting against the fugitive heroes and the existence of the Thor clone left a poor taste in his mouth, causing him to switch sides and instead join the renegades. Spider-Man was one of the few heroes who did not accept the general amnesty after the arrest of Captain America, continuing to work with the underground Avengers.
Peter's now-public identity allowed the Kingpin to put a hit on Parker's family. An assassin critically injured Aunt May and Peter donned the black suit Spider-Man to track down and beating up those who were responsible, including the Kingpin, whom he furiously beats him half to death not as Spider-Man, but as Peter Parker. After pummeling his old foe, Peter threatens the Kingpin that if his aunt succumbs to her wounds and dies, he'll come back for him, and end him for good and as well as giving the same warning to several criminals in their cells if they ever come near to his family again. Realizing he could not afford for his identity to be public knowledge, Peter agreed to aid the Scarlet Spiders in return for their help in re-establishing his secret identity.
===Pact with the Devil===
Peter grew increasingly desperate to save the life of his Aunt May. He sought the help of Dr. Strange, finding that even magic could not help him save Aunt May's life. After appealing to Tony Stark, Jarvis was sent with $2 million to pay the hospital fees and give her the best care possible. At one point, Eddie Brock was found in Aunt May's room; he attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of the window. Mephisto offered Peter to save Aunt May in exchange for Peter's and MJ's love. As part of Mephisto's deal, everyone would forget Peter's identity as Spider-Man.
Then Mephisto re-arranged history to make it so that Peter unwittingly would not show up to his wedding day, but stayed with Mary Jane as a long-time couple. But this re-arrangement also caused it to be Doctor Strange who erased people's memories about Parker's secret identity (except Mary Jane) and protected Peter with a "psychic blind spot". But Mary Jane was bitterly hurt from knowing of a time of great emotional pain that no one else on the planet remembered. She and Peter agreed that they were still in love with each other but they had to accept that their relationship put everyone they cared about in danger and that it was best for them to remain as friends.
Back from five years in a European rehab center was Harry Osborn. While searching for a job, Peter joined the Daily Bugle again which was now bought out by Dexter Bennett, and began to work as a paparazzi reporter, which was something that neither his Aunt May nor Harry approved of. However, after his photographs of the celebrity Bobby Carr resulted in the deaths of women by a crazed supervillain stalker who was obsessed with him, Peter decided to destroy the new photos he took resulting in Bennett firing him. Peter soon learned that Bennett had blacklisted him to nearly every news source in town preventing Peter from finding work. However, Harry suggested that Peter find a job at a news source that was Bennett's enemy, which he did by joining the Front Line as it was not under Bennett's influence.
===Dark Reign & American Son===
Because Norman Osborn transformed Venom into a more Spider-Man-like look and joined Osborn's Dark Avengers, Peter had to reveal his secret identity to the New Avengers, to implicitly earn the team's trust.
During a trip to the Macroverse, Spider-Man re-revealed to the Fantastic Four his identity, and after coming back two months later in standard time, J. J. Jameson becomes the new NY major. Then Spider-Man knew he must act against Norman Osborn and his Dark Reign. With help of the F4's Unstable Molecules, Spider-Man infiltrated Osborn's Avengers as Venom and discovered how Osborn wanted to make his son a new hero called American Son. After being captured by Osborn, Harry confronted Osborn after knowing the truth about his father's relationship with Lily Hollister (Harry's girlfriend), and Spider-Man prevented Harry from killing Norman.
===Rematches and Grim Hunt===
After the wedding of Aunt May and Jay, Spider-Man saved Jameson from Doctor Octopus with the help of the Human Torch. Around this time Mary Jane returned to New York, and Peter re-started a relationship with Black Cat. He later battled a man who wanted to kill Ben Reilly and saw the return of Peter's living clone Kaine. Despite his problems, Spider-Man helped the original Jackpot start fighting crime and overcame the corrupting control of Mister Negative's energy.
The Kravinoff family started a vengeance scheme on Spider-Man, kidnapping Madame Web and Mattie Franklin, one of the Spider-Women. In addition, Spider-Man managed to get a videotape of Osborn practicing illegal experiments to damage his reputation and leaked it to the public.
Later, Spider-Man faced repowered villains such as Electro, who destroyed the DB! building; Sandman, who became obsessed with taking care of his "daughter" Keemia; Rhino, who left reformation to kill a new Rhino who murdered his wife; The Lizard, who evolved and "killed" his alter-ego. Many of them were helped by Sasha Kravinoff, who wanted revenge on Spider-Man.
The Kravinoffs killed Mattie Franklin to resurrect Grim Hunter, and finally hunted Spider-Man and killed him to revive Kraven. However, it was revealed that the corpse was Kaine's, who had earlier knocked out Peter and switched places to save him. After a battle with the Kravinoff family, Madame Web died and Julia Carpenter took up her mantle. The surviving Kravinoffs left New York. Later, Kaine was resurrected from his grave and mutated into a more spider-like creature.
===Big Time===
After a massive war between Doctor Octopus, who hired several super criminals, and Spider-Man to get Norman Osborn's son with Lily Hollister, Spidey found that the child is Harry's, who later leaves the town to take care of him, also Peter starts a relationship with Carlie Cooper.
Spider-Man's hero career rose again, and he joined The Avengers, saving the city from an attack by Autobots. As well, Peter found a dream job, thanks to Jameson's wife Marla Madison, as a scientist at Horizon Labs where he had access to much technology and Spider-Man joined the Avengers in defeating Doctor Octopus' army of macro-Autobots. He faced a new Hobgoblin and the Kingpin, but days later, he lamentably lost Marla in a fight between Alistair Smythe's Spider-Slayers.
===24/7 Hero===
After the death of Johnny Storm (the Human Torch), Peter joined the Fantastic Four, now the Future Foundation, and helped them to fight an interdimensional version of Reed Richards, and the Sinister Six, who managed to steal tech from the Baxter Building.
Their third mission was in the Caribbean, on Earth. There, Reed located the epicenter of the dimensional anomalies the Future Foundation had been fixing. As the team explored the island, they were attacked by zombie pirates. It was revealed it was all a fake created by the Sinister Six, of whom only Mysterio and Chameleon were present there - the other four members being robots. Meanwhile, Doctor Octopus and the others infiltrated the Baxter Building, stealing technology for Doc Ock's further plans.
===Spider-Island===
After helping Anti-Venom to reveal Mr. Negative's identity and help the Avengers Academy (as well as learning that Aunt May was moving to Boston with Jay), Spider-Man found himself with a new problem. The Jackal returned and gave the majority of New Yorkers spider-powers, starting to spread chaos.
Spider-Queen was revealed as the true mastermind, who wanted to turn the whole human race into spiders. Mr. Fantastic created a cure using the Anti-Venom Symbiote, also, after battling Peter (under Jackal's influence), Peter's clone Kaine was accidentally cured of his mutations, turning him into a perfect clone.
Kaine killed the Spider-Queen in Central Park along with other heroes, and Peter managed to get the cure for every citizen via Doc Ock's (mentally controlled) Autobots. Also, because of revealing he had spider-powers during the Spider-Island event, Peter's psychic blind spot was weakened, letting Carlie know he's Spider-Man, which caused her to break up with him.
===Ends of the Earth===
After fighting some old foes like the Vulture and teaming up with Daredevil and Black Cat, and, the returned from death, Human Torch, Spider-Man faced the return of a menace.
Before death, Doctor Octopus wanted to be remembered as the man who saved Earth by offering the chance to stop the Greenhouse Effect, as well as speed it up. Equipped with a new suit, Spider-Man joined the Avengers to stop Octavius and his Sinister Six.
After every Avenger was subdued by Octavius, Silver Sable, who followed Spider-Man to his battle, saved him and Black Widow. When they tried to get to one of Octavius' manufacturing plants of satellites, they defeated Sandman, but Octavius asked for help from all nations, due to his position in the matter, to capture Spider-Man. Octavius called on many villains to hunt down Spider-Man and his allies. To counter this, Spider-Man called on the heroes that were still on Earth to destroy the facilities of Octavius. When he and his allies arrived at the main base in Romania, Doc Ock stated that Spider-Man was right and he activated his satellites. This caused a huge explosion in the areas that were facing the sun. When the trio exited the base they saw what happened. Sable then asks if that is Symkaria to which Peter answers it is half of the world and Spider-Man said, "We failed". But this is revealed to be a trick made by Mysterio (only burning a small portion of a city in Skymaria, while Chameleon uses a robot to fight Spider-Man after they are defeated, Mysterio is convinced by Spider-Man to help him to catch the Octopus in his base in Guatemala, but Octavius used the mind-controlled Avengers as his new Sinister Six.
Spider-Man, Sable, and Widow managed to defeat the Avengers, then he and Sable headed to Octavius' underwater base. They are faced by Rhino while the base starts to flood, he trapped Sable and left Spider-Man with two choices, to continue to fight him to save Sable from drowning (but the Octavius would activate the lenses) or let him drown himself and Sable but stop Octopus. After leaving Sable to her death at her request, Spidey manages to destroy Octavius's arms and equipment before taking his foe away to a doctor, thus finally saving the world.
===Avengers vs. X-Men===
After failing to completely cure Lizard with the help of Morbius, Spider-Man sided with his fellow Avengers against the X-Men. He was present during the Siege of Utopia and together with Wolverine, they attempted to take Hope away. They failed however as Hope's Phoenix powers manifested and incapacitated them. Spider-Man was later seen among one of the teams searching for Hope across the world and came into conflict with several X-Men, most notably the new Juggernaut.
After the Phoenix force was split into five pieces and possessed Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik, Namor, and Colossus as its hosts, Spider-Man was brought to the mythical city of K'un-Lun due to a prophecy that predicted that he would train Hope Summers. She was initially unresponsive to him as a teacher, due to him being clueless about what to teach her, but after telling her what his uncle always told him "With great power comes great responsibility", she quickly took to him.
When the Avengers attempted to free their imprisoned comrades through the Phoenix Force-enhanced Colossus and Magik, Spider-Man bought them time to do so. He attempted to slow them down but instead got beaten down by Colossus. When Magik told Colossus to kill him and Colossus replied that they are turning into things they are not due to their power, Spider-Man took advantage and managed to convince them to attack each other. And as they do, they were both knocked unconscious and depowered by their Phoenix Force powers. We were present during the final battle against the Dark Phoenix, Cyclops, and was the first person to present the first manifestation of new mutants after Scarlet Witch and Hope destroyed the Phoenix Force.
===Spider-Men: Two heroes of two worlds===
While out web-swinging, Spider-Man came across a differently costumed Mysterio in a warehouse. After a brief skirmish, he was shot by Mysterio and sent through a dimensional rift into another dimension, where he encountered the Spider-Man of that world, Miles Morales. Though he initially gained the upper hand, Peter was ultimately subdued by Miles and taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. Upon regaining consciousness, Peter was interrogated by Nick Fury, who believed his story of coming from another universe and sent him off with Miles to learn this world's history, though not before Peter told Nick that he was much cooler than the Nick Fury of his world.
During their conversation, however, Peter and Miles were attacked by a robotic avatar of Mysterio, which self-destructed after a brief battle and knocked Miles unconscious. Peter subsequently went off on his own to investigate, and was shocked and horrified to discover that his counterpart in this world died in battle against the Green Goblin and that not only was the city still mourning his loss, but his identity is now public knowledge. Making his way to Queens, he came across May Parker and Gwen Stacy. Initially furious at what they believed to be a disrespect of Peter's memory, the two were taken aback when a distraught Peter unmasked himself before their eyes. Still, the two attacked Peter until Miles vouched for him, leading to Aunt May passing out.
When May awakened, she went upstairs and heard Peter exchanging stories with Gwen. When Gwen asked what happened to her in his dimension, Peter became uncomfortable and changed the topic. Aunt May and Peter had a tearful reunion and Peter were very surprised to find out he had a relationship with Kitty Pryde. Nick Fury came to pick him and Miles up, and for a quick second, Peter saw Mary Jane's Ultimate counterpart before she ran away. He was taken over to meet Iron Man, and the two began to work on a time-space formula until Miles pointed out a familiar building in a video of a previous fight against Mysterio.
Peter led the charge to Mysterio's headquarters, where they quickly subdued him before he could destroy the portal and trap Peter on Earth-1610 forever. Giving a satisfied Miles his blessing as the new Spider-Man, Peter returned to his world, subsequently running an online search to see if his world had a Miles Morales counterpart, and seems to be shocked by what he discovered on the net.
===Dying Wish===
By using a mind-swapping Octobot, Doctor Octopus managed to switch minds with Peter Parker, putting himself in Spider-Man's body and trapping Peter in his own, dying body.
As Doc Ock could access Peter's memories, Spider-Man could do the same to Octavius', and discovered that Octavius used an Octobot to switch brain patterns to perform his plan. Peter managed to access that Octobot and use it to send a message to many supervillains to help him get out of prison. Hydro-Man, Scorpion, and the Trapster heed the call, freeing "Doc Ock" from the Raft, and they were tasked with the mission to bring Spider-Man to him.
He put himself a new set of tentacles and decided to search for the Octobot with which his mind was transferred. He decided to go to Stark Tower to ask Tony Stark for help but encountered himself with Octavius as Spider-Man, who released a set of giant Octobots worldwide to distract the rest of the Avengers. Both enemies battled until both fell from the Tower to the ground, fatally wounding Octopus. When Ock tried to use the brain-swapping Octobot, Spider-Man revealed that he was using a Carbonadium helmet, making his brain inaccessible for changing brains. Otto declared his final victory against Parker by giving him a lethal punch which caused Octopus to give his last breaths.
Both then discovered that the Octobot managed to connect their minds although it could not swap them, and Peter forced Otto to revive his most suffering experiences and memories as Spider-Man, making him realize the responsibility his power came with. Otto told Peter he did not want this, but they could not change bodies back. Finally, Otto promised Peter to continue his legacy both as Spider-Man and Peter Parker.
===Superior Spider-Man===
Whilst Otto Octavius continued the legacy of Spider-Man, he accidentally performed certain actions against his will, such as saving someone's life as the original Parker would do. It was revealed that Peter Parker was still alive as due to dying when still mentally connected to Otto's mind, he had been transferred back to his own body but in the form of a subconscious, thus not able to control the actions of his organism entirely. Otto couldn't realize or notice Parker's presence, who swore to regain control of his body.
Peter has been ghosting Otto during his reign as Spider-Man. He is surprised to find that Otto has made peace with Mayor J. Jonah Jameson (exclaiming that Jameson finally made nice over Peter's dead body, or Otto in Peter's body) and calls Otto's idea of Spider-bots a clever idea. Despite Otto's mistakes, Peter commends him for doing the one thing he couldn't: getting over Mary Jane.
As Peter worked to regain his body, he attempted to delve into Octavius' memories for the key, though he's left unaware of events in the present, once again resurfacing to find to his horror that Otto had severely beaten two minor villains that had enraged him. As time passed Peter began to gain influence, controlling his arm to write an (ineligible) note, and occasionally his voice can be heard to Otto's confusion.
Following an inspection by the Avengers to determine his apparent change in attitude and methods, Peter watched Octavius as he saved the life of a young girl who had been harmed during one of his previous schemes.
Back at the lab, Otto attempted to use equipment to determine the source of several spasms his body was experiencing. To his shock, Otto could now hear Peter inside his mind and decided to put an end to him once and for all.
Using a neurolytic scanner Otto attempted to get rid of Peter Parker, Peter attempted to fight back using his right hand which he previously was able to gain control of, before being restrained by the Living Brain. Otto started a mind-wipe, however, Peter was able to withstand it, which made Otto decide to confront Peter directly.
While Peter was able to fight against Octopus thanks to the help of his family and friends, Octopus eventually used Peter's fears and doubts which were represented by many of his enemies and attacked Peter's allies. With Peter on the verge of defeat, Otto taunted Peter by saying how everything would soon end and Peter Parker would be no more, after hearing this Peter made a last attempt to fight back, saying he was more than just Peter Parker, before becoming Spider-Man by ripping his face like a mask. Surprised, Otto attempted to run, but was caught and overwhelmed by Peter, however when it looked like the fight had changed its course, Otto became his Spider-Man alter-ego as well.
Otto and Peter fought until Otto finally got Peter to confess his real intention to stop Otto from saving the girl's life which was that he wanted to stop Otto from obtaining the neurolytic scanner, preventing Otto from finding him. Otto once again started the mind-wipe, leaving Peter to face his demise. After finally completing the mind-wipe Otto said "He's gone. And I? I... am... Free!"
Peter had survived the mind wipe, but he decided to lay low for a while due to having lost the near entirety of his memories except for a few key moments during his Spider-Man career which allowed him to keep a vague sense of self. Peter went through Otto's memories to try and find out how to find a way to beat Otto but due to only possessing a few memories of his own life, he was overwhelmed by Otto's memories and started to think he was Otto. When the Goblin Nation attacked, Peter reached the memory where Peter had begun to die in Otto's body and his life flashed before his eyes which Otto had also experienced during the memory, Peter was bombarded with the flash and regained all of his memories.
He revealed himself to Otto and urged Otto to put himself in danger to save a little girl from a subway train driven by the Green Goblin. Upon this Otto realized that he failed as a Superior Spider-Man as he had put himself first before throughout his time as Spider-Man which had led to the Goblin Nation. He swung back to Parker Industries, locked himself in a room, and had the Living Brain use the mindwipe device. Only this time, Otto would erase himself and give Peter his body back as he was the best chance of saving the city and most of all his beloved Anna. Otto said that Peter was the Superior Spider-Man, and then he was erased, letting Peter live again.
Donning his classic costume, Peter proceeded to catch up to Osborne who believed he was still dealing with Otto until Peter revealed his return Norman attempted to flee but was captured and unmasked to reveal Norman has used plastic surgery to plan himself into Alchemax. Peter proceeded to use the Goblin Cure on Norman and not only depower him but cure his insanity as well though he escaped after a traumatized Liz Allen distracted Spider-Man with a Spider-Sense jammer. Though the Goblin Nation was defeated and Peter successfully saved the day, he realizes from Anna's concern for Otto Octavius/Peter Parker that he had failed to save everyone for him to even be there Otto had to die.
===C.E.O and Spider-Verse===
In the aftermath of Otto's possession of his body, Peter began the difficult task to amend the relationships damaged by Otto's arrogance and negligence in both the superhero community and his personal life. He additionally took up the reins of Parker Industries, a small company founded by Octavius after leaving Horizon Labs. To make matters worse he had to deal with his/Otto's girlfriend Anna who was living with him. Anna managed to deduce he was Spider-Man and Peter, in turn, revealed to her that she hadn't been dating him but Otto, and while she accepted the "break up" they would be roommates until she found a new place.
While still trying to get his life back in order, Peter was rescued from a mysterious gunman by a woman who claimed to be his unknown younger sister, Teresa Parker who his parents had put up for adoption during one of their long-term missions. Despite his skepticism, Peter joined her in putting his parent's old missions to rest, and both she as well as the Kingpin discovered his identity as Spider-Man. It was revealed that Teresa's belief in being his sister was part of a plot of the Kingpin using the powers of Mentallo to get Peter's involvement to open a vault that unleashed the robot known as Sleeper. In the end, Mentallo betrayed Kingpin and erased his and Teresa's memories, protecting his secret. Later Peter conducted a DNA test with a cup of Terasa and upon reading the results, wondered what to make of it.
During the One Sin event, Peter among many others present is exposed to the Eye of the Watcher and learns a secret kept from them and he learns that the radioactive spider that bit him had also bit another person, Cindy Moon who also received powers and taken in by the late Ezekiel Sims. Peter tracked her down to a bunker owned by Ezekiel Sims and set her free, unwitting setting of the events of Spider-Verse due to her being a powerful spider totem known as the Bride who Ezekiel locked up for both her and other totems' safety from Morlun who Peter was unaware had been revived.
While helping Cindy try to readjust to the world, Peter began trying to cure Electro who had lost control of his enhanced powers thanks to experiments done on him by Otto when he controlled Peter's body. Also around the same time, he had to deal with a vengeful black cat who had been assaulted by Otto and arrested like a common crook. The Black Cat attempted to sabotage the experiment but with the aid of Cindy, it was a success.
Not long after Spider-Man was approached by a group of spider-people from all over the Multiverse that banded together to fight Morlun's family known as the Inheritors, a group of psychic vampires that had begun to hunt down the Spider-Totems of other realities. During a mission to gather more recruits in 2099, the Spider-Army stumbled upon another party of spider-people led by a time-displaced Otto Octavius.
The combined Spider-Army were forced to retreat to a new safe zone after their prior safe zone had been compromised by the Inheritors, namely Morlun, his brother Jennix, and his father and leader Solus. With the help of Spider-Woman, who had previously infiltrated the Inheritor's base in their home reality, the Spider-Army learned of a prophecy in which the Inheritors planned to sacrifice three key spiders: the Other, the Bride, and the Scion who had manifested as Peter's clone Kaine, Cindy, and an infant son of one of his counterparts from another reality name Benjy.
With the help of even more recruits from other realities and even a deviant Inheritor named Karn, the Spider-Army, including a version of Gwen Stacy with spider-powers, launched one final attack on the Inheritors' home and stopped the ritual and exiled the inheritors to the radioactive wasteland of dead earth though not in time to save Kaine who had been killed after killing Solus. With the Inheritors neutralized, most of the spider totems were sent home. Spider-Man and a few others stayed behind for a little while longer to defeat the time-displaced Octavius, who had gone rogue after learning that Parker would eventually regain control of his body. Octavius was defeated and returned to the time he had come from, losing memory of the recent events in the process. With no more problems to confront, Spider-Man and the rest of the spiders were sent back home.
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