Ned Leeds

**Ned Leeds** is a fictional character based on the Marvel Comics. He is portrayed by Jacob Batalon.

## Background

Edward "Ned" Leeds is a student at Midtown School of Science and Technology. Upon discovering his best friend, Peter Parker, was Spider-Man, Leeds then focused on assisting Parker's adventures as they attempted to find and defeat Vulture before he could sell high-tech hybrid weapons to the criminal underworld, while also hoping to use the Spider-Man to improve their own social standing at their school.

### **The Blip**

Leeds was one of the victims of Thanos' Snap. But along with all other victims, he was brought back to life by the Hulk in 2023 and reunites with Parker once again.

### **School Vacation**

The following year, Leeds would go on a school field trip to Europe with his classmates, including Parker. When their trip was interrupted due to the Elementals crisis, Leeds would do his best to cover for Parker so that his identity as Spider-Man would not be revealed.

### **Multiversal Chaos**

Leeds would once more work with Parker as his "guy in the chair" when, due to Doctor Strange's botched spell, visitors from alternate universes crossed over into theirs; Leeds would assist Parker in capturing the visitors, but would then help free them from Strange after discovering his plan involved sending the visitors to their deaths. Using Strange's Sling Ring, Leeds accidentally summoned two alternate versions of Peter Parker from another universe, which later assisted Leeds, the main Peter Parker, and his girlfriend Michelle Jones in taking down the visitors, who had betrayed them. Tragically, though, instabilities in Strange's spell could only be solved by having the entire world, including Leeds, forget Parker's identity. Leeds exchanged a tearful goodbye with Parker before his memories were erased.

## Abilities

* **Expert Hacker**: Ned Leeds is a hacker skilled enough to bypass the Training Wheels Protocol installed in the Spider-Man Suit by Tony Stark himself.
* **Marksman**: Ned was able to use one of Spider-Man's Web-Shooters to restrain Shocker's gauntlet and received praise from the hero for his aim.
* **Multilingualism**: Ned is fluent in his native English and Filipino, he takes Spanish class with Parker and he demonstrated a small degree of proficiency in Italian in his text messages with the latter.

## Relationship

### Family

* Lola - Grandmother
* Father
* Mother

### Friends

* Michelle Jones-Watson
* Peter Parker - Former Bestfriend

### Classmates

* Betty Brant - Ex-Girlfriend
* Flash Thompson
* Brad Davis
* Liz Toomes - Former Classmate

### Allies

* Happy Hogan
* Doctor Strange
* Hulk - Ressurector
* Spider-Man (Friendly Neighborhood Variant)
* Spider-Man (Amazing Variant)
* Doctor Octopus - Former Enemy
* Electro - Former Enemy
* Sandman - Former Enemy
* Lizard - Former Enemy

## Trivia

* In the comics, Ned Leeds is a reporter for *The Daily Bugle* who married Betty Brant and was brainwashed into believing and acting as the criminal known as the **Hobgoblin**.
* The MCU version of Ned Leeds shares similarities with Ganke Lee, the best friend of Miles Morales from the Ultimate Universe. Their most notable similarities are their physical appearances and their shared obsession with superheroes and LEGO. This was referenced in the comics when Ganke adopted the alias of "Ned" to hide his true identity from Danika Hart.