Spider-Boy (Ben Parker-Watson)

## Spider-Boy

### Nicknames

Spider-Brat, Spider-Twat, Spider-Bug, Spider-Child, Byproduct Of The Web Slinger's Naughty Night, Bug Of The Future, Puny Parker, Puny Man, Spider-Ling, Spider-Kid, Kid Arachnid.

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

Peter Parker (father)Mary Jane Watson (mother)

Anna May Watson-Parker (sister)

Teresa Parker/Jessica Drew (paternal aunt)

Kaine Reiley (paternal uncle)

Richard Parker (paternal grandfather) (deceased)

Mary Parker (paternal grandmother) (deceased)

### Affiliation

Midtown High, the Web Warriors, the Parker-Watson Hero Family.

## Additional Information

### Wiki Author

DuttPanda

**Benjamin Parker-Watson,**also known by his heroic alter-ego, **Spider-Boy**, is an American crime-fighting teenage superhero vigilante, the son of Peter Parker, the first Web Warrior of their universe known as Spider-Man, and Mary Jane Watson, another superhero by the alias of Spider-Woman. He is also the sister of the similarly spider-powered hero, Anna May Watson-Parker, whose alter-ego happens to be the Amazing Spider-Girl.

Benjy is the second child of Peter and MJ. Ever since he was a little baby, Ben was always very weak, fragile and a physically unhealthy person, possibly due to his irradiated bloodstream. He would constantly get sick and was a special needs child, shown to be on the mild side of the autism spectrum. As a child, he would whine a lot and being a crybaby would irritate his sister a lot, who didn't really get along well with him at first. However, as both grew up, they had developed an unconditionally strong bond despite their usual back-and-forth.

Ben, like his father before him, was bullied and ostracized in high school for passing out a lot of times on campus, suffering from mild seizures, throwing up, having public speaking anxieties, not having any form of confidence, being a bit eccentric, not being able to express his feelings and being a bit more shorter than the rest of the kids and not very athletically or even physically gifted in the slightest. This all led to him develop pent-up rage and frustrations within, until suddenly he one day manifested his superpowers. Although he wanted to use them to indulge in his own daredevil antiques and get back at his bullies, his father empathized with him, saying that he wanted to do the same things when he received his powers, however, using something so special for something so petty and terrible, would only lead to horrible, negative things.

After deciding not to misutilize his powers, he wanted to resume a quiet life again, however, his body was not adapting very well to his sudden metamorphosis and he was being unstable, which is why Peter and MJ decided to make him pursue a side-activity as the new Spider-Ling, following in his sister's footsteps. Although Pete and MJ wanted Anna to not be Spider-Ling due to being endangered all the time and rushing into any situation without a second thought, they decided to push Benjy into being a hero, to help him get out of his shell, be more confident and used to his special features.

Although Benjy had a hard and terrible time grasping the notions of being a hero, he inevitably fit into the role and had become a crime-fighting member of the family too, although his lack of motor skills, bumbling, tumbling nature and indecisiveness and overall inexperience was very difficult to deal with his other family members, who tried to shape him into a better hero even if his learning curve was very slow. However, after becoming a superhero, Benjy suddenly started to become detached and disassociated with his humanity slowly, not feeling remorse, happiness, sadness or a tinge of other emotions too.

He also lost meaning and any form of attachment to his father's teachings of power and responsibility. His powers had made him feel unstable continually, and he was frustrated due to all the time, a big factor being because of his advanced Spider-Sense, which was so strong (the strongest of any of the other Web Warriors in fact) that he could have a premonitory radar sense/outline of his surroundings at the scope of an entire city block and of course, predict danger within that entire area for anyone, from miles away. His sister almost possessed the same degree of powers, however, she could control it far with far more precision, but for Benjy, they were like terrible, painful migraines. No matter how hard they tried, Peter and MJ just couldn't find a way to numb his pain, so Benjy stopped complaining about it, seeing no point in bothering his parents any further.

His exasperation and inner-pains eventually burst open and he became very resentful of his title as the 'Spider-Ling' and decided to join a secret mutant brotherhood of young, radical superpowered individuals, lured in by the promise of a remedy for his pains and feeling empowered, rather than held down and looked down upon. His turn to the dark side shaked up their family dynamics as he was practically brainwashed into doing terrible deeds for the radical cult-like mutant organization. However, his family was able to help him break free from his trance and get him to realize what it means to be a hero again, and he helped them take down that group of radicalists he once subjected himself to. His actions of joining with terrible people made him very guilty and he imposed himself to an undeserved amount of self-hatred, but his family was there for him then too. Afterwards, to distinguish himself a bit from his family, he designed himself a red and black spider suit, now looking to discover new parts about himself, and search for a meaningful identity within.