Pavitr Prabhakar

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**Overview**
Quotes

## Spider-Man

* Pavitr Prabhakar
* Spider-Man

### Alias(es)

**Codenames**
Spider-Man

### Nickname(s)

**Titles**
Spider-Man India
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
**Other Alias**
Pav

## Personal Information

### Alt. versions

* Peter Parker
* Spider-Man

### Occupation

* Vigilante / Superhero
* Student

## Affiliation and Relationships

### Affiliation(s)

* Spider-Gang
* Spider-Society (formerly)

### Relatives

* Maya Prabhakar (aunt)
* Bhim Prabhakar (uncle, deceased)

## Series Information

### Voiced by

Karan Soni

- ****Spider-Man****[src]

**Pavitr Prabhakar** is a student at Mumbattan Visions Academy who gained spider-like abilities, and fights crime across Mumbathan as the superhero **Spider-Man**. While Pavitr juggled his hero duties with the demands of his high-school life, he was approached by Miguel O'Hara to become part of the Spider-Society.

A few months later, Pavitr assisted Gwen Stacy, best friend Hobie Brown, and Earth-1610's Spider-Man in their fight against the Spot, a supervillain with multiversal powers who entered his universe searching for Alchemax. While the team could not stop Spot's plan to augment himself with the Alchemax collider, Pavitr managed to save his girlfriend at the difficult price of not arriving to save her father in time, for which Miles Morales would do in his place. Pavitr later left the Spider-Society to join the reformed Spider-Gang to find Miles and help against Miguel and Spot, as thanks for Miles' help.

## Biography

### Early Life

Pavitr Prabhakar was born and raised in Mumbattan, India by his aunt Maya and uncle Bhim Prabhakar, the latter of whom passed away around the time Pavitr became Spider-Man.

#### Life as Spider-Man

*"Being Spider-Man is so easy"*
―Spider-Man[src]

In late 2019, Pavitr would meet a mystical shaman thing which give him magical spider powers that he resolved to use to help those in need, becoming the one and only Spider-Man of India. Acting as a superhero in his home dimension, Pavitr continues the "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" attitude synonymous to the mantle, such as feeding stray dogs, stopping crime, and being a positive example to the community. He would also fight against some supervillains, while he continued to go to school and passed time with his aunt. At one point of his life Pavitr began to date one of his classmates Gayatri Singh, and maintained the relationship as a secret to avoid having to be at odds with Singh's father.

Even though he was the Spider-Man of his world for only six months, he was recruited by Miguel O'Hara and also befriended Hobie Brown. This allowed Pavitr to befriend Gwen as well, as she was also good friends with Hobie.

#### Fighting the Spot

When The Spot began hopping between universes and was heading to Earth-50101, Pavitr was alerted to help Gwen in capturing the multiversal miscreant. He met with Gwen and also met the wayward Miles shortly upon Spot's entry into Mumbattan, chasing the criminal around the city until Spot reached the Alchemax collider facility. With a forcefield preventing intervention of Spot's plan, the spider trio were met by the timely aid of Hobie Brown, who breached the forcefield to allow his companions to attack their foe. However, Spot's portal generation prevented any of them from touching him, as he began the collider sequence and exclaimed how nobody would see him as a joke afterward.

Following an initial silence after Spot entered the collider's particle stream, Pavitr mistakenly voiced "*another easy win*" as his friends were telling him to not jinx it. The collider soon exploded, causing the Alchemax building to fall down the incline of the city below it, with the building disintegrating from Spot's portal energy. The spiders swiftly raced to save civilians in the path of the falling destruction. Seeing his girlfriend, Gayatri Singh, in a packed bus on a bridge in the falling building's path, Pavitr tried to hang onto the vehicle while seeing Inspector Singh race to save a scared child under the chaos. While Pavitr attempted to save both Gayatri and her father, Miles interceded to save Inspector Singh as Pavitr saved the bus passengers.

Hugging Gayatri in relief, he soon remembered Gayatri was a stranger to Spider-Man and acted as such by voicing content at her safety and was glad to see Inspector Singh alive from Miles rescuing him. The Inspector soon gave a firm handshake and thanks Spider-Man for saving his daughter; the most emotional Gayatri and Pavitr had ever seen him. However, their jubilation was cut short from witnessing a spatial tear where the building landed, caused by a disrupted canon event. While Pavitr was worried about his home being destroyed, a science team from Spider-Society arrived to contain the hole. Pavitr would part ways with Gwen, Miles, and Hobie for the time being as they were recalled to the Earth-928 headquarters.

Later, Pavitr was told about the Canon Events as well as the things the Spider-Society and Miguel wasn't telling him by Gwen, who was kicked out and ask him to recruit him to protect the multiverse over the status quo when she discovered a way of how the cannon events can be safely altered without destroying reality. Hearing this, thankful to Miles for saving Inspector Singh and believes his idealism, Pavitr quits the Spider-Society and joined Gwen's Spider-Gang to rescue Miles, who was stranded somewhere in the multiverse.

## Personality

*"I love chai tea."
"What did you just say? Chai tea?! 'Chai' means tea, Bro! You're saying 'tea tea!' Would I ask you for a 'coffee coffee' with room for 'cream cream?'"*
―Pavitr Prabhakar and Miles Morales[src]

Pavitr is an optimistic youth, shown to have fun being Spider-Man for the six months he has had his powers. He has such an upbeat personality that he even befriended the anarchic Hobie Brown, likely connecting over their free-spirited lifestyles, albeit with inverse approaches. Pavitr is also a good judge of character interactions, able to easily perceive the developing romantic connection between Miles and Gwen during their arguments.

Pavitr gets annoyed and slightly offended when others don't speak Indian terms properly, as seen when he gets upset when Miles refers to "chai" as "chai tea" since chai means tea hence chai tea would translate to "tea tea". As Spider-Man he shows to be a good people for his community being always ready at helping people whenever he can either fighting against dangerous supervillain or feeding street dogs. Pavitr is also very intelligent and loves going to his school, as he easily gains full marks on his grades. He finds time to drink chai with his aunt Maya to stay close with her. He developed a crush and began secretly dating his classmate, Gayatri Singh, while hiding the relationship from her watchful father, Inspector Singh. Despite that, he has show to be a caring and respectful boyfriend always putting the people he loved in the first place. With sometimes changing his upbeat personality to someone serious and worried when he see that the ones he loved could be harmed.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Spider physiology**: Having gaining spider-like powers through magic, Pavitr possesses enhanced strength, speed, agility, spider-sense, and the ability to climb walls.
	+ **Superhuman strength**: Pavitr possesses the proportionate strength of a spider, allowing him to combat foes that would otherwise overwhelm him.
	+ **Superhuman speed**: Pavitr possesses the proportionate speed of a spider, therefore he can run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
	+ **Superhuman agility**: Pavitr possesses an enhanced levels of agility beyond the natural physical limits of an Olympic-level gymnast.
	+ **Superhuman durability**: Pavitr body is far tougher and denser than a regular human as he can withstand falls from extreme heights, blunt force trauma, and superhuman blows with little damage.
	+ **Wall-crawling**: Pavitr possesses the ability to cling onto any surface using just his fingertips and feet.
	+ **Spider-Sense**: When danger is present, Pavitr experiences a buzzing sensation in his head as a sort of warning system, allowing him to react accordingly. His spider-sense offers him a near complete awareness of his surroundings that, in conjunction with his reflexes, allows him to instinctively dodge or counter nearly all attacks. His spider-sense also helps him recognize other individuals with spider-powers, making them have some sort of connection.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect:** Pavitr Prabhakar has proven to be a highly intelligent individual for someone of his age, something that is shown when in school he doesn't need to try to get good grades but he does anyway.
* **Bilingualism**: Pavitr is fluent in his native Hindi, as well as English.

## Equipment

### Weapons

* **Bangle Web-Slingers:** Pavitr uses webbing coupled with the bangles he wears as Spider-Man for an added fulcrum.

## Relationships

### Family

* Bhim Prabhakar † - Uncle
* Maya Prabhakar - Aunt

### Allies

* Mystical Shaman - Power Givers
* Gayatri Singh - Girlfriend
* Inspector Singh - Mumbattan Ally and Situational Obstacle
* Spider-Society - Former Teammates
	+ Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 - Former Ally
	+ Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman - Former Ally
* Spider-Gang - Teammates, Friends and Allies
	+ Hobart Brown/Spider-Punk - Best Friend
	+ Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman - Friend
	+ Peter B. Parker/Spider-Man - Ally and Alternate Self
	+ Margo Kess/Spider-Byte - Ally
	+ Peni Parker - Ally and Alternate Self
	+ Peter Porker/Spider-Ham - Ally and Alternate Self
	+ Peter Parker/Spider-Man Noir - Ally and Alternate Self
* Miles Morales/Spider-Man - Friend

### Enemies

* Hobgoblin - Nemesis
* Jonathan Ohnn/The Spot - Enemy

## Trivia

* **Pavitr Prabhakar/ Spider-Man India** in the *Spider-Verse* saga is the first ever film and animated incarnation of the iconic character.
* In the Hindi and Punjabi dub of *Across the Spider-Verse,* Pav is voiced by Indian Cricketer Shubman Gill.
* Three shots of Pavitr can imply that him and Miles Morales share a similar Spider-Man core origin story. Two comic book panels during Pavitr's debut pose suggests that Pavitr had to take his own version of the "leap of faith" jump that Miles did in *Into the Spider-Verse*. In another shot during Pavitr's introduction, he is seen falling in the sky with his hands behind his head, mirroring the last position Miles took during his ending monologue.
	+ Pavitr being written as a reflection of Miles younger and confident era of Spider-Man is also backed by Karan Soni, Pav's voice actor, revealing his audition line was Miles' ending monologue for the first film.
* The loss of his uncle, Bhim Prabhakar is not mentioned in his origin story during his first introduction.
* Pavitr's fighting and swinging style is inspired by Kalaripayattu, an Indian martial art. A small animation team from Kerala, India was tasked to help animate Pavitri's movements.
* Pavitr's facemask has design inspirations from Theyyam, a Hindu ritual from Kerala.
* According to the X-Ray for *Across the Spider-Verse* on Amazon:
	+ Director Kemp Powers explains, *"Pavitr's powers came through magic, so he is quite different from a lot of other Spider-People who were bitten by radioactive spiders. He actually gained his powers from a mystical shaman."*
	+ Visual consultant Naveen Selvanathan explains, *"We wanted Pavitr to look like a fearsome yet nimble warrior. We tried to achieve that with a mask pattern that looks like the face of a spider, drawn in the Theyyam face-painting style, and adorned his body with Indian-inspired spider motifs."*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*
2. ↑ In *Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse The Official Movie Special Book* it mentions Pavitr being a few years younger than Miles who is 15 in *Across the Spider-Verse*. So it is safe to assume that Pavitr is no less younger than 13 since he attends Mumbattan Visions Academy and no older than 14.
3. ↑ Sony - Global on YouTube: "Across the Spider-Verse cast members discuss it all | How It Happened: Across the Spider-Verse"
4. ↑ Nick Kondo (@NickTyson) on Twitter: Kalaripayattu, Pavitr's fighting style.
5. ↑ Harinarayan Rajeev (@haricool\_) on Twitter: Photo of the small team of Indian animators and software engineers that helped animate Pavitr.
6. ↑ Harinarayan Rajeev (@haricool\_) on Twitter: Quote tweet on Kondo's tweet about the inspiration for Pavitr's fighting style.