Peter Parker (Earth-1118)

## Spider-Man

*"With great power comes great responsibility."*
―Benjamin Parker
**Peter Benjamin Parker** was a vigilante from New York City.

## Biography

### Origin

Peter Parker was born in 1985 to the scientists Richard and Mary Parker, who died not long after in a plane crash overseas. Raised by his aunt and uncle, Peter grew up to be a brilliant student, and an admirer of heroes like Captain America.

During a school field trip to the Gentek building in 2000, a fifteen year old Peter Parker was bitten by an escaped genetically enhanced "super-spider" created by Gentek, being infected with a retrovirus from its venom in the process. Waking up from a nightmare involving a spider-deity the next day, he found himself with a superhuman physique, microscopic bristles that allowed him to scale walls, and silk-producing glands in his forearms. Peter decided to use his new abilities to become an underground wrestler in the NYWL, initially to help his aunt and uncle pay the bills before getting too caught up in the limelight.

This would eventually come to haunt him, when he allowed a burglar to escape from the scene of a robbery one night, refusing to use his powers to help out of spite. He would come home that same night to find his house was broken into, and his uncle was shot dead.

Peter donned his wrestling costume once more and hunted down the killer, tracking him to an abandoned warehouse and nearly killing him before realizing he was the same thief he let escape.

Leaving the burglar for the authorities, Peter's rage was soon replaced by guilt. Swearing to use his fantastic abilities to help others from then on, he became the vigilante superhero known as Spider-Man.

### Spider-Man

Throwing together a temporary costume while he designed his first real suit, with homemade goggles designed to prevent him from experiencing sensory overload from his enhanced senses, he took to the streets to start his career as New York City's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

He saved up for a decent camera and became a photographer at the Daily Bugle, in hopes that cataloging his adventures as Spider-Man could help Aunt May keep the lights on.

## Equipment

* Web-Shooters: A high pressure launching system designed to spin Peter's webbing into precise strands. They were later modified to give Peter's webs more function, such as electrifying them or weaving substances into them.

## Powers and Abilities

* Spider Physiology
	+ Spinnerets: As a result of most of his DNA being replaced with that of a spider's, Peter gained the ability to naturally produce and spin silk from organs in his wrists. While the webbing fired from these spinnerets were normally inaccurate and messy, Peter invented a pair of web-shooters to spin the webbing into compact strands in a variety of shapes.
		- Stingers: Peter's spinnerets stored two venomous bone-like "stingers". Peter rarely made use of them, unlike his clone brother, Kaine Parker.
	+ Wall-Crawling: With the microscopic bristles that grew on his entire body, he could effortlessly stick to surfaces, allowing him to crawl and run on walls. The bristles were thin enough to pierce through his costumes.
* Super Metabolism: The spider bite granted him an extremely high metabolism, requiring him to eat constantly near constantly in order to fuel his superhuman muscles and his silk production.

## Notes

* He's Jewish.
* He has ADHD.
* He could get intoxicated from drinking excessive amounts of coffee.
* Along with the proportionate strength of a spider, he also inherited a spider's instinctive understanding of weaving together patterns, hence his often elaborate costumes.