Peter Parker

* **Overview**
* Personality and Relationships
* History
* Gallery

### Affiliation

As Spider-Man: N/AAs Peter Parker: Daily Bugle, Empire State University, Midtown High School (formerly)

### Occupation

Current: Adventurer, photographer, scientist, university student, vigilanteFormer: high school student

## Overview

**Peter Parker** would be adopted by his beloved aunt and uncle after his parents died in the line of duty. Relatively friendless, Peter focused his intelligence and passion for the sciences in hopes of giving a better life for his family. During a field trip over to a laboratory, he would be bitten by an escaped genetically-modifed spider, giving him superhuman spider-like abilities. Using them for his own gain, an angry judgement call led to him permitting a robber escaping. Said robber would end up murdering his beloved Uncle Ben just hours later because he didn't stop him when he could. Promising to not let such a tragedy occur again, he swore by his uncle's words of "*With great power, there must also come great responsibility*". As such, he decided to utilize his great power to the responsability of fighting crime to ensure such tragedies will not occur again, becoming the friendly neighborhood **Spider-Man**.

## Powers & Talents

***Spider-like Physiology***- Spider-Man is a human mutate, having gotten his extranormal capabilities from an external source, having his DNA augmented by the "super spider". Spider-Man possesses the genetic abilities and capabilities associated with spiders,  though calibrated to be proportioned to human size and mass. Additionally, said capabilities are further augmented and enhanced due the genetically-modifed and radioactive treatment thrust upon the "super spiders." This includes thus far:

* ***Superhuman Physiology:*** Spider-Man’s possesses superior strength, speed, agility, durability and stamina, all surpassing baseline human capabilities. He is able to lift and move up to 7 tons in his adolescence; upon physical maturation, he is able to go up to a range above 10 tons. He also possesses superior reflexes and can achieve perfect equilibrium in virtually any position and spot.
* ***Wall-Crawling**:* Spider-Man is able to cling onto walls, ceilings and any other sort of position due to a strange alteration in his body’s make up. This “attraction” allows him to stick onto whatever surface he can handle while also maintaining his outfit on him, keeping villains from unmasking him. He also utilizies this to maintain superior grip onto heavy objects and in the surface at the same time.
* ***Enhanced Regenerating and Healing**:* Spider-Man heals at an accelerated pace and at more optimum and efficient level. This includes but not limited to being able to heal off otherwise permanent damage with good treatment. Injuries that would take years may take only months and injuries that would take months may only take weeks. Additionally, this likely led to the improvement of his eyesight (to no longer needed glasses) and maintaining his body in optimal condition. He also possesses a powerful immune system.
* ***Spider-Sense:*** Spider-Man possesses a precognitive sense he dubs his “spidey sense.” Instinctively warning him of dangers or threats, it’s connected to his muscle and brains as to instinctively dodge out of the way and training it allows it to be consciously applied to “abstract” dangers, such as threatening individuals or situations that are not immediately threatening or lethal. However, because of its instinctual base, there is a lack of details and thus Spider-Man must rely on deduction to locate the threat.

***Genius-level Intellect*:** Peter Parker's intellect even in adolescence, surpasses that of most adults and as he learns more, will achieve greater heights in intellect. He has already displayed a strong aptitude in biochemistry, mechanics, physics, mathematics and chemistry amongst other fields of sciences. Additionally, he shows an aptitude toward engineering, applying his intelligence outside the realm of theory to invent and repair various pieces of machine along with those of his own design. Due to his superhuman capabilities, he can channel his intellect over into his heroics to find the solution needed.

## Equipment & Tools

***Spider-Man suit (Version 1.0):*** Spiderman's first costume, modified for superhero activity. Based on as a wrestler outfit, it also took inspiration from a wetsuit and allows Spider-Man to move and be acrobatic while providing a good amount of protection from the cold. He uses a version of his "wall-crawling" adhesion to stick the costume onto him and remain in the best position along with the mask and gloves. During periods of winter weather, he wears thermal underwear underneath for protection against the elements.

***Web-shooters:*** Peter's first prominent invention, they are wrist-mounted devices that hold the artificial webbing Peter created for his work. The mechanism contains the web fluid under pressure. When tapped in a certain manner, it releases through the spinneret holes where the "web fluid" solidifies in exposure to the air and undergoes the process to have its tensile strength increased. Because of Peter's frugality, he has developed them and redeveloped them to ensure they would be easy to repair and maintain under his frugal budget. The schematics remain known only to him.

***Web-fluid:*** The signature organic compound fluid of Peter's own invention. A shear-thinning fluid, it knits and forms into an extremely tough, flexible fiber with extensive adhesive properties with exposed to open air (it remains pressurized within the shooters). The web fluid's adhesiveness is prominent in its initial exposure, solidifying after a few minute. After an hour, the esters within the formula kick in to dissolve the webbing, done to make cleaning up easier along with maintaining the secrecy of the formula.

## Trivia

* His favorite foods are his Aunt May’s wheatcakes (pancakes made with a mix of buckwheat flour and whole wheat flour along with molasses), New York styled pizza and New York style hotdogs.

* Despite his primary scientific interest being in biochemistry, Peter is also skilled in mechanics because of his early years observing his Uncle Ben fixing appliances along with his work as a mechanic. His first successful fix job was the family camera.

* Beyond the aforementioned focus in chemistry, Peter has shown a wide variety of interest in all of the various hard sciences, with him being considered a sort of "all-rounder" when it comes to scientific knowledge. Additionally, his growing skill in applying his various knowledges on the sciences together makes his collective scientific knowhow "greater than the sum of its parts."

* His role models growing up (aside from his Uncle Ben) were primarily Captain America I (Steve Rogers), Tony Stark, and Max Modell.

* His hobbies include working on appliances, reading comic books and science fiction novels, playing on arcade machines and more recently, computers (his first one being a second-hand ThinkPad.) Despite this, he is not a fan of *Star Wars.*

* Despite lacking much athletic ability and interest in sports, Peter Parker admits to being an avid *Mets* fan and relates heavily to them, describing them as “*a bunch of lovable losers who hit the occasional home run by accident*.”

* With both of his parents came from Jewish backgrounds alongside being raised in Queens, Peter identifies somewhat with his Jewish background though does not adhere to the faith and was in fact, raised Protestant. Despite this, he celebrates the traditional Jewish holidays in a historical context, but not over other holidays (as in he will celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah).

* Peter Parker did not rely solely on his superhuman capabilities to win his matches. He possesses a surprising knowledge of the fundamentals of wrestling as well as the rules of wrestling matches. This was due to growing up watching wrestling with his Uncle Ben’s co-workers whenever he would spend time at his uncle’s workplace.

* Peter also created the *Bombastic Bagman* outfit himself. He was taught by his Aunt May how to sew (she viewed it as an important skill and to bond with Peter, given she taught Mary before him.) Learning how to sew helped develop his finesse in handling small parts. Unsurprisingly, it also led contributed to his being teased-at in Midtown High.

* The Spider-Man uniform was based on his old wrestling outfit along with that of a scuba suit. While the appearance of the suit was designed and completed by Peter, the fundamentals and majority of the outfit was actually created by "Big" Ronnie, a woman who emigrated from the USSR and would open her own business in clothing, one that would be known as *Big Ronnie's Custom Battle Spandex*. Peter was one of her first clients and she assisted in the creation of both the Bombastic Bagman costume and the fundamentals of the Spider-Man uniform, which convinced her to cater her costume store/tailory to wrestlers and later superheroes.

* The webshooters started out as a passion project from his newfound interest in spiders after obtaining his powers, utilizing his expertise in biochemistry. They were made from various leftover mechanical parts and junkyard scraps. He took inspiration from fishing rods as a starting point of releaing the string and continues to work on them and refining them.

* His webfluid is one of his greatest accomplishments and he has considered patenting it. However, he hesitates on doing so due to various reasons, including regarding his secret identity and not being wholly knowledgable in business. He also notes that his webfluid is "incomplete", giving the impression that he continues to refine with the recipe. He hopes to finalize it in a proper lab as he often makes large batches over in high school and later college labs with purchased ingrediants of varying capabilities.

* He has kept the “Bombastic Bagman” outfit in a duffel bag in the closet. His inability to toss it out is attributed to maintaining as a reminder on who he was compared to who he needs to be.

* Peter was, in fact, aware of the rules of the tournament regarding his pay coming from wagers made. His dominance of his opponents in the ring was the result of his self-indulgence of being stronger than everyone else there. He took great pleasure in winning his fights handily, even taking the time to make quips and utilizing mike skills in the ring. This indulgence of his ego was partially why he made less money than he would've otherwise (though none of the other wrestlers took it personally.)

* The “Kick-Me” sign was added as a hazing joke by the wrestling manager. It contributed both in Peter’s aggression at the man and part of why some of the other wrestlers took his side.

* Peter signed the form under the name of “Bombastic Bagman” to avoid revealing he was a minor. It was permissible due to the questionable and free-form nature of the amateur competition.

* The radiation used to create the superspiders at A.I.M. was vita radiation and thanks to that, it was able to pass traits onto Peter without harming his genetics. Peter being granted the spider’s powers along with an enhanced healing factor and his threat-based precognition or “spider sense” (which appears to be a superenhanced version of the “flight or fight” instinct.)

* As Spider-Man, Peter has refused to do interviews in general. The reason being personality: having been a socially awkward dork for most of his life, these sort of social interactions is something he is not comfortable with, especially since he cannot use his quips well there. This includes the Daily Bugle, along with the additional reason of being concerned that Jameson would've found out it was him if the interview went on for too long or if he slipped.