Spider-Man (Amazing Variant)

**Spider-Man (Peter Parker)** is a fictional character produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Picture Studios based on the comic book character of the same created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. This version of the character is the second live action iteration which was portrayed by Andrew Garfield, originally portrayed by Tobey Maguire and currently followed by Tom Holland.

## Background

### **Becoming Spider-Man**

Parker became Spider-Man as a result of him failing to stop his uncle's death, embracing the responsibility he preached. Throughout his time as Spider-Man, he made many enemies with the likes of Curt Connors, a brilliant scientist who became the Lizard due to injecting himself with the prototype of a regenerative serum. Spider-Man and Connors clashed when the latter tried to turn everyone in New York into lizards much like himself. Peter defeated the Lizard by administering him an anti-serum that transformed him back to his original self.

Peter had a girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, who was aware of his dual identity.

A second memorable villain this Spider-Man faced was Electro, who was originally the electrical engineer Max Dillon, a prominent fan of Spider-Man who gained electrical powers after falling into a tank filled with electric eels. Peter remarks that upon obtaining this new powers, Max turned from sweet to extremely prideful and egotistical. Spider-Man was left with no other option but to kill Dillon, overcharging him with electricity.

### **Losing Gwen Stacy**

During one of Parker's battles, his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, was caught within the crossfire and died as a result of him being unable to save her. Guilt-ridden, Parker held this to his heart forever, and he was never able to forgive himself. Following Gwen's death, Peter started to develop destructive tendencies, becoming engulfed in bitterness and not holding back his punches until he finally realizing what had come of him.

At some point, Spider-Man fought the Rhino, a crazy russian in a rhinoceros suit of mechanical armor.

### **Multiversal Encounter**

#### **Meeting His Variants**

All of a sudden, while Parker was operating as Spider-Man fighting crime, he was transported into another location. Using his scientific knowledge of String Theory and the Multiverse, Parker was able to quickly deduce that he was within another universe. Just as Parker was navigating around this universe, a portal opened in front of him, where he saw a guy named Ned Leeds and a girl named Michelle Jones calling out for their Peter Parker, their friend.

Seeing Spider-Man on the other side, they call him over, but soon realize that this Spider-Man is not their Parker. Rather, it is one from another universe who has previously fought Max Dillion as Electro and Doctor Curt Connors as the Lizard. After communicating with them, Parker made them realise that he was Spider-Man as well, just a different variation of him through climbing around the walls to help Leeds' Grandma.

Soon after just as Leeds was about to try to find his version of Peter, but he had summoned yet another alternate Peter Parker who previously fought the Goblin, Octavius, and Marko. Sensing danger, Parker tried to confirm the alternate's true self just to discover he was Spider-Man too, and much to his disgust and awe, he had organic webbing coming out of his wrists.

After the two Peters communicate with each other they help Leeds and Jones, manage to find their Parker alone on top of a skyscraper and attempt to console him about May, but he is too distraught about his mistakes to even care. Before he can use the Box to send them home, a alternate Spider-Man began sharing their own personal experiences of loss and bitterness, with his partner saying he lost Uncle Ben.

In conjunction, to help the variant cope and realize that he is not alone, Parker confesses his own guilt of not being able to save his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, talking about how it made him rageful and it made him better. He and his other tells their fallen variant that they don't want him to end up in a dark path that will lead him astray.

#### **Making A Cure**

After manging to convince his variant, the group decided to retreat to a laboratory in order to engineeer cures for their past enemies. Parker says that he will handle Curt Connors' anti serum having made that earlier on in his life as well to cure him, while his other variant decides to create the one for Green Goblin. The Parkers, Jones, and Leeds together engineer cures for Lizard and Marko while devising a plan to bring their adversaries all to one spot using the Box as a lure.

#### **The Battle on Liberty Island**

Spider-Man and his counterparts then travelled to the Statue of Liberty, using an Inter-Dimensional Portal opened by Ned Leeds. While the native Spider-Man deliberately broadcast their location, Spider-Man noticed that the older Spider-Man had back issues and shared that he did too.

He then asked if he could crack it, which the older Spider-Man agreed too. cracked the older Spider-Man's back to ease his back pain, relating to what he was feeling.

With time to spare, Spider-Man then asked how the older Spider-Man was able to naturally shoot webs without the need for Web-Shooters. As the native Spider-Man asked what kind of villains they had faced besides the current ones, the older Spider-Man discussed having fought a black symbiote. The native Spider-Man then told them about fighting a purple alien in space and on Earth, much to both of their surprises. Spider-Man expressed a desire to fight aliens of his own, feeling that he was "lame" for fighting men like the Rhino, prompting the other Spider-Men to assure him that he was amazing in his own way.

The three Spider-Men suddenly sensed that Electro had arrived, followed by Lizard and Sandman. Spider-Man faced Lizard and attempted to obtain the cure from the native Spider-Man but failed to coordinate well with his counterparts, leading to several early setbacks.

As they regrouped, Spider-Man and the older Spider-Man both announced that they had never worked as a team and didn't know how. The native Spider-Man took command due to his experience with the Avengers, although Spider-Man and the older were unaware of what the Avengers were as they didn't exist in their home universes, and thought they were a band name.

The native Spider-Man urged them to trust their Spider-Sense, and the three decided to coordinate their attacks by focusing on one villain at a time, as well as naming each other, by Peter-One, Peter-Two, and Peter-Three. Spider-Man was listed as Peter-Three. The group then swung together as Spider-Men with a new spirit of teamwork. Spider-Man attacked Lizard, while Peter-Two attacked Sandman, and Peter-One attacked Electro.

Returning to battle, Spider-Man retrieved Sandman's cure, passing it on to Peter-1 to pass off to Peter-2 while he continued to fight off against Lizard on his own, eventually webbing him up with his web fluid while he decided to descend at the top of the Statue towards Electro, with his cure in hopes of curing him.

Upon reaching at the top of the Statue, Spider-Man and the older one attempted to steal the Arc Reactor from Electro but were overwhelmed by his electricity powers. They were saved by Otto Octavius, who swapped the Arc Reactor with the cure, depriving Electro of his powers and his insanity.

Spider-Man then spoke with Electro, who had been returned to his normal self as Dillon, who lamented that he would return to being a nobody as no one recognised him in their universe. However, Spider-Man assured Dillon that he never was a nobody in their universe and he had noticed him. Dillon then told Spider-Man that he had hoped he had been black though, wondering if there was a black Spider-Man out there, in which Spider-Man agreed could be possible.

Afterwards, Doctor Strange arrived and was introduced to Spider-Man and the older Spider-Man by the native Spider-Man. Before they could talk further, Green Goblin suddenly arrived, attacking them with Razor Bats, and stealing the Macchina di Kadavus from Strange. When Strange retrieved the Macchina, all Spider-Men noticed a Pumpkin Bomb inside it and became alarmed. It detonated, destroying the Macchina and unleashing the unstable spell, which caused a dimensional rift in the Multiverse to open.

This action also toppled the Statue, causing Michelle Jones to fall off the scaffolding. When the native Spider-Man leaped to catch her, Goblin knocked him aside, forcing a shocked Spider-Man to jump down and save her himself. Redeemed for his failure to save Gwen Stacy when she died in a similar way, he became emotional but soon composed himself.

#### **Returning To Each Perspective Universe**

As dawn broke, Spider-Man watched in concern as the younger Spider-Man faced off against Green Goblin and violently beat him up. Before the native Spider-Man could impale the Goblin with his glider, the older Spider-Man intervened, but was promptly stabbed in the back by Goblin. As the older Spider-Man managed to survive, Spider-Man threw the native Spider-Man the cure, which the native Spider-Man injected Goblin with, restoring his sanity as Norman Osborn and vanquishing his Goblin alter ego.

Spider-Man tended to his older counterpart, who was not mortally injured as he had been stabbed before, as the younger Spider-Man helped Doctor Strange fix the spell by modifying it so that the universe would no longer remember him. The three Spider-Men embraced and exchanged goodbyes.

Strange then cast the spell, returning all the universe-displaced to their home universes with him putting a peace sign up to his older counterpart before departure.

## Powers and Abilities

### **Powers**

* **Artificially Enhanced Physiology**: This Spider-Man variant possesses the proportionate powers of a spider, after being bitten by a genetically enhanced spider. The spider bite triggered numerous body-wide mutagenic changes within Parker, granting him superhuman strength, speed, toughened flesh, numerous arachnid-like abilties such as enhanced senses which allow him to evade several attacks from his foes.

* **Superhuman Strength**: Spider-Man's muscles are stronger and more efficient as a result of a genetically modified spider's bite, managing to easily overpower The Lizard without much effort during the Battle in Liberty Island, something he himself previously struggled to do in one of his previous fights with Connors.
* **Superhuman Durability**: As a result of his mutation, Spider-Man's muscles and flesh are tougher than a normal human.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Parker can run far faster than a regular human and accelerating vehicles. Out of the three Spiderman Variants, The Amazing Spider-Man seems to be the quickest of them, able to catch MJ before she or anyone else could even realize she was safely on the ground after his younger variant was stopped by the Green Goblin. He is also able to outpace and outmanuver the Lizard, a feat his other counterparts couldn't do.
* **Superhuman Agility**: Due to his incredible agility and flexibility, Spider-Man is extremely acrobatic and is able to perform high jumps, somersaults, and flips.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Spider-Man's advanced musculature produce fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human meaning allowing him to perform physical activities for an extended period before being fatigued. Parker's stamina allowed him to survive the Battle at the Liberty Tower.
* **Superhuman Reflexes**: Spider-Man's reflexes operate so fast that with the assistance of his Spider-Sense, allowing Parker to easily evade attacks even from close range.
* **Enhanced Sense**: Spider-Man's senses appear to be heightened, especially when used in conjunction with his spider-sense.

* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: As a result from the Spider-Bite, Spider-Man, regenerates from his injuries faster and more extensively than a normal human.
* **Wall-Crawling**: Thanks to Spider-Man's exposure to the mutated spider venom induced a cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams resulting in the ability to mentally control the flux of inter-atomic attraction between molecular boundary layers.

### **Abilities**

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Parker is considerably smart, specifically in engineering, chemistry and physics. He is smart enough to perfect his father's webbing formula and to construct working mechanical web-shooters. He also apparently solves a formula that is key to creating the formula that mutates Curt Connors into the Lizard. Before he was found by Ned, this Parker was able to quickly deduce he was in a alternate universe and grasp the concept of the multiverse on his own with minimal to no studying.
* **Master Scientist**: Akin to his other variants, Parker is an amazing scientist who is skilled within all areas of Science. Parker's speciality appears to be in chemistry as shown when he along with his other variant, being able to successfully concoct several chemical mixtures that had the ability to undo the mutation of their deadly enemies.
* **Expert Engineer**: Parker is a skilled engineer, being was able to create his own mechanical web shooters within a considerably short amount of time.
* **Skilled Combatant**: Using a mixture of his superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, equilibrium, Spider-Sense, and Web-Shooters, Parker is able to utilize a devastating acrobatic fighting style that makes him a formidable opponent against the likes of dangerous enemies like the Lizard and Electro. His skills were enough to take Lizard on his own again and subdue him, something his other variants struggled with.
* **Master Marksman**: Parker possesses extremely keen eyesight, and is able to accurately utilize his Web-Shooters to neutralize his targets during his crime-fighting.
* **Master Acrobat**: Due to his superhuman agility and superhuman reflexes, Spider-Man can perform acrobatic and gymnastic feats, such as flips, with little effort. After gaining years of experience, he has mastered the ability to use his acrobatic skills to fend off against his enemies, effortlessly being able to incorporate it into his fighting style.

## Weapons/Equipment

* **Spider-Man Suit**: Parker wore the suit to conceal his identity while operating as the superhero Spider-Man.
* **Web-Shooters**: A pair of web shooters worn on his wrists used by Parker to fire out thin strands of web fluid. Parker developed these web shooters by utilizing Oscorp's bio-cable technology, somewhat like his younger counterpart. The twin devices worn upon his wrists are able to shoot thin strands of a special web fluid at high pressure and speeds, enabling him to immobilize his opponents in combat along with moving through locations by attaching his web fluid to various objects. The web cartridges can hold multiple capsules at once.

## Relationships

### Family

* James Parker - Father (Deceased)
* Mary Parker - Mother (Deceased)
* May Parker - Aunt
* Ben Parker - Uncle (Deceased)

### Friends

* Gwen Stacy - Former Classmate and Girlfriend (Deceased)
* Flash Thompson - Former Classmate and Friend

### Allies

* Doctor Strange
* Spider-Man - Alternate Self
* Spider-Man (Friendly Neighborhood) - Alternate Self
* Michelle Jones-Watson
* Ned Leeds
* Doctor Octopus - Former Enemy
* Electro - Former Enemy
* Lizard - Former Enemy
* Sandman - Former Enemy
* Green Goblin - Temporary Enemy

## Trivia

* Amazing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues the live-action incarnation of the character from Marc Webb's *The Amazing Spider-Man* duology from Sony Pictures Studios, who was also portrayed by Andrew Garfield, and Max Charles.