Scarlet Spider (Richard Harold Parker) (Earth-638)

The older brother of Ben Parker and the eldest son of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, Richard Harold Parker possess incredible spider-like abilities just like his father, fighting crime alongside his brother as the Scarlet Spider.

## Appearance

Richard is 5'10, weighs 160 lbs, has a slim and lean body build with some slight muscle, black hair, and blue eyes.

Richard's suit as the Scarlet Spider is red and black; most of his costume is red, while the head, arms and shoulders are black. The costume also has red lenses, and a black spider symbol on the middle of his chest.

## Relationships

* Spider-Man (Peter Benjamin Parker) (father, deceased)
* Mary Jane Watson (mother)
* Spider-Man (Benjamin Ray Parker) (brother)

## Powers/Abilities

* **Spider Physiology**: after his father was bitten by the genetically altered super spiders and had his two sons, Ben and Richard, he has gained the proportionate abilities of a spider after activating his powers. Due to Ben and Richard both being the sons of Peter, they have the powers of their father, as well as a few different ones themselves and their bodies naturally through the years acclimated to their powers, making them stronger, faster, and more agile than the average human.
* **Wall-Crawling**: Richard being bitten with the mutated spider venom in his DNA, induced a mutagenic, cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams resulting in the ability to mentally control the flux of interatomic attraction (electrostatic force) between molecular boundary layers. This overcomes the outer electron shells normal behaviour of mutual repulsion with other outer electron shells and permits the tremendous potential for electron attraction to prevail. The mentally controlled sub-atomic particle responsible for this has yet to be identified. This ability to affect the attraction between surfaces is so far limited to Richard's body (especially concentrated in his hands and feet) and another object, with an upper limit of several tons per finger. Limits to this ability seem to be psychosomatic, and the full nature of this ability has yet to be established.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Scarlet Spider possesses superhuman strength enabling him to press lift approximately 7 tons. His physical strength is sufficient to effortlessly lift and throw objects as heavy as most standard cars with ease. Some feats include throwing a taxi cab five stories into the air, and lifting a forklift that averagely weighs 4.5 tons (9,000 lbs). He must also pull his punches and kicks unless fighting someone of similar or greater physical durability. Otherwise, his blows would prove fatal to a normal human being. He has demonstrated that he is strong enough to allow him to knock out people with normal durability with as little as a tap to the head. Richard's physical strength also extends into his legs, enabling him to be able to jump to a height of several stories in a single bound. In the second issue, he seems to throw a car with little effort. He also broke a man's jaw with a simple “love tap”.
* **Superhuman Speed**: Scarlet Spider can run and move at speeds that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete. Keeping up with cars, outrunning cars and manoeuvring fast attacks from beings such as Kraven the Hunter, Prowler, and Scorpion. And even fought beings such as Sandman and dodged a gunshot at near point blank range.
* **Superhuman Stamina**: Richard’s advanced musculature produces far less fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human and even Ben. This allows him to exert himself physically for much longer periods of time before fatigue begins to impair him. At his peak, Richard can physically exert himself for 20 hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Richard’s body is physically tougher and more resistant to some types of injury than the body of a normal human. His body is more resistant to impact forces than anything else. He can withstand great impacts, such as falling from a height of several stories or being struck by a superhumanly strong opponent, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no discomfort, His durability is sufficient and strong enough that he survives serious injury other than a sore body after being pounded by Sandman and then thrown out of Kingpin's skyscraper.
* **Superhuman Agility**: Richard's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Je is extraordinarily and more limber and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their enhanced strength. He has the combined agility and acrobatic prowess of the most accomplished circus aerialists and acrobats. He can also perform any complicated sequence of gymnastic stunts such as flips, rolls, and springs. He can easily match or top any Olympic record at gymnastics apparatus such as flying rings, climbing ropes, horizontal bars, trampolines.
* **Superhuman Equilibrium**: Richard possesses the ability to achieve a state of perfect equilibrium in any position imaginable. He seems able to adjust his position by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on virtually any object, no matter how small or narrow. He has developed a unique fighting style that made full use of his agility, strength, and equilibrium.
* **Superhuman Reflexes**: His reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about 20 times greater than those of an ordinary human. In combination with his spider-sense, the speed of his reflexes allows him to dodge almost any attack, even direct gunfire if he is far enough away. Even fast enough to dodge Ben completely at a peak punch.
* **Spider-Sense**: Richard possesses a precognitive "spider-sense" which alerts him to danger, he gets a tingling sensation that manifests at the back of his skull. Through experience, He has learned how to sense differences in the various tingles he feels, determining whether a danger is potential or immediate, how intense a threat it is, what direction it is coming from, and even can predict the moves of others.
* **Immortality**: According to Norman Osborn, the OZ formula bestows a form of immortality that prevents those infused with it from aging past their prime.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: As an (apparent) immortal, he can rapidly regenerate from harmful injuries. Such as bruises and cuts in seconds to minutes, and Broken bones and bullet wounds in a few minutes to half an hour.
* **Night/Smoke Vision**: Richard has enhanced night vision as a part of his mutant list of abilities, allowing him to see in pitch-black conditions and through smoke.
* **Spider-Camouflage**: Richard, including his clothing, can blend into his surroundings, allowing him to sneak up on his enemies or, in some cases, flee from them. The resulting effect closely resembles that of invisibility.
* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Richard, like Peter, is a prodigy but not in bio-chemicals, and more of a tech person as well as some biochemist. His adoptive father said he was "as smart as they come". He possesses an IQ of 145, same as Ben.
* **Poison/Vampire Bite Immunity**: Thanks to the spider venom that courses in his veins, it makes him immune to vampire bites and immune to poisons, since the spider venom didn't kill him.
* **Indomitable Will**: Richard possess an extremely strong force of willpower, much like Ben and their father, Peter.

### Untapped Powers/Abilities

Much like his younger brother, Richard also possess a set of powers and abilities that have yet to be awoken. These are:

* **Fangs**: Richard can grew a mouth full of razor sharp fangs that he can use to land fatal blows on others, and bite through metal and steel.
* **Venom Blast**: He can send a bio-electric shock to his enemies or destroy technology by releasing a small spark of electricity from his hands. After the initial spark, moments later the enemy will be electrocuted. It seems that there are varying degrees to this ability, as some opponents have been simply dazed where others have been completely incapacitated. This is also very convenient, as Richard can end a confrontation quickly with little collateral damage.
* **Mega-Venom Blast**: When under extreme stress, Richard is capable of releasing a powerful burst of energy from his body but he can only use it once before needing to recharge it. It was powerful enough to destroy much of a single area. This ability can be triggered by extreme stress, or focus on Richard's part.
* **Venom Punch**: Richard can enhance the power of his punches by infusing his fists with bio-electricity.
* **Energy-Web Generation**: Richard can produce threads of bio-electricity from his fingers. Said spinnerets carry the same tensile prehensility of his web fluid, allowing him to swing from place to place or yank and flail around his opponents.

## Skills

* **Expert Mechanic**
* **Genius Level Hacker/Computer Engineer**
* **Genius Tactician**

## Weaknesses

* **Over-Protective**: Richard can be very overprotective of Ben and his family, which can lead to them actually being captured and even lead to Ben getting involved simply because he wants to prove he can do it, and this can further cause Richard to be distracted.
* **Hot-Tempered**: Richard can be extremely hot tempered, resulting in the defeat of himself, and can also easily lose his anger once he begins to battle and fight an opponent that can get the beat of him. He gets sloppy, arrogant, and almost doesn't care to save others once he becomes too angry.
* **Symbiotes**: If a Symbiote attaches itself to him and stays with him for a certain amount of time, it can become invisible to his spider sense.
* **Gene Cleanser**: If he is infected with or takes this willingly, it can take away his powers for a short time or indefinitely depending on the amount he took.
* **Spider-Sense Disruption**: His spider sense can lose it's function if it is disrupted by special drugs or chemicals. Also, if the spider sense has not registered something that is clearly dangerous, he will not be warned. Such things as all and any of Richards clones if he ever had any and the symbiote and all of its offspring.
* **Anti-Venom Symbiote**: anyone who possesses the Anti-Venom Symbiote will have the ability to weaken and even take away spider powers from individuals, as well as also be immune to Richard's spider sense.
* **Ethyl Chloride**: Richard's spider powers are weak to the chemical known as Ethyl Chloride. This chemical is often used by Spider-Slayers.
* **Electromagnetic Waves**: Richard powers can be disrupted by electromagnetic waves of energy just as he can follow it with their spider sense. The waves can disrupt his venom blast, senses, and his ability to stick to walls.

## Personality

Richard being a little bit of a bully to Ben was inspired by his father's selfless heroism. At a young age, he straightened himself out and took a liking to protecting others, especially his little brother in order to prove himself a hero. When he obtained his powers at 15, he became a bit arrogant and on a power trip, After which he became hot-tempered and very angry towards others, albeit except for Ben, whom he loved and protected along with his uncle, Eddie Brock. Upon discovering his powers and his father explaining what they were and what they do, he desired to be like his father. And through the years of learning from Peter, would Agree to teach him once he was of age, and became Peter's super hero partner. Upon becoming the Scarlet Spider at 15, Richard's aspirations to be a superhero clashed with both his social and school life — eventually leading to him questioning if this is who he's supposed to be.

Richard came to realize just how heavy the burden of being a hero was when his new rogues gallery came to attack his friends and family and decided he may need help; eventually training Ben himself to protect, help, and be a partner to him. Richard is always quick to take the blame himself for Ben's screw ups, and especially his own believing in the philosophy: “with great power comes great responsibility”.

He is also easily stressed out and also prone to anger like Ben, however he controls it more. He's also shown to have the old Parker charm, with quips, smart comments, and even a sense of dark humour. But nonetheless is highly stressed at some points. Not only is he worried sick about his brother/superhero partner, he also is very involved in being a superhero which can stress him out. But he will always be there to pick up the pieces of Ben's life or emotions should they begin to fall apart.

## Trivia

* Richard likes going to parties and drinking.
* Richard enjoys history, chemistry and football.
* Richard hates short conversations and small talk.

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