Skull Spider (Gerry Drew-Parker Reiley)

## Skull Spider

### Nicknames

Spy-D Jr., Spy-D, Kid Arachnid, Arachnocousin, Spider-Cousin, Parker-Reiley-Drew-Fury, The Long-Ass Name Kid.

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

Jessica Drew/Teresa Parker (mother)Kaine Reiley (father)

Richard Parker (paternal grandfather)

Mary Parker (paternal grandmother)

Peter Parker (uncle)

Mary Jane Watson-Parker (aunt-in-law)

Anna May Watson-Parker (cousin)

Ben Parker-Watson (cousin)

Nicholas Fury (adoptive grandfather)

### Affiliation

SHIELD Undergrad Academy, SHIELD, SWORD, Web Warriors, Avengers Academy.

### Education

SHIELD Special Agents Program Institution, Avengers Academy.

### Base Of Operations

International (parents travel place to place for missions)

## Additional Information

### Creators

Dennis Hallum, Javier Rodriguez, Ron Frenz, Tom DeFalco

### Wiki Author

DuttPanda

**Gerry Nicholas Drew-Parker Reiley**, also known by his superhero alias, the **Skull Spider**, is a crime-fighting superhero, the son of the Web Warriors: Jessica Drew aka Scarlet Spider and Kaine Reiley aka Ghost Spider and one of the many spider-powered heroes of his universe. He is the nephew of the original web-slinger, Peter Parker aka Spider-Man and the cousin of Anna May Watson-Parker aka Spider-Girl and Ben Parker-Watson aka Spider-Boy.
Gerry was born to the two SHIELD operative heroes Jessica and Kaine who both possessed supernatural spider-powers of their own.

The genetic combination of two Web Warriors created a very powerful offspring, that being Gerry, who manifested his own spider-powers from an extremely young age, while he was just a mere infant. Although he was very sweet and adorable as a baby, Gerry naturally grew up to be a very grumpy, solitary, emo, reserved and introverted kid over the years due to a tragedy. Ever since he was a young chump, his parents instilled within him a sense of responsibility for the greater good, and entrenched the idea of being a responsible person who would unconditionally help others.

He was admitted to SHIELD/SWORD's undergrad/education program and travelled around the world with his parents, whom he accompanied on their multitude of missions. He became more temperamental and broody and his personality changed upon the death of his adoptive grandfather, Nick Fury, who raised his mother from her childhood, and who was like his grandfather. Gerry vowed to be a no-nonsense, serious and competent hero and promised to never let anyone die on his watch. His personality has a similar disposition to *Ben 10'*s Kevin Leven (after he changed his villainous attitude). Down the line, as a high-school age teenager, he created his own costume with a blue hoodie over an advanced red spandex suit and a customized webshooter that controls a lot of his additional spider-powers, gifted to him by his uncle Peter Parker.

He also becomes a note-worthy future member of the Young Avengers, for whom he settled down in America for awhile in order to participate in their group heroic activities in their main base of operations. He is also an important member of the Web Warriors in the *Spider-Verse* event and beyond. There are many running jokes associated with his character; one being about his stereotypical emo boy attitude, his tsundere personality, his very long name for which he was always non-offensively teased around about in his academy and his cheesy superhero alias of the "Skull Spider."

The story behind his alter-ego's title is as follows: When his parents deemed him fit to be a full-time hero, they gave him the freedom to select his own superhero identity, he thought long and hard but wasn't able to find anything noteworthy. Sometime later, on an unrelated note, he was forced to go on a mission with his cousins, Anna and Benjy (they were operating as Spider-Girl and Spider-Boy) to take down a common threat. He had no friends at the time due to his nature and had since long lost his connection with his cousins. He always felt like an outsider and didn't feel 'human.'

In this mission, despite his terrible attitude with his own cousins and masquerading around as a lone wolf like Batman, they still never lost faith in him and treated him well unconditionally despite his behavior, and thus helped him open up and become friends with them once more. He asked Anna and Ben what a good name for his alter-ego would be after they made amends and took down the foe, and asked for something 'menacing' or 'terrifying' (since he has a cringeworthy fascination with all things grungy or dark, basically adhering to his full-fledged emo way of life) and Anna recommended he go along with the name 'Skull Spider' since it sounded 'badass.'

Although it has no organic connection with his identity or history, Ben decided to make this his official alias since it was a name that his dear cousins came up with for him, and he gladly accepted it since he was grateful that they made him feel like a normal person once again. So that his title has any meaning whatsoever to his heroic identity, he added in a self-proclaimed 'iconic' trademark Spider-Signal in his utility belt, which triggers a powerful LED light  in the shape of a skull spider which he flashes onto his enemies before attacking them.