Peter Benjamin Parker (Earth-96283)

## History

### Early Life

Born on May 10th, 1984, Peter Parker was adopted by his uncle, Ben Parker and his aunt, May Parker, after his parents died in a plane crash when he was very young, and lived and grew up with them in Forest Hills, Queens. In grade school, Peter developed a crush on his next-door neighbor, Mary Jane Watson, who moved in shortly after he began, he continued throughout his high school years, growing up, he was considered a nerd, someone, who never was in with the in-crowd. In middle school, he became best friends with Harry Osborn, who looked after and defended him against bullies.

### Becoming Spider-Man

When he was 18, Peter went on a field trip to Empire State University's genetics lab, where Peter and his classmates all observed the specimens, different species of "super spiders", that had been genetically modified in several different types of ways. While taking photos in the laboratory, Peter was bitten by an escaped spider, a new species created in the lab. The venom of this spider ended up poisoning and mutating Peter's DNA, the process of which made him very ill.

Overnight, the mutations end up turning him into a hybrid. The following morning, Peter found that his previously impaired vision has improved and that his body has metamorphosized into a more muscular physique. When Peter goes to school, he finds himself producing webbing and having quick reflexes to avoid being injured in a fight with Flash Thompson. Peter escapes from the school and realizes that he has acquired spider-like powers from the spider bite. He quickly learned to scale walls, long jump across building rooftops and swing via webs from his wrists.

Lying to his aunt and uncle about where he is going, Peter decided to enter a wrestling tournament to get money to buy a car and impress Mary Jane. During an argument, Uncle Ben advised Peter, "With great power comes great responsibility.", but Peter ignored his advice and headed for the tournament. Peter was able to win his fight against Bonesaw but was cheated out of the contest money. In retaliation, he allowed a thief (who had just robbed the owner) to escape. Unbeknownst that thief would go on to kill his Uncle Ben. Peter hunted down the thief who killed his uncle and the thief ended up getting killed. The thief's death prompted Parker to realize vengeance did not make him feel any better and remembered his Uncle Ben's words of wisdom, "With great power comes great responsibility", which inspired Peter to become Spider-Man.

While as Spider-Man Peter got a job as a photographer for the Daily Bugle. The owner J. Jonah Jameson ironically had a deep hatred towards the web-slinger however.

## Relationships

* Mary Teresa Fitzpatrick Parker † - Mother
* Benjamin Franklin Parker † - Uncle
* Maybelle Reilly Parker - Aunt

Allies* Harold Theopolis Osborn / New Goblin - Best Friend and Temporary Enemy
* Mary Jane Watson - Girlfriend
* Gwendolyne Maxine Stacy
* Web-Warriors
	+ Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man / Peter-Three
	+ Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man / Peter-One
* Alien symbiote † - Victim

## Trivia

* Tobey Maguire portrays the original Spider-Man in the films *Spider-Man*, *Spider-Man 2*, *Spider-Man 3*, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film *Spider-Man: No Way Home*.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Spider-Man*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Spider-Man: No Way Home*