Peter Parker (Earth-65)

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**Overview**
Quotes

## Peter Parker

* Peter Parker
* Lizard

### Alias(es)

**Codenames**
Lizard

## Personal Information

### Alt. versions

* Peter Parker
* Lizard

## Affiliation and Relationships

### Relatives

* Ben Parker (uncle)
* May Parker (aunt)

## Series Information

### Appeared in

* *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (flashback)
* *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (flashback)

### Voiced by

Jack Quaid

- ****Peter Parker****[src]

**Peter Benjamin Parker** was the nephew of Ben Parker and May Parker and briefly the monstrous creature known as **Lizard**.

Inspired by Spider-Woman, he would create a super-serum to gain powers to be special like his idol in an effort to defend himself from the relentless bullying he faced. Unfortunately, the formula backfired badly, transforming him into a giant lizard and causing him to lose control of himself as he was overwhelmed by the lizard's feral nature.

Lizard's acts would put him into conflict with his idol, Spider-Woman, who would accidentally kill the latter as she was defending a school dance from the creature. Back to his human form, Peter would reveal that he knew that the super heroine was his best friend, Gwen Stacy, herself, who was in shock and tried to deny it, thinking he will survive, but soon realized he was moments away from dying. He eventually died in her arms, succumbing to his injuries.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Growing up in New York

*"Before Miles, there was Peter."*
―Gwen Stacy[src]

Peter Parker was born in Queens. He was taken care of by his uncle Ben and Aunt May thanks to his absence of parents. Peter's life was rough and even though he was smart he would always end up being the target of bullies at school.

Even though he never had friends, George Stacy was friends with his aunt and uncle and he would get to meet and befriend Gwen Stacy. She would start to defend him from his bullies and his friendship with her would grow stronger everyday with Gwen staying at Peter's house and vice versa many times due to the closeness of their respective families.

#### Becoming the Lizard

*"I didn't really know him either. Until it was too late."*
―Gwen Stacy[src]

In Peter's teenage years, he attend Visions Academy, with Gwen where he would be constantly bullied, by Ned Leeds, who was a popular kid at the school. Peter's nerdy appearance and interests made him a very easy target. Gwen managed to befriend the band members of the Mary Janes and joined them, but Peter had no, such luck. Gwen would often stand up for Peter in front of Ned but this would only make him look weaker in front of him and cause the bullying to continue.

With the news of an appearance of a new vigilante called "Spider-Woman", Peter immediately became interested in her and started to take her pictures. He would show them to Gwen often and he would tell her how much he admired the superheroine. Even tough George Stacy had visible disdain for the vigilante, but somewhat respected her for saving his life on one occasion.

During one of his many days of High School, Ned bullied him again and managed to break his glasses in a fight. Gwen would come to rescue Peter and told Ned to back off but as usual this just made Peter look weaker as he had to have his friend stand up for him. This only further humiliated him even if Gwen's intentions were pure-hearted.

Following those events, Peter would develop a formula to gain "superpowers" and defend himself against his bullies. He decided to do this because of the inspiration he had gotten from watching his idol Spider-Woman and he wanted to be just like her. But the formula would go terribly wrong. Instead of giving him powers like the ones Spider-Woman had, he would transform, into an mindless and dangerous creature nicknamed as the "Lizard".

#### Death

*"Everything is gonna be okay."*
―Peter's last words to Gwen Stacy[src]

Peter and Gwen had agreed to go to the homecoming dance together as friends. Gwen had arrived and was waiting for Peter only to be greeted by Peter in lizard form starting a rampage at the place. Lizard's target was Ned Leeds and before he was able to hurt his bully, Spider-Woman arrived and began to battle him. Lizard knocked Spider-Woman into the side of the wall only for her to retaliate by carelessly kicking him into the ballroom's main pillar. Due to her not being careful with her immense strength, she recklessness ripped the pillar off its mounting bolts which caused it to collapse on top of him followed by the main beam and the rest of the ceiling. This collapsed the entire place and fatally wounded Lizard.

Following the fight, Peter would return back to his human form. Spider-Woman would rush to the dying creature's aid only to find out it was her best friend. Before his death, Peter revealed he knew that Gwen was Spider-Woman all along, telling her that everything was going to be fine just to die shortly afterwards. Gwen cradled his body and sobbed into it before swinging away due to the arrival of her father.

### Legacy

*"And I don't do friends anymore, just to avoid any distractions."*
―Gwen Stacy[src]

Peter Parker was remembered as a good kid by all of New York who were seemingly unaware of his transformation, into the Lizard or his motives. His "murder" encouraged a manhunt to find and arrest Spider-Woman, which Captain George Stacy would obsess over for years to come in seek for revenge and closure for himself and his daughter, whose secret identity as Spider-Woman was unknown even to him.

Peter's death also devastated Gwen, to the point where she dedicated her life to saving others, the way she couldn't save him, feeling immense regret and guilt over accidentally killing him. This also caused her to isolate herself from others, fearing that anyone that gets close to her might die due to her Spider Woman side. However, Gwen did make a friend in Miles Morales as he became the only friend she made after Peter died, eventually become her love interest as she developed a massive crush on him.

Gwen also remembered Peter fondly and considers him as reason for still being Spider-Woman and saving people's lives. Peter's death was brought up by Gwen after she and several other Spider-People are teleported to Earth-1610. She tells the Miles Morales of that dimension about his death after he had lost his Uncle Aaron Davis. She also remembered his death shortly before being recruited by the Spider-Society.

## Personality

Peter had a personality similar to all of his variants prior getting bitten by the Spider, he was a shy and cowardly, but after all he was a nice person. Similar to his original version Peter began to gained a kind of resentment against his bullies wanting to get the enough kind of power to finally get revenged on all the people that treat him badly as well as avoiding to get bullied ever again. Following the debut of the vigilante Spider-Woman, who he would eventually discover it was Gwen, Peter would began to idolized her to the point she would inspired him to would create a super-serum to gain powers and be special like his idol, however after the formula would work but at the cost of transforming him into a giant lizard, his sanity would stretch into to a breaking point and awakening in him a desire for violence. As the Lizard, Peter gained a primitive personality beginning to attack whoever is on his way but after all of this Peter conscious seems to remained intact since at first he just began to attack his bully Need Leeds, and avoid attacking Spider-Woman until the latter decide to intervene on his rampage.

## Powers and Abilities

### Former Powers

* **Artificially Enhanced Physiology**: Peter transformed himself into a giant mutant lizard after drinking with a serum which containing a lizard dna and transferred its capabilities to himself, granting him enhanced reptilian physical attributes in turn of his sanity.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Peter has remarkable superhuman strength, able to lift weight that no human ever could. He is able to tear through steel and metals effortlessly, and overpower multiple men with ease. His strength managed to able him to keep up in a fight against Spider-Woman.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: As a Lizard, Peter's skin, bone, and muscle tissue are denser and tougher than ordinary humans.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Peter has the ability to travel at great speeds.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: In his Lizard form, Peter possess a level of agility superior to humans.
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**: Peter can do intense physical activity for long periods of time without being fatigued.
	+ **Superhuman Reflexes**: Peter can coordinate his body with unnatural equilibrium, dexterity, and flexibility and his reflexes is capable of reacting much better than ordinary human beings.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: Peter has superhuman senses. He is able to see farther than ordinary, and can smell humans' scent from great distances.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Peter can heal much quicker than even Spider-Woman. He could heal from multiple gunshot wounds within a few seconds,
	+ **Wall Crawling**: Peter uses his sharp claws to penetrate walls and crawl on them.

### Abilities

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Peter has shown to have a level of intelligence greater than normal human beings managing to discover the secret identity of Spider-Woman by using the context clues surround him as well as creating the serum that eventually transformed him into the Lizard.

## Equipment

* **Glasses**: Since he was never bitten by the spider, the vision of Peter was never improved which in result make him still need his glasses. Managing to used it to get a nerdy appearance.

## Relationships

### Family

* Ben Parker - Uncle
* May Parker - Aunt

### Allies

* Gwendolyn Stacy/Spider-Woman - Best Friend, Idol, Temporary Enemy, and Possibly Love Interest
* George Stacy - Friend and father of best friend

## Trivia

* In Into the Spider-Verse, Peter's appearance is identical to Peter B. Parker while in Across the Spider-Verse, Peter got a redesign gaining a younger appearance. This is due to Peter B. Parker's model in the first film being in his 40s and way too old to be a student at Gwen's school.
* While it is never explicitly stated in the film, it is hinted that Peter may have had a crush on Gwen although it is unknown if those feelings were ever reciprocated by the latter.

## External links

* Peter Parker (Lizard) on the Marvel Database (this version)
* Peter Parker (Lizard) on the Marvel Database (basis)
* Peter Parker (Lizard) on the Spider-Man Wiki (this version)
* Peter Parker (Lizard) on the Spider-Man Wiki (basis)
* Peter Parker (Lizard) on Wikipedia (basis)

## References

1. ↑ In the flashback of Across the Spider-Verse it shows that Peter's Death happened around the homecoming dance and in most of schools that happened around september
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. ↑ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse