Okay, I think that's done? I feel like there's something missing somewhere in the sheet but I can't tell what... it's probably just normal anxiety and paranoia.

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[b]Peter Parker[/b], 26 (b. 1942)
[i][sub]Based in Queens, New York
Active since Spring, 1960[/sub][/i]
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A lot of heroes are ideals that we look up to, beings that are far beyond what we can ever be but give ideals to strive towards. Superman, Green Lantern, Captain America and so on, demigods that wield incredible power but use it for good because they're too pure to do anything else. As we all know, Spiderman didn't initially use his powers for good, preferring to pursue personal gain. Spiderman was, arguably, the first 'everyman' hero, the one that you could see as yourself and really empathise with. He didn't descend from another planet, he wasn't a world famous scientist or a billionaire playboy, he was just a kid from Queens who got unlucky. Just a kid with some powers who tried to get rich quick, paid a terrible price and has been paying off that debt ever since.

And, I think, that's what makes him one of the most inspirational heroes. Which of us can't relate to the struggles he goes through, from heartache to poverty, to an unreasonable boss to there not being enough hours in the day? Peter Parker goes through all the same trials we do and has all the same temptations, like skipping work to stay in bed or ignoring the world's needs for our own for a little while. But for him that motto is so thoroughly burned into him that he can never give in to those urges. Where Thor or Sentry are people we might wish we were, Spiderman is who we could be, if we persevered, kept on going and never gave up.

I want to really tap into the root of the character which is, as I see it, Peter Parker's nature as the hero that we can see ourselves in. Not want to be, because he has all our problems and then a whole heap more, but the one that we can most clearly see as one of us, one of the little guys. So I'll be keeping the classic elements of his mythos (Aunt May, dead Uncle Ben, working at the Daily Bugle) and moving them to the time of the RP. Obviously, Peter needs to be put through the wringer by life (they call it 'Parker Luck' for a reason) and to suffer the consequences of being a hero, so the plots I intend to draw from are largely the ones that cause him suffering.

One trend in Spiderman comics that I particularly want to work with is the way that the public reacts to him. By and large, the people he saves or who see him on the street think Spidey's a cool dude but the popularly held opinion by those in power (NYCPD, City officials and, of course, JJ Jonah Jameson) is that he's a menace to society, so there's an imbalance between the public opinion and the 'correct' opinion that aligns with the establishment's views. In the modern day, it's more possible for the individual to separate truth from fiction in media but given the period and the propaganda subsidised by the American government, the lines are more blurred in 1968. I want to explore the idea that Spiderman was seen as a threat to government authority, vigilantism and the power of the individual being disruptive to the almost authoritarian style of the Cold War US Government. So Peter isn't just fighting super-villains, crime and his personal issues, he's fighting the hard line against costumed vigilantes pushed by the government, which makes citizens less likely to trust him and cops more likely to shoot on sight.

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[u][color=980424]Powers[/color][/u]
[indent]Spiderman's powers have gone up and down over his long history, to some pretty memorable extremes and some lame lows. I'm going to be sticking to what I think as a pretty vanilla version; enough to tackle villains like the Vulture, Rhino and so on but not so much the people like Venom, Green Goblin or Carnage aren't serious challenges. One important note is that I prefer his webbing to be something he creates with technology, for two reasons. The first is that it's a nice way of showing that Peter is a smart kid who has incredible potential but so many other things to focus on other than his studies, the second is that it means that when he runs low on money, he can't make more. So he has to keep up his job, has to swallow JJ Jonah Jameson's insults because he needs that money for more than just survival. This element has been in the comics for a long time and was actually removed by Sam Raimi's [i]Spiderman[/i] film, which showed Peter producing the webbing organically.[/indent]
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[u][color=980424]Aunt May[/color][/u]
[indent]Aunt May is Peter's moral compass and emotional anchor. Without any other living family, he turns to her for pretty much everything we rely on our loved ones for; support, advice, comfort and reassurance he's doing what's right. As I'm doing an adult Peter, he doesn't live with her but she's still one of the most important figures in his life.[/indent]
[u][color=980424]JJ Jonah Jameson[/color][/u]
[indent]I'll level here; I just want to write dialogue for JJ and here JK Simmons say it in my head. I mean, he's also Peter's employer and symbolic of the media view of the age but it's mostly for that first thing.[/indent]
[u][color=980424]Daredevil (Matt Murdock)[/color][/u]
[indent]As one of the other NYC heroes who's more street-level, I'm looking to do some interactive and perhaps collaborative arcs with Matt. Their most prominent common enemy is, I think, the Kingpin so he'll probably be involved.[/indent]
[u][color=980424]Otto Octavius[/color][/u]
[indent]A family friend and uncle/mentor figure for Peter, Dr. Octavius is working on an experimental energy system, based off of the recent advances in Nuclear power technology. No doubt it will turn out well and he'll live happily for the rest of his days.

[sub]Note: I'm not going to include the Osborns yet, both because others might want to play the characters and I think how their position as powerful technological innovators with their own visions would clash with the nature of the era would make for an interesting story, but one I'm not sure I want to get into with Peter.[/sub][/indent]
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