I heard there was going to be a Spider-War. I guess I might as well toss my hat into the ring. I hope I'm not too late to the party. :toot

[u][b]Ultimate One Universe: Year One Application[/b][/u]

[color=ed1c24][b]Character You're Applying For:[/b][/color] Peter Parker, also known as the Amazing Spider-Man (the hyphen is [b]MANDATORY[/b])

[color=ed1c24][b]Powers And Abilities:[/b][/color]

-[i]Spider-Themed Powers[/i]: What type of Spider-Man can't stick to walls, swing from webs, and lift 10 tons (more with the adrenaline pumping).

-[i]Spider-Sense[/i]: Peter has the uncanny ability to sense danger coming at him, even from his blind spots.

-[i]Mechanical Web Shooters[/i]: Peter uses wrist-mounted devices, which he invented, to shoot webs for various purposes (web-swinging, tying up bad guys, etc.). I did mention he came up with the formula for the web fluid, right?

-[i]Superhuman Healing Factor[/i]: Peter can heal from injuries in hours that would normally take a regular person weeks to overcome.

-[i]High-level Intelligence[/i]: Peter Parker is an extremely gifted student, allowing him to excel in his academic career while he is not busy with his super-heroics. If he is given the correct guidance, tools, and education, Peter Parker’s intelligence could possibly rival those of Tony Stark, Reed Richards, Hank McCoy, and Hank Pym.

-[i]Immunity to Vampirism[/i]: The characters from [i]Twilight[/i] have nothing on Spider-Man.

[color=ed1c24][b]Origin And Backstory:[/b][/color]

Why fix something that's not broken? We've all heard Peter's backstory a million times. His parents were Richard and Mary Parker, who died in a mysterious plane accident. His Aunt May and Uncle Ben became his new parents, raising the young boy as if he were their own, just as the recently deceased Parkers would have wanted it. Then, on one fateful day, a genetically-engineered spider bit the nerdy Parker, bestowing upon his the proportional powers of a spider. Since Peter knew his aunt and uncle were struggling with money, he tried to use powers to pay back all the love that his "parents" gave him. But when Peter hesitated to intervene in a robbery at the wrestling facility, Peter finally learned the meaning of "With great power, there must also come great responsibility."

From that day forward, Peter dedicated his life as the costumed crime fighter, Spider-Man. But the "right" choice was never an easy one for Peter. Once he started fighting bad guys as Spider-Man, he soon found an enemy whom Peter could not subdue by physical force: J. Jonah Jameson. The Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Bugle had been hounding masked superheroes ever since the recent advent of metahumans and Peter could do nothing about Jameson' smear campaign. No matter how many times Spider-Man would save the day, nothing could sway "Jolly" Jameson 

Now entering into his junior year in high school, Peter will have to juggle the life of a teenager and a superhero. Just weeks after he received his powers (but before his uncle's death), Peter gathered enough courage to ask out the girl he had a crush on since 8th grade: Gwen Stacy. And he was astonished when she said yes. Since Peter was a top-notch student, his Spider-Man activities rarely hurt his scholastic career, but in the last six months it has taken a toll on his relationship with his girlfriend. Whenever Spider-Man was needed, Peter had to disappear and he could not explain why he looked like a "sissy" whenever there was danger without revealing his secret: that he's the Amazing Spider-Man.

[color=ed1c24][b]What Makes This Character 'Ultimate'?:[/b][/color]

Since this is a One Universe game, I believe sticking to the basics is an excellent course of action. Peter will be be able to interact with characters he would not normally get to in a Marvel only game. There's no need to make him a lantern-bearing, Batman-trained ninja with an Amazon girlfriend and a Kryptonian dog. Obviously his supporting cast will need to be adapted for Peter's high school years.

[color=ed1c24][b]Supporting Characters:[/b][/color]

-[u]Aunt May[/u]: Peter's aunt and surrogate mother. Like Ultimate Spider-Man, people won't be mistaking Aunt May as Peter's grandmother.

-[u]Gwen Stacy[/u]: Peter's girlfriend. Unaware of Peter's activities as Spider-Man. Just like Peter, she is another bright mind at Midtown High.

-[u]Angelica Jones[/u]: One of Peter's only friends. Her father moved to New York from Massachusetts. She hasn't revealed the fact that she's a mutant.

-[u]Captain George Stacy[/u]: Gwen's father and the Captain of the NYPD. Unlike others in law enforcement, Stacy sees Spider-Man as a asset to making the Big Apple as safer place for everyone. 

-[u]Eugene "Flash" Thompson[/u]: Star Quarterback at Midtown High who has bullied Peter for several years, even though they used to be friends when they were little. Also Spider-Man's biggest fan (to Peter's chagrin).

-[u]J. Jonah Jameson[/u]: Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Bugle and the J3 Communications. Although Jameson is a stanch anti-vigilante, he still also seeks "the truth" and is always conscious about his company's public image and integrity (at least when he's not dealing with Spider-Man)

[color=ed1c24][b]Character Picture:[/b][/color]
[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/njFTFDQ.jpg[/img][/center]

[color=ed1c24][b]Sample Post:[/b][/color] An excerpt from my All-Star Marvel RPG from a few years ago. 
[hider=Spider-Man Sample Post]
	The last days of summer break were winding down and that meant one thing: the beginning of a new year of school.  Peter has always marveled at how no one ever notices Spider-Man's increased activity in the crime fighting world during the summer and a decrease during the school year. If the criminals were smart, they would be active during school hours. Heck, if they were really smart, they would not pursue a criminal career in New York City. The superhero to ATM/bank ration is probably the highest in New York City.

	Peter swung around the streets of Manhattan, trying to get a few more patrols in before his summer break comes to an end. Plus, sometimes swinging high up among the towering buildings of the Empire State. Peter wondered about what the hunched-over green man said last night, whether he actually did kill Gwen. After beginning to feel some self-guilt, Peter shook it off, convincing himself that if he had not tried to save Gwen, she still could have suffered a terrible end (maybe even a worse one than she received).

	This round of the city was rather uneventful. A few small-time petty thieves whom Peter effortlessly disarmed and wrapped up so that they would be sitting there when the police arrive so that they could be arrested and taken away.  Right before he started his way back towards Queens, Peter heard an explosion and several screams. Turning immediately around, he darted toward the origin of the disturbance.

	When Peter landed on the roof of a nearby car, he saw what was causing the ruckus and it was not something he never would have expected.  Peter thought it would have been some new criminal trying to make a name for himself. Heck, he would be less surprised by a man in a rhino suit than by what stood before him. A human sized (or a little bit larger), bipedal Triceratops that had metallic horns stood in the middle of the street.

	“What in the world are you supposed to be?”  Peter was scratching his head on this one. While the whole “human raptor” hybrid thing from last night was indeed crazy, this one might take the cake.  “A terrible rip-off of the weekly monster villain from Power Rangers?  If so, you are pulling it off perfectly.”

	The bipedal Triceratops stared Peter down.  Its expression almost made it seem like that monster could hardly understand him.

	“KILLER UNICORN!”  The monster shouted, as if that was the only English it knew (or at least knew to say).

	“Unicorn?”  Peter was puzzled by the monster’s statement. How could that thing be a unicorn?  “I don’t want to be the one to break this to you, but you’re not a unicorn.  You’re what we call a Triceratops. Repeat after me: tri-cer-a-tops!"

	Once Peter had pointed out the ‘mistake’ in the monster’s name, a glow began to appear on the tips of the metallic projections that were located where a normal triceratop’s horns would have been. After a few seconds, the ‘Killer Unicorn’ thrusted its arms back horizontally, causing two energy bolts to fly toward Peter.  While the bolts actually hit the car on which he was perched, Peter used his spider-sense to leap back off the car and dodge it when the vehicle went flying backwards.

	“Fine, you’re a unicorn! You didn’t have to blow up a car!”[/hider]