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[center][h1][color=9e0b0f][b]S P I D E R - M A N[/b][/color][/h1][/center]
[center][h3][color=004b80]Peter Parker || 28 years old || New York City, USA || Photographer[/color][/h3][/center]
[center][sub][i]"I know I'm not good enough. I never will be. That's no excuse to stop fighting. No matter how much it scares me. No matter how much it hurts."[/i][/sub][/center]

[center][color=9e0b0f][h3]P O W E R S[/h3][/color][/center]
Spider-man has abilities akin to a… well, spider. Due to genetic alteration induced by a radioactive spider bite, he can climb walls; has enhanced strength, durability, stamina, speed, and reflexes; has regeneration; and has a spider-sense, a type of precognitive sixth sense that alerts him to danger. His spider-sense alongside his acrobatic reflexes allows him to easily evade most attacks.

He is also incredibly gifted in technology and chemical engineering, having created synthetic web-fluid shooters that allow him a versatile range of attacks, and a way of swinging around the city. Combining this wit with many years of combat experience makes him a valuable ally in battle, able to improvise non-lethal attacks against foes on the fly.

[center][color=9e0b0f][h3]H I S T O R Y[/h3][/color][/center]

Peter Parker was just your average nerdy teenager, living with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May in New York City, avoiding bullies like Flash Thompson, and just trying to survive the struggles of high school—until the fateful day a radioactive spider bit him at a science expo. After this, he soon found that he had been granted superpowers, mimicking the abilities of a spider. Using his genius intellect, he created synthetic web fluid and web shooters and began to in secret fight crime as the amazing Spider-man. Peter had a naive, but hopeful spirit that believed that he could use his strange powers to help the citizens of New York, and he soon became an internet sensation. This would lead to him getting the attention of none other than the Avengers, and he would fight alongside the big leagues on several occasions, proving himself to be more than just a quippy young vigilante.


Throughout his life, Peter would learn time and time again that wasn’t easy being a hero. Over the years, the threats grew more dangerous. Supervillains like Shocker, Vulture, Mysterio, then the Green Goblin, Doctor Octavius, Electro, and more. Peter found it incredibly difficult to separate the Spider from the Man, as he struggled to balance “real life” with heroism and to protect the ones he loved from evil. He would face loss many times in his life, losing Aunt May, Gwen Stacy, and others. After dealing with Mysterio revealing Peter’s secret identity to the world, Peter had to work with the Sorcerer Supreme to erase his identity from everyone who knew him. His girlfriend MJ and best friend Ned forgot he was Spider-man, and he had to live on his own, alone.

However, he would rise again and again. Although Peter found himself out of friends, out of money, and out of college, he would work twice as hard to improve, getting into a budget college, working at The Daily Bugle, and swinging through life as Spider-man. He befriended people like Harry Osbourne, and the thief, Black Cat. Even when fighting alongside or against superhumans, aliens, robots, or what have you of much greater power, Peter Parker showed incredible enthusiasm and resilience, always trying to encourage those around him. His skill in combat, intellect, and unrelenting willpower would earn him a spot among the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, and help him become an ally of even the X-Men. Yet at the end of the day, Peter would always seem to return to his solo ways as the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man of New York.

Presently, Peter Parker is at a high point in his life. He’s become the mentor for a young teen with similar powers as him, Miles Morales. He’s made a solid living off photography and tech, and he’s beginning to create a startup called Parker Industries, with the goal of using technology to help those in need (including depowering dangerous villains). Peter even has a bit of a situationship with Black Cat, trying to help the thief join the good side.

Yet, how long can peace last? With the new mutant nation emerging and protests for or against mutant-kind popping up throughout New York, Peter is being forced to reckon with the reputation and power he holds within the superhero community. While not a mutant, he has fought alongside them many times, and many people look up to him as an ideal superpowered person. Meanwhile, there are whispers in the criminal underworld of old foes remerging to take back the city and crush Spider-man once and for all. Are these just silly rumors? Or is Spider-man about to face something much more sinister?


[center][color=9e0b0f][h3]S T O R Y  A R C S[/h3][/color][/center]

[b][color=003471]Cats and Spiders:[/color][/b] Peter is mentoring young hero Miles Morales, as well as trying to guide Black Cat towards vigilantism rather than criminality. Peter is learning to be not only a hero who defeats bad guys but someone who truly helps others towards a path of good.

[b][color=003471]Beyond the Neighborhood:[/color][/b] With heroes like Miles Morales and the Defenders emerging to help protect New York City, Spider-man (while still busy), is beginning to realize how key collaboration is and how his abilities could benefit others beyond the Big Apple. Peter may try to create Parker Industries and help that way, while Spider-man may begin to swing out of his usual city, getting more involved in global superhero affairs. Whether it will be trying to spend more time with the Avengers, or trying to help mediate mutant and human relations, we will soon see Peter Parker leaping farther out of his comfort zone.
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