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Izuku Midoriya - Spider-Man II

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Peter Parker - Spider-Man

Peter Parker - Spider-Man

Quirk: Quirkless

Debut: Issue #1: What If?

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The original Spider-Man (or at least one version of him), Peter Parker has been a superhero since he was 15 years old after his negligence led to the death of his dear Uncle Ben. Now 47, his storied tale takes a shocking turn when a fight with Mysterio drops him into an unfamiliar universe where superheroing is a full-time job and superpowers are commonplace. Peter decides to become Izuku's mentor and show him how to be Spider-Man after watching the kid dodge an oncoming truck the way Peter had when he was his age.

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• Action Dad: Peter is the father of one Mayday Parker. While they're estranged from one another due to his superhero work, he loves her dearly and can still kick ass despite being out of his prime. His paternal instincts also tend to kick in around Izuku, making Peter chastise himself for using Izuku as a Replacement Goldfish.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Compared to his Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse counterpart, who is somewhat bitter and a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, this Peter is more open and friendly despite being dealt a bad hand. He's also significantly more mature and understanding of Izuku's circumstances and doesn't mind giving him time to think. While he'd like to get home as soon as he can, he's patient enough to hang around and teach Izuku rather than continuing his search for another portal (it helps that he doesn't have to worry about disintegrating in Izuku's reality).
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Peter frequently ruffles Izuku's hair affectionately. This is what gets Peter to wonder if he's using Izuku as a Replacement Goldfish for Mayday.
• Age Lift: He's 47 when his Into the Spider-Verse counterpart is around 38. Official Marvel statements tend to stubbornly insist that Mainstream Peter is no older than 29
• All Webbed Up: The original web-slinger himself. He's never seen in battle without his trusty web-shooters and uses his know-how to teach Izuku how to make his own.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: His daughter finds him incredibly embarrassing to be around at times, particularly when he makes her attend games where the Mets inevitably lose while wearing an oversized Mets sweater. She also finds his tendency to speechify life lessons irritating.
• Amicable Exes: Peter and Mary Jane may have divorced, but it's clear that they still care deeply about one another. Peter actively partakes in Mayday's life and pictures of her are strewn about his apartment.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Uh, duh. Does "Spider-Man" ring any bells?
• Badass Teacher: Peter is a former science teacher and instructor at Avengers Academy. He uses his past experience to help him plan Izuku's training and understand how Izuku's powers differ from Peter's own. Of course, being able to wipe the floor with crooks who can take on the average Pro Hero doesn't hurt either.
• Big Brother Mentor: The author has stated that this is his intent for Peter's and Izuku's relationship: with Peter being the experienced Cool Big Bro to Izuku's floundering but eager-to-learn student. While Peter sometimes cracks jokes at Izuku's expense and can be a bit exasperating to be around, Izuku trusts him deeply and knows that he's trying his best to teach him how to be Spider-Man. He grows by leaps and bounds under Peter's tutelage, getting the hang of his new abilities and learning that being Spider-Man involves a lot more than just powers.
• Born Unlucky: Peter is cursed with "Parker luck" through his superhero work. His marriage dissolved, he's in Perpetual Poverty and was fired when his Chronic Hero Syndrome won't let him stay at work for long.
• Brainy Brunette: Brown-haired and a certified genius in physical and chemical engineering. He's also a skilled hacker, managing to give himself cellular service by tampering with a nearby radio tower with nothing but a pair of rusty tweezers and a few safety pins.
• Bully Hunter: While picking up Izuku to start his first day of training, Peter takes the opportunity to pull out Bakugou's leg from under him to make him fall flat on the floor. He also tells Izuku to stand up for himself and not to take Bakugou's behavior lying down.
• Burger Fool: He manages to find work as a pizza delivery man not long after Izuku has his first day at U.A. Peter has to fight to urge to cry on the sidewalk at hitting rock bottom like this.
  Peter: I have a degree in chemical engineering and I'm delivering pizzas.
• Cassandra Truth: Peter is frustrated with the fact that he struggles to get anyone to believe that he could possibly be the real Spider-Man, who is nothing more than a comic book character in Izuku's universe. Even when being interrogated by a Living Lie Detector after being hospitalized by Stain, the police continue to believe that he's nothing more than a lunatic who deludes himself into believing he's Peter Parker.
• Celebrity Paradox: The Spider-Man comics, the Sam Raimi trilogy, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe are all present in the story's world. Izuku also mentions Stan Lee and Steve Ditko while recovering in the hospital. Then Izuku gets spider-powers of his own from a spider bite and meets the real Spider-Man. Given how this shatters his view of what is and isn't reality, his disbelief is understandable.
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject: Peter's response to Izuku's offer to lead him into the bathhouse because of how squicked he is by the idea of a naked, awkward teenager leading him into a public bath filled with other naked men.
  Izuku: I mean, I can show you… so that way you aren't…
  Peter: ...Yeah, let's just stop this discussion right here and put going to the bathhouse on the back burner for now.
• Character Narrator: He gets narration privileges while quickly going over his life's story to Izuku.
• Chick Magnet: He mentions he's had numerous flings in the past before his marriage to Mary Jane and teasingly tells Izuku to prepare to be popular with the ladies. He also says he'll have to start giving Izuku dating advice after learning of Izuku's two new female friends.
• Children Raise You: He only learned that MJ was pregnant until after their divorce, which forced Peter to keep himself afloat to pay for child support. It's implied that Peter is more mature than his movie counterpart because he wants to be a good role model to his daughter Mayday and now Izuku.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: His guilt over his Uncle Ben's death drives him to intervene whenever possible even when there are other superheroes in New York who could pick up the slack. This frequently gets used against him, such as when he's forced to use a ton of web-fluid and injures himself while stopping a careening truck from plowing through civilians during his fight with the Prowler. Even when he's trying to keep a low profile, he still can't help but run out and help people whenever he can.
• Civvie Spandex: He sometimes wears the upper half of his spandex costume but sweatpants on the lower half.
• Combat Pragmatist: Peter doesn't rely on flashy super moves and just focuses on what works. He's more than happy to ambush his foes, webbing them to a wall before they can put up a fight and uses the terrain to his advantage. Rather than take Rocket Racers' Rocket Punches head on, Peter engages in some Deadly Dodging and lets Newton's Third Law do the rest.
• Comes Great Responsibility: He always feels that it's his responsibility to intervene because he has the powers to do so. Deconstructed when it ends up running his personal life into the ground, as he's constantly absent so he can go web-slinging to save the day.
• Composite Character: Peter is a combination of many different versions of Spider-Man. His troubled family life and age are derived from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. His membership on the Avengers is taken from his comics counterpart. His advanced webshooters and the HUD in his Expressive Mask are both taken from Spider-Man (PS4). Finally, his status as a father of Mayday Parker is taken from his MC2 incarnation.
• Cool Mask: Peter's mask has a built-in HUD that monitors his web-fluid levels and is able to interface with his phone and GPS to alert him to ongoing crimes. It also lets him perform smartphone tasks with voice commands, such as paying his bills in advance.
• Cosmic Plaything: Peter's life sucks. He's divorced from MJ over her worrying about his constant superheroics, his dear Aunt May died of old age, he's estranged from his daughter because he doesn't want her in the superhero life, he got fired from his dream job at Horizon Labs, he's constantly behind on rent, barely has enough money for child support, and is risking his life on a daily basis as Spider-Man. This is, of course, lampshaded as his usual Parker luck.
• Creepy Good: His motif and powers used to creep New Yorkers out, but he eventually came to be recognized as one of the city's great superheroes. Common crooks on the other hand...
• Culture Clash: Izuku's world, which essentially runs on a peaceful and successful version of the Superhuman Registration Act, is a complete and utter shock to Peter after experiencing Civil War. On a more mundane level, he's weirded out by everyday Japanese things like public baths, getting squeamish after Izuku describes the bathhouse to him and wanting to leave as soon as possible. At the same time, he takes a liking to anpan, snacking on it while making Izuku lap Musutafu as part of his training.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Most of Peter's fights with Mysterio's lackeys have been this. Once he cuts loose, even Stain is quickly taken to poundtown and is subject to a Villainous Breakdown upon realizing that he was beaten by the Hero he despises most.
• Dating Catwoman: Lampshaded. After he learns that Izuku talked to a girl to buy cassette tapes for him, Peter teases Izuku about how he's a budding Chick Magnet in the making and advises him not to date anyone on the other side of the law, even the morally ambiguous cat burglars. He's also turned off by Toga's Blood Lust for him.
  Peter: Here's a bit of free advice before you hit the dating scene. [jabs a finger at Izuku] Do. Not. Date. Supervillains. Not even morally ambiguous cat burglars.
  Izuku: I-I wouldn't!
  Peter: Yeah, that's what I said too. But every member of the opposite sex that's on the other side of the law seems to enjoy wearing as little as possible or too much leather, and… [shakes his head] Ah, forget it. Just keep that in mind before you head to school.
• Deadly Dodging: He deals with the leader of the Rocket Racer Gang by standing next to a brick wall and goading him into trying to use his rocket-powered glove to punch him. When the Villain takes the bait, Peter jumps out of the way and lets Newton's Third Law do its work when the Rocker Racer's hand goes right through the wall.
• Deadpan Snarker: Marvel's master of the craft. Between dealing with criminals, Izuku's dorkiness, and the general inanity of his life, Peter has plenty to snark at.
  Peter: [after dodging Mysterio's axe swing, which sliced through a computer] I've gotta give you props! You're the first person I've seen do what I've always wanted to whenever my PC froze!
• Death Seeker: Downplayed. It's implied in Issue 13 that on some level he wants to die so he can finally be released from his crushing feelings of guilt and responsibility. But these same feelings are what keep him from actively seeking it.
• A Degree in Useless: Inverted. He has a dual degree in chemical engineering and computer science but is stuck delivering pizzas to support himself as it was the only job he could apply for without documentation. He tries hard not to curl up on the sidewalk and cry over this.
• Deuteragonist: Peter's is pivotal to Izuku's development and his presence in Izuku's universe drives the events of the plot.
• Don't Think, Feel: Peter's advice to Izuku whenever he's suffering from the Centipede's Dilemma is to let go of his fear of the minute details and just do it, since he doesn't have time to overthink things in the field. Izuku balks at this advice at first, but finds that web-shooting and web-swinging come a lot more naturally once he does.
• Double Entendre: While explaining why he flagged Izuku down, he says he knows Izuku is growing hairs in "unfamiliar places", referring to the setules on Izuku's hands as well as pubic hair. This was intentional and he laughs at Izuku's clear embarrassment.
• Downer Beginning: After briefly going over his superhero career, Peter's narration shifts to his slow decline, between divorcing MJ, his estranged relationship with his daughter, losing Aunt May, getting fired from his job at Horizon Labs and being put on eviction notice by his landlord.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: While fighting the Prowler, Peter fires a telegraphed web that easily misses, only for him to reveal that he was aiming at a bag of wet concrete and tugs on it to slam her in the back.
• Excuse Me While I Multitask: He drops in on the Rocker Racers while holding a hot mug of coffee without spilling a drop. Then it's subverted when he sets the mug aside before kicking their collective asses. When he webs it back to his hand while escaping the police, most of the coffee splashes out and he's dismayed to discover that bits of rubble fell in and are floating on the surface. Played straight once he starts teaching Izuku how to fight, as he easily intercepts and counters all of Izuku's attempts to hit him with a bored yawn.
• Expressive Mask: Invoked. Peter designed his mask to be able to imitate his facial expressions by widening and narrowing the lens to make him more personable and less scary to the average civilian.
• First Friend: Peter is Izuku's first friend and mentor. In addition to coaching Izuku through his new spider-powers, Peter gives him a ton of life advice from personal experience to help Izuku get over his social awkwardness. Peter also acts as Izuku's closest confidant and source of encouragement when things get rough.
• Foil: Peter and Izuku were scrawny nerds who were given the chance to become Action Heroes and are both motivated by their Chronic Hero Syndrome. Peter is a veteran who has been in the business for decades and has been ground down by everything he's lost in his crusade to help people. He's motivated by his failure to stop the crook who killed Uncle Ben, but that mantra has become far more bitter in recent years and he sometimes wishes he could just stop. Despite this, he's confident and great at what he does, hoping to keep Izuku from stumbling on his own path towards becoming a Hero. Izuku just got his powers and has no idea what he's doing. He has always wanted to be a Hero, having been inspired by All Might's example rather than personal tragedy. He's jittery and unsure of himself, wondering if he'd just be wasting Peter's time by becoming his student. Peter is also a constant quipper and jokester, while Izuku Cannot Tell a Joke.
• Formerly Fit: Peter has more of a gut now that he's in his late forties. He's dismayed at this, thinking that he'd have a perfect six-pack forever given all the exercise he does. He even lampshades it, calling it a "dad bod". It's up to the reader to decide whether he's fatter than the movie version of him.
• Genius Bruiser: He has a dual major degree in chemical engineering and computer science and designed his revolutionary web fluid on a working-class budget. He also helps Izuku develop his own web fluid formula after discovering that Izuku's universe didn't have the same chemicals that Peter's did. He learns to speak Japanese with near complete fluency in just a few months, letting him quip all he wants without the Language Barrier in the way.
• Give Him a Normal Life: Downplayed. He refuses to let Mayday into his apartment because he doesn't want her to worry about him or potentially get caught up in superhero work. But he still visits her semi-regularly and pictures of her are strewn about his apartment.
• Good Is Not Soft: Downplayed. Peter is a Combat Pragmatist but he's certainly no Punisher or Wolverine. While he doesn't use more force than necessary, he won't lose any sleep if a Villain mangles their own hand through the reckless use of their abilities or equipment.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: A downplayed example. Peter says he would have been hospitalized for life with all the injuries he got as Spider-Man if his powers didn't include a measure of Super-Toughness and a minor Healing Factor.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Downplayed. Peter often cusses when he's stressed or when he's speaking casually, but he tries not to. Clint mocks him for it.
  Peter: [after learning that Mjölnir is in New Mexico] Shut the front door.
  Clint: You kiss your mother with that mouth?
• Happily Married: Subverted, as he got divorced with MJ after she couldn't take the stress of him risking his life every day as a superhero. They still love each other deeply, but the stress his work caused keeps them apart.
• Healing Factor: Peter broke his nose during his fight with the Prowler. Just a few hours later, he's well-enough (but still covered in cuts and scrapes while walking with a limp) to speak normally again.
• Heroic Fatigue: He was fired from Horizon Labs after he began making tons of mistakes at work because of how burnt out he was from constant superheroing.
• Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Peter earned a mere $1,000 every two weeks as an Avenger, but this is partially because of his unwillingness to get most of his income from the man who began Civil War.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Played straight then subverted. JJJ. ran his usual smear campaign against Spidey in Peter's world, but the citizens of New York eventually wised up and saw him as the hero he truly was. After this, people cheer at his arrival and his name is spoken with dread among New York's common crooks.
• History Repeats: Peter was inspired to try and become Izuku's mentor after watching Izuku leap out of traffic the way he did as a teenager.
• Homeless Hero: He doesn't have a place to stay after being tossed into Izuku's universe, initially living out of an abandoned construction site. After Prowler attacks him, he relocates to an abandoned amusement park he found in the woods around Musutafu.
• Honesty Is the Best Policy: He advises Izuku to tell the truth when U.A. discovers that :he doesn't have a Quirk. All he has to do is say enough to satisfy them, while keeping out all of the outlandish parts like the alternate universes to avoid sounding like a nutcase.
• Honor Before Reason: His Parker pride won't let him take more than minimum wage for his time as an Avenger even as he's struggling to pay his bills.
• Humans Are Flawed: He tells Stain that he knows that he's a flawed person whose arrogance, narcissism, and failures have gotten people killed. But at the same time, continuing to move beyond these flaws and help people is what it means to be human.
  Peter: And that's all us Heroes do, even All Might. We keep trying in spite of all our mistakes and faults… because we're only human.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Peter admits to Stain that he doesn't consider himself a superhero because of all his faults, simply referring to himself as a guy trying to do a little good.
• In a Single Bound: Peter is able to perform the same long-jumping feats as Izuku, jumping out of the way of a truck the same way when he was a teenager.
• Instant Expert: Peter didn't need long to master his powers, learn how to web-sling and web-swing, or build his own equipment from scraps. This makes it difficult for Izuku, who struggles to get the hang of his new abilities that operate somewhat differently from his mentor's. Unlike All Might, Peter acknowledges this and has the teaching experience to make up for it, but he's still winging it for the most part due to the differing mechanics of Izuku's powers and his limited resources.
  Peter: [after Izuku fails to web up soda cans] I mean… [tapping his head] You aim with this. You need to thwip it out and be confident you're going to hit what you are aiming for. [shrugs] I mean, that's how it worked for me and I'm doing alright.
  Izuku: [moaning] That doesn't teach me anything!
• Intergenerational Friendship: He's 47 years old when he starts mentoring the teenage Izuku and becomes his closest confidant.
• Keep the Reward: He insists Izuku doesn't owe him anything and that he's helping Izuku because he wants to despite asking for lodging when they first met. Despite this, Izuku continues to help pay for Peter's expenses and buys him gifts out of gratitude for everything he's done.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Peter is still in the superhero business to help people even if it ran his life into the ground. The mantra he lives by has started tasting like ash on his tongue, but that isn't going to stop him from being a hero and fighting the good fight for the little guy.
• Kryptonite Factor: A rarely-mentioned one, but Mysterio employs an ethyl chloride gas grenade to weaken Peter and slow him down. Peter throws a stool through a skylight to let the gas seep out to take back the upper hand.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: MJ divorced Peter because of the stress of having to worry for him every night and not spending enough time together because of his superhero work.
• Mentor Archetype: Peter offers to show Izuku how to be Spider-Man so he wouldn't repeat the mistakes Peter made in his youth.
• Mundane Utility: He uses his webbing to make a hammock and pillows while looking for a place to stay.
• My Greatest Failure: Peter is still reeling from his Uncle Ben's death decades after it happened. He uses Ben's memory to remind Izuku that he doesn't need to go around pleasing others or "prove himself" to them, as he'll only hurt himself in the long-run.
  Peter: I was a bit like you when I started. [walks over to Izuku] I wanted to prove myself to a world that pushed me to the side because I was different. You want to do it by being a superhero, where I… [sighs] Well, you know how that ended.
• Never Gets Fat: Subverted. He's well out of his teenage years and a consistent diet of junk food has given him a gut despite his active lifestyle.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: When Izuku asks how Peter's first experience at the public bath was, Peter cuts him short and tells him that he wants to get the hell out.
  Izuku: How was...
  Peter: Don't… just don't… Let's just change and get the hell out of here.
• Older and Wiser: Peter has been in the game for 32 years by the events of the story and wants to pass some of his know-how to Izuku. He even admits that, like in the Lee-Ditko era of comics, he was a dick when he first started out as Spider-Man and doesn't fault Izuku for going on a little ego trip at the entrance exam as long as he never does it again.
• Old Superhero: Downplayed. Peter is 47 and still fighting crime, but it's had negative effects on his social life and financial solvency and he's out of his prime. He mentions that he's one of the last of the "old guard" superheroes left on the Avengers, whose roster is being increasingly filled with new heroes like Kamala Khan, Robbie Reyes, and Torunn as age catches up to them.
• Papa Wolf: He quickly becomes protective of Izuku and gets his Heroic Second Wind when Prowler threatens to impale Izuku on her claws. In one non-canon sidestory written for Valentine's Day, he warns Izuku not to hit on Mayday if they ever meet after MC2 Mayday gives him a kiss to remember her by. Peter doesn't have to worry much since Izuku quickly passes out from emotional overload.
• Past Experience Nightmare: Peter has a recurring bad dream where he relives the day he let the robber that killed his Uncle Ben past and is powerless to do anything to stop him. Worse still, when the robber speaks, he has a Voice of the Legion comprised of all of Peter's worst rogues.
• Parlor Games: Peter initially tries to communicate with Izuku through charades until Izuku reveals that he has a rudimentary understanding of English.
• Perma-Stubble: Peter has this as he doesn't shave regularly due to exhaustion and budget issues. Izuku later manages to convince him to shave at the local public bath, but Peter's embarrassment over it makes him miss a few spots and he gets cuts on his face.
• Perpetual Poverty: Peter, as usual, gets fired from his job, has a mediocre salary as a member of the Avengers, and gets stranded in another universe where the only things he has are his clothes and web-shooters. Even when he manages to land a crappy pizza job, he's still getting paid less than minimum wage.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: He's a fan of Star Wars and is enough of a movie buff to guess what Mysterio's password would be based on its visual effects.
• Post-Victory Collapse: After beating Stain, Peter rushes another Hero to the hospital. After seeing her into the ER, he collapses from blood loss despite his best efforts.
• Power Misidentification: The Japanese police and the Hero community believe that Peter's Quirk is the ability to produce webbing. In reality, his powers are everything but his webbing.
• Primary-Color Champion: Peter's costume is the classic red-and-blue.
• Projectile Webbing: His web-shooters shoot out lines of webbing that instantly form web-patterns on whatever they hit, firmly securing the target in place unless they have enough Super-Strength to break free.
• Replacement Goldfish: Peter's fatherly tendencies shine through when he's interacting with Izuku. Peter is actually ashamed of this, as it means that he might just be using Izuku to find some solace while he's a universe away from his daughter and ex-wife.
• Rude Awakening: Peter has to leap out of his web hammock after the Prowler ambushes him while he's trying to go to sleep.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Izuku tosses his dad's old clothes to Peter, including some embarrassing t-shirts like a hot pink shirt with "JUICY" written on the back and sweatpants with "BIG BOY" on the sides.
• Sad Clown: Peter keeps up a chipper and joking persona around Izuku, but he weeps at night over his concern for his family and everything he's lost.
• Science Hero: He knows his way around physics, chemical and physical engineering and makes sure Izuku knows what's going into web fluid and the principles behind it before they start making it.
• Seen It All:
  • Peter is amazingly calm about being Trapped in Another World that considers him fictional because of how much crap he's gone through as Spider-Man. What does worry him is how his family will react to his disappearance and whether or not he'll let Izuku down.
    Peter: [Izuku stares at him blankly] Kid, you're freaking me out. Would it kill you to eat?
    Izuku: I-I am very sorry. It is just most strange. You seem to take the news well.
    Peter: Kid, after all the crap I've seen in my life let me tell you, me being fictional over here is a... four out of ten on my "freak-out" meter.
  • In a bunch of non-canon sidestories, Peter happily pokes fun at the generic doomsday speech he's hearing and guesses exactly what the doomsayer is about to say next.
• Shrug Take: When he learns that he's fictional in Izuku's world, Peter pauses for about five seconds before going back to chowing down on katsudon.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: Downplayed. Peter is willing to walk Izuku through things as necessary, guiding him to build his own web-shooters and exploring the mechanics of Izuku's abilities. At the same time, he isn't afraid to push Izuku, chucking kitchen appliances at him to test his strength and having him web-swing alone to overcome his fear of heights. He also forces Izuku to study college-level physics, chemistry, and mechanical engineering to make sure he can handle the process of making web-fluid, giving him just three weeks to learn semesters' worth of material in between their training sessions.
• Something Person: He's Spider-Man.
• Spider-Sense: Of course he has this as the original article.
• Strong and Skilled: Peter has almost all of the same powers as Izuku, but more than 30 years of fighting experience to supplement them. Hence why he's able to fight the Prowler when Izuku, who had no experience aside from getting beaten up, could not.
• Superheroes Wear Tights: Par standard.
• Super-Strength: Peter easily kicks the Prowler through a brick wall even while his ankle was injured by the flechette she shot him with earlier. He also effortlessly lifts an entire fridge with one hand and punches through the plastic helmets and visors of the Rocket Racer Gang.
• Super-Toughness: While Peter isn't bulletproof, he's taken insane amounts of punishment beyond that of a normal human, including taking multiple rocket-powered punches to the gut that can knock people's teeth out with only discomfort, limping away after getting shot in the heel, and getting up a few minutes later after being electrocuted by Izuku's Venom Strike. He's also confident in his ability to take anything Izuku can dish out at him in their sparring sessions a few months after learning that Izuku could lift ten tons.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: He's relieved when Izuku's Spider-Sense works on the rusty nails he left lying around Jakuri. When Izuku asks if Peter expected this, Peter says, "Rrrriiiight. Yup, sure kid.", to Izuku's discomfort.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: With nothing but a portion of Izuku's allowance to sustain him, Peter makes do with what he has, hacking into a phone tower to get cellular service and a map and subsisting off instant ramen packets and cheap corner store food. He also lives out of an abandoned amusement park in the woods. Together, they make the place more livable by fixing up some old solar panels and repairing a fridge and stove. He also tells Izuku to mix up web fluid in class because they simply don't have the cash to buy the materials and bring them back to Jakuri.
• Tranquil Fury: Stain pushes Peter's buttons with his insane preaching and wanton disregard for lives. But rather fly at him in a berserk rage, Peter calmly gets off the floor and dislocates Stain's jaw in one punch before subjecting him to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Trapped in Another World: Peter is stuck in Izuku's universe after Mysterio's portal went haywire and sucked them both there. Completely broke and homeless in a world that thinks he's fictional, he finds an abandoned construction site to take shelter in and fishes some clothes out of the trash before he runs into Izuku.
• Trauma Conga Line: Peter's superhero career has taken a toll on him. MJ couldn't handle the stress of worrying about Peter every day, leading to their divorce. He can't hold down a job because he's constantly missing hours and making mistakes from Heroic Fatigue and loss of Aunt May. Because of this, he's almost always behind on rent and the only thing he has to wear to a five-star restaurant is a Captain America t-shirt and jeans. He is also distant from his daughter Mayday out of fear of making her worry herself sick over him. He ends up crying in his sleep when he dreams of his daughter crying with only her mother for comfort.
• Wall Crawling: The original Wall-Crawler himself. Unlike Izuku, Peter can generate an electrostatic cling without the use of setules, allowing him to stick to surfaces even while wearing thick clothing like sneakers.
• Wall Run: He can run straight up walls thanks to his Wall Crawling powers. Even without them, his Super-Strength and natural momentum can carry him up walls anyways.
• Willfully Weak: He's been in the game long enough to know just how powerful he is and he's almost always holding back to avoid seriously injuring people. When he decides to cut loose against Stain, his punches are compared to mortar strikes. A single hit broke Stain's jaw, reduces his lips to a blood smear, and tore off a chunk of his cheek. He can also snap Stain's wrist like a toothpick and easily beats him unconscious.
• With Great Power Comes Great Perks: Like in the original comics, Peter tried to monetize his powers at first until his actions got his Uncle Ben killed. He's taken aback when it's clear that Izuku wants to be a Hero solely to help others rather than for fame, fortune, or other selfish pursuits.
• Worf Had the Flu: His poor showing against the Prowler can be partially attributed to the fact that he was ambushed, just had a large meal, and exhausted. They would have been much more evenly matched under normal circumstances.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: He frequently has to remind Izuku to not blame himself for things that are out of his control. After the Prowler incident, he assures Izuku that his hesitation to accept Peter's offer was perfectly fine and that he would've gotten even more injured if Izuku was there when she first ambushed him.
• You Are Not Alone: Tells Izuku this while helping him sort out his lingering feelings of resentment for being bullied and Quirkless. Izuku acknowledges this and is thankful for having people he can rely on.
  Peter: And hey, don't think you need to take it out on some supervillain. [ruffles Izuku's hair] I'm here, and I bet your mom would love to listen. [grins] Trust me when I say we both understand that being a teenager is just the worst.
  Izuku: [thinking] I'm not alone...
• You Fight Like a Cow: As usual, Peter is the master of taunting his foes, making light of a simple bank robbery and quipping the entire time.
• Your Costume Needs Work: He's frequently brushed off by Pro Heroes and the media as a Spider-Man wannabe and someone dressed like Spider-Man rather than the genuine article himself. Granted, they have no way of knowing that Comic Books Are Real and Izuku only believes him because he got his powers the same way. Peter's web-shooters are also frequently mistaken for a Quirk.
• You Remind Me of X: Izuku's shyness and nerdiness reminds Peter of himself when he was younger. He hopes to boost Izuku's confidence and get him to stand up for himself against Bakugou, having gone through similar circumstances as a teenager with Flash Thompson. Izuku's innate enthusiasm for helping others brings Kamala Khan, the current Ms. Marvel, to mind.
• You Will Not Evade Me: He webs one of the Rocket Racers and reels him in for an instant KO punch.

May "Mayday" Parker - Spider-Girl

May "Mayday" Parker - Spider-Girl

Debut: The Perfect Day

^{Click here to see her in-costume.} 

Peter's daughter with Mary Jane. A spunky fourteen-year-old who is both an aspiring athlete and a bit of an anime nerd, her relationship with her dad is strained due to his constant absences due to "work". Despite this, she still misses him dearly.

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• Action Girl: She becoems this after getting spider powers and leaping headfirst into superheroics, proving to be quite capable in a brawl despite her inexperience.
• Ascended Fanboy: Seems to be a fan of the My Hero Academia story as well as the younger male superheroes like Franklin Richards.
• Being Good Sucks: After agonizing over it, May reluctantly decides to call the cops on Phil out of fear for the damage he'd do if left to his own devices. Even if it's the moral and logical thing to do, May clearly hates the idea of turning on her uncle like this.
• Break the Cutie: Downplayed. Upon her first battle she realizes that being a hero is 'not'' easy and admits to having wanted to cry, throw up, and even considered bailing upon being shot at. Though despite that she decides to still continue on, if not being a bit more careful in the future. Then she's left in tears when forced to finally confront and stop Phil. She wonders why they're fighting each other in these "stupid outfits", destroying her rosy preconceptions of superhero life.
• Boyish Short Hair: It's mentioned that she has an undercut, which adds to her tomboyish appearance in tandem with her usual athletics.
• Civvie Spandex: Her costume, a refitted version of Ben Reilly's, includes a motorcycle jacket with a spider symbol sown onto the back.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once Phil's threats on her and MJ go too far, May mercilessly beats Phil until he's bloody and bruised and only stops when he's a shuddering mess on the floor. Only then is she finally able to get through to him.
• Daddy's Girl: Downplayed. She finds her dad incredibly embarrassing at times, such as when he forces her to wear an oversized Mets jersey to the Yankee vs. Mets game or when he's busy speechifying life lessons to her. But she realizes how much she enjoys hanging out with him after attending the one game the Mets won with him and misses him dearly after he vanishes.
• Deconstruction: Mayday, when she started planning her superhero career and went out on her first patrol, was downright eager to find some crime and punch supervillains. Thanks to pop culture and seeing superheroes easily dodge bullets, she thinks that it will be easy for her to jump in and fight. During her first battle, Mayday is shot and and she instantly began panicking and nearly crying multiple times upon realizing she could die. Getting shot at is a whole lot different than the movies or comics make it out to be.
• Fiery Redhead: She inherited her mother's auburn hair and is passionate about her hobbies, including basketball, reading manga, and going out to become a superhero.
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  • To Miles. Compared to him, May is downright enthusiastic to become a superhero, being an avid superhero fan herself, and jumps in without much thought in hopes of joining the investigation looking for her father. This is even shown in how they first meet. While Miles slowly and carefully tries to get the hang of wall-crawling, May almost immediately tries to go web-swinging, only to crash into the wall Miles was trying to climb.
  • To Izuku. Much like Izuku, she got her powers at fourteen and decided to become a superhero with them. However, her reason to become a superhero is primarily because she wants to find her father rather than being a superhero that brings smiles to all. Also, her rosy view of superheroics becomes shattered when she's forced to do the right thing by turning in her uncle, while Izuku acknowledges the bad situations he'll likely find himself in and uses it as motivation to be the best Hero he can be. Also, both are primarily raised by their mothers and meet their fathers sparingly.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Downplayed. May and Miles both have Super-Strength and fight extensively in close combat. But Miles' invisibility, Venom Strike, and slightly higher strength make him naturally better at it than her, while May's advanced clinging powers allow her to launch nearly anything she can lift as a high-speed projectile.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: After learning that Phil is the Hobgoblin and being forced to confront him, May tries to appeal to their history to get him to turn himself in. But Phil's addiction to the Goblin Serum erodes away at his sanity, and it's only after they beat the crap out of each other and they both have a My God, What Have I Done? moment that May is able to get through to him.
• I Will Find You: Once she realizes her dad's true identity, and that she isn't allowed to learn of his investigations, Mayday decides to become a great hero to be allowed into the investigations. Vowing to find her dad wherever he is no matter what.
• Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Inverted. Peter was a bitter, anti-social science nerd as a teenager, but May is an outgoing athlete. Also downplayed, as while May isn't a scientist, she's into anime and manga, making her a bit nerdy in her own right.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: May is much more headstrong and social compared to Peter in his youth. Having lived a comfortable life with her mother in the digital age, Peter's attempts to speechify the good morals Ben taught her fly over her head as it just comes across as condescending to her.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Up until Issue #21, Mayday never knew her father was Spider-Man until she overhears by accident from her mom and Lyja Storm, being upset by this. Embarrassed of the bitter things she thought of them and angry they lied to her of the truth. Even more so when learning that she is not allowed to be involved in the investigation of her father's disappearance.
• Nice Girl: While her primary goal in become Spider-Girl was to get attention so she could locate her dad, May enjoys helping people as a superhero and is sensitive to others' feelings.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her jumping in to fight the Hobgoblin ended up causing a lot of collateral damage due to her inexperience.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The much more outgoing and enthusiastic Red Oni to Miles' more reserved and reluctant Blue.
• Superheroes Wear Tights: She uses her 'Uncle' Ben's old costume and Peters leather jacket to make a Spider-Girl costume for herself. She finds herself to be awesome, but admits it's rather uncomfortable and tight, especially on the butt.
• Super-Strength: Her first use of her spider-strength has her slam dunk the hoop so hard that that backboard shatters into pieces. She later splits a table in half with one hit while trying to get a feel for her new strength.
• Unskilled, but Strong: She has all her dads powers, but predictably despite her determination to be a hero, she has a lot to learn in using her powers.
• Wall Run: She can do this even with sneakers on like her father, but May's wall-crawling abilities are particularly pronounced, as she's also able to repel things instead of sticking them. She uses a vending machine as a projectile against the Hobgoblin with this.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: Peter's insistence on keeping her out of his superhero life means that he's constantly absent from her life over "work". She's rather upset when she learns the truth of his identity why he might be gone, but is somewhat satisfied when told he's still alive.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Even after her mom explains the hardships that come with being a superhero, May doesn't seem to register that superhero life could be anything but filled with glory and glamour, rushing off to web-swing the first chance she gets in hopes of making a name for herself. She goes so far to lecture Miles about using his new powers to be a superhero, only realizing that she's speechifying as much as her dad would when Miles rebukes her.
• You Fight Like a Cow: Like her father, she constantly drops one-liners in the midst of combat, both to annoy her foes and to keep her own fears and doubts at bay.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: After Miles berates himself for getting tied up by the Ringer so easily, May gives him a pep talk by pointing out how easily he jumped into the fray when she was shivering and terrified on her first outing.

Miles Morales - Spider-Man II (Earth 2018.616)

Miles Morales - Spider-Man II (Earth 2018.616)

Debut: Issue #21: Legacy...

A Brooklyn teenager and student at the prestigious Visions Academy. Miles is the son of a police officer and nurse struggling to find his identity under the expectations of his parents. While attending Hero-Con with his best friend and roommate Ganke Lee, he was bitten by a spider that was a genetic experiment of the Kingsley Corporation. Being granted powers he never asked for, Miles tries to find a way to carve his own path.

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• Affirmative-Action Legacy: He's an Afro-Latino teenager who takes on the Spider-Man name. Miles doesn't think much of this, and is rather annoyed when cuts on his costume reveal this to the world and the internet makes a fuss about him being a "black Spider-Man".
• Black and Nerdy: He's an Afro-Latino American young man who attends a school for the gifted and despite his claims that he only got in via a lottery, he is highly intelligent and enjoys building intricate LEGO models.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Miles is gifted in the sciences, managing to rebuild Peter's gear after it's trashed in his fight with Hobgoblin and Prowler and recreating web fluid with Peter's formula. However, his hobbies tend to lean towards the graffiti art he makes with his uncle, and he doesn't really want to be at Brooklyn Visions at all.
• Call to Adventure: After his dad is hurt, he decides to be a hero to make certain something like it doesn't happen again.
• Cannot Talk to Women: Downplayed. Miles is just fine talking to the opposite sex once the conversation gets going, but his attempts to look cool in front of girls like Mayday result in him being too shy to properly strike one.
• Composite Character: His personality and background draw heavily from his depiction in Into the Spider-Verse, between his love of art and hip-hop, the tension between him and his dad about following his passions, and his general hesitance to don the mask. But his technical genius and skills are much closer to his depiction in Spider-Man (PS4), as he's much more technically inclined than Mayday, compared to his original depictions in the comics where he's not gifted enough in chemistry or engineering to make his own gear and web-fluid.
• Dressed in Layers: Lampshaded. Ganke insists that Miles wear his costume beneath his civilian clothes, but all that really gets him is a damp, smelly spandex costume after all the sweat it accumulated throughout the day.
• Electric Black Guy: He has a far more powerful version of Izuku's Venom Strike and is Afro-Latino.
• Embarrassing Middle Name: His middle is the silly sounding Gonzalo, so it's understandable that he'd just go by his first and last name.
• Famed In-Story: His highly publicized first outing as Spider-Man made him an internet celebrity overnight, particularly with the discovery that this new Spider-Man is a person of color as well as his memetic "BROOKLYN REPRESENT!" while trying not to embarrass himself in front of the cameras.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Miles initially only sticks around Mayday becomes he only had Ganke to talk to about his powers and later to bring Hobgoblin to justice. As they adventure together, the two grow close enough to confide their hidden fears and doubts to each other, and Miles is implied to be developing a crush on her.
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  • Is this to Mayday. Mayday is downright enthusiastic to become a superhero thanks to being Spider-Man's daughter with the intent to stand out amongst the others. However, Miles has no intention of being a superhero thanks to his father's distaste for them and cites New York being overcrowded with superheroes as one of his reasons for staying out of it. He also has a much more cynical streak to him compared to May, scoffing at Daniel Kingsley's speech.
  • He's also this to Izuku. Like Izuku, he's a bright teenager attending a prestigious school that is guaranteed to set up a successful future career. Unlike Izuku, he doesn't actually want to be in said school and a successful future career is something that his parents expect him to get. He's much more inclined to practice his hobby as a graffiti artist, while Izuku's hobby of analyzing Heroes, Villains, and Quirks is useful for his future job as a Hero. Also unlike Izuku, Miles never even wanted to be a superhero despite being given his powers by chance and only becomes one when his father is hurt by a supervillain. And while Izuku is primarily raised by his mother, Miles has been raised by both his parents and his uncle.
• Good Feels Good: Although he's initially reluctant to don the mask, Miles finds that he quite likes being a superhero and is giddy that people actually admire Miles Gonzalo Morales (or at least, Spider-Man) for once.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Owing to his Puerto Rican heritage, Miles dips into untranslated Spanish when speaking with his mom.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Downplayed. May and Miles both have Super-Strength and fight extensively in close combat. But Miles' invisibility, Venom Strike, and slightly higher strength make him naturally better at it than her, while May's advanced clinging powers allow her to launch nearly anything she can lift as a high-speed projectile.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Miles hates the idea of being in Visions Academy because he's not in his neighborhood. He wants to be a normal kid and would rather be in Brooklyn Middle. Also, when he finds out he's got superpowers, his first reaction is to try and ignore it because it's another indicator of how he stands out.
  Miles: [to Mayday] Look, you don't know me alright? Everyone's going on and on about all the stuff I've got but nobody's interested in what I want! [stuffs his hands in his pockets] So I don't want to be a superhero just because I got powers I didn't even want in the first place! And besides, have you counted how many superheroes are in Manhattan nowadays? Nobody's going to be needing a new one! Hell, some of them wish that they would move someplace else rather than crowding up the skyline! [turns to leave] This is my life, and for once I wanna decide how I live it!
• Invisibility: One of his powers is the ability to camouflage himself to match his surroundings, rendering him nearly completely invisible. He notes that it's not perfect though, as he can still see himself.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: When Miles remarks, "I think I just hit puberty" in earshot, both he and Ganke agree to never speak of that phrase again.
• Men Can't Keep House: Subverted. Due to Brooklyn Visions having a home economics class, Miles is much better at sewing than May is, and is able to use his technical know-how to rebuild her dad's gear and update the OS.
• Mundane Utility: He's pleased to find that his camouflage, Spider-Sense, wall-crawling, and super jumping powers make it easy for him discreetly sneak into his dorm so Dutcher doesn't bust him for breaking curfew.
• My Greatest Failure: Upon the battle between Spider-Girl and Hobgoblin, the fight ends with his dad injured and in a coma. Miles feeling horrible as had he done something during the battle, he could have prevented him from getting hurt.
• Nice Guy: While he has a bit of a cynical streak, Miles is a nice kid who'd rather not see others get hurt and is friendly to those who get to know him.
• Parting-Words Regret: When his dad is caught under the burning stage after Hobgoblin bombs the Ned Talk, Miles is overcome with regret over how his last conversation with him was a stupid argument over his direction in life. Luckily for him, Jefferson survives thanks to Miles' intervention, and the two reconcile once Jefferson comes out of his coma.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Inverted. He spray paints Peter's Primary-Color Champion-colored old costume into his distinctive black with red detailing, but Miles is undoubtedly a good kid.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The reserved and reluctant blue to May's outgoing and enthusiastic red.
• Revenge: The unsaid part of Miles begrudgingly becoming Spider-Man is a desire for revenge against Hoggoblin for nearly killing his father. When Hobgoblin shows up again, Miles flies into a rage and lunges at him, but is quickly subdued until Mayday shows up. It's only after he composes himself again does he actually gets his hands on Hobgoblin. To emphasize this, he offers to hold off Prowler while May takes on Hobgoblin, with even May pointing out that he has as much a right to take a crack at Phil as she does.
• Shock and Awe: He possesses a Venom Strike like Izuku's, but it's both more powerful and more useful, as it can be used multiple times in a row without a problem.
• Spider-Sense: Miles' Spider-Sense seems to be stronger than Izuku's, warning him of things that don't put him in physical danger, like when Vice-Principal Dutcher is about to bust him for sneaking out after curfew.
• Super-Strength: Even while asleep, Miles is strong enough to shove Ganke into Judge's bed without even trying and accidentally crushes a LEGO brick into pieces, putting out 950 pounds of force just by closing his hand. He later lifts a half ton of metal with little effort, and breaks Prowler's arm with ease in a desperate attempt to free himself.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Given that his only mentors are Mayday and Phil, Miles goes into superheroics with only a bare understanding of his powers and how best to use them. But despite his reluctance and inexperience, his powers make him a force to be reckoned with when he gets his head in the game.
• With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Miles says he's never stepped in a gym in his life. But when he wakes up the following morning, Ganke notices Miles has a six-pack.

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