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Spider-Man Variants

♫ Three, that's the magic number. ♫^note From left to right: The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the MCU Spider-Man and the Amazing Spider-Man.

"They're me's from other universes. They're here to help."

— MCU Spider-Man

Variants of Peter Parker/Spider-Man that appear across alternate timelines and parallel universes.

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In General

• The Adjectival Superhero: All of the variants are distinguished by a title coming before their name.
• Alliance of Alternates: As seen in the above image, in No Way Home Peter teams up with the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man from the Raimi-Verse and the Amazing Spider-Man from the Webb-Verse. They are arguably a reconstruction of the trope after Loki deconstructed it with the evil Loki variants and the He Who Remains variants that are mentioned, since instead of focusing on their differences or hating any qualities that they share since they don't like those personality traits, the Spider-Man variants celebrate both their differences and similarities.
• Alternate Self: They are all versions of Peter Parker from divergent timelines. In contrast to most characters the majority of his variants have diverged greatly from him except for Zombie Hunter Spider-Man, varying in both age and appearance in a similar way to the Loki variants. Their backstories also vary more drastically compared to other variants.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Like the Sacred Timeline version, they can do everything a spider can.
• Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: The three cinematic Spider-Men, both through skillsets and meta-related showings.
  • MCU Peter is the Balanced One, able to juxtapose the physical-based fighting style of his Raimi-Verse counterpart and the acrobatics of his Webb-Verse counterpart but still maintaining a direct approach in combat.
  • Raimi-Verse Peter is the Strong One, the Spider-Man with no fancy gadgets who mostly relies on his physical abilities and organic webbing.
  • Webb-Verse Peter is the Fast One, being the one who performs all sorts of acrobatics and Deadly Dodging as Spider-Man and even performed two crucial life-saving events during the Final Battle.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Raimi-Verse Peter is big as he's visibly the bulkiest, Webb-Verse Peter is thin as he's the most slender, and MCU Peter is the shortest of the three.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: While it doesn't apply to them, it does to the three cinematic Spider-Men's respective love interests. Raimi-Verse Peter's is Mary Jane Watson, a Fiery Redhead. Webb-Verse Peter's was the late Gwen Stacy, Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold personified. MCU Peter's was Liz Toomes and then Michelle Jones, both reserved dark-haired girls.
• The Cape: To varying degrees all of Spider-Man's variants are this. Only Raimi-Verse Peter takes this a step further and is an Ideal Hero.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: While roughly having the same powers and skillset, the three cinematic Spider-Men use them in different ways when in combat and as a result each one is slightly better at certain things than the others.
  • MCU Peter is the Mage, who relies on technological gadgets and scientific expertise the most as well as being more in-tuned with his Spider-Sense.
  • Raimi-Verse Peter is the Fighter, who's the only counterpart with no fancy gadgets or uses scientific knowledge outside of being a superhero and mostly relies on his physical abilities and organic webbing.
  • Webb-Verse Peter is the Thief, who performs all sorts of acrobatics and Deadly Dodging as Spider-Man and performed two crucial life-saving events in the Final Battle.
• Foil: Peter-2 and Peter-3 are this to each other. Peter-2 is visibly older, has found a balance between his civilian and superhero lives, and made his relationship with his world's Mary Jane Watson work in the end. Peter-3 is still in his physical prime, but his relationship with his Gwen Stacy ended in tragedy, causing him to double down on being Spider-Man as a coping mechanism. Physically, Peter-2 is stockier and muscular, whereas Peter-3 is taller and slimmer.
• Freudian Trio: The three cinematic Spider-Men.
  • MCU Peter is The Id — young, dreamer.
  • Raimi-Verse Peter is The Superego — wise, stoic.
  • Webb-Verse Peter is The Ego — comical, balanced.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: They are all spider themed superheroes.
• Future Foil: Peter-2 and Peter-3 this to Peter-1 due to being older versions of him, representing the two extremes his life can go. Peter-2 represents a future where he finds a way to be Spider-Man without sacrificing his personal happiness, while Peter-3 represents a future where his regrets and failures cause him to abandon his Peter Parker identity in favor of fully embracing being Spider-Man.
• Good Counterpart: To the Loki variants from Loki (2021), as unlike them, the Spider-Men get along with each other without any issue in No Way Home while only five Loki variants proved to be loyal and trustworthy, with the rest ending up in a brawl after they kept betraying each other. Also to the variants of He Who Remains, as they waged a Multiverse-spanning war against each other while the Spider-Man variants worked together to save the MCU universe during a multiversal crisis.
• Hero of Another Story: They are all superheroes and have had their own adventures that differ from the Sacred Timeline version.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • All of the Spider-Men are orphans who were Happily Adopted by their Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and all of them eventually lost the latter.
  • The three cinematic Spideys were high school classmates with Eugene "Flash" Thompson. This is presumably the same with Zombie Hunter Spider-Man who's life diverges from the MCU version during Infinity War.
  • The three cinematic Spider-Men are vilified by Jameson and the Daily Bugle, and as a result are distrusted by many people despite their heroics.
  • All three cinematic Spider-Men have had pivotal, life-changing battles with the Green Goblin. Raimi-Verse Peter had Norman Osborn as his first villain, and later, Norman's son Harry in the New Goblin persona. Webb-Verse Peter fought his own version of Harry, who was responsible for the worst tragedy of Peter's life. And it comes full-circle when MCU Peter is cruelly provoked by the very same Norman incarnation of the Goblin from the Raimi-Verse, and seeks revenge against him. Whichever Osborn is in the role and whatever universe he's from, it's clear that the Goblin is Spider-Man's Arch-Enemy for all three of them due to how personal it is.
  • So far, the first villain all the Spider-Men have faced have been examples of Green and Mean: Peter-1 and presumably Zombie Hunter Spider-Man with the Vulture, Peter-2 with the Green Goblin and Peter-3 with the Lizard. MCU and Webb-Verse Peter also share the fact that their first villain was animal themed while their second villains weren't.
• Nice Guy: All the Spider-Men seen so far are kind people trying to do right thing, and while they can occasionally be selfish they all try to make up for their mistakes.
• Power Trio: The three cinematic Spider-Men could fill any trio-related tropes easily, as demonstrated in this section alone.
• Practically Different Generations: The three cinematic Spider-Men are this, with Raimi-Verse Peter being born in 1984, Webb-Verse Spidey in 1996, and MCU Spidey in 2001. This had a massive effect on how they were treated by their peers in high school with Peter-2 being the only one bullied by his entire school for being a nerd, while Peter-3 was apparently only bullied by Flash and some others for being a loner^note after Flash punches his lights out, a random dude can be seen kicking Peter's camera out of spite and Peter-1 was bullied because Flash simply didn't like him while being generally well-liked by others, except some who dismiss his interests^note Some cheerleaders can be heard calling Ned and Peter lame when they discuss his Lego Death Star and those who actually like Flash's status as an Insult Comic^note At Liz's party, they all laugh at Ned and Peter when Flash insults them.
• Primary-Color Champion: Naturally all the variants shown so far have worn red and blue costumes, which makes MCU Peter stand out in No Way Home as his costume has replaced blue with black.
• Rule of Symbolism: The way they wear their outfits reflect each actor's respective portrayals of the Peter Parker character. Raimi-verse Peter keeps his Spider-suit underneath his civilian clothes for most of his screentime, reflecting how Maguire's performance focused more on the "Peter Parker" quietude and seriousness, whereas Webb-verse Peter exclusively wears the Spider-suit, reflecting Garfield's focus on the more quippy and outspoken "Spider-Man" attitude.
• Science Hero: All the variants seen so far have been this, though to varying degrees due to the different adventures and villains they've had. As shown in No Way Home the three cinematic Spider-Men are able to use this to cure the Multiversal Villains.
• Signature Move: All three cinematic versions of Peter turn themselves into a human slingshot by using two web lines to launch themselves into the air or enemies.
• Super Power Lottery: All the Spider-Men have Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, Super-Reflexes, the ability to Wall Crawl and a Spider-Sense. Combined with their high intellect, this allows them to fight villains who are actually more powerful than them. However as shown in No Way Home the cinematic Spider-Men slightly differ in what abilities they favour which means they are better at different things: Peter-1 relies on his spider sense the most due to his fight with Mysterio while having a more balanced approach to his other powers, while Peter-2 is shown to be physically the strongest and Peter-3 is shown to have faster reflexes. Their durability seems to be tied due to having more or less having experienced the same severity of harm during their crime fighting careers.
• Stepford Smiler: All versions of Peter are this as well as Stepford Snarkers to varying degrees and seem to hide their pain under jokes and laughter, either to protect others or simply as a way to cope.
• Sibling Team: Invoked. The three Spider-Men are deliberately portrayed like brothers, the Webb-Verse Spidey in particular even addresses himself as having Middle Child Syndrome. Meanwhile, Raimi-Verse Spidey is treated as the reserved and respected Big Brother Mentor whereas MCU Spidey is presented as the youngest sibling with lots of potential.
• The Three Faces of Adam:
  • The Hunter: The MCU Spider-Man, the youngest of the three who is struggling to keep being optimistic after being faced with a huge ordeal.
  • The Lord: The Webb-Verse Spider-Man, a seasoned superhero who is still in his prime who is struggling to keep himself together from being haunted by his past failure.
  • The Prophet: The Raimi-Verse Spider-Man, the oldest and most seasoned of the three who is at peace with his life as a superhero.
• True Companions: At the end of No Way Home, it is clear that they have become as close as brothers.
• Truer to the Text: Zigzagged. The many differences between the cinematic Spider-Men, and their other variants, means they are accurate to the comics in some ways while inaccurate in other ways. For example, while Peter-1 is the only version to start his superhero career roughly around the same time as his comic self, Peter-3 is the only one to have experienced the death of Gwen Stacy while Peter-2 is the only one to be in a relationship with his comic self's canonical love interest, Mary Jane (though Michelle Jones is a Pragmatic Adaptation of the character).
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: This is what bonds the three cinematic Spider-Men in No Way Home, with Peter-2 and Peter-3 sharing how their versions of Uncle Ben taught them this lesson before he died, just like how May taught Peter-1 the same thing before she died.

Variants from the Multiversal Crisis

Raimi-Verse Peter Parker/Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

For tropes pertaining to his original appearance, see his page.

Peter Benjamin Parker/Spider-Man

"Hello. I hope it's okay, I just came through this, uh... oh. It just closed."

^{Click here to see his suit}
"Trying to do better."

Known Aliases: Human Spider, Peter-2

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Daily Bugle, Midtown High (formerly), Columbia University (formerly)

Portrayed By: Tobey Maguire^{Foreign voice actors}Víctor Ugarte (Latin-American Spanish dub), Manabu Ino (Japanese dub), Manolo Rey (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Damien Witecka (European French dub), Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque (Canadian French dub), Evgeny Ivanov (Russian dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man | Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man 3 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ^note Archive footage from Spider-Man

"The night Ben died... I hunted down the man who I thought did it. I wanted him dead. I got what I wanted. It didn't make it better. Took me a long time to... learn to get through that darkness."

The Spider-Man of Earth-96283, brought over into Earth-199999 following the botching of a dangerous, universe-changing spell. Gaining his powers in 2002, this Spider-Man is in his forties and is a veteran crime-fighter with a long career of ups and downs which includes having fought the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Sandman.

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• The Ace: He's the most successful of the three Peter Parkers in No Way Home and one of the most successful Peter Parkers in the Marvel Multiverse period. He successfully balanced his civilian and superhero life, he made it work with the girl, and has two decades of experience under his belt.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: In comparison to his comic self and his variants, he has suffered the least and is therefore much happier as both Peter Parker and Spider-Man. While he had a Tragic Bromance with Harry Osborn and the latter's death is clearly what motivates him to cure the villains, Peter-3 suffered far more losses in a much shorter amount of time while Peter-1 dealt with losing a second father figure, his identity being exposed and the death of May before having to erase all knowledge of his existence.
• Adaptational Badass: Most older versions of Spider-Man in the comics are usually portrayed as having retired or found ways to compensate for their age making their superhero lifestyle more difficult. While Peter-2 notes that he has back issues, this is something the younger Peter-3 also mentions and outside of that, his age doesn't seem to have had any effect on his superhero career or abilities. He's even shown to be physically the strongest Spider-Man in comparison to his variants.
• Adaptational Curves: He's much more stocky and muscular than his comic book counterpart and the other alternate Spider-Men.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: Just like in his original films, he has blue eyes while in the comics they are usually brown (though officially, they're hazel), like with Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield. Also like his film series, the web design of his costume is silver instead of black like his variants.
• Adaptational Intelligence: While his original portrayal does show that he's Book Smart and has a strong interest in science, he does poorly academically because he has so much else on his mind, and never comes across as a gifted scientific mind unlike his two counterparts — he never even had to invent the web-shooters that most Spider-Men have, since they came as part of his powerset. Given the more grounded world he inhabits, he comes across as a more realistic portrayal of a highly intelligent teenager as opposed to his variants, who exist in worlds with easier access to advanced technology and attended schools with a focus in science. But in the years since we last saw him, he's clearly found better balance in his life, and mentions that he's spent years pondering how he might have gone about inventing a cure for the Green Goblin serum. Whatever he whips up does the trick, restoring Norman back to his original self.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Downplayed. While Webb-Verse Peter has Spidey's comics trait of nonstop jabbering while fighting, and MCU Peter was of course born into the World of Snark that is the MCU, Raimi-Verse Peter was always a more soft-spoken and angsty interpretation of the character. While he still largely has the same characterization, and is the most quiet and down-to-earth of the three here, even having a few Only Sane Man moments, he's become a lot more quippy and talkative in order to keep pace with his younger counterparts. Of course, since he's in his forties and he showed some shades of quippiness in his last appearance, it is possible he eventually just got more talkative as his career in crime-fighting progressed.
• Adaptational Superpower Change:
  • Unlike the comic version and the other two Spider-Men, this Peter has organic webs that come out of his wrist instead of having mechanical web-shooters. The other Peters are hilariously envious of this because they have to go through the trouble of making their own webs through mixing chemicals in a lab.
  • His first film establishes that his wall-crawling ability is the result of his skin growing small but sharp "barb"-like material. This is different from the comics where the spider-bite essentially gave Peter the power to control electrostatic force to cling to surfaces, and it's likely that his variants are able to wall crawl the same way.
• The Adjectival Superhero: He's the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, which is actually how he introduced himself in the first Spider-Man film and reflects how this iteration of the character is regarded as the best Peter Parker by fans. To a lesser extent it also reflects how the stakes were rarely that high in his adventures and are more street level in comparison to his counterparts, as the only time the whole of New York was in danger was in Spider-Man 2. In his first film the Green Goblin was a danger but in the final fight he was only threatening Mary Jane and several civilians, while during the fight with Venom and Sandman in Spider-Man 3 the only people who were endangered other than MJ herself were the police team that were trying to rescue her.
• Age Lift: Since this is the same version of the character that appeared in the Sam Raimi films from 2002-2007, he has aged with his actor, making him the first example of an older Spider-Man to appear in live-action. Now in his forties, he is roughly twelve years older than Peter-3 and around seventeen years older than Peter-1 (chronologically at least since Peter-1 is confirmed to have been born in 2001, but because he was snapped, the age gap is closer to 22 years biologically).
• Alternate Self: Unlike other variants shown in the MCU who diverge from their Sacred Timeline counterparts at specific points, this Peter comes from a radically different world to Earth-199999. As a result he has several differences to his counterparts:
  • For some reason, he's the only version of Spider-Man with organic webbing, with his counterparts all having to use web-shooters. The exact details of how his wall-crawling ability works also differ from his variants.
  • Unlike Webb-Verse Peter, he was successful in saving Gwen Stacy from plummeting to her death, as well as his girlfriend Mary Jane on two different occasions.
  • He has a completely different physical appearance and age to his counterparts, though nobody really questions it as they have likely figured that something like that wouldn't be impossible when dealing with the Multiverse. His older age means that he got his powers in 2002 when he was eighteen, instead of 2015 like Peter-1 when he was fourteen or 2013 like Peter-3 when he was seventeen.
  • Prior to the events of No Way Home Norman Osborn, Doctor Octopus and Sandman were villains unique to him, though he remains the only Spider-Man to have fought Venom.
  • He's the only Spider-Man to have been a wrestler, even if it was only for one night.
  • Unlike all his variants who began their crime fighting career while in high school, Peter gained his powers when he was eighteen and started his crime-fighting career after graduating.
  • This Peter attended a normal high school, unlike his variants who attended school which either had some focus in or was completely based around science.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: While not much is revealed about his life since the ending of Spider-Man 3, he's shown to be an Ideal Hero who managed to make a relationship with Mary Jane work while finding a balance between living a normal life and being a superhero. This is in contrast to Peter-1, who is still relatively green to superheroics, and Peter-3, whose reaction to the death of his girlfriend was to fully commit to being Spider-Man. Also, due to his career starting in 2002, he's the most experienced variant of Peter and the most experienced street-level hero in the multiverse, predating characters like Daredevil and Peter-3. His career also predates most of the Avengers including Tony Stark, with the only exceptions being those with military experience or who are long lived, which is a big difference since Peter-1 grew up admiring the team. However, it's Downplayed somewhat in the sense that while he's accomplished a lot in his life and is a great hero, his adventures have always been much lower stakes and he's firmly a street-level hero, in contrast to Peter-1 who is more used to high stakes adventures and has been to space despite being much younger.
• Always Someone Better: Being the most successful out of the three Spider-Men, he manages to prove his superiority over them in separate occasions.
  • During the scene where he and Webb-Verse Peter first meet, they get into a quick draw duel where he manages to beat Webb-Verse Peter by shooting a web at his web-shooter to disable it.
  • He physically overpowers MCU Peter when he tries to kill the Green Goblin as revenge for him killing Aunt May. Keep in mind that MCU Peter is visibly exerting more effort than him.
  • Of course it's worth noting that both these examples only prove that when it comes to physical strength and combat experience, he is the better of the three cinematic Spider-Men. While he shows more of his scientific skills in No Way Home he hasn't shown to have the same level of inventing talent as Peter-1 and Peter-3, and while he succeeded in creating a cure for Osborn his counterparts were also able to create cures for the other villains.
  • Aside from physical prowess, he also is the most successful version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man amongst the three versions, given he is happy in his life, has made his relationship with MJ work and is generally the most confident Spider-Man compared to his Webb-Verse and MCU counterparts.
• Ambiguous Situation: At the end of Spider-Man 3, he hugs and shares a dance with Mary Jane, showing that they’ve reconciled. When Webb-Verse Peter asks about his romantic life, he simply says that it's "a little complicated", but he and MJ ultimately "made it work". There’s no implication that they’re married or engaged, just that they’re both in a far better position than they have been prior.^note Notably, the film skirts the issue of marriage by avoiding shots that could show his bare left hand (either showing his right or both hands are gloved), which would give confirmation of a ring.
• And Starring: Being the original cinematic Spider-Man, it's only natural that he gets special billing.
• Animalistic Abilities: Like the other Spider-Men, he has the strength, speed, and agility proportional to that of a spider and he can crawl on walls. Unlike the other Spider-Men though, he takes it up a notch by being able to produce organic webbing which makes his abilities more animalistic than the other Spider-Men.
• Arch-Enemy: The Green Goblin was his, with Osborn's death in the first film having consequences throughout his trilogy. While the Goblin becomes a foe of the MCU Peter in No Way Home, Peter's look of horror when he finally hears the Goblin's voice shows that despite it being two decades since the man's death, he still considers him one of his most dangerous foes.
• Arc Words: "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility." He and his Webb-Verse counterpart know the sentiment too well, which shocks MCU Peter, since he first hears the mantra from Aunt May moments before her death.
• Ascended Meme:
  • It was a popular topic to depict this version living in the MCU before actually arriving in it.
  • While getting ready for the battle at the Statue of Liberty, Raimi-Verse Peter expresses confusion that his fellow Spider-Men have web-shooters rather than organic webbing like him, something that fans have often joked he would do online. He also complains about his back acting up, which references a memetic scene from Spider-Man 2 where Peter hurts his back after falling off a building in an attempt to return as Spider-Man.
• Belated Happy Ending: When we last saw him, he was in a rather shaky place but it seems he's worked things out pretty well in the last couple of decades.
• Best Friend: He tells Ned he had one in Harry Osborn, which sadly implies that despite it being almost twenty years since his death, Peter hasn't befriended anyone that he considers as important to him as Harry. He sadly recalls how Harry died in his arms after he tried to kill Peter.
• Big Brother Mentor: Considering that Webb-Verse Spider-Man treated the other two as his brothers and Andrew Garfield even compares his version as the middle child in terms of their movies, Raimi-Verse Peter assures him that he is not "lame" as he proclaimed himself to be and that he is "amazing".
• Big Entrance: His and Peter-3's return to the big screen was the most anticipated heading into the film. So in order treat it as a big deal, he slowly walks out of the portal initially with his Face Framed in Shadow before a full shot.
• Bizarre Human Biology: He can shoot webs that come from his own body, which surprises and utterly fascinates his alternate counterparts, who constructed their own web-shooters and have to synthesize their web fluid. Before the final fight, the other Spider-Men even take the time to ask him questions about how this power works, like if the webs come out anywhere else apart from his wrists and if he runs out of them like how they do. While not brought up, he also sticks to walls due to his skin growing small, but sharp "barb"-like material.
• The Bus Came Back: He returns to the big screen in Spider-Man: No Way Home, 14 years after his last appearance in Spider-Man 3.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: Like most other versions of the character, he continues his ongoing conversations while fighting.
  Webb-Verse Spider-Man: (while being attacked by Electro) I got his attention, now what?
  Raimi-Verse Spider-Man: (while being attacked by the Lizard) Okay great. Just FYI, Lizard-guy is here too!
• Character Aged with the Actor: Rather than subject Tobey to the same Digital De Aging that Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina received, this Spider-Man is simply taken from the present day of his own universe, which also opens up exploring the implications of aging on the character.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: He has an even bigger one than his Sacred Timeline counterpart. He tells Ned, MJ, and Webb-Verse Peter that he's been searching for this universe's Peter since he arrived in his universe and he's the most adamant in wanting to cure the other villains transported into this universe, especially when it came to Norman Osborn/Green Goblin.
• Clark Kent Outfit: He wears a black bomber jacket to help hide his costume and his muscular physique.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Just like in the original trilogy. Ned's lola gives him a flirty smile and wave to which he simply smiles and waves back, without even realizing he's being hit on.
• Composite Character: Like Peter-3, he appears to take inspiration from Peter B. Parker and R.I.Peter from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the film which serves as an inspiration for No Way Home^note fair enough, considering they both took inspiration from him. Peter-2 receives the older age and 20-year career that Peter B. had as well as his small role as a mentor who gives encouragement to his counterparts, but he lacks that version's depression and difficult life. Instead, like R.I.Peter, he is portrayed as an Ideal Hero who is in a happy (if somewhat complicated) relationship with Mary Jane while also striking a balance between his civilian and superhero lives, and in comparison to his two counterparts is an example of Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome, much like R.I.Peter was to the other versions of him in that film. He essentially got all the best qualities of both, while Peter-3 was left with the more negative qualities. Peter-2 having similarities with these versions of Spider-Man makes some sense as both Peter B. and R.I.Peter from that film were based on the Raimi version.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": Peter has been an active superhero longer than the other two Peters and begins to suffer from backaches as a result of his swinging. Webb-Verse Peter, who also suffers from similar problems, has to help him straighten his back before the villains arrive.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has gotten snarkier over the years, allowing him to keep pace with his alternate counterparts, and more often than not reacts to outlandish elements of the MCU this way.
• Dented Iron: His decades-long career has left him with a bad back.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: When Ned asks him if he has a best friend, Peter answers that he did and brings up how his best friend Harry died in his arms after he previously tried to kill Peter. It's subverted in the final battle with him though. At first, it looks like he's going to die in Webb-Verse Peter's arms after he got stabbed In the Back by the Green Goblin, but then he says that he'll be fine because he has been stabbed before.
• Dimensional Traveler: Because of Strange's spell, he is taken from his universe and ends up stuck in the MCU until the end of No Way Home.
• Don't Think, Feel: This is how he describes his organic webbing works.
  Peter-2: No, I-I wish, I could tell you, but it's like... I don't do it, like I don't... Like I don't do breathing. Like, breathing just happens.
• Dork Knight: Even after all these years, he still has his signature nerdiness and bashfulness.
• Dressed in Layers: He's introduced wearing street clothes that Webb-Verse Peter compares to a "cool youth pastor". When the others ask if he needs a suit for the final battle, he reveals he always has his on underneath whatever he's wearing.
• Establishing Character Moment: The moment he steps out the portal, he politely but awkwardly greets everyone, establishing his Mellow Fellow characterization, but then gets in a Quick Draw duel with Webb-Verse Peter and wins, showing that he's quite an experienced Spider-Man in his own right. He then tells Ned and MJ that he's been searching for the MCU Peter since he arrived in this universe, showcasing his desire to help people.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: He's the Fighter alongside Peter-1's Mage and Peter-3's Thief in No Way Home, utilizing his physical abilities to a greater extent, and being the only one with organic webbing. This would make sense as Peter-2 usually beat his villains through simple fights as opposed to using his intelligence or any gadgets in his own film series, and when Peter-1 was about to kill the Green Goblin with his glider, Peter-2 was able to grab the glider, proving to be physically stronger than his younger counterpart.
• First-Name Basis: He calls Otto by his first name when they have a Big Damn Reunion in the final battle. It's especially notable that he called him "Dr. Octavius" beforehand when the latter was pretending to be on the villains' side to get the drop on and cure Electro.
• Forgot About His Powers: Unfortunately, very much like his fight with Harry at the mansion in Spider-Man 3, his Spider-Sense fails to warn him yet again about an impaling attack by the Goblin. However, he notes that he's been stabbed before and seems to recover from the injury.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: He's literally the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and predictably he is the friendliest of the three Spideys in No Way Home. In his own film series he was already a polite Nice Guy, but now he's moved on from his resentment and arrogance to become an Ideal Hero.
• Future Badass: As an older version of Peter Parker, he represents a possible path Peter-1's life could go down. Despite now being in his forties, he is still a powerful fighter, was able to strike a balance between being a hero and living his own life, and is portrayed as an Ideal Hero unlike his Classical Anti-Hero counterparts.
• Guilt Complex: While the others are naturally unaware of this, viewers who have seen his film series know that Peter actually places a lot of unfair blame on himself. While stopping Dennis Carradine would have stopped his uncle's death, that's only because Carradine startled Flint Marko into shooting Ben on accident, meaning Peter is only indirectly to blame for his uncle's death. Meanwhile, Norman's death was completely his fault since he was impaled on his glider which he tried to use to kill Peter, who on instinct simply leaped out of the way. However, he likely blames himself for not telling Harry the truth from the start, so blaming himself for the circumstances that led to Harry's Heroic Sacrifice to save Peter makes more sense.
• Harmless Electrocution: He survived being electrocuted by Electro for over a minute and only needed to catch his breath afterward. Keep in mind that Electro was being strengthened by the MCU's more powerful energy and Tony Stark's Arc Reactor.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: Compared to his earlier appearance in Spider-Man 3, especially the time he appeared a bit homely when affected by the symbiote, he looks way more well-off and good-looking than before.
• He Is All Grown Up: Peter's a lot older from his adolescent/college years in his trilogy, but he can still get it, as he definitely hasn't lost his looks, nor his effect on the ladies. Ned's Lola in particular becomes pretty flustered by his handsome visage, and is noticeably checking him out.
• Heroic Build: Out of the three alternate selves, he's the most muscular.
• Hero of Another Story: He was the hero of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy, making him the first Spider-Man to appear on the big screen. After the conclusion of Spider-Man 3, he has continued to be a superhero all the way to his early forties.
• Humble Hero: Despite being the most successful out of all the Spider-Men, he never shows off about it and doesn't think of nor make it as a big deal when it is. This is likely because of how his fame as Spider-Man got to his head in his third film and it got exacerbated by the symbiote's influence, which he eventually realized and regretted.
• Ideal Hero: Of the three Spider-Men, he's the most confident, experienced, and idealistic. He consistently appears Older and Wiser, with a relatively normal personal life compared to the troubled Webb-Verse Peter. He's humble, encourages both of his counterparts (particularly Webb-Verse Spider-Man, insisting that he's not lame, he's "amazing"), he believes in redeeming Norman Osborn — which doesn't sit well with MCU Peter until he casually says, "Gotta cure all of them, right?" — and steps in to stop MCU Peter from executing the Goblin. When it's time for them to part ways, he leaves MCU Peter with a gentle Think Nothing of It that also reminds the young hero of his responsibilities.
  Peter-1: Hey, uh, I think this is it — I think you're about to go home! But I, uh— thank you. I just wanted to tell you that, uh— that I-I really don't know how to say this, but... I want you to know that I'm...
  Peter-3: Peter.
  Peter-2: You know. It's what we do.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: He convinces his MCU counterpart not to kill the Green Goblin out of vengeance.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die:
  • For him, it was his Uncle Ben. He died when Peter let a criminal get away which lead to the criminal causing Ben's death. Peter succeeded in getting revenge for his uncle's murder but it didn't make him feel any better and it took him a long time to get through the darkness he felt after that.
  • He also suffers from a case of "I let Norman and Harry Osborn die", as he spent many years wondering if there was a way to cure Norman to the point he was able to actually make the antidote in No Way Home. While he didn't know the Green Goblin's true identity until moments before his death, Peter apparently still blames himself for Norman dying since it caused his friendship with Harry to fall apart and lead him down the path of becoming the New Goblin before dying to save Peter.
• Inferred Survival: Despite being stabbed in the back and in incredible pain, it can be assumed that his injury would heal as he had an impressive Healing Factor in his own film trilogy.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Unlike the other Spider-Men who have brown eyes, this Peter sports bright blue eyes.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Like MCU Peter, he has fought an alien before (though he's surprised when Peter explains that he went to space to fight Thanos), and is also in a relationship with a woman named MJ. They're both fans of Captain America although it's ambiguous if Captain America is real or just a fictional character in the Raimi-verse. He also knows Betty Brant from working at the Daily Bugle and was a classmate of his version of Liz Allan. Also both of their first villains where the fathers of someone they knew, and wore green suits while using advanced technology that was designed by people working for them. They had a personal relationship with a rich businessman, though in Peter's case Norman became his Arch-Enemy while for Peter-1 Tony became a mentor.
  • Like his Webb-Verse counterpart, he was best friends with Harry Osborn who became a villain while the MCU Peter has never met Harry, with Oscorp being mentioned to not exist in his universe. Both were also acquainted with Curt Connors, though Webb-Verse Peter had a far more personal connection than Peter, who was simply Connors' student. Both worked for the Daily Bugle though it's unknown how close Peter-3 was with the other employees, meaning it's unknown if he has met his version of Eddie Brock. Both of them also had a similar financial background and lived in an house with Ben and May instead of an apartment like their MCU counterpart did. A big similarity that separates them from the MCU Peter is that they are the only confirmed superheroes to exist in their worlds.^note Reference is made to a Dr. Strange in Spider-Man 2 but whether he's a surgeon, a sorcerer, or someone else entirely is unconfirmed. Another person who resembles The Punisher was also spotted briefly but his identity also remains unconfirmed. Supplementary materials of the Spider-Man Trilogy mention other Marvel superheroes, but whether this is canon is debatable.
• In the Back: Is stabbed in the back by the Green Goblin, but this doesn't kill him.
• I've Heard of That — What Is It?: When MCU Peter reveals he was in the Avengers, this Peter replies that that's great... and then asks what the Avengers are.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: A downplayed example in comparison to his variants, who began their crime fighting careers during high school. In comparison Peter became Spider-Man after graduating from high school, though he was still still considered young enough to be called a kid in Spider-Man 2 in which he would have been around twenty years old.
• Leitmotif: Danny Elfman's "Responsibility" theme returns.
• Major Injury Underreaction: After being stabbed in the back by Green Goblin, he doesn't seem too worried as he's been stabbed before. Though he's mostly silent as the three Peters bid each other farewell and once MCU Peter leaves, he admits to Webb-Verse Peter it's because he's actually in incredible pain.
• Meaningful Look: He gives MCU Peter a stern yet earnest wide-eyed look while stopping him from murdering the Green Goblin, signifying that while he understands Peter's grief and rage, it's still not the right thing to do and will only lead him down a dark path.
• Mellow Fellow: He's called The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man for a reason. Despite being transported to an alternate universe and facing his greatest villains who are now back from the dead, Peter seems to take it in stride with a nonchalant Seen It All demeanor. This is highlighted when he first meets Ned and MJ, as while Webb-Verse Peter dramatically jumped into their room through the portal fully clad in his Spider Suit, Raimi-Verse Peter just steps in and waves bashfully while wearing civilian clothes. Hell, the guy gets stabbed in the back and all he has is a Major Injury Underreaction as detailed above.
• Mentor Archetype: Subverted, as while he does give advice and encouragement to both his variants, he doesn't outright tell any of them what to do since they are all experienced heroes. He also follows Peter-1's lead since while he's the oldest and most experienced out of the three, he's never worked in a team before like Peter-1 has.
• Mirror Character: To Tony Stark in terms of his relationship with Peter-1 as a more experienced superhero. Tony was a more hands-off mentor whom Peter saw as a surrogate father while Raimi-Verse Peter is more direct in his involvement with his variant and treats him more like a younger brother than a sidekick. Tony was also a hero who had no issue with needing to kill his foe if the situation calls for it, whereas Raimi-Verse Peter is against it to the point of stopping Peter-1 from killing the Goblin.
• Mistaken Identity: While Webb-Verse Peter is mistaken for MCU Peter in his introduction, Raimi-Verse is mistaken as "just some random guy" by Ned before MJ realizes that he's another alternate Peter Parker.
• My Greatest Failure: He brings up two. Most relevant is Norman's death, given that it would lead to a chain of events that cost Peter his best friend's life. Secondly, he views what happened with Dennis Carradine as one, probably feeling he could have done something to save him. It’s why he stops MCU Peter from killing the Goblin — in hopes that Norman can be redeemed and to keep MCU Peter from invoking He Who Fights Monsters.
• My Greatest Second Chance: He's able to stop MCU Peter from killing the Green Goblin out of revenge, sparing Norman Osborn's life once the evil personality is destroyed for good.
• Mysterious Past: Downplayed. Although pretty much everything major shown in his film trilogy is discussed or alluded to, very little is confirmed about his later life — with the exception of the fact that he and Mary Jane made their relationship work, like the epilogue of the third film implied would happen.
• Nice Guy: Just like in his original films, except possibly even nicer here, due to finally having come into himself. He's soft-spoken, polite, constantly encouraging to his younger counterparts, and bears no grudge against any of his old enemies, even saving Norman's life from a vengeful Peter 1. It's particularly sweet watching him greet his former foe Dr. Octavius with nothing but fondness and relief (and even a First-Name Basis).
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He manages to stop MCU Peter from killing Green Goblin with his own glider, but it ends up with him getting stabbed in the back by the Goblin himself. While it doesn't kill him, it leaves him in a lot of physical pain.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Inverted since in comparison to his own relatively mundane world, it's clear that the MCU is much more fantastical compared to what he's used to. While he takes the existence of the Multiverse in stride, he's clearly surprised to learn that magic exists, is stunned to hear that his youngest counterpart has actually been to space to fight an alien, and has no frame of reference for the existence of the Avengers when Peter-1 mentions being a member.
• Not So Above It All: He might be an Older and Wiser version of Spider-Man and therefore somewhat more levelheaded than his two counterparts, but like most Peter Parkers, he's still quite the dork. When Ned's lola gives him a flirtatious wave, he just awkwardly smiles back. And when Peter-2 demonstrates his organic webbing in front of his counterparts, Ned and MJ in the laboratory, he cheekily remarks to Peter-1 that "you can't do that, huh?" He also gets grossed out when he gets a faceful of Peter-3’s (non-organic) webbing in the climactic showdown. When the MCU Peter asks him about the villains he has fought in his universe, he quips “Seems you’ve met some of them”, which veers into Black Comedy territory as mere hours ago, the Green Goblin from his universe brutally murdered the MCU Peter's Aunt May (and he is fully aware of it). This even gets a laugh out of his Webb-Verse counterpart.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Hearing Green Goblin screaming for "Spider-Man [to] come out to play" after 20 years visibly shakes him. Considering Goblin was his most devious nemesis and that specific line preceded the events that would eventually lead to his conflict with Harry and likely contributed to the stress of being Spider-Man in general, it's very understandable.
  • He shares this reaction along with Webb-Verse Peter and MCU Peter's friends when he sees the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown their MCU counterpart is delivering to the Green Goblin. It's especially notable with Peter-2 though, as he knows all too well how killing another only makes things worse in the long run.
• Old Superhero: Downplayed. He's pushing 40^note Assuming that the first Spider-Man (where he graduated from high school) took place in 2002, the year it was released, Peter-2 would have been born in 1983-1984, making him 40-41 in No Way Home. However according to one interview Peter is apparently 43 which would mean he was born in 1981 and his original film took place in 1999., and has been a superhero about as long as MCU Peter has been alive, but he's still capable of slinging webs like his Webb-Verse and MCU counterparts. He does admit that he's having problems with his back from all the web-swinging.
• Older and Wiser: He's the oldest and most experienced of the three Spider-Men and acts accordingly, quickly assuming the role of an older brother to the other two, offering advice and encouragement to both of them.
• Only Sane Man: Of the trio, he's the most emotionally stable and least neurotic due to being Older and Wiser.
• Persona Non Grata: It's strongly implied that him helping the other Peters save the other villains from their destined deaths (with him saving Sandman specifically and creating a cure for the Green Goblin) has gotten him permanently banned from joining Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Society.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's much shorter than Webb-Verse Peter and is only slightly taller than MCU Peter, but he's physically the strongest out of all of them, as seen when he overpowers MCU Peter to stop him from killing Green Goblin. MCU Peter is visibly exerting more effort than him and he's still overpowering the young man.
• Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: When Webb-verse Spider-Man asks him if he still runs out of webs like they do because he has organic webs instead of having mechanical web-shooters, he says that he did run out of webs at one point as a result of going through an existential crisis.
• Relationship Upgrade: After three films of Peter's Will They or Won't They? relationship with Mary Jane, No Way Home confirms that while it was complicated for some time, they have finally made it work.
• Save the Villain: While he agrees to help cure the other villains, he's the most insistent in wanting to cure the Green Goblin and save Norman Osborn in the process. This is likely due to how his death lead to a string of events that lead to his best friend Harry eventually dying and because he knows that if MCU Peter kills him, he will go down a dark path. When MCU Peter tries to finish the Goblin off after savagely beating him to a pulp, he physically stops him from doing the act.
• Science Hero: Because of Adaptational Intelligence, Peter is this in No Way Home unlike with the Raimi films. Since he never needed to invent web shooters and most of his villains were people he could fight, he never really needed to rely on his intelligence the same way his variants did. No Way Home confirms that he is indeed just as smart as his counterparts and capable of creating a cure for Osborn.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: He's fully into the plan to cure all of the villains transported into the MCU, but he's most focused on curing Norman Osborn the most because it was his transformation into the Green Goblin and later his death in their final battle that lead to his friendship with Harry crumbling and later Harry dying. He actively encourages MCU Peter to go along with this plan even though the Green Goblin killed his Aunt May and later physically stops him from killing the Green Goblin with his own glider which was similar to how Green Goblin died on his timeline. He manages to succeed in having Norman cured of the Green Goblin, leaving him satisfied even when he thought he was going to die because the Green Goblin stabbed him from behind while he was stopping Peter from killing him.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: No official indication was given that he would be in the film prior to its release.
• Sitting on the Roof: While looking for MCU Peter, he asks the latter's friends if he has a place to spend some alone time as Peter reveals that his is the Chrysler Building.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Much less than in his film trilogy, but he still has his moments such as some of his interactions with his variants and when he first meets Ned and Michelle.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: When Ned asks him why he didn't just tell everyone in the room that he's Spider-Man while introducing himself, he tells him that doing so "defeats the whole anonymous superhero thing" which is exactly what his Webb-Verse counterpart said when explaining why he doesn't carry an ID with him that proves that he's Peter Parker.
• Stronger with Age: He overpowers MCU Peter when he tries to kill the Green Goblin by impaling him with his own glider. Keep in mind that MCU Peter wasn't holding back during the scene and before that, had brutally beaten down Gobby without pulling his punches, which is something Raimi-Verse Peter also did near the end of his debut film, so he's clearly gotten much stronger than before.
• Super-Reflexes: Age hasn't slowed him down one bit. When he encounters Webb-Verse Peter, the two stare each other down and shoot webs at each other. Then he shoots another web which disables Peter's web-shooters.
• Super-Strength: He's able to stop an enraged MCU Peter from killing the Green Goblin by overpowering him.
• Super-Toughness: He's so durable that he can survive being electrocuted by Electro for an extended period of time and stabbed from behind by the Green Goblin.
• Team Dad: Unsurprisingly is this to his younger counterparts, being the eldest and most experienced Spider-Man. A few of the most heartwarming moments in the film come from Peter giving support and guidance to his Spider brothers, such as telling Webb-Verse Peter, who feels he's lame and insignificant compared to him and MCU Peter, that he's "amazing". Most powerfully, he personally steps in to prevent MCU Peter from killing Green Goblin in revenge for murdering Aunt May, making sure his younger counterpart doesn't go over the edge.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Though he admittedly struggled with the idea of this trope in his own trilogy, Peter-2 is a firm believer of this trope in the modern day. He actively discourages Peter-1 from averting this trope with the Green Goblin, noting how Dennis Carradine's death didn't make the loss of Uncle Ben go away, and eventually resorts to physically interfering at the cost of getting stabbed by the Goblin to prevent Peter-1 from going down the wrong path.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Downplayed in that he was already a really Nice Guy in his original appearance. However, despite his kindness and compassion, he was prone to being self-centered and arrogant which was later exacerbated by the Venom symbiote. Here, he's fully matured and managed to overcome these flaws, so he's a more altruistic and humbler person than he was before.
• Took a Level in Smartass: He's quite a bit snarkier than he was in his original trilogy, though this makes some sense as his newfound confidence in his third film had him experience this trope so logically this would have continued as he got older.
• Transplant: He's the same Peter Parker from the Spider-Man Trilogy.
• Trapped in Another World: He was sent to the MCU after Stephen Strange and Peter Parker botched a spell meant to make the world forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and instead bought over people from other universes who know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
• Trauma Conga Line: Downplayed as he has suffered a few losses (Uncle Ben and Harry Osborn) in his life which motivate him in his films, but not to the same extent as any of his counterparts. Zombie Hunter Spider-Man had his entire life ruined by the zombie apocalypse, Webb-Verse Peter carries the guilt of Uncle Ben's, George Stacy's, and Gwen Stacy's deaths which has transformed him into an Unscrupulous Hero, and MCU Peter not only lost Tony Stark and Aunt May but was forced to erase all memory of himself from the world, leaving him alone and cut off from his friends.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: He explains how the night his Uncle Ben died, he went after his killer, or at least who he thought was the killer at the time, and was full of rage when he confronted him. Peter outright says he wanted the man dead and got what he wanted, but it ultimately did nothing to help him feel better. He explains this to try to discourage his MCU counterpart from seeking revenge on Green Goblin for murdering Aunt May.
• Vocal Evolution: His voice, while mostly the same, is slightly deeper and raspier this time around due to his age.
• Walking Spoiler: His presence in the film is not hinted anywhere in marketing.
• Wrong Context Magic: His webbing is organic and is shot from his own body, unlike his counterparts (and most mainstream incarnations of Spider-Man) who have synthetic webbing fired from web-shooters. Both the Webb-Verse and MCU Spider-Men (in addition to MJ and Ned) find it pretty alarming, and their continued questions about it while waiting for the villains on Liberty Island make Raimi-Verse Peter wonder if they're making fun of him for it.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Webb-Verse Peter laments how much cooler his counterparts are compared to him (including the fact that they had fought aliens before and he hadn't), Raimi-Verse Peter is a little horrified to hear him say it — even jokingly. Like a mature older brother, he refuses to let Peter's remarks slide; protesting that he is "amazing" and insisting he not forget it.

Webb-Verse Peter Parker/Amazing Spider-Man

For tropes pertaining to his original appearance, see his page.

Peter Benjamin Parker/Spider-Man

"God, this is so cool. I always wanted brothers."

^{Click here to see his suit}
"I'm Peter Parker. I am Spider-Man... in my world."

Known Aliases: Peter-3

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Daily Bugle, Midtown Science High (formerly)

Portrayed By: Andrew Garfield^{Foreign voice actors}Javier Olguín (Latin-American Spanish dub), Tomoaki Maeno (Japanese dub), Sérgio Cantú (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Donald Reignoux (European French dub), Gabriel Lessard (Canadian French dub), Evgeny Rubtsov (Russian dub)

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ^note  Archive footage from The Amazing Spider-Man

"I couldn't save her. I'm never going to be able to forgive myself for that. But I carried on, tried to... tried to keep going. Tried to keep being that... that friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, because I know that's what she would've wanted, but... at some point I just... I stopped pulling my punches."

The Spider-Man of Earth-120703, brought over into Earth-199999 following the botching of a dangerous, universe-changing spell. Gaining his powers in 2013 this Spider-Man is in his late twenties and has a wealth of experience under his belt after fighting the Lizard and Electro, though is still haunted by his failure to save the love of his life.

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• 24-Hour Armor: In contrast to Peter-1 and 2, Peter-3 is always seen wearing his Spider-Man costume, even when he dons a lab coat. It's possible that he was brought over to the MCU while actively crimefighting, thus he doesn't have any civilian clothes to put on as Peter-2 does.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Unlike in the comics, Peter was unable to move on from Gwen's death and was utterly broken by it, not having fallen for someone else almost a decade after the ordeal. This is likely because unlike in the comics where he had friends to lean on after the tragedy, Peter had a Friendless Background and was all on his own following Gwen's death. This is also a deviation from the more optimistic ending of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, when he was beginning to return to his chipper self, but No Way Home has him say he got angrier and stopped pulling his punches. Adding to that is the fact he already received this trope in his own film series, meaning that it's not that surprising he wasn't able to recover.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In terms of sourcing for his webs, he states in No Way Home that he has to make his own web fluid like in Peter-1. In his original appearance, however, he simply bought his supply of readily-made web cartridges from Oscorp's Bio-Cable product — webbing mass-manufactured from the same genetically-modified spiders as the one that bit him. It may have become a necessary measure over the years, as Oscorp is said to have killed all of the spiders in the sequel after the Lizard and Electro's accidents in an attempt to "restore investor confidence".
• The Adjectival Superhero: He's the Amazing Spider-Man, which was the name of his film series and reflects how this iteration of the character is regarded as the best Spider-Man by fans due to his quips and the web-swinging scenes. Also to a lesser extent, it reflects how his films tended to have higher stakes than his Raimi-Verse counterpart, as both his films have the whole of New York in danger.
• Age Lift: Since this is the same version of the character that appeared in the Marc Webb films from 2012-2014, he has aged with his actor, making him slightly older than usual depictions of the characters, which range from being a teenager to his early 20s. Garfield's Spider-Man is now twenty-eight years old, making him twelve years younger than Peter-2 and about five years older than Peter-1 (chronologically at least, since Peter-1 is confirmed to have been born in 2001, but because he was snapped, the age gap is closer to ten years biologically). This also makes him roughly the same age as the comic book version who is portrayed as being in his late twenties.
• All the Other Reindeer: Upon making his first appearance in the MCU, Ned's lola gets frightened by his arrival and tries to throw a pillow at him, and MJ and Ned are immediately wary of him and do not trust him. In the final battle, Electro antagonizes him after seeing him and tells him he "ain't even the shit no more."
• All Webbed Up: Does this to the Lizard in the final battle after knocking him back.
• The Aloner: Implied. He didn't really have any friends prior to becoming Spider-Man, and the one friend he had, Harry Osborn, became the Green Goblin of his universe and killed Gwen. After her death, he devoted all of his time and energy to being Spider-Man, so he may have become more of an outcast than he already was.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: Has been compared to Brandon Routh's Superman from Superman Returns and Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), as they are both interpretations of an iconic character that appeared between a more popular version (Maguire and Christopher Reeve) and a greatly reimagined version who is a significant character within a Shared Universe (Holland and Henry Cavill). While their debut films often get criticized, though most of the hate was directed towards Garfield's second film, their appearance in their respective crossover stories earned them positive reviews and fans demanded that they reappear in some form. The parallel is made stronger by the fact that Routh's Superman was haunted by his failure to save Lois Lane and others from an attack by the Joker, but the difference between the two is that this tragedy made Routh's Superman stronger to the point he was described as the best Superman in the Multiverse while Garfield's Spider-Man has become broken and bitter due to his failures.
• Alternate Self: Unlike other variants shown in the MCU who diverge from their Sacred Timeline counterparts at specific points, this Peter comes from a radically different world to Earth-199999. As a result he has several differences to his counterparts:
  • He has a completely different physical appearance and age to his counterparts, though nobody really questions it as they have likely figured that something like that wouldn't be impossible when dealing with the Multiverse. His older age means that he got his powers in 2013 when he was seventeen, instead of 2015 like Peter-1 when he was fourteen or 2002 like Peter-2 when he was eighteen.
  • Unlike his Raimi-Verse counterpart, who was able to save both his girlfriend and Gwen Stacy from falling to their deaths, Peter made the mistake of trying to catch Gwen with his webline instead of trying to grab her as his variant had done which resulted in her death.
  • He's upset to learn that he's the only Spider-Man who hasn't fought an alien. However based on the lack of reaction from his counterparts he's the only one to have fought the Rhino, while prior to the events of No Way Home the Lizard and Electro were villains unique to him.
  • While his variants gained their powers through random chance, Peter was actually bitten by a spider genetically altered by his own father and because of those experiments Peter was the only person besides his uncle Ben who could have gained powers.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Subverted. He's an experienced superhero who has defeated four supervillains on his own without the advanced tech Peter-1 had access to as well as having a decade long career which makes him more experienced than most street level heroes, but he's a Failure Hero in his own series who's haunted by the death of his girlfriend. In comparison Peter-2 has fought several villains including an alien while maintaining a stable relationship, and Peter-1 has a group of friends while having had several more exciting adventures and showing more potential than he did. This does leave him critical of himself, but Peter-2 quickly reassures him that he's an amazing hero with both him and Peter-1 getting along well with Peter.
• Always Save the Girl: He jumps in to save MJ at a moment's notice when the Green Goblin stops Peter-1 from doing so. Given how he failed to save Gwen under similar circumstances, it's clear that the decision to do so was very personal to him.
• Always Second Best: Third best in this situation but like with Gwen in his film series, it's made clear that Peter isn't as good as his counterparts. Not only have both of them fought aliens which makes him jealous, but Peter-2 has a far more successful life as both a normal person and a superhero while Peter-1 shows far more potential due to creating the cures for the villains and his prior accomplishments. Meanwhile Peter had dedicated all his time to being Spider-Man to hide from his pain and has become bitter and depressed over his failures, while also viewing his own villains to not be as impressive as theirs as when they bring up fighting aliens all he mentions is his fight with the Rhino. However, Peter-2 is quick to call him amazing the second he calls himself lame and that he is just as good as them, while the film shows that at the very least he's better at the acrobatic side to being Spider-Man as he excels at Deadly Dodging.
• And Starring: He is MCU Peter's direct predecessor on the big screen so, of course, his actor will get special credits.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Spiders, obviously.
• Ascended Fridge Horror: Him never really moving on from Gwen's death despite the triumphant ending of his last film and/or eventually using it as Freudian Excuse to vent out his anger was a subject frequently theorized by fans for years.
• Audience Surrogate: His excitement over teaming up with the other Spider-Men and utter fascination with Multiverse theories, alternate realities, magic, and Peter-2's ability to produce organic webbing mirrors some of the fans' reactions over the same things.
• Beard of Sorrow: He sports a noticeable stubble, both as a way of showing that he's grown up since the last time the audience saw him and as a way to show how downhill his life has been since Gwen Stacy's death.
• Big Brother Instinct: Towards MCU Peter, he tells him the story of how he lost Gwen and how he becomes bitter and angry because of it, not wanting this Peter to go down the dark path he did. When Doctor Strange initially appears during the Statue of Liberty fight, he sternly scolds him for not assisting MCU Peter right away.
  Peter-3: [protectively] He could have used your help!
• Big Damn Heroes: He manages to save MJ from plummeting to her death at the nick of time. This noticeably tears him up as it reminded him of the time he failed to save Gwen from a very similar circumstance.
• Big Entrance: His and Peter-2's return to the big screen was the most anticipated heading into the film. So in order treat it as a big deal, he was initially silhouetted until he slowly walks towards the screen and does a Dramatic Unmask.
• Big Little Brother: To Peter-2, in a surrogate brother kind of way.
• Big "NO!": He screams it when he sees MJ about to fall to her death after the Green Goblin stops Peter-1 from catching her though it's muted for dramatic effect. He manages to catch her afterward.
• Blank White Eyes: His eye lenses are visibly much bigger than those of the other Spider-Men.
• Brainy Brunette: A brown-haired guy who built two mechanical web-shooters, made the webs inside it (though at first, he used Oscorp's readily available Bio-Cable product), and formulated a cure for the Lizard's mutation which he would later remake after being transported to the MCU.
• Bridal Carry: Does this to MJ after he saved her from falling to her death.
• Broken Ace: He's an experienced superhero who has saved his version of New York from a dangerous threat twice, a first-rate genius, and a sad, broken man filled with regret and self-loathing because he failed to save his girlfriend's life.
• Broken Bird: Failing to save Gwen's life has turned him into a sorrowful, broken man who has a difficult time forgiving himself for his mistakes and thus became more ruthless and unforgiving towards criminals.
• Brooklyn Rage: Unlike the other Spider-Men, he speaks with a pronounced Brooklyn accent.
• The Bus Came Back: He returns to the big screen in Spider-Man: No Way Home seven years after his last appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This makes him the first ever main protagonist from another franchise to debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Butt-Monkey: Probably as a nod to how poorly received his movies are compared to the other two, this Peter doesn't get much respect from others. From his first appearance, Ned's grandmother throws a pillow at him and MJ and Ned do not believe that he is Spider-Man (the former even throws bread at him to see if he has Spider Sense) until he shows that he can climb on the ceiling. Even his civilian life is a downward spiral and he himself suffers a case of Heroic Self-Deprecation. He has the same powers as his MCU counterpart and is much more experienced than him too. Unfortunately, his career isn't as eventful, having never faced extraterrestrial villains like him, and has almost entirely given up on his civilian identity due to never moving on from Gwen's death. He even laments how lame he is compared to the other Peters, but Raimi-Verse Peter insists that he isn't lame and reassures him that he's still amazing. and he was able to overcome his issues by the end of the story.
• Catch a Falling Star: He manages to save MJ from falling to her death after the Green Goblin stops Peter-1 from catching her, redeeming himself from his previous failure to save Gwen under similar circumstances.
• Celibate Hero: When noticing the MCU Peter talk with MJ and hearing of Raimi-Verse Peter talking about his own, Webb-Verse Peter reveals he hasn't really tried pursuing any other romantic relationships after Gwen and chalks it up to being the nature of his job as Spider-Man.
• Character Aged with the Actor: Just like his Raimi-Verse counterpart, this Peter isn't a past version of the character like most of the other characters who were plucked from their respective universe, for he has visibly aged.
• Composite Character:
  • Like Peter-2, he appears to take inspiration from Peter B. Parker and R.I.Peter from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the film which serves as an inspiration for No Way Home. While Peter-3 is around the same age as R.I.Peter and unlike Peter-2 doesn't act as a mentor in any way, he has far more in common with Peter B. due to suffering from an obvious depression after several tragedies until finding his optimism and self-confidence restored after meeting the other Spider-Men.
  • Ironically, his status as a Celibate Hero and claims to have more or less given up on making connections as Peter Parker, which would suggest he is The Aloner, gives him some similarities with Spider-Gwen from Into the Spider-Verse. As the darkest of the three Peters, he also seems to be loosely based on Spider-Man Noir from that film.
  • He also shares similarities with the Hobgoblin Peter from Spider-Verse, who became an Unscrupulous Hero after the death of Gwen.
• The Cowl: He was this in his original film, and based on his comments it appears he fell back into this role after Gwen's death. However in No Way Home, he seems to be just as much of a Cape as his variants, suggesting that he has already made steps to move away from this trope.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": Like The Raimi-Verse Spider-Man, this version also suffers from occasional back pains as a result of web-swinging for many years despite being a decade younger.^note Assuming that the second Amazing Spider-Man (where he graduated from high school) took place in 2014, the year it was released, Peter-3 would have been born in 1995-1996, making him 28-29 in No Way Home. Ironically, this was Andrew Garfield's age when the first Amazing Spider-Man film came out.
• Crusading Widower: He tearfully laments that Gwen's death has turned him into a more vengeful and ruthless Spider-Man who stopped pulling his punches against criminals.
• Curtains Match the Window: Like with MCU Peter, Webb-Verse Peter's brown hair is matched with his brown eyes.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Gwen Stacy's death. He regrettably confesses to MCU Peter that after her death, he turned into a bitter, angry man who stopped holding back against criminals.
• Dark and Troubled Past: This variant of Peter Parker hasn't had the best life, as he explains how he failed to save his girlfriend and following that became a more violent hero out of grief. People who have watched his film series would also know he suffered from Parental Abandonment, his uncle dying from a crime he could have stopped, that he also failed to save Gwen's dad which caused further issues in their relationship, and Gwen was killed by his childhood best friend because Peter refused to help him.
• Deadly Dodging: He spends most of the final battle dodging and evading his opponents' attacks. At one point, he manages to dodge an electric blast from Electro that ends up hitting a crane that lands on Sandman, temporarily incapacitating him and releasing Peter-1 from his grip.
• Deadpan Snarker: Webb-Verse Peter is easily the snarkiest of the three Peters.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Two of Spidey's canonical love interests were already introduced before Gwen's death; Felicia Hardy (played by Felicity Jones) and Mary Jane Watson (played by Shailene Woodley whose scenes were deleted). Nevertheless, his appearance in No Way Home has him explicitly say he doesn't have anyone back home.
• Dimensional Traveler: Because of Strange's spell, he is taken from his universe and ends up stuck in the MCU until the end of No Way Home.
• Dramatic Unmask: He's the first of the two prior cinematic Spider-Men to make contact with the MCU characters, and dramatically removes his mask to confirm that the MCU incarnation will be fighting directly alongside his predecessors.
• Draw Aggro: He calls out to Electro while the latter's chasing MCU Peter so that he'll focus on attacking Peter-3, allowing MCU Peter to give the Macchina di Kadavus to MJ and Ned without anyone on his trail.
  Peter-3: Hey Max! I missed you, man! [swings away]
• Endearingly Dorky: This dude is so lovably awkward it makes MCU Peter seem tame in comparison.
  Peter-3: I love you guys!
  [both Peter-1 and 2 smile at him awkwardly]
  Peter-1 and Peter-2: Thank you...
• Establishing Character Moment: The moment he steps out of the dimensional portal, he almost immediately starts talking quickly and expresses his knowledge and fascination with several scientific theories regarding the Multiverse and parallel realities and the existence of magic, all with an air of social awkwardness, showcasing his talkativeness, intelligence, and geekiness. In the next scene where he and the other Peter meet this universe's Peter, he's visibly teary-eyed and sorrowful while recalling to that Peter how he lost Gwen Stacy, showcasing how broken he also is.
• Excessive Mourning: He never fully moved on from Gwen's death even if it was a long time ago and his grief over it has been completely detrimental to his life. He not only became a more cynical and ruthless Spider-Man, he's been so engrossed in being Spider-Man that he never had time to be Peter Parker or be romantically involved with someone else.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: He's the Thief alongside Peter-1's Mage and Peter-2's Fighter in No Way Home, utilizing his speed and performing all sorts of acrobatics and Deadly Dodging to greater feats than his counterparts, and both times in the final battle, commits two life-saving critical events. This makes some sense as both of his villains tended to be very physical threats, with the Lizard being shown to overpower him in his first film while Electro's abilities required Peter to be faster than his foe.
• Friendly Enemy: When he sees Lizard and Electro again after a long time, he cheerfully greets them both at separate points even though they're actively trying to kill him.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Double Subverted. He recalls how he tried to be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man after Gwen died because that is what she would have wanted but at some point, he got too bitter and angry over her death and stopped pulling his punches. In his appearance in the film proper, however, he's a very affable and helpful person towards everybody, so he clearly moved past that dark period in his life even though he still mourns over Gwen.
• Funny Background Event:
  • As MJ and Ned discuss how they're going to go about finding the "real" Peter Parker, Webb-Verse Peter can be seen gesticulating towards them and waving at the portal until it closes.
  • When Ned's lola demands that he and Raimi-Verse Peter clean up their mess, Webb-Verse Peter can actually be seen fixing up items in the background while the other Peter talks with Ned and MJ.
  • When Raimi-Verse Peter mentions to Ned that he had a best friend who died in his arms after trying to kill him, Webb-Verse Peter has a look of mild horror on his face as he listens in on the story.
• Future Loser: Being an older version of the MCU Peter, he represents a possible path he could go down. This Peter became broken after experiencing several losses and failures, the biggest being the death of his girlfriend, which resulted him in becoming more violent as a hero and more or less abandoning his civilian life. This means that in comparison to his other variants, he's the least successful version of Spider-Man.
• Genius Bruiser: A first-rate genius who's superhumanly strong, fast, tough, and can stick to surfaces.
• Glove Snap: Does this after putting on disposable gloves during the cure-making montage.
• Good Counterpart: Phase 4 of the MCU has had several characters who fell down a dark path due to losing a loved one(s) such as Doctor Strange Supreme, Wenwu, and Scarlet Witch. However, while Peter admits to having become more bitter due to his pain and hints that he became a more violent hero, unlike the other characters he didn't let this turn him into an outright villain who placed his own selfish desires above doing the right thing. In fact, the opposite is true as Peter instead tried to turn his pain into something constructive by resuming his career as Spider-Man, which sadly backfired and left him more depressed. Unlike Wanda who attempts to steal her variant's children because she's unable to accept that other versions of herself are living happier lives which Wong brings up, Peter holds no resentment over how much better Peter-2's life is while being more concerned about making sure Peter-1 doesn't turn out like him.
• Good Is Not Soft: He mentions how after Gwen's death, he stopped being a "friendly neighborhood" Spider-Man and became a more brutal and wrathful one instead. It's subverted in the film itself though; out of all the three Spider-Men, he shows the most restraint in combat.
• Handy Mouth: He holds his mask with his mouth while climbing the ceiling of the Leeds residence to get rid of a cobweb around one of the house's corners.
• Happy Ending Override: In spite of his last film ending on a triumphant note, No Way Home shows that he never truly recovered from Gwen's death and tried to use being Spider-Man as a way to cope with it, but it only got worse because he became more brutal in his crime-fighting crusade as a result of his inability to move on from what happened to her.
• Harmless Electrocution: He survived being electrocuted by Electro for over a minute and only needed to catch his breath afterward. Keep in mind that Electro was being strengthened by the MCU's more powerful energy and Tony Stark's Arc Reactor.
• Heartbroken Badass: Deconstructed as while the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 showed Peter being inspired by Gwen's graduation speech to continue being Spider-Man, it is not an empowering moment for him. Over time, he has become a bitter man who turns his grief towards criminals and becomes more brutal as Spider-Man.
• He Who Fights Monsters: He admits to falling into this behavior, and warns MCU Peter to be wary of it.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He calls himself "lame" in comparison to his counterparts, though Peter-2 tells him otherwise and that he should be wary of the self-talk. This is justified considering how he has turned out since Gwen's death and hates the person he has become, and also because this version of Peter was known to talk badly about himself in his own film series.
• Heroic Spirit: Deconstructed. While he did find the strength to be Spider-Man again after Gwen's death, he was just so haunted by his part in it that he started becoming more ruthless and violent in his crime fighting crusade, which he eventually realized and regretted.
• Hero of Another Story: This Spider-Man was the hero of Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man Series, making him the MCU Peter's direct cinematic predecessor. Like the Raimi-Verse Peter, this Peter continued being Spider-Man after the invoked abrupt end to his series.
• His Heart Will Go On: Tragically deconstructed. He carried on as Spider-Man because that's what Gwen would have wanted him to do but at some point, he stopped pulling his punches and became angrier and embittered because he couldn't forgive himself for failing to save her.
• His Own Worst Enemy: In true Spider-Man fashion, he's this. He can't ever forgive himself for failing to save Gwen's life and as a result, he became a dispirited and heartbroken man filled with a lot of self-loathing.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: And it has haunted him ever since. He says that he went to a really dark place upon returning to superheroics. Wanting to avoid the same mistake of not being able to save a loved one, he rushes immediately to save MJ from falling after Peter-1 gets blindsided by the Green Goblin.
• I'm Standing Right Here: When Ned unintentionally opens a portal to him while trying to find MCU Peter, MJ suggests that he keep opening portals until they find the real Peter Parker to which he responds with a semi-sarcastic "Ouch!".
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Like his Raimi-Verse counterpart, they were best friends with Harry Osborn who became a villain, while the MCU Peter has never met Harry, and Oscorp is mentioned to not exist in his universe. They were also acquainted with Curt Connors, though Peter-3 had a far more personal connection than Peter-2 who was simply Connors' student. They both worked at the Daily Bugle though it's unknown how close Peter-3 was with the other employees, leaving it unknown if he has met his version of Eddie Brock (though since he doesn't seem to recognise Ned Leeds' name that suggests either he never met his version or he wasn't close to anyone at the Bugle). Both of them also had a similar financial background and lived in a house with Ben and May instead of an apartment like their MCU counterpart did. A big similarity that separates them from the MCU Peter is that they are the only confirmed superheroes to exist in their worlds.
  • Like his MCU counterpart, he has lost a loved one at the hands of the Green Goblin, albeit with a different Osborn using the identity. They also have mechanical web-shooters, leaving them both baffled when they learn that Peter-2 has organic webbing. According to The Daily Bugle Tumblr page which acts as a tie-in to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, he has also fought Herman Schultz at one point like his counterpart. Both of them also became Spider-Man in high school while Peter-2 started his career after graduating, and both were also classmates with Sally Avril with Midtown being a science-based school (though not to the same extent as the MCU version).
• Irony: Despite feeling lame compared to his Spider-brothers, he actually made history as the first protagonist of a different film franchise to appear in a proper MCU film.^note Technically, it was Eddie Brock and Venom, who got teleported into the MCU during The Stinger of Venom: Let There Be Carnage — but that film isn't part of the MCU.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: It's implied that one of the reasons why he still hasn't dated anyone after Gwen's death is because he's afraid that if his enemies find out that there's someone he cares about, they will come after them to hurt him as that's exactly what happened with Gwen in the first place.
• Just a Kid: Max is surprised to see how young he is after seeing him unmasked for the first time, uttering this verbatim in his reaction to it.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: He was in his late teens in his original series, but his returning appearance in No Way Home now has him pushing thirty.
• Knight in Sour Armor: He's still grieving over his failure to save Gwen. He also admitted to becoming somewhat bloodthirsty in the past because of it. Still, he manages to pick himself up and continue being Spider-Man.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He's just so excited to be in another universe and interacting with other Peter Parkers/Spider-Men, and he doesn't even try to hide it.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Prior to this movie at least, Andrew Garfield's portrayal of Spider-Man was generally considered to be the least popular of the three. The movie establishes him as the somewhat weak link with emotional problems and confidence issues as he compares himself to his counterparts. However, Raimi-Verse Peter goes out of his way to remind him that he's an amazing Spider-Man. He's also the most excited by the existence of the Multiverse and with meeting his counterparts, at one point proudly telling them that he loves them, which makes sense since Garfield is famously a Promoted Fanboy.
• Leitmotif: James Horner's "Promises" theme returns.
• Le Parkour: He spends most of the final battle evading the villains by swinging around and jumping from point to point to lure them to places where he and the other Peters plan to cure them.
• Limited Wardrobe: Never appears outside of his costume since that's all he had when he got teleported into the MCU. He briefly puts a lab coat over it, though.
• The Lost Lenore: Gwen Stacy's death still weighs heavily upon his mind.
• Made of Iron: He manages to survive getting electrocuted by an even more powerful Electro over an extended period of time.
• Manly Tears: Peter saves MJ from falling to her death in a near-identical situation of when Gwen died in his universe, only this time he succeeds. The sheer joy of redeeming his past failure causes tears to flow down Peter's cheeks, which MJ picks up on.
• Married to the Job: He says he doesn't have anyone special in his life, as he no longer has time for Peter Parker stuff.
• Messy Hair: His hair is more disheveled than the other two Peters.
• Middle Child Syndrome: He considers the other two Spideys as brothers, and Andrew Garfield later stated that he deliberately portrayed his Peter as the "odd middle sibling". There's credence to this, especially with Reality Subtext as mentioned in Leaning on the Fourth Wall above.
• Mistaken Ethnicity: Electro initially believed that he was a black guy underneath the mask and was surprised that he was not. He still believes that there's a black Spider-Man out there though.
• Mistaken Identity: Ned and MJ initially mistake him for their Peter Parker until he runs towards them and they start to see that he looks different from him.
• Morality Chain Beyond the Grave: Tragically deconstructed. After Gwen's death, he continued to be Spider-Man because that's what she would have wanted him to do. Unfortunately, her death weighed too heavily on his conscience that he started becoming more vicious and vengeful as Spider-Man which is not what she would have wanted.
• Motor Mouth: The most talkative and even downright jovial of the three Peter Parkers, he even takes the time to talk to both Electro and the Lizard like greeting old friends during the climactic battle. And of course, this aspect is demonstrated on his very first line of dialogue when Ned's grandmother is screaming in terror just after he suddenly appears in her house thanks to Ned's portal.
  Peter 3: Hi, hi! Nonono, nonono, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay! I'm a nice guy!
• The Mourning After: He never truly moved on from Gwen's death, as he's shown to still be single after almost a decade.
• Mundane Utility: While arguing with MJ about needing to climb on the ceiling to further prove he's Spider-Man when simply sticking to it would suffice, Ned's lola asks him to clean up some cobwebs in a corner since he's already there. He also uses his Super-Strength to lift Peter-2 up and help him crack his stiff back.
• My Greatest Failure: Openly regards his failure to save Gwen as the absolute low point in his life. Given how he keeps trying to reason with Electro when they meet, it's possible Peter also regrets that he couldn't save him either.
• My Greatest Second Chance: He rescues MJ from falling to her death when the Green Goblin intercepts the MCU's Peter before he can rescue her, in an inversion of what happened with Gwen.
• Nice Guy: Says so himself in his introduction. True to form, he's a really friendly and compassionate person to everyone he meets, even his old foes. He also takes the time to use his powers to remove a cobweb in the Leeds residence and helps Raimi-Verse Peter crack his back when it starts getting stiff from web-swinging.
• Non-Indicative Name: A downplayed and justified example, as while his nickname comes from his film series, he's not exactly amazing when compared to his Raimi-Verse and MCU counterparts as he suffers from far more self-doubts and regrets. However, he is still a great hero and the Older and Wiser Raimi-Verse Peter makes a point of calling him amazing for all the stuff he has done after Peter calls himself lame.
• No-Respect Guy: Played for Laughs several times throughout the film; MJ and Ned don't believe he's a Spider-Man until he crawls across the ceiling (and MJ throws bread rolls at him until he does), he's forced to yield the title of "Peter-2" to Raimi-Verse Spidey, and he regards himself as "lame" when the Spider-Men compare the villains they've faced, clearly feeling that "a Russian guy in like a rhinoceros machine" doesn't hold up to the actual space aliens the other two had fought. However, Raimi-Verse Spider-Man tells him that he's amazing and that he should ease up on the negative self-talk, and MCU Spidey is clearly grateful to him for his aid. He's also ultimately key in stopping the Goblin by throwing MCU Peter the Goblin cure to give him an option besides just killing Norman.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Inverted since in comparison to his own relatively mundane world, the universe of the MCU is far more fantastical compared to what he's used to. Learning that the Multiverse exists and that magic is real both shocks and excites him, he's amazed and envious to hear that his two counterparts have fought aliens, and he's confused when Peter-1 mentions the Avengers, having no concept of their existence in his own world.
• Offering a Hand: He helps Max back up after he loses his powers and the two make amends, signifying that they have finally made peace with each other.
• Oh, Crap!: Has this look when the Green Goblin stabs Peter-2 In the Back.
• One Head Taller: One of the first visual cues that he is not the Peter Parker of the MCU is that he's much taller than him.
• Overshadowed by Awesome:
  • He feels that way compared to the other Spider-Men, being that he feels overshadowed by the fact that they faced aliens, while apparently, his last big supervillain was the Rhino. Raimi-Verse Peter assures him that this is not the case and that he's amazing as he is.
  • Subverted in the Final Battle. Though he doesn't get to stop any of the villains one-on-one like the MCU and Raimi-Verse Peters and Doc Ock do, he's able to prove his worth near the end by saving MJ from falling to her death and delivering the Goblin cure to MCU Peter with a well-timed throw so that he can non-lethally stop Norman’s threat.
• Perma-Stubble: Peter-3 has pretty prominent stubble on his face compared to his fellow Spider brothers. While visually it helps communicate to the audience that this Peter is older than the last time they've seen him it also demonstrates that this Peter is still haunted by his failures and doesn't have much of a life outside of being Spider-Man.
• Persona Non Grata: It's implied that him helping the other Peters save the other villains from their destined deaths and then saving MJ from falling to her death has gotten him banned from ever joining Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Society.
• Platonic Declaration of Love: Gives an awkward but very sweet one to the other Peters after they coordinate a plan of attack and decide on which Peter is which based on numbers.
  Peter-3: I love you guys.
• Primary-Color Champion: In true Spider-Man fashion, his suit is red and blue.
• Punctuated Pounding: Does this to the Lizard in the final battle, making for an interesting Call-Back to when he ended up inverting it in his first movie.
  Peter-3: Just [headbutts Lizard] wait [kicks him back] your [webs him to the scaffolding] turn, doc! I'll be right back!
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Says out multiple no's in an attempt to calm Ned's lola down after he comes through Ned's dimensional portal and unintentionally frightens her.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Raimi-Verse Spider-Man's Blue Oni. In contrast to Raimi-Verse Spider-Man's Mellow Fellow personality, Webb-Verse Spider-Man is more talkative, emotional, and excitable.
• Sad Clown: He's more talkative and quippy than the other two Peters, but he's much more angsty because he suffered more than them too.
• Shadow Archetype: Webb-Verse Peter is portrayed as being a rather light one to MCU Peter. After his Gwen Stacy died, this Peter committed himself fully to being Spider-Man and eventually found himself becoming an Unscrupulous Hero. He sees MCU Peter starting to go down this path as well after his Aunt May gets killed by the Green Goblin and tries his best to caution him from doing so. To a lesser degree he is also this to Raimi-Verse Peter, who also struggled with his anger after Ben's death as shown with his desire for revenge against Flint Marko as shown in Spider-Man 3.
• Siblings Wanted: He finds it cool to hang out with his alternate universe counterparts, even remarking that he's always wanted brothers.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: No official indication was given that he would be in the film prior to its release. Enforced because having multiple Spider-Men in the film at all was meant to be a huge spoiler, and Garfield himself denied his involvement multiple times.
• Sitting on the Roof: Reveals the Empire State Building as his go-to place for solace, claiming it has a better view than the Chrysler Building. Raimi-Verse Peter agrees that the view is sweet.
• Socially Awkward Hero: He's more socially inept than the other Spider-Men, having a dorky and childlike fascination with many of the supernatural phenomena he sees like magic, Multiverse theories, and even Raimi-Verse Peter's organic web-shooters. This is likely due to using most of his time to be Spider-Man which meant that he rarely used his secret identity anymore, which lead to his social skills getting weaker in the meantime. It's actually pretty ironic that he would be the most socially awkward of the three considering that outside some of his interactions with Gwen he was arguably the most confident Spider-Man in his film series, while in contrast Peter-2 who had been far more awkward in his film series is now the more confident Older and Wiser Spider-Man in No Way Home.
• So Last Season:
  • While he has a lot of difficulties dealing with Electro even with the help of the other Peters because of how powerful Electro has become after being transported to the MCU, the same cannot be said for the Lizard. Unlike Electro, this is still the same old Lizard from the first film, while Peter's fighting skills and equipment have long since improved. This results in Peter making short work of the humanoid reptile when he tries to eat him and webs him up.
  • Humorously enough, he himself is seen as this by Electro, who claims he "ain’t even the shit no more", to which Peter-3 hangs his head and groans.
• Stepford Snarker: Webb-Verse Peter hides a lot of his depression behind sarcastic jokes.
• Stronger Than They Look: He's visibly lankier than the other Peters, but he's still superhumanly strong and fast.
• Successful Sibling Syndrome: He feels lame compared to the other Spider-Men because he has never fought enemies as impressive as those of his "brothers" while they've fought the likes of aliens before. Raimi-Verse Spidey assures him that he isn't lame and tells him that he's amazing.
• Super-Reflexes: He uses this to dodge Electro's blasts during the final battle.
• Super-Speed: He is quick, he can dodge several blasts from Electro at once, briefly outrun the Lizard, and catch up to MJ falling at high speeds.
• Super-Strength: He doesn't utilize it as much as the other Spider-Men, but it's still there. He's capable of knocking the Lizard flying a few feet back with a kick.
• Super-Toughness: He can take being blasted by Electro into a bunch of scaffolding without any lasting damage and later be electrocuted for over a minute and only needs to catch his breath afterwards.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: Much like MCU Peter and unlike Raimi-Verse Peter, Webb-Verse Peter uses mechanical web-shooters.
• Sympathy for the Devil: It's clear that he pities Max Dillon more than anything. When recalling how Max got his superpowers and became Electro to Raimi-Verse Peter, he laments how Max used to be the sweetest guy he knew until he fell into a container filled with electric eels.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's both the tallest and snarkiest of the three Peter Parkers.
• Tears of Joy: He's visibly teary-eyed when he saves MJ from falling to her death as it clearly felt cathartic to redeem himself of his previous failure to save Gwen from a very similar situation.
• Tears of Remorse: Has this when he recalls how Gwen died and laments how he couldn't save her and how he will never be able to forgive himself for his part in it.
• Technical Pacifist: He noticeably doesn't punch or kick as much as his other alternate universe counterparts in the final battle, preferring to dodge his opponents' attacks and web them up if they come close. Given how he admitted that he stopped pulling punches for a time after Gwen's death, he likely practiced restraint after that period.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: This Spidey is shown several times (in a bit of Reality Subtext, regarding the polarizing nature of his home franchise) to be the least successful of the trio: he confesses to becoming embittered and violent in his approach to crimefighting, never moved on from his girlfriend's death, and he openly regards himself as "lame" for fighting smaller-scale villains than the other two. But he's repeatedly reassured and thanked for his contributions, and he successfully redeems himself for letting the Gwen Stacy of his home universe die by saving MJ from a very similar fate.
• Title Drop: Not from him, but Raimi-Verse Peter does remark that he's "amazing".
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Meeting and spending time with the other Spider-Men brings out some of his old self.
• Took a Level in Cynic: A few years after Gwen Stacy's death, Peter becomes more brutal as Spider-Man and claims he has stopped pulling his punches.
• Took a Level in Idealism: Similarly, him saving MJ from falling to her death allows him to slightly mellow back to his original personality.
• Transplant: He's the same Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man Series.
• Trapped in Another World: He was sent to the MCU after Stephen Strange and Peter Parker botched a spell meant to make the world forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and instead bought over people from other universes who know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
• Trauma Button: Saving MJ from plummeting to her death clearly reminded him of his previous failure to save Gwen from a similar occurrence as he immediately starts tearing up afterward.
• Trauma Conga Line: In his own film series, he suffered several losses within a year of getting his powers and becoming Spider-Man when he was only 17. As a result, he is far more traumatized than his counterparts even ten years after the death of his girlfriend and has embraced being Spider-Man at the cost of having any sort of life as Peter Parker.
• Trust Password: Ned and MJ don't believe that he's actually (a) Peter Parker at first, so he demonstrates his ability to Wall Crawl. Peter accuses MJ of being incredibly distrusting... and can't help but respect it before he starts hanging on the ceiling.
• Unscrupulous Hero: Describes himself as one in the period after Gwen Stacy's death, claiming he stopped pulling his punches and became more bitter, angry, and brutal over time.
• Use Your Head: He headbutts the Lizard to break free from his grip. He then follows back by kicking him a few feet back and webbing him up.
• Verbal Tic: Has a habit of repeating what he says when he's tense or nervous.
  • In his introduction, he says hi twice, yells out a Rapid-Fire "No!" after unintentionally frightening Ned's lola, and yells "it's okay!" three times. He later asks if they're good after he proves that he is, indeed, Spider-Man.
  • He yells "wait!" multiple times before telling the other Peters that he loves them.
  • After Max gets de-powered, he says his name twice to see if he's gonna attack or not.
• Walking Spoiler: His presence in the film is not hinted at anywhere in marketing.
• Wall Crawl: He does this on the ceiling of the Leeds residence to prove that he's Peter Parker.
• What Have I Become?: He explains that after Gwen's death he became bitter and eventually stopped pulling his punches. He clearly regrets the dark path he went down, knowing it isn't what Gwen would have wanted, and doesn't want his MCU counterpart to become like him.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Electro gets de-powered by Doctor Octopus and bemoans about how he's back to being a nobody now that he doesn't have his powers anymore, Peter-3 consoles him by telling him that he was never a nobody.

Other Variants

Zombie Apocalypse Peter Parker/Zombie Hunter Spider-Man

Peter Benjamin Parker/Spider-Man

"Last year, Mr. Stark asked me to join the Avengers. I turned him down, and now they're all gone. And I'm still here."

^{Click here to see him with his mask}
"Hey, relax. I'm just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Avengers, Midtown School of Science & Technology (formerly)

Voiced By: Hudson Thames

Appearances: What If...?

"My mom, dad, Uncle Ben, Mr. Stark. Now Happy. I've... I've lost a lot. But my Aunt May says... used to say... that if we don't keep smiling when they can't, then we might as well just be gone, too."

The Spider-Man of Earth-89521, who is a member of a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits in a Zombie Apocalypse.

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• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Despite having his entire life being ruined by a zombie apocalypse and having seen friends and loved ones die, he doesn't have to deal with the guilt of killing his wife and Aunt May unlike the version from Marvel Zombies.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: He has spiky hair instead of the usual side-parted hairstyle his Sacred Timeline counterpart has, likely to prevent him from resembling his live-action counterpart too much due to the deal Sony has with Disney.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Doesn't become a zombie like in the comics, and the reason this isn't a case of Adaptational Heroism is because while he did help consume all life in his universe he ultimately played a key role in ending the outbreak and atoning for his actions the best he could.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Unlike this Spider-Man, Sacred Timeline Spider-Man either rarely or never interacted with the majority of the Sacred Timeline counterparts of the survivors, particularly Hope van Dyne whom Peter ends up becoming close with. This Spider-Man also never met Doctor Strange and Wong because they were zombified a few weeks before what could have been his first meeting with them during the battle in Greenwich Village.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Compared to his Sacred Timeline self, this Peter seems less bothered by the deaths of his close friends, family, and mentors, at least to the point where he tries to put up a Stepford Smiler appearance to keep the other heroes motivated. In the Sacred Timeline, Peter completely crumbles emotionally when he loses the likes of Tony Stark and Aunt May, to the point where he almost gives up on trying to help save the world. He is also this in comparison to his other variants and the comic version, who all tend to dwell on their losses and mistakes often.
• The Adjectival Superhero: He's Zombie Hunter Spider-Man, reflecting the current outbreak in his universe.
• All Webbed Up: He does this to a zombified Scarlet Witch after she breaks out of her cell. It doesn't last long unfortunately.
• The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the survivor group and his youthful idealism serves as quite a contrast to many of the other members' more serious or downright cynical approach to the apocalypse.
• Badass Cape: He appears to get along well with the Cloak of Levitation as they seem to work together often, and eventually Peter wears the Cloak before it starts helping Scott Lang, who is a head in a jar, move around.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Tony Stark became a zombie and Aunt May died around the time the zombie outbreak began, leaving him with no family left as his parents and Uncle Ben also died a long time ago.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Invokes this to get calm Bruce Banner down and get the good doctor to trust him.
  Spider-Man: Hey relax! I'm just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
• Genre Savvy: He knows a lot about horror and zombie movies thanks to being in his school's A/V club and frequently points out when his fellow survivors do things like split the party or say they're going to be okay.
• Hand Behind Head: When Okoye orders the group to split up in the train station, he does this while questioning that plan as people who split up in horror movies always ends with casualties. He's later proven right when Happy gets infected and killed.
• The Heart: He's this to the survivor group he's in as his optimism rubs off on them, especially Hope.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Due to this Peter coming from an offshoot of the Sacred Timeline, his life lines up quite a bit with the live-action MCU Peter, which includes him having gone through the events of Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming before the Zombie Apocalypse occurs. Also while the context is different he still suffers the loss of Tony, May, and his friends much like his counterpart did in Endgame and No Way Home.
  • Like Webb-Verse Spider-Man he has never fought an alien, as due to the outbreak he was never in a situation where he fought Ebony Maw or Thanos like his Sacred Timeline self.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He appears to have developed a close bond with Hope van Dyne who is about twenty years older than him, which makes sense given his Sacred Timeline counterpart's desire for mentor figures, as shown with Tony Stark and Quentin Beck. However, unlike with Tony, his relationship with Hope doesn't seem based on looking for a parental figure and seems more Like Brother and Sister. To a lesser extent, he also gets along well with Kurt, who helped him make his orientation video, and Bruce, despite having only known each other for about a day.
• Like Brother and Sister: This appears to be what his relationship with Hope is, since while she seems to be his new mentor, unlike with Tony he doesn't look at her as a parental figure.
• Little "No": After hearing from Sharon that Happy got killed.
• Marquee Alter Ego: This version of Spider-Man doesn't bother wearing a mask, outside of his first scene. To be fair, nearly everyone in his world is a zombie, so he doesn't need a secret identity.
• Non-Indicative Name: His name is actually misleading, as he never hunts any zombie and doesn't actually fight one the same way the others do.
• Odd Friendship: Two notable examples are the Cloak of Levitation, who he works with often to the point Peter starts wearing the Cloak, and Kurt, a hacker and former criminal who was happy to help Peter make his orientation video.
• Point of Divergence:
  • For some reason, his Stark suit is different from the one given to him in the Sacred Timeline.
  • So far, he's the only version of Spider-Man besides the unseen version from the SSU to not encounter a version of the Green Goblin, who like with the Sacred Timeline presumably doesn't exist in his reality, while his counterparts have the Green Goblin as their Arch-Enemy.
  • Unlike his Sacred Timeline self who had a mostly distant relationship with the wider superhero community to the point the only other heroes he befriends are Tony Stark and Stephen Strange, the zombie outbreak forces Peter to team up and befriend several characters he's either only interacted with briefly or never met in the main universe.
• Sole Survivor: Of the original group of survivors at the start of the episode, not counting the Cloak of Levitation as its status as a sentient being is up for debate, as T'Challa and Scott Lang only join the group at the end of the episode.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In Marvel Zombies, Spider-Man was one of the most prominent of the zombified superheroes, while here he remains uninfected to the very end. Justified as he is Genre Savvy.
• Stepford Smiler: Despite being in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, he's still very much upbeat and even makes a fun orientation video advising people on how to survive the end of the world. However while trying to convince an infected Hope to not give up, the mask slips as he acknowledges that he has lost a lot before the apocalypse and has now lost Tony, May, Happy, and likely others. Despite being upset by the tragedies he has endured, he believes he should keep on smiling since the people he lost can't and if he didn't, he might as well be dead like them.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: He wears the Cloak of Levitation after entering the train to Camp Lehigh, New Jersey.
• Survivor Guilt: Shows some of it in his conversation with T'Challa when he admits to not understanding why he's still alive as opposed to Tony or any of the other Avengers.
• Tagalong Kid: Is the youngest member of the Surviving Avengers at approximately 16-17 years old while the rest are adults.
• Trauma Conga Line: His life was exactly the same as his Sacred Timeline counterpart, with him mentioning having lost his parents and Uncle Ben, up 'till two weeks before Infinity War when there was a zombie outbreak. After that, he lost his Aunt May, Tony, and his normal life, with there being no mention of what happened to his friends. As events progress, he's forced to watch as Happy, Kurt, Hope, Sharon Carter, Okoye, Bruce, and Bucky are killed within a day, leaving him, T'Challa, the Cloak of Levitation, and Scott Lang as Earth's last hope. Despite being reassured by T'Challa and Scott that there is still hope as they now have a way to cure the infected, the viewers know Wakanda has already been overrun by the zombies while a zombified Thanos waits for them to deliver the Mind Stone.
• Uncertain Doom: Spider-Man survives alongside T'Challa and Scott Lang's disembodied head, and is last seen flying the Quadjet to Wakanda, hoping to use the Mind Stone to cure all the zombies and restore the world. However, unknown to him and his fellow Avengers, Wakanda has already fallen to the zombified Thanos, who has the Infinity Gauntlet almost completed and waiting for them to arrive with the remaining Infinity Stone. Considering that the Watcher didn't summon him to join the Guardians of the Multiverse to stop Infinity Ultron and the zombies of his universe are later seen but not him, things do not currently look good for him.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks he's in a more optimistic zombie story where if they try hard enough they can find a cure, when in truth he's in an Animated Anthology and lives in an Expendable Alternate Universe which means despite his speech to Hope after she's infected, literally everything goes wrong and he ends up facing an Uncertain Doom.
• Zombie Apocalypse Hero: He's one of the few superheroes to survive the zombie outbreak. By the end of the episode, he's pretty much the last surviving superhero.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Peter Parker

Peter Benjamin Parker/Spider-Man

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Midtown School of Science & Technology, Oscorp

Voiced By: Hudson Thames

Appearances: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

A Variant of Spider-Man who exists on an undesignated Earth, whose life diverges from that of his Sacred Timeline counterpart prior to Civil War when Norman Osborn, aware of his double-life, arrives at his apartment and offers to take him under his wing.

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• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Reports about the show reveal he will be friends with Lonnie Lincoln and Nico Minoru, while in the comics the former is the villain Tombstone while the latter doesn't have any connection to Spider-Man.
• Age Lift: It's implied he will be slightly younger than his Sacred Timeline self was at the time of Civil War, as that version of Peter was a sophomore while the former title of this versions' show implies that he will be a freshman.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • While it's Norman Osborn instead of Tony Stark, this Peter is still taken under the wing of a wealthy businessman like his Sacred Timeline self. Also having this type of relationship with Osborn is similar to the relationship their Raimi-Verse counterparts had.
  • Like the Raimi-Verse and Webb-Verse Peter, he's friends with Harry Osborn.
• Nerd Glasses: He wears big, rounded glasses.
• Point of Divergence:
  • In this universe, Norman Osborn is the one to visit his and Aunt May's apartment and take him under his wing instead of Tony Stark.
  • Unlike the other Spider-Men that appeared in the MCU, this Peter is in a universe that has both the vast Rogues Gallery his Sacred Timeline and Zombie Hunter counterpart don't have on their universes and the other superheroes his Webb-Verse and Raimi-Verse counterparts don't have such as Doctor Strange (though it's possible but not confirmed that Raimi-verse Peter also has one in his universe), Nico Minoru, and Daredevil.

Other Universes

Peter Parker has several more variants across the multiverse, many of whom also became Spider-Man but lived completely different lives from the one in the Sacred Timeline. The identity of Spider-Man is also used by others such as Miles Morales and Miguel O'Hara.

For the variants from Earth-66 and Earth-53931 that appeared in Spider-Man: Spider-Verse as part of the Spider-Society, see this page.

For the variant from Earth-67 that appeared in Spider-Man (1967), see this page.

For the variant from Earth-1048 that appeared in Spider-Man (PS4), see this page.

For the variant from Earth-13122 that appeared in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and its sequel, see these pages.

For the variant from Earth-26496 that appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man, see this page.

For the variant from Earth-751263 that appeared in Spider-Man Unlimited, see this page.

For the variant from Earth-65B and Earth-1610B that appeared in Spider-Man: Spider-Verse, see this page.

For the variants from Earth-616B, Earth-8311B, Earth-14512B, Earth-50101B and Earth-90214B that appeared in Spider-Man: Spider-Verse as part of the Spider-Gang, see this page.

For the variant from Earth-688B that appeared in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, see this page.

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