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Supporting Cast

May Parker

May Parker

Voiced by: Nancy Linari (English)^{Other Languages} Angela Villanueva (Latin American Spanish), Kumiko Takizawa (Japanese), Olga Zubkova (Russian)

Appearances: Hostile Takeover | Spider-Man | Spider-Man 2

Peter's aunt, who has raised him ever since his parents and uncle died. A loving and doting woman, she has been volunteering at a local F.E.A.S.T. shelter for years.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: May Parker is usually shown in the comics with grey hairs, but in her youth, she was blonde. Here, she's shown to be red-haired.
• Age Lift: She's significantly younger-looking than her frequently grey-haired and sickly portrayal in the comics.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents:
  • She keeps a giant mural composed of Peter's childhood pencil and crayon drawings as decorations in her office at F.E.A.S.T. including the period where Peter developed a fondness for horses and ponies. Peter wishes she'd take those down as he finds them embarrassing.
  • She keeps a picture of a preteen Peter, wearing a tie and thick glasses. Present-day Peter considers his past self a dork when he looks at the picture.
  • She shows baby pictures of Peter to the various homeless at the Shelter.
  • She also hopes that Peter and Mary Jane's relationship will work out because she wants them to have children.
• Cool Old Lady:
  • She cares dearly for Peter and treats him like her own son after he lost his parents. She has also been volunteering at a local homeless shelter for years. She later offers to give Peter money to help him with his rent and tells him to swallow his Parker pride and rely on others every now and then.
  • She's quite active on Spidey's social media feed, frequently tweeting messages of support in stark contrast to her comic book counterpart's usual criticism of the ol' web-head. This becomes doubly heartwarming following her final revelation.
  • She helps run a very successful homeless shelter as its Operations Manager. Many of the homeless in it can be heard praising May for the help she provides, including securing jobs for some of them by acting as their references. When Martin Li is exposed as Mr. Negative, she manages to keep the Shelter running, even through a disease epidemic that she gets infected with, developing symptoms, until she literally collapses from the disease and can't work any longer.
• Death by Adaptation: The end of the game sees her die due to the Devil's Breath. Peter was forced to choose between giving her the antiserum and saving her life, or using the antiserum to mass produce a cure and save everyone else who was infected. Her final words are to reassure him that he knows the right thing to do; he chooses to save the masses, which leads to her death.
• Face Death with Dignity: When she realizes that Peter must let her die to stop the plague, she accepts it and spends her last moments reassuring him that it's the right thing to do.
• Foreshadowing: In the comics, May is usually opposed to the Spidey, agreeing with Jameson's remarks that Spider-Man is a menace who should be put behind bars. Yet, this May posts openly supportive messages to Spider-Man on his social media feed. After all, why wouldn't she try to encourage her nephew?
• Good Parents: Though Peter's her nephew, she dearly loves him like a son and always supports him even when he doesn't want it.
• Good Samaritan: This game gives her a philosophy on life based around helping people, complete with a memorable saying like her late husband's "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility." "If you help someone, you help everyone."
• Go Out with a Smile: Dies telling Peter she's proud of all the good he's done as Spider-Man and content he'll do the right thing with the anti-serum.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Encourages Peter to help the others before herself just before her death.
• Hypocrite: Downplayed, but mentioned by Peter. Early in the game, she tells Peter he needs to give up that "Parker pride", which she implies is a problem Uncle Ben also had, and accept he's human, and ask for help when he needs it. She has the same flaw, and Peter points out to her that she doesn't follow her own advice - she's so focused on helping everyone around her, she often fails to take care of herself. She concedes that she too has the aforementioned "Parker pride".
  May: [to Peter] You and Ben, masters of turning my own words against me.
• Incurable Cough of Death: She coughs up blood into her surgical mask after being infected with Devil's Breath.
• Ink-Suit Actor: She bears a near-exact resemblance to her voice actress, Nancy Linari.
• I Want Grandkids: She's not Peter's mother, but may as well be considering she raised him, and one of the reasons she hopes Peter and Mary Jane get back together is that she feels the two will "make some beautiful babies".
• Nephewism: Little mention is made of Peter's parents, but she has taken care of him for as long as he can remember.
• Never Mess with Granny: A side conversation with Miles reveals that when the Sandman tried robbing the F.E.A.S.T. shelter, she stood up to him and ordered him to get out. And he did.
• Nice Girl: One of the kindest and gentlest people in the entirety of the setting. A number of people at the F.E.A.S.T. shelter even feel that she works too hard in attempting to help others. Notably after Martin Li becomes Mr. Negative, he still professes his admiration for her years of hard work at the shelter, showing his earlier fondness of her was indeed genuine. Even when it becomes obvious she's infected with Devil's Breath, she doesn't stop working until the disease makes her unable to.
• Parental Substitute: May has been caring for Peter for as long as he can remember and has raised him alone since her husband passed away. She becomes a downplayed one for Miles after he begins working at F.E.A.S.T. to cope with the death of his father, to the point he calls her "Aunt May" like Peter does.
• Parents as People: Peter is surprised when May tells him that she and Ben had fights and breakups during the early part of their courtship much like he and MJ do, since he had always grown up seeing them as an inseparable Happily Married couple.
• Parents in Distress: During the climax of the game, she gets afflicted with Devil's Breath after it was unleashed by Octavius. She ultimately succumbs to it, but not before encouraging Peter one last time and telling him that she's So Proud of You.
• Posthumous Character: She appears in a few flashbacks in 2, having passed away in the first game.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: She reveals late in the game that not only does she know that Peter is Spider-Man, but that she knew the entire time. She didn't say anything because she didn't want him to worry.
• Shared Family Quirks: Like Peter, May has a bit of an obsession over helping people. To the point where she misses out on sleep because of it, and sometimes puts herself way in over her head, like going into the F.E.A.S.T. North center when it's on fire to get people out. Just like Peter does. She advises Peter to mind his limits and not hesitate to ask for help, but like him, she can't bring herself to do it.
• Shipper on Deck: As usual, she is hopeful that Peter and MJ will work things out after their latest breakup. She also scornfully calls Felicia Hardy Peter's "rebound girl", believing that Peter and MJ will eventually resolve their issues and get back together.
• So Proud of You: She tells Peter that she's proud of all the good he's done for New York and that Ben would be proud too right before she dies.
• Supreme Chef: She's frequently seen in the F.E.A.S.T. kitchen and Peter heaps praise on her wheatcakes.
• Together in Death: Not long after she passes and her funeral is held, we see her gravestone next to Ben's, symbolizing this trope.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: May refuses to stop working to improve the lives of the homeless taking refuge in F.E.A.S.T., even as she coughs out blood from the Devil's Breath ravaging her elderly body. The brightest light of kindness in Peter's sad life, she dies as she lived, inspiring hope and decency in the hearts of people.
• Workaholic: It's volunteer work, but there are still a few people around F.E.A.S.T. who tell Peter to get his Aunt to take a break already.

Dr. Otto Octavius

Otto Gunther Octavius

Voiced by: William Salyers (English)^{Other Languages} Victor Covarrubias (Latin American Spanish), Hiroshi Naka (Japanese), Diomid Vinogradov (Russian)

Appearances: Hostile Takeover | Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Peter's boss and the founder of Octavius Industries. He's a kindly scientist with dreams of helping millions with his inventions, but his work has suffered from continual setbacks, not helped by his assistant's chronic lateness.

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For tropes related to him, see his page.

Dr. Morgan Michaels

Morgan Michaels

Voiced by: Phil Morris (English)^{Other Languages} Ivan Zharkov (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man

One of the original scientists who developed what became known as Devil's Breath. He's still in possession of the only known sample and becomes a target of Mister Negative's.

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• Alliterative Name: Morgan Michaels.
• The Atoner: Willingly works along with Spider-Man in order to atone for his role in the creation of Devil's Breath.
• Canon Character All Along: Morgan Michaels is all but outright stated to be Dr. Michael Morbius, as his name is a pseudonym adopted by the character after he became a vampire in the comics. His bio notes that he hails from somewhere in Europe, and Pete speculates that his name is an anglicized equivalent of "Michalopolous" to explain why he appears to have published very little research under "Michaels"—Michael Morbius also originated from Greece, although his name hardly does. Additionally, Pete speculates that he may have some genetic disorder himself, because he appears to have been getting very little sleep.
• Ink-Suit Actor: A near spot-on resemblance to his voice actor, Phil Morris.
• Redemption Equals Life: Michaels manages to end up surviving the entirety of the game, with the ending even implying that he may end up taking over running F.E.A.S.T.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Devil's Breath is what Mr. Negative is after through out Act 2, and in the beginning of Act 3, Doc Ock gets ahold of it and spreads it.

Officer Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis

Voiced by: Russell Richardson (English)^{Other Languages} Alexander Dasevich (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

Miles' father and an officer on the NYPD who has been working Fisk's case for years. He's dispatched by Yuri to help Spider-Man investigate the Demons' activities at New York City's shipyards.

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• Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, because he wanted to get away from his Dark and Troubled Past, including his brother Aaron, Jeff took Rio's last name instead of the other way around when they got married. Here, Jeff still goes by "Jefferson Davis".
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, he's aloof and distant from his son out of necessity as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and a former criminal. Here, he's been on the force for years and has actively worked to take down Fisk's operations. He's also distrustful and hostile to Spider-Man in his original appearances in the Ultimate Marvel comics (not that you could blame him given the usual behavior of the heroes who aren't Peter or Miles), but here, he's openly supportive of him and gladly works alongside Spidey to take down the Demons.
• The Artifact: Not the character himself, but his name. In the Ultimate Universe, he was a Noble Bigot with a Badge who hated mutants and other super-powered beings, so it made a bit of ironic sense that he'd have the same name as the president of the Confederate States of America. In this continuity, however, he shows no signs this prejudice, and is enthusiastic about working with Spidey.
• Badass Driver: When a member of the Demons tries to run over Spidey while he was preventing an oil tanker from crashing into the 3 Train, Jefferson drives his car into the truck to deflect it and save the web-slinger, coming out none the worse for wear.
• Badass Normal: This guy is willing to take on an entire squad of superpowered gang members single-handedly, doing so in Spidey's absence, and catches up in time to save him from an oncoming truck by slamming his police car into it, flipping both over in the process. Then he crawls out of his wrecked car to punch the Demon member in the face to keep him from shooting any bystanders. It's hard believe that this man isn't a superhero and his son refers to him as such.
• Black Dude Dies First: Jeff is the game's first prominent Character Death.
• Comfort Food: In Spider-Man: Miles Morales, he says that he has a thing for a seafood restaurant called Lobster Bill's, which serves southern-style meals that reminded him of Miles' grandmother. But when he's out on a night shift, he'd stop by for some fried okra, but asks Miles not to tell his mom about it (though Rio already knew, telling Miles that she'll let Jefferson have this "little secret").
• Cool Old Guy: Not that he's old-old or anything, but his profile reveals he's in his mid-forties, married with a child, and has a personal acceptance of Spider-Man on top of being a trustworthy partner for him in their work together.
• Cultured Badass: He's an art and music lover with a love for works by black artists. In a recording he leaves for Miles in his game, he mentions dragging him and Phin to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and watched with pride as they marveled at the works of Angela Davis. He's also an extremely badass and competent cop.
• Death by Adaptation: Dies not long after the weapons bust he did with Spider-Man.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: As is standard, the responsible to Aaron's foolish.
• Friend on the Force: He's a venerated officer who Yuri trusts to help Spider-Man investigate the Demons' activities. Together they take on an entire squad of goons, with him pelting the gang members with stun gun shots and smoke grenades. Later on, he slams his police car into a truck that was about to hit Spidey and then crawls out to punch the Demon in the face before he could shoot anyone.
• Good Parents: Miles has nothing but good things to say about him and considers Jefferson his hero. Recordings in Spider-Man: Miles Morales reveal that he took time out of his schedule to give Miles the opportunity to visit all kinds of museums to broaden his horizons. He and Rio also put together scavenger hunts all over the city for him that he loves.
• Guest-Star Party Member: He joins Spidey in busting a base of Demons for that one mission, zapping them with his stun gun and throwing smoke grenades to confuse them.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The moment he realizes a suicide bomber is about to kill more than just him on the podium, his first instinct is to shove the bomber away, keeping him the closest and only one directly exposed to the following explosion.
• Humble Hero: He just calls himself a "guy who never gives up" when his son says that he should be considered a superhero for his efforts to stop crime.
• I Owe You My Life: Spider-Man feels this way after Jeff saves him from being run over by the Demons. This gratitude is a huge reason why Peter looks after Miles following Jeff's death.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: For those familiar with the comics, Jefferson's presence immediately telegraphs that his son Miles will be in the game. If you're not, his last name not being Morales makes this a genuine reveal when the game eventually discloses the family connection.
• Nice Guy: Both on and off the job, Jeff is always upstanding, friendly, supportive, and open-minded man. He’s shown to be a loving family man, and a trusting investigation partner. Notably, even before he became a cop, he always wanted to help people.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Since he knows he can’t legally approve of unauthorized vigilante criminal investigations, he brought a warrant to officially allow Spider-Man helping with the investigation, and treats Spider-Man like an equal in their investigation.
• Sacrificial Lion: He's killed as collateral in the City Hall bombing by the Demons, at his own award ceremony. Consequently, this stirs his son Miles into moving up on his gradual succession to being a hero, like Uncle Ben was to Peter Parker.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only has two scenes and died in the second, but he is the reason why Peter and Miles become friends.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: A good cop and a loving family man, he's tragically killed in a bombing caused by the Inner Demons.

Councilwoman Rio Morales

Rio Morales

Voiced by: Jacqueline Piñol (English)^{Other Languages} Roko Takizawa (Japanese), Larisa Nekipelova (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

The mother of Miles Morales and wife of Jefferson Davis. As a science teacher, she is the one who actually inspired her son in his fascination with science. In Spider-Man: Miles Morales, she enters local politics and is running for a seat on city council.

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• Adaptational Job Change: In the comics and most other adaptations, Rio is a nurse. This version of the character starts off as a high school science teacher before transitioning to political councilwoman.
• Ascended Extra: She played a fairly minor role in the first game, but comes back as a full blown supporting cast member in her son's Spin-Off, with her own plotline to boot.
• Badass Teacher: She isn't given a chance to follow through, but she was perfectly willing to run into an unstable building full of armed terrorists to try and save her deceased husband. Then when Phin's plan to bring down Roxxon Plaza threatens to destroy Harlem, Rio refuses to leave anyone behind and helps evacuate the neighborhood despite the cross fire.
• Cool Teacher: She inspired Miles' love of science and gadgetry, and helps distribute the Devil's Breath cure once it's ready for mass deployment.
• Good Parents: While she doesn't have a major role, she is responsible for Peter and Miles becoming friends, as Aunt May suggested to her that she should have Miles volunteer at the F.E.A.S.T. Center in order to help him process his grief over his father's death. When the turf war between Roxxon and the Underground reaches Harlem, she always checks on Miles for his safety and gives him her full support when she learns he's the new Spider-Man.
• Gratuitous Spanish: She's Puerto Rican, so she mixes Spanish into casual conversation.
• Happily Married: To Jefferson. She was even willing to rush into danger to try and save him when he was killed in the Inner Demons' suicide bombing attack on Jefferson's award ceremony.
• Maternity Crisis: Downplayed. Jefferson says that Rio went into labor while they were eating at his favorite seafood restaurant. The experience soured the place for her, and Jefferson blames the Cajun shrimp for the ordeal.
• Nice Girl: She's a science teacher who loves her family and her neighborhood enough to run for public office in hopes of making Harlem a better place while rallying against Roxxon's sleazy policies and lack of transparency.
• Parent with New Paramour: Spider-Man 2 reveals that she's started seeing someone, who is revealed at the end of the game to be Albert Moon.
• Secret-Keeper: After Miles escapes his imprisonment at Roxxon and a beat down from the Tinkerer, Ganke returns him home where Rio finds him in his uniform. While it takes a little to process the whole issue, she gives Miles her full support and reassures him she'll never stop loving him. In Spider-Man 2, she's become aware of Peter's status as the first Spider-Man.

Harry Osborn

Harold "Harry" Osborn

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Voiced by: Scott Porter (English; Spider-Man), Graham Phillips (English; Spider-Man 2)^{Other Languages} Mario Heras (Latin American Spanish), Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese), Dmitry Cherevatenko (Russian)

Appearances: Hostile Takeover | Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

"We're going to heal the world."

Peter's and MJ's long-time friend. He's away in Europe during the events of the first game (or so he claims) but asks Peter to take care of his various research labs that are scattered throughout the city.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: This version of Harry is much more scientifically minded than his comic book counterpart and most versions, seemingly taking after his most recent animated depiction. However, it's not to the same extent since he's more of a bureaucrat and activist (openly noting that Peter can describe one of the problems in the stations with more correct scientific jargon than he can).
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics and most versions, Harry is an insecure rich kid struggling for his father’s approval while being resentful of Peter's popularity with girls (Gwen and MJ originally) and for being the son that Norman secretly wants, which leads him to turn to alcohol and drugs and lash out at Peter and his loved ones. In this continuity, Harry is genuinely philanthropic (aspects which only trickled into his character during his Post-OMD resurrection). He also is much less dogged in earning his father's approval, in part because this version of Norman is a much less distant parental figure to him, and shows no envy or resentment towards Peter for being in a relationship with MJ. It later turns out that Harry did envy Peter for the freedom he had due to not being hindered by a terminal illness, but he kept it buried until his worsening physical health following his taste of power with the symbiote brought it out.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Norman initially cared about Harry enough that his fear of disappointing his son could bring him out of a Goblin episode, though he was still an extremely distant father. Later retcons would establish that Norman was so evil that he sold Harry's soul to the devil to ensure Oscorp's success. Here, Norman is a genuinely caring father whose desperation to save his son from the same disease that killed his wife is what leads Norman to throw ethics out the window and causes both the Devil's Breath crisis and the symbiote takeover. Norman and Harry's strained relationship in this this continuity is caused mainly by ideological differences rather than Norman being neglectful: Harry prefers the more modest lifestyle that Peter and Mary Jane have, while Norman isn't afraid to flaunt his wealth.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • It's never implied in-game whether or not Harry's aware that Peter is Spider-Man like MJ, considering the three have been best friends since middle school. Hostile Takeover implies that because Norman Osborn holds a particular obsession with Spider-Man, Peter kept Harry in the dark about his identity. Harry eventually learns Peter's secret in Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
  • In The Stinger, whether the symbiote reacted to Harry's emotions as an extension of himself, or the symbiote is its own separate entity, is currently left to wild guessing.
• A Taste of Power: Twofold. When Peter goes to rescue Tombstone from the Hunters, Harry shows up to give his friend some back-up, showing off what the symbiote can do in battle while also giving players a glimpse of what they can expect when they receive the Black Suit later down the line. For Harry himself, his brief time with Peter and Miles is but a small taste of what he can really do when he transitions into Venom toward the end of the game.
• Badass Normal: Wants to accomplish his late mother's dream of making the world a better place.
  • By further extension, he selflessly risks his life to save Peter from being captured by Kraven's hunters even when one of them was approaching him with a crossbow.
• Bio-Armor: For a while, he and Peter believed that the symbiote is some sort of "self-learning exo-suit", given what Dr. Connors told him. When using the symbiote for his first stint as a Spider hero, he manifested a black and white armor-like costume resembling a combination of military armor and Peter's Spider-Man suit. Though this later gets subverted once its true nature is revealed...
• Casting Gag: In Marvel's Spider-Man 2, he is voiced by Graham Phillips, who played a ten-year-old Ben Tennyson in the live-action film Ben 10: Race Against Time. Yuri Lowenthal, who voices Peter, voiced teenage Ben in the same franchise beginning with Ben 10: Alien Force.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Despite his brief stint as a Spider hero and his Bio-Armor resembling the appearance of Agent Venom, he's never called or referred to as "Agent Venom" in the game.
• Composite Character: He's this universe's incarnation of Venom and acted briefly as a Spider hero before becoming villainous, much like the Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) incarnation of the character. During the first period when he's bonded with the symbiote, he also takes on elements of Agent Venom specifically. He's also terminally ill, much like the version from The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
  • He also fills very much the same role as Eddie Brock from The Spectacular Spider-Man, down to the same character beats - both he and Eddie are based in science, are childhood friends of Peter, have a falling out with Peter due to the actions of the symbiote, to the point that long-repressed anger towards Peter is forced out, are pushed away by Peter under the symbiote's control, and end up bonding to Venom after Peter makes his intentions to destroy the symbiote clear.
• Dark Is Not Evil: When the symbiote is initially bonded to Harry, he's able to use its power for good, even adopting an Agent Venom-esque costume and there being a brief period where it looks like he might get to join Peter and Miles as a Spider hero. Sadly, Peter getting the symbiote, Harry's issues with his best friend coming to the forefront, and finally, his rage at the idea of the symbiote being destroyed prove too much for the malignant entity to resist, and it bonds with Harry anew, creating Venom.
• Didn't Think This Through: When trying to de-rigged the cage that traps Tombstone, he went to the powerbox and tore out a wire. Instead of the cage automatically opening, it accidentally causes the factory to meltdown, leading to Tombstone giving quite an annoyed What the Hell, Hero?.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: In the first game, he's established to need glasses (retconned in 2), and like his The Amazing Spider-Man 2 counterpart, he's s terminally ill with Oshtoran Syndrome. In 2, he can be seen using a cane as a mobility aid on several occasions.
• Disney Death: After Venom is destroyed by Peter, Harry seems dead, but Miles manages to use his electrical powers to resuscitate him, leaving Harry alive, but comatose.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: The thing Harry seems to hate the most about his illness is less that he has it and more how others, particularly his father, perceive him as weak and sickly because of it. He does everything in his power to avoid using his cane because he thinks it makes him look pathetic by openly displaying his disability, and when others do express pity for his condition, he either only begrudgingly accepts it, brushes it off, or actively rejects it. When he ends up having an emotional breakdown in front of Mary Jane after an argument with Peter and she reaches out to offer support (physically and emotionally), he snarls at her to get out in a totally uncharacteristic display of defensive hostility.
• Drunk with Power: A benign example. When Harry uses the symbiote for his first stint as a Spider hero to help Peter save Tombstone, most of his dialogue revolves around him marveling over his newfound strength and notably prefers a head-on approach in taking down the Hunters than the stealthy approach that Peter and Miles would usually do. Peter had to remind him that he wasn't invincible and should've tried to fight more evasively than take damage head-on. It's also justified given that the symbiote allows him to be unburdened by his genetic illness for the first time in years, with the added superhuman and shapeshifting abilities as a boon.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Harry's use of the symbiote allows him to become Agent Venom and fight right alongside Peter until it bonds with Peter when the latter is dying from Kraven's stab wound. When it comes back to him, it becomes even more so, turning him into Venom and making him more than capable of taking on Peter and Miles combined.
• Everyone Has Standards: For as bitter and resentful as he is over his condition and Peter's unintended success over him, Harry isn't a bad guy, and the horrific things Venom makes him do terrify and sicken him, requiring the suit to engage in brainwashing and manipulation to cajole Harry into surrendering control. When freed completely from the symbiote's influence, he's so horrified at what he's been doing that he willingly helps Peter kill him.
• Fighting from the Inside: Briefly fights his way to the surface during the final clash with Venom, begging the symbiote not to hurt Peter.
• Foil: For Otto Octavius. Like Otto, Harry is a scientifically minded close friend of Peter's who initially only wants to make the world a better place. Also like Otto, Harry suffers from an incurable illness that affects his judgment. Both Otto and Harry are/were also close to Norman Osborn, but where Otto is Norman's embittered former friend, Harry is Norman's beloved son. They both become bitter enemies of Peter after their method of curing their condition overcomes them, but while Otto never reconciles with Peter and is implied to be plotting against him from prison, Harry manages to make peace with his best friend before nearly dying.
• The Ghost: Harry is often spoken of although you never see him (until 2), and it's later mentioned that he's in Europe but fails to disclose why, leaving you to assume he was shipped off to boarding school by his father. As it turns out, Harry's dad isn't neglectful in this continuity and sent him to Europe for treatment for the same genetic disorder that killed his mother. Until The Stinger reveals that was a lie — Norman has him hidden in a healing tank in his penthouse for experimental treatment... that involves the Venom symbiote.
• Good Counterpart: Albeit before Peter gets the Symbiote; while Harry has it in his initial appearances, his relationship with the Symbiote is positive as it keeps his illness from cropping up and goes beyond that intended purpose by giving him enhanced physical strength and the ability to make a suit from it, which he uses to great effect when he helps Peter in their new superhero career. This is not the case when he rebonds with the Symbiote after Peter rids himself of it with Miles' help, as the illness flaring up and his jealousy towards Peter finally bubbling to the surface causes him to become Venom.
• Go Out with a Smile: His last moments before the symbiote meteorite is eradicated for good is to give Peter a warm, reassuring smile before he becomes comatose.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Being separated from the symbiote in Spider-Man 2 causes his physical constitution to crumble and with it his emotional fortitude, bringing to the surface his long-suppressed jealousy towards Peter for having the life he always wanted. Coupled with Peter lashing out at him due to the symbiote's influence, Harry is left so emotionally broken that he allows the symbiote to take him completely, becoming Venom.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Harry, empowered by the Venom symbiote, helps Peter save Tombstone from Kraven's Hunters, and later joins him in rescuing Dr. Connors. During this time period, he also has a chance of showing up as an assist character for both Peter and Miles during random crimes.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Due to Venom's hold over him being too strong by that point, Harry can only pin the symbiote down long enough for Peter to destroy it with his Anti-Venom powers, even though being bonded with it means that he'll die with the symbiote. It's only thanks to Miles' electrical powers that he's able to be revived.
• Hidden Depths: When he was in high school, he was a backup singer in glee club. A flashback has him put this to good use by singing Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" through the school's speaker system, saving Peter from getting spotted by the cops.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: In the climax, as Spider-Man urges him to fight the influence, an awakened but weak-willed Harry instead just begs to be killed off with the symbiote.
  Spider-Man: Fight, Harry. FIGHT!
  Harry: I can't. I'm done. You have to—
  Harry/Venom: You have to KILL us.
• Interclass Friendship: Childhood friend of Peter and MJ.
• Ink-Suit Actor: In 2 he's redesigned to resemble his voice actor, Graham Phillips.
• Leeroy Jenkins: As Agent Venom, Harry has a tendency to jump straight into beating up bad guys without entirely thinking things through at first. This causes him to derail Peter's stealthy attempts to infiltrate the factory, and even triggers an outright meltdown in an attempt to free Tombstone.
• Lonely Rich Kid: According to MJ, even though she and Peter often came by Norman Osborn's luxury suite to watch movies on his wide-screen TV with 5.1 sound, she has "never seen Harry more happy than when he was watching cartoons with us at Aunt May's apartment."
• Missed Him by That Much: MJ was in the room he was stored in, but the healing tank was closed at the moment. Considering the scene after the credits, maybe it's better she didn't see him after all…
• Missing Mom: His mother passed away some time ago from Oshtoran Syndrome, a rare heritable neurological disorder. It later turns out that Harry has been afflicted by the same genetic disease which claimed her life.
• More than Mind Control: Venom is able to control him both by using Harry's jealousy of Peter and his desire to make the world a better place. However, it's clear the symbiote is the one calling the shots, and when Harry is briefly freed from Venom's control he's initially unaware of what the symbiote has done while controlling him.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Harry is horrified after he, as Venom, murders Kraven, but with the symbiote's voice whispering in his ear, Harry soon finds himself forgetting this regret and embracing Venom's potential to realize Harry's dream of healing the world.
• Naïve Newcomer: His first stint as a Spider hero with Peter goes as one would expect of him being a newcomer. His usual approach is to always fight the enemies head-on and try to de-rigged Tombstone's cage by simply tearing out a wire in a junction box, resulting in a steel mill factory exploding.
  Tombstone: What did I just tell you?
  Harry: Sorry, it's my first day.
• Nerd Glasses: Wears thick, dark-rimmed glasses and is an environmental researcher. He ditches this completely for 2.
• Nice Guy: While not a nerd like Peter, he's a kind lad with a strong sense of social conscience, who is sincere in his desire to continue his mother's legacy of cleaning up New York and making it a better place for his fellow man. It makes it all the more tragic when Venom starts bringing out the resentment and jealousy he kept buried deep down.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After witnessing Kraven fatally stab Peter, he quickly becomes enraged and spends most of the background engaging the hunter in a slugfest, and winning, while MJ carries Peter, who's slowly dying, to safety.
• Rage Breaking Point: The return of his illness, Peter's refusal to give up the symbiote, and hearing his father obliviously praise Peter wear heavily on Harry's emotional state, but when Peter, freed of the symbiote's corruption, insists that it needs to be destroyed, Harry's anger breaks and he rails against Peter, his rage proving powerful enough to attract the symbiote to him and create Venom.
• Retcon: While he's shown to wear glasses in a photo in the first game, they never appear in the sequel, even in flashbacks; even the photo from the first game (found in Peter's old room at his house) now depicts Harry with his facial features from 2, and the glasses are absent.
• Shipperon Deck: Qualifies as this with Peter and MJ.
• Skilled, but Naive: He shows an impressive amount of aptitude when using the black suit for the first time and can hold his own in a fight, and it helps that he also has Super-Senses, his natural intellect, and time to run trial-and-error beforehand to fall back on. But as one would expect, he's still green in regards to the more complex parts of being a superhero (i.e. preferring a head-on approach in subduing a large crowd of enemies whereas using stealth would've been more efficient and simply tearing out a wire to a cage after being warned it's rigged to prevent any intruders who doesn't know about the traps from freeing the prisoner).
• Stepford Smiler: Beneath that dweebish and friendly demeanor is a deeply resentful and jealous man who seethes over how his own genetics have betrayed him, how his best friend has a life he wants but can't have, and how his dad ultimately sees him more as a sickly thing to coddle then a person. Harry does not like reminders of his disability such as the cane he's forced to use when it worsens, and furthermore craves being seen as healthy and strong by those around him.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: After the symbiote bonds with Peter in Spider-Man 2, Harry's terminal illness returns with a vengeance, causing his emotional state to crumble due to his worsened physical constitution reminding him of everything Peter has that he doesn't.
• Tragic Villain: He becomes one when Venom begins to control his life. When he realizes that he has just gone too far after the violent rampage he caused, as well as the murder of Kraven, he finally ends up embracing his potential under Venom's influence and manipulation.
• The Voice: He's in Europe (actually a life support tank in Norman’s home) during the events of the game, with his only appearances being audio recordings about the Oscorp field labs he left for Peter. He finally shows up in person in 2.
• Unskilled, but Strong: In comparison to Peter, he is this as a Spider hero. Given that he suffers from a genetic illness, Harry can't do anything too strenuous and it's very likely he never had any formal martial training. While he does show some skill and aptitude in his first stint as a superhero by helping Peter rescue Tombstone, his fighting style is much more raw and instinctive, and spends the entire mission using a head-on approach, which becomes more noticeable as he wails on Kraven with anger after witnessing the latter fatally stabbed Peter.
• Walking Spoiler: Harry's role both in regards to his father's motives and him being the host for the Venom Symbiote are crucial plot points for the series.
• Unstoppable Rage: Upon seeing Peter stabbed to death by Kraven, Harry loses it and delivers a vicious beatdown on the hunter, not only matching him in combat but even seeming to knock him unconscious briefly.
• Vocal Evolution: Harry's voice in Spider-Man 2 is significantly higher and more nasal compared to his more smooth baritone in the first game.
• Wealthy Philanthropist: Harry has used his wealth as the Osborn heir to set up various research stations scattered throughout New York geared towards solving environmental and urban issues in the city.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Harry desperately wants his father Norman to engage with him on a deeper emotional level and express pride in him, rather than eternally coddling him in a way that makes Harry feel like Norman only sees him as a sick thing to care for instead of a son. He carries a hidden resentment towards Peter over a belief that Norman — who sees Peter like a second son — takes more pride in Peter's accomplishments than his and would prefer Peter as his child.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Not by his own choice, but given everything in the story that happened until then, Harry's bitterness, sorrow, and resentment left him weak enough for the symbiote to bond completely with him, warping all of his good qualities into the twisted Yandere Knight Templar Venom.

Ganke Lee

Ganke Lee

Voiced by: Griffin Puatu (English)^{Other Languages} Wataru Takagi (Japanese), Prokhor Chekhovskoy (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

Miles' best friend from Brooklyn Visions Academy and his Secret-Keeper.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Ganke is in noticeably better shape that his comic counterpart or Ned Leeds, the character he was composited into in the MCU, and couples it with a more flattering wardrobe.
• Asian and Nerdy: Asian, a gifted programmer, and loves playing video games with Miles in his downtime. He also gets really into Jane Eyre.
• Best Friend: He's Miles' closest friend at Brooklyn Visions, his Secret-Keeper, and confidant. Ganke is always there to support Miles through thick and thin.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: This version of Ganke needs glasses.
• Failed a Spot Check: If one notices, the "startup" company he gets in contact with to help quickly print some drones is the EMF: their logo is on the drone launchers as an Early-Bird Cameo. Ganke verbally mentions that the company's owner was super nice and excited at the prospect of helping out Spider-Man. As it turns out, the owner is someone Ganke should have definitely heard of before: Harry Osborne, the son of Norman Osborne (founder of Oscorp and the former disgraced Mayor of New York City).
• Gadgeteer Genius: He's a genius programmer going to a high school for gifted people and is able to reverse engineer Peter's OS and install an app that allows him to see what Miles is seeing through the mask. He also puts his engineering skills to good use by designing a Spider-Man costume customized to handle Miles' unique abilities better.
• Mission Control: Ganke styles himself as this, giving Miles notifications whenever Spider-Man gets new requests for aid or doing investigative work to dig up crucial information. He's also able to give Miles technical support and information, as the suit's HUD is linked to Ganke's computer. By the time of 2 he's become this for Peter as well.
• Playful Hacker: As shown in the Gameplay Reveal trailer for 2, Ganke's able to successfully hack into one of Kraven's hawk-like Hunter Drones to help out the Spider-Men.
• Secret-Keeper: Knows that his best friend is the new Spider-Man. And at the start of 2, he figures out that Peter is the original Spider-Man.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Ganke is a technical wizard with computers and wears some thick-rimmed glasses in this incarnation.

Hailey Cooper

Hailey Cooper

Voiced by: Natasha Ofili (English)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

A hard-of-hearing street artist from Harlem.

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• Advertised Extra: Gameinformer promotional articles leading into the release of the game had Hailey displayed rather prominently alongside Miles, Ganke, and Danika. Hailey is largely limited to appearing in only a couple of scenes in the game and plays a role in one sidequest.
• Ascended Extra: While not a major character, Hailey is much more prominent in the second game, where she serves as a close friend and eventually girlfriend for Miles. She even has her own playable side mission called "Graffiti Trouble".
• Blind Musician: Or rather, Deaf Painter. Hailey communicates mainly by ASL.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: During her playable segment in Spider-Man 2, all audio is disabled^note except the spraycan sound from the controller, which is very low but present, and characters instead communicate by way of emotion bubbles over their heads.
• Secret-Keeper: She sees Miles unmasked as Spider-Man after his final fight with the Tinkerer, and gives him back his mask to help hide his identity from the press.
• Ship Tease: Miles is hinted to be attracted to her, with Gloria teasing him that he wants to look good for her. Hailey even gifts Miles (as Spider-Man) with her scarf and mufflers at the end of her quest line. They have a Relationship Upgrade during the second game.
• Silent Snarker: Not being able to speak hasn't stopped her from developing a sharp wit.

Minor Characters

J. Jonah Jameson

John Jonah Jameson, Jr.

Voiced by: Darin De Paul (English)^{Other Languages} Carlos Segundo (Latin American Spanish), Takayuki Sugo (Japanese), Igor Taradakin (Russian)

Appearances: Hostile Takeover | Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

Former chief editor of the Daily Bugle. When he retired and gave the position to Robbie Robertson, he started up his own podcast, called "Just the Facts".

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• Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, Jameson was sympathetic to Peter when he finds out Uncle Ben was shot by a burglar, and decided to give him the job despite finding his photography work being amateurish in nature. In Spider-Man 2, he doesn't give a damn about it, and just tells Peter to be a real New Yorker just so he can get the job.
• Alliterative Name: Even moreso than most other characters. The increasing number of syllables in each part of it — "John" (or J.), "Jonah", "Jameson" — gives it an additional rhythm. He might potentially have "Junior" in there too, depending on how closely this game follows the comics.
• Badass Boast: Gives a pretty good one during the later half of the game towards Sable International, amidst their rising human rights violations.
  Jameson: We still abide by the Constitution, folks! And that includes protection against unreasonable searches and seizures! AND freedom of speech! So if you have concerns, if you see abuses happening - call me. If the authorities won't listen, I will. And I will spread the word to our fellow New Yorkers. If these tyrants think they can silence me... let 'em try! No one puts a muzzle on J. Jonah Jameson!
• Bad Boss:
  • He's rather constantly verbally abusive to his Beleaguered Assistant Jared (who is both his intern and producer). Depending on podcast, he either doesn't pay Jared at all, or forcibly donates parts of his salary to F.E.A.S.T., or makes him purchase the show's merchandise by taking its cost out of his salary. He constantly threatens to fire him while on air, and blames him for anything that goes on with his interview (or his own lack of research). He orders the firing of his fact-checkers (Jared's roommates) despite the fact that he didn't check with them before starting his broadcast.
  • In the sequel, he's returned as Editor-In-Chief of the Bugle after Robbie Robertson moves to another paper, sacking much of the staff and threatening to fire many more, including MJ. The toxic work atmosphere he brings with him and the pressures it puts on MJ figure repeatedly in the plot.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Not him, but his unseen assistant Jared. One podcast features a civilian who puts praise on Spider-Man for saving her, leading Jameson to berate Jared for not doing his research on the caller, tell him he's fired but then tell him to re-hire himself over the commercial break and know that he's on the chopping block.
  Jameson: IF I PAID YOU, I WOULD CUT YOUR SALARY IN HALF!
• Berserk Button:
  • If it's not Spider-Man itself, then it's probably whenever someone on his show tries to correct him about what he accuses Spider-Man of doing, frequently hanging up on his callers before they can say anything else.
  • Being reminded of his part in the creation of the Scorpion also gets him riled up.
• Butt-Monkey: A bit downplayed since he never physically appears in the game (though he does get a brief cameo in Miles Morales when both Spider-Men accidentally chase Rhino straight through his studio in the middle of a broadcast), but there's enough commentary present, from both his own rants and from occasional chatter from citizens, that his constant ranting about Spider-Man has earned him a lot of ridicule. Citizens prank him by sending Spider-Man onesies to his P.O. Box, one of the secret photo locations in New York is a mural of him as a baby demanding photos of Spider-Man. Then in Spider-Man 2, his car gets crashed by Sandman and he has to be carried to the hospital by one of the Spider-Men.
• The Bully: He openly and loudly mocks and derides Danika Hart for her support of Spider-Man, despite the fact that he's a grown man and Danika's a teenager.
• Coincidental Broadcast: His podcasts tend to pop up a couple of minutes after you do anything and will always be about whatever you just did. It could potentially be a justified trope if it was just Jonah broadcasting from his home (because Lord knows Jonah's that obsessed with Spidey), but apparently he's got a studio and staff working round-the-clock to help him smear Spider-Man.
• Conspiracy Theorist: He pins almost everything bad that happens in New York City on Spider-Man; unlike many examples he recognizes that people see him as this, but he contends that there's a fine line between conspiracy nut and Properly Paranoid.
• The Cynic: In Spider-Man 2, he scoffs at the idea that villains can reform, fully believing that Quentin Beck's attempt at a legitimate business is just another criminal scheme.
• Do Wrong, Right: His complaint about the city's Crime Monitoring System; not only did they spend taxpayer money to invade their privacy, but the system doesn't even work as intended due to constant crashes.
• Dramatic Irony: In the sequel, he complains about the rise in masked vigilantes and specifically the Wraith, admitting with much reluctance that as much as he hates the Spider-Men they at least don't play judge, jury, and exectioner with the criminals they fight. He goes onto say that if they wanted to enforce the law they should join the police, not knowing, of course, that Wraith was a police captain until multiple tragedies and the law's limitations pushed her over the edge.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first time the player hears his podcast, Jonah interrupts his own intro to correct Jared that he's a two-time Pulitzer prize winner, then interrupts it again to promote his book deal, before finally starting the show and smearing Spider-Man at the first opportunity. He also makes a reasonable point that Fisk's takedown will leave a vacuum for criminal factions to try and fill (while insulting a caller who praises Spider-Man). Intelligent and talented enough to do accurate reporting and be recognized for it, acerbic and blinded by hatred enough for it not to matter much.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • In his podcast following the suicide bombing of city hall, Jonah says that he knows Spider-Man doesn't have anything to do with the incident. Of course, this being J. Jonah Jameson, he does change his mind and consider Spidey partly responsible a little later on, but it shows he does have a modicum of restraint and it's the thought that counts.
  • Similarly, when bringing on a police officer on his podcast, who proceeds to explain how Spider-Man saved him and his colleagues during a shootout, Jonah suddenly drops his antagonism and actually concedes that the officer brings up a good point even if he disagrees.
  • After the Devil's Breath is released into the city, causing The Plague to hit the populace, he drops the jerkass persona, saying that New Yorkers are tough, and that they've faced worse. Also, after Spider-Man helps stop it, Jameson admits that Spider-Man acted heroically. He also chews out Osborn for developing and keeping an incredibly deadly bio-weapon in the middle of a densely populated city, pointing out depending on how it went down he should be impeached or sent to prison for it.
  • He becomes critical of Sable International's policies rather early, but full on opposes them once martial law is declared and they start turning Manhattan into a police state. Notably, when one caller credits Spider-Man with saving them from Sable, while still getting angry about it, he concedes that if nothing else, compared to Sable Spider-Man is the Lesser of Two Evils.
  • Despite his repeatedly blaming Spider-Man for the rise of super criminals they didn't have before, he's under absolutely no delusions that the Maggia crime families are any better or that their return will be an improvement. He actively calls out anyone who thinks of them as Fair Play Villains compared to the supervillains and Demons, pointing out that their rules last until they become a hindrance that will be thrown aside in a moment's notice and a gang war between them is every bit as bloody and brutal as the one between Fisk and the Demons. He even seems to hate them almost as much if not more than he does Spidey.
  • While he does note he admires Hammerhead's base motivation, he also makes it absolutely clear that's the only thing he admires about Hammerhead. He even actually recants a previous statement to further condemn Hammerhead at the end of the game, and admits that in this case, while he still blames Spider-Man, he can't really think of how it's his fault.
  • In the sequel, he condemns Wraith for her lethal approach to vigilantism, and compliments the Spider-Men for not killing criminals. Of course, he still says that the latter shouldn't be vigilantes in the first place, but at least he acknowledges their good points. Even if he never expected to.
  • At the end of the sequel, while he has no trouble believing the Spider-Men's apparent involvement, he points out that Oscorp should also be held accountable for the symbiote invasion, as the "materials" they claim Spider-Man stole still belonged to them.
• Face Death with Dignity: Earnestly encourages New York to do this in the endgame if they aren't saved in time. He also encourages them to not go without a fight.
• Fan Community Nicknames: In-universe, Jonah's fans are called "brush-heads". Although Jonah admits he's not entirely sure why, he's not against it either.
• Freak Out: If you've got the web slinger wearing the Spider-Punk outfit, Jameson initially believes that Spider-Man might have gone nutty. And then he starts to believe that it isn't Spider-Man, but a copy cat. And then he promptly believes that there are multiple Spider-Man. After which, he immediately goes off air to lie down.
• Freudian Excuse: For those who don't know his backstory, a man in a mask killed his wife Joan. Ever since, he's been traumatized by men in masks and Spider-Man has been hitting his trauma button ever since he hit the headlines. Jonah is of the firm belief that no one in a mask is a good guy and Spider-Man is a paradox of that belief, since he's attacking known bad guys and has yet to be caught doing anything bad. As much as he is an asshole, Jonah is a man in pain who's too stubborn to get help.
• Gagging on Your Words: It takes months of meditation before he can even say there are two Spider-Men, and he still goes "ugh" immediately afterwards.
• Hollywood Heart Attack: Appears to suffer one on-air in the post-game Silver Lining podcast, after realizing that there are now two Spider-Men swinging throughout New York and having a complete breakdown. It's far funnier than it probably should be.
• Horrible Judge of Character: On top of the whole "Spider-Man is the bad guy" schtick, he also tends to ignore a lot of red flags when it comes to other people's character.
  • He had helped fund the procedure that turned Mac Gargan, a Psycho for Hire with a psychological profile that screams "bad guy", into Scorpion, creating yet another supervillain Spider-Man has to save people from.
  • He's quite chummy with Simon Krieger, who most people admit to finding creepy after spending just a few minutes around him.
  • Relatedly, no matter how Obviously Evil Roxxon as a whole is, he does nothing but sing its praises. Even after Krieger is arrested and Roxxon turns on him, Jameson just sees this as "one bad apple".
  • He thinks the Followers of the Flame are merely a community group being harassed by Spider-Man, despite their public attacks (such as putting oil rigs in the middle of a road, complete with flames spewing out), their obviously unhinged, and violent, behavior, and being fully on-board with purging all of the "unworthy" (read: innocent people) in flames.
• Hypocrite:
  • He claims to be a "man of the people" in the same breath as he boasts about his media empire and "vast personal fortune".
  • He states that he believes in taking responsibility, yet he refuses to take any responsibility in the creation of the Scorpion - to the point of yelling "I. AM. BLAMELESS!"
  • Jameson gets called out by Danika Hart during their debate in the Spin-Off game that, for all of his claims for caring about the wellbeing of New Yorkers, he doesn't actually seem to care when underprivileged communities like Harlem are getting negatively impacted by corporations like Roxxon, which, in retrospect, put his heartwarming speech for the people in New York during the Devil's Breath incident in a different light. Jameson doesn't have a response and makes his exit from the debate. He also calls Danika "emotional", despite the fact that he'd been ranting and raving throughout the debate.
  • He also claims to be a "friend" to small businesses, despite the fact that he is openly supportive of Roxxon, who drove several small businesses out of Harlem to create their tower.
  • While talking about the Followers of the Flame, Jameson claims that he's "not judging", even though all he does is judge the Spider-Men's every action.
  • He has made podcasts disapproving of Wraith because of her willingness to kill, which he notes the Spider-Men don't. He has also made podcasts praising the Hunters for doing what the Spider-Men don't have the guts to do, namely kill supervillains.
• Hypocritical Humor: After Screwball's defeat, Jonah makes a podcast where he lambastes Spider-Man for 'being gullible' by falling for her fake hostage stunt, but also takes a moment to insist that Screwball deserves no praise because she only did it to get fame, making a point about how selfish self-promotion is. Then he immediately shills his book. He does it again in the Silver Lining DLC, urging them to avoid her livestreams and listen to him instead.
• Innocently Insensitive: In the post game, he states that everyone involved in the disaster paid a price except Spider-Man and outright says he doesn't think Spider-Man has loved ones. He's completely unaware that Peter suffered a lot in the whole mess, and had to let Aunt May die in order to save everyone else.
  • Before that, just after the city hall bombing, he observes that the Demons poured in through the void left by Fisk's capture and that actions have consequences, claiming that it's "something that Spider-Man has never understood". That, of course, is rendered rather moot considering Spider-Man's entire reason for superheroing in the first place.
• Insane Troll Logic: He resorts to this regularly in order to ascribe sinister motives to everything Spider-Man does in the game. Sometimes he mentions that he stops and brainstorms for malicious reasons for Spider-Man to have done something when one isn't immediately apparent. For example:
  • After completing a side mission to catch 12 pigeons, JJ will talk about how Spider-Man has been seen catching pigeons. Spider-Man has the powers of a spider. The Goliath Bird Eater is a spider that eats small birds. Therefore, Spider-Man is catching pigeons so he can eat them alive!
  • Similarly, after a different sidequest that involves using a Ground Pound, JJ claims that it was to make more potholes in the roads in order to make drivers miserable during their commutes.
  • Spider-Man's battle caused traffic and gridlock. Jameson missed his dental appointment which forces him to wait another six months for the next opening. This means dozens, hundreds or thousands of other people also missed their dental appointment. His logical conclusion?
    Jameson: Spider-Man causes tooth decay!
  • One caller recounts his story of how he went Ax-Crazy after Mister Negative used his powers to corrupt him and how Spider-Man was forced to physically restrain him to keep him from hurting himself and others. What does Jameson take away from this? Spider-Man beats up the mentally ill.
  • Another caller, a tourist from a small town in Minnesota, talks about how Spider-Man saved her and her husband when their tour bus was hijacked by the Demons. Jameson tries to convince her that it's actually Spider-Man who causes these sorts of high-profile crimes. Do they have bus hijackings in the tourist's hometown? No. Do they have Spider-Man in her hometown? No. Case closed.
  • In Miles Morales, when it's revealed the Kingpin was trying to destabilize Harlem so he can purchase cheap property, he dismisses this as unsubstantiated rumors, and accuses Spider-Man of being the real culprit as a destabilized neighborhood means more opportunities to play hero. Keep in mind that for doing this, Kingpin got an extension to his prison sentence.
  • At the end of Miles Morales, he tries to pin the revelations about Roxxon's actions and Nuform's danger on Spider-Man, saying none of this would've happened if Spider-Man hadn't been around.
  • During the credits of Miles Morales, he tries challenging Spider-Man and his Friendly Neghborhood app by requesting that he get him some saganaki from his favorite Greek restaurant, delivered fresh, and in Greek tradition, set on fire in front of him. When Spider-Man does so while he's still broadcasting, he tries claiming that he broke in trying to kill him with fire, and even then he's distracted by how much he's enjoying his meal.
• Intrepid Reporter: He used to be one, as he mentioned he made his reporting career on exposing the Maggia. But nowadays he spends most of his time delivering rants on the order of "Spider-Man was somehow involved, therefore Spider-Man was responsible for the problem" without doing any investigation into what actually happened before making his broadcasts.
• I Reject Your Reality: Don't waste your breath trying to convince him that Spider-Man is a hero; he'll try to come up with an excuse to make you second guess. Even when presented with overwhelming evidence that Spidey is a hero, or that there was no one else who could take care of a threat, Jonah rejects all of it at face value and says that Spider-Man must have been partly responsible. Even the bombing of City Hall — which JJJ initially admits that Spider-Man had nothing to do with — still ends up getting partly blamed on Spider-Man in Jonah's mind because of the "lawlessness" that Spider-Man supposedly encourages.
• Irony:
  • He accuses Spider-Man of not coordinating with others like the police. Yuri and Spider-Man are close allies and many of his heroics are directly coordinated with her to allow the police to act when they otherwise wouldn't be able to. Even without Yuri, Spider-Man does regularly communicate and coordinate with officers and other emergency personnel when they're on the scene. To be fair, though, Peter mentions that if it were ever exposed that Yuri was knowingly collaborating with a vigilante, it could cost her her badge.
  • In the first game, he claims that Spider-Man's supporters are diminishing. By the time of Miles Morales, his own popularity is suggested to be dropping (partially due to his support of Roxxon), with Danika's podcast eclipsing his in subscribers in barely any time at all.
• It Has Been an Honor: When it looks like New York City is all but doomed, Jonah drops the egotism and encourages New Yorkers to face "whatever comes next" together, and signing off his broadcast with "my friends, the privilege has been mine" when he expects that it will be his last.
• It's All About Me: After Venom's first rampage and murder of Kraven, Jameson, who thinks Venom is Spider-Man, assumes that he must be the next target on "Spider-Man's" hit list, showing a fairly overinflated sense of his own importance.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He has one here.
• Jerkass to One: True to his nature, Jonah goes out of his way to smear and slander Spider-Man in any way he can find. While he does document actual villains whenever they're relevant to the current situation, Spidey's covered far more and is the only one who Jonah actively brainstorms ways to slander.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Jonah does legitimately care about New York City and raises some good points about its poor conditions... when he's not blaming everything on Spider-Man. His later broadcasts in particular show a vulnerable side to the man as he encourages New Yorkers to fight with everything they have against oppression, against death, and against anyone who tells them that they can't win.
  • In Miles Morales he supports the F.E.A.S.T. shelters, despite what Martin Li did, because he believes in their mission. And the reason he believes in their mission is that May Parker did, and gave her life for that mission.
  • One sidequest in 2 recounts how he and Peter first met. He is initially brusk with Peter as they talked over the phone, but still gives him advice on how to be more assertive and confident (if in his own brash way). When Peter brings a photo of Spider-Man to him, Jonah criticizes the photo's composition, but still takes it and gives Peter a job at the Daily Bugle.
• Lawful Stupid: Part of his portrayal as a Hypocrite is his unwavering faith in the police, coupled with an immediate and intense distrust of Spider-Man. This is all while Jonah is refusing to acknowledge that not only does Spider-Man fix more problems than he creates, but that the police themselves trust Spider-Man to handle threats that they can't. When a police officer points all of this out on Jonah's show, he even admits that the officer makes a good point, but that it's still not changing Jonah's mind.
• Metaphorgotten: During The Heist DLC, he gives Spider-Man a warning not to get involved with Black Cat that culminates in something to the extent of "a black cat can't change its spots". His assistant corrects him off-screen that that's not how the saying goes, and they have a back-and-forth until Jameson remembers that panthers are cats and proudly declares he was right, asserting that panthers have spots that can't be seen.
• My Way or the Highway: He expects callers to hate Spider-Man as much as he does, and if they actually try to defend the web-slinger Jonah will either shout them down (usually saying things like "Are you an award-winning journalist? No? WELL I AM!") or "accidentally" hang up on them.
• Never My Fault:
  • A constant of Jonah's show is that he always brags about its wide outreach and impact when he thinks it's responsible for helping mobilize and inspire what he sees as good things — but if any public figure he's expressed approval of runs into genuine controversy, like Norman Osborn or Simon Krieger, he'll soon drop them like a hot rock and begin reporting on their misdeeds, at no point admitting (or even seeming to understand) his own complicity in giving them a welcoming platform.
  • While he acknowledges that he helped turned Mac Gargan into Scorpion, he refuses to take responsibility and insists that he was doing what he believed was the right thing in creating an "anti-menace" to fight Spider-Man. Instead he blames Gargan's already-twisted mind ("Do you think his resume said 'psycho with a poisoning fetish?'") and the doctor for being "more interested in [Jameson's] money than doing it right".
  • After Danika Hart calls him out for not truly caring about the citizens of New York, he immediately calls off the interview, and angrily asks whose idea it was for him to debate with a teenager (it was his).
  • In Spider-Man 2, he complains about how he's being "forced" to constantly report on the Spider-Men's activities.
• The Nicknamer: Comes up with the name "Mr. Negative" midway through one of his podcasts and immediately orders his assistant to run out and copyright it. Justified, as he's a former newspaper editor whose job required him to spontaneously come up with such names to sensationalize headlines, and he's likely done it before.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • JJJ's portrayal in this game has a lot in common with many contemporary political pundits and conspiracy theorists across the political spectrum.
  • Jonah's voice is also clearly influenced by the J. K. Simmons interpretation of the character from the Raimi Spider-Man films.
  • As of Miles Morales, also much like a broad variety of podcasters, he's begun hawking branded foodstuffs like "Jameson's Jerky" and "J. Jonah Java", which are implied to have zero nutritional value or taste.
• No Indoor Voice: Count the number of times he's heard speaking that don't involve him yelling (usually about Spider-Man) at the top of his lungs.
• Nostalgia Filter: Much like Hammerhead wanting to return to the glory days of the Maggia crime syndicate, Jameson has a bit of a soft spot for the era when he was the crusading young reporter exposing their activities, for similarly self-serving reasons — yes, he admits, the Maggia were violent thugs and certainly not any better for the city than super-villains, but at least they were normal criminals with guns, and Spider-Man wasn't causing havoc trying to take them down.
• Not So Above It All: A post-game recording in Miles Morales suggests he at least preferred Peter's original costume to his upgraded one, if nothing else.
• Only Sane Man: He certainly sees himself as this, believing that anyone who admires Spider-Man is just a blind fanboy/girl and broadly trying to claim credit when Norman hires Silver Sable's PMC since he suggested a similar idea in the past.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Even when things get really bad in New York it takes a while for things to sink in past his bombastic personality, but they do sink in, and JJJ becomes mellow and reasonable. One caller tells him that the bridges have been closed and boats are being turned back, so there is no way out of New York City and comes to the most dire conclusion, and he refutes it with reason and the assumption that people are trying their best.
• Opinion Flip Flop: In Spider-Man 2. He commends the Hunters for eliminating several of Spidey's villains (painting it as the Hunters doing what the Spiders aren't willing to do - never mind that he also states that one of the few virtues of the Spiders over Wraith is their reluctance to kill), then quickly switches to calling them a threat that needs to be dealt with.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In the third act of the game, when New York is straight up occupied by Sable and under the blight of an incurable plague, his broadcasts become more heartfelt, and he slowly drops the digs at Spider-Man and focuses on helping people get through the hard times. This culminates in a very heartwarming broadcast where he, hearing of citizens panicking or even rioting, doesn't lambaste them, but instead pleads with them to have the strength not to - because he believes in them to be better. Of course, he's right back to the shouting and sneering once it's all over - but for a brief moment he even acknowledges Spider-Man as doing the right thing.
  • A more minor one, but during the sidequest involving Black Cat, ol' JJJ warns Spider-Man not to get involved with her, going so far as to give a slightly-off version of the 'lie with dogs, wake up with fleas' bit.
  • During the credits of Miles Morales, he mentions that people are claiming the new Spider-man can supposedly do anything, and suggests he proves it by delivering him a certain meal prepared in a specific manner and set it on fire right in front of him. A bit later Miles actually delivers the dish, sets it in fire and leaves, and Jonah at first claims the new Spider-Man is trying to burn him to death, but then tastes the meal and is so impressed by it that he denies Jared a taste. Not that he thanks Spidey for it, but still.
  • The sequel shows his first meeting with Peter. Through Peter's journey across New York to show him the photo he took of Spider-Man, JJJ gives well-meaning (if ridiculous) advice. Then, when Peter makes it, JJJ insults the hell out of the photo... and puts it on the front page and gives Peter a job anyways.
  • After Peter finally gets the symbiote suit off of him in the sequel, Jameson can be heard making a broadcast showing genuine (if begrudging) concern for Spider-Man's disappearance, and expresses hope that he'll turn up okay, and while he does say that he wishes such so Spidey can answer for the "crimes" he's committed, he also says right beforehand that he overall would not wish death upon another human being, showing his concern to at least not be 100% self-righteous pragmatism.
  • Once the Symbiote invasion begins, Jameson gives some legitimately well-meaning advice for the citizens of New York so they can avoid being attacked and/or infected by the monsters, namely by staying indoors and only going out if it's an absolute emergency. He also doesn't sling blame at Spider-Man for the invasion during this broadcast, with his priority being the safety of everyone else.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Though firmly on the side of righteousness Jonah showcases some fairly outdated views on women (calling Black Cat a "jezebel", for example) and minorities (when referencing the Italian-American Maggia, he tells his listeners to hold onto their cannoli, and claims this isn't an ethnic slur because he ''likes'' cannolis) in The Heist.
• Pompous Political Pundit: Played with. His podcast has a slight political slant and he often talks about the political situation of New York City, but Jonah's views don't totally align with either side of the political spectrum, and he expresses both liberal and conservative views, sometimes in the same broadcast. The only side Jonah seems to be entirely on is the side that's against Spider-Man.
• The Real Heroes: He often voices his belief that firefighters and cops deserve more respect than Spider-Man, and in this case it's something Spider-Man seems to agree with him on.
• Selective Obliviousness:
  • In general, JJ is very quick to pull the trigger if anyone even lightly criticizes Spider-Man, while at the same time doing everything he can to avoid anyone who praises Spidey as a hero. More than once, Jameson takes callers on his show who he thought were going to bash Spider-Man, only to hang up on them when they praise Spider-Man instead.
  • He blames Spider-Man entirely for the Evil Power Vacuum created by Fisk's downfall, while overlooking the fact the police were in the middle of a gigantic shoot out with Fisk's men trying to bring him down when Spider-Man showed up.
  • Jameson is quick to put Officer Jefferson Davis on a pedestal for helping fight the Demons while Spider-Man was "nowhere to be seen", when both Davis and Spidey saved each other's bacon and worked together for the entire debacle. In plain view on the streets of Manhattan.
• Sell-Out: He has an entire line of merchandise revolving around him, and regularly promotes this line on his podcast.
• Shameless Self-Promoter: He's constantly tooting his own horn, and promoting himself and his book, or mentioning that he's won a Pulitzer prize. In Miles Morales, he's had various merchandise made, all named after himself, including a decaffeinated coffee brand, and an action figure of himself.
• Single-Issue Wonk: Downplayed, at least in regards to his "nice" side. When talking about anything other than his pet peeve, Jonah isn't a pleasant guy by any stretch, but still acts like your standard blowhard pundit with a recognizable point of view; whenever even the faintest hint of Spider-Man enters the conversation, though — and if it hasn't, he'll wedge it in — expect him to start raving like a madman that he's single-handedly responsible for all the ills of mankind, no matter what leaps of logic it requires.
• Slave to PR: During his interview with the newly-elected Rio Morales, he noticeably restrains himself from openly saying she's wrong about her support of Miles like so many others, well aware that she has many supporters, and that insulting her would not be good for his ratings.
• Technologically Blind Elders: Downplayed, but definitely there where the internet is concerned (which he briefly calls the "ethernet"). He has a very loose understanding of what a meme is and has to clumsily explain to his listeners what "shipping" is after he learns about it concerning Spider-Man and Black Cat.
• That Came Out Wrong: In a post-game podcast, Jonah believes that he's keeping Spider-Man honest, saying that his railing against the web-slinger convinced him to do the right thing. He continues:
  Jameson: Spider-Man, since I know you're listening, my eyes are on you everywhere you go. I mean, not, like, the shower. That would be weird. Or-or the bathroom. Or… LET'S GO TO COMMERCIAL!
• The Unapologetic:
  • In the original PS4 game, Jonah says that "Spider-Man got it right" in distributing the cure for the Devil's Breath, and that he did the right thing. Jonah then takes credit for all of it, refusing to acknowledge to Spider-Man's sense of self-sacrifice was in any way involved, and vows to hold him to an even stricter account. Throughout it all, Jonah never admits that maybe Spider-Man is worth keeping around.
  • In Miles Morales, following Simon Krieger's arrest, he openly reports on Roxxon's corrupt activities, but never once acknowledges that he was a big supporter of the company, and thus was on the wrong side.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • As usual, Spidey busts his rump saving the city and J.J keeps spinning it around that Spidey's doing it for selfish reasons, how each incident is always his fault in some way, for not saving people "correctly" or working with villains to make himself look good. Even after the end of the game where he delivers a cure to end the man made plague in the city, he gives a backhanded thank you and is right back on his usual rants.
  • In Spider-Man 2, Miles pulls him out of a giant sand dune and carries him to the hospital. J.J. shows no gratitude for this act whatsoever (even claiming that he's being "kidnapped"), and continues slandering both Spider-Men.
• Unseen No More: Jonah's likeness is only shown in icons and billboards in the first game, then he's seen from the back in a Santa costume in Miles Morales. The player properly interacts with him in Spider-Man 2, when the Spider-Men escort him to the hospital after his car crashes.
• The Voice: In this game's continuity, he retired as chief editor of the Daily Bugle (his longtime aide "Robbie" Robertson taking over) and now runs a podcast called "Just the Facts" where he talks about issues in New York City - and more specifically how he can come to blame Spider-Man for them. He makes a brief in-person cameo at the beginning of Miles Morales, mostly shot from the back and while wearing a Santa suit and beard that conceals most of his identifying features.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In the endgame, he gives one of these speeches to New York, encouraging them not to give in despite the near-apocalyptic situation they're in.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: His reaction when he finds out that relief convoys are being attacked by escaped convicts.

Gloria Davila

Gloria Davila

Voiced by: Melanie Minichino (English)^{Other Languages} Varvara Chaban (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Mentioned only)

A former homeless woman who volunteers at F.E.A.S.T. under Spider-Man's insistence and later promoted to manager by the events of Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

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• Butch Lesbian: She's a gruff gal with a heart of gold, tends to dress more on the masculine side of things, and has a girlfriend by the time of the Miles Morales game.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: A mild example that's eventually subverted. When Spider-Man saves her in the first game, she isn't interested in recieving F.E.A.S.T.'s help, at least until he mentions Aunt May's wheat cakes. Gloria eventually accepts the helps and gets back on her feet, eventually becoming the shelter's manager.
• Justified Tutorial: She shows up during in the middle of the crime-fighting tutorial during the first assault side-mission, where Spidey has to rescue her from a group of thugs who have ambushed her and accused her of being a Stool Pigeon.
• Nice Girl: Once Spider-Man points her towards F.E.A.S.T., Gloria proves to be a natural at helping people thanks to being chill and easy to talk to. Her kindness is partially what leads to her promotion by the time of Miles Morales.
• Rank Up: After formerly seeking at F.E.A.S.T. for shelter, she's now got her life straight by the time of the Miles Morales game and managing the Harlem branch.
• Secret-Keeper: She is one of the citizens who sees Miles unmasked following his final battle with the Tinkerer. Like the rest of the crowd, Gloria refuses to divulge his identify to the press.
• The Ghost: Her status in Spider-Man 2, where she makes no physical appearance but is referred to twice. The first is when Rio calls Miles in the second mission and says she's with Gloria at F.E.A.S.T. providing aid. The second is when MJ calls Peter to let him know that Gloria will be coming to May's house to reposses some items as F.E.A.S.T. donations.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Wheat cakes. Spider-Man telling her about Aunt May's wheat cakes is partially what gets her to give F.E.A.S.T. a chance, and quite a few of her social media posts in both games mention her craving them.

John Howard

John Howard

Voiced by: Dave Fennoy (English)

Appearances: Spider-Man | Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

A pigeon caretaker and close friends with Peter's Spider-Man.

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• Homeless Pigeon Person: Howard cares deeply for his birds, naming all of them and knowing their appearances and behavioral tics by heart. He mentions that it was something he did to help regain a purpose in life after his wife died and he was laid off from his job.
• Secretly Dying: His FNSM mission in Spider-Man 2 has him ask Spider-Man to help find a good area where his pigeons can roost before he leaves the city on a journey. In reality, Howard knew he didn't have long left, and entrusted Spider-Man to set his flock free so he could rest easy and let go.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: He was dealt a rather bad hand in life, ranging from getting laid off from his job to losing his wife and dying himself, homeless nonetheless. Despite all of this, he was an extremely kind and compassionate man until the very end.

Dr. Isaac Delaney

Isaac Delaney

Appearances: Spider-Man

A college professor at ESU who worked with Morgan Michaels on the Devil's Breath project.

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• Boom, Headshot!: Shoots himself in the head under Mr. Negative's influence, after giving away Morgan Michaels.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Martin Li uses his powers to force Delaney to kill himself after he gives up Dr. Morgan Michaels.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: After being corrupted by the Demons, the latter forces him to kill himself after giving away the name of the lead scientist of Devil's Breath.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once he has what he needs from him (namely the name of the lead scientist on the Devil's Breath project), Martin Li forces him to commit suicide.

Charles Standish

Charles Standish

Appearances: Spider-Man

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Oscorp.

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• Cassandra Truth: Tried warning Silver Sable that the Demons are gonna attack Grand Central once they have the Devil's Breath, but doesn't listen. Thankfully, Mary Jane believes him and alerts Spider-Man when the Demons take over Oscorp's Tech Expos in the terminal.
• Distressed Dude: Is taken hostage by the Demons in his own penthouse, and was forced to give them copies of his records for Devil's Breath, as he's the only official who has any existing record of it.
• Nervous Wreck: Visibly jumps when Mary Jane sneaks into his tent and proceeds to hold a gun at her. Considering he was taken hostage by terrorists and nearly suffered Death By Falling in a fiery elevator shaft, as well as Sable forcing him to stay quiet, it's not surprising he became a bit paranoid. Thankfully, Charles relaxes when he recognizes who Mary Jane was.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Charles is the only official in Oscorp who holds records of Devil's Breath; records the Demons use to track down other scientists involved, from Isaac Delaney to the project's top lead, Dr. Morgan Michaels.

Rose Rosemann

Rose Rosemann

Appearances: Spider-Man

The consignor of Wilson Fisk's estate house.

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• Alliterative Name: Rose Rosemann.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Damsel in Distress: Rose is taken hostage by the Demons during their break in.
• Tranquil Fury: Is furious while trying to maintain composure when she realizes that Mary Jane is a reporter uncovering Fisk's illegal imports in her auction house.

Short Order Cook

Stan Lee

What, did you think he wouldn't be here?

Voiced by: Stan Lee (English)^{Other Languages} Konstantin Elchaninov (Russian) Shigeru Chiba (Japanese)

Appearances: Spider-Man

A cook who works at Mick's Diner, where Peter and Mary Jane enjoy eating. He may look a little familiar…

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• Ambiguous Situation: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse establishes that the Insomniac games are set in the same multiverse as Sony's Spider-Man Universe, the Sam Raimi and Marc Webb Spider-Man films, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which all featured Stan Lee making a Creator Cameo. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 implies that all of his cameos, or at least his MCU cameos, are the same character, the Watcher Informant, making it possible that this Stan Lee is the Informant travelling to a different universe. Alternatively Lee might simply be an Alternate Self of the Informant.
• Character Death: A statue memorializing him can be found outside of Mick's Diner in Miles Morales indicating that he died after the events of the first game, which coincides with Stan Lee's death in 2018.
• Creator Cameo: At this point, calling him the King Of Cameos would not be unearned.
• Ink-Suit Actor: By far the highest quality rendering of Stan Lee's likeness in animated form to date.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: His primary dialogue involves expressing how much he enjoyed Peter and Mary Jane as a couple. Stan Lee has favored the two or at least favored the fact that the two of them are highly popular among the fans and he was the one who made the decision to have them married.^note The Spider-Man newspaper strips that Stan Lee was in charge of kept the two Happily Married, with the retcon being All Just a Dream after they received angry letters. Lee also set aside and shrugged his original plan for Gwen as Peter's girl when he realized that MJ was the more interesting and popular character
• Nice Guy: Greets Mary Jane with a friendly demeanor and joyful attitude. Mary Jane smiles warmly at him before she leaves the Diner.
• No Name Given: Only credited as Short Order Cook.
• Shipper on Deck: Expresses his sincere delight at seeing Peter and Mary Jane together again.
  Short Order Cook: You two always were my favorites.
• Sunglasses at Night: He's wearing his Cool Shades during nighttime.

"Fake Spider-Man"

Notice how the he doesn't have gloves or gadgets.

Voiced by: Matthew Mercer (English)

Appearances: Spider-Man

A kind-hearted martial artist who is inspired by Spider-Man's heroism to take up his image and help him clean up the streets of Manhattan with nothing more than his bravery and skill in "Chikara Dojo" Karate.

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• Ascended Fanboy: He's ecstatic working with the real Spider-Man when he's presented a chance.
• Badass Normal: Sure, he hasn't got any super-powers, but he's still able to single-handedly take down a half-dozen-strong gang of thugs, stop a jewelry store being looted, put out a fire, and stop drug dealers with his skills in Karate alone (One of said knocked out thugs even groans "Where did you learn to fight like that?" when you arrive on the scene to see the aftermath). Even Peter himself is genuinely impressed with how well he holds himself against Wilson Fisk's gang that cornered them at a construction site, and only backs down when Rocket Launchers get involved.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: He can hold his own in a fight without the real deal's webs or gadgets. Confronted by Fisk goons with rocket launchers however, and he wisely chooses to let the real Spidey take care of it.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Cheap Costume: His Spider-Man costume is just a loose-fitting cloth knockoff that doesn't have gloves and has a visible zipper on the back. And yet people still think he's the real Spider-Man.
• Cowardly Lion: He may have understandably panicked when finally confronted by thugs with assault rifles, but it still takes a special kind of bravery to unhesitatingly protect your fellow New Yorkers from robbers and drug dealers by beating them up with your bare hands, not to mention rushing into raging infernos to save people from being burnt to death.
• Didn't Think This Through: While he might have the skills to take down thugs and mercs with guns, he didn't realize that impersonating Spider-Man would make him a target for the many heavily armed and/or superpowered villains that have it out for Spidey. He comes to his senses after a run-in with some of the Kingpin's mooks that are armed with rocket launchers!
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: While he reveals to Spider-Man that he is a black belt karateka (which is plausible given he took down thugs at a drug deal all by himself). When he is fighting alongside Spider Man against Fisk's goons in gameplay, he uses the same basic punches and kicks as anyone not part of the Inner Demons.
• Fire-Forged Friends: You can meet him in the subways in costume when you unlock Fast Travel. In said cut-scenes, Peter and him happily engage in friendly conversation as they sit side by side on the express train. It can also appear at random before you even start the "Spider-Men" side mission.
• Honor Before Reason: Once Peter comes to his rescue, he's told to run, but decides to stay and help fight the thugs, both because it's the right thing to do and because he doesn't want to miss the opportunity to fight alongside the real Spider-Man. It took a Fisk goon toting rocket launchers for him to promptly bolt it and hide.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Realizes trying to fight a whole Fisk gang would not end well, and tries to admit he's not the real Spider-Man initially. Then, after being bailed out by Spidey, he helps out in the ensuing fight, but wisely decides to exit the battle once the thugs break out the rocket launchers.
• Large Ham: He speaks with the stereotypical "superhero gravitas", which annoys Peter.
  Peter: I do not talk like that!
• Mythology Gag: Once he decides to quit being Spidey, he tells Spider-Man that he's "Spider-Man, no more"; a reference to the infamous comic book title of the same name.
• Nice Guy: Although he's in way over his head on his short-lived crusade, even Spider-Man warmly admits "Your heart is in the right place" when it comes to his desire to help people and make the world a better place.
• No Name Given: Only known as "Fake Spider-Man" in game.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Even though his costume is clearly a cheap knockoff and he lacks any of Spidey's powers or gadgets, everyone mistakes him for the real Spider-Man. Becomes even more absurd if Spidey isn't wearing the Advanced Suit, Classic Suit, or really any suit that civilians would reasonably expect Spidey to wear.
• Retired Badass: Short as his crime-fighting career may be, Peter comes to genuinely respect him for his bravery and kindness, and offers him a job teaching free Self-Defense classes at the F.E.A.S.T. homeless shelter, which he apparently accepts.
• Weak, but Skilled: He has no powers, but is a black-belt martial artist who is more than capable of taking down unarmed, unpowered opponents. He realizes he's out of his depth, however, once heavily armored mooks show up.
• Windmill Crusader: He doesn't realize it takes more than simple bravery to do what Spider-Man does on a daily basis, and would almost certainly have died if Peter didn't find him in time when Fisk's angry thugs, armed with submachine guns, caught up with him seeking revenge.

Introduced in novels

Robbie Robertson

Joseph "Robbie" Robertson

Appearances: Hostile Takeover | Spider-Man 2

The chief editor of the Daily Bugle. As of the second game, he runs the New York Bulletin, with Jameson having taken back ownership of the Bugle.

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• Nice Guy: Generally a lot more level-headed and friendly towards the staff than Jonah.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: In contrast to Jonah, Robbie does his best to maintain an objective view of Spider-Man, as reflected by the Bugle taking a more netural approach to coverage of the webhead during his time as the chief editor.

Maya Lopez / Echo

Maya Lopez / Echo

Appearances: Hostile Takeover

Wilson Fisk's adoptive daughter, who was raised to believe Spider-Man killed her father. At the end of Hostile Takeover, she's traveled to Montana to live with the rest of her family and learn more about her father.

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• Handicapped Badass: Maya is completely deaf, but this does nothing to impede her. She can understand what people are saying if she can see their lips moving and as Echo, she is able to match toe-to-toe against Spider-Man despite having no powers herself.
• Heel–Face Turn: Provides evidence to lock up Fisk after learning he had killed her father, not Spider-Man.
• Misplaced Retribution: Spitefully helped Jameson's smear campaign against Spider-Man to avenge her father (whom she believed was murdered by the webhead) by giving Jameson enough money to own a radio station for his Just the Facts! podcast. She eventually learns that Fisk was the real culprit and works with Spider-Man to stop him from becoming in charge of the city's finances.
• You Killed My Father: Was raised to believe that Spider-Man was the one who killed her father and left her orphaned, a falsehood that her foster father Wilson Fisk (who's the real culprit) fed to her.

Introduced in The City that Never Sleeps DLC

Detective Mackey

Walter Hardy / Black Cat I

Voiced by: Daniel Riordan (English)^{Other Languages} Vasily Dakhnenko (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man

An old detective approaching retirement that wants Spider-Man's help to finish That One Case.

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• Canon Character All Along: He is actually Walter Hardy, the original Black Cat and Felicia's father who faked his death to protect his daughter from the Maggia.
• Cool Old Guy: Definitely gives off this vibe even before it's revealed he's Felicia Hardy's father, who went to prison and even faked his death to protect her from the Maggia.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Faked his death and went into hiding in order to protect his daughter Felicia from the mob.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Walter wanted his daughter Felicia as far away from the life as possible. He also agrees with Spider-Man that she is a good person, despite the thievery.
• Impersonating an Officer: He's not really an NYPD officer, he's actually a renowned thief.
• Papa Wolf: Downplayed. Walter looked up old records of his daughter and noticed that she has a history with Spider-Man. He's not against the idea that they've dated, but he was certainly uncomfortable when he brought up the subject.
• Secret-Keeper: Spidey becomes his after finding all the paintings he hid around Manhattan.
• Shout-Out: Detective Mackey is the name of the lead character of The Shield. This doubles as a Meaningful Name considering the Detective Mackey of The Shield is a dirty cop and a criminal, which hints at the Detective Mackey of the game not being entirely on the level.
• That One Case: Tracking down the loot of the original Black Cat, which he needs to do in order to retire in peace. Until it turns out that he is the original Black Cat, and is just using Spider-Man to locate his old stashes for him.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to discuss details about him without revealing the end of his sidequest.

David Obademi

David Obademi

Voiced by: Ike Amadi (English)^{Other Languages} Mikhail Danilyuk (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man

A former Sable International soldier whom Spider-Man saved from Hammerhead's thugs. He's been trying to gather up supplies and send them to the victims suffering from a civil war in Symkaria.

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• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: With Spidey's help, David manages to secure the humanitarian supplies and send them to the Symkarian Embassy for the victims suffering from the civil war. Also, after learning that he used to be a teacher, Spidey asks MJ to pull some strings for him. A school in Midtown calls David to offer a visa in exchange for a teaching position, and David couldn't be happier.
• Good Feels Good: After finishing his sidequest, Spidey thanks him, saying that people like David is the reason why he'll always love New York City.
• The Illegal: Of the "overstayed his visa" variety, as it was a work visa tied to his former job at Sable International. Spidey and MJ help him find a new job, which allows him to get a new visa.
• Nice Guy: One of the friendliest people Spidey encounters in the game, and he's been trying his best to secure the supplies for the war refugees in Symkaria all by himself.
• Still Wearing the Old Colors: Even though he's not with Sable International anymore, he's still wearing their armor. This saves his life when a large Maggia mob ambushes him on the way to the Symkarian Embassy: the armor he wears provide a pretty good protection that allows him to hold them off by himself until Spider-Man arrives.
• Token Good Teammate: Granted, he's not with the organization anymore, but David is still a pretty nice guy for a Sable International solider.

Introduced in Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Danika Hart

Danika Hart

Voiced by: Ashly Burch (English)^{Other Languages} Akeno Watanabe (Japanese), Alexandra Kuragina (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

Host of her own talk-show, The Danikast.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Although clearly concerned with Spider-Man's wellbeing, Danika in the comics was treated as a slightly more obnoxious figure; in particular, the extent to which she tokenized Miles as "a kid of color" was shown to make him very uncomfortable, as while he was proud of his biracial heritage, he didn't want to become stigmatized as "The New, Black Spider-Man", rather than just Spider-Man. She also considered outing Spider-Man's secret identity for a payday, and only relented because she loved Ganke. Here, neither of these traits are present, and more emphasis is put on her using The Danikast as a community activism and self-care resource.
• Calling the Old Man Out: During her debate with Jameson himself.
  JJJ: Let me ask you something, "Danny," do you ever think about what you're inciting? About your journalistic integrity?
  Danika: More than some.
  JJJ: Because your campaign against Roxxon is baffling to an ACTUAL journalist like myself. You should be attacking the young, unproved VIGILANTE who keeps causing problems in Harlem!
  Danika: What?! You-you twist everything Spider-Man does into something malicious, while simultaneously excusing everything Roxxon does wrong! All Spider-Man needs for you to support him is to get a better PR department.
  JJJ: Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh. The only problem Spider-Man fixes are the ONES HE CAUSES! I won't pride the arsonist for putting out his fire! Meanwhile, Roxxon built a beautiful plaza in a FAILING neighborhood.
  Danika: By tearing down homes and businesses! Our new Spider-Man is proving that Harlem isn't the failure Roxxon makes it out to be. And you, Mr. Jameson, for someone who claims to love New York, you sure do seem to hate New Yorkers.
  JJJ: You are clearly emotional, young lady, so I'm invoking the mercy rule on this "debate." Jared, shut it down! And whose idea was it to debate a teenager? THERE ARE NO GOOD OPTICS TO DESTROYING A CHILD! Get the car. I need a hot stone massage!
• Deadpan Snarker: She's a Nice Girl for the most part but has a snarky side, especially when she has to put up with Jameson.
  Danika: [about Miles' camouflage power] Man, I wish I could vanish sometimes. Like right now.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Danika is seen leaving Teo's Bodega in the beginning before she and the Danikast are introduced. She is distinguishable by her dyed purple hair and jacket.
• Everyone Has Standards: Although she constantly shows support of both Spider-Men, Dankia starts questioning the original's brutal methods once he gets the black suit, even being put off just by how it looks. She's also very taken aback when learning he went on an animalistic rampage against Kraven's hunters throughout Queens one night.
• Fangirl: Is one to Miles (as Spider-Man). Ultimately a Downplayed Trope since she cares more about the positive impact he is actually having on their community rather than hero worshipping him individually. Although this doesn't stop her from getting tongue-tied after Miles tells her he's a fan of her show.
• Foil: To J. Jonah Jameson. While JJ's talk show focuses on negativity and bashing both Spider-Men, Danika's is full of positivity, gives support for her fans, and is grateful for what the Spider-Men do for the city. While Danika is not afraid to call out blatant corruption in the city, JJ constantly praises Roxxon while dismissing Miles' Spider-Man as a villain. She even debates with JJ on her podcast, only for him to shut her down despite her attempts to call him out for his relentless accusations towards the Spider-Men who do genuine good for the city.
• Immigrant Patriotism: She was born in China and her family came over when she was 6. It's revealed at the end of the second game that Danika passed her citizenship test.
• Mission Control: Danika takes over this role for Miles during the three Underground Hideout side missions, offering him details on the Underground and their history with coming into power.
• Nice Girl: She's a big ball of happiness and positive energy, being overwhelmingly supportive of Miles' efforts as Spider-Man, as well as being concerned for the underprivileged citizens of New York (in contrast to Jameson).
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Normally, when in a regular podcast, she talks chipper and closes her casts off with a happy "Bye!" However, when in the mist of a brewing disaster, she speaks softly as a voice of hope and reason and closes off with a formal "Goodbye."
  • She invokes this in Spider-Man 2, growing steadily more concerned by how much more aggressive Spider-Man is becoming under the influence of the symbiote. She's also an example herself, as hearing one of Spider-Man's most wholehearted supporters actually criticize his actions (as opposed to Jameson, from whom these sorts of comments would be nothing out of the ordinary) is a sign of how much Peter's starting to lose himself.
• Properly Paranoid: Even before the black suit begins making Peter aggressive and dangerous, Danika expresses concern about its Obviously Evil appearance.
• Ship Tease: Is noticeably flustered when she invites Miles (as Spider-Man) to go out for coffee, and later to come onto her show.
• The Voice: Downplayed. Danika makes a quick cameo leaving Teo's Bodega in the beginning cutscene when Miles receives a text from Peter about the prison convoy. Later on, she's seen in person at Rio's campaign rally. But afterwards, she isn't seen again in-person the rest of the game, like Jameson.

Rick Mason

Richard "Rick" Mason

Voiced by: Todd Williams (English)^{Other Languages} Takuma Suzuki (Japanese), Gleb Petrov (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Phin's older brother and former lead scientist of Roxxon's Nuform Project.

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• Adaptational Job Change: A mercenary in the comics, but a scientist in the game.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Rick Mason was the son of Phineas Mason/The Tinkerer. Here, the two are siblings.
• Big Brother Mentor: In addition to being an actual cool brother for Phin, he was one to Miles when the latter was in middle school and is implied to be one of his inspirations for going into science.
• Black and Nerdy: He's very a intelligent scientist who attracts the attention of Roxxon to be their leading man for the Nuform project.
• Cynicism Catalyst: His death caused Phin to become more moody and withdrawn from Miles, and leads her to become the Tinkerer and form the Underground to get revenge on Roxxon, putting hundreds in danger with her actions.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Unlike the comics, this Rick is shown needing glasses. He also suffers from an illness killing him.
• Foil:
  • To Otto Octavius. Both are gifted scientists who wanted to use their inventions to change the world for the better. Otto was an elderly man who owned a small company that specialized on prosthetics, Rick was a Jack of All Trades inventor who focused on energy creation when he was hired by Roxxon to be one of their lead scientists. Otto suffers from a neuro-degenerative disease that slowly destroys his body and wants to use his creation to fix it, Rick was slowly being killed by his own Nuform thanks to Roxxon's risk taking. Otto and Rick made enemies of powerful businessmen, Norman Osborn and Simon Krieger respectively, but while Otto was once classmates and good friends with Norman and descended into villainy and cruelty to get revenge, Rick was simply an employee who tried to stop Krieger from hurting others with the unstable Nuform, only to be killed by his boss for interfering.
  • To Harry Osborn: They are a childhood friend of a Spider-Man who like Otto, want to do good things for this world, and they also turn out to be secretly dying. Harry's condition is a genetic one as it is the same disease that took his mother's life while Rick became sick due to an invention gone wrong. Both became catalysts for driving a character to villainy, with Rick's death being the start of Phin's fall for revenge and Harry's sickness was kept in check by a Symbiote which eventually turns into Venom.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Miles described Rick as someone "who could fix anything". Whether it's machinery for his family's shop or chemistry for Roxxon, Rick could handle building anything that came his way.
• Genius Cripple: Miles discovers that Nuform made Rick dangerously sick, to the point he was on IV fluids and had to take drugs for bone marrow decay.
• Nice Guy: His mantra was "Clean power will save the world." He wanted to help people by working on Nuform, and when he found out Roxxon was going to release it despite its serious health risks and danger, was ready to sacrifice his career and life to stop it from being released.
• No Body Left Behind: His body is completely disintegrated when the Nuform reactor he gets trapped in explodes.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares a first name with a member of Tombstone's gang who was killed in the first game.
• Posthumous Character: He was killed off six months before the events of the game.
• Promotion to Parent: After their parents died, Rick became Phin's caretaker, balancing out college and keeping their family's store open while simultaneously raising her.
• Race Lift: White in the comics, African-American here.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: This version of the Tinkerer is Rick's little sister. The original Tinkerer was Rick's father.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: A benevolent scientist who wanted to help create a clean energy source for New York City, and an encouraging figure to both his sister and her best friend. He was indirectly killed by Simon Krieger when Rick tried to stop the unstable Nuform from being released.

Teo Alvarez

Teo Alvarez

Voiced by: Yancey Arias (English)^{Other Languages} Konstantin Elchaninov (Russian)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Spider-Man 2

Owner of Teo's Bodega and of a cat named Spider-Man. Which gets a little confusing when the cat goes missing and he gives Spider-Man a mission to track down Spider-Man.

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• The Cameo: Appears near the end of the Bebop quest chain in 2, along with the other Harlem-based supporting character from Miles Morales.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Hidden Depths: Is a talented trumpet player as seen in his cameo in in 2.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Loves his cat so much the kitty has a bed right at his shop's counter.

Camila Vázquez

Camila Vázquez

Voiced by: Krizia Bajos (English)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Owner of Pana Fuerte.

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• The Cameo: Appears near the end of the Bebop quest chain in 2, along with the other Harlem-based supporting character from Miles Morales.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.
• Little Old Lady Investigates: Tries to track down the goons that robbed the inventory of her shop and her neighbors, but gets kidnapped for her efforts.
• Punny Name: Her husband is called "Jesus" and is a general contractor. His business is called "Y'all need Jesus".

Caleb Ward

Caleb Ward

Voiced by: Emerson Brooks (English)

A barber and owner of Caleb's Clean Cuts.

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• The Cameo: Appears near the end of the Bebop quest chain in 2, along with the other Harlem-based supporting character from Miles Morales.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no direct comic counterpart.

Introduced in Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Principal Evans

Principal Evans

Appearances: Spider-Man 2

The principal of Brooklyn Visions Academy.

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• Dramatic Irony: Not that she'll ever be aware of it or even be convinced, but Peter did the things she accused him of not doing, keeping people safe from harm. He did it in a suit though, and in all fairness, he would have a hard time explaining things without revealing his identity. Ganke even mentions how hard it is to balance life as Spider-Man and a normal person.
• Foil: Can be seen as this to Peter's previous boss and former friend, Otto Octavius. Despite being frustrated with his constant tardiness, Otto always cut Peter slack, keeping in mind that he meant well and respected him for his intelligence and always standing by his side. Principal Evans, on the other hand, immediately gets on his case for showing up late to class on his first day and promptly fires him when he was nowhere to be seen during Sandman's rampage.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She fires Peter for his leaving his students during the Sandman crisis and refuses to hear out any excuses on his part, but she's right that Peter's responsibility was to look out for the students, and, not knowing that he's Spider-Man, she had every reason to fire him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's clear that she has her students' safety in mind when Sandman attacks New York. Her reason for firing Peter was due to the fact that he supposedly ran away rather than helping evacuate his class. Overlaps with Jerkass Has a Point considering the audience and some people know Peter was actually fighting Sandman and saving people, but she doesn't. By further extension, she worries when one of her teachers gets kidnapped.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She only appears during the game's introduction and one of Miles' side quests. However, her firing Peter is what leads to him accepting Harry's proposal of working at the Emily May Foundation to make the world a better place.

Delilah (Unmarked Spoilers)

Delilah

A bartender of The Bar with No Name on an alternate Earth.

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• Non-Standard Character Design: To be expected from a multiversal character in the Spider-Verse. In her case, her character model is low-poly with extremely simple textures and coloring. In short, she looks like she walked out of an early-PS1 era cutscene.
• Noodle Incident: How she figured out how to contact other realities and her history with Miguel isn't explained.
• Outside-Context Problem: Safe to say that our heroes weren't expecting to meet someone from another universe when they started collecting the mysterious Spider-Bots. Your chosen hero (and Ganke) are left utterly confused by the end of their conversation with Delilah.
• Walking Spoiler: Just mentioning her spoils the game's connection to the Spider-Verse movies.
• Wham Line:
  Delilah: And if Miguel comes looking for these, tell him 'finders keepers.'
  Spider-Man: Wait—who's Miguel?

Albert Moon

Albert Moon

Voiced by: TBA

Appearances: Spider-Man 2

Rio Morales' new boyfriend after the death of her husband.

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• Second Love: To Rio.

Cindy Moon

Cindy Moon

Appearances: Spider-Man 2

Albert's daughter.

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• Age Lift: While Cindy is usually depicted as younger than she looks, her backstory firmly places her as around the same age as Peter. Here, she's implicitly around Miles' age instead.
• The Faceless: We never see Cindy's face in The Stinger as she's introduced to the Morales'.

Posthumous Characters

Ben Parker

Benjamin "Ben" Parker

May's husband and Peter's uncle whose death was the latter's main inspiration for becoming Spider-Man.

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• Death by Origin Story: As always, in almost every Spider-Man origin story. While Peter used his powers for wrestling to try and earn extra money, he never bothered to prevent a robber from getting away, claiming that it's "not [his] problem." However, the same robber who Peter never stopped ended up killing Ben, which made Peter realize that his selfishness cost him his father figure. To atone for his mistakes, he chooses to use his powers to help people and take up the mantle "Spider-Man."
• Grave-Marking Scene: When the player allows Peter to visit Ben's grave to pay respect.
  Peter: Hey, Uncle Ben, miss you. Doing my best to make you proud.
• Happily Married: Despite having a few "rough patches" in his relationship with May according to the lady herself, it's obvious that the two loved each other very much.
• Like a Son to Me: He had this with Peter. While never shown onscreen due to him passing 8 years before the story takes place, it's made very apparent that Ben raised and loved Peter like the son he never had. Furthermore, various collectibles and background pictures show what a strong father-son relationship they had prior to his death.
• Together in Death: After May's passing, their graves are seen together.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Like many Uncle Ben incarnations.

Richard and Mary Parker

Richard and Mary Parker

Peter's late parents who worked as secretive government agents and were tragically killed in a plane crash when their son was very young.

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• Mysterious Past: As Peter was just a young child when his parents left, he knows very little about them, other than the fact that they were government agents (in the comics, they both worked for the CIA). It's implied he asked around to learn about his parents and likely who they worked for, but barely got anything.
• Parental Abandonment: Both of Peter's parents died in a plane crash when he was very young.
• Tragic Keepsake: Peter keeps a locket with pictures of his late parents in it.

Emily Osborn

Emily Osborn

Norman's deceased wife and Harry's mother who died at some point before the start of the first game.

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• Delicate and Sickly: Died of Oshtoran Syndrome, a rare genetic neurological disorder which her son, Harry, sadly inherited.
• Good Parents: She was remembered fondly by Harry.
• Happily Married: It's definitely made clear that Norman and Emily deeply loved each other before she passed away.
• Impersonation-Exclusive Character: Once Venom uses her voice to reassure Harry after they kill Kraven, it becomes clear that, when Harry was in the tank, hearing her voice, that was the symbiote as well. She herself otherwise appears only in photographs and dialogue between other characters.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Emily's death drove Norman to create GR-27 to cure any genetic diseases, but came out wildly imperfect and was nicknamed "Devil's Breath", the compound that would both directly and indirectly create Mr. Negative and Doc Ock. Also, Harry inadvertently inherited the same disease that took her life which made Norman do everything in his power to cure him. In the sequel, Venom also uses her voice to convince Harry to go along with the symbiote's plans.
• Supreme Chef: MJ mentions Harry always recalls Emily's cooking rather fondly as she explores Norman's kitchen.
• Wealthy Philanthropist: It is mentioned that Emily worked as an environmental attorney before her death. In fact, Harry sent up his research stations and wanted to follow in her footsteps to honor her love for the environment.

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