He then joined forces with heroes like Captain Americat and the Fantastic Fur to battle Ducktor Doom and other baddies in a series of humor comics. He actually began life as a spider but was bitten by a radioactive pig.
Spider-Ham, hails from a parallel universe full of anthropomorphic animals. One of the spiders bites Parker, and he hallucinates a Spider god who gives him “the curse of power.” This Parker creates a costume based on Uncle Ben’s World War I uniform and-unlike most other Spider-People-arms himself with a gun.
Peter, a journalist, follows Obsorn’s men to a warehouse where they are smuggling antiques, including a creepy old spider statue that contains-you guessed it-radioactive spiders. Osborn orders Vulture, a freak in a circus, to eat Ben alive. In this iteration, Uncle Ben and Aunt May are social activists who come into the crosshairs of crime boss Norman Osborn. The black-and-white Spdier-Man Noir is born straight from a dark version of the comics set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. At one point in the comics defeats a Venom suit piloted by her friend-turned-foe Addie Parker. Though Peni doesn’t have superhuman abilities herself, her suit is formidable. She and the Spider share a psychic connection that allows them to control the CPU of the suit together. Peni then allows a radioactive spider to bite her. Peni moves in with her Uncle Ben and Aunt May, and they tell her that she must become the new pilot of the suit. It’s unclear how the suit came to be, but presumably Peni’s father built it. When she was nine, her father died while piloting a robot suit called SP//dr. Peni is an anime-inspired version of the hero. In one comic book run, Morales travels to Stacy’s universe, and the two become romantically involved.
In her free time, Stacy plays in a band called the Mary Janes with, yes, Mary-Jane Watson. Many of Stacy’s storylines focus on her relationship with her father, the police chief, who knows her identity but disapproves of her vigilantism. She goes by the name Spider-Woman or Spider-Gwen or Ghost Spider, depending on the comic.
She mourns her best friend and swears to never kill again. He turns into the Lizard, and Stacy fights and accidentally kills him. But Parker, who clearly can’t deal with strong women, creates a serum to give himself superhuman abilities. Stacy uses her newfound power to defends the nerdy Parker from bullies. Emma Stone played the character in the Amazing Spider-Man movies.īut in an another run of the comics, a radioactive spider bites Stacy instead of Parker. In the early Spider-Man comics, Gwen Stacy appears as Parker’s love interest who meets a tragic end: The Green Goblin throws her off the Brooklyn Bridge, and when Parker tries to catch her with his web, her neck snaps. The two fight, and Aaron’s weapons malfunction. His uncle Aaron eventually pieces together Morales’ secret identity and tries to blackmail him into helping him commit crimes.
MORE: This Is the Definitive Ranking of Every Single Spider-Man Movie Morales is initially resistant to using his powers for good, but is overcome by guilt after he watches the Green Goblin kill Parker and does nothing about it.
Morales gains all of Parker’s abilities plus the power to camouflage himself and a “venom strike” that manifests as an electric shock. the Prowler) sneaks into Oscorp and accidentally brings home a radioactive spider.Īaron’s nephew, Miles Morales-a half-black, half-Puerto Rican teen living in Brooklyn-visits Aaron’s apartment and is bit by the spider. In a run of comics called the Ultimate Marvel Universe, an Oscorp scientist uses Peter Parker’s blood in order to create another radioactive spider. Peter Parker), despite his policeman father’s protestations about the superhero’s vigilante methods. Morales excels at physics and admires Spider-Man (a.k.a. Comic fans first met Morales, a half-black, half-Hispanic teenager living in Brooklyn, in 2011. Though Into the Spider-Verse, outlines Morales’ origin story, the movie version diverges a bit from the comics. But for those who are only familiar with Peter Parker, here’s a brief summary of the comic book tales behind each person and animal who was bit by a radioactive arachnid. MORE: Why We’ll Never Stop Getting New Spider-Man MoviesĮach character briefly references his or her own origin story in the film.