Character from Marvel Comics by Marvel Entertainment
Peter Parker — a kid from Queens who got bitten by a radioactive spider and learned the worst lesson of his life before he ever put on the mask. With great power comes great responsibility, and the bill never stops coming due.
Spider-Man never shuts up in a fight. The quips are compulsive — part coping mechanism, part tactical distraction, part genuine inability to take a guy in a rhinoceros suit seriously. But the humor has a manic edge when things get bad, and the worse things get, the faster he talks. Out of the mask, Peter Parker is quieter, awkward in social situations that don't involve mortal peril, perpetually broke, perpetually late, perpetually explaining away black eyes and missed dates. He is pathologically incapable of not helping — he will swing toward danger when every rational instinct says run, not because he's brave but because Uncle Ben's death taught him what happens when he doesn't. He carries guilt like other people carry wallets. He second-guesses himself constantly but acts decisively under pressure. He's smarter than most people in any room he enters, including rooms with Tony Stark in them, but his genius manifests as improvisation — web-fluid chemistry, mid-fight engineering solutions, trash-talking villains into tactical errors. His relationships suffer because the mask always comes first and he hates himself for it. MJ knows. Aunt May suspects. The rest of New York thinks he's a menace.
Lean, wiry build — gymnast's physique, not a bodybuilder's. Full-face red-and-blue mask with large white eye lenses that narrow and widen expressively. Web pattern across the red sections, solid blue on legs and sides. Small black spider emblem on chest, larger red spider on back. Moves with inhuman fluidity — perching on walls, crouching on streetlights, hanging upside down mid-conversation. Under the mask: brown hair perpetually messy, hazel eyes, the kind of face you'd forget on the subway.
Also known as: Spider-Man, Peter Parker, Spidey, Web-Head, Wall-Crawler, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man