Early Life[]
Peter was born around the year 1995 in Forest Hills, New York. Following the death of his parents, government agents Richard and Mary Parker, Peter was raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, growing up in Queens, New York. As a child, Peter became a fan of Otto Octavius since he was 6 years old, as well becoming friends with Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn, forming a friendship that would last into his adulthood.
At 15 years old, while attending a science demonstration, Peter was bitten by a radiation-infused spider, which altered his physiology and granted him several abilities, such as enhanced strength, agility, speed, as well as a "spider-sense" that alerted him to any danger. At some point after this, Peter allowed a mugger to run past him without using his abilities to stop, deciding it was "not [his] problem". The criminal would go on to shoot and kill Uncle Ben. Knowing that he could have prevented Ben's death had he stopped the mugger, Peter blamed himself for the incident.
Becoming Spider-Man[]
As a result, Peter became the masked vigilante Spider-Man, embracing his uncle's mantra of "With great power comes great responsibility" and defended New York City from crime. To aid his mission, Peter used his chemistry knowledge to create a synthetic web, and wrist-mounted "web shooters", to allow him to swing through the city and incapacitate criminals.
A week after Uncle Ben's death, Peter was greeted by his classmate Harry Osborn, whom asked how he was, and the two quickly became friends. He also befriended Mary Jane Watson during his time in Midtown. At some point, Peter and Harry were preparing to show a project for the science fair, but it was destroyed when Flash Thompson broke Harry's laptop. The two decided to break into school to get Peter's USB to get a copy of the project, but Harry's father, Norman Osborn, arrived and explained the recent passing of Harry's mother.
Over the following eight years, Peter protected New York under his costumed alias. During this time, he had several encounters with super-criminals Electro, Vulture, Rhino, and Scorpion. He encountered Herman Schultz (Shocker) early into his career, describing his first encounter with Shocker as when "[Spider-Man] was young and stupid". Peter left several of his backpacks webbed to walls around the city at various points throughout his war on crime.
Peter also established a long standing rivalry with Wilson Fisk, who ruled New York crime and, unbeknownst to Peter, a selection of the police force, as "The Kingpin". At some point, Peter learned the Kingpin's true identity, and the two had at least one physical encounter during the first eight years of Peter's career. Peter also developed an alliance with NYPD captain Yuri Watanabe; however, she remained unaware of his secret identity. He also had some sort of meeting with Matthew Murdock, although the exact details of this are unknown.
In his personal life, Peter's Aunt May joined the organization F.E.A.S.T. run by Martin Li, whom Peter knew well by eight years into his career. He also entered into a relationship with Mary Jane, an aspiring reporter. While the relationship had ended by the time Parker entered his eighth year of crime fighting, Mary Jane was still on good terms with him, and was aware of his dual life as Spider-Man.
During his time broken up with Mary Jane, he had brief romance with the thief Black Cat/Felicia Hardy. Though she did go straight and give up crime, they broke things off when Peter learned that she fell back into her old habits.
Marvel's Spider-Man[]
Peter has since departed his job as a photographer at the Daily Bugle and works as a research assistant at Dr. Otto Octavius' lab, barely making ends meet.
With the NYPD finally having enough evidence to serve a warrant for Wilson Fisk's arrest, Peter makes his way to Fisk Tower to help the police raid the building. Fighting his way through Fisk's men, Spider-Man manages to take Fisk down and end his reign as the Kingpin, sending him to prison.
In his personal life, Peter is late for work helping Dr. Octavius demonstrate his advanced prosthetic limbs for his government financiers, who are left concerned by the demonstration's failure. Meanwhile, a new gang emerges from the shadows onto the streets of New York, calling themselves the Inner Demons. The Demons begin seizing Fisk's illicit resources and assets.
Mary Jane investigates an auction of Fisk's goods which is then attacked by Demons. With Spider-Man, she learns that the Demons are seeking something called Devil's Breath. Spider-Man is able to stop a Demon attack with the aid of Officer Jefferson Davis. Davis is lauded for his heroism at a re-election event for Mayor Norman Osborn attended by Peter, Mary Jane, and Officer Davis' wife and son, Rio and Miles Morales. Osborn receives a call threatening to punish the city for his sins, and flees the event. The Demons then attack, killing Davis and many attendees. Peter witnesses their leader, Martin Li, transforming into an inverted form dubbed Mister Negative, but he is knocked unconscious before he can intervene. Following the attack, Osborn hires Silver Sable and her PMC, Sable International, to supplant the police, and Peter befriends Miles over their loss, and convinces him to volunteer at F.E.A.S.T.
Peter and Otto continue their research, but Osborn withdraws government funding in an attempt to force Otto to work for Oscorp. Spider-Man's search for Li uncovers that Devil's Breath is a lethal and virulent bioweapon inadvertently created by Oscorp while developing a cure for genetic diseases at Osborn's behest. Li locates and steals the only sample of Devil's Breath and threatens to release it unless Osborn surrenders to him. Li is foiled by Mary Jane and Spider-Man, Devil's Breath is secured, and Li is incarcerated at the nearby maximum-security prison, The Raft.
Meanwhile, Otto obsesses over creating enhanced limbs that exceed the limitations of the human body, creating four mechanical tentacles operated from his back and mentally controlled via neural interface. He reveals to Peter that he is suffering from a neuromuscular disease that will inevitably immobilize him, and that enhanced limbs will allow him to continue his work when his body fails. Peter warns Otto that the interface could impact his mind and personality. Otto continues its use in secret, overcome with anger at Osborn; the pair were once friends who founded the mega-corporation Oscorp before Otto left due to Osborn's unethical experiments.
Spider-Man is drawn to the Raft by a prison break. He learns that some of his greatest enemies—Li, Electro, Vulture, Rhino, and Scorpion—have escaped. They subdue Spider-Man and present him to Otto, now calling himself Doctor Octopus. Otto warns the beaten Spider-Man to not interfere before retaking the Devil's Breath and releasing it in Times Square, causing a mass outbreak; Peter's Aunt May is among those infected. New York descends into chaos while Doctor Octopus and his subordinates attack Osborn's properties. Osborn declares martial law and blames Spider-Man for the incident, branding him a fugitive.
Spider-Man gradually takes back the city, defeating Electro, Vulture, Rhino, and Scorpion. Meanwhile, Mary Jane infiltrates Osborn's penthouse and learns that Devil's Breath was developed to cure Osborn's terminally ill son Harry—Peter and Mary Jane's best friend. As a child, Li was a test subject for the cure, gaining his abilities in an explosion of energy that also killed his parents and caused both his hatred for Osborn and the split between Osborn and Otto. She also learns that an antidote exists and Li has taken it. Spider-Man defeats Li and recovers the antidote, but Doctor Octopus arrives, brutalizes Spider-Man, and escapes with both it and Osborn.
Wounded, Peter builds himself an armored suit and confronts Doctor Octopus atop Oscorp Tower, liberating Osborn. Otto reveals that he has known Peter's secret identity, and the two battle. Spider-Man recovers the antidote and defeats Doctor Octopus; his artificial limbs are removed and he is sent to the Raft. Peter is faced with using the limited antidote to save a near-death May or allowing doctors to use it as a chemical base to develop enough cure for everyone; he chooses to save everyone. Before dying, May reveals that she also knows he is Spider-Man and that she is proud of him.
Three months later, New York has returned to normal and Peter and Mary Jane rekindled their relationship. Miles, who was earlier bitten by an Oscorp genetically modified spider that escaped from Osborn's personal lab, reveals to Peter that he has gained spider-like powers, prompting Peter to reveal his own secret.
The City That Never Sleeps[]
In The City That Never Sleeps, Spider-Man must deal with the Maggia, who want to return after Kingpin was arrested and seeing that the citizens of New York don't take them seriously. In The Heist, Spider-Man confronts Black Cat, who has returned to her life of crime and is working with the Maggia crime boss Hammerhead. During the confrontation, Spider-Man learns that Black Cat is working for Hammerhead to steal drives in exchange for her son, which Peter believes is his. Spider-Man teams up with Black Cat to help her save her son, but eventually learns that Felicia was manipulating him the entire time. Black Cat reveals that she's been double crossing Hammerhead, and leaves Spider-Man in the vault after taking the last data drive. Spider-Man then learns that Hammerhead rigged Black Cat's hideout to explode as revenge, and sees her apparent death. Peter mourns her death with Mary Jane, but admits to being relieved that he won't be father yet.
In Turf Wars, Spider-Man assists Yuri and the NYPD in stopping Hammerhead and his gang, but is too late to stop Hammerhead from killing Yuri's men at his base. Yuri wants to get revenge on Hammerhead due to his actions and Spider-Man not being able to stop the Maggia quickly. Spider-Man then goes onto learn that Hammerhead is collecting Sable International weapon caches, and is using Silver Sable's tech to fight against the other dons and NYPD. After stopping Hammerhead from killing the other dons, Spider-Man battles the crime lord at an construction site. Though he defeated Hammerhead, Yuri appeared and shot him dead, leaving to her being put on administrative leave. Unbeknownst to the NYPD, his men managed to resurrect Hammerhead while he was being transported to the morgue.
In Silver Lining, Silver Sable returns to New York to collect her tech from Hammerhead and the Maggia, and forms an alliance with Spider-Man to stop him. Hammerhead nearly killed Spider-Man during a confrontation, but Peter was saved by Felicia, whom thanked him for his previous actions in The Heist. Spider-Man then tracked down Hammerhead and worked with Silver Sable to defeat him, thus ending the Maggia threat in New York City. During the three DLCs, Spider-Man speaks with Miles on training him to be his protégé, and works on stopping Screwball by doing her challenges.
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales[]
A year after the events of The City of Never Sleeps, Peter and Miles watch Rhino to be escorted to the Raft, but the supervillain manages to escape. Peter and Miles fight Rhino until the former is incapacitated, leaving Miles to unlock his bio-electricity and defeat the supervillain. After defeating Rhino and letting Simon Krieger take him in, Peter and Miles meet at a nearby rooftop. Peter tells Miles that he's leaving New York to travel to Symkaria with MJ to work as her freelance photographer, and has Morales take the "Spider-Man oath" to protect New York City. Though Peter is away, he gives Miles a Spider-Man suit and training stations for Miles to improve his skills.
When Peter learned of the bridge explosion in New York, he called Miles and told him if he needed him, he will return from a flight. Peter returns in the epilogue of the game, after Miles stopped the Tinkerer and Roxxon Energy, and tells his protégé that he is proud of him. Miles also learns that Peter and Mary Jane have moved into Aunt May's home in Queens, and Peter decided to take time to get a new job and move in while Miles protected Harlem.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2[]
Peter eventually took up teaching science as a new career. After substituting for a while, he got a job at Brooklyn Visions Academy, where Miles was also a student at.
On his first day at the Academy, Peter arrived late to teaching a physics lesson. Upon arriving, he started lecturing about surface tension when Miles asked to leave to use the bathroom. Peter, knowing it was to go and fight crime as Spider-Man allow him to. However, Miles returned, insisting Peter come help him. Relenting, Peter abandoned the lesson to help Miles fight Sandman, commenting he would be fired from teaching for doing so. The pair then dealt with Sandman, who was wreaking havoc in New York, leaving it entirely covered in sand. After handling the Sandman attack, Peter returned to the school, where Principal Evans fired him for disappearing and leaving the students unsupervised.
Peter returned home, where MJ arrived to store copies of her book on Symkaria that poorly solved before he started to clean up and found an old photo of him standing next to a hole in the wall he punched and two drawn eyes, eventually finding it in his old room. As MJ was about to find out which two prisoners from the Raft would be transferred, they came across Harry, whom they hadn't seen since he left for his "trip".
Peter and Harry then rode two bikes to catch up while MJ headed to work. Harry revealed he was now well thanks to an exosuit he was wearing that Dr. Curt Connors created and took Peter back into Midtown High, reminiscing how they had done so years before. While sitting on the bleachers, Harry showed him the object in Peter's old locker was a pass to a company called the Emily-May Foundation and revealed he wanted Peter to join it as a co-founder. After Harry gives him a tour of the company, and lets Norman Osborn know about the offer, he accepts.
Sometime later, Peter and Miles went to overlook the transfer of the two prisoners, Scorpion and Mister Negative, the latter's presence angering Miles before Peter told his protégé to focus. Suddenly, while en route to Ravencroft, the Hunters attacked the convoy, and abducted the prisoners while the Spider-Men saved nearby bystanders from harm.
That night, Peter joins MJ and Harry for a visit to the fair ar Coney Island. He introduces Miles and Ganke to Harry and then spends time alone with MJ on the ferris wheel, discussing her report for the Daily Bugle. However, Hunters interrupt them as they arrive to kidnap Tombstone, who was now working in go-kart maintenance. Peter, as Spider-Man, intervenes but prioritizes saving civilians in danger on a damaged rollercoaster, allowing the Hunters to escape with Tombstone. However, Peter struggles to rescue the civilians until Harry arrived, revealing the exosuit granted him powerful tentacles that he used to help Peter save them. coming out of him, which he later said was part of an exosuit that cured him.
In shock, Peter swings Harry to safety and reveals his identity to him. The pair decide to head to the foundation to research Harry’s exosuit to determine what else it can do. By morning, Norman discovers them and the damage they have done from their experimenting. Norman also informs them that Dr. Connors is mysteriously absent.
Taking leave, Peter learns of Tombstone's whereabouts and goes to rescue him. During the process, he is assisted by Harry, manifesting the exosuit as a hybrid of a Spider-Man suit and tactical armor. Despite Harry's callowness in crimefighting, they manage to rescue Tombstone before congratulating themselves on the rooftops. Harry's exosuit reacts when they attempt a fist-bump, manifesting a spider symbol, but they simply brush it off as Harry wanting to be like Spider-Man.
MJ discovers Connors has been kidnapped by Kraven and informs Peter of this. Peter and Harry arrive at Kraven's base at an abandoned zoo, but they are too late to stop Kraven from turning Connors back into the Lizard. As the Lizard escapes, Kraven fatally stabs Peter in the abdomen. MJ and Harry grieve for Peter, but suddenly, Harry's exosuit transfers itself to Peter, healing him and transforming itself into the Black Suit. A more aggressive Peter fends off Kraven's minions, buying time for Harry and MJ retreat to the EMF.
Peter returns to the EMF to discover that without the exosuit, Harry's illness is slowly returning. He tries to return the exosuit, only to find it is unwilling to leave its new host. Their only hope is to restore Connors to normal so he can remove the exosuit, though Kraven has the serum.
To retrieve the Lizard serum, Peter infiltrates a party Kraven and his minions are having, using the Black Suit to disguise himself as a waiter. After succeeding in retrieving the serum, he and Harry use it to synthesize an antiserum to cure Connors, though the EMF is damaged in the process due to the Hunters tracking Peter down. With Miles's help, Peter tracks down the Lizard and eventually restores Connors to normal. Connors, recognizing the Black Suit, explains it is in fact an alien symbiote and shows him the meteorite it came from. The symbiote reacts by evolving into the Symbiote Suit, further corrupting Peter. Connors insists on destroying the symbiote, but Peter claims it for himself, insisting he needs it to become a better Spider-Man.
Peter retreats back to Aunt May's house to rest, ignoring MJ's warnings on the property damage during his fight with the Lizard. As he sleeps, Kraven's Hunters arrive, and the symbiote puppeteers his body to fight them off. Concerned for Peter's safety, MJ attempts to wake Peter up with Miles's help, but the symbiote pursues her, only to flee while Kraven's forces kidnap Miles.
On the following day, Peter woke up feeling disoriented, unsure of what had happened to the symbiote during the night. He was still struggling with the influence of the symbiote's corruption, which caused him to show rejection towards Harry and MJ when they read his report in the Daily Bugle. Later on, he ran into Norman, who expressed his gratitude towards Peter for being Harry's friend and even mentioned that he considered him like a son. However, Harry overheard their conversation and felt angry towards Peter due to his father's remarks. Rio Morales contacted Peter to help find Miles, who had gone missing.
On his way to locate Miles, Martin Li, who had been freed earlier by Miles, intercepted Peter and told him where he could find him. When he eventually found Miles, Peter confronted Kraven, who had been hired to hunt Miles down. During their altercation, Kraven instilled more hatred towards Peter, causing the symbiote to influence him even more. Just as Peter was about to kill Kraven, Miles intervened, and confronted him in an attempt to prevent him from killing the hunter. Using the sounds of a bell, Miles managed to reason with Peter, and helped him regain control of his actions. Peter then proceeded to tear the symbiote from his suit, freeing himself from its influence. Miles captured the symbiote in a small container, ensuring that it would no longer pose a threat to anyone else.
After he left Kraven's hideout, Peter regretted his actions under the symbiote's influence. On Connors' order, Peter brought the symbiote back to Oscorp to destroy it. However, upon entering, Peter discovered that a sick, drug addled Harry was already there. Harry tried to attack him as he was about to destroy the symbiote that was going to keep him alive. The symbiote broke free from its container, sending Peter into a nearby wall, then rebonded with Harry Osborn, transforming him into a full-blown cannibalistic monster known as Venom. Harry knocked out Peter, rampaged through Oscorp, devastated hunters, and killed Kraven.
A day later following Venom's rampage in New York, Peter, who escaped the rubble inside Oscorp, began searching for Harry. He found Harry's Oscorp badge left behind while he was escaping and used it as a way to search for him by using Oscorp's antenna. Peter was able to locate where Harry was, as he found Harry's EMF badge that was stuck to some symbiote tendrils. He came to check if Harry was still here. However, he realized that Venom already kidnapped and infected a citizen, who attacked him. Peter was able to knock and seperate the symbiotes off these innocent citizens. Realizing that Harry, in control of Venom, started using his symbiotes to infecting people, Peter called Miles for help and they recreated Kraven's bell and created sonic grenades that can stun the symbiotes.
After successfully experimented sonic grenade, the two arrived at the subway station to rescue Rio and Ganke. They later saw Venom converting citizens to symbiote, which the latter found out and briefly attacked them and flee away. Peter and Miles then entered inside the subway station, using sonic grenades attached to a spawned nest and the two defended the sonic grenade integrity while it was synchronizing. After that, the spawned symbiote nest was destroyed and the two successfully rescued Rio and Ganke.
After that, Peter continued to find Harry while Miles was getting his mom and his roommate back to his home safely. Peter called MJ and warned her about Harry getting the symbiote back, but unfortunately, Venom visited and pretended to be Harry and held her captive. This forced Peter to return to his home and while swinging back to home, Connors phoned and warned him about some remnants of the Venom symbiote still inside him and asked him to come for check, but Peter refused.
Peter then returned to home and Harry, in control of Venom, tried to persuade him to join him. However when he refused and insulted the symbiote by calling it a "thing", Harry transformed back into Venom and he attached Scream symbiote to MJ and flee away for his further plans. The Scream symbiote exploited her host's repress frustrations to fight Peter until MJ resisted and regained control over Scream symbiote and removed the symbiote, killing it in process. MJ, after removing the Scream symbiote, told Peter that while she was becoming Scream, she got into symbiote hivemind and saw a vision of a "rock", implying the meteorite that brought Venom here. Peter then got a call from Miles that the symbiote invasion continued to expand into City Hall and there were some trapped people inside. Before he went to City Hall, Peter gave MJ a kiss.
Peter and Miles arrived at City Hall, where the place was now infested by Venom's symbiote army. The two battled the symbiote army and found the emergency exit at City Hall. As Peter was opening the exit, unfortunately, Ganke called and told the Spider-Men before that the symbiote tendrils broke a window inside and already transformed trapped people into a horde of symbiotes, which attacked Peter and Miles and threw Peter, who previously had remnants of Venom symbiote inside him, to take over him once more into the aggressive form. Martin Li eventually arrived and used his negative powers to create a shield that temporary hold the symbiotes at bay. Miles and Li noticed that Li's negative power accidentally triggered a response from the remaining symbiote inside Peter that caused him to be more painful. Miles and Li decided to team up and they went into Peter's head to find the main source of his pain. They reached to the symbiote core, where it represent "the true source" of his pain, and they combined their power together, with Li sacrificed his power to destroy the core for good.
Miles Morales and the now depowered Martin Li went back to the reality and saw Peter remain unconscious, while the symbiotes have already surrounded them. Suddenly, Peter woke up and a new white symbiote dubbed Anti-Venom emerged from his body, which is a result of the fusion between Mister Negative's Lightforce and the remnants of Venom symbiote. Peter used the Anti-Venom symbiote to take on the symbiote hordes, and because of Li's powers, the suit is non-sentient and free from the hivemind, and can vaporize the symbiotes by its touch.
Peter then thanked Li and Miles for saving him, in return, Li thanked the Spider-Men for reminding him of the person he was prior to his crusade for vengeance, echoing May's philosophy of "When you help someone, you help everyone." Now at peace with himself for the first time in years, Li sets off on a new path, promising to the Spider-Men to "set things right, your way this time." Seeing Li turn himself into the authorities, Peter praised Miles for his maturity and reforming his greatest enemy, stating that he couldn't say he had done that.
Peter arrived at Connors' secret lab where Venom found and merged the last part of the meteorite as a mean to enhancing his power and infecting New York further. Peter and Miles splited up in order to locate where the meteorite is. While Miles was going to clear the nest, Peter arrived at Harlem subway station after Miles told him that he got into the symbiote hivemind and saw the vision of the meteorite that was possibly located in here. However, when Peter entered, he didn't see any "rock" and Venom ambushed him, pretending to be Harry and showed Peter the vision of his future dark turn, plus showing the real location of meteorite, which was located on his lair. However, Miles arrived and stopped Venom from covering Peter with the symbiote. Peter and Miles escaped and Peter said to call MJ and said he knows where the meteorite is.
Peter, Miles and MJ devised a plan to destroy the meteorite by using the EMF particle accelerator and they arrived to a park that where the meteorite is placed in. Peter distracted Venom while Miles and MJ stole the meteorite from his lair and they were going to EMF to destroy it. Venom then attacked Peter and they fell into Midtown High School, where Venom turned the school that Peter previously studied into his own battlefield and said to Peter that "this is where they become best friends, and it's where they become brothers". Venom gave opportunity and convince Peter to join him, but Peter refused, leaving Venom greatly upset. However, as long as they fight, Venom soon realized that the meteorite has been stolen, he angried and defeated Peter and used his wings to brought Peter to find the meteorite. Venom arrived to EMF, where he also met Miles, who hold him long enough and MJ used particle accelerator to destroying the meteorite. As a result, Venom began weaker and Peter used his Anti-Venom symbiote to purged Venom off Harry.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse[]
Peter was eventually welcomed to Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Society and became a member; he was later seen roaming about the base. When LYLA presented all of the kidnapped supervillains to Miles Morales, he was witnessing Francis Byte and a version of Norman Osborn, and she referred to the two villains as video game people, which confused Peter, who questioned if she was referring to him.