CHARACTER CHEAT SHEET: PETER PARKER / SPIDER-MAN
Peter Parkerās abilities, traits, and history can be complicated, so I gathered up all I know from comics and all the website Iāve visited in my life, revisited them, and put them together. I hope that the Marvel fanfictions writers will find this useful, especially that more and more Spider-Man fanfics are written nowadays.
[fun fact about the hyphen betweenĀ āSpiderā andĀ āManā - the creators of the character used it to differ Spider-Man from Superman.]
Full name: Peter Benjamin Parker
Spider-Man aliases: Spidey, Webhead, Webs,Ā Web-Slinger, Wallcrawler/ Wall-crawler
Date of birth:
- comics: Peter is a Libra, making his birthday sometime between September 23rd and October 22nd.
- MCU:Ā August 10th, 2001
Characteristics:
-Ā gender: male
- current height (age 28): 5ā 10" / teenage years height:Ā 5ā 5"
- current weight (age 28): 167 lbs (76 kg) / teenage years weight: 140 lbs (64 kg)
- eyes: hazel
- hair: brown
Family:
- Richard Parker, Mary Parker (parents, killed in a plane crash, spies)
- Benjamin Parker (uncle, killed by a thief)
- May Parker (aunt);
(- Teresa Parker (sister) )
(- William Fitzpatrick (maternal grandfather, killed) )
Address:
- grew up on: 20 Ingram Street, Forest Hills, Queens
- currently living in: Queens
Core personality traits:
- loner
- neurotic (anxiety, fear, jealously, loneliness, worry, envy, frustration)
- funny and witty, yet respectful (uses humor as defense/coping mechanism and to distract an opponent)
- strong willed, brave
- nerdy/geeky
- shy, socially awkward
- caring, loyal, kind, trusting, considerate
- always worried, cautious, hopeful
Intelligence:
- he graduated Midtown high with the highest scholastic average in the schoolās history
- Octavius stated that Peter'sĀ āsmarter than all of themā - Peterās more intelligent than anyone he knows and he doesnāt understand why Peter doesnāt use all of his intellect
- Peterās IQ is 250, making his position in the Highest IQ Ranks of Marvel characters in the top 5 (itās a made up universe, ok)
Costume:
- in the early days after the spider bite when peter was making money via wrestling, peter made a costume because a TV producer told him it would sell as an act along with the wrestling
- he created a mask to avoid the embarrassment if he lost a match, later it served him to protect his identity and hide his fear during fights
Utility Belt:
- a utility belt holding extra clips of webbing (later: Spider-Tracers, Spider-Signal), placed on his waist under the suit
(- recently upgraded to hold cartridges of different types of webbing, freeze capsules, new Spider-Tracers as well as a newly upgraded Spider-Signal that has a UV light setting for forensic analysis.)
(- in the MCU, the belt was changed into clips on the hip height of the suit)
Web-shooters:
- he first created the web-shooters so they can give him the advantage over pro-wrestlersĀ
- theyāre made of materials that donāt trip metal detector alarms (the material changes as the comics go, itās plastic, carbon fiber, and so on)
- theyāre pressure sensitive - work only when peter taps on them twice very quickly with his middle and ring finger. the pressure, though, is really big, given the super strength. in that way, the web-shooters donāt go off in a fight or when he shakes someoneās hand. it also means that an average human wouldnāt be able to use them, given that they need a certain degree of pressure put on the trigger.
- over the years Peterās learned to use the web-shooters in more ways than just shooting single strings - he can make a parachute, web up a cast for a broken arm, a shield, and more and more variations he needs at the moment
- from marvel.com: āthe webbing [is a shear-thinning liquid (virtually solid until a shearing force is applied to it, rendering it fluid) whose exact formula is as yet unknown, but is related to nylon. On contact with air, the long-chain polymer knits and forms an extremely tough, flexible fiber with extraordinary adhesive properties. The web fluidās adhesive quality diminishes rapidly with exposure to air. (Where it does not make contact with air, such as the attachment disk of the web-shooter, it remains very adhesive.) After about one to two hours, certain imbibed esters cause the solid form of the web fluid to dissolve into a powder. Because the fluid almost instantly sublimates from solid to liquid when under shear pressure, and is not adhesive in its anaerobic liquid/solid phase transition point, there is no clogging of the web-shooterās parts.āĀ
[fun fact no2: heās holding back in every fight and on daily basis - both in the intellect and physical departments.]
Mutations:
- heās got harder bones and tougher skin, hard for a syringe to pin through
- his organsā tissue is most probably stronger to not get squashed under the pressure of impact forces (such as g-forces while heās swinging)
Strength:
- he can bench press up to 10 tons but it was stated that itās the average strength he uses - heās holding back a lot (supporting the weight of the Daily Bugle building, landing a private jet withĀ a landing weight between 175,000-215,000 pounds, breaking through Iron Manās armor, even breaking through eight of Doctor Octopusā carbonadium tentacles, lifting a large pile of iron-debris equivalent to the weight of a locomotive approximately 130 tons)
- he can jump to a height of several stories in a single bound
- heās strong enough to knock out people with normal durability with as little as a tap to the head
- he can throw a human sized and weight object across, like, New York
Speed, agility, reflexes:
- his perfect sense of balance is complemented by the generally elastic nature of his body -Ā he can adjust his position by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on virtually any object
- he can outrun moving cars - according to the comics, he can run 70-115mph
- it was stated that he can go around 120 mph when swinging the fastest he can
- heās agile and quick enough that in a combat fight the foe can only see a blur, dodging attacks and bullets the second theyāre put in motion
-Ā according to the official bios, his heightened reflexes are about 40 times better than the ones of an average humanĀ (with the help of spider-sense, he can dodge a bullet before itās even shot)
Spider-sense: ( a form of unconscious precognition / extra-sensory perception tuned to danger or threats that might cause him physical or mental injury)
- it can make Peter feel off when his loved ones are in danger
- it can differ a loved one/a very close friend and a foe (best example: Aunt May once sneaked up on Spider-Man and smashed a vase on his head)
- it can help Peter navigate in the dark
- itās a bit off and overwhelmed and Peter doesnāt react to it right when heās very tired or distracted or when thereās too much danger around (like in a big fights with many opponents and weapons)
- when it goes off and ābuzzesā without imminent and instant danger, Peter may think itās just gone a bit bonkers, therefore he doesnāt react it much.
- it helps with instinctive shooting webs at places that wonāt crumble under Peterās weight
- it reduces stuff like the need to look sideways when crossing the street or the need to cover up 100% when Peter changes in an alleyway
- Peter was banned from playing poker with F4 because the spider-sense helps him detect when someone is bluffing
- sometimes it takes control over peter when there has to be less thinking and more reacting done in a fight
- it can hurt peter when itās triggered hard enough
Healing factor:
- he can heal from bullet wounds, concussions, broken or sprained bones, and third-degree burns in a matter of days
- his body produces less fatigue toxins than ordinary humans which allows him to exert himself for days - he can go a couple of days with no sleep;
- heās got a weirdly high tolerance to radiation
- he can hold his breath for eight minutes or more
Metabolism:
- heās got a bottomless belly - high metabolism means he needs more food to function, but then again he can go without food because of the healing factor
- he can even shrug off some toxins - the toxin resistance makes it harder for someone to knock him out with toxins (such as drugs, for example)
Enhanced senses:
- heās got enhanced sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste
- they can be as much of help as of a nightmare. each of his senses was enhanced which means he can hear his neighbors as they roll over in their bed, but going to a concert isnāt that fun
Wall-crawling:
- according to Spider-Man Vol 1 #26 itās a mutagenic, cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams resulting in the ability to mentally control the flux of inter-atomic attraction (electrostatic force) between molecular boundary layers - which basically means electrostatic attraction between Peterās skin and a solid surface
- itās mentally controlled
āThatās not why you do it. You do it ācause itās the right thing to do. [ā¦] Now itās my turn. [ā¦] Iām going to give it my all. [ā¦] Iāll never quit.ā
āWith great there must also come great responsibility.ā
āLife sucks sometimesā¦ but itās always worth living.ā
āEveryone can be saved.ā
- the Spider-Man mask supposedly muffles and changes Peterās voice enough to be unrecognizable
- Peterās a NY Mets fan
- Peterās witty personality works on every heroās nerve except for Deadpool (Wolverine one stated that being in company of one of these two is a nightmare, and being in company of both of them is one of the worst things heās gone through) and Tony
- the adhesive skin allows Peterās mask to stick to his face in case someone tried to pull the mask off
- heās a skilled photographer.
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