• The Adjectival Superhero: All of the variants are distinguished by a title coming before their name.
• Alliance of Alternates: As seen in the above image, in No Way Home Peter teams up with the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man from the Raimi-Verse and the Amazing Spider-Man from the Webb-Verse. They are arguably a reconstruction of the trope after Loki deconstructed it with the evil Loki variants and the He Who Remains variants that are mentioned, since instead of focusing on their differences or hating any qualities that they share since they don't like those personality traits, the Spider-Man variants celebrate both their differences and similarities.
• Alternate Self: They are all versions of Peter Parker from divergent timelines. In contrast to most characters the majority of his variants have diverged greatly from him except for Zombie Hunter Spider-Man and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, varying in both age and appearance in a similar way to the Loki variants. Their backstories also vary more drastically compared to other variants.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Like the Sacred Timeline version, they can do everything a spider can.
• Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: The three cinematic Spider-Men, both through skillsets and meta-related showings.
  • MCU Peter is the Balanced One, able to juxtapose the physical-based fighting style of his Raimi-Verse counterpart and the acrobatics of his Webb-Verse counterpart but still maintaining a direct approach in combat.
  • Raimi-Verse Peter is the Strong One, the Spider-Man with no fancy gadgets who mostly relies on his physical abilities and organic webbing.
  • Webb-Verse Peter is the Fast One, being the one who performs all sorts of acrobatics and Deadly Dodging as Spider-Man and even performed two crucial life-saving events during the Final Battle.
• Big, Thin, Short Trio: Raimi-Verse Peter is big as he's visibly the bulkiest, Webb-Verse Peter is thin as he's the most slender, and MCU Peter is the shortest of the three.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: While it doesn't apply to them, it does to the three cinematic Spider-Men's respective love interests. Raimi-Verse Peter's is Mary Jane Watson , a Fiery Redhead. Webb-Verse Peter's was the late Gwen Stacy, Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold personified. MCU Peter's was Liz Toomes and then Michelle Jones, both reserved dark-haired girls.
• The Cape: To varying degrees all of Spider-Man's variants are this. Only Raimi-Verse Peter takes this a step further and is an Ideal Hero.
• Foil: Peter-2 and Peter-3 are this to each other. Peter-2 is visibly older, has found a balance between his civilian and superhero lives, and made his relationship with his world's Mary Jane Watson work in the end. Peter-3 is still in his physical prime, but his relationship with his Gwen Stacy ended in tragedy, causing him to double down on being Spider-Man as a coping mechanism. Physically, Peter-2 is stockier and muscular, whereas Peter-3 is taller and slimmer.
• Freudian Trio: The three cinematic Spider-Men.
  • MCU Peter is The Id — young, dreamer.
  • Raimi-Verse Peter is The Superego — wise, stoic.
  • Webb-Verse Peter is The Ego — comical, balanced.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: They are all spider themed superheroes.
• Future Foil: Peter-2 and Peter-3 this to Peter-1 due to being older versions of him, representing the two extremes his life can go. Peter-2 represents a future where he finds a way to be Spider-Man without sacrificing his personal happiness, while Peter-3 represents a future where his regrets and failures cause him to abandon his Peter Parker identity in favor of fully embracing being Spider-Man.
• Good Counterpart: To the Loki variants from Loki, as unlike them, the Spider-Men get along with each other without any issue in No Way Home while only five Loki variants proved to be loyal and trustworthy, with the rest ending up in a brawl after they kept betraying each other. Also to the variants of He Who Remains, as they waged a Multiverse-spanning war against each other while the Spider-Man variants worked together to save the MCU universe during a multiversal crisis.
• Hero of Another Story: They are all superheroes and have had their own adventures that differ from the Sacred Timeline version.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • All of the Spider-Men are orphans who were Happily Adopted by their Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and all of them eventually lost the latter.
  • The three cinematic Spideys were high school classmates with Eugene "Flash" Thompson. This is presumably the same with Zombie Hunter Spider-Man who's life diverges from the MCU version during Infinity War.
  • The three cinematic Spider-Men are vilified by Jameson and the Daily Bugle, and as a result are distrusted by many people despite their heroics.
  • All three cinematic Spider-Men have had pivotal, life-changing battles with the Green Goblin. Raimi-Verse Peter had Norman Osborn as his first villain, and later, Norman's son Harry in the New Goblin persona. Webb-Verse Peter fought his own version of Harry, who was responsible for the worst tragedy of Peter's life. And it comes full-circle when MCU Peter is cruelly provoked by the very same Norman incarnation of the Goblin from the Raimi-Verse, and seeks revenge against him. Whichever Osborn is in the role and whatever universe he's from, it's clear that the Goblin is Spider-Man's Arch-Enemy for all three of them due to how personal it is.
  • So far, the first villain all the Spider-Men have faced have been examples of Green and Mean: Peter-1 and presumably Zombie Hunter Spider-Man with the Vulture, Peter-2 with the Green Goblin and Peter-3 with the Lizard. MCU and Webb-Verse Peter also share the fact that their first villain was animal themed while their second villains weren't.
• Nice Guy: All the Spider-Men seen so far are kind people trying to do right thing, and while they can occasionally be selfish they all try to make up for their mistakes.
• Power Creep, Power Seep: Both Peter-2 and Peter-3 were already powerful in their original movies, but in No Way Home, were amplified or got better feats to compete with the feats and scaling of their Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart.
• Power Trio: The three cinematic Spider-Men could fill any trio-related tropes easily, as demonstrated in this section alone.
• Practically Different Generations: The three cinematic Spider-Men are this, with Raimi-Verse Peter being born in 1984, Webb-Verse Spidey in 1996, and MCU Spidey in 2001. This had a massive effect on how they were treated by their peers in high school with Peter-2 being the only one bullied by his entire school for being a nerd, while Peter-3 was apparently only bullied by Flash and some others for being a loner^note after Flash punches his lights out, a random dude can be seen kicking Peter's camera out of spite and Peter-1 was bullied because Flash simply didn't like him while being generally well-liked by others, except some who dismiss his interests^note Some cheerleaders can be heard calling Ned and Peter lame when they discuss his Lego Death Star and those who actually like Flash's status as an Insult Comic^note At Liz's party, they all laugh at Ned and Peter when Flash insults them.
• Primary-Color Champion: Naturally all the variants shown so far have worn red and blue costumes, which makes MCU Peter stand out in No Way Home as his costume has replaced blue with black.
• Rule of Symbolism: The way they wear their outfits reflect each actor's respective portrayals of the Peter Parker character. Raimi-verse Peter keeps his Spider-suit underneath his civilian clothes for most of his screentime, reflecting how Maguire's performance focused more on the "Peter Parker" quietude and seriousness, whereas Webb-verse Peter exclusively wears the Spider-suit, reflecting Garfield's focus on the more quippy and outspoken "Spider-Man" attitude.
• Science Hero: All the variants seen so far have been this, though to varying degrees due to the different adventures and villains they've had. As shown in No Way Home the three cinematic Spider-Men are able to use this to cure the Multiversal Villains.
• Sibling Team: Invoked. The three Spider-Men are deliberately portrayed like brothers, the Webb-Verse Spidey in particular even addresses himself as having Middle Child Syndrome. Meanwhile, Raimi-Verse Spidey is treated as the reserved and respected Big Brother Mentor whereas MCU Spidey is presented as the youngest sibling with lots of potential.
• Signature Move: All three cinematic versions of Peter turn themselves into a human slingshot by using two web lines to launch themselves into the air or enemies.
• Stepford Smiler: All versions of Peter are this as well as Stepford Snarkers to varying degrees and seem to hide their pain under jokes and laughter, either to protect others or simply as a way to cope.
• Super Power Lottery: All the Spider-Men have Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, Super-Reflexes, the ability to Wall Crawl and a Spider-Sense. Combined with their high intellect, this allows them to fight villains who are actually more powerful than them. However as shown in No Way Home the cinematic Spider-Men slightly differ in what abilities they favour which means they are better at different things: Peter-1 relies on his spider sense the most due to his fight with Mysterio while having a more balanced approach to his other powers, while Peter-2 is shown to be physically the strongest and Peter-3 is shown to have faster reflexes. Their durability seems to be tied due to having more or less having experienced the same severity of harm during their crime fighting careers.
• The Three Faces of Adam:
  • The Hunter: The MCU Spider-Man, the youngest of the three who is struggling to keep being optimistic after being faced with a huge ordeal.
  • The Lord: The Webb-Verse Spider-Man, a seasoned superhero who is still in his prime who is struggling to keep himself together from being haunted by his past failure.
  • The Prophet: The Raimi-Verse Spider-Man, the oldest and most seasoned of the three who is at peace with his life as a superhero.
• True Companions: At the end of No Way Home, it is clear that they have become as close as brothers.
• Truer to the Text: Zigzagged. The many differences between the cinematic Spider-Men, and their other variants, means they are accurate to the comics in some ways while inaccurate in other ways. For example, while Peter-1 is the only version to start his superhero career roughly around the same time as his comic self, Peter-3 is the only one to have experienced the death of Gwen Stacy while Peter-2 is the only one who initially tried to use his powers for monetary gain, the only one to be a Working-Class Hero Triple Shifter who made a living by selling Spider-Man's photos to the Daily Bugle, was briefly roommates with Harry Osborn, and met Gwen Stacy in college, is in a relationship with his comic self's canonical love interest, Mary Jane (though Michelle Jones is a Pragmatic Adaptation of the character).
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: This is what bonds the three cinematic Spider-Men in No Way Home, with Peter-2 and Peter-3 sharing how their versions of Uncle Ben taught them this lesson before he died, just like how May taught Peter-1 the same thing before she died.

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Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

^{Click here to see him with his mask}
"Hey, relax. I'm just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man."

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Avengers, Midtown School of Science & Technology (formerly)

Voiced By: Hudson Thames

Appearances: What If...? | Marvel Zombies

The Spider-Man of Earth-89521, who is a member of a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits in a Zombie Apocalypse.

• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Despite having his entire life being ruined by a zombie apocalypse and having seen friends and loved ones die, he doesn't have to deal with the guilt of killing his wife and Aunt May unlike the version from Marvel Zombies.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: He has spiky hair instead of the usual side-parted hairstyle his Sacred Timeline counterpart has, likely to prevent him from resembling his live-action counterpart too much due to the deal Sony has with Disney.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Doesn't become a zombie like in the comics, and the reason this isn't a case of Adaptational Heroism is because while he did help consume all life in his universe, he ultimately played a key role in ending the outbreak and atoning for his actions the best he could.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Unlike this Spider-Man, Sacred Timeline Spider-Man either rarely or never interacted with the majority of the Sacred Timeline counterparts of the survivors, particularly Hope van Dyne whom Peter ends up becoming close with. This Spider-Man also never met Doctor Strange and Wong because they were zombified a few weeks before what could have been his first meeting with them during the battle in Greenwich Village.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Compared to his Sacred Timeline self, this Peter seems less bothered by the deaths of his close friends, family, and mentors, at least to the point where he tries to put up a Stepford Smiler appearance to keep the other heroes motivated. In the Sacred Timeline, Peter completely crumbles emotionally when he loses the likes of Tony Stark and Aunt May, to the point where he almost gives up on trying to help save the world. He is also this in comparison to his other variants and the comic version, who all tend to dwell on their losses and mistakes often.
• The Adjectival Superhero: He's Zombie Hunter Spider-Man, reflecting the current outbreak in his universe.
• All Webbed Up: He does this to a zombified Scarlet Witch after she breaks out of her cell. It doesn't last long unfortunately.
• The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the survivor group and his youthful idealism serves as quite a contrast to many of the other members' more serious or downright cynical approach to the apocalypse.
• Badass Cape: He appears to get along well with the Cloak of Levitation as they seem to work together often, and eventually Peter wears the Cloak before it starts helping Scott Lang, who is a head in a jar, move around.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Tony Stark became a zombie and Aunt May died around the time the zombie outbreak began, leaving him with no family left as his parents and Uncle Ben also died a long time ago.
• Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Invokes this to get calm Bruce Banner down and get the good doctor to trust him.
  Spider-Man: Hey relax! I'm just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
• Genre Savvy: He knows a lot about horror and zombie movies thanks to being in his school's A/V club and frequently points out when his fellow survivors do things like split the party or say they're going to be okay.
• Hand Behind Head: When Okoye orders the group to split up in the train station, he does this while questioning that plan as people who split up in horror movies always ends with casualties. He's later proven right when Happy gets infected and killed.
• The Heart: He's this to the survivor group he's in as his optimism rubs off on them, especially Hope.
• In Spite of a Nail: Due to this Peter coming from an offshoot of the Sacred Timeline, his life lines up quite a bit with the live-action MCU Peter, which includes him having gone through the events of Civil War and Homecoming before the Zombie Apocalypse occurs. Also while the context is different he still suffers the loss of Tony, May, and his friends much like his counterpart did in Endgame and No Way Home.
• Intergenerational Friendship: He appears to have developed a close bond with Hope van Dyne who is about twenty years older than him, which makes sense given his Sacred Timeline counterpart's desire for mentor figures, as shown with Tony Stark and Quentin Beck. However, unlike with Tony, his relationship with Hope doesn't seem based on looking for a parental figure and seems more Like Brother and Sister. To a lesser extent, he also gets along well with Kurt, who helped him make his orientation video, and Bruce, despite having only known each other for about a day.
• Like Brother and Sister: This appears to be what his relationship with Hope is, since while she seems to be his new mentor, unlike with Tony he doesn't look at her as a parental figure.
• Little "No": After hearing from Sharon that Happy got killed.
• Marquee Alter Ego: This version of Spider-Man doesn't bother wearing a mask, outside of his first scene. To be fair, nearly everyone in his world is a zombie, so he doesn't need a secret identity. Though in Marvel Zombies he does wear it during the fight against Thanos and later Wanda.
• Non-Indicative Name: His name is actually misleading, as he never hunts any zombie and doesn't actually fight one the same way the others do.
• Odd Friendship: Two notable examples are the Cloak of Levitation, who he works with often to the point Peter starts wearing the Cloak, and Kurt, a hacker and former criminal who was happy to help Peter make his orientation video.
• Point of Divergence:
  • For some reason, his Stark Suit is different from the one given to him in the Sacred Timeline.
  • So far, he's the only version of Spider-Man besides the unseen version from the SSU to not encounter a version of the Green Goblin, who like with the Sacred Timeline presumably doesn't exist in his reality, while his counterparts have the Green Goblin as their Arch-Enemy.
  • Unlike his Sacred Timeline self who had a mostly distant relationship with the wider superhero community to the point the only other heroes he befriends are Tony Stark and Stephen Strange, the zombie outbreak forces Peter to team up and befriend several characters he's either only interacted with briefly or never met in the main universe.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Due to this version of Spider-Man being primarily owned by Sony, which is why his design is slightly different than his main MCU version, particularly his hairstyle and the spider symbol on his chest, which is taken directly from the Disney rides.
• Sole Survivor: Of the original group of survivors at the start of the episode, not counting the Cloak of Levitation as its status as a sentient being is up for debate, as T'Challa and Scott Lang only join the group at the end of the episode.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In Marvel Zombies, Spider-Man was one of the most prominent of the zombified superheroes, while here he remains uninfected to the very end. Justified as he is Genre Savvy.
• Stepford Smiler: Despite being in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, he's still very much upbeat and even makes a fun orientation video advising people on how to survive the end of the world. However while trying to convince an infected Hope to not give up, the mask slips as he acknowledges that he has lost a lot before the apocalypse and has now lost Tony, May, Happy, and likely others. Despite being upset by the tragedies he has endured, he believes he should keep on smiling since the people he lost can't and if he didn't, he might as well be dead like them.
• Superheroes Wear Capes: He wears the Cloak of Levitation after entering the train to Camp Lehigh, New Jersey.
• Survivor Guilt: Shows some of it in his conversation with T'Challa when he admits to not understanding why he's still alive as opposed to Tony or any of the other Avengers.
• Tagalong Kid: Is the youngest member of the Surviving Avengers at approximately 16-17 years old while the rest are adults.
• Trauma Conga Line: His life was exactly the same as his Sacred Timeline counterpart, with him mentioning having lost his parents and Uncle Ben, up 'till two weeks before Infinity War when there was a zombie outbreak. After that, he lost his Aunt May, Tony, and his normal life, with there being no mention of what happened to his friends. As events progress, he's forced to watch as Happy, Kurt, Hope, Sharon Carter, Okoye, Bruce, and Bucky are killed within a day, leaving him, T'Challa, the Cloak of Levitation, and Scott Lang as Earth's last hope. Despite being reassured by T'Challa and Scott that there is still hope as they now have a way to cure the infected, the viewers know Wakanda has already been overrun by the zombies while a zombified Thanos waits for them to deliver the Mind Stone.
• Uncertain Doom: Spider-Man survives alongside T'Challa and Scott Lang's disembodied head, and is last seen flying the Quadjet to Wakanda, hoping to use the Mind Stone to cure all the zombies and restore the world. However, unknown to him and his fellow Avengers, Wakanda has already fallen to the zombified Thanos, who has the Infinity Gauntlet almost completed and waiting for them to arrive with the remaining Infinity Stone. Considering that the Watcher didn't summon him to join the Guardians of the Multiverse to stop Infinity Ultron and the zombies of his universe are later seen but not him, things do not currently look good for him.
  • Would happen again later in Marvel Zombies, where the last time we see Spider-Man is him being seconds away from being eaten by Hope before Wanda covers the entire planet in a Hex, and while Kamala Khan is shown to be alive in the Hex, the remaining survivors are not shown.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks he's in a more optimistic zombie story where if they try hard enough they can find a cure, when in truth he's in an Animated Anthology and lives in an Expendable Alternate Universe which means despite his speech to Hope after she's infected, literally everything goes wrong and he ends up facing an Uncertain Doom.
• Zombie Apocalypse Hero: He's one of the few superheroes to survive the zombie outbreak. By the end of the episode, he's pretty much the last surviving superhero.

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Appearances: What If...?^note Depiction

A variant of Peter Parker with four extra arms.

• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has six arms, each with its own web-shooter.
• Mythology Gag: He is a shout-out to The Six Arms Saga, in which Spider-Man grew four extra arms.
• Writing Around Trademarks: Much like his Zombie Hunter counterpart, his suit resembles the one in Disney theme parks rather than the ones in the films due to Sony owning the live-action film rights to Spider-Man.

Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Boy Scouts of America (formerly), Midtown High School (formerly), Oscorp (formerly), Rockford T. Bales High School, W.E.B.

Voiced by: Hudson Thames

Dubbed by: Yūma Uchida (Japanese)

Appearances: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (comic) | Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (show)

The Spider-Man of Earth-86445, who was bitten by a mysterious spider that emerged from a portal during a fight between Doctor Strange and a symbiotic alien at his old high school.

• Adaptation Deviation: Most versions of Peter get their powers from a radioactive or genetically-altered spider during a tour of a laboratory. Here, he's bitten on his first day of school by a spider that emerges from a battle Doctor Strange is having on the Midtown campus, with the implication that it's of mystical or multiversal origin. Subverted in the season finale with it turning out that they arrived through a time portal, the spider instead being a result of Oscorp experimenting with Peter’s blood.
• Adaptation Personality Change: While Peter in the comics was an All-Loving Hero with Chronic Hero Syndrome, his character had heavy undercurrents of angst due to his guilt over Uncle Ben's death, and was far from infallible in terms of his empathy and compassion as he could act very confrontational and volatile whenever his buttons were pushed, angrily calling people out on their behavior both in and out of costume if the situation required it. In the show, his fixation on helping others no matter what is framed entirely as the result of him being fundamentally altruistic, he at no point shows any signs of past selfishness or Acquired Situational Narcissism, and he's a lot less keen to give others a piece of his mind even when they deserve it, exemplified by how patient he is with the needlessly abrasive Dr. Whitman (for comparison, comic Peter had zero issue snarking back at the similarly jerkish J. Jonah Jameson or Flash Thompson whenever they insulted him). The one time he does give into his anger and lash out against Scorpion for nearly murdering Lonnie, it's due to Peter being partially influenced by Norman's ruthless rhetoric and Scorpion proving so irredeemably evil and resilient that he practically asks for it.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • This Peter Parker develops friendships with Nico Minoru, Lonnie Lincoln, and Harry Osborn while attending high school. In the comics, Lonnie is a grown adult far older than Peter and the villainous Tombstone, Nico doesn't have any strong connections to Spider-Man besides the rare crossover due to her being a teenager while Peter is an adult, and Harry doesn't meet Peter until college. Furthermore, the Sacred Timeline version of Peter never encounters any of these characters.
  • Expanding on this, Pearl Pangan babysat Peter Parker as a kid and he has a major crush on her — a dynamic never present in the comics nor even implied in the Sacred Timeline.
  • A variation. The show's portrayal of Peter Parker and Norman working together does reflect their current relationship in the comics where they also work together. But the key difference is that in the comics, Peter is finally working with Norman as an adult, Norman had all his sins purged, and the two are finally partners after decades of feuds and fighting each other non-stop. In this show, Peter is still a fresh-faced teenager, Norman has undergone Adaptational Heroism and doesn't have years of Green Goblin baggage, and the two of them don't have years of bad blood with each other so far, with them starting a mentor/hero partnership shortly after meeting each other for the first time.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade:
  • The typical portrayal of Spider-Man has him become a superhero out of guilt for not bothering to stop a fleeing criminal who later killed his uncle, viewing the mistake as his greatest failure. As the show's prequel comic reveals, Ben passed away of natural causes, and Peter makes the conscious decision to become a superhero after the Silvermane Crime Family targets Midtown High School, inspired by his favorite hero Captain America. While he's still grieving Ben's death, it is entirely distanced from his motivation for being a hero, and he in no way blames himself for it.
  • In the original comics, Peter was notably a loner for much of high school. Part of it was due to his introverted personality, but he was also regularly ostracized and bullied by his peers for being a massive bookworm. Here, he's found a best friend in Nico Minoru, is friends with Pearl Pangan (albeit through her history as his babysitter), and quickly establishes friendships with Lonnie Lincoln and by extension the entire football team. Being a variant of his Sacred Timeline self, it makes sense he shares that version's similar penchant for building rapport with people in his community. That said, in the prequel comic he does admit that he was a bullied outcast throughout his middle school years.
  • He also isn't a Hero with Bad Publicity like his traditional portrayal or (current) Sacred Timeline self, generally being respected by the civilians in his community and not receiving any sort of negative press.
• Adaptational Context Change: In the comics, Peter's white costume was created during his stint as a member of the Future Foundation, following the death of Johnny Storm. Here, it's a specialized suit made for him by Oscorp's R&D department to replace his less-refined Beta Outfit, as he is mentored by Norman Osborn.
• Adaptational Friendship: Peter in the show develops friendships with Nico Minoru, Lonnie Lincoln, and Harry Osborn while attending high school. In the comics, Lonnie is a grown adult far older than Peter and the villainous Tombstone, Nico doesn't have any strong connections to Spider-Man besides the rare crossover due to her being a teenager while Peter is an adult, and Harry doesn't meet Peter until college. Furthermore, the Sacred Timeline version of Peter never encounters any of these characters.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the mainstream comics, Peter pre-bite was a bitter, anti-social Jerk with a Heart of Gold who deeply resented everyone around him at Midtown (albeit understandably so as they bullied and ostracized him), resulting in him initially using his newfound abilities for personal gain and selfishly letting a criminal escape after letting the fame and fortune go to his head. It wasn't until Ben was killed by the same criminal that he underwent a Jerkass Realization and decided to become a hero. Here, he's a selfless and altruistic Nice Guy from the start, bravely saving Nico from the Symbiotic Alien during its attack on Midtown before he even receives superpowers, and chooses to become a superhero on his own.
• Affectionate Nickname: Pearl, who used to be his babysitter, frequently refers to him as "Petey."
• Age Lift: He is slightly younger than his Sacred Timeline self was at the time of Civil War, as that version of Peter was a sophomore; here, he is only a freshman, likely a holdover from when the show was meant to be a prequel for MCU Spider-Man.
• All-Loving Hero: As usual, he's an endearing, empathetic Nice Guy who only became a hero to help everyone. He even shows compassion to criminals, letting go a thief after she expresses that she was just scared and desperate.
• Apologetic Attacker: He apologizes to Butane after kicking him too hard out of the window of a burning building.
• Ascended Fanboy: He was a big fan of Captain America before getting powers and becoming a superhero himself.
• Beta Outfit: His initial costume reflects how early he is in his career, being a crudely thrown-together outfit consisting of a mask, a repurposed jersey and sweatpants, and bulky web-shooters attached to a large tank. His mentorship with Norman sees him upgrade to a sleeker white and black outfit (after cycling through several lackluster designs) created by Oscorp's R&D department, only for it to get totaled during his fight with Scorpion, after which he finally settles on the comic accurate red and blue design he'd been sketching in his notebook (albeit here it's created by Harry).
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a well-meaning, friendly altruist who is willing to show compassion to his enemies and holds back during fights to avoid severely hurting them. However, even he has his limits. In "Hero or Menace", after Scorpion attempts to crush Lonnie under rubble, Peter flies into Tranquil Fury and promptly subjects the man to a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, even attempting to stab Gargan with his own stinger until Lonnie reveals himself to be alive and narrowly prevents him from going through with it.
• Big Eater: When he's at a private dinner with Norman, he ends clearing out multiple plates of food after Norman tells him that it's all already been paid for. As Norman theorizes, it's likely a result of Peter burning a lot of calories doing superhero work.
• Character Development: Peter is initially quite dependent on Norman after they link-up, relying on him as Mission Control and even allowing Osborn to change his image into something more appealing to Oscorp's focus groups, but as Season 1 progresses, he slowly recognizes that he has to maintain agency outside of what Norman expects of him and do things his own way. By the finale, he's abandoned his Oscorp-created suit in favor of a costume more akin to the image he wants to cultivate for himself, become competent enough to handle Scorpion without needing Norman in his ear, and decides to cut ties with Norman in favor of doing independent heroism with the more trustworthy Harry and Nico as his main allies.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Per usual, one of Peter's biggest traits is that he absolutely refuses to stand by and do nothing whenever innocent people get hurt.
  • Unlike his usual portrayal, he demonstrates this before he even receives superpowers, selflessly distracting the Symbiotic Alien when he sees it attempting to attack Nico Minoru.
  • A lot of the villains he faces across the first season tend to exploit this, endangering civilians while betting on the fact that Spider-Man will prioritize saving them so they can gain the upper hand over him while he's distracted. Mila Masaryk in particular nearly kills Spidey by forcing him into Taking the Bullet for Mikhail.
  • Despite being gravely injured and in need of recovery after his Curb-Stomp Battle at the hands of The Scorpion, Peter's first instinct after regaining consciousness is to try and take him down before he causes further harm. He even admits to Norman that he pins the blame entirely on himself whenever innocent people are hurt on his watch.
    Peter: I went up against Scorpion… and I lost. When people get hurt, or worse, that's on me.
• Deadpan Snarker: Like many versions of himself, Peter's always cracking jokes and spouting off rapid-fire quips as Spider-Man.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: He's still learning just how strong he is, to the point in the first few episodes alone he accidentally rips the bumper off a car he meant to stop and kicks Butane clear out a window instead of just across the room. He appears to grow more accustomed to his abilities as the season progresses, to the extent that he actively holds himself back to avoid severely injuring his foes during fights.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Peter is an empathetic All-Loving Hero, but The Scorpion ends up being the first supervillain he views with outright hatred and rage due to how much of an utter psychopath he is, to the point that he nearly kills him during their final fight.
• Humble Hero: As noted in his quote, Peter sees himself as just a kid from Queens randomly given great power and therefore obligated to make something out of them by helping others. This is humorously lampshaded when he is presented with the Prodigy suit, noting that he doesn't feel worthy of the grandiose feel it evokes.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • While it's Norman Osborn instead of Tony Stark, this Peter is still taken under the wing of a wealthy businessman like his Sacred Timeline self. Also, having this type of relationship with Osborn is similar to the relationship their Raimi-Verse counterparts had.
  • Like the Raimi-Verse and Webb-Verse versions of Peter, he becomes friends with Harry Osborn. This is one thing he doesn't have in common with his Sacred Timeline counterpart.
• Kid Hero: A high school freshman when he got his powers and became Spider-Man.
• Light Is Good: Combined with Blue Is Heroic, the redesigned suit he settles on with Norman is mostly pure white with blue accents.
• The Needs of the Many: As indicated in the character quote, Peter has no problem putting himself in harm's way if it means ensuring the safety of everyone else.
• Nerd Glasses: He wears big, rounded glasses.
• Nice Guy: Peter is a friendly, dorky, kind guy who would help his friends and classmates in his civilian life while willing to help the civilians of his city and his superhero life. He’s also willing to show kindness to repentant criminals and give them a second chance.
• Only Friend: He is Nico's sole friend, as revealed in "The Parker Luck" where she ends up spending an entire house party just waiting for him to show up and being unfamiliar with everyone else there. However, she also does eventually become friends with Harry despite their rough start.
• OOC Is Serious Business: Peter's typical approach to combat is to handle his criminals with restraint and maintain a quippy, lighthearted, Motor Mouth persona that throws them off. However, when facing off against the Scorpion again after their initial "fight", he's grim and serious the whole time and is much more offensive and relentless in his fighting style, being dead-set on defeating him.
• Precocious Crush: He has a childhood crush on Pearl Panagan, who's about two years older than he is and was his childhood babysitter. This led to feelings that he didn't outgrow.
• Primary-Color Champion: His Beta Outfit and final costume both heavily incorporate red and blue, and he's the heroic protagonist of the series.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Peter begins the series as an inexperienced rookie just trying to do good for his neighborhood on a shoestring budget, which is reflected by his thrown-together Beta Outfit. Once he starts working for Norman Osborn, he cycles through several uniforms that stray away from the spider theme, before ultimately settling on a high-tech, white Spider-Man outfit selected by Oscorp's focus groups; while he admits the latter to be the best of the bunch, he still feels it doesn't fully fit him, showcasing how Norman is subtly changing Peter's image and turning him into an asset for his company. After his realization that he doesn't need to do everything the way Norman would want him to, Peter finally dons the classic red and blue costume from the comics (which he had been sketching in his notebook as a potential design from the start), representing him fully coming into his own as a hero.
• Socially Awkward Hero: Per usual, Peter is a dorky, awkward kid who struggles with asking out his crush… and just so happens to also be a superhero capable of stopping a bus with his bare hands.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Peter generally avoids using lethal force in keeping with his good-hearted nature. Though it doesn't seem to be fully set in stone yet, as Lonnie's apparent death at Scorpion's hands causes Peter to become scarily close to crossing the line. Thankfully, Lonnie stops him from going through with it, stating that were he to do so, he'd be no different than Gargan and would ruin his image to the people of New York as a hero.
• Tranquil Fury: He's usually a wisecracking Motor Mouth while crime-fighting, but he's completely quiet while angrily subjecting Scorpion to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown after the villain seemingly kills Lonnie. Just like any version of the web-head, a quiet Spidey is a scary Spidey.
• Truer to the Text: As a version of Peter who makes several overt references to Uncle Ben as a posthumous motivator for his heroics, exists in a universe where Oscorp is an established corporation and he is therefore able to meet Harry and Norman, is for the most part disconnected from The Avengers in starting out his superhero career, and faces a diverse Rogues Gallery of villains whose origins are entirely independent from the influence of Tony Stark or the wider Marvel Universe, he presents as a more comic-accurate interpretation of his Sacred Timeline counterpart pre-No Way Home. His character design even reflects this, such as him keeping his Nerd Glasses despite having powers, bringing to mind how the character was drawn in the earlier Lee-Ditko comics. That said, several details about him still deviate greatly from the conventional portrayal of Spider-Man, such as his lack of culpability in Uncle Ben's death, the manner by which he gains his powers, and aspects of his characterization.
• Willfully Weak: As Norman surmises, part of the reason Peter struggles against his enemies so often is because he's visibly restraining himself to avoid severely injuring them. This is demonstrated by his fighting style, as he more often than not sticks to being defensive and trying to subdue his opponents with webbing, rather than just wailing on them with punches and kicks. The Scorpion learns the hard way how competent Peter can be when he stops holding back and goes on the offensive.
• Working-Class Hero: True to the core of the character, Peter is a young man from a middle-class neighborhood who chiefly protects the common people of New York on a shoestring budget.
• You Fight Like a Cow: Quippy as expected of Spider-Man.