Eddie Brock

Diagnosed with cancer, Eddie Brock went to writing to soothe his pain. As a reporter forthe Daily Globe, he wrote about the Sin Eater story. The villain was a killer who wanted to clear the city of sins. When he received a tip that a civilian might be the Sin-Eater, he printed it on the paper. This was a huge story at the time, as nobody knew who the bad guy was. Feeling proud of the story, he was brought back down to Earth when Spidey captured the real Sin-Eater. Brock went nuts and lost his job. Not only that, but his father Carol disowned him (again) and his wife Anne Weying left him. Everything was going wrong in his life. Having seen his uncle perish slowly from cancer, he knew he didn't want die that way; he decided to take his own life.

The symbiote's story is a long one. Having come from Planet X, a planet that was destroyed by Galactus, it fled to another one, a very special one. The planet was chosen by the omnipotent being known as The Beyonder to house the ultimate battle between good and evil. The being snatched heroes like the X-Men, the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Hulk and Spider-Man to fight against Dr. Doom, Galactus, Dr. Octopus, Lizard, Enchantress, Absorbing Man, Molecule Man, Klaw and many others. After a fight where Spidey's costume took a beating, he enocuntered several heroes which would produce a costume out of thin air if you thought about it. Spidey went to the wrong machine, and suddenly, the symbiote covered him and became the black costume. When the heroes had dfeated Doom, they all returned to Earth, and Spidey had his new costume with him. He wore it for several months, enjoying that it produced organic webbing and could mimic his civilian clothes. After talking to Reed Richards, Peter discovered that the costume was a living entity. Richards had the symbiote imprisoned, but during an attempt by The Trapster to infiltrate Freedom Plaza, the symbiote escaped. It attempted to force Peter to accept it again , but couldn't, so Peter tried to kill the symbiote by using the noise of a church bell tower. The plan worked and the symbiote saved the Wall Crawler's life before hiding itself in the church, waiting for someone to save itself.
Eddie Brock, fearing death, went to Church one night to ask the Lord for forgiveness for what he was about to do. Fate had brought him to the same church where Spider-Man had defeated the symbiote. The symbiote felt Brock's hatred towards Spidey and soon bonded together with Brock to became 'Venom.' Not only that, but being together caused Brock to receive an extension on his life due to the symbiote feeding on his heightened adrenaline (which it was attracted to in Spider-Man). However, if the symbiote ever left Brock to go back to Spider-Man, the ex-reporter would surely die from cancer.
While Brock wanted the symbiote, it only wanted revenge at Parker, and used Brock to get back at its former host. The symbiote fed on adrenaline, which Peter had a lot of whenever his spider-sense turned on, and Brock to (although, not as much) as a result of taking medication for his cancer. Brock has always known that the symbiote has been using him, which only intensifies his hatred towards Spider-Man.
Venom wasn't a hero or a villain, he was a vigilante. He would hurt or kill all those whom he thinks are guilty. He only hurt people who comitted crimes. He's never hurt anyone who is innocent. Venom strongly believes that Spider-Man is guilty for ruining Venom's lives.
They tested out their new found powers when they pushed Peter Parker onto a moving train. Peter survived, but everything went well in Venom's plan. He suceeded in making sure that the symbiote is able negate Spidey's Spider-Sense. Then, a few weeks later, Peter was clibing a building, and Venom grabbed his foot and Peter fell. Once again, Venom was succesful in making sure his spider sense was useless towards Spidey.
It was then time to strike full and center. With the knowledge of the symbiote, Venom decided to terrify Mary Jane by appearing in front of her and making her think it was Peter. She then told this story to Peter, and he immediately thought of the symbiote. Spidey tracked down Venom and the two fought a hellacious battle, until Spidey remembered that he can separate the symbiote with the help of a sonic gun. So Spidey went to FF Tower, got the gun and defeated Venom. The 'Lethal Protector' was sent to the Vault.
Despite escaping the Vault and paying frequent visits to Mary Jane, the Black Cat and even aunt May, Venom couldn't defeat Spider-Man. At one point, Brock was sent to prison and the symbiote was someplace else. In prison, Brock's cellmate was mass serial killer Cletus Kasady. Then when the symbiote found Brock, the spawn of the symbiote bonded with Kasady. They became 'Carnage'. Peter managed to make Venom believe that Peter himself was dead, so feeling that he had accomplished his goal, Venom 'retired'.
It wasn't until that Spider-Man discovered the existance of Carnage that he sought after Venom's help. Along with the Human Torch, Spider-Man got Venom's trust and the weird duo went off to face Carnage. They defeated Carnage but Spidey double-crossed Venom and they were both taken into captivity.
Months later, Spider-Man got Brock's ex-wife to convince Venom to stop killing and hurting people, it didn't work, but Venom left New York only if pidey promised never to interfere in his life again. But just several weeks later, the biggest killing spree in New York history took place. It was 'Maximum Carnage'. Carnage, Shriek, Carrion, Demogoblin and the Spidey doppelganger killed thousands of people. So Venom heard about this and returned to NY. With the help of Venom, Captain America, Firestar, Cloak & Dagger and others, Spidey managed to defeat the villains.
Venom would then wander around and he'd run into many adventures. Then one day, he'd meet the new hero, the Scarlet Spider. The new hero did something that Spidey had never done, soundly defeat Venom.
From there, more adventures would come his way. Then a special goverment agency "hires" Venom to kill J, Jonah Jameson, because JJJ has been snooping around on anti-mutant and Presidential candidate Greydon Creed and his friend, Bastion. When Venom is close to capturing him, Spidey makes the save. The hero fights Venom, until Spider-Man pulls a piece of concrete from the high-rise which falls then detonates smoldering dynamite behind Venom. Venom is knocked out; he has selected amnesia. The two are separated once more.
Venom goes to Carnage's cell at the Vault and 'absorbs' his 'son' in order to punish him for his deeds. He would later join the Sinister Six, along with Kraven II, Electro, Sandman, Vulture and Mysterio III in order to get revenge on Doctor Octopus. Venom would betray them and hunt them down one-by-one. He would even manage to almost fatally kill the Sandman.
A few months later, the symbiote finds its way towards an amnesiac Brock. With the two reuinted, Brock remembers his hatred towards Spider-Man, but he does not remember his identity. That is only fueled when his ex-wife Ann Weying commits suicide because she fears the symbiote too much.
Senator Ward manages to separate the symbiote and Brock for a long time. During this time, Brock believes that his 'soul' (the symbiote) has forever left him. The symbiote refuses to help a dying Brock, since it is pregnant and it wants Spidey's adrenaline in order to care for both of them. Spidey manages to save Brock's life by merging him with the symbiote once more. Now Venom is more lethal than ever, and wants revenge.

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Roderick Kingsley

When a small time crook would accidently find the hideout of the Green Goblin under an Osborn Chemical plant, he sold that information to a mystery man with an interest in conquering the criminal underworld. By changing the Goblin's costume, the mystery man became the Hobgoblin.
He immediately tried to take out Spider-Man. He failed miserably. He wondered how a mere business man like Osborn could sustain many close fights with Spider-Man, so he assumed that Osborn had some sort of powers which he may have gained. So he started raiding some Osborn plants or hideouts, and he found one piece of information. He made his own version of the formula, but instead of testing it on himself, he used it on a crook named Arnold 'Lefty' Donovan firstly. Donovan would dress-up as the Hobgoblin and fight Spidey. Kingsley, fearing that Donovan might tell Spidey of his scret identity, killed "Lefty". It was time for Kingsley to take the formula himself.

Kingsley took just enough so it won't make him mad like it did to Osborn. With his new found powers, he still failed to beat Spider-Man, but he faired better this time than he did in the first encounter. Around this time, the Hobgoblin had an assitant in Roderick Kingsley (a rich businessman who owns the modeling firm Kingsley Limited).
In a meeting of all of NY's elite and most recognized business men (JJJ, Harry Osborn, Roderick Kingsley, Wilson Fisk among others), the Hobgoblin would hold them in captivity and attempt to blackmail them all. With the files of Norman Osborn, the Hobgoblin was able to uncover some dirty secrets from each of those men. Then, Spidey would intervene and would battle him all the way to the Hudson River, where while swimming there, Spidey finds the Hobgoblin mask floating around but he doesn't find a body.
The villain managed to get out of the water and hide among the homeless. While going to a hide-out, Hobby found out that he was being followed by Daily Bugle reporter Ned Leeds. He then brainwashed Leeds into thinking that he was the Hobgoblin and even adopt the identity once in a while. From there, Hobby would use Leeds's friendship with Richard Fisk (the villain known as the Rose) so he can ally himself with the Rose in order to overthrow the Kingpin as the main crime-lord of NY. The Rose had Roderick Kingsley and Captain Keating (a police captain) as allies.
When the Hobgoblin captures Sha Shan, Flash Thompson's girlfriend, out of pure luck, she is taken to the hospital. There, Flash gives his comments about the Hobgoblin on TV, he tells the public that the villain is a coward. Hobby, watching this on TV, gets furious and decides to frame Thompson. A few hours later, the villain would fight Spidey, there Hobby would put a Hobby costume on an unconcsious Flash and have him arrested by Spider-Man. The plan worked.
By that time, Hobby was bored from crime and he decided to retire and move to Europe. When he found out that the Jack 'O Lantern (Jason Macendale) wanted to kill the Hobgoblin, he figured that the time was right to kill off Ned. Hobby gave information that Ned needed as a reporter to complete a story, so Ned would be sent to Germany and Hobby would have leaked Ned's "double life" to some men like the Kingpin. This information fell into the hands of Macendale. Macendale would have Ned killed for revenge.
Right after Ned's death, the Rose sent some of his men to kill Captain Keating and Roderick Kingsley. Keating died but Kingsley wasn't hurt badly. Hobby went to Europe, and didn't even think to become the villain until the day of the Macendale trial. You see, Spidey finally captured him, he was put on trial. Macendale, right after being sentenced for life in prison, mentioned to the press that he had Ned Leeds, who he thought was the original Hobgoblin, killed. This was the first time that Leeds' involvement as the Hobgoblin was made public knowledge. This infuriated Roderick. He decided to, first of all, kill Macendale. From there, Hobby got help from his old friend Roderick Kingsley who reluctantly helped the villain. The villain would kidnap Betty Brant, but Spidey would save her as usual. Spidey caught Hobby and unmasked him; it was Roderick Kingsley) ! Betty then uncovered that the Roderick Kingsley that was in the same room was none other than Daniel Kingsley, Roderick's identical twin brother.
We found out that Roderick used Daniel to participate in some formal events in order not to be suspected as the Hobgoblin. Roderick Kingsley was taken to the Vault.
When he found out that Norman Osborn was still alive, he coaxed his way out of prison, claiming that he had proof that Osborn is GG. Osborn and his new GG kidnapped Kingsley. When Osborn found out that Kingsley was lying about having the proof, he managed to amalgamate Kingsley Limited with Osborn Industries. When all three villains had managed to capture Spider-Man, Osborn and Kinglsey got into a fight, in which Spidey managed to get away. A fire broke out, and everyone got away. Osborn and his new GG escaped, while keeping Osborn's reputation in tact, and Kingsley escaped to a Caribbean Island, where he has "retired" once again.

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Otto Octavius

Other than being a great and noted scientist, Octavius not only was the first person to defeat Spider-Man, but he almost married aunt May! His relationship with the lady began when Doc Ock and his Sinister Six kidnapped May and Betty Brant, but May never suspected that Ock was a criminal. Later on as Ock was hiding from the law, he decided to answer an ad in the paper which May put out in an attempt to get a new roomate. After a brief stay, Peter found out about this, and took out the villain, all the while May believed that Ock was the good guy. Years after, the old lady inherited an island that contained a nuclear processing plant, and since Ock wanted to own it, he tried to marry the owner. The two almost got married, but naturally Spider-Man saved the day. While Ock didn't care for May and thought she was stupid, her innocence started to grow on him. He became close to her and tried to befriend her by visitng her one Christmas.

He would later become one of Spidey's most dealiest foes, as he forced Spider-Man to briefly retire in his first days as a super-hero. Ock was also the first villain to unmask Spidey (he did it in front of JJJ and Betty), but when Ock found out that it was a teenage Peter Parker, he didn't believe it (nor did JJJ or Betty). Peter explained that he dressed up as Spidey to save Betty's life (which everyone believed). Many years later, he'd die at the hands of the clone known as Kaine. Right before he died, he unmasked Spidey and cured the hero from a fatal virus. But later, he would be revived by the mystical group known as the Hand and Ock wouldn't remember Spidey's ID. He has recently teamed-up with the mind-altering Fusion to gain a top-secret government technology which would track down Spider-Man via his radiation signature. While he played the part of the lackey, he was truly ready to stab Fusion in the back to gain the technology himself. While he left Fusion at death's door, Spider-Man saved the day one more time.
Otto's next plan involved kidnapping the Palestinian Foreign Minister and threated to cause a major international incident involving the US and the Middle East. He would let the politician live if Spider-Man would reveal his secret identity to the whole world; however, as always, Spider-Man would outsmart the villain and manage to prevent World War 3.

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Miles Warren

He was a normal biology teacher at Empire State University and during this time he became an assistant to the High Evolutionary (a.k.a. Herbert Wyndham), a scientist who wishes to skip the next evolutionary step for humanity. Without Wyndham's approval, Warren creates an animal/human hybrid, when he learns of these secret experiments, Warren is exiled from Wundagore. The professor used his creations to test early incarnations of the Carrion virus. Among one of his creations was a jackal with a Jeckell/Hyde personality who escaped into civilization. While banished, Warren got married and had two children, but his obssession with science caused a rift between him and his family.

The rift wouldn't last as the jackal hybrid stalked him and killed Warren's family. Warren buries himself in work, and his life forever changes when he is introduced to two new ESU students, Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker.
Miles Warren would grow to have an extremely unhealthy fixation on Gwen. He grew jealous at Peter, who was dating Gwen at the time. When she died, Warren blamed Spider-Man for her death. Knowing that Parker had ties to the hero, he followed Peter, one day, hoping to find out what their relationship is, but instead he discovered that Peter is Spider-Man. He grew insane trying to get revenge on the hero. He succesfully cloned a human being, but his colleague Anthony Serba, disapproved of cloning of humans. Due to his madness, Warren killed Serba in cold blood, and with that, he finally became the Jackal. In order to finance his cloning experiments, Norman Osborn was secretly funding Warren's them by using the Scrier cabal to intimidate Warren. As the Jackal, he'd hire the Punisher, Tthe Grizzly, Tarantula, Scorpion, Hammerhead and others to take Spidey's life. They'd all fail. He cloned Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy (before she had died, Warren had a hair of both of them). The first clone he'd create of Peter, would be a failure, and later known as Kaine. That clone would then be abandoned by Warren. The clone of Gwen would be returned back to Peter in an attempt to screw with his mind. He'd kidnap Ned Leeds and have the two Spider-Men fight each other with Leeds's life hanging on the balance, after revealing that Gwen is nothing more than a clone. In the end, the Jackal consciousness came through and let Ned out of he trap, but not before giving up his own life in the process. However, this was not the real Miles Warren, as Warren cloned himself and went into a regeneration chamber to improve his DNA structure and make himself stronger. Peter's clone would survive the battle, but live a life outside of NYC.
Since this took many years, Warren's legacy got out of control, as the Carrion virus, infested inside an old discarded clone of himself, was unleashed years ahead of time. This clone came to believe that he was the real Warren, and wanted revenge on Parker. He would fail, and would be destroyed. Years later, Malcolm McBride, a student at ESU, would discover Warren's old lab and he would unleash the Carrion virus into himself. He became the Carrion, and he too wanted Spider-Man's head. He teamed up with the villianess Shriek, many times. They got very close, and she sacrificed her sanity to take away the virus within McBride.
The Jackal would return, and more insane than ever. He would play mind games with Peter and Ben, and he'd tell each of them that they are the real thing and the other is a clone. However, due to being manipulated by Osborn, he falsely believed that Ben was the real Peter; Osborn wanted Miles to focus all of his revenge plans towards Ben, while Osborn focuses on Peter. Warren would prepare for his ultimate goal, to turn every one on the planet into clones with the Carrion virus, which he obtained from Shriek by infiltrating the Ravencroft Institute. This was his endgame, and the purpose of the original Carrion, to unleash the virus. He almost succeeded, but he fall off a ledge and perish. Afterwards, a third Carrion host would be found after SHIELD was investigating Warren's dead body, but Spider-Man would stop it. The virus is currently being contained at SHIELD headquarters where they search for a cure.

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Norman Osborn II

Born into a family of wealthy businessmen, Norman had a strange young life. When his father, Norman Osborn the First, lost the family business (possibly due to the depression of the 1930's), he blamed his wife and son. Young Norman was abused physically and verbally by his father. He would marry a woman named Emily whom he truly loved. While giving birth to their first and only child Harry, Emily died. As Harry grew, the troubled Norman Osborn used tough-love on what he perceived to be his "weak" son. When his wife died, it was devastating for him and Harry, but Norman became so involved with his work and it resulted in neglecting Harry many times, and also verbally lashing out at his son. He always believed that if everybody saw his son Harry with all the latest cars/clothes/trends, then all the kids would want to be an Osborn.

When Norman and business partner a brilliant scientist and robot expert named Mendel Stromm created Osborn Industries, a chemical plant, he wanted to gain complete control of the business. When he caught Stromm embezelling money, he saw a chance to acheive this goal; he had Stromm imprisonned for 10 years. The business flourished without Stromm, and making Osborn extremely wealthy. Later, Norman found out that Stromm was working on a formula which gave the user super-strength. To test out the formula, he had kidnapped one of his own security guards, Nels Van Adder, and forced him to take the chemical. It turned the innocent Nels into a monster named the Proto-Goblin. When George and Arthur Stacy came onto the scene to find out what happened, the monster escaped. Norman would find another, more advanced Stromm formula. While his father was working on that formula, Harry intervened and mixed some of the chemicals of the formula whcih ended up by litterarly blowing up in his father's face. This explosion exposed Norman to too much of the formula. What he didn't know was that he would slowly turn insane. The explosion would give him enhanced intelligence and strength, mental instability and a healing factor, something which would later prove to be an important point in his life.
Wanting to be a major force in the criminal underworld, Norman Osborn became the Green Goblin and hand-picked Spider-Man to 'prove his force' to NYC. At first, he hired the Headsman to eliminate Spider-Man, but he failed, so Norman decided to do it himself. He first officially encountered Spider-Man when he tricked him into making Spidey think that Hollywood was going to film a movie about him. The Goblin hired the villains known as the Enforcers to beat Spidey. After a run-in with the Hulk, Spidey defeated and captured the Enforcers, but the Goblin escaped. He would ally himself with the Crimemaster, but it would fail. However, in his previous encounters he learned of Spidey's powers and moves, which would prove important in the future.
When Stromm finally got out of jail, now calling himself the Robot Master and wanted revenge on Osborn. Stromm would use two robots to destroy Osborn's lab. He failed when Spider-Man interrupted. The combination of an explosion and Osborn attempting to kill him gave Stromm a heart attack, who seemingly died.
With the knowledge of his first fights with Spidey, the Goblin noticed that Spidey had a sixth sense which would warn him of danger, so the Goblin designed a formula which would negate Spidey's "spider-sense" for a period of time. With that, he would find out the secret identity of Spider-Man; the Goblin would discover that his enemy is Peter Parker, the close friend of his own son! The Goblin was obviously shocked and felt ashamed that he lost to a mere teenager. The Goblin captured Peter and revealed his secret identity to him. Peter would then go on to fight his enemy, and Osborn would come in contact with some live wires, which would knock Osborn out and give him partial amnesia. Spidey would burn Norman's Goblin gear so Norman wouldn't remember his past as the Goblin and Peter's double identity.
For a long time, Norman Osborn would live a normal life as head of Osborn industries. In fact, he'd even be nicer than before as Harry became the center of his life. He even payed the rent for an apartment in which Harry and Peter lived in. All was perfect in the life of Norman Osborn. But whenever exposed to great stress or memories of the Goblin, he would begin to remember his double-life.
When Harry was dating Mary Jane, she was in a play which took place at an Osborn owned theater, Norman felt sick and nervous. Then, his memories all started to come back to him. He then remembered that Peter was the web-slinger and waged war on Peter. It ended when Spidey took him to the hospital bed of Harry, Norman's good side came back, and he fell unconscious again.
With his son was sick from LSD after-effects and his business stock crashing, his mind snapped and turned into the Green Goblin once more. This time, he decided to kidnap Gwen Stacy. The Goblin would have her atop of the Brooklyn Bridge and he would knock an unconscious Gwen off the bridge and a flu stricken Spidey accidently snapped her neck, which killed her. Spidey would then proceed to lose it, and in battle he would come close to beating the Goblin to death, but he'd stop. With his senses coming back to him, he would sense the Goblin Glider coming to impale him, Spidey jumped out of the way and the glider killed the Goblin instead. Spidey would just leave the scene, but what he didn't know was that Harry followed them and took off his father's costume, in order to protect his family name, and he payed off the mortician to fake an autopsy.
For years, everyone thought he was dead, but they didn't know that he had healing powers given to him from Stromm's formula. Norman would then wake up in the morgue, kill a man with the same physical characteristics and replace his body with that one. Then he proceeded to go to his old one of his many hide-outs, but he'd find Harry there trying to avenge his father. Norman let his boy "become a man for once in his pitiful life", and Norman would move to Europe to build an empire over there.
From there, he'd watch over Peter and Harry's life like a hawk through secret agents. Norman would discover this ancient cabal called the Scrier Cabal; he would take over as leader. Osborn discovered about Miles Warren and was intrigued by his experiments to clone human beings. So he decided to fund Warren's experiments, by using the Scrier as an in-between. He'd add another pawn to his collection in Seward Trainer. Through Trainer, Osborn would have him rig the experiment to confuse the Jackal (Warren's alter ego) and make him believe that Ben Reilly was the real Peter Parker. This would allow Warren to focus all of his attention towards Ben, while Osborn can keep tabs on Peter.
One day, Osborn realized that perhaps Stromm himself had taken the formula. If he did, then he too must have the healing powers. So he dug up Stromm's body and found out that he was barely alive. Stromm reluctanly worked for his former employer once again, this time in exchange for a mechanical body which keep him alive. With Stromm's technological abilities, he'd make the Scriers act more mysterious, and they'd "vanish" and appear out of thin air.
Osborn would be infuriated at many things, such as the wedding of Peter and MJ, Harry failing to defeat Peter, the Hobgoblin stealing his own weapons, and many other things, but the thing that made him start his plan in full force was the death of his only son Harry. He wanted to crush Peter psychologically, and by chance, Ben Reilley decided to return to NYC. But it failed, instead of going crazy for ever, Peter befriended Ben and got even closer. He tried to bring up more confusion, but time after time, he'd fail. So he decided to do things his way. He would take everything away from Peter all in one night. He would kill off all of his friends, his "brother" and, to even the score, his child.
On Halloween, seven years after his 'death', Norman Osborn made his return to Spider-Man's life. He explained his story to Peter and Ben, and managed to force early labour upon Mary Jane which (possibly) caused a stillbirth. He'd only fail in killing his friends, but in the rest he was succesful. He'd disappear for a couple of months, and then, with the help of Jack O'Lantern II, return publicly for the first time in 7 years by owning one half of the Daily Bugle.
Norman also took over Osborn Industries away from Liz, who gained it after Harry's death. For months, he'd play mind games with Peter; Osborn gained public sympathy and trust when he hired someone to portray the Green Goblin to kidnap his own grandson. This would prove to the world that he wasn't the Goblin, as shown in Ben Urich's book. When Norman met the original Hobgoblin, he manged to amalgamate Kingsley Limited into Osborn Industries, thus making him far more richer and powerful.
Then he felt it was time to start his master plan. His plan was to design a DNA bomb in order to destroy everyone on Earth, but first he wanted to kill Spider-Man by himself. In order to do so, he found an ancient ceremony which would give the five participants one out of five powers; madness, death, power, immortality or knowledge. Osborn thought he had received power in the Gathering of Five, but it turned out that he had received madness instead.
When Alison Mongrain (the woman who apparently killed or kidnapped baby May) found Mary Jane's house, she told MJ that May was alive. She told this to Peter, and thinking that his baby girl was alive, went off to get his child back. He then discovered that Osborn had taken his aunt May away from him and that Osborn had faked her death. The intense fight caused the Daily Bugle to get ravaged. The end result was that Spider-Man would give up the super-hero biz. The Goblin was sent to prison, but the Scriers freed him from prison.
With his personal aid, and employee of Osborn Industries, Donald Menken helps cure Norman from the Madness. With a nurse named Kolina Frederickson, Norman gets better, but proceeds to fall in love with his nurse. He asks her to move in with him in one of his mansions. She accepts. There, Norman secretly plots Spider-Man's rebirth.
Looking for an apparent hair to the throne, Norman decides that it belongs not to Normie or Menken, but to Spdier-Man! He kidnaps the Wall-Crawler and try to make him 'fear the light'. He almost suceeds, but Peter overpowers him. Norman escapes, but he has the last laugh when he mentions how close he was to changing Spider-Man into The Green Goblin.
Norman Osborn begins plotting of whole new ways to torture his arch-nemesis. He approaches Flash Thompson once again, but this time he forces him to get drunk and puts him behind the wheel of a car which crashes into Mid-Town High. At the same time, the Goblin releases a video tape in which he explains that Spider-Man killed Gwen Stacy, and not him. This of course, gets under Spidey's skin even further. In the end, Norman fails to beat Spidey and is talked into submission. However, the Goblin manages to escape.

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Nathan Lubensky

Before the Vulture killed him, he was the fiancé of May. The Vulture needed a "bait" to distract Spidey, so he took the first person who he saw, aunt May, but Lubensky fought him off, and the villain flew away with the old man. Lubensky would have a heart attack of being so high in the air. He was a man who had his troubles with gambling.

At a retirement home, he'd meet a depressed Vulture. Lubensky would "put life" into him and, indirectly, bring Andrian Toomes back to a life of crime as the Vulture (and his death later on).

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Ashley Kafka

She's a noted psychologist who's speciality in the criminally insane. She was the director of Ravencroft Institute, but when the goverment wanted to take away the mentally disturbed Chameleon away from the insitiute, she felt that they would undue all of her work, so she "kidnapped" him, thus preventing the goverment from taking him away. But once the Chameleon regained his composure he trapped Spidey, John Jameson and Kafka. He would be defeated by Mary Jane (of all people) ! Kafka was later fired for doing what she did.

In the past, she has really gotten to know some of her patients and helped them overcome some of their problems (like she did with Vermin). She is currently dating John Jameson.

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John Jameson

The famed former astronaut and son of JJJ is a former villain called the Man-Wolf. When he went to space, he transformed into the creature known as Man-Wolf. He would conquer that and rarely return back to that form. He'd retire from being an astronaut and become a security guard at Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane. There he met Doctor Kafka. After, Kafka's scheme to "save" the Chameleon, John stood up for her, and ended up getting fired with her by their superiors.

Unlike his father, he has a friendship with Spider-Man. His current whereabouts are unknown, but he is dating Ashley Kafka.

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Curtis Conners

He is a one armed scientist who tried to get back his arm when he tried to have it regenerated back (like reptiles do). He took a serum, which he thought would let hi sarm grow back, but instead it transformed him into the montrous villain known as the Lizard. He has a wife, Martha, and a son, Billy. He'd constantly transforming from Connors to the Lizard, and vice-versa. Curt Connors would help both Spider-Man and Peter several times.

He'd help Peter when he's "dying" during the Clone Saga (Peter's powers were really coming back to him). When Hammerhead tries to get a rare artifact that could make him have powers beyond his wildest dreams, Curt Connors gets involved. Curt transforms into the Lizard and tries to get the artifact, but Spidey interferes. And while Hammerhead receives the powers, he decides to grant Curt's wish that the Lizard be banished rfom his body forever. Curt is probably currently living in Florida with his wife and son.

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Seward Trainer

A talented scientist who was Miles Warren second lab assistant. When he found out about what Warren had done to Anthony Serba, Seward deared Warren and tried to debunk Miles's project, but a Scrier would prevent him from doing so. Scrier would blackmail Seward by saying that Scrier won't tell any of this to Warren if Seward accept to do whatever the Scrier says. Thus he was another puppet included in Norman Osborn's plot to destroy Spider-Man. The Scrier told Seward to rig a machine that the Jackal would use later, that would tell him the difference between human and clone. Osborn wanted the Jackal to be confused. So the Scriers told Seward to follow Ben around the country and to befriend him and gain his trust.

This would all happen. When Ben went back to NY, he called Seward to go follow him. During this time, Seward would really come to like Ben, and would HATE that he has to follow orders from Scrier. The Scriers would want Trainer to rig an experiment that Ben and Peter would conduct to tell the difference between human and clone, like he did with Warren before. Osborn wanted Peter (who he knew was the real thing) to self-destruct, but that didn't happen. When Seward's mind would be lost in cyber-space, Ben would have to fight Doc Ock II to save it, which he did. When he would come back, a small Osborn subsidiary called Multivex would take him away. Seward would then see that Gaunt was sort of telling the Scriers what do, but he didn't know that Osborn was the true mastermind. Seward would the have to rebuild a new body for Gaunt, and he even remade the Hobgoblin (Macendale) in a cybernetic new Hobgoblin. When Seward would find out that Norman Osborn is the head of this entire operation, he'd try to get into contact with Peter or Ben, but Osborn would kill him.

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Felicia Hardy

Also known as the reformed super-hero called the Black Cat, young Felicia Hardy had a father who was a cat burglar and a gymnast as a mother. She learned martial arts, and along with her gymnastic history, she was ready to follow in her imprisonned father's footsteps. After finding out that her father Walter is dying of cancer, Felicia attempt to break him out of prison as the Black Cat. Spider-Man fails to put Walter back in prison, but he manages to make an impression on the Black Cat. So much so that she wants wants to reform with the help of Spider-Man, her new love interest.

Later on when Mary Jane left Peter's life for a while, Felicia became Peter's prime love interest. But she was more interested in Spider-Man, than in Peter Parker. She went to the Kingpin and he'd give her powers (so Spidey wouldn't have to worry about her getting into trouble). But what the Kingpin revealed to her is that she has "bad luck" powers which would affect everyone she's near too. When Spidey would find out about these powers, he would have Dr. Strange take them off at a most innappropriate time for the Black Cat (during a middle of a fight). This would all drive a wedge in their relationship. She would leave Peter, and during that time, he would go back to Mary Jane, and eventually he'd propose to her to which she would obviously accept. When Felicia returned to New York, she'd discover this and, to get back at Peter, she would start dating Flash Thompson, Peter's best friend. She would plan to date him and dump him pretty harshly. But she'd end up falling for him, and he'd fall for her. They would break up later on when he tells her that he always knew that she was the reformed villain. She would apologize to Peter for acting that way, and they would become good friends (and an ally when Peter needs it). She is currently a private investigator with her own business.

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Eugene "Flash" Thompson

The Big Man On Campus (and the President of the Spider-Man Fan Club) has lived a troubled life. His father was an alcoholic and who abused him and Flash's mom and sister). This would cause him to take out his frustrations on people like Peter Parker during High School. He was the most popular kid in school with the looks, the charisma and the athletics. He hung around with Liz Allan and all the other cool kids. When he chose to fight Peter in a boxing ring to settle a conflict, Peter knocked him out, and that helped silence Flash for quite some time. Then he'd get into ESU based only on his football skills, and later found out, much to his chagrin, that nemisis Peter was going there too. Instead of continuing with his football scholarship, Flash decided to go out a do his civil duty and fight in the war in Vietnam. There he would meet his longtime future girlfriend Sha-Shan. He'd bring her overseas once the war is over.

Like many soldiers of war, Flash would have big problems readjusting to society once he came back to NYC. He felt ostracized and that he missed out on a lot while everyone else was at home. Later on, he would have an affair with Betty Brant, which Sha-Shan would find out, which would cause even more problems for the ex-football star. When his girlfriend would be taken hostage by the Hobgoblin, Flash would go on TV and publicly bash the Hobgoblin. This would infuriate the Hobgoblin, and he would have the Hobgoblin getting caught by Spider-Man, but under the mask, the hero would find Flash Thompson. Flash was framed, but after some time, all of was cleared up as Eugene was pardonned. During all of this time, Peter and Flash would become very close friends, and he would even become Peter's Best Man at his wedding.
From there, he'd date Felicia Hardy, however her main reason for doing so was to annoy Peter and get back at him for breaking up with her. But she started to fall for the former football star. Despite a long relationship, the two broke it off in a friendly manner. From there, Flash would realize that life doesn't offer too much to him and that no matter how popular you were in high school, it doesn't mean anything in real life. He would start drinking to forget his troubles.
After nearly killing a child while driving drunk, Flash decided to join a treatment program. Norman Osborn found out about this, and said that he likes the courage of Flash to realize his mistake and to do something about it. So Osborn made Flash his personal assistant. Flash truly believed that Osborn wasn't the Goblin and that he was a great guy (yet, he remained a Spidey fan). Mysterio III captures Peter, MJ, aunt May, JJJ, Marla Jamseon, Robbie and Flash and puts them all in a VR tank which is the perfect opportunity to find out Spider-Man's true identity. Using Flash, Flash's ideal world comes to life, but Peter talks him out of the world and they all 'come back to reality'. Mysterio, before escaping, tells Flash that his entire life has been pitiful. When they all 'wake up', Flash tells them to leave him alone and that he doesn't need anyone anymore, even Spider-Man. Later, Flash would break up with Betty. When Norman Osborn would return to get revenge on Spider-Man, he uses Flash as a pawn in his game. He hires Thompson as a truck driver, but forces him to get drunk and drive it through Peter's classroom at Mid-Town High. As a result, he is in a coma and has massive brain damage. He is in the custody and care of Peter Parker, who feels incredibly guilty for his condition.

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Mark Raxton

Liz Osborn's stepbrother is the reformed villain who went by the name of Molten Man. When he tries to steal a secret liquid metal alloy from Spencer Smythe, he is accidently transformed into the powerful and indestructible Molten Man. But after a life of crime, he decided to go straight. When no one would give him a job, Harry Osborn did. He became an employee of Osborn Industries.

He as fought alongside Spider-Man on a couple of occasions against people like Tombstone. Recently, Norman Osborn abducted him and put some mind-controlling device in him which forced him to chase after Alison Mongrain. His current whereabouts are unknown.

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Norman "Normie" Osborn

He is the son of Harry and Liz Osborn who was named after Harry's father. When he saw Spider-Man throw his father in prison, Normie hated the hero, but when he saw his father die next to Spidey, his hate would diminuish.

During "Spider-Hunt" he would be held ransom by the fifth Green Goblin, since Normie doesn't know about the many other Goblin's, he assumed that this one was his father. He would be rescued later by Spider-Man. In a possible future, he becomes the Green Goblin, and fight against Spider-Girl.

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Elizabeth Allan Osborn

She would originally date Flash Thompson in high school, and despite the fact that she verbally bashed Peter, she had a crush on him, simply because he was different from Flash. They would never date although. Years later, she'd marry Peter's best freind at the time, Harry Osborn. From there she'd give birth to Norman Osborn (or Normie). When Harry would go mad and the memory of his father started to haunt him, his mind snapped and he became the Green Goblin once again. Liz went through a great dal of pain during this time.

She'd almost become hysterical. When Harry died, Liz not only became "normal" again, but she inherited "Osborn Industries" from her husband. She became the head of the company. She would then meet attourney Foggy Nelson (the best friend of Daredevil) and they'd would begin to start dating. But when Norman Osborn would return from the dead, he'd take over the helm of Osborn Industries one more time. This would leave Liz as a fatherless wife. She hasen't been seen much as of late. Whenever we see Normie, he's usually with his grandfather, and not his mother. Liz is still dating Foggy. She is currently head of Osborn Industries.

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Elizabeth Allan Osborn

She would originally date Flash Thompson in high school, and despite the fact that she verbally bashed Peter, she had a crush on him, simply because he was different from Flash. They would never date although. Years later, she'd marry Peter's best freind at the time, Harry Osborn. From there she'd give birth to Norman Osborn (or Normie). When Harry would go mad and the memory of his father started to haunt him, his mind snapped and he became the Green Goblin once again. Liz went through a great dal of pain during this time.

She'd almost become hysterical. When Harry died, Liz not only became "normal" again, but she inherited "Osborn Industries" from her husband. She became the head of the company. She would then meet attourney Foggy Nelson (the best friend of Daredevil) and they'd would begin to start dating. But when Norman Osborn would return from the dead, he'd take over the helm of Osborn Industries one more time. This would leave Liz as a fatherless wife. She hasen't been seen much as of late. Whenever we see Normie, he's usually with his grandfather, and not his mother. Liz is still dating Foggy. She is currently head of Osborn Industries.

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Harry Osborn

Harry's had a tough life. When his mother died, his father Norman had to be the single parent, mother and head of an entire industry. Harry often got neglected, and he never (or rarely) received any love from his father. Despite all of that, Harry still worshipped his father. When Norman was doing some experimenting on Mendell Stromm's power formula, Harry, as a very young child, accidently mixed up some ingredients, which caused the explosion that permitted Norman to turn into the Green Goblin. As a teenager, he'd befriend Gwen Stacy. He'd enter Empire State University where he would meet Flash Thompson and Peter Parker for the first time. He'd quickly befriend Flash, and start to annoy Pete, but when Harry starts having 'heart-to-heart' conversations about his past with Peter, they would quickly develop into best friends. Later on, Norman would pay rent for an apartment for Peter and Harry in Manhattan when the two are in college.

Harry would try to catch Mary Jane's attention sine he was very interested in her. They would become a couple, but in the end, they'd break up, because she wasn't really interested in Harry. She really had her eye on Peter (who was dating Gwen, at the time). Harry, wanting to forget about his deep love for Mary Jane, took LSD. The day that Norman "died", he'd follow Peter to one of his father's wharehouses, and he'd take off the GG costume off of his father in order to save the 'Osborn' name. When Peter was taking a shower, Harry would find Peter's Spidey costume and he'd discover his best friend's secret. He'd become the Green Goblin to attempt to avenge his father's death. He would be defeated by Spidey and sent to prison. There, Harry would then have periods of amnesia that blocked out his Goblin ID, but they always kept ressurfacing. Harry would see a psychiatrist, Bart Hamilton. Bart would use hypnosis to help Harry get on with life but what he would discover was the dark secret of the Osborn family, and the true identity of Spider-Man. Hamilton would learn all about GG's hide-outs and weapons, thus he will become the 3rd Goblin. It did not last as he was killed in a battle with Spidey. But the end result of that, was Harry being knocking unconscious which would erase all his knowledge of ever being the Goblin (or his father being the villain) and the identity of Spider-Man.
Harry would then live a normal life for a long time since he doesn't remember that Peter is Spider-Man, his father was the Goblin or even that he was the Goblin. He'd take over his father's business, Osborn Industries. He'd marry Liz Allan and she would give birth to their only son, Norman Osborn. During Inferno, when his family is in danger from the Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale), he was forced to dawn his father's Green Goblin costume. This time as a good guy. Harry would then try to redeem his father's name by becoming a super-hero, but Spidey would convince him to do otherwise. Shortly thereafter, he'd start to get visions of his father telling him to become "more of a man". His mind would snap. He would become the Goblin once more, this time as a villain. He couldn't manage to kill Peter. Harry was furious at that, and left. When they would next meet, Harry would have had tested his new and improved Goblin formula. Somwhere around that time, he would hire the Chameleon to build robots of Richard and Mary Parker, who would supposed to find out Spidey's secret ID, but Harry would do this only to infuriate Peter. Harry would then be put in the Vault (a prison for super-heroes). Harry would get out of the Vault. But when he'd return, his plan to kill Spider-Man, failed when he realized that he couldn't kill Peter, no matter what. He saved Peter's life, but the serum that Harry took ended up by killing him.

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Paul Stacy

The son of Arthur Stacy is an ESU student who is the only member of the Stacy family who doesn't like Peter. He is Peter's tutor, and he takes every opprotunity he gets to insult Peter publically. He hates Spider-Man very much and blames him for the death of his uncle and cousin. During the summer of 98, he started to act more and more aggressive, which led to him being a suspect, among internet fans, to being the 5th Green Goblin who works for Norman Osborn.

If he was the fifth GG, the reason for his aggressive attitude would be due to the Winkler device that Roderick Kinglsey used on Ned Leeds (who also got more aggressive once he was mind-controlled), but it hasen't been revealed. He moved out of his father's house, because he felt Jill was "spying on him" too much. He pursuaded the Tri-Corp position along with Peter, but lost the job to Peter, which makes him even more bitter at him.

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Jill Stacy

The daughter of Arthur Stacy returned to the USA hoping to discover more information on the deaths of her uncle and cousin. She really was relentless with finding this information, which made Peter unconfortable whenever they met. But they would have a chat and all of their problems would be cleared up. She will console Peter and Mary Jane with their marital difficulties. While MJ is away, she'll be along Peter's side as a friend. She is a currently fellow ESU student who is MJ's best friend (outside of Peter, of course).

According to almost everyone, she reminds them of her cousin Gwen.

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Arthur Stacy

He is the brother of George Stacy. Has two children; Jill and Paul. He used to work as the head security guard at Osborn Industries (right before Osborn took the Goblin serum). From there, he would relocate his entire family to England and then, Japan. During that time, he would become a member of SHIELD along with the man named The Ranger and future US Senator Stewart Ward (Arthur "stole" Ward's love from him). They would have a mission where they would have to infiltrate HYDRA and steal an important alien virus.

Ward would betray them, but would be infected by the virus. From there, he would return to New York to find out more about the connection between Spider-Man and his family members. At first, he would condemn the hero, but later he'd learn to trust the hero. He'd even help Spidey clear his name in the murder of street thug Joey Z. He seems to know something about the past of Senator Stewart Ward. He also harbours some sort of grudge against Ward. During a conversation with the Senator, they are interrupted by Bullseye who was hired by Wilson Fisk to kill both of them. Spidey intervened and Stacy is badly injured in the fight between Spidey and Bullseye. Arthur has taken his private war against Ward to new heights when he secludes himself from his children and tries to assasinate Ward. He fails at his mission when Spidey intervenes. With the help of Spider-Man and The Ranger, he puts a stop to Ward's plan to bring the alien race known as the Z'Nox to colonize the Earth. He is currently a private investigator and a close and valuable ally of Spider-Man.

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George Stacy

He was well-respected retired police captain who aided Spider-Man on numerous occasions. Despite the fact that he was retired, he continued to serve as an advisor to the Police. He was an old man with a heart of gold, and he died when he pushed a young child out of the way from some falling rubble, during a Spider-Man-Doc Ock battle.

Spider-Man after seeing his girlfriend's father on the floor, he'd approach the old man. George last words would be to ask "Peter" (not Spidey) to take care of Gwen for him and to look after her. This meant that George knew about Peter's double life. In a back-up tale, a few years later, we would find out that George deduced that Peter was the hero. He had figured it out all by himself, but refused to tell anyone about it, until the day he died.

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Billy Walters

He's a young photographer at the Bugle. Peter sort of took him under his wing. Billy really wanted to be Peter's friend, but (just like it used be) Spider-Man came in-between them. Billy left NY City to take care of his sick mother who was abandonned by her husband when Billy was at a young age. Read more...

Nick Katzenberg

When he was alive, this guy was probably Peter Parker's worst enemy. Nick was a photographer who completely did his best to bury Peter as top photographer at the Bugle. He got a job at the famous paper when he only shot anti-Spidey pictures rather than the pro-Spidey ones that Peter shot.

This made him a favorite in the eyes of JJJ. Everyone at the Bugle hated him, even JJJ did (because he took pictures of Robbie going to jail, which JJJ didn't want), yet he still had a job there since his pictures were good. He shot a picture of criminal meetings, but when the paper came out, there was a misprint; the paper wrote that Peter had taken the picture. Luckily for Nick, Peter and his family was targeted for death by the mob. The Bugle would admit that they made a mistake, and Nick was now targeted for death. Spidey managed to save him from the Hobgoblin. Due to his constant smoking, Nick was diagnosed with lung cancer, which would ultimately kill him.

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Lance Bannon

He was the top photographer at the Daily Bugle. He and Peter had a healthy rivalry for that top spot. During the 80's, he would be one of the top suspects to be the Hobgoblin. He'd date Amy whom he proposed to. She would accept, but before they would marry, he was killed by FACADE in one of the most meaningless deaths in Spidey history. FACADE identity remains a mystery, and he/she killed Lance, because he knew it. Read more...

Ken Ellis

He was a hot new Bugle reporter who named the costume alias of the clone (Ben Reilly), the Scarlet Spider (like Lois Lane named Superman in her Daily Planet articles). He hasen't been seen in comics since 1996, so whether he still is at the Bugle or not, is still unknown. Read more...

Jacob Conover

Former Bugle reporter who turned into the crime-boss known as the Rose (he's the third man to dawn the suit and mask). For most Spidey fans, he's known for writing the article "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man".

Before Ned Leeds death, Jacob was working on a major story that exposed the criminal activities of some industries like Osborn Industries, Roxxon and the Brand Corporation. Leeds asked to borrow the notes (while brainwashed) so he can give them to the Hobgoblin, who'd use that information to his advantage. When Onsluaght attacked and destroyed most of the Bugle, due to cutbacks he was fired, this resulted in him becoming the Rose. He is currently in prison.

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Gloria Grant

Hired to replace Betty as JJJ's personal secretary, Glory remains at that position to this day. She is currently a good friend to Peter and Mary Jane Read more...

Phil Urich

The nephew of Ben Urich is a Daily Bugle intern who stumbled upon one of Harry Osborn's Goblin hide-outs by accident. To save the life of his uncle, he put on a Green Goblin costume that Harry had designed either for his son before his own death. The costume gave Phil the powers he need, instead of taking the Goblin formula.

Phil Urich would become the 4th Green Goblin, except for this time he'd become a super-hero. Gaunt would hire Arcade to test out Phil's abilities (to make sure that he isn't much of a threat to Norman Osborn). Phil's career as the Goblin would come to an end during "Onslaught" when his costume would wind up by getting destroyed by a Sentinel.

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Ben Urich

The Bugle's Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter wrote the book called "The Dynasty of Evil" about the documentation and the history of the Green Goblin and the Osborn family. In the book, he reveals that Norman Osborn and the Goblin were the same person; a fact that was not public knowledge until the book's release. He is also a close friend to Matt Murdoch (a.k.a. Daredevil), and is one of his most valuable allies. He was one of the first who knew that Murdoch is Daredevil, that is until it was revealed to the whole world. He's an ally of Peter who helps him with information whenever he needs it.

When Norman Osborn purchased one-half of the Bugle in an attempt to destroy Peter's life years later, he forced Urich to denounce the whole novel. Currently, he is still doing what he does best; being an investigative reporter for the Bugle. However, his career has recently hit a roadblock. After revealing to JJJ that he had known Daredevil's scret identity for years, JJJ managed to stick Urich on little stories in spite. Yet, pressured with low-sales, JJJ comes to the conclusion that his paper is too biased so he recreuits retired super-hero Jessica Jones saves the life of a family friend and Urich to give a more inside-look at the world of super-heroes, called 'The Pulse'. In their first story, the duo decide to take down Norman Osborn, after the disappearance of a co-worker. It is during this story that Urich reveals to Spider-Man that he has known for a while that Parker is the Wall-Crawler.

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Edward 'Ned' Leeds

When he was alive, Ned Leeds was one of the Bugle's top reporters. He became a crime-reporter once Frederick Foswell was killed saving JJJ's life. After a long engagement, he married former JJJ secretary Betty Brant. Ned Leeds knew Richard Fisk (a.k.a. the first Rose). JJJ would assign him to follow the Hobgoblin and have him discover the identity of the villain.

But Roderick Kingsley (the Hobgoblin) found about this and had Ned brainwahsed with the Winkler device. The device would make Leeds turn into a more agressive person (which would explain his anger towards people like Peter, Betty and Flash). Kingsley would have Ned "play" the Hobgolbin at some times, but when Kinglsey grew tired of being the Goblin, he decided to "retire". Kingsley would have problems with the first Jack 'O Lantern (Jason Macendale) at that time. When MacenDale would discover that Ned is the Hobgoblin and he would have Ned killed in Germany while he was wearing the Hobgoblin costume. Kingsley secluded himself to Europe and Macendale would become the new Hobgoblin. Kingsley later confessed to this to Betty and the Daily Bugle.

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Betty Brant Leeds

Being raised by a single parent, Betty had to drop out of High School to take care of her sick mother's, who was rendered in a coma at the hands of loan sharks in search of Betty's brotehr Bennett. She took her job at the Daily Bugle as secretary of JJJ. There, she met the young new photographer Peter Parker. She would become Peter's first girlfriend. Betty had a soft spot for Peter because she saw that he only wanted the job for the money and to take care of his aunt. But due to a previous bad experience, Betty feared that Peter might be reckless and that he might die while taking pictures of Spider-Man.

This caused a rift between the two. Also, Liz Allan would develop a crush on Peter, and would want to spend more time with her classmate. This would infuriate Betty. Later, when Bennett died at the hands of a Spidey-Ock fight, Betty blamed Spider-Man for her brother's death. Peter's secret identity would drive the two apart. From there, she'd remain friend's with Peter, but she'd date fellow Bugle employee, and star reporter, Edward 'Ned' Leeds. Betty would later marry Ned after several months of dating. During the time Ned was being controlled by the Hobgoblin, he became more and more aggressive. This also caused Betty to have an affair with Flash Thompson. When Ned would die, Betty would start to lose it; she'd even join a cult, and started thinking that Ned was still alive. In the end, she'd get over all of that. From the time Ned died and the return of Norman Osborn, Betty left her post as secretary and become a reporter. Her relationship with Flash's friendship had been a rocky one, and, at times, she really didn't like speaking to him at all. Eventually, she would decide to help Flash overcome his alcohol abuse problem. The two would get close to each other, but after many months together, she would dump Flash due to his poor attitude. She still is a reporter for the Bugle.

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Joseph "Robbie" Robertson

The Editor of the Daily Bugle is a loving father of one son, Randy, and who enjoys his life with wife Martha. Robbie is the heart and soul of the Bugle, he wants the paper to be unbiased (unlike the anti-Spidey headlines that JJJ does). He is the one of the few who can calm down JJJ (Martha Jameson being the other) - he probably is JJJ's best friend. In high school he was bullied by Lonnie Lincoln (later known as mobster Tombstone) and later he would be a witness to one of Lincoln's murders. By failing to report his information to the police, he would be sent to prison for 3 years many years later.

But a pardon would take him out of jail. During this time, Tombstone would return to Robbie's life by breaking his back. But Robbie would take part in the capture of Tombstone. After a few brushes with death and the recent acquisition of the Bugle by Osborn, Martha convinced Robbie to quit his job. Robbie would go to Greece with Martha. There Robbie would talk with an unknown man and he'd discover that Alison Mongrain works for Osborn. When Mongrain's boat would explode (due to the Scriers), he'd got to the hospital to search for her, but she'd be gone. He'd chase her from Europe to all the way back to NY. It is unknown if Robbie's trip to Greece was a coincidence where he stumbled upon information by accident or it was all a planned attempt to get information that would take down Osborn. He is currently back as Editor of Bugle. Robbie has, possibly, always suspected that Peter is/was Spider-Man.

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J. Jonah Jameson

The owner if the Daily Bugle and it's publisher is a well-respected journalist who has a lot of pull in NYC, but he uses his paper to continue his personal vendetta against Spider-Man. He was once married to a woman named Joan, but she passed away. He later remarried a scientist by the name of Marla Madison. Since Spider-Man was in show-business and later became known as a hero, JJJ has believed that the hero is a glory hound who wants nothing more than good publicity. Even early in Spider-Man's career, the Web-Slinger saved JJJ's son John on a space mission gone wrong.

JJJ hated him even more for overshadowing his son in the news. One of JJJ's greatest shames is that he secretly funded the experiment that created the villain known as Scorpion. JJJ told only told this to Norman Osborn, who wrote it down in his journals. He never told anybody else. When those journals where found by the Hobgoblin, he wanted to use blackmail to get money, in exchange he won't leak all the secrets to the public. With that, JJJ decided to write an editorial in the paper which admits that he had part in the creation of the villain. In that editorial, JJJ stepped down as Editor-in-Cheif and gave it to long-time friend Robbie Robertson. JJJ is also responsible for the creation of another villain, Spencer Smyther; the Spider-Slayer, and via default, his son Alistair Smythe.
Despite the fact Spidey has saved his life (and his family's life) countless of times, he STILL claims to hate him. He may act like he is a penny-pincher who hates everyone who works for him, but he really cares for them. For example when Peter would be accused of being a serial killer, JJJ would hire the best attourney for Peter. He feels close to Peter, as if he were his son. When Jack 'O Lantern II would threaten to harm Marla and John if JJJ didn't sell over half of the Bugle to Norman Osborn, JJJ forcefully sold it. After spending months of comtemplating to kill Norman, he couldn't make himself to pull the trigger. This made JJJ feel weak, but then Spidey came and interrupted them and he felt that Spidey came there to gloat about how he couldn't kill Osborn. A few days later, when the Goblin and Spidey are fighting, the Bugle gets destroyed and JJJ blames Spidey for the destruction of his building. Due to Norman's disappearance, JJJ retakes his position at the top of the Daily Bugle as sole owner. A few months later, when a close friends' daughter, Martha Franklin (Spider-Woman III) runs away from home, JJJ and Marla takes her in. She would runaway from her caretakers and wind up in a lot of trouble.

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Gwen Stacy

Gwen Stacy is best known in the history of Spider-Man (and in the history of comics) for her death. The hero's girlfriend wasn't supposed to die - but Gwen did, and somehow has remained in the coffin. Although she's been cloned, the original Gwen Stacy never returned. For Peter Parker, the impact of her death was second only to the death of Uncle Ben. It would be an understatement to say that Peter is haunted by Gwen's murder.

In the beginning, Gwen went to Standard High School in New York City (not Mid- Town High where Peter went) where she was described as the "beauty queen". She graduated and went to Empire State University as a biochemistry major where she met classmate Peter Parker. Her first impression of Peter was a mixture of attraction with disdain for his apparent disinterest in her (Peter was preoccupied by the hospitalization of his Aunt May).

Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, Gwen and Peter grew closer together. However, Peter's famous introduction to the mysterious "girl-next-door" Mary Jane Watson distracted him from Gwen and led her to date Harry Osborn out of jealousy. MJ and Gwen both competed for Peter's affections. But eventually, Peter chose Gwen, and MJ ended up with Harry. Peter loved Gwen more deeply than he had ever loved any woman before.

Gwen lived with her father, police Capt. George Stacy. Spider-Man's interactions with her father helped dispel misconceptions she had towards the alter-ego of her boyfriend. Though her father had his suspicions of Peter, Gwen did not discover Peter's secret identity. Once, Peter revealed his identity to Gwen and his friends while suffering from a high fever (Amazing Spider-Man #87). He later convinced everyone that he wasn't in his right mind through the assistance of the Prowler showing up wearing a Spider-Man costume.

After a battle with Doctor Octopus (Death of Captain Stacy), Gwen's father was accidentally killed by falling debris from the melee. In Captain Stacy's last words, he called Spider-Man "Peter" and asked him to take care of his daughter. Gwen felt Spider-Man bore responsibility for her father's death. Desperate to see Spider-Man punished, she put her support behind Sam Bullit, a hard line "law and order" man that was running for District Attorney. He was secretly a racist, and got caught by police after he arranged to have Robbie Robertson silenced for knowing too much about him.

Gwen and Peter continued dating. Traveling to the Savage Land in Gog! (Amazing #103-#104) with Peter, Gwen was captured by Kraven the Hunter who intended to make her his queen. Spider-Man and Ka-Zar rescued Gwen from Kraven and the monster Gog.

Gwen's final adventure took place when she was captured by Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin. The Goblin captured Gwen to use as a hostage against Spider-Man. In Amazing Spider-Man #121, Spider-Man found the Green Goblin with Gwen atop the George Washington Bridge (note: the artwork showed the Brooklyn Bridge). Gwen lay unconscious in a state of shock. During a battle between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, the Goblin knocked Gwen off the bridge. Though Spider-Man caught her with his webbing before hitting the water below, Gwen died in the fall. A "snap" by her neck implied that perhaps the jolt of the sudden stop broke her neck. (Note: The broken neck was confirmed in Amazing Spider-Man #207, though this sound effect has been taken out in some reprints of this story, leaving the matter rather ambiguous.)

Gwen's death drove Spider-Man to nearly kill the Goblin. Though he stopped himself from pummeling the Goblin to death, the Goblin impaled himself on his own glider, killing himself (temporarily, albeit.)

Gwen's teacher, Professor Miles Warren (a.k.a. the Jackal), was secretly in love with Gwen. Distraught over her death, Warren created a clone of Gwen using cell samples he had kept of his beloved student. Gwen Stacy's Clone is still alive to date, but mostly remains outside of Peter Parker's life.

Recently, two children of Gwen Stacy have shown up. Sarah Stacy and Gabriel Stacy were born to Gwen in Paris France, to keep them away from their father, Norman Osborn. Gwen had been drawn to Norman's power and felt bad for him when he seemed so distraught by his son Harry's drug addiction. Gwen had an affair with him, something she soon regretted once she realized how ruthless he was.

It had long been thought that Norman had come to Peter's apartment looking for Spider-Man, but had really come for Gwen to force her to give him the children. The twins were only at seven months gestation when they were born, but seemed to have aged to full term infants. It was found that the Goblin serum in Norman's DNA had accelerated their aging. Even though Gabriel and Sarah appear to be in their twenties, they are really only children.

While it has been many years since Gwen's death, Peter keeps her close to his heart. After saving a gangster named Forelli from the creature known as Digger, Spidey was paid $10,000 for his services. Not liking to take money from a murderer, Peter anonymously donated the money to build the Gwen Stacy Memorial Library. He has also visited her grave when he needs to think.

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Kristy Watson

The cousin of Mary Jane moved in with May, Peter and MJ in Forrest Hills when her parents, Lou and Sybil, were taking a long trip in Europe. At first, she hated being surrounded by May's Grey Panther friends, but she lived with it and developped a crush on Peter. Hoping to become a model like MJ, Kristy became bulimic and suffured a mild heart attack at 13. When her parents came back, she got into a fight with them and continued to live with the Parkers. She would later become a live-in babysitter for the Osborn, taking care of Normie. It is unknown where she is at this current time. Read more...

Anna Watson

She is the aunt of Mary Jane, as well as being May's oldest and dearest friends. She also became May's clone by acting almost exactly like May. Earlier in her life, she went to Hollywood with hopes of becoming an actress, but instead she found a man. She married that man (Jacob Hilliard), but quickly their love for each other would disappear ans she would have an affair (with Johnny Dipalma), and she'd leave Hollywood dismayed. She returned to New York and never spoke of this incident to anyone. She would move to Florida. When, she found out that May had suffered a stroke, she returned to New York permanently. When May died, she moved in with the young couple at their (well May's) home in Forrest Hills. Currently, when Peter, MJ and May would all move into this big apartment in Manhattan, Anna would continue to live at the Forrest Hills home. Read more...

Benjamin Parker

The older brother of Richard Parker. When he died, Ben raised his nephew Peter with his wife May. When a burglar entered his house, he went to see what was going on and he neded up by getting shot. He died in the arms of his wife. He taught Peter that with great power comes great responsibility. He was a very generous, kind and comedic man. Read more...

May Reilly Parker

Having suffered a tough life ever since a child, May Reilly has been a survivor through thick and thin. At a very young age, her father's brother Horace was diagnosed with cancer and Horace pleaded with her father to kill him instead of letting him die a long and painful death. Her father ended up by killing his brother. Later on, her father ended up by leaving her and his wife. This would lead to May's mother blaming May for his departure. Years later, she would befriend Anna Watson.
One day she would fall in love with a rich man named Johnny Jerome and he would ask her to marry him, to which she responded with a 'yes'.

But a madly in love Ben Parker tells May that Johnny is a criminal. May believes that Ben is jealous and continues to date Johnny until he is caught by the police. May decides to change her attitude on 'Mr. Right', he doesn't have to be rich and powerful. So she begins to date Ben. The new couple would spend a lot of time with Ben's brother Richard and girlfriend Mary. They'd quickly become friends. Then the day arrived when they got married. Despite their love for children, they never felt the need to have any, espcially when Richard and Mary would have a baby in Peter. When a Rich and Mary's plane crashes, Ben and May are forced to take care of baby Peter and raise him by themselves. She would be overprotective towards Peter, but she only did this because she loved him so much.
After almost 15 years of taking care of her nephew, May's husband is shot dead when a burglar enters the Parker home looknig for remains of an old jewel heist. When May hears that Spider-Man caught the burglar, she feels that Spider-Man used that event to catapult his name to fame, thus making her distrust and loathe the Wall-Crawler ever since. One day, she would meet Anna's niece Mary Jane and she thought that she was the ideal girl for Peter. In fact, she was the one who set-up Peter to meet Mary Jane for the first time, because she knew that those two were meant to be with each other.
Her romance life is almost non-existant since, but she almost married Otto Octavius (a.k.a. Dr. Octopus). That was all part of a plot for Ock to gain valuable land that May owned. But something happened that Ock did not forsee, May understood him and he fell in love with her. He would show a lot of affection towards her later on after this incident. Later on, May would meet a man named Nathan Lubensky. Despite a gambling problem and his health deteriorating quite rapidly, May agreed to accept his mariage proposal. But one day at an outdoor show in Manhattan, the Vulture would strike and he would unknownly kidnap Nathan (a man who had helped the Vulture in the past) and take him up in the air. That would cause Nathan's heart to stop.
Many months later, the Vulture would find out that he's dying, he wanted forgiveness from May for killing Nathan. May, at first wouldn't give it to him, but in the end she did forgive him. Before that, the Vulture took Peter hostage. Peter manage to change into Spider-Man and defeat the villain. Spidey returned home with the Vulture so he can apologize to May for causing all that trouble. May asked Spidey, where is Peter. Spidey said that he's on his way. May kisses the hero. Then when May turns around, she sees him on the couch (a bit tired). Later, she would forgive Spider-Man for saying all those bad things about him during all those years.
When Peter's "parents" returned, she truly didn't believe that they were the real thing. She was the only one who doubted them. Shortly thereafter, she'd suffer a stroke. Unknowningly to everyone, Norman Osborn would "kidnap" her, and have her replaced by a dying actress. "May" would then awake from her coma and reveal to Peter that she knew for a long time that Peter has been Spider-Man. Then she'd die in her home. A year later (Marvel time), Spider-Man would figure out Osborn's plan and May would wake-up from her coma. Apparently, her coma caused some brain damage, because she doesn't remember forgiving Spider-Man. She is a very smart woman, who can be naive at times, but is insightful. She is currently living in her home at Forrest Hills.
On a night in which Peter has fought one of the most gruelling fights of his life, aunt May decides to stop by the Parker pad and what she finds out will change the rest of her life; she finds out that Peter is Spider-Man. She talks it out with her nephew and while she might not like it, she accepts the fact that her son is a hero and is even more proud of him than ever before. She even tries to convince newspapers like the Daily Bugle to stop publishing negative stories about that 'nice super-hero' Spider-Man. In an attempt to move on, she would decide to sell her house in Forrest Hills and rent an apartment in NYC, in order to be closer to Peter and MJ. More so than ever, May Parker is the heart and soul of Peter's life and serves as a reminder of why he does what he does.

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Richard Parker and Mary Fitzpatrick Parker

When they were alive, they were agents of S.H.I.E.L.D where they once helped Wolverine escape the clutches of Baron Von Strucker either during WW2 or shortly after it. They are US counter spies who infiltrated the Red Skull's organization. When they were discovered, the Skull had them killed and framed for treason. Years later, Spidey would clear their names. Right before that mission, Mary gave birth to Peter and had Richard's brother, Ben, take care of young Peter. Several years later, the Chameleon (who's working for the late Harry Osborn) would build robots who look and act like Richard and Mary Parker. His purpose is for doing this is to discover the identity of Spider-Man. The Chameleon who learned from Harry Osborn, who died a few months earlier, that Peter might know the ID of Spider-Man. So Peter might confide in his parents, and they would tell the Chameleon. Peter discovered this and defeated his "parents". Read more...

Benjamin Reilly

When Miles Warren created a clone of Spider-Man to create confusion in the life of Peter Parker, Ben Reilly was born.
Being the second clone to have been created by Warren (Kaine being the first. Due to a large scar on Kaine's face, Warren couldn't use him to be the 'chosen clone'), the clone was supposed to fight the real one till someone dies. After a battle with his real self, an explosion would knock him unconscious. The Jackal would put something in him in order to emulate death. Then Peter would take his body and put it down a smokestack. When, the clone would awake, he'd would go back to "his" apartment, thinking that he was the real thing, but he'd find Peter with MJ. The clone would then come to the realization that he's the clone, and not the real thing.

After going around the country, the clone would adopt the name Ben Reilly ("Ben" from Uncle Ben, and "Reilly" is aunt May's maiden name). During all of this time, Ben would meet a brilliant scientist named Seward Trainer, a man whom he would confide everything to. Living the life of a nomad, Ben moved from town to town until he arrived in Salt Lake City and got a job with at a local university where he would meet waitress Janine. The two would fall in love but what he didn't know was that Janine was a wanted killer. After a near-death event, they would reveal their secrets to each other. During this time, the failed Spider-Man clone Kaine would stalk him in an attempt to make his life miserable, simply because he believes that Ben is the original and that he wants to destroy the life of the man whom he owes his existance to. Janine would leave Ben as she would continue to run away from the law. Over the next few years in exile, Kaine, would kill hundreds of people by displaying his version of 'justice'.
Also, Ben always kept in touch with aunt May, and probably he told her that he was an old friend of Ben or something. Five years after leaving New York, Ben would call May, he'd ask her how she was, but May was bothered once she saw the headline of the Daily Bugle newspaper (it said that Lance Bannon had died). She hung up the phone. Sensing that she was sick Ben would decide to return to NYC again.
He would later find out that May had suffered a stroke. He and Peter (in his "I AM SPIDER" days) met and they fought for a while. Next time they would meet, Peter would be "normal" again and he'd receive Ben pretty well. By that time, Ben had become a super-hero, who Bugle reporter Ken Ellis dubbed the "Scarlet Spider", which Ben hated.
After "May's" miraculous recovery, Ben would leave NY. But just before he left, Peter was arrested for murders that he didn't commit (they were commited by Kaine, who had Peter's fingerprints, since he's his clone). Ben decided to stay and help him out instead of abandoning his life in NYC. After that whole ordeal, Kaine confessed that he commited those murders which left Peter to be found innocent. Newly released Peter would take part of an experiment conducted by Seward to see who's the clone and who's the real thing. Peter would turn out to be the clone, and Ben would be the real Peter Parker.
Despite an early negative reaction by Peter, the two would become brothers. When Peter decided to retire and move to Portland, Ben was offered to become Spider-Man, but he refused and continued being the Scarlet Spider. Since he was the new hero in town, no one really knew what to think of him, so Doc Ock II would frame the Scarlet one for all these crimes, so Ben was forced to dawn the Spider-Man costume again.
He designed his own costume, and a new Spider-Man was born. And to avoid being confused by people who knew Peter, he dyed his hair blonde. Ben would then get a job at a little coffee shop called the Daily Grind.He would befriend the patrons a single mother and her son Devon, cafe-fly Buzz, rich (& possible mutant) Desiree Winthrop. Ben would date a woman by the name Jessica Carradine, who would turn out to be the daughter of the burglar who shot uncle Ben. But they had a little relationship which ended in a good way.
When Peter and MJ would return to NY, Peter and Ben's friendship would be as tight as ever. They'd spend almost all the time together and become the best of friends. Spider-Man did things on his own, until Peter's powers started to come back, unexplicably. Together, they would stop Sentinels from harming innocents during the 'Onslaught'. Later, Seward Trainer would then suddenly disappear and work for a small subsidiary of Osborn Industries called Multivex. Ben would one day find out that his former girlfriend Janine is in NYC and the two would continue their romantic ways, but Kaine would try to put a stop to this, once again, but this time Ben would use words instead of fists to send Kaine to the Vault, and also, Janine would finally send herself to jail for the sins of her past.
Right after Ben discovers that he would be the godfather of baby May, his entire life would come to screaching halt. Ben would find out that Seward was unwillingly working for a returning Osborn and Seward rigged the experiment that told everyone that Ben was the real thing. In fact Peter was the real thing and Ben was a clone. In the end, Ben would get being impaled by Osborn's Goblin glider. Ben would die and then turn to dust. At his funeral, Peter, as Spider-Man, would scatter Ben's ashes around the city in order to always 'keep an eye on it'.

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May Watson Parker As SpiderGirl

The child of Peter and Mary Jane is possibly deceased. With the current writing team and editor, we will probably never see this May ever again. In a possible future, May is a mutant who's powers start developping once she becomes a teenager. She has the same powers that her father had, except she is more agile, but her strength is nowhere as near as her father's. May also has some other powers that Spidey never had. She has become Spider-Girl and wears her "uncle" Ben (Reilly)'s Spidey suit. Read more...

Mary Jane Watson Parker

Born in Pittsburgh, Mary Jane, along with her sister Gayle, was abused both physically and verbally by her father. When her mother dies from an illness, Mary Jane decides to run away by not having her dreams dashed by taking care of a family (just as it happened to her sister and mother). That would lead to her fearing commitment for many years to come. Her mother's death would result in her running away and moving in with the only member of her family that she likes her aunt Anna in New York. For several months, May tried to set-up a blind date between Peter and Mary Jane. The two would come up with a whole bunch of excuses in order not to see one another. When the time fainally came, Peter was shocked at her beauty since he wasn't expecting much.
Earlier, on the night that uncle Ben died to be more exact, MJ saw Spider-Man coming out of Peter's room, and this sparked her an odd interest in Peter, but she was scared to see him, which explained why she didn't want to see Peter for a while.
She'd go out with Peter briefly, but they would go their separate ways when they're all at ESU. There, she'd date Harry Osborn, but they would break-up, which would lead up to Harry's addiction to LSD. Something that would make her feel very guilty. When she was going out with Harry, MJ had her eye on Peter, but Peter wasn't paying too much attention because he was going out with Gwen Stacy.
She would show some feeling, other than just wanting to have fun (for probably one of the first time) when Gwen died. MJ would show compassion towards Peter which would lead to them becoming a regular couple. Peter would propose to MJ for the first time, but she would decline the offer by saying that she's the type of girl who isn't happy with just one man. She would then go to Florida to spend time with Anna.

A year later, she would return to NY, for good, to find her ex-boyfriend in the arms of another woman. Despite that, the two maintained a close relationship together. She had a weird romance with Peter, because Peter would date MJ but Spider-Man would go out with the Black Cat.
One day, the villain named the Puma would attack Spider-Man at Peter Parker's apartment. The problem : MJ was talking with Peter, while Peter had sensed the Puma. he had to lock MJ out of his apartment, before the villain could attack. When he was managed to turn into Spider-Man (due to the alien symbiote) and take the fight outside. Mary Jane would then break the door down and find an empty apartment. When Peter would return back from the fight, MJ would be awaiting him and she would have a revelation for him; she knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. This would be the beginning of a new Mary Jane. Her revelation of past abuse would bring complete honesty between the two. She discovered why she was always running away from love; the unhappy marriages of her sister and mother, left a scar upon her. Unlike her mother and sister, she doesn't want to give up her dream, just to make someone else happy.
At times, they would try to convince each other that they were only friends, but they couldn't deny their love for each other for much longer. Peter would propose for a second time, the response would be the same again. But after confronting her father and putting her past behind her, she'd accept.
Despite being courted and showered with expensive gifts by a rich man named Bruce, MJ and Peter had a wonderful wedding. After the honeymoon, the newlyweds would have a nightmare come true when Peter would go 2 weeks missing. Peter was really buried underground and came out to the hands of her loving husband.
They moved in together at a luxurious hotel-apartment in Manhattan. Living in the same building was a rich millionaire named Jonathan Ceasar. A man who would become so obssesed with MJ, he'd kidnap her. Ceasar would ultimately be defeated and jailed, but he'd continue to cause havoc for the young couple from jail.
First he'd have them evicted from their apartment on Christmas Eve and MJ would be blackballed from the model business. She'd become an actress on a Soap Opera called "Secret Hospital", but she would ultimately be written out of the show because she wasn't a good actress.
Mary Jane would have her own problems, like dealing with how dangerous it is for her husband or dealing with crazed fans. She would pick up smoking for a brief period, but dropped it when she saw the negative effects of it (the death of Nick Katzenberg). She flirted with a fellow actor once, but in the end, nothing happened. At times, she has been completly ignored by Peter. When Peter would find out that his "parents" who returned, were fake, Peter wouldn't talk about it at all to anyone. She would confront May, about how Peter and May keep burying they're problems, instead of talking about it. When the clone would return a few weeks/months later, this would drive Peter over the edge. Mary Jane would try to be as supportive as possible, but it wasn't enough for Peter. Mary Jane would find out another revelation; she'd become pregnant.
This brought the two together as tighter as ever, for a while, at least until Peter HITS MJ after he finds out he's a clone. Peter would regain his senses and go back to MJ. The couple would go to Portland when Peter hangs up his webs. After Peter lost his powers, JJJ would call Peter back to NY when a skeleton, with a Spider-Man mask on in, would be found in a smokestack. The couple would move back, permanently, to New York City where they would live at May's house in Forrest Hills. When the couple found out the sex of the baby, MJ decided to call it "May" after Peter's then-dead aunt. Then tragedy would strike on a Halloween night.
Mary Jane would lose the baby in a miscarriage (although it has never been confirmed). After that whole ordeal, MJ decided to go back to ESU to study Psychology. There she befriended Jill Stacy, the cousin of Gwen. Starting to get bored from being a student again, MJ decided to go back to being a model again. The modeling world accepted her with open arms.
After seeing how much he is hated in NY, Spidey decided to retire, a decision she would support. A few months later, the couple, with aunt May, would all move into this luxirious Manhattan apartment, payed for by MJ's model money. She really seem to want Spider-Man to stay dead. As of late, Mary Jane has been receiving mysterious phone calls which disturbs her greatly. Hoping to run away from those calls, MJ and Peter were supposed to go on vacation, but Peter missed the flight. This caused to further the rift between the young couple. When she returned, they both came clean about their lies (Peter liying about not becoming Spidey anymore), but MJ decides not to talk about her whole stalker situation.
After turning it up a notch, the stalker takes MJ and tries to blow up a taxi (with both of them in it), but MJ gets away and the stalker supposedly dies in the explosion.
On a trip to Latveria for a photo shoot, tragedy would strike the Parker family once more, as the plane goes down in flames. Mary Jane's body is not found and was believed to be dead. But the reality was that the stalker was a mutant who had merged with Spider-Man's memories and became obssesed with Mary Jane. The stalker was on the plane and managed to kidnap the wife while holding her in seclusion like a prisoner. It wasn't until Spider-Man got ahold of the stalker did we see a happy reunion between the couple.
But it didn't last, as Mary Jane realized that she simply could not continue livng life with Peter without ignoring the past few months, so she and Peter decided to part ways as she left to 'find herself' in California. After starring in a B-movie, a run-in with Doctor Octopus and Doctor Doom, she has since gotten back together with Peter when they realize that they can't live apart from each other, and they put their differences behind them and start anew.
However, as her movie career is floundering, MJ, with the guidance of Ezekiel, realizes that the only way she will get any respect as an actress is to improve her acting abilities. This results in her auditioning for theater plays. She is currently living with Peter again.

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Peter Parker As Spiderman

When his parents died as a child, his aunt and uncle were chosen to raise young Peter Parker. He was a softspoken nerd who had a passion for science. But that love caused him to not have many friends. In high school, football star Eugene "Flash" Thompson and the school's most popular girl, Liz Allan, would bully him around.
One day he attended an experiment where a radioactive spider would bite him. That bite would give him the proportionate strength, speed and agility. As well, he can stick to almost any surface with his hands or feet. And finally, he has a "spider-sense" that warns him of coming danger. Peter made a 100 dollars easily when he was able to stay in a wrestling ring for 5 minutes with Crusher Hogan. There, he met Maxie Shiffman who would become Spidey's agent. Spidey started to become a big and famous TV star. When the fame started to go to his head, he avoided stopping a burglar at a TV studio, because "it wasn't my job". That would later haunt him when that same burglar would wind up my killing his beloved uncle Ben. He was so blind with rage, that he went to his room and put on his Spider-Man costume, but who saw him come out of his window ?? Mary Jane. Spider-Man captured the burglar, and from that momen on, he vowed that he will always act responsibly with the great powers that he has.
Peter realized that without Ben, they wouldn't have a lot of money, so Peter would have to continue to be a big TV star, but JJJ shunned the star/super-hero in the Bugle and, suddenly, everyone hated him. Spidey was blacklisted out of the TV business. So now, Spider-Man was only a hero. Forced to get a job to help with the financial situation, Peter would become a photographer for the Daily Bugle while taking pictures of himself, as Spider-Man, fighting criminals and villains.
At work, Peter would meet his first girlfriend Betty Brant, the secretary of JJJ. Together, they'd date for a while. During that time, Liz Allan would learn to grow fond of Peter, and she'd have a crush on him. Betty grew very jealous of Liz and Peter spending so much time together. In the end Peter and Betty would break-up because Betty was turned off of Peter's dangerous lifestyle (taking pictures of villains).

Meanwhile, as Spider-Man he'd meet plenty of super-villains. His first was the Chameleon, and from there he'd meet the Vulture, Doc Ock, Kraven, Sandman, the Tinkerer, Doctor Doom, Electro, Scorpion, Mysterio, Lizard, the Green Goblin and many others. He'd graduate high school with flying colors and he'd receive a science scholarship at Empire State University.
The Green Goblin would strike. The Goblin would be the first one to find out Peter's secret identity, but in return, Spidey found out that the Goblin wasnone other than Norman Osborn (the father of Harry). Due to Norman's bout with amnesia, he'd forget that Peter is Spidey, and that he ever was a super-villain.
In college, he'd meet Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy for the first time. During that time, his aunt has been trying to set-up up Peter with her best friend's niece named Mary Jane. But the two would back-out of blind dates all the time, and it would take them lots of time for them to meet up with each other. When that moment arrived, Peter was breataken and but he would find himself torn between Gwen and MJ. In the end, Peter would choose Gwen. Meanwhile, Peter and Harry would move in together in an apartment in Manhattan. The rent would be paid by Harry's father, Norman.
During their university tenure, Peter and Gwen would have teacher Miles Warren or science. During the time he's dating Gwen, MJ would have her eye on Peter, but he'd hardly notice since he's happy with MJ. During a battle with Doctor Octopus, George Stacy (Gwen's father) would die, he would reveal to the hero that he knew of Peter's double life and he asked Peter to take care of Gwen for him. Peter would attempt to propose to Gwen, but couldn't do it. Peter knew taht Gwen didn't like Spider-Man, and it wouldn't work out. Months later, the Green Goblin would return and kill Gwen Stacy.
This would be a tremendous blow to Peter and his friends. A few hours after her death, Norman would "die" after being impaled by his own glider. Miles Warren, who had an unhealthy fixation towards Gwen, found out that Peter was Spider-Man, cloned a version Peter and Gwen (with the hair samples he had of all his students). Warren would then be known as the Jackal.
The Jackal would introduce to Spidey the vigilante known as the Punisher. After defeating the Punisher, Spider-Man would run into another Green Goblin. Harry's fragile mind snapped due to the deaths of Gwen and his father, and with the drugs still in his system, he became the Goblin. Harry found out that Peter was Spider-Man and he wanted revenge. Spidey defeated his best friend, but in the end he make Harry go see a psychiatrist named Bart Hamilton.
When Warren had created his clone of Spider-Man (and Gwen), Warren would send it to fight the orignal. Peter would battle his clone. An explosion would take place where Peter would assume that the clone was dead so he took the clone's body and put it in a smokestack. The Jackal seemingly died from this explosion.
Back with doctor Hamilton, as Harry was under hypnosis, Hamilton found out that Harry was the Goblin and that Peter was Spidey. Using this knowledge, Hamilton wanted to become a crimelord, so he became the third Green Goblin. Ultimately, Spidey and Harry defeated Hamilton, who persihed in an explosion. Also, Harry's memories of the Green Goblin were all erased.
Ever since Gwen's death, Peter and Mary Jane have realized that they should be going out together. After a some time, he proposed to her. She turned him down saying that she cannot belong to one man, and she left NY for a year. During that time, Spider-Man would meet the cat burglar the Black Cat. He would make such an impression on him that she started to think about reforming. With Mary Jane gone, a romance bloomed. One that lasted for months, even lasted even when MJ came back to NY one year later. In university, Peter did not pass his gym class (due to being Spider-Man, he missed many classes) which would result in him not graduating. Peter decides to try again next semester.
One night, a robbery would be committed and Spidey caught two out of the three criminals. Spidey would give up on searching the third one. The third one, would wind up by finding one of the Green Goblin's hide-outs. The criminal would sell this information of the location to someone (Roderick Kingsley) and that someone would become the Hobgoblin, a villain who would cause lots of trouble to Peter for many months and years (through all of his incarnations).
Deciding that he has way too much to handle in his life, from choosing from Mary Jane and the Black Cat, to web-slinging, Peter decides to drop out of university.
Later, Spidey was chosen to go to the "Secret Wars" (along with other heroes and villains). The Beyonder brought them to this planet and had the two fight for some reason. Having seen other heroes with brand new threads and with his own costume in rags, Peter went to this machine that was supposed to fix his suit, instead it gave him a symbiote that attached itself to him (although Peter though it was some sort of alien suit that was normal for the planet). He returned to Earth with the symbiote. It took him a while for him to take it to Mister Fantastic, who would tell Peter that the costume was a living symbiote. The FF would trap in in a container, to prevent it from doing anymore harm.
In Peter's life, MJ would reveal to him that she knew for a long time that Peter Parker is secretly Spider-Man. From then on, Peter and MJ would brought total honesty between the two. Around that same time, the Black Cat and Spider-Man broke up because the Cat was told that she weas destroying Peter's life by being close to her.
The symbiote would escape the "prison" that the FF made and he'd follow Peter around. It would follow Peter to a church, but due to the sonic sounds from the church bells, the symbiote would supposingly disintigrate.
JJJ would send reporter Ned Leeds and Peter to Germany to cover a story. In Germany, Ned Leeds would die. Ned's hotel room was right next to Peter's. Ned was killed when Wolverine was talking with Peter, so Spidey couldn't help his friend. When he'd return back to the U.S., Spider-Man found out that Ned was the Hobgoblin (which would be a lie).
Peter would propsoe to MJ, once more, and again she'd turn him down, but a few days later, she'd accept. They'd get married, but Peter would almost call the wedding off when he had to let go of his feelings he had for Gwen once and for all. Even on their honeymoon, the newlyweds coulsn't escape the shadow of Spider-Man.
Back in NY, Kraven would return and he had a plan to get revenge on Spider-Man; kill him in which he succeeded to do. Well not really, he'd bury the hero in the ground for two weeks. The effects of that still weighs heavily on Peter's mind. When he got out of the ground, Peter would have to battle Kraven and Vermin. Feeling he had accomplished everything, Kraven shot himself.
A few months later, MJ would be threatened by a man in a black costume. Spidey found out that the thing that threatened MJ was his old symbiote who had bonded with an ex-reporter named Eddie Brock who was fired from his job, because of Spider-Man. Eddie was going to commit suicide, and he went to the church where the symbiote was "disintigrated" so he can pray, but instead the symbiote "bonded". Together they called themselves "Venom". Spidey ended up by defeating Venom with a sonic gun borrowed from the Fantastic Four. Thinking that it was Peter who threatened her earlier, MJ would want Peter to stop wearing the black costume, to which Peter would agree.
Peter would receive the ultimate power of Captain Universe, thus he'd become Cosmic Spider-Man. He'd have the powers of flight, even more strength, and MANY more, but he'd lose all of his powers to save New York from a Tri-Sentinel.
After defeating Venom several times, Venom's symbiote would spawn off a child. That symbiote "bonded" with Eddie Brock's cellmate, Cletus Kassidy. They were called 'Carnage'. Carnage would be more deadly than Venom, since Venom isn't a cold blooded killer, but Carnage is. Spidey managed to defeat Carnage with the help of Venom himself. From there, Peter's life would turn upside down. His parents would return from the dead. Or so Peter would think.
During this time, Harry's mind would snap and he'd turn into the Green Goblin once more. This time, more determined than ever to defeat his former best friend, he took a new and improved Goblin formula, which would wind up by killing him. Later, Peter would then find out that his "parents" were, in fact, robots built by the Chameleon, who was working for Harry Osborn (when he was alive).
This caused Peter to "lose it". He became dark and started to spend a lot of time in this "webbed cocoon" that he made. He became "Spider", and buried the "Man" part in the process. Things got even worse, when he found out that his fragile old aunt May had suffered a stroke during this time. Then Peter went even more off the deep end when he was face-to-face with his own clone, whom he thought was long dead. The final blow was when noted student of the nature of humans, Judas Traveller, forced him into some deep psychological experiments that "disected" him. Traveller and his gang, called the Host, escaped and they were intrigued by Spider-Mand his clone.
Peter would remain dark for a little while longer, but when the villain combination of the Vulture and the Owl injects into him a virus, Peter finds out that he's dying from that virus. Peter would then black out and have massive headaches during this time. Doc Ock attempt to save him, but he'd fail. Peter would then discover that Mary Jane is pregnant.
After discovering this, Ock would find a permanent cure for him. But before Ock could have a chance to fight with the person who's live he saved, Ock would die at the hands of Kaine, the clone's long-time nemesis. The clone would call himself Ben Reilly. The Bugle would name Ben's hero ID, the Scarlet Spider.
Spidey and Scarlet would discover that the Jackal is still alive, and he's playing mind games with both of them (by telling each of them that they're the original, and the other is a clone). That duo would imprison the Jackal in a prison for super villains.
Days after that, aunt May would die, after she revealed to Peter that she knew about his double identity. Months later, Peter would discover that he's a clone, and Ben is the original. After a brief battle to discover who he really is, Peter rejoiced at his life with MJ. From there, Peter would retire from being Spider-Man, and give up the mantle to Ben, and he'd move to Portland with his wife to raise their child. In Portland, an experiment would cause Peter to lose his powers. All was in place so he could live a normal and happy life. Or so he thought.
Peter and MJ would be recalled to NY by JJJ for a job. Soon after, they'd move back to NY once and for all. Peter and Ben would become best freinds and they'd call each other "brother", but a returning Norman Osborn would attempt to take away all of Peter's possesions that he holds dear.
Norman would be the mastermind behind the entire "Clone Saga". He explained that he had a healing factor in the Goblin serum which permitted him to live after the impaling. Norman would manage to kill Ben and possibly kill Peter's daughter, May by causing MJ to have a stillbirth, but he failed at killing all of Peter's friends. In a fight, the Goblin would disappear for months. Peter and Mary Jane continued to live despite all of that they had lost.
Peter would return back to ESU and try to earn his masters in biophysics and MJ started to take psychology. The couple would meet Gwen's uncle Arthur and his children, Jill and Paul, who also go to ESU.
Osborn would stop being the Goblin (but he got someone else to play that role), and he'd pay more attention to being Norman Osborn. He'd buy one half of the Bugle away from JJJ through blackmail. For months, Peter had to live with Osborn watching him like a hawk. Osborn would put a bounty on Spider-Man's head, and force Peter to come up with four new and completly different personas (Ricochet, Hornet, Prodigy and Dusk). Osborn would continue to play mind games on Peter when he'd turn his friend, Flash into an "Osborn sympathiser".
After months of breathing down Peter's neck, Osborn felt it was time for the Gathering of Five, Norman Osborn thought he received "power", but instead he got "madness", which he slowly would turn into. Peter would find out that Osborn had kidnapped aunt May while she was in her coma, and had her replaced with an actress. Peter, with the addition of new public hate for him, decided to quit being Spider-Man, and focus on being Peter Parker.
During this time, MJ had become a model again, and she would really want Peter to stop being a hero. A few months after quitting his "job" as Spider-Man, Peter would move to a luxurious apartment in Manhattan with MJ and his aunt May. Peter still has a job as photographer at the Bugle, but he'd take up another one as a research scientist for the Tri-Corp Research Foundation.
Recently, a new Spider-Man entered the town, and Peter discovered it was a teenage girl named Martha Franklin, a girl who was involved in the Gathering of Five, and she wanted to become Spdier-Man because he was her hero. During a fight with villain named Shadrac (a revamped Override), the new Spidey got her ass handed to her, and Peter, despite MJ's wishes, became Spider-Man once and for all. MJ and Peter were supposed to go on vacation, but Peter missed the flight (due to being Spider-Man). This caused to further the rift between the two. When she returned, they both came clean about their lies (Peter liying about not becoming Spidey anymore), but MJ decides not to talk about it.
On a trip to Latveria for a photo shoot, tragedy would strike the Parker family once more, as the plane goes down in flames. Mary Jane's body is not found and she is believed to be dead. At first Peter deals with this as a trick by some villain, but Peter realizes that she really is gone.
A hard luck Peter loses his job at Tri-Corp and loses his apartment (since MJ's agent stole all of their money). After a few months, Peter starts living with Randy Robertson and becoming close friends with Jill Stacy and Glory Grant. After a few months, Peter finally finds out that the stalker had kidnapped MJ. After defeating the stalker, he was reunited with his wife, but it didn't have a happy ending as Mary Jane felt she could not live life without pretending the past few months did not happen, so she decided to 'find herself' by moving to California for a while. Peter moved out on his own once again while picking up a job as a science teacher at his old high-school, Mid-Town High.
Meanwhile, Spidey meets a villain who is as powerful as he is, Morlun, a guy who 'eats' other people's powers and uses it to re-energize himself. After several nights of the most grueling battle of his life, Peter manages to defeat Morlun. When he returns home, he collapses in his bed, but aunt May enters the room and discovers her nephew's long-time secret. When the two finally meet to have a conversation on this, Peter feels like a giant weight has been lifted off of his shoulders, while May is very proud of her nephew.
After starring in a B-movie, a run-in with Doctor Octopus and Doctor Doom, Mary Jane has since gotten back together with Peter when they realize that they can't live apart from each other, and they put their differences behind them and start anew.

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