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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