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Character Name: Peter Parker
Canon Name: The Amazing Spider-Man
Canon Type: Film
Tag Formatting: tas (film): peter parker

Tell us about your character's history:

Peter Parker was never part of the ‘in crowd’. He lives with his aunt and uncle because his parents died when he was very young. He is a huge science geek and takes photographs as both a hobby and a job on the side. He gets beat up on a semi-regular basis by the high school jock, Flash Thompson. Despite all of this, he maintains his individuality and if not being a cool kid bothers him, it can’t be seen.

His life changes during a visit to Oscorp. He is bitten by a radiated spider, which gives him super powers. While he is thrilled by this turn of events, it adds to the string of things he’s having to deal with. He’s discovering the truth about his parents, working with one of his father’s old business partners on a formula that will allow amputees to regrow limbs and beginning a relationship with his longtime crush. The pinnacle of this pile o’ burdens is the death of his uncle, an event that he feels he could have prevented.

Peter’s first use of his super powers, and the origin of Spider-man, is to seek the man that killed his uncle and avenge him. It’s a downward spiral that doesn’t satisfy Peter or the grief he’s feeling in any way. He finally gets onto the hero track when a lizard monster begins ravaging New York City. He realizes that he can do so much more with the powers he’s been given then seek revenge and that is what Uncle Ben would want.

While Peter does eventually save the day and evolves into the hero that he will ultimately become, it is not without casualties. His girlfriend’s father is killed helping Peter defuse the lizard situation. It is the first time Peter will realize how being Spider-man can (and will) impact the people in his life and the relationships that he forges. However, he is still young enough, idealistic enough and hopeful enough to believe that he juggle both the lives of Peter Parker and Spider-man.

Tell us about your character's personality:

Peter Parker is a nerd in the most classic sense. He loves science and math (legit gets excited about it), has a poster of Einstein up on his wall in his room and photography is one of his major hobbies. The only athletic thing he does is skateboard and that’s not mainstream enough to be cool. He is also a bit of a genius. I suspect he has a photographic memory from the way he writes down the formula his father figured out for Dr. Connors with ease. He is second in his class (as Gwen Stacy informs/assures him) and he tinkers, inventing things like a remote door lock and the web shooters that he wears. Peter is awkward and bumbling even after he gets super powers. He’s goofy; he rambles; he is friendly and open for the most part. He is honest and despite the fact that he is keeping a secret (Spider-man) he tells the truth as much as he can without revealing that secret. Aunt May asks him where he’s been and who does this to him (beats him up) and he tells her don’t worry, go to bed because he doesn’t want to lie to her and there is no explanation that he can give for how he ends up beat up.

Even before he is bit and receives super powers, Peter exhibits morality, bravery and compassion that is rarely seen in teenage boys. He stands up to Flash for a kid when he has no hope of standing against him successfully. He gets thoroughly beat up for his efforts and yet one gets the sense that he would do it again if necessary. Peter’s heroism comes from who Peter is, who he was raised to be, not from a spider bite.

For all of this heroism, Peter is still very much a teenage boy. When he first gets his powers, he uses them to humiliate the boy that bullies him (and pretty much the rest of the school) just as most teenage boys would. He enjoys his powers immensely, the ability to climb walls, swing from webs, jump high and do a one-finger handstand elicits whoops of joy from him. He has mad skateboarding skills now and he looks almost blissful when using his powers. He uses his powers because he enjoys them as much as he uses them to seek justice and protect people. Gwen asks him at one point if what he can do scares him and he just grins and shakes his head. He is not fearless, but he doesn’t let fear stop him from doing something good. When Uncle Ben is killed, Peter goes on a revenge bender, desperate to find the man who killed his Uncle. Part of this is being a teenage boy and taking all that rage out on someone he feels deserves it. It’s also guilt. Peter could have prevented Uncle Ben’s murder if he’d been an upstanding, moral civilian who stopped a man robbing a convenience store. Instead, he behaved as many people would. He chose that moment to reflect the indifference to the clerk’s problem that the clerk had shown him and because of it, the robber who killed Uncle Ben got away.

Peter generally feels a great deal of responsibility in regards to his powers and his actions. This is seen in the way that he feels he must find Uncle Ben’s murderer (however misplaced) but it’s also seen when he goes after Dr. Connors because he feels as if he created the monster that Dr. Connors becomes. Part of this is Uncle Ben’s influence and his father’s (though dead) influence. Ben tells him that his father believed that if you could do good, you had a moral obligation to do good. Peter takes this very seriously and it eventually rules his life and sets up the basis for why he is Spider-man even if ‘Spider-man’ does start out as a vengeance gig; it ends up Peter doing good because he can do good.

Underneath all of this, Peter has some abandonment issues that any boy with dead parents would have (he and Batman are going to start a support group). He tells Uncle Ben that if his father believed so much in doing good because he could then why wasn’t he there for him? Peter doesn’t know all of the details of his parents’ death, but he has figured out a few things by then. He knows that someone was after the secret formula that his father had and that was why his parents ran. He probably suspects that their plane crash wasn’t an accident, but at the end of the movie he has no evidence (even if the audience knows Oscorp was responsible for their deaths).

Even though he occasionally displays typical teenage, angry boy behavior, Peter is grateful for his Aunt and Uncle. He tells Uncle Ben at one point that he’s a pretty great dad. He knows that despite the tragedies in his life, he is lucky to have the things he does have and let’s be honest, Peter didn’t want for much materially or in terms of love and support. Yes, he’s suffered loss and tragedy, but he also grew up knowing he was loved and supported regardless of the choices he made.

At the point I’m taking Peter from, he’s dealing with a lot of guilt, but he’s also learning to take responsibility for his actions. He’s beginning to heal from Uncle Ben’s death but he’s still got a ways to go before he can assuage his own guilt and his own part in what happened. He is still figuring out what Spider-man’s role in things are, but he knows that he’s needed and he feels responsible for taking care of the city because he can. He’s trying to balance his double life, still hoping that there’s a chance he can live as Peter Parker in Spider-man’s world.


Tell us about your chosen exit point, why you chose it, and why you want to play the character at All Inclusive: (200 words minimum)

I chose to make Peter’s exit point the end of the movie, rather than earlier on because by the end of the movie, he has several issues to struggle with. He’s grown and matured a little bit, but he remains a teenage boy. I considered, briefly, taking him from before he decides to break his promise to Captain Stacy, but he’s a little too hopeless and depressed at that point. Peter needs to believe that there’s hope in the world, hope for him or he’s liable to forget why the world needs Spider-man.

I want to play Peter at All Inclusive because he is, at heart, a geek. He will get so excited about the doors and be so curious about the other worlds and the people from him that he’ll end up getting himself in a great deal of trouble. At the same time, because of his powers, he’s rather difficult to kill so I can do things like throw him into the Jurassic Park world. I think it will be fun to see him interact with some of the other characters, particularly the other version of him as well as people like Thor because he is a hero that exists in his world and Peter will have, no doubt, heard about the Avengers. He is a fun, goofy character that’s a little like an overgrown puppy. I’m looking forward to having him run into people and stumble into other worlds.

If your character is an alternate version of someone already in the game, explain how they are markedly different:

My version of Peter Parker is taken from an earlier time than the comic book version currently in All Inclusive. The age difference is the most notable difference between them. This Peter is still in high school and has yet to learn exactly how to be a hero. He’s still struggling with figuring out the teenage boy part of the equation as well as the super-powered teenage boy part. Because Peter is still a teenage boy, he dresses like a teenage boy in jeans, tee shirts and hoodies while the other Peter dresses a bit more like the grad student that he is. In addition to this, Peter does take photographs by appointment and for money, but he does not work to support Aunt May. She has a job and provides the majority of the income for their family so that he is allowed to be more of a teenager. He does not take pictures for the Daily Bugle but does take them for the school. My Peter does not know who Mary Jane Watson is (yet) and Gwen is still very much alive in his world.

Because of the twenty years difference in their worlds, my Peter will have a very different relationship and view point with and of technology. Mine is a bit of a tech geek, while the other Peter is just beginning to deal with the predecessors of the tech my Peter is comfortable and adept at working with. Accent is another difference. While they were raised in the same city, mine has a much less defined and pronounced accent than the other Peter.

**I attempted to talk to Peter mun via dropbox but got no response. I cobbled together what I could based on wiki and on the information in backinaction ‘s journal.

Prose example post:

Peter felt trapped. There was no other succinct way to say it. He was trapped. He was trapped in a house, in a city, mired in so much guilt that there were mornings he laid in bed and stared at the ceiling trying to remember how to move. When he was young, Aunt May and Uncle Ben had taken him to California and one of the things they’d gone to see was the La Brea tar pits. There had been an animated movie about the mammoths that had gotten stuck in the pits. Peter felt like one of those mammoths.

He didn’t know how he was going to make up to Aunt May the loss of her husband, or how he was going to keep his promise to Captain Stacy. He had hoped that Gwen would hate him for not keeping her father safe. At least then, he would have no choice but to keep his promise, but this…this was more than he could deal with. Gwen wanted him close. She wanted him to comfort her; she wanted to lean on him and to love him; she wanted him to love her, moreover she seemed to need him and he’d promised her deceased father on his death bed that he would leave her alone. In the end, Captain Stacy was right. People would get hurt around him. It had already happened. Besides, his promises meant something to him. It would have meant something to Uncle Ben.

He couldn’t escape as Spider-man, not now, not yet. The manhunt for the vigilante that was suspected in the murder of Captain Stacy (the city was in deep denial about what had lived in their sewers for a brief period of time) had reached an all time high. Peter didn’t dare show his masked face outside and yet; he still wore the suit underneath his clothes every day. He kept the mask in his backpack just in case. He waited and listened for sirens, watched the news for signs of some sort of mutated villain that would force him to save the day as Spider-man in a thinly veiled attempt to redeem himself for the things he’d done: for not being able to save Captain Stacy, for not stopping Uncle Ben’s murder, for breaking Gwen’s heart.

His only respite came at the top of a building so high no one would notice or ripping it up on his skateboard in an abandoned industrial park. It wasn’t enough. It was never going to be enough and like that mammoth stuck in the tar pit, he couldn’t help but feel he was simply making his situation worse.