OOC: All about Peter Parker
Here is my big damn info post on Peter Parker from Ultimate Spider-Man. I had another version mostly worked out on my currently-brokenated computer, but it was long and in need of trimming anyway. So here's a slightly shorter version.
Most people know a good amount about Peter Parker through the Spider-Man movies, comic books, cartoons. Bit by a spider, gets powers, uses them to make some money, allows a petty thief to escape when he could have easily stopped the guy, and that night the petty thief kills Peter's Uncle Ben during a burglery. Peter, as Spider-Man, catches the thief and feels so much guilt that he takes Ben's words ("With great power comes great responsibility") to heart and starts rescuing people and fighting crime.
In the Ultimate Universe, though, Peter is still a teenager. About a year has passed since he became Spider-Man. In that time he has fought many villains (and managed not to be unmasked by a couple of them), saved many lives, and been indirectly responsible for the death of a close friend and her father. He has suffered through a lot and survived, feeling pretty good about life overall. Really, he is much less emo most of the time than he has any right to be.
I'm breaking from continuity at the end of the Silver Sable storyarc which isn't actually over yet. I may tweak the end of it somewhat so as not to be Jossed. But the break to Fandom basically goes like this: So much crap has gone on in Peter's life that when a scholarship to Fandom was sent to him at the very last minute before enrollment ended, Aunt May and he decided that he was going. This gave May time to sort things out for herself for a bit, and it gave Peter time to haveto a normal life. After all, he knows that SHIELD - the extremely powerful military organization that recruits, watches, and fights superhumans among other threats - is at best going to force him to join when he turns 18 because he has illegal genetic modifications to his physiology. Peter really kind of hates SHIELD for very good reasons. He is not looking forward to that future.
For the record, if you're a Spidey fan, you'll probably have a very good guess who would send a mysterious scholarship to get Peter away from New York. Yes, it's Him. Again. I'm not even going to pretend that it's not.
Peter Parker's powers include:
*Enhanced strength, speed, and agility: Peter can canonically lift a few tons when necessary, although it's rare that he pushes himself that hard. He generally settles in at just "really, really strong." Combine that with the fact that he is rather quick and extremely agile, and you have a very good fighter. And that's not even counting...
*Spider-sense: When Peter is in danger, he can sense it. Combined with his speed and agility, he is hard to hit. Not impossible, though, especially if you can get in close, or if you're someplace where he can't jump around much. If you are fast, you have a good chance of getting in a few shots. If you are well-trained, you have a good chance of beating him up a bit. If you are fast and well-trained, you have a very good chance of kicking his ass. If you are a ninja, he'll probably escape with his life. Probably.
*Wall-crawling: He sticks to stuff. Pretty simple.
*Webs: Unlike the movies, Ultimate Peter has to use mechanical webshooters. He left those back in NY with his costume. So. No webbing unless he can create web fluid and work out the mechanics of it here. Or if he has a friend who could do that part...
Up until just now, Peter has been trying to keep his powers under wraps for three reasons. 1) Just in case word of any of this stuff gets back to his New York. 2) If he didn't, he thinks people might expect him to throw himself into harm's way to help people (which is another way of saying that HE thinks he should throw himself into harm's way to help people, but he was focused on trying to be "normal"). 3) He wanted to prove to himself that he can actually keep a secret identity. He didn't do a good job of it in New York, so he had to try it here.
Additionally, Peter has a big issue with people who can get away with things just because they're powerful. Nick Fury. Wilson Fisk. Norman Osborn. Flash Thompson. All of these people can do whatever they want just because of who they are. This is why he's in Government class. He wants to know how people in charge think.
Here is a brief rundown of people in Peter's life.
*May Parker: His sole guardian since his parents both died when he was a kid and his Uncle Ben died a year ago.
*Mary Jane Watson: Ex-girlfriend, still close friend. The only person in NY he actually intentionally told about his secret identity. Peter dumped her because she kept almost getting herself killed and he couldn't deal with that responsibility. So he's trying to keep her away.
*Norman Osborn: His experiments accidentally led to the creation of Spider-Man. He then turned himself into a big goblin monster. This accidentally led to the creation of Doctor Octopus before. Over time he has seen Peter as a threat, as his property, and as his son. Norman is whacked. And smart. And terrifying to Peter in a great many ways.
*Kitty Pryde: Peter's most recent girlfriend. She isn't the same version that was at FH. She was a Spidey fangirl/X-Man who used her connections to call Peter and ask for a date. They are really cute together and I say that as a manly man. In FH canon, she broke up with him because he left to go to FH.
*Flash Thompson: School bully/jackass. He is, to Peter, the teenage symbol of everything that is wrong in the world.
*Nick Fury: Director of SHIELD/complete tool. He is, to Peter, proof that even the forces of good can be fairly evilish.
*Harry Osborn: In some ways, one of Peter's best friends. His father did bad things to him on many levels. Severely screwed up in the head right now.
There may be more later.
For more info, hit up Wikipedia.
Most people know a good amount about Peter Parker through the Spider-Man movies, comic books, cartoons. Bit by a spider, gets powers, uses them to make some money, allows a petty thief to escape when he could have easily stopped the guy, and that night the petty thief kills Peter's Uncle Ben during a burglery. Peter, as Spider-Man, catches the thief and feels so much guilt that he takes Ben's words ("With great power comes great responsibility") to heart and starts rescuing people and fighting crime.
In the Ultimate Universe, though, Peter is still a teenager. About a year has passed since he became Spider-Man. In that time he has fought many villains (and managed not to be unmasked by a couple of them), saved many lives, and been indirectly responsible for the death of a close friend and her father. He has suffered through a lot and survived, feeling pretty good about life overall. Really, he is much less emo most of the time than he has any right to be.
I'm breaking from continuity at the end of the Silver Sable storyarc which isn't actually over yet. I may tweak the end of it somewhat so as not to be Jossed. But the break to Fandom basically goes like this: So much crap has gone on in Peter's life that when a scholarship to Fandom was sent to him at the very last minute before enrollment ended, Aunt May and he decided that he was going. This gave May time to sort things out for herself for a bit, and it gave Peter time to haveto a normal life. After all, he knows that SHIELD - the extremely powerful military organization that recruits, watches, and fights superhumans among other threats - is at best going to force him to join when he turns 18 because he has illegal genetic modifications to his physiology. Peter really kind of hates SHIELD for very good reasons. He is not looking forward to that future.
For the record, if you're a Spidey fan, you'll probably have a very good guess who would send a mysterious scholarship to get Peter away from New York. Yes, it's Him. Again. I'm not even going to pretend that it's not.
Peter Parker's powers include:
*Enhanced strength, speed, and agility: Peter can canonically lift a few tons when necessary, although it's rare that he pushes himself that hard. He generally settles in at just "really, really strong." Combine that with the fact that he is rather quick and extremely agile, and you have a very good fighter. And that's not even counting...
*Spider-sense: When Peter is in danger, he can sense it. Combined with his speed and agility, he is hard to hit. Not impossible, though, especially if you can get in close, or if you're someplace where he can't jump around much. If you are fast, you have a good chance of getting in a few shots. If you are well-trained, you have a good chance of beating him up a bit. If you are fast and well-trained, you have a very good chance of kicking his ass. If you are a ninja, he'll probably escape with his life. Probably.
*Wall-crawling: He sticks to stuff. Pretty simple.
*Webs: Unlike the movies, Ultimate Peter has to use mechanical webshooters. He left those back in NY with his costume. So. No webbing unless he can create web fluid and work out the mechanics of it here. Or if he has a friend who could do that part...
Up until just now, Peter has been trying to keep his powers under wraps for three reasons. 1) Just in case word of any of this stuff gets back to his New York. 2) If he didn't, he thinks people might expect him to throw himself into harm's way to help people (which is another way of saying that HE thinks he should throw himself into harm's way to help people, but he was focused on trying to be "normal"). 3) He wanted to prove to himself that he can actually keep a secret identity. He didn't do a good job of it in New York, so he had to try it here.
Additionally, Peter has a big issue with people who can get away with things just because they're powerful. Nick Fury. Wilson Fisk. Norman Osborn. Flash Thompson. All of these people can do whatever they want just because of who they are. This is why he's in Government class. He wants to know how people in charge think.
Here is a brief rundown of people in Peter's life.
*May Parker: His sole guardian since his parents both died when he was a kid and his Uncle Ben died a year ago.
*Mary Jane Watson: Ex-girlfriend, still close friend. The only person in NY he actually intentionally told about his secret identity. Peter dumped her because she kept almost getting herself killed and he couldn't deal with that responsibility. So he's trying to keep her away.
*Norman Osborn: His experiments accidentally led to the creation of Spider-Man. He then turned himself into a big goblin monster. This accidentally led to the creation of Doctor Octopus before. Over time he has seen Peter as a threat, as his property, and as his son. Norman is whacked. And smart. And terrifying to Peter in a great many ways.
*Kitty Pryde: Peter's most recent girlfriend. She isn't the same version that was at FH. She was a Spidey fangirl/X-Man who used her connections to call Peter and ask for a date. They are really cute together and I say that as a manly man. In FH canon, she broke up with him because he left to go to FH.
*Flash Thompson: School bully/jackass. He is, to Peter, the teenage symbol of everything that is wrong in the world.
*Nick Fury: Director of SHIELD/complete tool. He is, to Peter, proof that even the forces of good can be fairly evilish.
*Harry Osborn: In some ways, one of Peter's best friends. His father did bad things to him on many levels. Severely screwed up in the head right now.
There may be more later.
For more info, hit up Wikipedia.