Who is Spider-Man's parents?

Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 in the Silver Age of Comic Books.

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Did Spider-Man have parents?

Richard and Mary Parker are fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are the parents of Peter Parker, the superhero known as Spider-Man.
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Where is Spider-Man's parents?

Peter's parents, in the film, died in a mysterious plane crash, and we come to find out that only his mother perished in the accident.
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Does Peter Parker ever meet his parents?

They were only referenced passingly in the original Spider-Man trilogy and haven't been mentioned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, Richard Parker received some attention during Amazing Spider-Man films. The first movie briefly introduces them as they drop a young Peter off with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May.
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Is Tony Stark Peter Parker's dad?

It's a familyship, but that doesn't mean in every case that Tony is Peter's dad. Mostly in the fandom they just have a father-son relationship, but they aren't relatives.
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Is Uncle Ben Peter's dad's brother?

Benjamin Franklin Parker, usually referred to as Uncle Ben, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually in association with the superhero Spider-Man. He is the husband of May Parker and the paternal uncle and father figure of Peter Parker.
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Why were Spider-Man's parents killed?

So why did the Red Skull have the Parkers murdered? Because he learned that they weren’t mild-mannered Peter parents at all. Rather, they were secret agents! Spies working for the CIA and Nick Fury, as was later revealed in an Untold Tales of Spider-Man story.
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How did Tom Holland become Spider-Man?

Throughout Tom Holland's solo Spider-Man trilogy, the story has only hinted minorly at Peter Parker's classic origin story where he was bitten by a radioactive spider before gaining his arachnid-based powers.
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How is Aunt May related to Peter Parker?

May is the widow of Ben Parker and the paternal aunt of Peter Parker, who leads a secret life as Spider-Man. She is nurturing and supportive of Peter as a mother figure, although throughout most of Spider-Man's history, she has not known of his secret life and considered Spider-Man frightening.
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Is Peter Parker's dad Norman Osborn?

Richard Parker was experimenting on Peter Parker as a child, which is why Peter is able to apparently control his mutation, unlike The Lizard. Peter's real father is Norman Osborn.
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How did Spider-Man get his powers?

How does Spider-Man get his powers? American teenager Peter Parker, a poor sickly orphan, is bitten by a radioactive spider. As a result of the bite, he gains superhuman strength, speed, and agility, along with the ability to cling to walls, turning him into Spider-Man.
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Did Peter Parker's dad make the Spider?

In the video, Richard explained that the spiders developed at Oscorp were the result of merging Richard's DNA into the spiders, thus making the transfer of spider powers possible only to Richard's son Peter.
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Who is Spider-Man's Son?

In SPIDER-MAN, JJ Abrams and his son, Henry Abrams, teamed up with artist Sara Pichelli and gave readers an introduction to Ben Parker, the teenage son of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson.
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Who is the best Spider-Man?

1. Tom Holland. Some fans will surely side-eye the idea of putting the current guy at the top of the list, but when it comes down to it, Tom Holland is a pitch-perfect Peter Parker - more than anyone else who's taken the role.
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Why does Peter live with Aunt May?

History: Peter Parker was orphaned at the age of 6 when his parents were killed in an airplane crash overseas. He went to live with his uncle and aunt, Ben and May Parker, in Forest Hills, New York.
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How old is Peter Parker?

15 (stated explicitly) in Homecoming in September 2016. 16 in Infinity War in May 2018.
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Who killed Ben Parker?

In Spider-Man 3, the Parker family learn the carjacker, now identified as Dennis Carradine, was not Ben's killer. Instead, it was Carradine's partner, Flint Marko, who accidentally shot Ben when the former startled him.
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How old is Peter Parker when he gets his powers?

Peter Parker, who adopts the secret identity as the original Spider-Man, is the main protagonist of the Marvel's Spider-Man series. Peter gained his powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider at the age of fifteen.
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Why was there not a Spider-Man 4?

On 11 January 2010, Deadline reported that “Sony Pictures decided today to reboot the Spider-Man franchise after franchise director Sam Raimi pulled out of Spider-Man 4 because he felt he couldn't make its summer release date and keep the film's creative integrity.
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Is Aunt May biologically related to Peter?

I ended up picking the brains of my brother Adam, who's been an encyclopedia of Marvel since we were little, and he explained that May's not related to Peter by blood—she's his aunt by marriage to his uncle Ben. So she could be elderly or pretty young, depending what age she met her husband.”
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Is may Peter Parker's mom?

Aunt May has taken care of Spider-Man from an early age, but a controversial comic in 2003 revealed a secret: she's actually Peter Parker's MOTHER!
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Who killed Uncle Ben Spider-Man 1?

Dennis Carradine was a robber who steals money from a fight promoter, the same who gave job to Peter Parker. Since the promoter cheated Parker out of money, the boy doesn't stop the criminal, who thanks him while escaping. Searching for a car for the escape, Carradine is assumed to be the one who kills Ben Parker.
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