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Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man

"You can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there's no neighborhood."

Known Aliases: Spider-Man, Iron Spider, Night Monkey, Peter-1

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Midtown School of Science & Technology (formerly), Stark Industries (formerly), Avengers (formerly), S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly)

Portrayed By: Tom Holland, Max Favreau (young, Iron Man 2)^{Foreign voice actors}Alexis Ortega (Captain America: Civil War - Avengers: Infinity War), Alberto Bernal (Avengers: Endgame onwards) [Latin-American Spanish dub], Mario García (European Spanish dub), Zhao Lu (Chinese Mandarin Dub), Jun'ya Enoki (Japanese dub), Shim Gyu-hyeok (all movies except Spider-Man: Homecoming), Nam Doh-hyeong (Spider-Man: Homecoming) [Korean dub], Hugo Brunswick (European French dub), Alexandre Bacon (Canadian French dub), Wirley Contaifer (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Christian Zeiger (German dub), Alex Polidori (Italian dub), Vaibhav Thakkar (all movies except Spider-Man: Homecoming), Tiger Shroff (Spider-Man Homecoming) [Hindi dub], Kadhir Gani Khan (Tamil dub), Teja Paruchuri (Telugu dub), Adam Mišík (Czech dub), István Baráth (Hungarian dub), Jakub Gawlik (Polish dub), Vladimir Kanukhin (Captain America: Civil War), Ivan Chaban (Spider-Man: Homecoming onwards) [Russian dub], Harun Can (all theatrical/home video releases), Ali Hekimoğlu (Spider-Man: Far From Home digital/streaming release) [Turkish dub]

Appearances: Iron Man 2 ^note As a child, via retcon | Captain America: Civil War | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Avengers: Infinity War | Avengers: Endgame | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Venom: Let There Be Carnage ^note In The Stinger, video recording only | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Spider-Man 4

"Look, when you can do the things that I can, but you don't, and then the bad things happen... they happen because of you."

After getting bitten by a scientifically-altered spider, Ordinary High-School Student Peter Parker gained the ability to crawl on walls and sense nearby threats, along with enhanced strength and agility. Peter initially planned to use these powers for personal gain. But when his uncle, Ben Parker, was shot and killed by a criminal that Peter realized that he could have stopped, he learned that With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility and vowed to use his abilities to protect others as the superhero Spider-Man... All of which has happened offscreen by the time we actually meet him.

A few months after his Superhero Origin, Spider-Man was drafted into a conflict between the Avengers by Iron Man, gaining a new suit in the process. While seeking to prove that he's good enough to join the Avengers, Peter was able to take on a smaller threat on his own, proving his worth. However, Peter ultimately turned down the offer to become an Avenger, realizing that he can do more good stopping crime in New York City, which is an area that the Avengers can't usually cover. But when an alien invasion threatens New York once again, Spider-Man is officially inducted into their ranks by Iron Man.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger:
  • With only a few days to catch Steve and Bucky, Tony recruited Peter in Civil War so that the pro-Sokovia Accords side would have one more heavy-hitter, and specifically someone who could counter Captain America.
  • Tony Stark hastily recruits him as an Avenger at the start of Infinity War, when Peter stows away onto the ship and joins the ride to Titan.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Peter usually gets put through the wringer enough in most of his other appearances, but this gets hammered hard in Infinity War, Endgame, Far From Home, and No Way Home. Not only does he get turned to dust and spend the next five years dead, the moment he comes back, his mentor sacrifices his life to ensure the being responsible is bested for good. Peter then spends the next eight months dealing with the pressures of stepping up to the plate in Tony's place, but it gets to him and Mysterio is able to take advantage and swipe Tony's last gift to him. He's able to accept he needs to be the hero that Iron Man was, but Beck posthumously outs him and frames him for murder. Matt Murdock clears him on the legal front, but his social life gets so screwed up thanks to the public hounding him that he turns to Dr. Strange to wipe his secret identity from the public conscious. But both men don't specify the details that well, and bring villains from the previous Spider-Man film series into Peter's backyard, along with both his cinematic predecessors and Venom, the latter of whom fortunately decides to get wasted at a bar instead of showing up to tear him in half. He tries to help said villains, but Green Goblin kills his Aunt May, leading to a chain of events where he has to have Strange wipe the knowledge of Peter Parker from the MCU, leaving him alone, broke, and with no support. Arguably, this is the worst punishment any Spidey has been through.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Downplayed, as in the comics Peter is incredibly intelligent and when given the resources, is more than capable of creating technology that lets him keep up with many Science Heroes. However in No Way Home, Peter is able to successfully create cures for three of the multiversal villains within a few hours of meeting them for the first time, with only the one for Green Goblin apparently failing (though it was possible the Goblin sabotaged the cure or it was not finished) while the cure for the Lizard was destroyed, leaving it unclear if it would have worked. Even when acknowledging that Status Quo Is God, his comic self has rarely been shown to invent cures for his villains outside of the Lizard.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: This Peter lived in a world where the Avengers existed for years before he became Spider-Man and idolized Iron Man. His comic book counterpart actually predates Tony becoming Iron Man and by extension, the founding of the Avengers themselves.
• Adaptation Personality Change: He's a lot more hyperactive and overtly awkward than how his comic book counterpart started out. He's also more sociable, having rapport with various people around his neighborhood, while his comic version often isolated himself from others at the beginning and only started developing a social circle after Character Development kicked in. The most likely reason is that unlike his comic book counterpart, he is not an outcast, which comes with him being born in an age where nerds aren’t looked down on as much. As such, Peter has at least a handful of friends (though at first Ned is the only one he can be considered close with) and was part of several clubs. Also, this version of Peter is shown to be an Ascended Fanboy who seeks to be mentored by Tony Stark, unlike in the comics where he was very much a loner in the superhero community for many years while also disliking how his responsibilities as Spider-Man interfered with his personal life. This makes sense because in the comics, Peter was one of the earliest superheroes to debut, whereas this Peter grew up admiring Iron Man and later the Avengers before gaining his powers.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • With Tony Stark/Iron Man. Here, Peter idolizes and is always seeking to gain his approval with Stark acting as a stern father figure and mentor to him. In the comics, they don't have such a relationship (except for the build-up to and during the Civil War), especially since Spidey actually predates Iron Man (and the Avengers) as a superhero there. If anything, he's historically been closer a friend to Captain America. The Ultimate versions had a comparable relationship, though.
  • With the Avengers themselves. He became a superhero with dreams of becoming an Avenger, and is considered a close ally of them right until becoming a member. In the comics, Peter didn't join the Avengers until the '90s, and even then, only as a reserve member (where he took part in stories that featured everyone). Historically, Spidey has been much closer to the Fantastic Four as an Honorary True Companion, and has actually served on the FF before (notably during the Future Foundation era) with Reed being his father figure and Johnny being Heterosexual Life-Partners with him, and everyone regarding him as their closest family outside each other. Rights issues at the time with Fox (before the merger) meant that the Fantastic Four had to be swapped for the Avengers.
  • He had a much more sour relationship with Ned Leeds in the comics, even without the Brainwashed and Crazy, on account of them being romantic rivals for Betty and Peter potentially having an affair with Betty early in her marriage to Ned. Here, Peter is best friends with the guy.
  • Betty Brant in the comics was his first real girlfriend and friend, in contrast to Liz Allan who was simply a crush. His romance with Betty is partly why he had such a negative relationship with Ned in the comics, who she ended up marrying, as due to marital problems early on, she ends up having an affair with Peter. This version of Peter never has any romantic relationship with Betty and the two don't actually seem to be friends until she dates Ned.
• Affectionate Nickname: In Avengers: Endgame, Captain America calls him “Queens” which is a Call-Back to when Cap realized they were both New Yorkers during the big fight scene in Civil War.
• Age Lift: His comic self got his powers when he was 15, but based on the MCU canon, he would have gotten his powers when he was 14 in this version.
• Alliterative Name: Peter Parker.
• All-Loving Hero: In contrast to the world-saving Avengers, no good deed is too small for Spider-Man. From stopping bicycle theft, to giving an elderly woman directions, to stopping the shooting of a mouthy thug by a weapons dealer by deliberately revealing his spying location, shouting, "You're gonna shoot somebody, shoot at me!" If the credits are anything to go by, he also regularly rescues cats from trees. He also spends the majority of No Way Home on a Save the Villain mission because he's unwilling to allow a group of dangerous supervillains from other universes to be killed on their return.
• All Webbed Up: In true Spider-Man fashion, he can completely web his opponents up to disable them. He does this to Falcon in their scuffle in Civil War (though Sam still manages to take him out through some quick-thinking and surprise trickery). He also completely webs Mantis up in ''Infinity War' when she tries to use her powers to put him to sleep.
• Alternate Self: There are many variants of Peter Parker across the multiverse. So far, this one's met two others.
• Almost Kiss: In No Way Home, he and MJ were about to make out while they were alone in the school's rooftop until Ned enters the rooftop and interrupts it without even knowing.
• AM/FM Characterization: He's a fan of the indie rock band alt-J and builds a suit to AC/DC's "Back in Black" (picked by Happy) signifying how he's taking on Tony Stark's mantle. Of course, Peter incorrectly identifies it as belonging to Led Zeppelin.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: He attempts one after MJ, whose memory of him is just about to be erased, gives her own ADL. However, before Peter can tell her he loves her too, MJ stops him, and instead asks him to let her know when he finds her in the new world after everyone forgets Peter Parker. He promises her he will, with tears in his eyes.
• Animalistic Abilities: He has speed, strength, and agility proportionate to those a spider's and can stick to surfaces like a spider can.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: He does whatever a spider can, in case you couldn't tell from his name and webbing.
• Apologetic Attacker: After webbing Winter Soldier and Falcon, he apologizes and says that he only did it because "I have one job and I've got to impress Mr. Stark."
• Arch-Enemy: Peter has two in Mysterio and the Green Goblin. The former revealed his identity and betrayed his trust, while the latter killed May causing Peter to almost kill him.
• Ascended Fanboy:
  • Idolized superheroes like Captain America and Iron Man while growing up, and got to become one mid-puberty. Shame about the Avengers being pitted against one another. The Anti-Accord side doesn't seem to hold it against him, or at least not Captain America himself. During their fight, Cap learns that Spidey is a fellow New York native and tells him he has heart.
    Spider-Man: Hey, Captain. Big fan. I'm Spider-Man.
  • The plot of Homecoming revolves around him wanting to get a full promotion into becoming an Avenger, which he ultimately decides against. And then he does become an Avenger in Infinity War.
• The Atoner:
  • It's heavily implied that Uncle Ben died because of Peter's negligence, spurring him to fight crime as Spider-Man.
  • Towards the end of No Way Home, Peter carries on with being Spider-Man despite losing basically everything else, not only because it's the right thing to do, but also to atone for the mistakes he made over his appearances.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: He got kicked around a lot due to letting himself be distracted by how cool a development or his opponent's powers/gadgets were. Examples include Falcon slamming into him after he pulled a Punch Catch on Bucky's metal-arm, and swinging straight into Giant-Man's waving hand right after he helped Iron Man and War Machine to take him down Star Wars-style.
• Audience Surrogate: In addition to being a superhero fanboy, he hangs several lampshades about common comic book trappings during the fight in Civil War, such as that Cap's shield-throwing does not obey the laws of physics.
• The Baby of the Bunch: He's only a teenager while the rest of the Avengers are anywhere from their 20's to their 40's (technically Vision is the youngest, having only been created in 2015, but he's much more mature). This is the reason Tony is so adamant about him staying out of trouble. In No Way Home he's the youngest Spider-Man when compared to his two counterparts, having been born in 2001 and then being dead for five years meaning he's just starting to apply for college while the Raimi-Verse Peter and the Webb-Verse Peter became Spider-Man in 2002 and 2013 and were born in The '80s and The '90s respectively.
• Back from the Dead: In Avengers: Endgame, he is one of many characters who are brought back from being dusted by Hulk reversing Thanos's deadly fingersnap from Avengers: Infinity War.
• Badass Adorable: Spider-Man is an adorable little guy who can go toe-to-toe with just about any of the other Avengers. In fact, the main reason he tends to lose fights is that he's too unfocused and easy to catch off-guard.
• Badass Bookworm: Overlapping with Genius Bruiser. In his civilian identity, Peter is a dorky nerd, but as Spider-Man, he's one of the strongest heroes on the planet.
• Bad Liar: He's mostly managed to keep his secret identity intact, but once other characters see an obvious indicator that he's Spider-Man, he deteriorates into a panicked mumbling. Case in point, his attempts to shove his superhero costume into his closet after Tony figures out its hiding place, or trying to weasel his way out of Ned watching him crawl across the ceiling.
• Base-Breaking Character: Becomes this In-Universe after Beck outs his identity to the world and Matt gets the charges against him dropped. On the one half, people revere him as a hero. On the other, he's demonized as a murderer.
• Bash Siblings: With the Avengers and the Spider-Men from the Raimi-Verse and the Webb-Verse.
• Bat Signal: The Spider-Signal makes its big screen debut in the post-credits scene of Captain America: Civil War.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Peter Parker's initial story arc is about finding his place in the universe and wanting to be recognized as a hero worthy of being an Avenger. So he becomes one... which gets him killed and subsequently resurrected. After that debacle, the Avengers disband, leaving him on his own and placing huge expectations upon his shoulders when he would now rather spend time as a normal kid. This ultimately culminates in him dealing with an Avengers-level threat entirely on his own... and he's rewarded by being framed for murder and having his secret identity exposed.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason Tony Stark earns Peter's loyalty. The former marched to a kid living with his single parent/guardian and provided him validation and approval for his superhero life that he had previously been keeping to himself, and then gave him a bunch of upgrades free of charge. Compared to virtually everyone else, who Tony irritates for his brash and standoffish behavior, his friendship with Peter is a major exception.
• Being Good Sucks: He's Spider-Man, this is a given. Whenever he does the right thing, it's always at a huge personal cost.
• Beta Outfit: His first costume was simply brightly colored sweats with a spider drawn on the front with a ski-mask and some welding goggles. Tony calls him "Underoos" for this.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Peter is a nice kid who has an earnest desire to be a hero. But make no mistake — he's still a superhero with immense strength, agility, and reflexes and is not someone to be trifled with. The first time we really see this in play is when he fights the Green Goblin after the latter killed Aunt May and threatened MJ. It's the first time we truly see Peter pissed off and at the end of his rope. Before, the Goblin trounced Peter, but now, it's Peter who curb-stomps him with full intent to kill the villain. And he would have gone through with it if Raimi-Peter hadn't stepped in.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He may be young and can't stop running his mouth, but his first appearance has him fighting Avengers twice his age and giving them a run for their money.
• Big Applesauce: From Queens, with a more pronounced New York accent than most other versions of the character. Cap is pleased to know this, since he's a fellow New York native (born and raised in Brooklyn).
• Big Damn Heroes: In Endgame, he saves Tony Stark from Cull Obsidian by pulling him back with his webs for Ant-Man to step on and kill.
• Black-and-White Morality: Not surprisingly for someone his age, he has a very black and white view on crime and life. He takes Iron Man at his word that Captain America and his team are in the wrong during the airport battle and leaves Aaron Davis webbed up to his car just because he's a convicted criminal. Toomes recognizes this and tries explaining to Peter that the real world is a lot more gray and he can't think that way, though he's clearly self-motivated and stalling for time.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • His accelerated perception is a huge asset when fighting villains. When he needs to wait until morning for a pair of concrete doors to open? Not so much. Played for Laughs when, during a waiting montage, he's irritated to learn that less than an hour has passed.
  • His Spider-Sense lets him know when there's a significant threat coming. Unfortunately, when that significant threat is instant eradication at the Infinity Gauntlet-clad hand of Thanos, that just means that he has time to realize he's dying.
• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: The theatrical poster for Far From Home shows him in this pose. Quite unusual to see a teenager in this pose though.
• Born Unlucky: As expected from any Spider-Man. In just his first solo movie, he is bullied by Flash, gets no respect from Happy and Tony, causes the elevator and barge accidents (the latter, he tries to fix it and yet the thing collapses again because he misses one spot), and discovers the same guy he's fighting is the father of his homecoming date.
• Brainy Brunette: He has brown hair and despite his recklessness, Peter has proven to be quite intelligent.
• Brass Balls: When he was a kid, one of Vanko's Mecha-Mooks approaches him while wearing an Iron Man mask. Instead of running away, he stares down at the machine and raises his hand before Tony comes in and blasts the robot to smithereens. He even commends Peter on his bravery.
  Tony: Nice work, kid.
• Break the Cutie: Comparing him in his happy, enthusiastic first appearance in Captain America: Civil War to the shots of him red-eyed and shying away from even being Spider-Man throughout Far From Home really drives home how much a superhero life has finally taken a mental toll on Peter. Then No Way Home comes along and makes his life even worse.
• Broken Pedestal: When he meets Mysterio, who he looked up to, after learning the truth about the Elementals, he is pissed. So pissed, in fact, that he completely stops with the usual banter that he's known for and talks to him only with a tone of disgust and disappointment.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gender-Inverted with him as the Gentle Boy to Michelle's Brooding Girl.
• Buffy Speak: When making his Star Wars analogy in Civil War, he doesn't know the actual name for the AT-AT vehicles, so he calls them "the walking thingies".
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: It's implied that the Academic Decathlon team is willing to put up with his flaky nature because he's so smart (and he's not a jerk like Flash).
• Building Swing: He does this with his webs — it's the best way for a spider to travel. His solo movie, however, shows that it's basically useless anywhere but the middle of a big city. At various points he resorts to riding on trucks, hoofing it through the suburbs, and stealing Flash's car.
• Butt-Monkey: To say that bad things happen to him a lot would be an understatement.

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• Calling Your Attacks:
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming has him announce his web combinations this way, such as "Ricochet Web" and "Web Grenade". Justified in that the suit is partly voice-activated.
  • In Infinity War, this is Played for Laughs when he's fighting Thanos with help with portals generated by Doctor Strange:
    Spider-Man: Magic! [teleports] More magic! [teleports again] Magic with a kick! [teleports once more] Magic with a punch!
• The Cameo: Footage of Peter from No Way Home appears in Venom: Let There Be Carnage during The Stinger, where Eddie and Venom are inexplicably transported to the MCU and tune into The Daily Bugle reporting on Mysterio's Frame-Up of him.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: The fact that he's terrible at maintaining his secret identity is lampshaded more than once. Despite his attempts to hide his double life his identity is discovered separately by Tony, Aunt May and Ned. In Far From Home MJ guesses it on her own and even tells Peter it was pretty obvious. It comes back to bite him hard in the stinger for Far From Home, where Mysterio publicly outs him as Spider-Man.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Throughout Homecoming, he constantly stumbles on his words when he tries to talk to Liz, and is staring at his feet when he finally tells her about his crush on her. However, she'd already figured it out, and offers to be his date to the school dance. In Far From Home, he's having a similar problem with MJ, where he's plotted out a six-step plan to communicate his feelings for her rather than state them outright from the start.
• Canon Character All Along: The kid wearing an Iron Man mask in Iron Man 2 (in real life, the son of director Jon Favreau) was retconned to be him by Word of God, or at least according to Holland and Homecoming director Jon Watts.
• The Cape: Peter is consistently shown to be one of the most idealistic and compassionate superheroes. He’s also one of the few Avengers who isn't a soldier and hasn’t taken a life for any reason until the final battle in Endgame, where he is forced to kill in order to survive and keep the Infinity Gauntlet out of Thanos's reach.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: He spends the entire airport battle chattering away as if it were a friendly get together. For instance, after blocking a punch from Winter Soldier, and turning his cybernetic arm to examine it more closely, he takes the time to compliment him on it saying, "You have a metal arm?! That's awesome, dude!" Falcon lampshades this by telling him fights usually aren't really talkative. Justified, his Motor Mouth is symptomatic of him being inexperienced and nervous.
  • He did this again in No Way Home in the middle of a fight with the supervillains to explain who the Avengers are to the other Peters, until Raimi-Verse Peter interrupts him shouting "how is this helping?".
• Character Catchphrase: He often says, "That's awesome!"
• Character Development: When he starts off as a hero, he mostly sticks to the shadows and does little things to help out his neighborhood. His introduction to Tony Stark and the Avengers (plus a new suit) in Civil War gave him a huge confidence boost and he begins to work more openly and interact with his fellow New Yorkers. Most of his time in Homecoming is spent trying to prove himself to Stark and become an official member of the Avengers to save the world. By the end of the film, Peter is given the chance to join but turns it down because he decides he'd rather stay close to the ground and help out the little guy. Come Far From Home, he's content to try and settle down for a bit after he's been dead for five years and Tony sacrificed himself to stop Thanos, especially because he's being pressured to become the next Iron Man. Thanks to Mysterio's manipulations, he's able to step up to the plate and become the hero he was meant to be...only for Beck to screw him over again and out him to the public while simultaneously framing him for murder. After a series of events drop the Sam Rami and Marc Webb Spider-Man villains into the MCU and leads to the original Green Goblin killing Aunt May, he really learns the hard way that old adage "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" and selflessly gives up everything to wipe out all knowledge of Peter Parker from his home universe to ensure a gaggle of foes who know his name throughout the multiverse won't overcrowd and destroy Earth.
• Cheap Costume:
  • In addition to his original costume, Far From Home features a gag where he's' forced to hide his face with an Italian jester's mask after leaving his suit in the hotel room.
  • After having Doctor Strange wipe all knowledge of Peter Parker from the MCU to send all of the multiversal villains back to their home universes, Peter is forced to make his own suit from scratch again since he now has no support and none of the resources that Tony Stark left him. While it is the most comics-accurate spider-suit on screen to date, it is a simple blue-and-red spandex jumpsuit without any of the additional bells and whistles of his other suits like the Iron Spider or his previous cloth suits with an integrated computer system in them. This one doesn't even seem to have the iris-lenses, something he was able to kluge together out of welder's goggles for his Beta Outfit.
• Chick Magnet: As Spider-Man, a number of his female classmates like him. Michelle is strongly implied to be interested in Peter in Homecoming, and by the end of Far From Home, they've had a Relationship Upgrade. And despite his apparent flaking nature, Liz does reveal to him that she is attracted to him. There's also the small group of German girls who give him flirtatious looks during his home video at the beginning of Homecoming (which he's clearly pretty thrilled by). The extended cut of No Way Home shows that he garnered a slew of fangirls at Midtown fawning over him after his secret identity got exposed.
• Child Soldier: Tony Stark recruits Peter to fight along with the Pro-Registration side, and while no one in Team Cap would harm him or anyone else on Team Stark, they are engaging with an unstable person like the Winter Soldier, making Tony's decision to bring him along rather questionable, especially since Tony knew that they would pull their punches. Iron Man recruited him in the hope that having one more super-powered figure would give him the advantage. As far as Tony knew, most of Team Cap was non-powered to moderately powered figures with the exception of Scarlet Witch while he had himself, Black Widow, War Machine, and Vision. Getting Spider-Man and Black Panther on his side at the same time gave him the clear superior advantage. He didn't count on Captain America's side recruiting Ant-Man, whose abilities nobody was prepared for. After his initial plan for a Curb-Stomp Battle goes awry, Tony orders Spider-Man out and sends him back home. Of course, at that point, there wasn't really a team for Peter to be on anyway.
  Rhodes: Jesus, Tony, how old is this guy?
  Tony: I don't know, I didn't carbon date him! He's on the young side!
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Peter just cannot stand by and let something bad happen on his watch. He regularly looks at the clock in his classes, eagerly waiting to get out and do heroics as soon as the school day ends. It's true that he does a lot of things just to impress Tony Stark, but when given a choice between his personal life and being Spider-Man, he will always choose the latter. This gets deconstructed a little bit, however, when Peter's misguided eagerness to do good makes him reckless and under-prepared, leading to him often getting his butt handed to him by the various bad guys he comes across or putting civilian lives in danger.
  • This bites him in the ass hard in No Way Home. Due to immense guilt for MJ and Ned not getting into MIT, on top of the harassment May and Happy suffer, he immediately goes to Dr. Strange for a memory wipe spell without consulting anyone. When the spell is butchered and instead ends up bringing in villains from across the multiverse, rather than sending the villains home immediately which would make everyone's lives much easier, the absolute second Peter finds out that they are all but guaranteed to die upon their return galvanizes him into keeping the villains on his Earth to help and heal them before sending them back. While he succeeds, and is even able to help the other two Spideys rectify past pains and sins, he loses absolutely everything in the process — May is dead and there's no one left on Earth that remembers him. He is now utterly alone in a way no other Spider-Man is, but he still trudges on as a hero.
• Clark Kent Outfit: Much like the source material. Peter's everyday outfits aren't especially baggy or ill-fitting, but are just casual enough to hide his muscles.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Not at first, as this Spidey gets a much more lighter start to his career as a true Nice Guy with few issues, though the usual "unassuming schoolkid nerd that seems far from the average hero" part is consistent. But as the consequences of his rambunctious and energetic heroics start to rack up and he's continuously beaten down by bad event after bad event, the cracks start to wear in on Peter. By the time of Far From Home, he's practically looking for any excuse to actually enjoy the class trip with MJ rather than be a hero after the whole Endgame battle and his five years of death-by-Snap, while starting to have severe doubts about whether he's fit for being Tony's successor with mounting pressure to be the next Iron Man — and by the time Mysterio pulls the ruse on him, he really takes it hard. As No Way Home proceeds with no chance to recuperate from the previous movie, it beats on him more and more until he's practically broken, and the classic Spider-Man self-loathing and self-depreciation has settled in, finalizing as all but abandoning his own happiness and future in favor of protecting anyone and everyone he can.
• Colossus Climb: Once Ant-Man grows to giant size, Spider-Man climbs on him, first acting as a nuisance before using his webbing to entangle his legs.
• Combat Parkour: A lot of his fighting movements involve jumping, climbing, and swinging.
• Comes Great Responsibility: Per the norm for the character. He tells Tony that he carries out superheroics (even when the Avengers and other superheroes exist) because he feels as though bad things will happen to other people if he doesn't, and after what presumably happened with Uncle Ben, he doesn't want anyone to suffer by his inaction. He also declines to try out for the football team even though he's always wanted to play, as it wouldn't be fair with his superhuman abilities.
• Composite Character: He's a young Peter Parker with his scientific knowledge and a modernized take on his family life, but he also borrows from Miles Morales; like Miles, he attends a specialist academy for gifted students, and his best friend is himself a composite of Miles Morales' friend Ganke Lee and Peter's friend Ned Leeds. Additionally, his being recruited by Tony Stark shortly after starting his career as Spider-Man is much like how Ultimate Peter and later Miles was recruited by Nick Fury — whose MCU counterpart would go on to mentor him in Far From Home. He's a huge fanboy of the older superheroes just like Peter from Ultimate Spider-Man (2012). His role in No Way Home takes some inspiration from the Miles in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse due to being the youngest of the three Spider-Men and losing a family member at the hands of the film's main antagonist. It also ends with him being erased from everyone's memory, including his allies and loved ones, which makes him similar to The Sentry.
• Cool Mask: Would he really be Spider-Man without the iconic mask? This one is unique in that it's also an Expressive Mask, something that is achieved in live-action for the first time.
• Covert Pervert:
  • In Far From Home, Happy reveals that after the airport battle in Civil War, Peter discreetly (possibly accidentally) ordered a porn movie while recovering in the hotel. Peter's not too happy to be reminded of this.
  • He also takes plenty of glances at his female love interests when (he thinks) they're not looking.
• Cunning Linguist: Takes Spanish lessons at school, and at least knows enough to pull off a Bilingual Backfire.
• Curse Cut Short: His final line in Far From Home is "WHAT THE F—" before an abrupt cut to the credits. For context, he's been framed for murder and terrorism and has been publicly outed as Peter Parker while on a date with MJ.
• Curtains Match the Window: His eyes and hair are both dark brown.
• Cute Bruiser: A young man with boyish good looks who can effortlessly catch a prosthetic arm made of titanium with one hand and hold together a boat that was torn in half.
• Cut Himself Shaving: In the Civil War post-credits scene, he tries to brush off the injuries he received in the large-scale airport battle as just being from a fight with "a Brooklynite named Steve and his huge friend," which is entirely true.
• Deadpan Snarker: He's more snarky than deadpan, but he gets in a few good ones.
  Falcon: I don't know if you've been in a fight before, but there's usually not this much talking.
  Spider-Man: Alright, sorry, my bad. [goes right back to beating up Falcon and Winter Soldier]
• Death Amnesia: He apparently doesn’t remember being snapped out of existence by Thanos and simply attributes it to "passing out". According to WandaVision and Hawkeye, it seems that many of the Vanished don't remember being snapped, either.
• Death of a Child: He was 16 years old when he got snapped in Infinity War, and his death is portrayed as the most devastating one out of all the victims at the end of the story.
• Decon-Recon Switch:
  • His younger age puts a tighter narrative focus on how being a teenaged superhero can compromise your personal life at a uniquely messy point. Before becoming Spider-Man, Peter was involved in several extracurricular activities and much closer to his friends and family. Most of the time, he doesn't flake on them to fight a crime-in-progress but to simply go on patrol, looking for trouble. Furthermore, he's also more child than adult and acts the part. Yes, he is extremely intelligent, but his naïvety, poor judgement, weak impulse control, unthinking destructiveness, and lack of introspection and self-awareness are all things that you could honestly expect to see from someone his age in his position. He may be a prodigy, but he's still a teenager and teenagers do stupid stuff. With that said, however, his young age and inexperience also give him a strong moral compass and a desire to help out as many people as he can, including the average joes the Avengers tend to ignore. This makes Peter decide to turn down the offer to join the team as he can fill that niche while Stark and his teammates can't.
  • The MCU incarnation as a whole is supposed to this to the tropes that have defined Spider-Man since his debut in The '60s, particularly the "self-sufficient superhero" and "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" aspects by making them take place in The New '10s. Peter is introduced as having built his own web-shooters and fighting crime in a homemade costume, but his gear is much lower-grade than that of the Avengers and his "suit" barely passes as a B-grade cosplay. In addition, his secret identity is far harder to maintain due the rise of the rapid coverage of news and social media. In general, this Peter was a self-sufficient hero — with all the troubles it entailed — but in order to get his hands on the proper gear and maintenance to deal with larger threats, he needed outside funding.
• Despair Event Horizon: After watching his Aunt May die in his arms, being subsequently attacked by Damage Control, and J. Jonah Jameson continuing to blame Spider-Man for everything that has happened thus far, Peter completely crumbles emotionally, and is clearly on the brink of giving up all hope. He's thankfully convinced to soldier on by his fellow variants, though it takes them quite a bit of convincing.
• Destination Defenestration: During his fight with Sam and Bucky, Sam takes him out by using Redwing to grab his left wrist and throw him into a nearby window.
• Destructive Savior: Specifically in his first solo movie, Homecoming, where his inexperience is showcased at every turn. In his swings, he often breaks stuff and when dealing with the bad guys, has a tendency to cause more damage than might have occurred without his intervention.
• Determinator: Very much so. His response to having most of a warehouse dropped on him is, after a moment of panic, to recreate the classic Load-Bearing Hero moment from the "Master Planner" arc.
• Did Not Get the Girl:
  • In Homecoming regarding his first major crush, Liz. Seeing how he ends up handing her father over to the authorities, which leads to her moving to Oregon, and they were on somewhat bad terms since he was forced to ditch her at the dance, it makes sense that things were doomed for them after that.
  • Averted in Far From Home, where he hooks up with MJ. No Way Home, however, plays this straight. To prevent the universe from getting overcrowded with multiversal villains who knew his identity, Peter tells Strange to cast a new spell to make everyone forget who Peter Parker is, Michelle included. He gets the opportunity to tell her, but decides not to since her life has less danger without him in it.
• Did Not Think This Through: An intelligent teenager he may be, but Peter is still a teenager, with all the occasional moments of stupid impulsivity that entails.
  • During Infinity War, Tony accuses him of not bothering to think of the consequences of stowing away on an alien spaceship heading to goodness-knows-where.
    Tony: Don't tell me you thought this through, you could not have possibly thought this through.
  • All his post-Mysterio problems in No Way Home come from the fact that when his and his friends' college applications are rejected, he immediately tries to ask Doctor Strange to solve all his problems via very dangerous magic, before even going for an appeal... though in fairness to Peter, he didn't know that was an option until Stephen brought it up (and it's unlikely it would've worked anyway).
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: He disintegrates in Tony Stark's arms after Thanos snaps his fingers and kills half the universe's population.
• Dies Wide Open: He fades into dust with his eyes still open.
• Ditzy Genius: In No Way Home when he, MJ, and Ned don't get into MIT due to the mess around him being revealed as Spider-Man, Peter contacts Dr. Strange to cast a spell to make everyone forget his secret identity, except for MJ, Ned, May, Happy, and pretty much everyone who knew he was Spider-Man before he was exposed. Due to the dangers of Peter constantly rewriting his spell, a belligerent Strange calls it off. He apologizes to Peter, stating that even though MIT didn't accept them and Peter pleaded his case...
  Peter: Wait. You can do that? I just assumed once you were rejected that was it.
  Strange: [a mixture of horror and anger] I'm sorry... Are you telling me that you didn't even think to plead your case with them first before you asked me to brainwash the entire world?
  Peter: ...Well, I mean, when you put it like that...
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Peter has pretty good control over his super strength, but said control humorously slips up a few times when he's nervous or upset. In Far From Home, his abilities appear to be getting stronger. At one point, he accidentally hits Flash's face and knocks him unconscious while trying to get Tony's glasses back from him. Peter is comically horrified at this. Later while getting a ride from "Fury", he accidentally snaps the snagged seat-belt off when struggling to put it on.
• Don't Tell Mama: He doesn't tell Aunt May about his super-heroics because she'd freak out which would make him freak out. He webs Tony's hand to the door knob of his room and firmly says, "Don't tell Aunt May" when Tony is about to leave. When Ned accidentally finds out, Peter pleads him to keep Spider-Man a secret from May because he doesn't want to put his aunt through any more stress.
• Dork Knight: As heroic as the source material and other adaptations of the character, but more geekier this time around.
• Drives Like Crazy: Part of the climax of Spider-Man: Homecoming involves him rushing across New York in a car. His reckless driving is partly because he's desperate to catch up to the Vulture, but mostly because he's only ever driven slowly around a parking lot under Aunt May's supervision.
• Dumpster Dive: Due to being lower middle-class, he ends up taking useful stuff (like the Macintosh) from a junkyard and snatching usable items people have thrown out.
• Eager Rookie: In Infinity War, he's the teen who sneaks inside the Q-Ship in order to help Tony Stark after the latter has sent him away out of fear for his safety. In his defense, Peter notes that one can't be a low-key neighborhood hero if said neighborhood ends up being destroyed, and Tony can't object to that.
• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Depending on which MCU actor or creator you talk to, the boy wearing the Iron Man mask that Tony saves from the Hammer drone in Iron Man 2 is actually a younger Peter.^note Kevin Feige would not officially confirm this, since it's a Retcon to a movie that was made well before Sony and Marvel started cooperating. Worth noting is that Peter does have a Stark Expo poster in his room.
  • Like Doctor Strange in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, he is alluded to in a Phase 2 movie before his Phase 3 debut.^note It was originally not meant to refer to Spider-Man in particular, as Ant-Man finished shooting before the deal between Sony and Marvel, but it has since been revised into being an allusion to the wall-crawler. Scott Lang's buddy, Luis, mentions that he heard something about Spidey in a chain of conversation:
    Luis: We've got a guy who can jump. A guy who can swing. A guy who can crawl up walls.
• Embarrassing Nickname:
  • "Underoos", which Tony calls him during the Avengers Civil War.
  • "Penis Parker", which Flash used to call him.
  • And thanks to Ned's terrible skills at improvising nicknames, his Black Stealth-Suit Persona in Europe is known as "Night Monkey."
• Establishing Character Moment:
  • In his first official appearance, Peter is introduced not as Spider-Man saving someone, but as a young teen bringing a disused VCR home and completely geeking out at the sight of Tony Stark physically in his home. However, while his reaction is a positive one, he's also obviously bothered by a genius, billionaire, playboy philanthropist visiting what should've been a normal Queens apartment, demonstrating his caution over his Secret Identity.
  • If you count the Early-Bird Cameo in Iron Man 2, Peter Parker distracting the rampaging Hammeroid drones speaks a lot about his capacity for heroism well before he gained superpowers.
• Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones:
  • In Far From Home, Peter comes to deeply resent Quentin Beck AKA Mysterio, after all of the horrible things he's done, such as manipulating Peter's emotions, putting him through Mind Rape, and targeting his loved ones. In the Final Battle, Peter shows No Sympathy as Mysterio lies dying from an unintentionally self-inflicted wound and does not attempt to Save the Villain like he did with the Vulture.
  • In No Way Home, Peter spends most of the film on a mission to Save the Villains, trying to cure the various ailments of the multiversally-displaced villains rather than just sending them back to their own universes to be killed fighting Spider-Man because he feels morally obligated to help everyone he can. However, the Green Goblin becomes an exception to this after he kills Aunt May. In their final showdown, Peter fights him with a rage unlike any he's shown previously, and even comes perilously close to breaking his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule before Peter-2 stops him.
• The Everyman: A staple of the character. Compared to a millionaire playboy, an idolized war hero, and a god; Peter was just an Ordinary High-School Student prior to gaining his powers before he Jumped at the Call.
• Everyone Can See It: His crush on Liz, including Liz herself. Fortunately, she likes Peter too.
• Expressive Mask:
  • In a live-action example, the irises on Spidey's mask visibly contract. If one were to look and listen closely, you can see when the irises get smaller, they look like camera lenses zooming in and you can also hear a mechanical noise. The reason for this is given during Peter Parker's first encounter with Tony Stark. Peter explains that while in "Spidey mode", he needs goggles that restrict his vision to not have his Super-Senses become overwhelming. The mechanical irises provide the same advantage.
  • The eyes on Peter Parker's mask widen in stupefied disbelief as Mysterio publicly blows his secret identity wide open on Broadway's Megavision.
• Extremity Extremist: An Enforced Inverted Trope during Homecoming. According to Kevin Feige, the choreography in Spider-Man's battles is planned in a way that allows him to never actually throw any punches. This is actually quite similar to how Marvel approached the character in Spider-Man: The Animated Series — and that version of Spider-Man only landed a single punch over the course of the entire series. Peter uses a lot more punches and kicks in Infinity War.
• Face Death with Despair: Once Peter Parker realizes that he's being turned to dust by Thanos's snap, he starts crying, embraces Tony Stark and pleads, "I don't want to go. Please, Mr. Stark, I don't want to go." Considering he's a 16-year-old kid, this is a perfectly understandable reaction.
• Fading Away: He's among the billions of lives who were blipped from existence by Thanos' Badass Fingersnap.
• Fanboy: Of the Avengers, but mainly Iron Man and Captain America. While being a fan of the former ends up being a significant focus of his character arc across his first five appearances in the MCU, the latter is handled with more subtlety. For instance, in Far From Home, when Mysterio is in the middle of trying to psychologically break Spider-Man by exploiting his insecurities, they fight on top of a projection of a toppled Captain America statue, implying that Captain America no longer leading the Avengers is something that weighs heavily upon his mind.
• Fatal Flaw: Impulsiveness, and a tendency to not think things through.
  • This is evident in the airport battle in Civil War, where he deliberately goes against Tony's instructions and fights the Falcon and Winter Soldier head on in order to "impress Mr. Stark". He's later distracted by his victory over Giant-Man and promptly gets knocked out.
  • His urge to become an Avenger is a continuing theme in Homecoming, which has some serious consequences when the ferry incident nearly gets everyone killed. By the end, he's more or less come to terms with it and turns down a serious offer to join the team.
  • In Infinity War, his insistence on personally helping out puts him on a crash-course with Thanos, in spite of Iron Man's attempt to get him to land safely back on Earth. He defends the decision by saying he can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there is no neighborhood. This trope is ultimately zig-zagged in this instance, as he actually survives the fight with Thanos unscathed, and makes things better for the team than if he hadn't been there at all. He only dies when Thanos snuffs out half of all sapient life, which would have logically killed him regardless of where he was at the time.
  • In No Way Home, his jumping into extreme, rather than mundane measures to restore his secret identity and aid his loved ones ultimately ends in a horrific case of Disaster Dominoes, culminating in him losing his last remaining relative, friends, and Avengers allies.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: He's the Mage alongside Peter-2's Fighter and Peter-3's Thief in No Way Home, utilizing his scientific mind and technology much more than them, as well as being more in tune with his Spider-Sense.
• Fighting Clown: Most of the seasoned heroes quickly peg him as an overeager kid in underoos, having loads of fun and not taking the fight seriously... until the moment they really clash against him, and they realize just how strong, fast, versatile and dangerous he actually is. He proves to be perfectly able to take on Winter Soldier and Falcon simultaneously, and then able to kick Captain America's ass; it's only Steve's greater combat experience that allows him to prevail. Though Peter's comparative youth also means no-one probably wanted to hit him too hard.
• Final First Hug: Tony largely keeps himself emotionally distant from him, rebuffing a hug from him in Spider-Man: Homecoming. When Thanos's Badass Fingersnap culls half the universe's population in Infinity War, and Peter is one of the victims, all Tony does is hug the terrified, crying boy as he disintegrates in his arms. They get a proper hug in Endgame once Peter has been brought back to life by Bruce and Tony sees him again since his death. The Big Badass Battle Sequence that begins right after costs Tony his life.
  Peter: [surprised] Wow... this is nice.
• First Kiss: In Far From Home, Peter shares his first kiss with MJ on the Tower Bridge at the end of the climactic battle.
• Foil: Peter plays off quite a few of the Pro-Registration and Anti-Registration Avengers in Civil War. In particular, Spider-Man is a foil to...
  • T'Challa. Both are independent superheroes who initially have no connection to the Avengers, but end up getting involved in the conflict. T'Challa is very reserved, serious, and is utterly indifferent towards the Avengers, while Peter is mouthy, a jokester, and worships the ground the Avengers walk on.
  • Tony Stark. Both are superheroes dressed in red, scientific geniuses who fashioned their own suits and tools (even if Pete's original suit was just a homemade onesie with swimming goggles and a red ski mask), and very witty wisecrackers who sometimes use their wittiness to hide their emotional pain. Both, however, come from radically different economic backgrounds: Tony was born into money and is a successful billionaire inventor with unlimited money and cutting-edge tech at his fingertips, while Pete's family is of comparatively modest means, and everything he built was made from what he could scrounge. Age also plays a big part in differentiating them: by the time Tony and Peter meet, Tony has been saving the world as Iron Man for some years, while Peter has been playing the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man for only a few months. Tony has more experience under his belt and is all the wiser for it, while Peter is young and naïve, not quite realizing the limits of his strengths until they come back to bite him in the ass. Both are also chick magnets but while Tony was a womanizer before settling down with Pepper, Peter only has two love interests he primarily focuses on in his respective solo movies.
  • Steve Rogers. Both are New York natives (Steve is from Brooklyn, Peter from Queens) who come from less privileged backgrounds, Jumped at the Call, and are so eager to do the right thing that they will ignore orders or attempt to punch outside their weight class. Cap is a much more strategic combatant where Spidey is a bit more impulsive. As of No Way Home, Peter Parker has also lost all contact with his friends and family like Steve Rogers, except in his case it was due to a spell that wiped all knowledge of him rather than being frozen for decades.
  • Scott Lang. Both of them are new heroes whose abilities and names are based off of arthropods. Both are the Sixth Ranger to their side, extremely intelligent and quirky, and turn the tide of the airport battle repeatedly. The difference is Scott is Weak, but Skilled while Peter is Unskilled, but Strong. They're also at the opposite ends of the age range, with Peter being in high school while Scott is a parent. Also, while Peter looks up to Tony Stark and was told that Cap went rogue, Scott worships Captain America and was warned by Hank Pym not to trust Iron Man. In addition, Peter and Scott both have opposite outcomes after their involvement in Civil War — Peter simply goes back to school and gets on with his life, whereas Scott is placed under house arrest for two years with Hank and Hope paying the price for his actions. After Endgame, however, Scott makes his efforts to undo the Snap known and has merchandise such as costumes, backpacks, and a memoir based on his time with the Avengers. While Scott capitalises on his newfound fame, Peter has his own life ruined by infamy after Mysterio doctors some camera footage to accuse him of murder. Even though the allegation is dismissed, Peter becomes a polarising figure with several colleges turning him down and Aunt May, MJ, and Ned also facing backlash due to their association with him.
• Friendly Enemy:
  • He may be taking a side in the airport fight, but he has no ill will towards the Anti-Registration team. It doesn't take long for Cap to acknowledge his good heart.
  • He briefly bonds with Aaron Davis, a small-time criminal, while "interrogating" him, and Davis appreciates Spider-Man previously saving his life from Vulture's gang.
  • He has no personal beef with the Vulture, and even saves him when his wings malfunction, but can't let him get away with filling the streets with dangerous weapons.
• Fun Personified: He's the most upbeat and enthusiastic member of the Avengers.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He designed a formula for bio-synthetic webbing and constructed it with scraps from the garbage without previous exposure to a lab or engineering. He also sketched the design for and created his web shooters using leftovers from the dumpster. Tony Stark is visibly impressed with this in their first meeting. While Tony and Shuri have had resources and opportunities to spare as to improve their tech, Peter has managed to make do with the small stuff. Peter also mentions building and programming computers in his spare time, and he uses his knowledge of physics in both Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming. He identifies Falcon's wings as being constructed of carbon-fiber due to their "flexibility-rigidity ratio" and uses that to his advantage, and uses his suit's A.I. system to pinpoint the strongest points in the ferry in order to web it together.
• Genius Bruiser: One strong hero, but is also a Teen Genius in terms of engineering, physics, chemistry, and tactics in combat. He mainly lacks experience and makes errors in judgement typical of his age and excitable personality, and there's no reason either can't improve with time.
• Genre Savvy: He uses his knowledge of The Empire Strikes Back to come up with the means of taking down Giant-Man by tripping him over. In Homecoming he's swift to note that the super-villains will obviously have a lair. Infinity War continues it, by having him use the "create an airlock to suck the bad guy out of the ship" tactic from Aliens.
• The Ghost: While he doesn't appear, he's briefly referenced as "a guy who swings" in Ant-Man and in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse he is referenced by Miguel O'Hara as "that little nerd from Earth-199999".
• The Gloves Come Off: Upon returning to Earth in Endgame as part of The Cavalry in the Final Battle, he immediately does away with subtlety against the Outriders by activating his suit's "Instant Kill" mode. Also, in Peter and Green Goblin's rematch in No Way Home, he was hitting Gobby with intent to end his life, getting very close to impaling him with his glider before being stopped by Peter-2.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: After Tony snarks at the goggles of his prototype costume, Peter defends them saying it helps him focus through the Sensory Overload of his Spider-Sense.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: After defeating Mysterio, and looking at the carnage and rampage he caused in his quest to be a Hero Wannabe, Peter asks, "How could you do this?"
• Good Counterpart: Along with his variants from the Raimi and Webb universe, he's this to Loki and He Who Remains from Loki (2021) along with their variants. He Who Remains created the Sacred Timeline and Time Variance Authority to end the Multiversal War between all his variants, while Loki got to see firsthand how quickly his variants would turn against each other. However, Peter immediately bonded with Peter-2 and Peter-3, and his experiences with them helped him remain a hero and not give into rage and despair after May's death.
• Guilt Complex: Peter doesn't blame anyone but himself for his mistakes and the tragedies in his lives, such as the deaths of his uncle, Iron Man, and his aunt, and for ruining the lives of those he cares about. Peter's guilt is part of the reason why he decided to not make contact with those he once associated with after they have forgotten about him through Strange's second spell, as he not only wants to protect them but also believes himself to be too dangerous to be around.

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• A Handful for an Eye: During the fight in Titan, he blinds Thanos by webbing his eyes and kicking him in the face so that Doctor Strange and Drax have an opportunity to land hits in him.
• Has a Type: Though perhaps not intentionally on the part of the filmmakers, both of his love interests just so happen to be extremely smart, beautiful African-American girls who are much taller than he is.
• Healing Factor: He's no Wolverine, but not only can Peter tank serious damage, he quickly bounces back after a few hours of rest. Giant-Man left him battered and disoriented, but by the end of Civil War, he's recovered enough that he only has a few superficial bruises and a cut lip. Toomes drops a literal building on his head and while it takes some Heroic Resolve so find the strength to dig himself out, he's ready to fight shortly after. In Far From Home, Quentin Beck maneuvers Peter into the path of a bullet train that creams him head on, leaving him the most injured he's been in a film yet... But after a night's sleep, all that's left are a few bruises and a limp. By the time he's finally back home a couple of days later, you can barely tell he was in a fight at all.
• Heel Realization: Peter has one in No Way Home after initially disregarding May's advice to help the displaced multiversal villains, when he realizes that he will be sending them back to their universes to die. He seems to have another when Peter-2 interrupts his attempt to murder Green Goblin despite knowing Norman Osborn is still overtaken by him, which would've made Peter the murderer that he was accused of.
• Hero Antagonist: In Captain America: Civil War, he's recruited by Tony to hunt Captain America and his team, even though he shows respect and Squee towards the Anti-Accords Avengers he's fighting against.
• Heroic Sacrifice: A non-lethal variant. To help mend the multiverse, he persuades Doctor Strange to revamp his original spell to erase everyone's memory of Peter Parker in the universe, including everybody he's ever known and loved.
• Heroic Spirit: Never gives up. After Stark confiscates the suit, Peter barely hesitates to go after the Vulture in his old Beta Outfit. And even after Toomes buries him under half a building's worth of rubble, even while hurt and panicking, a trapped Peter decides that he doesn't need the suit to be a hero, leading to a loose adaptation of the page image.
  Peter: Come on, Peter. Come on, Spider-Man. Come on, Spider-Man. Come on, Spider-Man! AAAGH! COME ON, SPIDER-MAN!!
• Hero of Another Story: In Civil War. Tony learns about Spider-Man through popular YouTube clips and figures out his secret identity, allowing him to recruit Spidey for Team Iron Man. After the airport battle, Tony tells Peter he's not ready to join the Avengers full-time and sends him back to New York for his own adventures.
• A Hero to His Hometown: The residents of Queens know and almost universally love him, and even the news can't help but mention Spidey is "Queens' own."
• Hero with Bad Publicity:
  • Downplayed. As Peter's just starting out, he doesn't really have a reputation, good or bad. People mostly treat him as some weird curiosity off of YouTube.
    Street Vendor: Hey! You're that spider guy on YouTube, right?
    Spider-Man: Call me Spider-Man.
    Street Vendor: OK, "Spider-Man". Do a flip!
    [Spider-Man does a flip]
    Street Vendor: YEAH!
  • By the end of Far From Home, Peter is framed for killing Quentin Beck and for the drone attacks thanks to doctored footage being shown on the Daily Bugle—one of the people of whom watching the report on this is Venom. The effects of this were shown in No Way Home.
• Hidden Depths:
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus of his bedroom in Homecoming shows posters and pennants that confirm he's a New York Mets fan, just like his comic book counterpart.
  • Before the spider-bite, he was apparently in the school marching band and robotics club.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Literally. He gets into a spot of trouble with this after he and Ned hack his suit and remove the "Training Wheels Protocol", designed to ease him into the suit's various features. As a result, he has no idea how to use most of them at first — many of which include over two hundred variations of the web shooters. Luckily for him, the guys he was tracking were having the exact same problem, with Schultz trying to figure out the dampers on the gauntlet.
• Humiliation Conga: What Homecoming ends up giving him. In his attempt to impress Tony Stark to land a seat in the Avengers, combined with Happy unwittingly making it feel like he's completely ignoring Peter despite clearly noting everything sent his way, Peter strives to overachieve and ends up making massive mistakes after being warned to "keep himself on the ground", complete with Tony taking his gifted suit back. This is on top of constantly letting his decathlon team down and disappointing friends, school staff and even Aunt May to push his "Stark internship" and urge to prove himself over his personal life. By the end of the movie, Peter moves to stop Toomes as Spider-Man on principles, not as the young Parker trying to impress, and opts to stay a Humble Hero rather than join the Avengers — something that Tony was totally about to do for him despite Peter thinking it was all a Secret Test of Character like the rest of the film.
• I Can Still Fight!: Tries to get up and continue fighting after being briefly knocked unconscious, insisting he can go on even after Stark tells him he's done. It isn't until he tries to get up again that he realizes how injured he is.
• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Prior to being recruited by Tony Stark, Spider-Man wore a crude costume consisting of a hoodie and sweatpants, modified welding goggles, and prototype web-shooters. He later gets a new comicbook-style suit in the lines of what we saw in the Raimi Trilogy and the Webb duology.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: During his broadcast to the multiversal villains near the climax of No Way Home, he tells them that he really did try to help them, pointing out that he could have sent them back to their universes to die at any given moment, but he didn't.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Deconstructed. His attempts to prove he's worthy of being an Avenger result in him making things worse while letting down the academic decathlon team. Tony Stark (based on a lot of personal experience) tries to make him realize that if he doesn't feel like he's enough by just being Peter Parker, no amount of superheroics will ever be enough to fill the void.
• I Know Mortal Kombat:
  • In Captain America: Civil War, Spidey manages to take down Giant-Man by replicating the strategy Luke Skywalker came up with in The Empire Strikes Back to take down the AT-AT.
  • In Avengers: Infinity War, he comes up with a strategy that Ellen Ripley used in Aliens to kill the Xenomorph Queen as a way of killing Ebony Maw.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: It's implied that he decided to become a superhero after he failed to prevent his uncle's death, which he feels responsible for. While he doesn't explain specifically what happened, he says that when you have his powers and don't use them for good, and then "the bad things happen... they happen because of you."
• In a Single Bound: His jumps are as crucial to the way he gets around as the webs. At one point, he casually does a standing jump over a gate significantly taller than him.
• In the End, You Are on Your Own: After Peter has Strange erase everybody's memories of him, he ends up the most alone anybody in the MCU has ever been. He still decides to fight on as Spider-Man thanks to the lessons Aunt May and his multiverse counterparts left him with, fighting crime independently while flat broke in a professional suit of his own making just like his comic book incarnations.
• Intergenerational Friendship:
  • With Tony Stark starting in Civil War, almost to the point of Tony being a sort of Parental Substitute.
  • Briefly gets along with Captain America in spite of the two heroes fighting on opposing sides.
  • Also forms this bond with Happy Hogan starting at the end of Homecoming.
  • Quentin Beck insincerely takes up the role in Far From Home.
  • He develops a small one with Doctor Strange in No Way Home after the events of Infinity War and Endgame, though it's complicated due to Peter's part in messing up the spell that brought the Multiversal Villains to their universe.
  • He formed a friendship with Norman Osborn while working together with him in making cures for the multiverse-displaced villains. Despite Green Goblin taking over Norman's mind, betraying Peter, and killing May, Peter still considers Norman a friend as he was convinced to cure him of his alter ego.
  • He even befriended Otto Octavius after freeing him from his tentacles' control, and Otto eventually joins up with the Spider-Men in their mission to cure the rest of the villains.
  • He also befriends his older Alternate Universe counterparts, Peter-2 and Peter-3.
• Irony:
  • From Civil War to Endgame, Peter is mostly ignored by the more experienced superheroes despite his interest in graduating from "friendly neighborhood Spider-Man" status to a core Avenger. By the time Far From Home comes around, Peter is now extremely reluctant to step up to the role they once played, even if said experienced heroes are either dead, off-world, or retired, which more-or-less requires Spider-Man to fill that niche.
  • In the comics, Spider-Man predated the Avengers and debuted as an independent Kid Hero (where young heroes were sidekicks at the time). Not only does MCU Spider-Man appear years after the Avengers formed and was essentially a hero-in-training, he becomes independent after having his Peter Parker identity retgoned in No Way Home.
• It's All My Fault:
  • He blames himself for the deaths of those who are closest to him, such as his Uncle Ben, Tony Stark, and his Aunt May. Not helped by Mysterio, J. Jonah Jameson, and Green Goblin also blaming him for two out of those three deaths.
  • Peter feels immense guilt for ruining the lives of his friends, aunt, and even Happy by proxy after his identity as Spider-Man got exposed by Mysterio. Ned and MJ being rejected from MIT alongside him motivates Peter to seek out Doctor Strange for a magical solution.
  • Although Strange was also to blame, Peter nevertheless took full responsibility for unintentionally opening the Multiverse by botching the memory-erasing spell mid-cast.
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: In the end of No Way Home, Peter decides that in order to keep those he once cared about safe from the dangers of knowing him and his enemies, he must distance himself from them so he won't lose anyone else like how he lost Aunt May and nearly MJ.
• It's Personal: With Green Goblin, who murders Aunt May. He even tries to kill Goblin with the latter's own glider's blades, knowing full well the relatively innocent Norman personality is still inside him, which would have made Peter the murderer he's accused of being throughout No Way Home had Peter-2 not stopped him. Peter has NEVER gone this far with any villain before, and stands in stark contrast to his rescue of Vulture at the end of Homecoming to show how much Goblin hurt him.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: While in the new reality where he has been erased from everyone's memory, Peter cannot find the right words to remind MJ of who he is and what they were to each other before Strange's spell. He still can't help but give off a smile when learning that she and Ned have both been accepted into MIT, and she seems to be a much more optimistic person than she was before. In the end, Peter decides that MJ and Ned are better off not knowing who he is, as it will keep them safe.
• I Will Find You: Just before he is erased from their memories, Peter promises MJ and Ned he will find them again, and make everything right between them. Although he keeps his promise to find them, Peter doesn't fulfill the rest of his word to MJ and Ned as he fears putting them in danger and upending their lives again, especially when he hears that they got into MIT. Thus, he avoids them in order to keep them safe and secure their futures.
• Jack of All Trades: Spider-Man has a wide variety of powers, but usually in a middle position when it comes to each one.
• Jumped at the Call: Since his Superhero Origin story happens off-screen in this version, six months have passed since Peter got his powers and he's introduced as an eager and enthusiastic young hero. His Hero Worship towards the Avengers from then on pretty much motivates him to be the best superhero he can be. As Homecoming director Jon Watts says in an interview, "Peter loves being Spider-Man. He doesn't like being Peter Parker." Although by Far From Home, he has grown fairly weary of superheroics and is up for a break.
• Just a Kid: Deconstructed. Being treated like a kid by Tony despite being a superhero only irritates Peter to the point he wants to prove he's mature enough to be an Avenger... but the way he proves it is by doing reckless stunts that only further prove that he's not ready. By the end of Homecoming, he has been humbled enough to realize this and recognize that he still needs training before becoming an Avenger.
• Just Following Orders: He treats the airport brawl as a means of currying favor with "Mr. Stark" and holds absolutely no ill will to any of the other heroes. It remains to be seen whether any of the anti-Accords fighters will hold a grudge, but given he's an impressionable (and powerful) teenager who thinks they're all awesome and was drawn into a conflict he only heard one side of the story about, it's not likely. Cap at the very least is impressed with him and recognizes his potential.
• Kid Has a Point: In Infinity War, as he and Tony argue inside the Q-ship, he comes up with the line that Tony can't rebuff:
  Peter: You can't be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there's no neighborhood.
• Kid Hero: He's still in high school when he's introduced, making him the youngest superhero in the setting.
• Kid Sidekick: Becomes Iron Man's on-off sidekick, with him assisting the seasoned hero and being mentored by him on many occasions.
• Kill the Cutie: He's one of the many victims of Thanos's Badass Fingersnap at the end of Infinity War, something that weighs heavily on Iron Man's conscience. It's the reminder of his death that sparks Tony's motivation to join the Avengers in one last fight to bring the Snapped victims back.
• Knighting: After two films of him trying to convince Tony Stark to let him become an Avenger, Peter tags along in Infinity War when Tony jumps onto a spaceship leaving Earth. Since Tony has no way of sending him home and they've reached the Point of No Return, he taps Peter on his shoulders like he's knighting him, and announces, "Alright kid... you're an Avenger now." It takes Peter a second to realize what just happened.
• Knight in Sour Armor: The entire point of his Character Development. Overtime, Peter finds out how dangerous and demanding being a superhero is to both himself and his loved ones, and his ordeals just keeps getting harder. Ultimately, it gets to a point where Peter sacrifices his own personal life to fix a Cosmic Flaw he accidentally caused.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": During the big fight of Civil War, he keeps geeking out about the other heroes. Yes, that's including the ones he fights against.
  • When he shows up after stealing Cap's shield.
    Spider-Man: Cap-Captain. Big fan. Spider-Man
  • After blocking a punch from Cyborg Bucky Barnes.
    Spider-Man: You have a metal arm!? That is awesome, dude!
    Bucky: ???
  • After exchanging blows with Falcon:
    Spider-Man: Those wings carbon fiber?
    Falcon: Is this stuff coming out of you?
    Spider-Man: That would explain the rigidity-flexibility ratio, which, gotta say, that's awesome, man.
    Falcon: I don't know if you've ever been in a fight before, but there's usually not this much talking.
• The Leader: After some critical experiences with the Avengers, Peter uses his familiarity with working as a team to give direction to Peter-2 and Peter-3 as they corral the multiversal villains on Liberty Island in No Way Home. He shows tremendous potential for any future situations that could require the same skills.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: His introduction in the second Civil War trailer has Tony Stark announce to the world at large that he's run out of patience, which cues Spidey to grab Captain America's shield and proceed to greet the cast as well as the audience that has been waiting for him to show up.
  Spider-Man: Hey, everyone.
• Leeroy Jenkins: His blind impulsiveness and tendency to jump right into situations without any real planning or idea of how he's going to finish what he started or adapt to setbacks is a major weakness of his and leads to his making one mistake after another. It's justified in that he's in his mid-teens and is simply acting his age.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Peter drops his usual giddy and excitable approach to fighting in the Final Battle against Mysterio when the villain targets his friends. His expression becomes grim and serious when taking down his foe.
• Lightning Bruiser: Tough, durable, strong, agile, and fast enough to run rings around everyone during the airport fight, talking all the while and not even close to getting out of breath. The only thing that manages to hurt him is a punch from the giant Ant-Man, who could crush and overpower the Iron Man armor.
• Like a Son to Me: He has this dynamic with Tony Stark who Peter looks up to as a father figure, mentoring him in the way of a superhero.
• Little Stowaway: In Infinity War, Tony Stark refers to him as this (being the youngest and least experienced member of our heroes) on finding he's also hidden on the spacecraft taking them to Thanos, after Tony supposedly sent him back to Earth because he thought it was a Suicide Mission.
• Locked Out of the Loop: According to Peter himself, the only background to the airport fight Stark told him about is that Cap is wrong, but he thinks he's right. Cap even lampshades this and tells him that there's more going on than he thinks. Unfortunately, Stark also told Spidey that Cap would say that. A flashback in Spider-Man: Homecoming goes deeper and shows that the only thing Peter was actually told was that Captain America had "gone crazy" and needed to be stopped.
• The Man Makes the Weapon: Discussed. Peter protests when Tony tries to take away his suit, stating he was nothing without it. Tony then chides that if he was nothing without the suit then he shouldn't have it to begin with. Peter then is made aware of an emergency only he can stop, and deals with it without the high-tech suit Tony made him, proving he was indeed the one who was of more value than the suit.
• Man of Kryptonite: After mastering his Spider-Sense, he becomes this to Mysterio himself. Rather befitting, given that Mysterio's abilities depend on playing with one's normal senses. This is shown in the final battle: Mysterio creates a shroud of darkness to blind Spidey's vision and then has his drones open fire on him. This does nothing to Spidey, who dodges all the gunfire without an issue as he closes in on him and wins.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: He ditches Liz at the homecoming dance in order to stop Vulture, who also happens to be her father, permanently ending his relationship with her. Averted with MJ however, who is very involved with his work as Spider-Man.
• Mentor's New Hope: Considering what Tony has been through around the time he meets Peter, it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to believe that mentoring Peter may be the one thing that has kept him from going back to resolving his sorrows in less appealing and constructive ways. He even tells Peter that he wants him to be a far better hero than he ever was without his track record of mistakes.
• Minor Major Character: While he has made a name for himself as the unofficial protector of Queens In-Universe and has a fair amount of screen time in Captain America: Civil War, he has no real impact in the plot itself. His presence is meant to properly introduce him into the MCU and set up his appearances in future films, including his own trilogy, where he does play a major role.
• Morality Pet: While Tony becomes a Parental Substitute for him in Homecoming, Peter becomes this for him in a Little Brother Is Watching kind of way. Tony doesn't want Peter emulating his bad behavior and part of that is not behaving badly to begin with. In Endgame, Tony stares at a picture of himself and Peter together as if to show remorse for letting him die. Furthermore, it's implied that the desire to bring Peter back to life is what motivates Tony to work out the time travel plan.
• Mortality Phobia: Peter suitably freaks out as he's being erased by Thanos's use of the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Motive Decay: Zig-zagged. His character arc during Homecoming has him chasing after a spot on the Avengers roster and gradually losing touch with his original mission of protecting the normal everyday citizens of New York. By the end of the movie, he decides that that's what he's best-suited for. He changes his mind again in Avengers: Infinity War, but only because the planet is dealing with an alien invasion at the time, and that there's no sense protecting New York City if the planet gets destroyed. However, after saving the universe from Thanos and losing Tony, Peter opts to be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man once again, finding the stress of being an Avengers-level hero to be too much. Unfortunately, Nick Fury has other plans...
• Motor Mouth: Much like his mentor Tony Stark, he does not shut up.
• Mr. Fanservice:
  • In his first solo film Homecoming. He may be a kid, but his actor is not and his lean physique is showcased twice, getting in and out of the suit.
  • Peter's abs are also shown off briefly in Far From Home as he's changing into his suit and MJ tries to avoid the temptation to take a peek.
  • By No Way Home, he has noticeably bulked up, both in the torso and the chest.
• Mundane Utility: He uses his webs to make hammocks in the promotional materials of Spider-Man: Homecoming. In the film itself, he can briefly be seen using his webs to make a jump rope.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Downplayed, he's shown to be irritated by his aunt's many admirers. Even responding with outright confusion when Happy Hogan compliments her dress.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Peter being recruited into the pro-registration side after six months of superheroing has shades of his Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon self, who was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. after having been active on his own for a year. Both versions are also fans of the older superheroes, particularly Iron Man and Cap.
  • He sports wings under his suit's arms, much like how he was drawn in his first appearance by Steve Ditko. The wings also allow him to glide, which was not part of his original set of powers, but of Jessica Drew and Miguel O'Hara. In the comics, Spidey also received a special suit from Iron Man that had the potential to glide with wings (although that suit was made with Iron Man's colors and nicknamed the Iron Spider suit).
  • Peter's Prototype uniform has a mixture of the Scarlet Spider's hoodie costume with a mask designed similar to Spider-Man Noir's goggles.
  • The Iron Spider's color scheme greatly resembles the Superior Spider-Man suit.
  • Spider-Man was one of the founding members of the New Avengers, which he gets inducted into during Avengers: Infinity War.

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• Naïve Newcomer: In Civil War, he knows next to nothing about the conflict he's been brought in to help end and just wants to make sure that nobody gets hurt. It's entirely possible that he would have sided with Captain America if he'd been more well-informed.
• Nephewism: His aunt raises him instead of his parents, who are not mentioned.
• Nerd Action Hero: A sci-fi loving nerd who is able to bench press a car and go toe-to-toe with most of the Avengers and even battle Thanos.
• Nerds Are Sexy: He's a handsome, muscular geek.
• Never Be Hurt Again: It's indicated that after his existence is forgotten through Strange's second spell, part of his reasons for closing himself off from those he was once close to — friends, girlfriend, allies, and fellow superheroes — is so he won't be hurt again from losing those he cares about, following May's murder.
• Never My Fault: Played for laughs in Infinity War where he tells Tony it's technically his fault he went to outer space with him, despite making the choice himself, infuriating Tony.
• Nice Guy: He's a warm and good-natured person who ultimately wants to make the world safer with his powers. Captain America even thinks he's a good kid in spite of being pitted against him. Even Doctor Strange, while annoyed by him every once in a while, admires his kindness and compassion, especially after Peter insists Strange erase him from everybody's memories to save the multiverse.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He's Spider-Man, this is a pretty common occurrence for him in most media.
  • In Far From Home, he foolishly gives the EDITH glasses over to Beck after seeing him supposedly perform a Heroic Sacrifice to take down an Elemental which would've destroyed the world. This is combined with lingering Survivor Guilt over Tony's death and feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of shouldering the legacy of Iron Man. Turns out it's just Beck deftly manipulating him using his bleeding edge holographic technology in his bid to become a Fake Ultimate Hero and very nearly gets Peter and his friends killed. Even then, it creates lasting consequences for him going into No Way Home as it leads to Beck posthumously framing him for his "murder" and exposing Spider-Man's secret identity as Peter Parker.
  • Screws up Strange's memory-wiping spell in No Way Home with his nervous chattering over the consequences and brings in extremely dangerous villains from other universes as a result.
• No Body Left Behind: He is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In No Way Home, Peter initially planned to just send the displaced villains home, as he felt like they weren't his responsibility. However, after being convinced by Aunt May and learning the villains are going to die, he has a change of heart and genuinely tries to help them. This sets off a chain of events that leads to his Aunt May being killed, everyone in the MCU forgetting who he is, including his best friend and girlfriend, and being forced to drop out of high school to pursue a GED in New York while the former two go off to MIT in Boston. The trope name is even quoted by the Goblin when he reveals himself.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After previously being on the receiving end of a beatdown from Electro, the Lizard, and the Green Goblin, Peter wipes the floor with Osborn after the latter murders Aunt May, and has to be stopped from finishing him off by Raimi-Spider-Man.
• Nonchalant Dodge: Casually moves his head to avoid a robber trying to repeatedly punch him. While hanging upside down from the ceiling.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Although Peter is definitely stronger than a street-level hero, his power is overshadowed by guys like Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Doctor Strange. In fact, Peter's goal during Spider-Man: Homecoming is to stop being in the small pond (street level), and join the big pond (The Avengers), even when Iron Man tells him he's not ready. This gets turned on its head in Far From Home; Peter at this point has much more experience and his powers have matured greatly, but he himself would prefer to stay a small neighborhood hero, despite Nick Fury (actually Talos) insisting that he is ready to join the big leagues.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: He doesn't seem to care about the issues for the Sokovia Accords in Captain America: Civil War even though his existence and activity (i.e. an independent superhero acting without government oversight) clearly violates it. He only joins Iron Man's team because Tony Stark, a personal hero of his, just showed up at his house and asked for his help.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • Although they're on different sides, Cap is pleasantly surprised that both he and Peter are good-hearted people from New York who fight for the little guy.
    Captain America: You got heart, kid. Where you from?
    Spider-Man: Queens!
    Captain America: [smiles] Brooklyn.
  • He and Toomes both come from working-class backgrounds, are scientifically minded and started their careers with reasonable goals only to suffer Motive Decay. The difference is that Peter gets over his.
    Toomes: Those people, Pete, those people up there, the rich and the powerful, they do whatever they want. Guys like us, like you and me... they don't care about us. We build their roads and we fight all their wars and everything. They don't care about us. We have to pick up after them. We have to eat their table scraps. That's how it is. I know you know what I'm talking about, Peter.
• Oblivious to Love: In Homecoming due to his crush on Liz he is unaware of MJ's feelings for him. By the beginning of Far From Home, while he is finally putting it together that she likes him, he's been unaware that MJ has liked him for quite some time and well before he developed his feelings for her.
• Official Couple: By the end of Far From Home, he's with MJ. 'Till the events of No Way Home, where MJ's memories of Peter are wiped alongside the universe's. He chooses not to reconnect with her for the time being despite still loving her.
• Oh, Crap!: Several:
  • Has a massive one in The Stinger of Far From Home when Mysterio frames him for his own death and publicly reveals his secret identity.
    Spider-Man: WHAT THE FU-
  • It's subtle, but in No Way Home, his reaction to Green Goblin getting up like nothing happened and throwing him through a window after Peter had just stomped him through a concrete deck indicates that he has finally realized just how badly he underestimated Goblin and how dire his situation truly is.
• Older Than They Look: On a technicality, due to being a resurrected victim of Thanos's snap. He was 16 at the time of his death, and he remained dead for five years. After being brought back from the dead could technically make him 21, but he's still biologically 16 due to being resurrected as he was, his body hasn't aged.
• One-Man Army: He's become this by the final act of Far From Home. It's him, by himself, against an army of advanced aerial drones armed with machine guns. Spidey wins.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • He was adamant over Karen not using her Instant-Kill Mode, firmly stating he doesn't want to kill anyone. But in Endgame, he directly orders her to switch to said mode without any hesitation whatsoever.
  • In most of his fights, Spider-Man will make small talk with his opponents and allies or comment on some interesting new development that's popped up. In the final showdown in Far From Home, he's angrier than he's ever been and takes on Mysterio and his drone army in almost complete silence.
  • At the end of No Way Home, he is livid at Green Goblin for killing Aunt May that he unleashes a fierce pummeling and is ready to skewer Goblin with his own Goblin Glider.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: While Peter is American, his actor, Tom Holland, is British.
  • After swiping Captain America's shield in Civil War, you can hear Tom Holland's natural British accent, especially noticeable in the way he pronounces the "a" in "fan".
  • Tom's British accent slips through in Infinity War as well, specifically the line "It never was" during his introduction to Peter Quill.
• Open Secret: Peter is remarkably careless with his secret identity despite being one of the few heroes trying to maintain one. He gets caught multiple times by his friends and family and he introduces himself by his real name to everyone in the superhero community. This proves to be a problem when he trusts an extremely unscrupulous person with his name, and that person later reveals his identity to the world, ruining his reputation and likely his life.
• Ordinary High-School Student: Peter is still in school while acting as a superhero. He initially tells Stark he can't go to Germany because he has homework.
  Tony: ...I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that.
• Out of Focus: While Uncle Ben is indicated to be a crucial part of his motivation for becoming a superhero through various indirect elements hinting at his influence on Peter and May's lives, he's surprisingly not directly mentioned once by either of them in Peter's first six film appearances, although it's clear that he learned the crucial lesson that he was supposed to from what happened. This approach is in part because May also fulfills this role in the MCU's version of the story, down to being the one who actually tells Peter the iconic words before dying. The first official confirmation on Uncle Ben's presence in the MCU actually came in What If…? (2021), in an alternate timeline, with later mentions of Ben being from Tobey and Andrew's Spider-Men.
• Outside-the-Box Tactic: Peter excels at this, mainly because he's an inexperienced teenager who constantly looks at things from a fresh perspective, and like any teenager, if there's an easy way to do something, he'll take it:
  • Civil War: When Ant-Man grows sixty feet tall and is giving Tony's people a lot of trouble, he takes a hint from The Empire Strikes Back and cuts his legs out from under him, which gives the rest of Tony's team the opening they need to take him out of the fight.
  • Infinity War: Against Ebony Maw, when Tony and Stephen are trying to plan a direct assault, Peter comes up with the idea to simply punch a hole through the spaceship and let Ebony Maw get sucked outside. The idea works, and Ebony Maw is killed pretty quickly. Unlike his comic book counterpart, this Spider-Man has no problem with that, mainly because he understands how desperate their situation will become if Thanos gets his hands on all the Infinity Stones.
  • No Way Home: While fighting Doctor Strange in the Mirror Dimension, Peter gets the upper hand when he realizes that the patterns follow certain geometric rules, which allows him to web up his much more powerful opponent and win the fight using the power of math.
• Passing the Torch: Far From Home directly sets Spider-Man up as being the successor to Iron Man as the most central and important heroic figure on Earth, and (less directly) the next Captain America as the virtuous Heart of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movie ends with Spidey officially stepping up as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and he even has his own "I am Iron Man" moment... albeit, without his consent.
• Persona Non Grata: His accidental mucking-up of the Multiverse has earned him (and possibly the two other Spider-Men who helped him save the other villains from dying) a seemingly permanent ban on ever joining Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Society.
• Phrase Catcher: Before he saves an elevator full of people at the Washington Monument, he's primarily known as Spider-Man "from YouTube."
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's physically the smallest hero during the Avengers Civil War (if you don’t count Rhodey, who's a centimetre shorter without his Powered Armor and Natasha and Wanda), but has the most raw strength of anyone on the battlefield. This is further proven when he went toe-to-toe with every anti-registration hero in a physical fight (though his inexperience does show in one-on-one fights, as Cap demonstrated). It takes a solid hit from Giant-Man to knock him out. Peter is also notably one of the few MCU male superheroes to be visibly shorter than the leading ladies, and that includes both his love interests (namely Liz and MJ).
• Please Wake Up:
  • In Endgame, he doesn't immediately catch on that using the Infinity Gauntlet has drained the life out of Tony Stark. It also marks the first and only time he calls Tony by his first name instead of "Mr. Stark".
  • And again towards Mysterio in Far from Home, although he doesn't die.
  • He does this after Aunt May dies in No Way Home.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Since he has little investment in the Civil War between the Avengers, he plays a more lighthearted, comedic role than the other characters involved in the fight.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: For all his love of movies that are decades older than he is, he confuses AC/DC with Led Zeppelin when he hears "Back in Black".
• Pop-Cultured Badass: He's seen a lot of popular movies, even ones from before he was born, and uses his knowledge of them to come up with plans to defeat his foes that always work.
• Projectile Webbing: He can fire these through the use of a synthetic substance and a pair of wrist-worn mechanical devices he both developed.
• Punch Catch: Easily catches Bucky's metal arm and gently pulls it back while geeking out over how cool it is.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: He seemingly manages to pin the Goblin against a wall in their first fight and pummels him, only for the Goblin to laugh maniacally and slam him straight through a concrete floor. It's clear that, at best, Peter managed to momentarily catch him off-guard, and at worst, the Goblin deliberately gave him a Hope Spot.
• Race Fetish: Coincidentally or not, both of Peter's crushes are black/black-ish. Liz is mixed while MJ's lineage is uncertain, but her actress is mixed as well.
• Rage Breaking Point: After the Goblin murdered his Aunt May, Peter gave up on saving the villains and wanted Norman in particular dead. Raimi-Peter manages to talk him down from the brink, but later on in the final battle, the Goblin deliberately interferes with his attempt to save MJ from a fatal drop, and if it hadn't been for Webb-Peter, she would have died. At this point, all bets are off, and Peter does his absolute damndest to mercilessly bloody and beat the Goblin within an inch of his life, before trying to execute him with his own glider.
• The Redeemer: No Way Home ends with him curing and redeeming all the villains with help from his counterparts, and this is actually a trait they share with him as they never voice any disagreements with this plan.
• Red Is Heroic: Red is his signature color. Given how, in the MCU, Peter sees Iron Man as a role model, it is possible that he designed his own suit to emulate Tony's.
• Reduced to Dust: He's amongst the other half of the universe who were disintegrated by Thanos' Badass Fingersnap in Avengers: Infinity War.
• Refusal of the Call:
  • Evidently averted, as in this continuity, he never seemed to have any problem with helping out other people with his powers. That being said, something clearly happened to Uncle Ben that caused him to take his job a lot more seriously, as evidenced by his conversation with Tony Stark in Civil War.
  • At the end of Homecoming, he turns down Tony's offer to join the Avengers because he thinks he should stay grounded a little longer to look out for the little guy.
  • Literally in Far From Home as he sends a call from Nick Fury himself to voicemail.
• Remember the New Guy?: From the view of characters from the Sony's Spider-Man Universe at least. Venom senses some familiarity with Spider-Man upon seeing him on TV when he and Eddie Brock are transported into the MCU during the mid-credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. This is because Venom most likely "remembers" Spider-Man being Peter Parker when he accessed the symbiote's Hive Mind that spans across the Multiverse, including his counterpart from the Raimi-Verse.
• Rookie Red Ranger: Despite being the youngest and least experienced of the three Spider-Men who appear in No Way Home, he calls the shots during the battle at the Statue of Liberty. It's Justified because he's the only one who has any experience fighting as part of a team, whereas the other two have always worked alone; after all, he was an Avenger, whereas the Avengers don't even exist in their home universes.
• Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick: Plays the Nice Sidekick to Tony Stark's Rude Hero. Peter's a lot more easygoing and cordial while Tony's incredibly snarky and blunt.
• Sacrificial Lion: Not counting Maria Hill and Nick Fury's demises in the post-credits scene, Peter is the last major character to die by Thanos's fingersnap, and by far the most iconic character to be killed off in Avengers: Infinity War. He gets better.
• Save the Villain:
  • He rescues Adrian Toomes from his malfunctioning wings in Homecoming.
  • In No Way Home, after learning all the universe-displaced villains are fated to die fighting their worlds' Spider-Men, he attempts to return them to their human selves so they won't have to suffer that fate. He ultimately succeeds, though he initially attempts to kill the Green Goblin for the murder of Aunt May.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Gender-Inverted. He serves as the Badass Adorable All-Loving Hero Energetic Guy to Michelle's Deadpan Snarker Bookworm Savvy Girl.
• Secret Identity: One of the few characters in the setting to have one and actively maintain it. He turns his web shooters on Tony in his own bedroom when the possibility of Tony outing him comes up. He has a bad habit of accidentally letting people close to him know his secret, as both Ned and Aunt May learn the truth because he wasn't mindful of his Spider-Sense. Mysterio ends up revealing it to the world.
• Secret-Identity Identity: In No Way Home, Doctor Strange criticizes Peter for trying to keep two different lives rather than sacrificing one over the other. The rest of the film has Peter conflicted over whether he should focus on his own private life or help others in need despite the possibility they may further jeopardize his life as Peter Parker. In the end, he sacrifices the very memory of Peter Parker to save the world, essentially erasing his civilian identity from existence, leaving only Spider-Man behind.
• Secret-Keeper: In Spider-Man: Far From Home, he lies about Captain America’s survival to allow the elderly Steve Rogers to retire, knowing that he was alive and present at Tony Stark's funeral.
• Secret Test of Character: Assumes this at the end of Homecoming when Tony presents him with a seat on the Avengers and a brand new upgraded suit, saying a room full of reporters are in the other room waiting for the Spider-Man announcement. Peter, who just went through a Humiliation Conga of learning what it means to be Spider-Man in his massively inexperienced state, politely declines while claiming this trope, opting to instead "stay on the ground" like Tony wanted him to do all along. Tony for his part rolls with it. Then Peter leaves, and Pepper walks in from the reporter-filled room to ask where he was, showing Tony was absolutely serious and totally botched a legitimate recruitment attempt.
• Self-Imposed Exile: Towards the end of "Spider-Man: No Way Home", Peter decides to isolate himself from everyone, including his friends, girlfriend, allies, and fellow superheroes, in order to keep them safe from the dangers of knowing him, believing that he did the right thing to unperson himself so he won't lose anyone else like he lost Tony and his Aunt May or ruin someone else's personal life like he nearly did with Ned and MJ. Despite this, he still continues helping the people of New York as Spider-Man in order to protect the innocent and atone for all the mistakes he has made.
• Sensory Overload: His Spider-Sense is a bit of a problem in this version. While he does have a greater sense of awareness that allows him to have better reflexes, it comes at the cost of being overwhelmed with the awareness of everything around him during battle. His first costume incorporates welding goggles (which Tony is shocked Peter can even see out of since he himself couldn't) because they minimize visual stimuli to a level where he can focus. His new suit incorporates mechanical irises so that he can adjust how much he sees as needed.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: After the big fight at the airport in Civil War, Tony tells him to go back home for his own safety and even threatens to tell Aunt May if he doesn't. This itself happens before the dramatic final act. It's justified given how nearly fatal the battle went in the case of Rhodey.
• Short Teens, Tall Adults: He is a Kid Hero played by 5'6'-5'7 Tom Holland and is a good bit shorter than the majority of his fellow heroes. Even Tony Stark is made to look several inches taller despite Robert Downey Jr. and Tom being around the same height in real life. He never interacts with the other team mates who are actually shorter than or closer to his height (Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Elizabeth Olsen, Letitia Wright).
• Single Guy Seeks Most Popular Girl: Liz Allan is a senior involved with many clubs and is much sought after, and also the object of Peter's affection in Homecoming.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: In Captain America: Civil War, due to contractual issues between Marvel Studios and Sony:
  • He's completely absent from the trailer and was even edited out of several shots such as the scene of two sides running at each other. He is in that scene in the film proper.
  • The poster designed for use in theaters and concession products has all of the heroes but Spider-Man and Ant-Man.
  • He was absent from pretty much all of the other promotional material for the film, which includes toy lines and promotional images and even the official home releases' covers.
• Skewed Priorities: Either because of nerves or he's just a teenager, but when he picks up on the Guardians of the Galaxy approaching their crashed ship on Titan, Peter wastes time preemptively apologizing to Tony and Strange about potentially being turned into an egg-delivery vector, rather than just saying people are coming, and by the time he does, it's too late.
• Skilled, but Naive:
  • He's really good when it comes to making improvised plans to beat seemingly unbeatable foes, but his lack of experience still hampers him. Best shown when he, Tony, and Rhodey defeat Giant-Man; Peter comes up with the plan to web up Scott's legs and flawlessly sets him up to be knocked down by Tony and Rhodey, but he fails to notice the falling Scott's flailing limbs and thus gets knocked out by one of them.
  • He's also as befitting an innocent kid, extremely trusting of everyone he meets. He went to Germany on Tony's request without question, taking his non-explanation at face value. He's also incredibly careless with his secret identity, revealing it to his closest friends and the entire superhero community. In Spider-Man: Far From Home, both tendencies get exploited by Mysterio, who takes advantage of Peter's tendency to trust heroes to fool him into handing over E.D.I.T.H., and Peter's carelessness with his identity gets it revealed to the entire world.
  • In Spider-Man: No Way Home, after learning that some of the villains brought from the Multiverse are fated to die if they are returned as they are, Peter ends up defying Doctor Strange's attempt to send them back and opts to find a way to cure the villains to potentially change their fates for the better once they return to their own universes (which he does have the ability to pull off, as shown when he successfully freed Otto of his tentacles' control). This proves to have dire consequences when some villains like Green Goblin, the Lizard, and Electro don't want to be saved and go rogue to cause further destruction, which directly leads to Aunt May's death and Peter Parker being erased from the memories of everyone he knows.
• Slasher Smile: Peter of all people flashes one when he stuffs one of Green Goblin's Pumpkin Bombs in his glider in revenge for Goblin stopping him from saving MJ.
• Smart People Play Chess: There's a chess set set up (and seemingly in progress) on a table in his bedroom in Civil War.
• Socially Awkward Hero: True to form, he's a shy kid who doesn't have a very large social circle and struggles with trying to fit in and impress the girl he has a crush on.
• Something Person: Spider + Man with a hyphen between the two.
• Sorry That I'm Dying: In Infinity War, his dying words to Tony Stark are "I'm sorry".
• Spider Limbs: The Iron Spider suit has these. They're mostly used for support rather than for actual combat in Infinity War, but in Endgame they're shown to be utterly deadly when the armor is in "Instant Kill Mode", skewering Thanos's monstrous soldiers.
• Spider-Sense:
  • Appears briefly, catching a web cylinder Tony threw at him without even glancing at him, sensing a piece of debris Bucky throws at him from behind without looking, then tossing it right back at Bucky, and just before Ant-Man attacks him to take back the Cap's shield, he can tell something's wrong. It doesn't work nearly as much as it should, and Spidey is surprised several times during his fights. Potentially justified as he notes that his abilities make it difficult to focus at times, which is why he needed the goggles, and he's still not used to the new suit.
  • As in the source material, it primarily warns him of threats or people intending to harm him — not, say, his best friend Ned Leeds being in his room, or Aunt May seeing him suit up nearby. Peter cannot even sense Nick Fury's presence in his room until Ned was hit with a tranquilizer dart. This makes sense as Nick has no intention of harming him, only wanting to talk.
  • Infinity War shows Peter riding a bus when his hairs suddenly stand on end. Cue the sinister-looking spaceship hovering over New York.
  • A very dark example appears in Infinity War. Unlike the other dusted heroes, Peter can sense that something very bad is about to happen to him, even telling Tony that he doesn't feel so good and becomes utterly terrified when he realizes what that sick feeling actually means.
  • A recurring element in Far From Home is the somewhat finicky nature of this ability, which Aunt May has dubbed "the Peter tingle". As she observes, he can dodge bullets, but not a banana she playfully tosses at him. By the movie's climax, Peter has a solid enough grip on it to recognize Mysterio's illusions for what they are.
  • No Way Home features it from his perspective. While working on a MacGuffin in Happy's apartment, his world gets hazy and he begins to hear a hum that increases the closer he is to danger, as he looks to make sure May is safe. Finally, he turns around and webs Osborn, whom his Goblin personality has taken over.
• Strong and Skilled: By Far From Home, Spidey has become a legitimate One-Man Army who can take on countless drones, see through illusions with his Spider-Sense, and take on threats that would've decimated him before, all by himself. Really, Far From Home tells his journey from an inexperienced hero to a true successor to Iron Man.
• Strong as They Need to Be: His strength varies depending on what is convenient for the plot. Sometimes, he's only at the same level of a Super-Soldier and Captain America can defeat him easily, and other times he demonstrates feats that are many times stronger than that of a Super-Soldier, like lifting a pile of rubble off of himself, stopping a hammer swing from Cull Obsidian, and surviving being hit by a bullet train.
• Stock Shōnen Hero: Most Spideys fall under this trope, but this one pretty much fits it to a T. He has a very clear sense of justice, moral integrity, unwavering true-grit, and is fun-loving. While he's not exactly dumb, he has a problem with jumping to conclusions, putting too much faith in people, and not looking before he leaps. However, he makes up for whatever short-comings he faces with an incredible aptitude for improvisation and adaptability, and he's well on his way towards being the best superhero of his generation.
• Superhero: The Trope Codifier for all teenage superheroes. A teenage rookie who is just learning the basics of the superhero work.
• Superhero Origin: The whole thing about power, responsibility, and indirectly causing his uncle's death through inaction still happened, but offscreen, though it is indirectly referenced multiple times. Between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Endgame, Ben Parker is not even mentioned by name. The filmmakers behind the franchise explained that, with two prior film continuities showing the origin, showing it for the third time in Spider-Man: Homecoming would be redundant. No Way Home reveals that his trilogy is a unique adaptation of his origin for the MCU, as while Ben does exist and serve some role in him being Spider-Man, Peter doesn't truly learn the lesson "with great power there must also come great responsibility" until May's death. With people's memory of Peter Parker now erased, he loses the allies he had and his advanced tech, forcing him back into the Working-Class Hero he is in the comics and having Jameson doing everything he can to make the city hate him.
• Super-Reflexes: He's more than agile enough to avoid the gunfire of Mysterio's weaponized drones.
• Super-Speed: While not a speedster like, say, Quicksilver, Peter can move around the battlefield beyond most Avengers' ability to keep up. In spite of only being a fifteen at the time of Civil War, he's already able to outrun the Olympic-level Black Widow without much trouble.
• Super-Strength: Spider-Man is incredibly powerful in spite of his young age, with even his very first appearance establishing him as many times stronger than a Super Soldier. As demonstrated in Captain America: Civil War, he has stopped a 3000-pound car at a speed of 40 mph dead in its tracks by mere strength (which is what brought him to Iron Man's attention). He can easily catch one of the Winter Soldier's punches, and is more giddy about being punched with a metal arm than actually bothering to put effort into blocking it, whereas Steve is unable to stop the same arm with both of his. In Spider-Man: No Way Home when he ceases to hold back at all, a single enraged punch from him is able to leave a huge dent in a gigantic metal shield he is standing on, the sound of the impact resounding as if something much larger than him had hit it.
• Super-Toughness: Peter's resistance is fully superhuman.
  • Already hinted in Captain America: Civil War, where he takes a Shield Bash to the face from Captain America, a blow that would have certainly concussed an ordinary human. He's also swatted aside by Giant-Man into a bunch of crates and survive with little more than a few superficial bruises.
  • Becomes very obvious in Spider-Man: Homecoming: The amount of punishment Spider-Man endures through the movie would easily kill an ordinary human, and even badly maim a Super-Soldier. Notably, he gets bounced up and down by an Anti-Gravity gun, dragged behind a van and repeatedly slammed against trashcans and brick walls, supports the full weight of two halves of a ferry for a few seconds without his arms tearing off, is slammed into — and then through — a bus by the Shocker, is buried under a whole warehouse crumbling into him, and then survives a plane crash followed by a thorough beating from the Vulture, without even having to go to the hospital afterward. The suit Tony provided Peter with also counts, as it takes all the same abuse and doesn't have so much as a scratch, or even any of its features disabled.
  • In Avengers: Infinity War, he's shown functioning at high altitudes with little in the way of protection, with only some difficulty. He also takes hits from Thanos himself and still stands, despite the Mad Titan beating up the Hulk himself (justified somewhat, given that he's wearing the Iron Spider armor). It's implied he was the last of the group on Titan to die because his body was simply so durable that the Snap took longer to work on him.
  • Once again demonstrated in Spider-Man: Far From Home: Spider-Man survives injuries and accidents, which while painful, is far above ordinary human capability and would be fatal to any human being, such as bonking his head multiple times against an iron bell or surviving the impact of a high speed rail at full speed. On both occasions, he's still conscious and not too worse for wear (admittedly passing out after getting to safety from the train impact) while recovering and healing quickly.
  • In Spider-Man: No Way Home, a severe beating from the Green Goblin that sent him through multiple walls and stories of a building, repeatedly, leaves him with broken ribs but he's still able to escape the scene and is healed in time for the final battle. Downplayed in that, as usual, he's not bulletproof and his resistance against piercing/cutting threats in general is shown to be much lesser; Norman cuts him with a knife.
• Survivor Guilt: After the events of Endgame, Peter is still grieving Tony's death as of Far From Home, and while he wants to be the new hero the people needs, he's not sure if he can even live up to the legacy that Tony left behind.
• Survival Mantra:
  • Peter starts chanting to himself in order to lift the heavy debris he was buried under by Vulture.
    Peter: Come on, Peter. Come on, Spider-Man! Come on, Spider-Man!
  • A much darker example happens in Infinity War, when Peter realizes that he’s crumbling to ash and, understandably, is absolutely terrified.
    Peter: I-I don't know what's happening. I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go. Mister Stark, please! Please, I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go... I'm sorry...
• Sweet and Sour Grapes:
  • His character arc in Homecoming. After believing himself to be unworthy of superheroics without the Stark suit, Peter manages to successfully stop the Vulture with his original outfit, armed with nothing but his web-shooters, and learns that heroism comes from within. Then Tony Stark gives him back the suit he made for Spider-Man anyway.
  • In Homecoming, he learns the value of being a hero on a local level and that it might be in his best interest to not join the Avengers for a while. Then in Infinity War, he gets caught up in the midst of an attack on New York — which he plans to defend on a local level, but finds himself in an alien spacecraft. He's stoked when Tony dubs him an Avenger anyway.
• Swiss-Army Superpower:
  • Webbing is an extremely useful power that has countless applications. So far Spidey has used it to swing, incapacitate, snag objects or enemies, and trip others.
  • Once Tony Stark got his hands on Peter's webbing the possibilities became almost literally endless, and packed his suit with 576 possible webbing combinations^note That is, 24 on each hand, which is still plenty. including web-grenades, ricochet webs, spinner webs, super-long shot webs and much, much more.

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• Tactical Withdrawal:
  • In Civil War, Tony forces this on Peter after he's injured fighting Giant-Man. Tony makes sure to say that this is not a "you screwed up", but that he's done his job, now it's time to head back home.
  • Tony later attempts to invoke this on Peter in Infinity War by activating a parachute after ensuring that he's safe inside the Iron Spider suit. It doesn't work, as Peter is able to stick to the Q-Ship anyway.
• Tag Along Kid:
  • He's a teenager, while the other heroes are all full-grown adults (the youngest of them being Scarlet Witch, who is in her mid-20s; while Vision, although barely a year old chronologically, was never a "kid").
    Rhodey: Jesus, Tony, how old is this guy?
    Tony: I don't know, I didn't carbon date him! He's on the young side!
  • Also noticeable in Infinity War. In the company of the much older and mature Iron Man and Doctor Strange on their journey to Titan, he basically defaults to being the youngster. Becomes even more pronounced when he fights alongside them as well as Star-Lord, Drax, Mantis and Nebula against Thanos, but is no less badass for it.
• Taught by Experience: After getting utterly thrashed by Green Goblin in their first fight, he fights more defensively in their second fight by dodging his attacks so that he doesn't get a chance to overpower him like he did last time.
• Technical Pacifist: He does his very best not to punch or kick normal criminals since with his level of Super-Strength (which can stop a mechanized punch from an experienced killer cyborg, something that Black Panther actually struggled with), he'd probably maim them if he did. He starts throwing some punches and kicks during Infinity War against Thanos and his Children.
• Teen Genius: Peter at first doesn't quite match up to Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, or Shuri's genius, but at 15-years-old, without any previous exposure to a lab or engineering, he managed to create a formula for his webs (the sophistication of which impressed even Tony Stark) and make them in the middle of chemistry class with supplies scrounged from the dumpster and his high school chemistry lab. He also created his own mechanical web shooters, is a surprisingly capable tactician, and programs and builds computers with parts from the trash in his spare time. In addition to this, Peter seems to excel in physics and math, and he actively participates on the Decathlon team; and after only moments of battling Falcon in Germany, he correctly deduced that Sam's wings were made of carbon fiber due to their "flexibility-rigidity ratio". The finale of Far From Home, where Peter builds his own most advanced suit yet suggests that Peter does have what it takes to be compared to the above three, but his ability to cultivate said genius is ordinarily hampered by a lack of resources.
• Tenor Boy: Peter never sings, but his speaking voice is very high-pitched and youthful (this helps Tom Holland, who is Older Than He Looks, pass for a 15-year-old).
• Thou Shall Not Kill: Peter invokes this by refusing to go with any of the Instant-Kill protocols his suit provides him with. He also goes out of his way to save the Vulture's life, rather than allowing him to become a Self-Disposing Villain. However, he doesn't seem to have a problem with killing Ebony Maw, although given the circumstances, one can hardly blame him. He also doesn't mind using that same Instant-Kill mode against Thanos's forces (which, granted, are mindless killing machines) when he's resurrected in Endgame. In No Way Home, he comes close to breaking this rule after the Green Goblin kills his Aunt May, and it's only thanks to the Raimi-Verse Peter's intervention that he doesn't go through with it.
• Three-Point Landing: His upgraded costume is introduced with him pulling one off. He thinks he could have done it a bit better.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Max Favreau plays him as a child, Tom Holland plays him as a teenager and young adult.
• Token Mini-Moe: Bet you never thought you'd see this trope associated with him, but here he's the youngest superhero, and both his enthusiasm and fanboyishness make him endearing.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Peter's sweet nature, moral integrity and kind heart was not enough for the Infinity Gauntlet to spare him from being painfully erased with a snap of Thanos's fingers for five years.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • By Infinity War, Peter has gotten significantly more adept at using his powers and manages to hold his own against members of the Black Order, and even participates in the group battle against Thanos himself on Titan.
  • By Far From Home, Peter has unambiguously become more badass than in Homecoming. Compare the final battle between him and Vulture in Homecoming, where he loses the actual fight and only "wins" by accident, to the final battle between him and Mysterio in Far From Home, where Spidey takes down an army of drones by himself, becomes fully synergized with his Spider-Sense, and manages to dodge gunfire while effectively blinded in terms of sight, before handily defeating him with a single punch and saving the lives of London. Really, this was officially marked the moment Spidey made his very own Upgraded suit to the tune of "Back in Black" — considered the song to highlight such moments.
  • By No Way Home, his fighting ability noticeably improves as he's forced into more battles against superpowered opponents from across the multiverse who are much more physical and hands-on than the previous villain Mysterio and towards the end, he fights and beats down the Green Goblin, a physically formidable foe who was able to give the Spider-Man of his own universe a run for his money.
• Tragic Dropout: Thanks to Peter Parker's existence being wiped from everyone's memories in No Way Home's climax, he's forced to drop out of high school despite being a gifted and intelligent student. He ends up studying for a GED on a lower middle-class budget while living alone in a small apartment, but still continues being Spider-Man.
• Tragic Hero: Peter is a selfless and loving person who wants to save everyone, even the bad guys, but he's constantly marred by misfortune and outright misery. Nowhere is this made clearer than in No Way Home, as by the end of it all, he's lost his beloved Aunt May while his allies, best friend, and girlfriend have no memory of him, and he's forced to drop out of school and live alone in a small apartment. Yet he still soldiers on as Spider-Man to protect the innocent.
• Tragic Keepsake:
  • Following Tony's passing after Endgame, Peter's Stark and Iron Spider suits become this.
  • A non-lethal version in No Way Home, where he keeps Ned's LEGO Palpatine minifigure and the mug MJ gave him to remember their friendship, as neither of them even remembers him existing.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Much like his mentor, Peter is usually constantly babbling and quipping even during fights. During the final battle against Mysterio, however, he's utterly silent, showing just how angry and serious he is.
  • Exaggerated in No Way Home. Before his fight with Green Goblin, Peter simply tells him straight-up that he wants to KILL him in a quiet voice that's laced with more venom than the spider that bit him. Cue the biggest No-Holds-Barred Beatdown he's ever given a villain to date.
• Trauma Conga Line:
  • Far From Home becomes this for him. After coming back to life and losing Tony, Peter tries to move on by going on a school trip to Europe. Then he ends up having to go on a mission to save the world from the Elementals, and then he finds out that the hero that he worked with turned out to be a psychopath hell-bent on gaining fame and gets gaslighted by said psychopath. And when he finally defeats him, he ends up being framed for his murder and his identity is exposed. Needless to say, he isn't having a great year.
  • No Way Home extends this, notably by starting immediately where Far From Home ends. To wit, Peter and his friends and family are hounded by the public and authorities, to the point where Peter goes to Dr. Strange to make everyone forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man. However, Peter's unwillingness to have May, MJ, and Ned forget as well causes a disaster that rips a hole in reality. While he's able to fix it, Aunt May is killed by the Green Goblin in the process and the spell ultimately makes everyone forget Peter Parker even existed, including MJ, Ned, and the Avengers. Without any financial support, he's also forced to drop out of high school and get a GED. His trilogy ends with him having almost nothing but his new homemade suit and his unwavering determination to keep being Spider-Man.
• Truer to the Text:
  • His Stark-made costume in Civil War, Homecoming, and the beginning of Infinity War is the closest we've yet to seen to Peter's old-school Lee/Ditko look in live action. The webbing isn't raised and the spider on his back is fat and tick-like instead of a larger and scarier looking version of the chest-logo (as in the Raimi movies).
  • This version is closer in profile to the early issues of the Lee/Ditko version as a fifteen-year-old kid just starting his superhero career, as well as the Ultimate Spider-Man comics, which also borrows his Younger and Hipper Aunt May and the fact that his identity is traced by Iron Man. Lee/Ditko's Spider-Man was pretty good at keeping his identity hidden whereas the Running Gag of Ultimate Spidey is the small number of people who don't know his secret identity. Also the most Motor Mouth version of Spidey seen thus far in live-action.
  • Peter is shown brewing the formula for his web shooters in Homecoming, unlike his predecessors.^note The Tobey Maguire version famously had organic webbing, and while the Andrew Garfield version did use web shooters, it is explicitly shown in The Amazing Spider Man that they use bio-cable purchased from Oscorp, as opposed to a formula Peter developed himself.
  • His film trilogy establishes that while his uncle's death is what caused him to become a hero, it didn't teach him the same lessons about responsibility, which is what he learns in different ways in all three films. This is actually fairly accurate to the original Lee-Ditko Spidey, who only kept being Spider-Man to try and make money, with Ben's death simply convincing him to find ways to do so while still helping people, until overtime he developed into the more heroic and selfless character he's known for. This is very different from most adaptions except for the previous live-action iteration, who's character arc in the first film was to let go of his need for revenge and become a real hero.
  • By the end of No Way Home, Peter is closer to the scrappy loner Working-Class Hero he traditionally is thanks to Aunt May's death and the world forgetting Peter Parker ever existed, cutting off all ties with Stark Industries and the Avengers. He even fashions a low-tech red and blue suit with a normal sewing machine.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Peter is quick to forgive people, especially his enemies. Although he might never forgive Green Goblin for his part in killing his Aunt May, Peter manages to forgive Norman as he understands that the man may have created the evil persona, but the Goblin's actions were not his fault. Ultimately, he still considers Norman a friend.
• Two First Names: Peter Benjamin Parker so it's three to be exact.
• Two Guys and a Girl: Him, Ned, and MJ are this.
• Unperson: In No Way Home, Peter ends up solving the Cosmic Flaw he created by having Doctor Strange make the entire world completely forget Peter Parker. Although Spider-Man remains well-known, Peter effectively never existed, costing him his personal life and all his friends, allies, and loved ones.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension:
  • There is sexual tension between Peter and MJ in his hotel room in Prague when he realizes he has taken his shirt off with her in the room. Peter asks her to turn around, but MJ can't help but get some peeks. She continues to watch him change until she notices Ned has entered the room.
  • Inverted and Played for Laughs in Spider-Man: No Way Home, where Peter and MJ are in his room and she is helping him take off his suit in a panic after his identity was just exposed. Aunt May walks in on MJ undressing Peter and thinks they are having sex. Peter then tries explaining to his aunt this isn't true, but she doesn't believe him.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His agility, strength, speed, and secondary abilities give him an advantage in most of the encounters he faces, but he's still a teenager with no formal combat training. Anytime an opponent unveils something (technology, ability to fly, element of surprise, tactical fighting, etc) that counters Spidey's strength/agility, he has to struggle to come up with a way to defeat his opponent and often fails. This is the key reason Captain America, Bucky and Falcon are able to defeat him. He gets over this disadvantage by the end of Far From Home.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Quentin Beck in Far From Home, who just wanted to earn Peter's trust to get access to E.D.I.T.H. and use the system for an Engineered Heroics scheme.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: He tries to kill Green Goblin with his own glider in the final battle but is stopped by Raimi-verse Peter because he knows that if Peter murders the Green Goblin, he will also murder Norman Osborn, who doesn't deserve to die, and killing Green Goblin will send Peter down a dark path.
• Utility Belt: Spider-Man wears one in Captain America: Civil War for the first time in the character's cinematic history.^note Not counting the movies based on The Amazing Spider-Man show from the '70s, which were intended for television.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: He's not only one of the few superheroes in the MCU with a Secret Identity, but his civilian identity still attends high-school. Homecoming especially focuses on the troubles that come with juggling normal student responsibilities and fighting crime in the free-time.
• Wall Crawl: As the Trope Codifier, he's able to stick to walls by simply touching them, allowing him to subsequently crawl around on them. Tony assumes at first that he accomplished it with adhesive gloves.
• Weak, but Skilled: Only relative to powerhouses like Ant-Man/Giant-Man and Doctor Strange. Peter is way out of their league in raw power, but he makes up for it in smarts and strategy and is able to beat his much more powerful enemies. In No Way Home, he managed to defeat Doctor Strange while he was in the Mirror Dimension by harnessing geometry to strategically place his webs to trap Strange. He was stuck there for 12 hours.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Considering that Tony Stark is Peter's mentor/benefactor in the MCU, the fact that Peter wants to prove to Tony that he's ready to join the Avengers can be seen as seeking approval from a parental figure. Tony is apprehensive because he's extremely worried about putting him in danger but also doesn't want to be like his own father (who put Tony through this as well).
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Zig-zagged. Peter shows a great deal of maturity about this powers, with the beginnings of Comes Great Responsibility, refusing to use his powers for personal gain and knowing that he should hold back against bullies and criminals. He often makes good points when speaking to Tony Stark in particular. That being said he have childish desires - wanting Tony's approval and ignoring a crisis so he can ask MJ out - albeit after having been fooled into believing a more competent hero is handling it. He's also incredibly naïve and trusting as his idealism and optimism hasn't been tested or broken yet. Peter comes across as wise and mature but nevertheless has some growing up to do.
• Working-Class Hero: Zig-Zagged; Peter himself is definitely a working-class citizen and is introduced fighting crime on limited resources, but from his introduction onwards The Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. hook him up with improved gear, taking away a lot of the trappings of this trope. Nonetheless, Peter spends most of his time fighting small-time crime close to home. He later cements himself as this by the end of No Way Home where he's living alone in a small apartment with no financial support from anyone else.
• Worthy Opponent: He gains the respect of Captain America, both for his city (actually borough) of origin, and also for putting up such a good fight despite his inexperience. Adrian Toomes/Vulture seems to hold him in a similar regard, going by his refusal to out Peter's identity despite being arrested thanks to Spider-Man's efforts.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: His vast knowledge of sci-fi movies leads to him incorrectly assuming that Mantis is a creature like the Xenomorph and begs her not to lay her eggs in him.
• You Are Not Ready: Tony Stark tells him this almost word-for-word when he asks about trying out for the Avengers. The roles are switched by the end of the movie; Tony has come to agree that Peter's skills would be a valuable asset to the team, but Peter endured a major reality check over the course of his conflict with the Vulture, needing time to come to grips with the risks involved in superheroics.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Peter's hand-to-hand combat style is a mix of this and Good Old Fisticuffs.
• You Fight Like a Cow:
  • Averted in Civil War because he's fighting older heroes and is too busy geeking out about how awesome they are.
  • Played straight in Homecoming such as making fun of a gang of ATM thieves for wearing toy Avenger masks while beating them up.
• You Killed My Father: Peter wants to kill the Green Goblin for the murder of Aunt May, only to be stopped by Raimi-Verse Peter to show that he is better than this.
• Young and in Charge: In the final battle of No Way Home, he becomes the "leader" of the three Spider-Men despite being the youngest of them because he's the only one of the three who has experience at working in a team due to his association with the Avengers.
• Younger and Hipper: Peter Parker is 15-years-old (while his actor is 19) when he debuts in Captain America: Civil War, making him the youngest cinematic Spider-Man ever. It also makes him the same age he was when Spider-Man debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15.
• Youngest Child Wins: Zig-Zagged in terms of the three cinematic Spider-Men being analogues to brothers during No Way Home. On one hand, Peter lives in a world where there are plenty of superheroes, has the most advanced suit(s) and equipment(s), and on a meta sense has the films that made more money and the most film appearances in general than the two. On the other, he ultimately ended up losing everything for the greater good— on his friends' case, willingly. The most obvious is losing his Aunt May, who was Peter's remaining family in most media adaptations. Case in point, the two other Peters were with their Aunt May during their respective film's Grave-Marking Scene to give them emotional support (for Raimi-verse during Harry's, for Webb-verse during Gwen's). This Peter's Grave-Marking Scene is for Aunt May herself.

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"Ever since I got bit by that spider, I've only had one week where my life just felt normal."