Parker is initially depicted as a student at the Midtown School of Science and Technology who received spider-like and superhuman abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider.

In order to join the Avengers, Parker began investigating the illicit criminal activities of Adrian Toomes/Vulture, who was attempting to sell his Chitauri-based weapons on the black market, with only the help of his best friend Ned Leeds.

After being a victim of the Blip and Stark's death, Parker was chosen as a successor and encounters Quentin Beck/Mysterio teaming up with Nick Fury, while on a European school trip in the face of an elementals attack.

Peter Benjamin Parker was born on August 10, 2001, in Forest Hills, Queens,[1] and is primarily raised by his Aunt May, after the passing of his Uncle Ben.

Parker and Leeds attend a school party hosted by his crush, senior student Liz, but leaves early to stop a drug deal by Jackson Brice and Herman Schultz, who planned to sell Chitauri weapons to Aaron Davis.

The spaceship lands on the planet Titan, where Parker, Stark, and Strange are confronted by some members of the Guardians of the Galaxy, before they realize that they are both on the same side: stopping Thanos.

[8] Eight months later in mid-2024, Parker goes to a charity event that May is putting together as Spider-Man but leaves it abruptly due to still reeling from Stark's death and getting asked a horde of questions.

Parker is approached by Nick Fury, whose calls he had been fielding and who appoints Beck as his teammate in battling further element-based monsters (the "Elementals") throughout Europe.

While the murder charges are dropped with lawyer Matt Murdock's help, Parker and his friends still grapple with negative publicity from Jameson and Beck supporters.

After his, Ned, and MJ's applications to MIT are rejected in light of the controversy, Parker goes to the New York Sanctum to ask Stephen Strange for help.

As the Green Goblin appears and attacks, Strange teleports Parker and Octavius to the Sanctum, where he explains that before he could contain the tampered spell, it summoned people from alternate universes who know Spider-Man's identity and which allowed the multiverse to be broken open.

After May's death, a bereaved Parker, whose guilt was accentuated by Jameson's gaslighting reporting, is ready to give up and send the villains to die; he is comforted by his friends and meets two alternate versions of himself that are later nicknamed "Peter-Two" and "Peter-Three".

While mourning at May's grave, he has a conversation with Hogan and is inspired to carry on, but decided to isolate himself from his allies and fellow superheroes to keep them safe, as he came to believe that he was dangerous to be around.

Parker, having dropped out of school and moved into a new apartment, starts studying to get his GED and makes a new suit to resume his super-heroics as Spider-Man, who is now re-considered as a hero.

In an alternate 2018, Parker (marketed as Zombie Hunter Spider-Man)[10] is among the survivors of a quantum virus outbreak which transforms the infected into zombies, and joins the survivors, consisting of Bucky Barnes, Kurt Goreshter, Sharon Carter, Hope van Dyne, Okoye, Happy Hogan, and Bruce Banner to the Grand Central Station to catch a train to Camp Lehigh, New Jersey.

After meeting Vision and following a fight with a zombified Wanda Maximoff, he escapes with Scott Lang and T'Challa, taking the Mind Stone to Wakanda to put an end to the virus.

[11] Years following the events of Spider-Man 3 (2007), Peter Parker's (portrayed by Tobey Maguire) relationship with Mary Jane "MJ" Watson had worked out despite past complications.

After meeting an alternate version of himself and comforting "Peter-One" over the loss of his aunt, the Spider-Men work together to cure the supervillains and Parker subsequently reunites with Octavius.

[30] In late September, Sony and Disney announced a new agreement that would allow Marvel Studios and Feige to produce another MCU Spider-Man film–Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)–with Amy Pascal.

Sony was reportedly looking for an actor younger than Andrew Garfield to play Spider-Man,[32] with Logan Lerman and Dylan O'Brien considered front-runners.

[36][37] The six were chosen out of a search of over 1,500 actors to test in front of Feige, Pascal, and the Russo brothers—the directors of Captain America: Civil War.

[38][39] The Russos "were pretty vocal" about whom they wanted for the role, pushing to cast an actor close to the age of Peter Parker to differentiate from the previous portrayals.

[60] This suit is primarily used during Homecoming, and has more technical improvements than the previous suits, including a remote drone attached to the chest logo, an AI system similar to Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S., a holographic interface, a parachute, a tracking device for Stark to monitor Peter's location, a heater, underarm webbing that provided wingsuiting capabilities, the ability to light up, and a head-up display incorporating augmented reality.

Anthony Russo added that the character's introduction had to fit "that specific tonal stylistic world" of the MCU, as well as the tone established by the directors in Winter Soldier, saying, "It's a little more grounded and a little more hard-core contemporary."

This was partially adapted from the limited series Civil War, its three-issue prelude on The Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski, and the Ultimate Marvel comics where Stark and Parker share a trainer-trainee relationship.

[77] Although MJ is an original character,[78] Spider-Man: Homecoming co-screenwriter John Francis Daley stated that she was intended as a reinvention of Mary Jane Watson and that the nickname was an homage to her.

[81] For their reviews of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Sara Stewart of the New York Post attributed much of the "heavy-lifting" to Holland's performance and the "perfectly cast" Michael Keaton (Vulture).

He found Holland to be likable in the role, but did criticize the vague take on Spider-Man's origin and powers, but "the flying action has a casual flip buoyancy, and the movie does get you rooting for Peter.

[87] Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore praised Holland's performance as "winning" despite the Homecoming script,[88] and Mick LaSalle, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, said the film did not explore the human side of Spider-Man enough and instead focused on action that is "not thrilling".

If the character is to become the next Tony Stark, this is the way to etch a few more scars into a more interesting hero's facade";[98] DeFore felt that the inclusion of "multiversal mayhem" in No Way Home addressed the "Iron Man-ification" of MCU Spider-Man that made Holland-centric films "least fun";[99] Roeper again praised the performances of Holland and Zendaya, writing that while there is "nothing new or particularly memorable about the serviceable CGI and practical effects," he and the audience remain invested because Holland "remains the best of the cinematic Spider-Men".