A group outing for gossip

Next, Apocalypse taught the chubby Black kid a method for cultivating Asgardian God-Force.

Of course, Spider-Man could learn it too if he wanted.

But from what Apocalypse had observed, tapping into the spider power within him first was the better approach.

That would let him progress far faster than cultivating god-force.

"I'll have Tony make you a suit later. You can talk to him about any requirements you have."

Spider-Man's eyes lit up with delighted surprise. "Iron Man? He's going to make a suit for me himself?"

"Yep."

In the original storyline, Spider-Man and Iron Man were not father and son, but their bond was even closer.

After Spider-Man died in Thanos's snap, Iron Man was devastated and blamed himself, believing he had dragged Spider-Man into danger and gotten him killed.

Later, Iron Man nearly died stranded in space, before Captain Marvel brought him and his ship back to Earth.

The first thing he said after getting off the ship was to tell Captain America that he had failed to bring the kid back.

In the post-Thanos era, Ant-Man, Banner in his Hulk form, and Captain America wanted Iron Man to help them research the Quantum Tunnel, travel through time, and return to the past to save those who had vanished.

At first, Iron Man refused.

By then, he had a daughter, Morgan, and did not want to risk anything happening to his family again.

Spider-Man was part of the reason he later changed his mind.

With guilt weighing on his heart, he had to do something to make amends.

At this point in the current timeline, a twist of fate had kept the two from meeting.

Since Spider-Man needed a new suit to bring out his full fighting potential anyway, Apocalypse took the opportunity to hand the job to