Recaps

Peter Parker built a life as Spider-Man while balancing school, family, training, and new relationships, taking on threats from gangs to supervillains. After resisting S.H.I.E.L.D.’s pressure, he considered joining on his own terms and ended the arc closer to Felicia Hardy.

• Peter discovered his spider powers after being bitten at Oscorp, then rescued people during Hulk and Abomination’s Harlem battle and introduced himself as Spider-Man.
• Peter developed stronger web-shooters, began training with Colleen Wing, and intervened against local criminals while forming friendships at school.
• Peter investigated the Grass Stain Gang, gave evidence to Matt Murdock, and helped bring down the gang after its leaders turned on one another.
• Peter joined the Fantastic Four in fighting Doctor Doom, then accepted a job at the Baxter Foundation and began earning patent royalties for his invention.
• Peter stopped Rhino’s armored truck and later helped his classmates escape a drone attack at the Stark Expo, where Felicia kissed him.
• Nick Fury revealed S.H.I.E.L.D. knew Peter was Spider-Man and pressed him to join the Avengers Initiative, but Peter insisted on protecting his family and New York and negotiated for the right to keep patrolling.
• Peter prepared to attend the homecoming dance with Felicia, but Electro’s attack interrupted their date, and Peter defeated Electro and danced with Felicia outside after her dress was ruined.

Peter balanced his work with S.H.I.E.L.D., his relationship with Felicia, and discoveries about his changing powers while helping Jean Grey learn to control hers. When Magneto tried to take Jean, Peter and the X-Men stopped him, leaving Magneto defeated.

• Peter accepted Fury’s conditions, trained with Natasha, developed Parker’s Blood, and built an upgraded Spider-Man suit while beginning a relationship with Felicia.
• Peter warned Otto Octavius about the risks of his miniature-sun experiment, then revealed his identity to Felicia after she told him she was Black Cat.
• Doctor Doom attacked the Baxter Building through Reed’s dimensional portal, but Peter absorbed Doom’s lightning and kicked him back through before the team closed it.
• Peter investigated Councilman Nick Daves and a laboratory that had killed children in genetic experiments, then discovered that the lab’s gas had changed his blood and awakened new abilities.
• Peter trained with S.H.I.E.L.D., upgraded his suit, built a mechanical-arm backpack, and prepared for the coming Chitauri invasion while investigating his father’s research.
• After Jean Grey’s psychic powers overwhelmed her, Peter helped her control them and trained her in telepathy and telekinesis, while Felicia, Liz, and Mary Jane supported her.
• Magneto attacked Jean and her friends, but Peter fought him with his mechanical arms before Magneto pursued the group to Jean’s home.
• Jean shielded her friends as Storm, Wolverine, and Professor Charles Xavier confronted Magneto, and Peter disrupted Magneto’s powers with an electromagnetic pulse gun before knocking him down.

Peter helped stop Loki’s invasion, then uncovered his parents’ connection to a Hydra serum project and traced it to Herbert Wyndham. Wyndham kidnapped Aunt May and Uncle Ben to obtain the research, leaving Peter and his allies preparing to pursue him at Treadstone.

• Peter confronted Charles Xavier over reading Felicia’s mind, and Jean accepted Xavier’s offer to attend his school before sharing a farewell night with Peter and Felicia.
• Peter joined the Avengers against Loki’s Chitauri invasion, helped evacuate civilians, and revived Tony after the portal closed, and afterward, he celebrated his birthday and began investigating his parents’ past.
• Peter found recordings showing Richard and Mary had worked on a Super Soldier Serum project and discovered that the evidence pointed to Herbert Wyndham.
• Peter searched Wyndham’s files in Italy, encountered Jessica Drew, and later told Felicia the truth about his investigation and Jessica’s kiss.
• Peter gave Fury his parents’ research hard drive, but Wyndham learned Peter’s identity and kidnapped Aunt May and Uncle Ben to demand the research.
• Peter and Felicia stole the hard drive back from the Helicarrier and exchanged it for his relatives, only to discover Wyndham had used decoys and was threatening them again.
• Peter, Johnny, and Felicia fought Wyndham, Sandman, and Jessica at the construction site, while Peter secretly tracked Wyndham toward Treadstone.
• Fury assembled the X-Men and Jessica to pursue Wyndham, and Natasha introduced her special asset, whom Felicia recognized as her father.

After Doom nearly kills Peter, Felicia leaves with Walter to work against Hydra, and Peter abandons Spider-Man while struggling with grief and fear. An experiment leaves Otto transformed, and Peter seeks help at Xavier’s school as he confronts what Spider-Man means to him.

• Felicia reunites with Walter, then joins the mission to infiltrate Treadstone, where Peter rescues Richard Parker and the team defeats Wyndham and uncovers Hydra outposts.
• Richard moves into the Parker home, while Peter spends time with Felicia and gives her Silk-Shooter bracelets for her birthday.
• Peter helps Mayday Parker return to her own dimension, then develops a metal-shaping power after surviving a vampire attack with Blade’s help.
• Fury suspects Peter leaked information about Hydra, while Felicia discovers Walter’s location and leaves to meet Brock Rumlow despite Peter’s warning that Rumlow may be Hydra.
• Doom attacks the Baxter Building and critically injures Peter, prompting Felicia to accept Fury’s mission against Hydra and later leave Peter behind with Walter and Valeria.
• Peter recovers using Logan’s blood, but Felicia’s departure leads him to retire as Spider-Man until Vulture’s attack on Harry draws him back into action.
• Peter attends Otto and Norman’s reactor launch, where the experiment goes out of control, injures Otto, and leaves Rosie comatose, after Otto escapes and kills ten people, Peter helps capture him and seeks therapy.
• At Xavier’s school, Peter explains his artificial mutation, healing powers, and heartbreak over Felicia, while Xavier tells him that Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and a third self all form who he is.