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Spider-Man Noir or just Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is a fictional superhero, an alternate version of Spider-Man created by David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico. This alternative take on the Spider-Man mythos is set in 1933 – during the Great Depression and is a part of the Marvel Noir universe. Unlike the mainstream version of Peter Parker. This character uses a gun and does not stick to walls. Since his inception, the character has appeared in numerous media including Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions as one of the main playable characters.

Fictional character biography
While Peter Parker still becomes the titular Spider-Man in the comic book starring his name, the initial focus of the story is upon Daily Bugle reporter Ben Parker. He is an experienced and respected reporter who runs a network of informants under the alias of the Spider. The Goblin is a crime lord whose henchmen consist of the Enforcers (consisting of Ox, Fancy Dan, Montana), Kraven, the Chameleon (a master of disguise) and the Vulture (a sideshow freak who had developed a taste for human meat). Urich does not use the information he has to expose the Goblin but rather to blackmail him, in order to get enough money to feed his secret drug habit.

Urich encounters Peter Parker during an oration by Peter’s aunt in Central Park. The socialist slant of May Parker’s words does not sit well with the Enforcers and Urich is forced to intervene in order to prevent serious injury to either Peter or May. Urich subsequently takes Peter under his wing and after Peter mistakenly receives a tip-off meant for the Spider, the young man ventures to a warehouse where the Goblin’s men are unloading a shipment of stolen antiques. A particular antique – a spider statue – breaks open and releases a horde of spiders. One of the spiders bites Peter, causing him to pass out and dream of a spider god. When he awakes, he is upside-down in a black web.

In order to censor the Daily Bugle, Osborn kidnaps the editor J. Jonah Jameson and has the Chameleon assume his place. The Chameleon-as-Jameson then goes to Urich’s apartment and shoots him, unaware that Felicia Hardy – owner of the Black Cat club – is witness to the murder. Felicia later goes to the Daily Bugle offices and kills the Chameleon, leaving his body to be discovered by Spider-Man shortly before the arrival of the police. Spider-Man escapes the attentions of the police and confronts Osborn, having dispatched all of his henchmen in turn. During their fight, it is revealed that Osborn is a former circus freak himself who hides his goblin-like visage behind one of the Chameleon’s masks. After Spider-Man refuses to kill Osborn, the spider-infested and barely still alive body of Kraven appears and attacks the Goblin, killing him.

Later, Spider-Man visits Felicia, who reveals that she had once had a relationship with The Goblin. Spider-Man reveals himself to be Peter in front of her, and she asks why he's there. Peter hands her a photo Urich had in his files earlier of him and Felicia. Spider-Man then jumps out the window, and swings away, leaving Felicia behind.

Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face
A sequel to Spider-Man Noir. 1934, NYC: Peter Parker, Spider-Man, has a new problem: The Crime Master, a masked criminal who has taken over as the city’s crime boss. As he investigates, his relationship with Felicia Hardy, owner of The Black Cat speakeasy, develops… He returns home to find Joe and Robbie Robertson talking with Aunt May. As a struggling black reporter, Robbie asks Peter to set up a meeting with Doctor Otto Octavius who is experimenting on Ellis Island. A few days later they meet with him and learn that he is experimenting on monkeys to understand more about the human mind. Octavius himself is wheelchair bound but employs controlled robotic arms, attached to the back of his chair, to help him. After they leave, Robbie suggests the story is deeper. That night a delivery of black slaves are delivered to Ellis Island.

Spider-Man takes the fight to The Crime Master and busts up an operation of drinking, girls and drugs. In a back room he discovers a soundproof torture chamber. He goes to visit Felicia, but she is with someone else. Returning home, he is told that Robbie has disappeared. On Ellis Island, Octavius inspects the new lab rats and Robbie is among them. Octavius, working for The Friends of New Germany, intends to use them to prove that inferior races can be controlled by removing their willpower surgically. Spider-Man revisits the chamber for more information, but he is ambushed by The Crime Master and his men. With them is The Sandman who slams Spider-Man to the ground with ease.

The police, led by Jean DeWolff, arrive too late to save Spider-Man from a massive beating but in time to kill Sandman. The Crime Master escapes, but Spider-Man has managed to link him with The Friends Of New Germany. A severely injured Spider-Man goes to Felicia to recover. The following day she kicks him out as her other man calls: the unmasked Crime Master. Felicia questions him too much and he works out that she has been seeing Spider-Man. In fury, he attacks her with a shard of mirror. He gets a call from the leader of TFONG, telling him to shut Ellis Island down before they all get caught. Spider-Man goes to Ellis Island himself and finds Robbie, but was too late as Octavius had already drilled into his frontal lobe, leaving him motionless.

The Crime Master arrives and starts destroying Octavius’ work. Spider-Man drives most of Crime Master’s gang away as Octavius gets his robotic arms on The Crime Master. He slices him apart with scalpels, desperate to save his work. Spider-Man then sets on Octavius for what he has done, crushing his robotic arms. DeWolff arrives before Spider-Man kills him and tells him to thank his girlfriend for calling them in. Spider-Man sees Robbie safe and swings to see Felicia. Her guard tells him that she does not ever want to see him again after she was hurt because of him. A month later, Robbie is looked after by his parents at home, but seeing him like this makes Peter feel guilty and upset. Mary Jane Watson tries to comfort him outside, but he still feels he's losing everybody he cares. Octavius is deported to Germany, where The Nazis think that his disability renders him useless, and Felicia has recovered but wears a Cat mask to cover all the scars on her face.

Spider-Verse and Secret Wars
During the Spider-Verse storyline which featured Spider-Men from various alternate realities, Spider-Man Noir starred in one-shot comic Edge of Spider-Verse #1, at the end of which he was recruited by The Superior Spider-Man into his army of Spiders. He was also featured prominently in Spider-Verse Team-Up #1 along-side a six-armed Spider-Man. In Spider-Woman Vol.5 #1 Spider-Man Noir found himself defending the lives of Silk and Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) and got wounded in process, after which he was returned to his home reality to heal and recuperate.

In the second volume of Spider-Verse set during the Secret Wars event, Spider-Man Noir found himself in the domain of the Battleworld called Arachnia, where he found and observed Spider-Gwen, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man: India, Spider-UK and Anya Corazon (neither of them remembering their previous encounter during the original Spider-Verse), though he chose not to reveal himself to them until they crashed into one of his opearations.

Following the conclusion of Secret Wars the team of six Spiders that formed during the event will rename itself and feature in a new ongoing series called Web Warriors, a name that was coined by Peter Parker from the Ultimate Spider-Man TV series during the original Spider-Verse.

Powers and abilites
After being bitten by a spider, Parker has gained the proportionate strength, speed and agility of a spider, along with a spider-sense and the ability to spray organic webbing from his hands. Unlike the traditional Spider-Man, he cannot cling to walls and his webbing does not focus into web-lines that he can use for travel; instead, he uses his acrobatic agility to maneuver about the rooftops and uses his webbing as nets to both stun and capture his enemies. With his powers, Peter dons a black mask, gloves, and trench coat in order to take down Osborn in the guise of the Spider-Man. He also brings a gun.

Television

 * Spider-Man Noir appears in the Avengers Assemble episode "Planet Doom", voiced by Drake Bell. Spider-Man operates under the name Slinger and is a member of the resistance group against Doctor Doom's tyranny after the villain had changed the course of history and made himself the world's ruler. Slinger's cynical personality, costume, and somewhat rough attitude make him very similar to Spider-Man Noir's character from the comics.


 * Spider-Man Noir appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man: Web-Warriors episode "The Spider-Verse" Pt. 2, voiced by Milo Ventimiglia. After the Green Goblin appears on an alternate Earth that takes place in the 1930s while collecting the DNA of various alternate Spider-Men, he is confronted by a Spider-Man in a black fedora and trench coat, with the Goblin remarking that he looks "very noir". This Spider-Man, nicknamed "The Spider" for short, is aided by an alternate version of himself, the "Ultimate" Spider-Man, who is the Goblin's enemy and who had followed him to this alternate Earth. However, the distrustful Spider-Man Noir rejects the alliance, forcefully unmasking the Ultimate Spider-Man, and is shocked to see a younger version of himself. The Noir version of Spider-Man then unmasks himself, revealing an adult, cynical and slightly misanthropic Peter Parker, who lives in a seedy motel. He regards the younger Peter as a "pesty kid", and even attacks him when the Ultimate Spider-Man proposes an alliance again, preferring to work alone. He cut all ties to people closest to him, including his Aunt May, claiming not to have seen her in years, in order to protect her from his dangerous lifestyle. He even reluctantly distanced himself from his love interest, the Daily Bugle ace reporter Mary Jane Watson, because as he puts it, "bad things happen to dames who hang out with guys like me" (alluding to the disfigurement of Felicia Hardy in "Eyes Without a Face"). After the Goblin hijacks an airship to draw out Spider-Man Noir, taking a group of civilians present hostage, including Mary Jane, the Spider-Men decide to work together and stop him. While the Ultimate Spider-Man is saving the hostages, Spider-Man Noir fights the Goblin on his own. Despite the seeming physical superiority and futuristic technology of the Goblin, Spider-Man Noir mercilessly beats him in a fistfight, knocking him out. Nevertheless, the Goblin quickly recovers, managing to take the DNA of a distracted Spider-Man Noir, just as Mary Jane confesses her feelings for the hero. The Goblin takes out the airship's controls causing it to crash, though not before the Spider-Men rescue all the hostages. Spider-Man Noir admits to both Ultimate Spider-Man and Mary Jane that he should drop the "lone wolf" act, and as his counterpart follows the Goblin to another dimension, the two Spider-Men depart as friends. Spider-Man Noir later returns in "The Spider-Verse" Pt. 4, summoned by "Ultimate" Spider-Man along with other Spider-Man counterparts, such as Spider-Man 2099, a future version of Spider-Man, Spyder-Knight, a medieval armored version of Spider-Man, Spider-Girl, a female gender-swapped version of Spider-Man named Petra Parker, Spider-Ham, an anthropomorphic pig version of Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man, an African-American/Hispanic teenager named Miles Morales, who is Spider-Man's successor in the Ultimate Marvel universe. They form a team known as the Web-Warriors in order to combat the Green Goblin, who has transformed into an even more monstrous form known as the Spider-Goblin, thanks to a serum composed of all of the Spider-Men's DNA. The Web-Warriors battle and defeat Spider-Goblin, transforming him back into Norman Osborn. However, Electro, who had helped them defeat Goblin, betrays them and merges himself with the original Helicarrier, transforming it into a massive mecha. The Web-Warriors defeat Electro and detonate the transformed Helicarrier. With the villains defeated, the Web-Warriors return to their respective dimensions, Spider-Man Noir included. This is Spider-Man Noir's second animated appearance, along with his appearance in Avengers Assemble.

Video games

 * Spider-Man Noir appears in the video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes. His reality is one of four alternate dimensions that is seeded by pieces of the Tablet of Order and Chaos.


 * Spider-Man Noir appears in the online game Marvel Super Hero Squad Online.


 * Spider-Man Noir appears as a pre-order exclusive in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.


 * Spider-Man Noir, Cyclops Noir, Luke Cage Noir, Daredevil Noir, Punisher Noir, and Deadpool Pulp appear as premium costumes for their respective characters in Marvel Heroes.


 * Spider-Man Noir appears as a playable character in Spider-Man Unlimited. Doctor Octopus Noir and Sandman Noir appears as boss villains.


 * Spider-Man Noir appears as a playable character in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.