Marvel Comics has unveiled a new half-black, half-Latino Spider-Man, who replaces the recently killed-off Peter Parker.
More flying stunts were added and the romance between Peter Parker and Mary Jane returned to center stage.
He recently landed the lead role of Peter Parker in the next Spider-Man movie, due for release in 2012.
Our hero, Peter Parker, is played by Andrew Garfield Tobey Maguire, the previous incumbent, having reached the unthinkable age of thirty-seven.
Most reaction, however, has been pinned to a singular detail: Morales is a half-black and half-Latino character, not white like Peter Parker.
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This particular version of the life and times of spider-bite victim Peter Parker looks like a more sophisticated take than the Sam Raimi version.
Ditko designed Peter Parker and the other characters to look like real teenagers, set against the gritty backdrop of an actual New York landscape.
Peter Parker was a neurotic teenager whose angst was only amplified by his superpowers, which were triggered when he was bitten by a radioactive spider.
The Amazing Spider-Man tells the story of teenage Peter Parker, who grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man battles The Lizard.
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Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is having problems with his stickiness.
Norman Osborn is the head of Oscorp Industries, the company responsible (in the newest film series) for creating the spider that bit Peter Parker and turned him into Spider-Man.
On Tuesday Marvel announced that, following the death of Peter Parker in its Ultimate Fallout series, the mantle of Spider-Man would be passed to a young kid named Miles Morales.
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In the comics, when Peter Parker was bitten by the radioactive spider that made him Spider-Man, he gained superpowers that gave him the speed, strength, and agility of a spider.
As Peter Parker, lead Reeve Carney looks enough like a normal kid and managed one solid glory note, but for some reason he swallows every syllable of dialogue he utters before spitting it out.
That would be Matthew James Thomas, the young British actor who played Peter Parker several times a week in the original company of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, " as a backup to Reeve Carney.
Of all the recent comic-book transplants to the big screen, Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker has been the most likable, quirky and reliably human, even when he's squirting web-juice from his hands as the semi-superhuman Spider-Man.
The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field).
Tobey Maguire, looking ever more costive and uncomfortable, returns as Peter Parker, who finds himself doubly transformed first into the crime-busting arachnid whom we know and revere, second into a black-suited alternative who revels in violence and, for some unknown reason, keeps breaking into dance moves.
K. Simmons, and Ryan Hurst, cannot hope to match the fooling of Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, and Herbert Lom in the earlier film.
The original investor was Peter Thiel (who is the Godfather of the PayPal Mafia) and Sean Parker joined the board (he was the guy who introduced Peter to Facebook).
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Recently Lanza's father, Peter, met with Robbie and Alissa Parker, the parents of 6-year-old victim Emilie, to discuss his son's actions.
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, the University of Chicago, The Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and a visiting professor at New York University Law School.
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and a visiting law professor at New York University Law School.
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