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| “ | No! No! Please! | „ |
| ~ Peter trying to warn Uncle Ben to not approach him, as well as his last words as a human. |
| “ | Just the other day, we got some photos of a kid scaling the side of a building like a spider, and now we have this freak ambulance crash covered in spider-webs! | „ |
| ~ J. Jonah Jameson reporting on the Spider. |
Peter Benjamin Parker is the titular protagonist of the 2024 horror fan-film THE SPIDER created by Locust Garden Pictures.
After being bitten by a radioactive spider, this version of Peter Parker doesn't develop marvelous superpowers and becomes the heroic vigilante Spider-Man, but instead undergoes a mutation that turns him into a carnivorous and aggressive spider-human hybrid.
He was played by Chandler Riggs, who is best known for portrayed Carl Grimes in tv series adaptation of The Walking Dead, and also voiced Superman in the first part of the Justice League x RWBY crossover; The Spider's costume was designed by Alen Stubbs.
Biography[]
His story is, at first, quite similar to other adaptations of the character: Peter lost his parents at a young age, forcing his uncle Ben and his aunt May to raise him instead. Peter would become interested for science and even called his own room a "lab." Later on his life, he would assist Midtown High, where he would meet Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy.
During an expedition to a laboratory (assumed to be OsCorp Industries), Peter gets distracted by a group of scientists working, which allows a radioactive spider to bit him in the hand. Following this incident, Peter finds himself outside at night inspecting his bite mark on an alleyway, until he gets ran over by two robbers. The first one suggests that since he's apparently unconscious they could steal his wallet, to which the other replies that it was stupid to think that someone that young would even have a wallet. The first one still tries to rob him regardless, only to have his hand grabbed by Peter, who accidentally pulls off the skin on the robber's hand with his newfound superpowers.
Peter, dazed and confused, returns to his home to wash the blood off his hand, where he finds out that his hands are sticking to every surface they touch. Initially, he can't seem to control it, but after accidentally climbing up a wall in his room, he seems to get the hang of it. He tests his agility by jumping roof to roof in his neighborhood until he starts to feel ill. Peter then returns to his bedroom, then vomits from what he presumes was the shock of doing all that. However, when he looked up in the mirror, he realized that one of his teeth was gone. Then, upon closer inspection, he realizes that all of his teeth were falling down rapidly. Peter passes out from the shock and, moreso, the pain of his own metamorphosis.
Days later, Peter, seemingly unaffected by this, is seen sleeping in class. However, when his teacher and Gwen wake him up, he's seen with blood coming out of his nose as well as an oozing liquid coming out of his mouth. His teacher tries to calm down the situation, but Peter starts yelling from the pain and passes out again. He wakes up in an ambulance, where a paramedic tries to talk to him. Peter, however, looks at his own hand and sees his hair sticked to it, which makes him panic. He starts having a seizure, causing the paramedics to try to hold him down, but then what seems to be a spider-like arm emerges from his shirt, which kills the two paramedics in the ambulance.
Peter, in the middle of his transformation, goes to his home and locks himself inside his own room as to not hurt anyone else. However, his Uncle Ben, who had been watching J. Jonah Jameson's news reports on the recent incidents involving an individual with spider powers, tries to talk to him not knowing that he was behind it all. Peter tries to warn him, but Ben walks into his room anyways even after noticing blood in his door's handle, leading into Peter losing control and killing him.
Later that night, Aunt May returns from shopping. She immediately notices the silence in the house, but just thinks of it as her husband and nephew pulling a joke on her by hiding. She notices Peter's door half-open, so she steps in, only to be greeted by the sight of giant webs all over the room and her deformed nephew, now looking more like a Spider than a Man, eating Ben. It's implied that Peter ate May shortly after that.
In the film's post-credits scene, Mary Jane Watson can be seen running away from something in an alleyway, presumably from Peter. After she thought she had finally outrun the beast that her former friend had become, the fully-transformed Spider attacks her by surprise and starts devouring her.
Trivia[]
- The Spider's design and concept is inspired by Man-Spider, a monstruous transformation that Spider-Man takes during the 90's show's adaptation of the six-armed Spider-Man story arc.
- Coincidentally or not, this specific Peter's situation is similar to the one his Earth-15011 counterpart had. In this earth, Peter Parker had an allergic reaction to the spider bite, causing his arm and eventually his whole body to mutate into a mindless Man-Spider that would've killed his Uncle Ben and Aunt May were not for the intervention of other Spider-Men.
- Peter's behavior as he was succumbing into his metamorphosis is quite reminiscent of the Zombie Spider-Man succumbing to his hunger. The difference is that the Zombie Spider-Man kept some of his sanity, while this monstrous version of Peter lost all his sanity and started acting on instinct.
- They both foolishly try to keep their loved ones safe by hiding in their own home.
- Both try to warn a loved one to stay away from them, before succumbing to their instincts and eat them.
- And finally, they're both then found by Aunt May, who witnesses them cannibalizing their loved ones and is implied to be killed shortly after.
- This could very well have been intentional since Chandler Riggs is best known for playing Carl Grimes in AMC's adaptation of The Walking Dead comics, which were written by the same mastermind behind Marvel Zombies, Robert Kirkman.
- Chandler Riggs has previously voiced Superman in the first part of the Justice League x RWBY crossover, technically making him one of the few actors who played both Superman and Spider-Man, even if the latter was done so unofficially.
- The film's post-credits scene is a clear homage to the iconic "Upside Down Kiss" scene from Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film.