Peni Parker

SP//dr
Peni Parker and SP//dr, from the cover of Edge of Spider-Geddon (Volume 1) #2 (October 2018), by Jake Wyatt
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Edge of Spider-Verse #5 (October 2014)
Created by	Gerard Way Jake Wyatt
In-story information
Alter ego	Peni Parker
Species	Peni: Human Mutate SP//dr: Spider / Robot
Place of origin	Earth-14512
Team affiliations	Spider-Army/Web-Warriors
Abilities	Peni: Spider Sense Genius Intellect Psychic Connection with SP//dr Enhanced Strength in SP//dr SP//dr: Psychic Connection with Peni
Altered in-story information for adaptations to other media
Partnerships	Miles Morales Spider-Man Noir Spider-Ham Spider-Gwen

Peni Parker is a fictional character from Marvel Comics, a superhero and alternative version of Spider-Man. The character is depicted as a 11-year-old middle school student who was adopted by Aunt May and Uncle Ben following the death of her father/caretaker. She pilots a psychically-powered mech suit built by her father known as the SP//dr, which is partially controlled by a radioactive spider that also shares a psychic link with Peni.

The character was featured in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with her voice provided by actress Kimiko Glenn.

Publication history

Peni Parker and SP//dr were created by writer Gerard Way and artist Jake Wyatt, and first appeared in the Spider-Verse comic book Edge of Spider-Verse #5 in October 2014. According to Way, SP//dr "is comprised of three vital components: a pilot, a machine, and a radioactive sentient spider acting as one half of the brain that makes it all work." SP//dr’s story was continued in the Spider-Geddon comic book, Edge of Spider-Geddon #2 by Alberto Albuquerque.

Fictional character biography

Peni's father was the original SP//dr, who protected New York from crime and other dangers. After his mysterious death, his daughter, Peni Parker, was approached by her aunt and uncle to be the new pilot of the SP//dr. In order to do so, she needed to be bitten by the sentient radioactive spider which controlled part of the suit. After being bitten, she became the new protector of the city. She eventually teams up with Daredevil – who had known her father – to take some criminals down and, eventually, battle Mysterio. Then, while taking a subway to go to her school, she's approached by Spider-Ham and Old Man Spider to join the Spider-Army to fight the Inheritors.

After the events of Spider-Verse, Peni is approached in school by a girl named Addy Brock. She asks her if she was really the SP//dr pilot, but Peni ignores her; which prompts Addy to state that Peni is not as special as she thinks. Peni then tries to talk to Ben and May about being special, but she gets ignored. While improving the SP//dr's Web Shooters, she notices Addy walking in the base and follows her; only to find another mech-suit similar to the SP//dr, only in black and powered by a sym-engine called VEN#m, with Addy as its pilot. She becomes furious at her aunt and uncle for not telling her about the new suit. When a kaiju-like creature named M.O.R.B.I.U.S. starts to drain the city's electrical energy, SP//dr goes after it, but is quickly defeated. In order to defeat M.O.R.B.I.U.S., Peni's aunt and uncle send VEN#m to defeat the creature. It is successful in stopping the monster, but the creature causes VEN#m to malfunction; causing the mech suit to acquire a mind of its own. The black suit starts to consume Addy, and when May goes to fix the problem manually, it starts to consume her as well. SP//dr confronts VEN#m, but the black mech suit proves to be more powerful and it nearly destroys SP//dr. Afterwards, Peni, remembering her improved Web Shooters, defeats VEN#m. Unfortunately, she's too late to save her Aunt May and Addy, who have vanished from the inside of the suit. Later, Peni and Ben have a heart to heart, but Spider-Ham re-appears to recruit Peni to help defeat the Inheritors once more after they returned during the events of Spider-Geddon.

In other media

Film

Peni Parker and SP//dr appeared in the computer-animated superhero film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with Kimiko Glenn voicing the former. She arrives in Miles Morales' universe along with Spider-Ham and Spider-Man Noir. This version takes on an anime aesthetic, is incredibly perky and is shown eating numerous candies and snacks in her robot. SP//dr itself is a one-piece capsule cockpit topped with a dome-shaped one-way visor, with the inside providing Peni with a view to the world around her and the outside displaying various electronic faces (including anime-related emojis and expressions, an eight-eyed display similar to an actual spider, and the classic Spider-Man eyes), and uses magnetically manipulated appendages for versatility. It can also shoot lasers from its fingers, meant to weld various objects; such as when it fixed a USB drive needed in the film. During the climax, SP//dr is severely damaged by Scorpion, but Peni manages to rescue the radioactive spider from within it. When she returns to her dimension, she is shown rebuilding SP//dr.

Video games

SP//dr is a playable character in the mobile game Spider-Man Unlimited.

Toys

Hasbro released a Build-A-Figure of the SP//dr in the Marvel Legends line. Hasbro also released the film version of SP//dr.

External links

• Peni Parker at Marvel Wiki