>>122850825Go back to the basics. Make Peter a raging, hot blooded, insensitive, selfish, and greedy person who wasn't bullied - focus on Peter AS A TEEN, as his own worst enemy. Make Peter truly relatable in his rage against his actions and his circumstances, make his feelings and emotions relatable to a young teen demographic. Remember that Peter's loneliness and isolation is self imposed, that his choice to fight alone is his own, that Peter is a guilty person, that Peter is frustrated and cocky and a smartass. Focus on Peter as a lonely lost boy, a boy doing everything he can to make up for his greatest sin, a boy who struggles and aches with changing for the better...
A Spider-Boy who becomes a SPIDER-MAN. It doesn't matter if this Peter is black, asian, or Hispanic, or Jewish, it DOESN'T MATTER AS LONG AS
>he is flawed >he goes on a transformative character arc and becomes an adult>he is an everyman, an underdog, a guy at the bottom pillar of society, a guy who was wasting his own opportunities at happiness and self love >He is struggling to get by>That his actions have consequences - whenever Spiderman succeeds, Peter fails. Whenever Peter wins, Spiderman loses.