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Blue Spider

(Ted Kord + Spider-Man)

Name: Ted Parker

Biography: There is a certain irony to power. People want it because they believe more power equates to more freedom. When really, the opposite is true. As contradictory as it sounds, your power is not for your enjoyment. It is for the sake of those who have no power of their own. Nobody knows this better than one Theodore Parker of New York City. And he wishes for nothing more than to have learned this lesson sooner than he did.

Born and raised in Queens, New York by his uncle Jarvis (Jarvis Kord + Ben Parker) and aunt Leslie (Leslie Thompkins + May Parker), Ted was just your average nerdy kid. He went to school, got picked on, and hung out with the few friends he had. But his life was radically changed forever after a field trip to H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. Labs (Horizon Labs + S.T.A.R. Labs).

As part of the exhibition, the scientists at H.O.R.I.Z.O.N Labs showed Ted's class a mysterious piece of alien technology that they were still trying to figure out how it worked. This machine looked like a blue, mechanical spider the size of a toddler (Scarab + radioactive spider). H.O.R.I.Z.O.N.'s experiment that day was to irradiate the Spider using a particle accelerator and see what effect it would have.

After being irradiated, the Spider became animated and began jumping around the lab. H.O.R.I.Z.O.N.'s scientists evacuated the class out of the building and encouraged everyone to go home. The trip cancelled, Ted walked back to his house alone only for the Spider to escape the lab and jump onto his back. After zapping the poor boy, the Spider fell off and laid on the ground as if it were dead.

As Ted bent over to pick it up, a speeding car came barreling down his direction. It would've run him over if Ted hadn't jumped out of the way and clung to the side of a building. Confused as to what was going on, Ted climbed up the wall all the way up to the roof. There, he noticed a metal pipe and crushed it with his bare hands. Somehow, the Spider had given Ted superhuman powers. He thought about going back and studying it but H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. scientists have already collected it.

After returning home, Ted's first idea was to use his powers to attain fame and fortune. The opportunity presented itself in the form of a flyer promising a cash prize to anyone who could last three minutes against a professional wrestler. Ted slapped together a costume from stuff in his room and not only did he last three minutes against the wrestler, he wiped the floor with him.

Once he got his money, a booking agent offered Ted an appearance on television. After that, Ted sewed a new costume and invented his own "web-guns" (web-shooters + beetle gun) to introduce himself to the world as the Amazing, the Spectacular, the Sensational Blue Spider! Ted's first show was a hit, he walked out of that studio basking in his own glory.

As he did, a burglar ran past him and a security guard chasing after the burglar told Ted to catch him. But Ted did nothing, telling the security guard that catching the thief was his job and Ted only looked out for number one.

This one act of selfishness would cost Ted more than he could imagine. A few days later, Ted returned home from a shoot only to find policemen standing outside his house and his Aunt Leslie crying. Aunt Leslie explained to Ted that a burglar had broken in while he was away and killed Uncle Jarvis.

Ted overheard the police say that the burglar was holed up in an old Acme Warehouse. Ted ran from his home and towards that very warehouse, donning his Blue Spider costume as he did. He cornered the burglar and knocked him out in a single punch. After getting a good look at his face, Ted made a horrifying discovery: the burglar he captured, the man who killed his Uncle Jarvis, was the very same burglar he let go. Ted left the burglar for the police and come back home in tears. After that, he renounced his career in showbusiness and dedicated his abilities to protecting people, just like Uncle Jarvis would have wanted.

Ted struggled for years balancing his personal life with his superhero life. But, after graduating from college with a degree in science and business, things got a little easier. Ted has decided to live to his full potential and open his own R&D company called Parker Industries. With his newfound funding and resources, Ted was not only able to build new gadgets to make him a better crimefighter, but he also developed new technology around the world that helped more people than Blue Spider ever could.

Ted will never forgive himself for letting Uncle Jarvis die, but he knows it was necessary for him to learn the ultimate lesson: that with great power there must also come great responsibility.

Powers & Abilities: The Spider that zapped Ted when he was fifteen granted him extraordinary abilities. It made him stronger, tougher, faster, and more agile than any normal civilian. It also gave him the power to climb up walls and stick to any surface. But his most useful ability by far is the spider-sense.

The spider-sense is, in layman terms, an early warning system in the form of a buzzing in the back of Ted's skull. With it, he can immediately tell if he's in danger and react accordingly. However, it's up to Blue Spider himself to determine how to react and where the danger is coming from. Despite this, his spider-sense combined with his speed and reflexes makes him almost untouchable.

Ted uses all these powers combined with martial arts training from his fellow heroes to create his own martial art, the Way of the Spider. With the Way of the Spider, Blue Spider focuses on using his strength and speed to strike at his opponent's pressure points, taking down similarly powered opponents in just a few hits.

But even before he got his powers, Ted Parker was a genius. His Uncle Jarvis was a man who was as brilliant as he was kind, and it was because of him that Ted fell in love with science to begin with.

This would pay off in a big way in the form of his gadgets. The first and most important being his web-guns. These can be set to fire a stream or burst of webbing. The webbing itself is made from a special web-fluid that Ted created back when he was fifteen years old. It's stronger than steel and dissolves in just an hour, perfect for swinging through New York's skyscrapers like a modern day Tarzan.

After acquiring his company, Blue Spider gained access to far better tech than he could afford previously. Such as his Baby-Spiders (Baby-Bugs + Spider-Tracer), tiny tracking devices that Blue Spider can follow using his spider-sense. They also function as surveillance drones for areas Blue Spider just can't reach.

But the best tool in Ted's arsenal just might be the Spider (The Bug + Spider-Mobile). Made from titanium and steel, the Spider is a massive hovercraft capable of operating in air or under water. It's completely solar-powered, comes with it's own mobile lab, and has robotic spider legs that can move, grasp objects and fire it's own webbing.

Appearance: Ted Parker has Caucasian skin and brown hair and eyes.

Blue Spider's costume comes primarily in light blue and dark blue. The sides, back, legs, and the side of Ted's arms closest to his torso are dark blue. The rest of the costume, including the mask, chest, waist, gloves that nearly reach the elbow and boots that reach his shin are light blue. The light blue parts have a black spider webbing pattern.

The chest has a black spider symbol on it while the back has a light blue spider with a different design and no black webbing.

Blue Spider's mask completely covers his face and has yellow, teardrop shaped one-way lenses over his eyes. The outline of the lenses are completely black.