Miles Morales aka Kid Arachnid later Spider-Man is a superhero from Marvel Comics
Miles was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He is the only son of police officer Jefferson Davis and teacher Rio Morales. Miles developed an inclination for technology at an early age, taking apart his family's vacuum cleaner at the age of five. As a teenager, he and his friends developed a phone app that allowed them to hack into almost any technology, even military-grade equipment.
Players first take the role of Miles during the And the Award Goes to... mission, where his father is killed while protecting the gathered crowd from bombers from the Inner Demons. He manages to find his mother, helping pull her from the rubble, and then ultimately finds his father's body. While Miles is found by the Inner Demons, Mister Negative decides to spare his life. Miles understandably has trouble dealing with his father's death, brushing off Peter Parker's attempt to console him at Davis's funeral. Remembering his own experience losing his father figure, Peter has Aunt May reach out to Rio, hoping that working at the F.E.A.S.T. shelter will help Miles process his grief.
Miles is working at the shelter when the prisoners escape from Ryker's Island and The Raft, as he is helping Aunt May with those sick from Devil's Breath. He becomes trapped with her inside the building after the convicts set it ablaze, before Spider-Man arrives to save them both. In a twist of irony, Miles then has to save Spider-Man with the help of Mary Jane Watson.
Later, while on a supply run for more medicine, he comes across Rhino and Scorpion of the Sinister Six. His information leads to their apprehension after he successfully sneaks away.
While helping out at the shelter later on, Miles is bitten by an Oscorp genetically modified spider that escapes from Norman Osborn's secret lab; it ultimately imbues him with abilities like Spider-Man, which he then reveals to Peter. Peter then reveals his secret identity to Miles.
During the three-part story expansion, The City That Never Sleeps, Miles was training to become Spider-Man himself, calling Peter frequently for help with training. While Peter was initially unwilling to let Miles jeopardize his life by following in his footsteps, Miles admitted that he accidentally used his powers to show off in basketball. Promising not to do it again as long as Peter trains him, Miles manages to convince Peter to consider it.
Peter eventually did train Miles by the time of the Maggia gang wars in the "Turf Wars" chapter. Bolstered by the newfound knowledge he was learning, Miles contacted Peter asking for hero work. His questions were gently shot down by Peter, who warned him about the responsibility associated with his powers. Not heeding Peter's warning, he tried jumping off of a bridge, breaking his toe in his process. Peter reiterated his previous statement about being responsible and Miles promised to do better. Peter then agreed to meet Miles that weekend for another lesson.[citation needed] At the end of "Silver Lining", Peter taught Miles how to web-swing.
Around a year after the Devil's Breath Incident, Miles and his mother moved from Brooklyn back to her childhood neighborhood Harlem. Though adjusting to this move proved to be difficult, with Miles frequently stating that he didn't feel very at home there, it put him closer to the action in Manhattan, allowing him to work with Peter. Miles had made his own suit from one of Peter's old suits, a hoodie, a parka, and some sneakers.
During "Hold Onto Your Web-Shooters", Peter contacted Miles while he was picking up food, asking for his help overseeing the transport of a Raft prisoner, Rhino. Miles accidentally released Rhino by throwing the transport cell off balance after latching onto it, following which the two chased Rhino through New York. Eventually, Rhino fought them at a Roxxon energy complex, and beat Peter nearly unconscious. Miles fought Rhino in Peter's stead, running up to him and blasting him with bioelectricity, a newfound power that Rhino was vulnerable to. After defeated Rhino, Miles helped Peter up, and Roxxon executive Simon Krieger arrived to apprehend Rhino and thank them, telling them he expected to demolish the complex anyway. Miles was skeptical, but Peter suggested they leave and let the police do their work. Shortly thereafter, in "Parting Gift", the two shared a pizza atop a rooftop and Peter gave Miles a new spider-suit, before telling Miles he would be leaving for a few weeks, traveling to Symkaria with Mary Jane. Peter wished Miles luck and promised he would be only a phone call away, and also made him take the oath of being Spider-Man: to do everything in his power to protect the city.[3]
In "New Thwip", the nervous but excited Miles called Ganke to show him the new suit. After completing some holographic training exercises left by Peter, in "We're Here For You", Ganke called him about a break-in in the Nuform reactor at the Roxxon Plaza in Harlem. Upon inspecting it, Miles discovered a group of high-tech criminals known as the Underground trying to steal information, and battled it out with them. After returning for dinner, in "La Nochebuena", Rio surprised Miles with a guest at dinner, Miles' old friend Phin, whom he had not spoken to in some time. The next day, Ganke surprised Miles with a new invention, the FNSM App, which allowed people across the city to submit requests for Spider-Man. Miles accepted one of these requests, "Harlem Trains Out of Service", from his uncle, Aaron Davis. While helping reconnecting the New York subway for Davis' job, Miles awkwardly tried to hide his identity in his interactions with his uncle, though after completing the request, Aaron gave Miles a free subway pass with Miles' name written on it, revealing he knew that Spider-Man was his nephew and encouraged him to reach out if he needed help. In "Reconnecting", Miles met up again with Phin where they discussed their science project from middle school, though both suspected the other was hiding something.
In "Time to Rally", Miles returned to watch his mother's campaign rally. During her speech, a member of the Underground calling themselves the Tinkerer hacked the screen overhead and indicted Simon Krieger as a killer, before several Underground members appeared and attacked the armed Roxxon guards present at the campaign speech. Miles fought them off, but head to address an explosion near Braithwaite Bridge as the Underground and Roxxon clashed, Underground trying to steal Nuform. During the battle, Miles saw that the Tinkerer was in fact his friend Phin, and his bioelectricity accidentally made the Nuform unstable, blowing the bridge. Miles raced to save civilians who thanked him, though Roxxon agents branded him a criminal. Miles stumbled across a new power, biological camouflage, and fled the scene in fear.
Miles returned to Ganke, and the two spent several hours designing a new spider-suit. Peter then called Miles on the phone and offered to fly back and help out, though Miles assured him he could handle it. In "Someone Left the Lights On", Miles visited the Mason repair shop that Phin's family had owned to look for clues, where he learned Rick had died of a disease caused by Nuform that Roxxon was covering up. Determined, Miles searched for Phin's phone in a Roxxon test lab in "Corporate Espionage". He came across another vigilante, the Prowler, who soon after revealed himself to be Miles' uncle Aaron. Davis appealed to Miles to leave, though Miles disagreed stubbornly and continued searching for the phone, with Davis reluctantly helping. Upon acquiring at, Miles saw that Rick and Phin had snuck into the lab to disable Nuform and prevent the illness spreading, but Krieger locked Rick behind and killed Rick with the synthesizer. Miles absorbed the energy of the synthesizer onto himself, releasing a giant blast and destroying the lab, and he and Davis escaped.
After leaving, Davis once again expressed concern for Miles, but advised him to join the Underground, lying to Phin, in order to learn more. In "Underground Undercover", Miles followed through with this, as Phin showed him to the Underground's lair, now set up in Fisk Tower. Miles pretended to receive a call from his mother before leaving and donned the spider-suit to sabotage the base, where he learned Phin was attempting to overload a canister of Nuform and create a bomb. In "Curtain Call", Miles chased Phin around the city and she apprehended him, but stopped short of killing him after he revealed his secret identity to her. The stressed and weakened Miles met up with his uncle once more in "Breaking Through the Noise", who encouraged him to calm down by getting back in touch with his music hobby and looking for several sound samples that he and Miles' father Jefferson were trying to use back in the day. Miles then told Davis he planned to meet Phin at Trinity Church to try and talk to it out, and unbeknownst to him, Davis promptly revealed this information to Krieger but urged them not to hurt Miles.
The next day, in "Tinker Tailor Spider Spy", the two attempted to talk, Phin lambasting Miles for lying and stating she planned to destroy the Nuform reactor to avenge Rick's death, assuring Miles there would be no casualties but that Miles could not stop him. However, the two where then apprehended by a Roxxon-upgraded Rhino. Miles and Phin were taken to a Roxxon lab where Krieger then interrogated them. After Krieger left, Miles as beaten hatefully by several Roxxon soldiers, though this allowed him to gather more energy for a venom blast to knock them out. Miles and Phin then snuck out of the facility, and along the way, Miles saw that Aaron Davis, as the Prowler, had been working for Krieger, and deduced that his uncle had betrayed him and revealed their location. Phin and Miles continued to cooperate, though Phin was agitated by Miles' dishonesty and wished to part ways with him for good. Upon reaching Krieger's personal lab, Miles found damning evidence of Nuform's toxicity and downloaded it, saying he could use it to take down Krieger. The two were then ambushed by Rhino once again, Miles unable to his his venom blasts against Rhino's new Roxxon armor, until he tore the armor apart and beat him. He then saw that Krieger had changed the specs on the Nuform reactor and that blowing it would destroy Harlem. After taking it to Phin, he saw her stabbing Rhino after Rhino antagonized her over the death of her brother, and attempted to pull her off of him. In frustration, Phin beat him and refused to listen to him about the reactor. Miles appealed to her one last time by stating they were family, though Phin did not returning his words, stating her family was dead.
The profoundly injured Miles returned to Ganke, who brought him back to the apartment, where Rio learned of his identity. Miles filled Rio in entirely and told Rio he did not want her to worry about him. Rio assured Miles she would never stop loving him, and said he reminded her of his father. Ganke and Rio then made a plan to evacuate Harlem in the event of the reactor explosion, while Ganke deduced that Phin was most likely at the Oscorp exhibition hall where they had shown off their energy converter. On the way there, in "Thicker Than Blood", Aaron Davis, as the Prowler, tranquilized and imprisoned Miles. Aaron stated he was working for Krieger and doing all this for Miles' safety, as he could not afford to lose Miles after losing Jefferson. Miles rebutted in anger, saying it was his job to help people no matter the cost. Miles eventually defeated the Prowler, and Aaron made one final appeal to Miles that they were family and he did not wish to lose touch with Miles as he had lost touch with Jefferson. Miles told him that being family was no longer enough and that he would never turn his back on people when needed, and left to continue searching for Phin.
In "Like Real Scientists", at the center, Miles reminisced about the time he had gone there with Phin for the exhibition of their energy converter. After finding Phin using the energy converted to destabilize the Nuform, Miles tried unsuccessfully appeal to Phin one last time, before a battle ensued as Phin left for Harlem to carry out her plan. In "The Battle For Harlem", Miles fought several Roxxon soldiers at the Roxxon Plaza while Rio and Ganke tried to evacuate Harlem, with Aaron arriving as the Prowler last minute to help Miles and urge him to do what he needed to do. Miles then rushed towards Roxxon Plaza where he fought Phin, who was still consumed by rage and believed Miles was lying to her.
Following a lengthy battle with Phin, Miles removed his mask, as its heads-up display was too damaged for him to see properly, as he webbed Phin to safety. Phin apologized to Miles, and Miles tried to absorb its energy into himself with no other way to stop the reactor. This caused him intense pain and brought him close to death, though Phin used her surviving technology to launch herself and Miles into the air, at a safe distance, and urged Miles to let go. This released the reactor's energy in a colossal explosion in the sky, causing Miles to fall unconscious while Phin was gone. Rio, Ganke, and several Harlem residents all saw his face, with Rio assuring Miles that everyone was safe. The Harlem residents passed Miles his mask so he could hide from reporters, as the residents simply told reporters "he's our Spider-Man".
Weeks after the fact, Miles became much more accustomed to his life in Harlem, after Aaron Davis revealed the damning evidence on Krieger, leading to Krieger's arrest. Peter, returning from Symkaria, remarked that he liked Miles' new suit, and told him that some parts of the job become easier, while others remain difficult. They agreed to add to the Spider-Man oath that no one would ever go unchecked, and after hearing sirens, the two jumped into action shortly after.
In the Legacy of Chris Thorndyke,
And he is reprised by Ogie Banks in the English dub and Takumi Asahina in the Japanese dub.