"Yeah, I guess I can kinda understand that," Peter admits, because he can. "After the whole spider thing, I started eating a lot more than I used to. May just thought it was puberty."

That was a good excuse enough as any for I'm eating a lot because I have an accelerated metabolism triggered by a bite from a mutant spider that gave me superpowers.

"But yeah, that's how I became Spider-Man. I kinda wanted to be a superhero since I was little. Iron Man saved me once, when I was younger, and I thought it was the coolest thing -- saving people, helping others, fighting bad guys. I never really thought that someday it'd actually happen."