Why isn't there a Spider-Boy character?

[Digifiend]

For some reason if you're called boy, it means you're a male child, but if you're called girl, it just means you're a young, but not necessarily child, female. 20somethings seem to be able to get away with girl names, but not boy names. I think a lot of the Teen Titans fandom think Beast Boy should use his other name, Changeling, for this reason.

[comewithme_golem]

Peter parker was about 16 when he became spider man that"s why.,

[Mutant God]

I'd like to see an alternate Earth, son of Peter Parker who's middle-school aged, be Spider-Boy. We've already seen two daughters of Peter, so I think it's time to see what a future son can do.

I could see one of the Web Warriors from an alternate universe be called Spider-Boy. I was thinking of an idea that instead of Gabriel Osborn in an alternate universe there is Gabriel Parker a baby that Gwen had before she was killed by Norman, a teenage hero using his powers to impress a girl enough to go to her room at night sounds plausible if you think about it actually no don't think about that lol.

[Digifiend]

Peter parker was about 16 when he became spider man that"s why.,

He was 15.

[Hypestyle]

from a corporate branding standpoint it seems rather short-sighted to have a character co-owned by DC. Marvel should purchase the full rights to the Spider-Boy name and have that Amalgam character disappear forever. Who can you ask about this at Marvel?

[Hypestyle]

at least Miles lives!! and he'll be back soon enough, but as....??? (what name?)

[Cmbmool]

Kind of the point of Spider-Man in the beginning was for him to be the kid who doesn't need some sort of parental supervision in the form of a mentor. It would sort of be weird to have Peter Parker be that now, even if he's now an adult.

Thus my problem with the MCU Peter Parker in a nutshell.

[darthblinx]

What doesn't make Peter look old at this point ?

Real talk lol. I know he finally learned to drive, but did he actually get the license or is that too far of a departure from "forever 15" Peter?

[TheCape]

Because is an stupid name .

[Frontier]

Because is an stupid name .

Really doesn't roll off the tongue all that well...

[jbmasta]

Yeah, agreed. The franchise wasn't really set-up for him to have a Robin. I think that even the legacy characters, like Miles and Spider-Man 2099, don't really fit that well, either.

Miguel works because he's decades after Peter's time and has a different background. He's not a teenage student who gets bitten by a spider, he's a lab researcher who gets drugged and gets spider powers trying to fix himself. His supporting cast doesn't resemble Peter's.

[Thor-Ul]

at least Miles lives!! and he'll be back soon enough, but as....??? (what name?)

Rumours said as Kid Arachnid (I think that is is name in the toys) or Spy-D. (because he will be an agent of SHIELD or something like that.)

[TheCape]

Yeah, agreed. The franchise wasn't really set-up for him to have a Robin. I think that even the legacy characters, like Miles and Spider-Man 2099, don't really fit that well, either.

Spider-Man having a sidekick could be an interesting story, but yeah i don't think that he need a Robin.

[MarkRodriguez09]

Didn't he have some electic kid named Alpha or something as a sidekick? I think it was a one time thing, but they should have given the duo at least a short run to just see Spidey in a new dynamic for a while.

[DragonsChi]

Stan Lee never liked the idea of "side kicks" are smaller copy characters. See how some of current Marvel is today I totally understand why.