with great power...

[greatness]

Character Info
Name: Peter Parker
Canon: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Canon Point: After the Oscorp-Rooftop fight, after hobbling home to Aunt May. Near the end of the movie.
Age: 16-17? He's in his Junior or Senior Year in high school.
Reference: Here!
Personality:

Peter is a classic case of someone uncomfortable in his own skin. The whole first half of the movie is spent watching him awkwardly stammer and mumble his way through conversations with his peers. He seems more comfortable talking to his teachers and his guardians than with other kids his own age, and part of the reason that he doesn't seem to have very many friends is because he doesn't buy into High School's social hierarchy game at all. He acts quiet and withdrawn during this whole chunk of the movie, preferring to view the student body through the ever-present lens of his camera instead of interacting with it directly. That's not to say he keeps his head down and pretends to be invisible: he participates in school, being nearly the top in his class and apparently in charge of photography for school functions and the year book and the like, he's just not particularly close with anybody, eating up time that most teens spend with friends after school by tinkering and inventing little mechanical gadgets, and puttering around on his computer.

All of this takes a backseat as soon as he pulls on the Spider-Man mask and becomes anonymous, though. When he's got the wall of Spider-Man between himself and any social consequences he might face without it he comes right on out of his shell, spewing quips at anyone who will stand still long enough and going out of his way to humiliate the criminals that he's taking down (dangling one in front of the police station by spider web, pinning another to a wall and shooting webbing at him despite his begging for Pete to stop, all the while verbally belittling him, etc). He doesn't mutter or get embarrassed when he's wearing the mask, he just lets it all hang out: a little too much, one might say, and his mouth tends to get him into trouble.

So does his teenage impulsiveness. While he's very smart, usually coming up with clever and unorthodox ways around problems (like when he searched the sewers for The Lizard by spinning a web through it instead of running around and getting lost), he also has the unfortunate tendency to bite off way more than he can chew. His first instinct is always to go it alone, and even when he wants to ask for help and let people in on his secret he has a hard time saying it aloud. When he fights he tends to launch himself right into the fray, and though it's for good reason (so other people don't get hurt), it's not always the smartest or least dangerous option to take (and it tends to result in a looot of property damage.)

This is hardly a side-effect of his new super-hero status though: despite his otherwise wallflower tendencies, Peter has always inserted himself into situations where he sees people unable to defend themselves, even when it makes him unpopular and gets the crap kicked out of him. Way back at the start of the movie he was shown purposefully redirecting a bully's attention towards himself so that he would stop picking on another student, and no matter where he is emotionally he can't make himself stand around and watch people suffer cruelty. This is mostly due to his upbringing: growing up with parental figures as upstanding as Aunt May and Uncle Ben gave Peter a strong sense of morality and the very real need to take personal responsibility for things. Unfortunately, as an offshoot of this, he has a constant problem with his overwhelming guilt complex, which tends to cripple him as seen in a few different little breakdowns that he has over the course of the movie.

Being abandoned by his parents in his formative years really didn't help him, emotionally, and might be part of what contributed to his self-depreciating sense of humor. When he draws the ire of the school's bully Flash in the early parts of the movie, he just sits there and takes it, making no moves to defend himself or even tell his teachers/Aunt and Uncle what happened. That's not to say he's miserable, of course: in fact he's a fairly playful (occasionally obnoxiously so) guy, who is genuinely good and interested in helping people because it's the Right Thing to Do. He just... has a few problems to work through.

Like his temper. Peter's temper is perhaps worse than your average teenager's, and made more problematic by the fact that he now has the power to see it assuaged. The worst of his anger is shown during the montage in which he attempts to hunt down Ben's killer, where he seems very much willing and indeed determined to kill the man if he finds him, webbing up one criminal's mouth and nose and only poking holes in it for him to breathe after making sure that he isn't the one he's been looking for, telling him "this could have gone a lot worse." It takes a lot to get him to this point, though, and aside from a few moments of typical teenager bullheadedness, he gets along great with his Aunt and Uncle, and is generally courteous to everybody. Sweet, even - or he attempts to be, like when he tried to bring Gwen's mother a bouquet of flowers for having him over for dinner (only to accidentally crush them in his backpack on the way over because he's a bumbling dork.)

He's also very, very smart for his age. Just over the course of the film he's shown to be knowledgeable about mechanics, plumbing and science, and to be a willing and speedy learner. In his spare time he builds little gadgets to make life easier, like a remote-controlled lock for his bedroom door, a police scanner attachment for his smart-phone, and the web-shooters that he uses to... well, shoot webs. He didn't grow up with a lot of spare money, so he has to be very resourceful and creative as well.

Abilities:

Enhanced Strength: Peter has the "relative strength of a spider," enough to hold up an SUV with one hand.

Enhanced Agility: He can flip around quickly enough to make fast work of bigger, badder enemies, but his agility is enhanced enough that (when coupled with his Spidey Senses) he was shown dodging bullets at very close range.

Super Clinging: He has the ability to stick to surfaces by his fingertips and feet, somehow through fabric and shoes as well, don't ask me.

Spider-Senses: He can sense physical danger just before it happens.

Enhanced Healing/Durability: He can heal back from anything not particularly major in a day or three, including gashes and bruises and let's be honest probably cracked ribs, which all fade quickly enough that he never makes any hospital visits despite being knocked to hell and bounced up against brick walls like a basketball four or five different times in the movie.

Webs: While this is more of a gadget than a power, Peter has access to small pellets full of spun web-substance, which when it sticks to buildings is so adhesive that to try and pull it off pulls off a piece of the building itself instead. It's incredibly durable and elastic, which is how Peter uses it to swing from building to building, and he also uses it to trap his enemies and to catapult himself across small areas during fights as well. Since that was a terrible description, here is an example of how he uses it in close-range fights.

Inventory:

The clothes on his back (a t-shirt over a long sleeve shirt, jeans, socks and sneakers.)

His backpack which contains: his torn up Spider-Man suit (with two crushed webshooters that he'll have to fix), a spare set of the spider-web canisters, a small sewing kit with red and blue thread, a worn hoodie, a few school things (pencils and a calculator and a spiral notebook or two) his father's notes and old glasses, his contacts case, a few crumpled up dollars and some spare change.

A very smashed up carton of eggs.

A camera and a roll of film for it.

A smart phone with his Uncle Ben's last message on it.