Even before the introductory credits rolled on the first episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-ManOpens in a new tab, we might have just gotten a broad hint at future spider-heroes coming in the series. In the opening moments of the first episode, “Amazing Fantasy,” we get an alternate version of Spidey’s classic origin story. Instead of being bitten by an enhanced spider during a school field trip, during his first day at Midtown School of Science and Technology, a portal opens up in the sky, and an alien symbiote creature emerges out of it. It instinctively attacks the school, until Doctor Strange arrives to stop it. But out of that same portal, a spider emerges…and promptly bites Peter Parker, giving him his powers.
![Peter Parker saves Harry Osborn in key art for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.](https://legendary-digital-network-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/27123602/Your-Friendly-Neighborhood-Spider-Man.jpg)
However, right after, it crawls off of Peter Parker’s body. We then see it creep into the backpack of another, unknown Midtown student. We only see the backpack at their feet, so we don’t know if this student is male or female, or anything else about them really. But judging from Marvel Comics’Opens in a new tab history, that spider is going to bite the owner of that backpack and give them spider powers all their own. But who might be the owner? We have narrowed it down to three potential Spider-heroes. Let’s go down the list of arachnid suspects:
Silk (Cindy Moon)
![Marvel Spider heroine Silk in her costume with webs against a red sky](https://legendary-digital-network-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/13023420/silk_marvel_comics.jpg)
In the comics, the Spider-Man writers eventually revealed that the spider also bit another student who was there on Peter Parker’s field trip, Korean-American student Cindy Moon. Unlike Peter, Cindy Moon hid her abilities for many years, only becoming the heroine Silk as an adult. But it was the very same spider that bit Peter that gave Cindy Moon nearly identical powers. Unlike Peter, she has organic webbing and displays a stronger spider-sense. A live-action show about Silk called Spider Society was in the planning stages, but was abruptly canceled last yearOpens in a new tab. That leaves the character free and clear for the producers of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man to introduce her in future seasons. We think Cindy Moon is perhaps the most likely candidate as to who owns that backpack.
Miles Morales
![Miles Morales in his black and red Spider-Man suit holds his hands up in front of his unmasked face in Across the Spider-Verse](https://legendary-digital-network-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/04053945/Spider-Man-Across-The-Spider-Verse-Miles-Morales.jpg)
The other likely suspect who may own the backpack is Miles Morales. Now, in the comics (as well as in Spider-Verse films) Miles is significantly younger than Peter Parker. But we don’t know his age in this universe. The universe in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is very similar to the Sacred Timeline of the MCU. And in the MCU, we already know Miles Morales exists. The character of small-time crook Aaron Davis (Donald Glover) mentions having a young nephew. We know that nephew to be Miles. But “young” could mean a teenager Peter Parker’s age for all we know. It’s entirely possible that backpack belongs to a future Spider-Man in Miles Morales. The only reason we think Miles doesn’t show up is that Sony Animation may keep him off-limits until his Spider-Verse trilogy is completed.
Gwen Stacy (Ghost Spider)
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Gwen Stacy is famously the love interest of Peter Parker who later dies tragically. But Spider-Gwen (Or Ghost Spider) is an alt-universe version of Gwen StacyOpens in a new tab who received the spider bite instead of Peter. Although usually living in an alternate reality where Peter never became a superhero, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man may introduce Gwen as someone else bitten by the enhanced spider, who gets powers alongside him. They’ve never done it this way before in comics or animation, but we could see Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man introducing Gwen this way.
![From Left to Right: Silk (Cindy Moon) Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Miles Morales (Spider-Man).](https://legendary-digital-network-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/27152241/Spider-Heroes.jpg)
Of course, that spider could make the rounds, and bite all three of them. Future seasons could introduce multiple Spider-heroes, all the same age as Peter Parker, and all sharing in his secret. They might want to rename the series in future seasons to Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. We feel Peter Parker is going to be keeping interesting company very soon.