Richard Parker

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Real Name

Richard Parker

Relatives

Mary Parker (wife,deceased)

Peter Parker (son,deceased)
Ben Parker (brother-in-law,deceased)

Venom Suit (Partial creation and DNA contribution)

Status

Alignment

Good

Identity

Public Identity

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Married

Occupation

Bio-Engineer/Geneticist

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Brown

Origin

Universe

Earth-1610

Created by

Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley

First appearance

Ultimate Spider-Man #33
(February, 2003)

HistoryEdit

Early Days

Not much is known about Richard's early history. Only that he excelled in bio-engineering studies and eventually married his wife, Mary Parker.

New Super Soldier Project & Hulk

Around the time Mary was pregnant, Nick Fury gathered a collective of bio-engineers in attempt to resurrect the Super Soldier serum; Richard was chosen among the selected scientists for this project. Not long into the project, Peter Parker was born. Both he and his wife, Mary, would perish when Dr. Banner self-experimented on himself and turned himself into the Hulk.

Project Venom

Sometime when Peter was still a young child, both Richard and Eddie Brock Senior teamed together to develop a revolutionary means to heal humanity of disease and illness. Their basis was to create a symbiote, The Suit; the project was named Project Venom. Richard made video diary entries about his progress so that Peter may have a chance to review these files when he becomes older. In the video, it revealed that Project Venom was a cursed project.

Richard and Eddie weren't able to complete their project and sought the partnership and resources of Trask Industries to help complete their project. As revealed in his video to Peter, Richard regretted putting his life's work into Trask's hands as they continued to interfere and eventually found a means to take away their own project away from them.

Death Confusion

Richard actually has two different deaths, none of which was completely explained to resolve the confusion. In Ultimate Origins, Richard died after Banner turned into the Hulk. The resulting explosion killed both him and his wife, ultimately leaving Peter orphaned and his care transferred to Ben and May Parker after the incident.

In Ultimate Spider-Man, it has always been explained that both his parents and Eddie Brock Jr's parents died in a plane crash while on a business trip for Trask Industries. There are also pictures that clearly show that Peter grew up with his parents up into his pre-teen years, about 4-9 years old.

It has later been explained by writer, Brian Michael Bendis that in fact, Richard Parker and his wife did not actually die in Ultimate Origins but were seriously injured and were almost killed. Which means their actual death in a plane crash from Ultimate Spiderman is indeed canon.

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