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- "Ned, May cannot know! I cannot do that to her right now! You know? I mean, everything that's happened with her, I... Please."
- ―Peter Parker to Ned Leeds[src]
Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Parker was May Parker's husband and Peter Parker's uncle.
Biography[]
Ben Parker met and married May. Although never having children of his own, both Parker and May would come to look after their young and orphaned nephew, Peter. The three lived in Queens, New York City, New York until, eventually, Parker died, deeply affecting his family as May was left to raise Peter by herself.[2]
Legacy[]
- "Look, when you can do the things that I can, but you don't... and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you."
- ―Peter Parker to Tony Stark[src]
Parker's death, and how it impacted May, was the main reason that Peter decided not to reveal that he was secretly Spider-Man.[2][3]
Parker was survived by his wife, May (who wore her wedding ring around her neck),[4] and nephew, Peter (who brought a briefcase bearing his uncle's initials, BFP, on his school trip).[1]
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Richard Parker † - Brother
- Mary Parker † - Sister-in-Law
- May Parker † - Wife
- Peter Parker - Nephew
Appearances[]
In chronological order:
Captain America: Civil War (indirectly mentioned)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude, Issue 1 (indirectly mentioned)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming (indirectly mentioned)
- Spider-Man: Far From Home Prelude, Issue 1 (indirectly mentioned)
- Spider-Man: Far From Home (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- Ben Parker's famous "With great power comes great responsibility" speech from the comics has been referenced in several of the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series:
- In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode Pilot, Skye tells Mike Peterson: "You can't walk away from this. With great power comes.... a ton of weird crap you are not prepared to deal with."
- On Daredevil's Twitter on July 24, 2015, "Be forewarned, with great avocados come great responsibility."
- In the Jessica Jones episode AKA Freak Accident, Whizzer states in a video recording: "With great power comes great mental illness."
- In the Jessica Jones episode AKA Playland, Jessica Jones warns Alisa Jones: "If you say 'With great power comes great responsibility', I swear I'll throw up on you."
- In the Cloak & Dagger episode Colony Collapse, Peter Scarborough tells Tandy Bowen and Mina Hess: "With great power comes... even more power."
- In Spider-Man: No Way Home, the line was finally spoken by May Parker.
Behind the Scenes[]
- John Francis Daley wanted to have a direct reference to Ben Parker in Spider-Man: Homecoming, which would have been a scene where May Parker gives Ben's old clothes to Peter Parker when he was getting ready for homecoming, but the idea was eventually abandoned.[5]
