10 Best Alternate Reality Spider-Men

Check out these parallel Peter Parkers!

After decades spent appearing in dozens of alternate realities, Spider-Man is one of the Marvel Super Heroes with the dimension-hopping adventures. Below, we look at some of our favorite alternate reality Spider-Men.

An early alternate take on Spidey focused on his abandoned career as a masked celebrity. In this reality, Peter stayed in show business and let greed get in the way of his heroic nature.

In the main Marvel reality, Spider-Man sought help immediately after discovering that his snazzy new black costume actually possessed a mind of its own. On Earth-1089, however, Parker waited too long and allowed the alien symbiote to take control and literally suck the life out of him!

The Peter Parker of the MC2 universe retired from crime fighting following the loss of his leg in a battle with the Green Goblin. Parker started working in an NYPD crime lab and focused on raising his daughter, May, who took on the role of Spider-Girl just as soon as she discovered her super powers.

The longest-running alternate reality Peter Parker has to be the Ultimate Universe's Spider-Man. Readers spent over a decade with the brilliant teenager as he fought villains both old and new and struggled with the annoyances of high school. Like a few of the Parkers on this list, the Ultimate Spider-Man lost his life in battle, thus paving the way for an all-new Spidey—Miles Morales.

The Peter Parker that popped up in the reality-hopping series EXILES turned out to be a mass murdering sociopath that had merged with the blood red Carnage symbiote at some point in his past. The Spider joined up with the ruthless reality-traveling Weapon X crew, an affiliation that would ultimately lead to his grisly death.

Young Peter Parker became the last member of the Spider-Clan following the death of his uncle—and sensei—Ben Parker at the hands of Venom. This reality diverged from the main continuity in another big way when it revealed Venom to be Peter's cousin!

The age of Marvels began hundreds of years earlier on one parallel Earth. The man who would become the Spider began his journey as the assistant of Sir Nicholas Fury. He would eventually be bitten by a mysterious spider and gain super powers, which he then used to become one of the most prominent heroes of the early 17th century.

In a world where mutants reign supreme, this Spider-Man—a superstar wrestler and actor—made a nice living off of people assuming that his super powers made him a mutant. His world fell apart, though, when J. Jonah Jameson exposed the truth about the mutant icon's origin.

This Spider-Man does whatever both a spider and zombie can. Unlike most of his super powered pals, the undead Peter Parker eventually beat his seemingly insatiable appetite for flesh and became one of the more upstanding and heroic zombies of his home dimension.

Having grown up during the Great Depression, this version of Peter Parker fights for social justice as an activist against power hungry mob bosses. This pistol-packing Spider-Man fits right in with the gritty New York City that he protects.