Spider-Ham
Spider-Ham is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Peter
With his Aunt May, Peter used to visit the old Platypus Amusement Park every weekend. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
Spectacular Spider-Ham
Whilst web-slinging, Spider-Ham was bored due to the lack of activity but then came to notice the Gopher Gang. He confronted the gang and fought them where he was later assisted by Captain Americat. Together, they defeated the Gopher Gang and allowed them to be taken in by the authorities. Afterwards, the two changed back to their civilian identities and returned to work at the Daily Beagle. J. Jonah Jackal then sent the pair on assignment to Video City arcade that had been sabotaged by the mysterious Masked Marauder. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
Spider-Verse
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Spider-Ham was a small, bipedal mammalian creature that possessed the biological features of an anthropomorphic pig integrated with a classic superhero uniform. Spider-Ham possessed a smooth pink skin tone covering his short limbs and wide face, with a heavily muscled, athletic build compressed down into cartoon-like proportions. His head featured a large, prominent oval snout with two distinct nostrils, two small pointed pig ears protruding from the top of his cranium, and an exceptionally wide smile. For his uniform, Spider-Ham wore a form-fitting, bright red and dark blue spandex bodysuit that covered the entirety of his torso and limbs. The red sections of the suit, covering his chest, shoulders, lower forearms, and face mask, were emblazoned with a black, intersecting web-like grid pattern, accompanied by a large stylized black spider emblem on the chest. The uniform featured two large, blank white ocular lenses over his eyes to mask his gaze while swinging through urban areas. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
As Peter Porker, he worked for newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jackal who was always looking for pictures of Spider-Ham in action. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
One of his allies was Captain Americat who also operated as a costumed superhero. Both of them worked at the Daily Beagle in their civilian identities. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
Spider-Ham was born a member of the arachnid race where he was a normal spider before undergoing a nuclear-salivary mutation into a porcine form. On a basic feats level, this unique biological hybrid blueprint granted Spider-Ham immense physical strength, speed, and acrobatic flexibility far exceeding baseline mammals of his scale, allowing him to leap great distances and lift heavy environmental objects. Spider-Ham possessed a specialized bio-magnetic capability that allowed him to cling to and traverse vertical brick walls, glass skyscrapers, and ceilings seamlessly without any mechanical assistance. His most distinct trait was a localized extrasensory precognitive warning system known as his Spider-Sense, which vibrated the hairs on his head to alert Spider-Ham to immediate tactical threats. Additionally, Spider-Ham possessed an elite tier of mechanical intelligence, allowing him to engineer a pair of mechanical Web-Shooters that compressed and expelled high-velocity liquid adhesive strands to trap criminal adversaries. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
He was always to climb up buildings by adhering to the surface. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
It was shown that he had a Spider-Sense that warned him of any danger. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
Spider-Ham was able to shoot out webs from his wrists which he could use to achieve various feats. For travel, he used his webs to web-sling across the city by swinging through the landscape by attacking a web to a high surface. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
In his civilian life, he operated as a photographer for the Daily Beagle. This role allowed him to take pictures of himself as the masked Spider-Ham which he sold to his employers to make his money. (Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1)
Notes
- Spider-Ham was created by Larry Hama, Tom DeFalco and Mark Armstrong where he made his first appearance in Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1 #1 (August, 1983).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Ham appeared in the setting of the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Ben Diskin. One day, Peter Porker was eating his Aunt May's vitamin filled pancakes when he accidentally ate a spider. The mixture of the eaten spider and the vitamins mixed gave Peter the proportionate powers of a spider. Using his new-found abilities, he became the hero known as Spider-Ham. He would eventually gain the attention of the world's greatest heroes, The Avengers, and was recruited into their ranks. Sometime later, Earth-TRN456 was visited from Spider-Man and The Goblin from Earth-12041. Spider-Man encountered Porker and asked about Spider-Ham but was told he doesn't exist. Spider-Man was about to leave but noticed the scarecrow and Peter admitted to being Spider-Ham, but had retired due to shame. Just then The Goblin found them and fought with Spider-Man. Peter went to hid but joined the fight after hearing Goblin praise Ham but criticize Porker. Together, Spider-Ham and Spider-Man were able to defeat Goblin. Afterwards, Peter rejoined the Avengers.
Films
- In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Ham appeared in the setting of the animated film where he was voiced by actor John Mulaney. Minutes later, as Peter was going to move away from the villain's lair, he gets sucked into a multiversal portal, transporting him into another dimension, confused since the unexpected turn of events, Peter wound up at the home of the universe's May Parker in search of assistant, where he would met Peni Parker and Spider-Man Noir. Sometime later her met three other Spider-People: Gwen Stacy, another Peter Parker from another universe, and the first-timer Miles Morales. Peter, like the rest of the Spider-People, volunteered to stay behind so that the others could go home, and he could destroy the collider himself. When Miles told them that he would do it, he and the others tried to test Miles' readiness for the task by grilling him and kicking him around, but only succeeded in adding to the pressure the boy felt. They all went to Miles' dorm room later to offer their condolences after the death of his Uncle Aaron, and he, in a rare moment of wisdom, told Miles that they can't save everyone. They all left once they had the goober and proceeded to the Fisk Tower, with Peter B. Parker determined to be the one to stay behind so the rest can go home. Miles eventually caught up with them and, after a tussle with Scorpion, who underestimate him for being a cartoon character, he was the third to be sent home. He left his hammer with Miles before jumping into the portal.
Video games
Appearances
- Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham v1: (1983)
- Spider-Ham v1:
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