Richard and Mary Parker: Difference between revisions

===Novels===

In the ''[[Sinister Six]]'' novel trilogy by [[Adam-Troy Castro]] (''Gathering of the Sinister Six'', ''Revenge of the Sinister Six'', and ''Secret of the Sinister Six''), a man known as [[Gentleman (comics)|the Gentleman]] — an internationally known criminal mastermind, currently in his late nineties and possessing a strong disdain for the rest of humanity, as well as being the brother of the Red Skull's assassin the Finisher — was revealed to have been partially responsible for Richard and Mary's deaths. Richard and Mary thwarted a significant scheme of the Gentleman's prior to their association with the Red Skull, and the Gentleman revealed their true identities to the Skull to ensure that they were punished for this defeat, the criminal only asking that Peter be spared so that he would be more of a challenge later on in life. The possibility was also raised that Spider-Man had an older sister when Peter discovered what appeared to be photographs of his parents with a baby girl a few years before his own birth, creating the implication that this girl was now the Gentleman's ward, a young woman called Pity, who was capable of climbing walls, possessed a strength level approximately equal to Spider-Man, and could create a "darkness" around herself that she could choose who it was affected by (allowing her to blind Spider-Man while Pity's current allies could still see), Pity having been basically brainwashed to serve as the Gentleman's enforcer. At the conclusion of the trilogy, Peter Parker meets [[Wolverine (character)|Logan]], who reveals he worked regularly with the Parkers on joint missions between the American and Canadian secret services; the discovery that Logan was the first person to congratulate Richard after learning that Mary was pregnant prompted Peter to say "Wolverine's practically my Uncle". Logan also clarifies that Peter never had a sister; the photographs Peter found of his parents with a little girl were actually part of a long-term cover operation from before Peter was born, with both of them still so attached to the memory that Mary kept the pictures and Richard told Logan about it during a joint mission.

 

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