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homecoming by deadvinesandfanfics
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
01 Dec 2025
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The apartment was smaller than the word apartment deserved.
Calling it a box would have been more honest. Four walls, a ceiling low enough that Peter felt like he’d bang his head trying to stand up from unpacking, and a window that technically opened but jammed half the time. The place smelled faintly of mildew, maybe because of the carpet - or maybe because this whole building had given up on life a few decades ago and was just waiting for someone merciful to bulldoze it.
He told himself it was fine. He told himself worse things had happened. Which, technically, was true.
That didn’t make him feel any better.
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A Safe Distance by WhoopsKrisFound_A_Keyboard
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
01 Dec 2025
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This story begins with a threat that Peter Parker cannot ignore, despite his attempts to do so. Words on a screen turn into blood in the hallways of his school, and suddenly the life he’s built inside the Stark Tower feels like a target painted on everyone he loves. At the ripe age of fifteen, he has to make a choice no kid should ever have to make; burn the bridges behind him so his family stays safe. Anger becomes his shield, lies become his language, and when Tony tries to reach for him, Peter snaps the bond before it can hold him back.
But running doesn’t mean freedom. It means a cold apartment with leaking pipes, meals that barely fill, and nights patrolling a city that doesn’t, and never will know his real name. It means watching Christmas lights flicker in windows that aren’t his, and seeing his father’s face only through news reports and memories. And as Tony and Pepper grieve a son they believe is gone, Peter convinces himself this distance is love, sacrifice, and responsibility.
Only, sacrifice cuts both ways, and lies never stay buried forever.
(Updates every Saturday)
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The Amazing Adventures of Spider-man and Superman by Falcondreamer
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types
29 Nov 2025
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Peter Parker has been Spider-Man for 6 months when he gets snapped into a different version of New York. Now having to figure out how to survive a place called Metropolis. He meets Clark Kent a reporter in the Daily Planet who has been giving him food. But something isn't quite right about him. He also meets Superman an overpowered man that Peter can't read. Peter may be out of his league in this city but that isn't going to stop the Friendly neighborhood Spider-man
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After Dark by Sadpieceofcat
Fandoms: Deadpool - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types
21 Nov 2025
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What if the job got Peter Parker to move to a different city for a few months?
Peter Parker, who seemingly never steps out of NYC, has to move away for a few months.
The tired and broke journalist of Daily Bugle cannot refuse the staff exchange program that his boss, JJ Jameson, forces him to participate in. That gets Peter tangled up in crimes and mysteries in a mess-up city—Gotham—while working in Gotham Gazette...
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The Weight of Being Wanted by GiggleB0x
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Cartoon 2017), Marvel
04 Nov 2025
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Peter doesn’t plan for the future anymore. College essays rot in his backpack while he pretends a city’s worth of bruises is the same thing as a plan. Harry smiles for cameras and shakes hands with men who still call Peter “a friend,” then cries in boardrooms no one else uses. They’re in love, and they’re drowning in Oscorp secrets, surveillance, and cloned mistakes.
Something has to give, and Peter isn't sure it won't be him.
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Peter’s in an explosion, and he feels his body giving up on him as civilians try to help him.
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conversations by deadvinesandfanfics
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Oct 2025
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A collection of one-shots, scrapped scenes, or small moments from the Connections series that didn’t quite fit into the main fic for one reason or another. But they’re too good to scrap, so here you are :)
Should be updated semi-regularly, or whenever a particular scene decides it must be written/if my writer’s block likes me today or not.
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- Part 2 of connections
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miscommunication by deadvinesandfanfics
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Sep 2025
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Peter had always known they weren’t well off.
He wasn’t stupid, even when he was small. He knew that May clipped coupons, that she hesitated before putting name brands in the cart, that sometimes the milk was watered down just a little bit more than it had been the week before. He knew that when other kids at school talked about vacations or “just ordering food,” it wasn’t something he could casually chime in about.
But knowing was different than sitting at the kitchen table, shoulders hunched over a stack of envelopes with big red letters screaming OVERDUE across the front.
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- Part 1 of connections
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How Far Will You Go, Peter? by Petepack
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
22 Sep 2025
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Peter Parker finally has what he thought he’d lost forever: a family. Surrounded by people who love him, he should feel safe, but the ghosts of May and Ben, and the scars left by his abusive grandfather, still linger. Saving others comes easy. Saving himself? Not so much.
And in the vengeful shadows, there are those willing to exploit that selflessness. To see just how much a boy who gives everything can endure.
But Peter isn’t alone anymore. Tony, Pepper, Morgan, Happy, Rhodey, Bruce, Helen, Natasha, Ned, and MJ will fight to protect him, because family isn’t just blood. It’s who refuses to let you fall.
✨ The sequel to What Are You Hiding, Peter? (nominated for Best Multi-Chapter in the Irondad Creator Awards 2025 🏆) is finally here! Please check tags and warnings before reading! Can be read as a standalone story too :)
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Lack of self preservation by agent_2217
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
11 Aug 2025
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- Part 1 of mentally ill marvel
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One Last Dance by whirli_gig
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe
18 Jul 2025
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Peter sighed, this is how it always started. The silence. The tension. Both of them are just waiting for the other to crack first.
Jason, never knowing how to show his worry without letting it morph into anger. Peter, never knowing how not to counter it with defensiveness.
A dance they both hated.
And still–here they were again.
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Peter and Jason break up--simple as that
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Lights will guide you home / And ignite your bones / And I will try to fix you by Username_991
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types
10 Jun 2025
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Beneath him, the alley was painted red. His blood had seeped into the cracks in the pavement, mixing with puddles of oil and trash. Flies buzzed lazily around the scene. He was barely recognizable—just a broken boy lost in the filth, beaten to the edge of death and thrown away like garbage.
And yet, he was still alive. Somehow.
Orrrrr
After vanishing off comms, Peter Parker is found nearly dead in a filthy alley, his body shattered and bloodied beyond recognition. Brutally tortured and left to die, he’s discovered by Clint Barton, who fights to keep him alive as help races to their location. As Peter clings to life back at the Tower, the world soon learns the truth—the attack wasn’t just random. The people responsible wanted everyone to know. With the public reeling and Peter barely hanging on, the Avengers launch a relentless hunt for those behind the assault, determined to bring them to justice before anyone else falls.
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New chapters released frequently!
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Tony gets angry at peter at his self-sacrificing ways and doesnt even realise his injury's, enter Bucky.
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When Peter reaches the top of the wall and Wade Wilson’s heart. by Nightwings_left_butt
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
21 May 2025
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"Wade, please, I can’t focus."
The boy placed a hand on his chest in mock offense.
"Gasp! Is this how you treat your sweet boyfriend when he cheers you on, Petey? You tell him to shut up? I can't believe it. And here I was just-"
"Wade!" Peter called from where he was perched. He huffed a laugh. "Sorry, okay? I just need to focus." He lowered his head to look at the other, one eyebrow raised. "And did you just actually say 'gasp' out loud?"
The blond kept his mouth shut, pretending to zip it up and throwing away the key.
Peter scoffed, turning his attention back to the wall he was currently clinging to. "Fine. You sounded like a dying cow anyway."
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Peter is practicing climbing for competitions (when he shouldn't) and Wade is watching him. Also, bad flirts. -
Average Peter Parker Experience by limest_O_lightest
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Comicverse), DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
02 Apr 2025
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Everything was going great! (Its not)
Peter had his own place! (A run down building)
A job (dubiously legal)
Friends (eh)
Whole new life. See: whole new dimension (uh oh)Peter de aged, flung into Gotham, is a little more spidery than usual and can't escape the bat and bird furries coming from every direction.
Wanted to do my take on Peter on Gotham, messed with the timeline so aunt May is dead but takes place after infinity war. I just needed her dead tbh. Uhm Peter was living with skip westcot before he got put in Gotham… yeah.
!I TOUCH ON A TON OF SENSITIVE TOPICS INCLUDING: DESCRIPTIONS OF CHILD ABUSE, RAPE, SELF HARM, SEXUAL ASSAULT, VIOLENCE, AND MORE! THIS IS YOUR WARNING, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES!
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and the road's still long but you come along and you hold my hand, and you understand... by A_Loose_Goose
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
07 Feb 2025
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Peter and Tony are watching a movie when suddenly, FRI alerts them that Banner has gone green.
Tony goes to help, but what happens when Peter disobeys him and goes to help too?
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- Part 4 of Avenger's Road trip! :)
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a little life (a little death) by 4Everxhausted
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
23 Dec 2024
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As Peter sat on the cold hardwood floor, he re-evaluated his life up to that moment. What could he have possibly done to deserve this? Had all the poor choices he made led him to that point? Or maybe it all just came back to luck.
"Parker luck," May had once told him, "it’s just Parker luck."
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- Part 1 of a little life series
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We found a family in a hopeless place by Amatopcsp
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
30 Oct 2024
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They and the world were wondering how could the Avengers get back together after their separation, some almost dying, and others, once considered heroes, were now wanted. Could it be an - initially - random kid and a revenge plot the way to it? How much it would cost?
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I'm Glad It's Me by MARVELously3000
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
21 Oct 2024
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Peter decides he's the only logical choice to Snap.Or: Peter makes a choice on the battlefield to not pass along the Gauntlet, but to take the burden on himself.
I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN THIS STORY
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- Part 12 of Whumptober 2024
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Cat Scratch Fever? by StarksKiddo
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
17 Oct 2024
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After getting scratched up by a cat while rescuing it from a tree, Peter doesn’t do anything more than bandage his mauled arms. When Tony finds out, he is less than pleased.