Peni Parker

Peni Parker is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She was created by writer-musician Gerard Way and artist Jake Wyatt, and first appeared in the 2014 comic book series Edge of Spider-Verse. A second-generation spider-hero from an alternative universe, Peni is a Japanese American high school student possessing a psychic link with a radioactive spider named SP//dr with whom she jointly pilots a mech suit of the same name, a mantle inherited from her deceased father. The character was significantly inspired by the 1995 anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Both Peni Parker and SP//dr have made appearances in other media, most significantly the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its sequels Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027), where she is voiced by Kimiko Glenn, and the video game Marvel Rivals, where she is voiced by Sally Amaki as a young adult from 2099.