Peni Parker

Peni's father Peter acted as the original pilot of the SP//dr mecha, in which he protected New York from crime and other dangers. After her father passed, Peni is approached by her father's handlers, "Aunt May" and "Uncle Ben", who force her to become the new pilot of the SP//dr, releasing the sentient spider which controls part of the suit into a room with her to bite and bond with her, a process they describe as being incredibly painful. Soon after being bitten, Peni becomes the new protector of the city, on Earth-14512.

Five years later, a more solemn and matured 14-year-old[6] Peni battles her universe's version of Mysterio – an obsessed fanboy of hers, while listening to "Love Is Just a Crime" by Cult Summer (ft. Gloss)[7] to help her focus. Peni eventually teams up with "D" (her universe's version of Daredevil) – who had known her father, and tells her that she is "too young" to feel "tired" as she says she is – though noting he felt her father's use of SP//dr caused it so that "even through the machine, you could feel a sadness, like something was missing from him", although seeming "pretty cool" – to battle a group of criminals given up by Mysterio (a fan of the various numerous "Gene-Pop" magazines about Peni) before being approached by Spider-Ham and Old Man Spider to join the Spider-Army to fight the Inheritors. Agreeing to join them, Peni states: "We're called SP//dr and we protect the city. Like my father, a soldier––who died in service of his people––we will be this, until terminal failure.".

Three years after the events of "Spider-Verse" in her home reality, a now-15-year-old Peni is approached by a girl named Addy Brock, asking if she was the pilot of SP//dr and her experiences as the SP//dr pilot. Peni ignores her, but Addy follows up by saying she is not as special as she thinks, before clarifying that she doesn't mean as an insult, and just wants to talk to her. At home, Peni tries to talk to Ben and May about being special, but she has worries get pushed aside which causes her to be annoyed and expresses her feeling of sadness towards the fact she isn't acknowledged as she should be. While improving the SP//dr's web shooters, she notices Addy walking in the base and follows her; only to find another mech-suit similar to the SP//dr, but in black and powered by a “sym-engine” called VEN#m, with Addy as its pilot (Addy's character design having been previously used for one of Ben's and May's tech people in Edge of Spider-Verse, retroactively making that her first appearance). Peni becomes furious at Ben and May for not telling her about this. When a kaiju-like creature named M.O.R.B.I.U.S. starts to drain the city's electrical energy, Peni goes after it as SP//dr, only to be temporarily disabled due to her frustration clouding her judgement. In order to defeat M.O.R.B.I.U.S., Peni's aunt and uncle send VEN#m to defeat the creature. It is successful, but the SYM Engine inside it, which is shown to not be fully developed and is later revealed to still have unresolved issues, causes VEN#m to malfunction; causing the mech suit to attain sentience and start to consume Addy. When May flies in to fix the problem manually, it consumes her with Addy as well, with her final words berating Ben over their comms for never fixing the problem that had gotten Peni's father killed testing VEN#m in the first place. SP//dr confronts VEN#m, but the black mech suit overpowers her until she uses her improved web shooters to defeat it. However as she opens up VEN#m's cockpit, she realises it's too late to save her Aunt May and Addy, who have vanished from inside the suit. 2 hours following the battle, Peni and Ben have a heart to heart, but Spider-Ham interrupts this appear once more to recruit Peni to help defeat the Inheritors once more during the events of Spider-Geddon. Peni seems reluctant to go after what had just happened to her Aunt May as she was still grieving her passing but Uncle Ben beckons her to leave anyway.

This arc's storyline takes place after Peni had bonded with SP//dr, following a much younger Peni, somewhere around 12 years old. It follows Peni as she tries to be a regular teenager, trying to fit with the cool kids like Julia, while facing the responsibility of being a hero against various enemies such as Atomic Lizard or Mecha D.O.O.M. to save the world in a smaller mecha after school, finding herself struggling with the greatest challenge of all: homework. Her assignment consists of writing about a father she barely remembers as he passed when she was 9, but her Uncle Ben helps her understand more about her father and the kind of person he was, affirming her father's affection and love for Peni, whom was insecure about the fact if her father ever actually loved her, giving her a pink hairpin which her father left behind for her in a moment such as this, though this was true, Uncle Ben lost the original pin but one of the lab assistants had a hairpin identical to it. Her best friend whom is the sentient and Psychic spider which pilots the mech alongside her and Uncle Ben help her understand who she truly was. Throughout the arc, Peni must balance her duties as a superhero with her responsibilities as a student and friend. She also grapples with her insecurities about her abilities and whether she is truly worthy of being a superhero to finally find confidence in her instincts, emerging as a stronger and more determined hero.

A now-18-year-old Peni returns in End of the Spider-Verse operating her larger SP//dr mecha, alongside Takuya Yamashiro and his mech, Leopardon.[8]

SP//dr makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Return to the Spider-Verse" Pt. 4 as one of several alternate reality Spider-Men that the villainous Wolf Spider took hostage to siphon their powers before the "prime" Spider-Man, Kid Arachnid, and Spider-Woman arrive to save them.[11]

Kimiko Glenn (pictured) voices Peni Parker in the animated Spider-Verse film series

Peni Parker and SP//dr appear in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), with the former voiced by Kimiko Glenn.[12][13] Peni is presented as a perky and energetic individual while SP//dr is a one-piece capsule cockpit with a dome-shaped one-way visor that provides Peni with a HUD-style view, magnetically manipulated appendages, and various tools in its fingers, the psyhic spider which helps co-pilot SP//dr is also her best friend. They arrive in Miles Morales' universe along with Spider-Ham and Spider-Man Noir due to the Kingpin's machinations and join forces with them, among other "Spider-People", to return to their respective home universes. While fighting the Kingpin's henchmen, SP//dr is severely damaged by the Scorpion, but Peni manages to rescue the radioactive spider within it before returning to her universe to rebuild SP//dr.

• Peni Parker and SP//dr appear in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), with the former voiced again by Kimiko Glenn.[14] As of this film, Peni has successfully rebuilt SP//dr, with its design now resembling its comics counterpart, and they have joined Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Society together before joining Gwen Stacy's team of Spider-People to find Morales.[14]
• Glenn will reprise her role as Peni Parker in Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.

• SP//dr appears as a playable character in Spider-Man Unlimited.
• Peni Parker and SP//dr appear as playable characters in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
• Peni Parker and SP//dr appear as playable characters in Marvel Contest of Champions.
• Peni Parker and SP//dr appear as playable characters in Marvel Duel.

• SP//dr received a Build-A-Figure in Hasbro's Marvel Legends toy line.[15]
• The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse incarnations of Peni Parker and SP//dr received figures in Hasbro's film tie-in toyline, [16] and in Sentinel's SV-Action series.