Are you currently rewatching Daredevil leading up to Daredevil: Born Again? Consider participating in our Road to Born Again Editing Event as we strive to polish up our older articles! While he juggled his hero duties with the demands of his high-school life, he was recruited by Tony Stark to join the Avengers Civil War , putting Spider-Man into a brief conflict with Captain America.
Parker was given a new suit as well as new Stark technology in exchange for his help and was allowed to keep them when he returned home to continue his own hero work. While he continued to try and prove himself as a worthy hero in the eyes of Iron Man so he could join the Avengers , Parker began investigating the illicit criminal activities of Vulture , who was attempting to sell his Chitauri based weapons onto the black market, with only the assistance of his best friend Ned Leeds , while also trying to win his academic decathlon finals.
Eventually, Parker gained the affections of classmate Liz Allan , but learned her father, Adrian Toomes , was Vulture. Spider-Man thwarted Vulture's robbery of a Stark Industries cargo plane , to which Stark showed his respect by offering Parker an official place with the Avengers. Parker turned this down in order to continue being a local hero in Queens, despite his Aunt May discovering his secret identity. Parker was pulled back into the Avengers' conflict when the Black Order had invaded Earth , joining Stark as a stowaway to rescue Doctor Strange from space.
Given a new Iron Spider armor , Parker, Stark and Strange joined forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy , joining their attempts to prevent Thanos from collecting the six Infinity Stones. But the heroes failed to defeat Thanos during the Battle of Titan ; resulting in half of life being wiped out ; including Parker. Five years later , Spider-Man was resurrected in the Blip , and rejoined the fight against Thanos , ultimately watching Stark sacrifice his life to defeat the Mad Titan.
The bereaved and traumatized Parker decided to take some time off his hero duties, while also being pressured by the press if he would be the next Iron Man, and seeking refuge on his school trip to Europe.
