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As a high school student, Cooper Coen had a crush on classmatePeter Parker. While on a field trip, Cooper saved Peter from being bitten by aradioactive spider, resulting in Cooper being bitten instead and gaining super-human abilities.^[6] The two became very close friends since then. On prom night, when Cooper's date stood him up, Peter went as his "bro date" so that he wouldn't feel bad. After graduating high school, Cooper picked up on Peter's knack for photography while he was working for the Daily Bugle and encouraged him to pursue it as a long-term career over a field in science, ultimately helping him get a job as a runway fashion photographer.^[6][7]

Cooper's already rocky relationship with his homophobic parents was strained further by his need to hide his secret identity, ultimately resulting in them kicking him out of his home. Cooper came to live with his aunts,Laurie andMel Coen. The two encouraged Cooper to follow his passions and put him in New York's best fashion school, which later led to him receiving a job at the premier fashion house,Van Dyne. He then became a superhero under the alias of Web-Weaver, to protect his and his aunts' community.^[6]

Cooper worked as Web-Weaver for at least three consecutive years. In his superhero work, he faced off against villains such as Chameleon,^[6] Ant-Man, Morbius, Kraven the Hunter, Symbiotes,^[1] Rhino, Vulturion,^[7] Grizzly, and Kingpin.^[8][9] Encounters with Ant-Man and Morbius interrupted his plans to attend Kyle Jinadu's summer birthday parties on Fire Island for two consecutive years, with Kraven the Hunter interfering with the third.^[1]

While attending college and/or fashion school, Cooper and Peter began living together as roommates, which they would continue to be after graduating.^[6][7]

While working for Van Dyne, Cooper once dated fellow employeeAlbert Moon before Moon left Van Dyne to start working for the competitor,Jean-Paul Beaubier, the owner ofNorthstar. This soured their relationship with each other, and Cooper largely still feels bitter about it, but is willing to accept the "messiness" of Albert having romantic attraction to his Web-Weaver identity.^[6] Unbeknownst to Cooper, Albert also worked as the vigilante superhero Silk. As neither of them knew each other's secret identities, they developed a flirtatious pseudo-romantic relationship and would sometimes work together or cover for each other when the other was unavailable for superhero work.^[6][1]

Spider Physiology^[6]

• Superhuman Strength^[6]
• Superhuman Agility^[6]
• Superhuman Reflexes^[6]
• Wallcrawling: Cooper can cling to any surface using just his fingertips and feet.^[6]
• Organic Webbing Generation: He has the ability to organically produce his own silk webbing.^[6]
• Web-Sense^[1]

• Web-Weaver's suit is based on theradioactive spider that bit him, both being based on theArgiope aurantia species.
  • Steve Foxe gave a list of "new and unique" spider species forKris Anka to pick from when designing the suit. In designing it, Anka looked at the works of the McQueen and Mugler high fashion brands as inspiration.^[10]
  • Incidentally, the suit shares its color scheme with that ofJanet Van Dyne's Wasp persona, whom Coen works for.
• Cooper Coen's initials may be a reference to the logo of the Chanel fashion brand and its founder Coco Chanel.
• By the events of "Fire With Fire", Cooper has been Web-Weaver for at least three years.^[1]
• Being a classmate of Peter Parker, Cooper was likely 15 years old when he was bitten. As he has been Web-Weaver for at least three consecutive years by the events of “Fire With Fire”, this would make him 18 years old at minimum. However, presumably because he lived independently of any legal guardians in an apartment, and assuming his fashion school only admitted those of legal age, he may instead be around 21 years old by the events of “Fire With Fire”.^[6][1]
• Though Cooper is proudly Jewish, he isn't very devoted.^[11]

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