This wasn't hampered by the fact that Deadpool isn't shy about expressing his attraction to Peter. Once Deadpool, who is canonically pansexual, entered Peter's life, however, the shipping only increased. The earliest ships with Johnny Storm and Harry Osborn play on the fan obsession with best friends becoming lovers, and arch enemies to lovers. It doesn't hurt that many of these ships have representation in the comics. This is compared to the surprisingly low number of works where Peter Parker is shipped with Michelle Jones, the most popular straight ship.
Out of the thousands of works just listed on Archive of Our Own, Peter's most popular slash (same sex) pairings include: Tony Stark Wade Wilson Ned Leeds (presumably, the MCU version of Leeds), and Steve Rogers. Over time, more online support for Peter Parker getting a boyfriend developed. The Hugo-Award Winning fan fiction site, Archive Of Our Own features stories pairing Spider-Man with Johnny Storm and Harry Osborn that date back to 2002. Fans have shipped Spider-Man with other male characters for years before. In this case, it is important to differentiate shipping from the core idea of bisexual Spider-Man. Properties and universes with tons of characters invites to the shippers mixing and matching all sorts of disparate characters up, regardless of whether or not they'd make for a logical match in the eyes of others. The practice of shipping has existed for a long time in fandom. RELATED: The MCU's LGBT Characters Still Aren't Visible Enough So, why is Spider-Man - or, rather, "Bi-Derman" - such a popular headcanon among LGBTQ+ comic fans? And it doesn't have to be the Earth-616 Spider-Man - there's an entire multiverse of Spideys to choose from.īut why, out of all of Marvel's supposedly straight heroes, has Spider-Man in particular attracted this kind of speculation? There are already a few out and proud characters in comics, as well as characters who have a lot of relationships teased in the pages of them (Kitty Pryde, for example). However, at the same time, there seems to be a pretty vocal subsection of the LGBTQ+ comic fandom that wants to see Peter Parker get a boyfriend (or at the very least, feel attraction toward a man). Many people get very, very upset at the mention of anything pertaining to a non-heterosexual Spider-Man.
There has been no canon confirmation either way about it. Spider-Man, as far as we currently know, isn't bisexual.