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17. Ultimate Peter Parker
(Ultimate Spider-Man, Marvel Comics)
I grew up on Ultimate Spider-Man.
The first volume of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man run and the seventh volume of Ultimate Spider-Man (the one with the X-Men Crossover) were among my first comics. As such, I fell in love with Ultimate Peter Parker. And the Ultimate Spider-Man run is easily the best (or only good, really) Ultimate Universe comic.
Peter grew and changed and evolved as a character, to the point where he finally had his life together. And then came the Death of Spider-Man. After running himself ragged, Peter took a bullet for Captain America (well, Ultimate Captain America, so maybe he shouldn't have bothered), and then went home to take on the entire Sinister Six pretty much single handedly, before he died surrounded by friends and family, happy. In his final moments, he told Aunt May that he was happy because, though he wasn't able to save Uncle Ben, he did manage to save her.
I don't care who you are, that moment's a tearjerker.
