Appearing in "There For You"
Featured Characters:
- Kenneth Kincaid, Jr. (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story and recap)
- Judy (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Unnamed grocery store burglar (First appearance)
- Inner Demons
Other Characters:
- Radioactive Spider (Only in recap)
- Benjamin Parker (Earth-616)
- May Parker (Only in recap)
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers (Main story and recap)
- Baxter Bigelow (Only in recap)
- The Burglar (Only in recap)
- NYPD (Main story and recap)
- Bernard O'Brien (Only in recap)
- Numerous unnamed officers
- Unnamed grocery store clerk (First appearance)
- God (Yahweh) (Invoked)
- Kenneth Kincaid, Sr. (First appearance; dies)
- Kenneth's mother (First appearance)
- Ellie Kincaid (First appearance)
- Carl (First appearance)
- Kenneth's sister (First appearance)
- Kenneth's brother-in-law (First appearance)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Drawing)
- New York Mets (Named only)
- Mister Negative (Martin Li) (Mentioned)
- Thor (Mentioned)
- Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) (Mentioned)
- Black Panther (King T'Challa) (Mentioned)
- Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich) (Only in recap)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Toy)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Toy)
- Electro (Max Dillon) (Only in recap)
- Sinister Six (Only in recap)
- Vulture (Adrian Toomes) (Only in recap)
- Sandman (Flint Marko) (Only in recap)
- Doctor Octopus (Dr. Otto Octavius) (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- Queens (Only in recap)
- Forest Hills (Only in recap)
- Aunt May's House (Only in recap)
- Midtown High School (Mentioned)
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (Only in recap)
- New York Hall of Science (Only in recap)
- Forest Hills (Only in recap)
- Manhattan (Main story and recap)
- RKP Palace (Only in recap)
- Acme Warehouse (Only in recap)
- Midtown
- Kenneth Kincaid Jr.'s office (First appearance)
- Grocery (First appearance)
- Empire State Building (Cameo)
- Unnamed Hospital
- Chinatown
- Queens (Only in recap)
- New York City (Main story and recap)
- New York (Main story and recap)
- United States of America (Main story and recap)
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters (Main story and recap)
- Iron Man Armor Model 9 (Drawing)
- Rhino Armor (Only in recap)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Toy)
- Vulture's Wings (Only in recap)
- Doctor Octopus' Tentacles (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "There For You"
Three weeks after Uncle Ben’s death, an office worker named Kenneth Kincaid, Jr. is working hard on a project when a coworker calls him to say that something is going on and he needs to come there immediately. Kincaid rushes out of the building to go across town, when he realizes he is out of cigarettes and heads into a nearby bodega to get some.
As he heads in, he discovers that a robber is holding up the bodega, and demands Kincaid hide behind the counter with the owner. Kincaid tries to explain he needs to leave, but the robber keeps pointing the gun at him. They are then interrupted by the timely arrival of Spider-Man, who smashes through the window and knocks Kincaid to the ground. Seeing Spider-Man but not knowing who he is, the robber threatens that he will shoot the bodega owner, only for Spider-Man to take him to safety as well with his webs. Spider-Man then tricks the robber into firing all of his bullets at him, which he dodges before breaking his gun.
Spider-Man eventually webs the robber up, at which point the bodega owner recognizes him as the celebrity from the news. As the owner asks if Spider-Man will eat the robber, the police arrive, prompting him to flee after leaving his trademark note. The police recognize Spider-Man, and begin apprehending the robber, but also force Kincaid to stay to give a witness testimony.
Hours later, Kincaid arrives at the hospital, where it is revealed the thing he needed to do was say goodbye to his dying father. He manages to make it in time, and says his goodbye before he passes. Later, he confides in his wife Ellie that he nearly missed his dad’s death for some cigarettes, but she tells him it’s okay because he made it regardless, and that as long as he’s there, everything is okay.
Over a decade passes. Kincaid’s son graduates high school, while Kincaid himself gets a niece, Judy, via his sister.
Eventually, in modern day Chinatown, Spider-Man is fighting the Inner Demons, who are trying to steal a suitcase of money. One of them manages to run away, but a man (at Spider-Man’s request) trips him, allowing Spider-Man to catch him. The man is revealed to be an older Kincaid, and he hands Spider-Man the money. Kincaid mentions to him that Spider-Man once saved his life, though he does not remember. When he asks what he did, Kincaid says that Spider-Man “got [him] to quit smoking”, though this leaves him even more confused.
As Spider-Man leaves, Judy is revealed to be with Kincaid. Judy calls the interaction lame, saying that Spider-Man pales in comparison to more powerful heroes who save the world routinely. Kincaid contests this by saying that Spider-Man also saves the world every day, because every person he rescues means the world to somebody. He concludes by saying that Spider-Man also saves a person’s uncle routinely, referring to himself but also unknowingly tying in to Peter’s Uncle Ben. Judy then admits that Spider-Man is cool, and the two walk off together, as both Kincaid and Spider-Man say to Judy and the world respectively, “I’ll always be here for you”.