I'm back! I can already feel myself trying to be funny again! And there's that overwhelming sense of guilt and regret I missed so much! 
Appearing in "Back to Basics: Part Five"
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Main story, recap, and flashforward; merges with Spider-Man)
- Spider-Man (Main story and recap; merges with Peter Parker)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Numerous Tri-Sentinels (Destruction)
- Robot Master (Mendel Stromm) (Death)
- ⏴ Unidentified entity ⏵ (First full appearance)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- Venom (Eddie Brock) (Mentioned)
- Dr. Curt Connors (Referenced)
- Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) (Photo)
- Will Robinson (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Ben Parker (Mentioned)
- Life Foundation (Referenced) (Defunct)
- Black Ant (Eric O'Grady)
- Taskmaster (Tony Masters)
- DHS
- Metahuman and Advanced Technology Division (First appearance)
- Garrett Stone (First appearance)
- Metahuman and Advanced Technology Division (First appearance)
- Hydra (Mentioned)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Mentioned) (Defunct)
- Nick Fury (Mentioned)
- Bob (poacher) (Unnamed) (Only in flashback)
- Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff) (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
- Sentinels
- Robots (Mentioned)
- Cyborgs
- Centipedes
- Demons
- LMDs
- Lions (Corpse, skeleton or other remains) (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story, flashback, flashforward)
- North America (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- United States of America (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- New York (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- New York City (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- Manhattan (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- Midtown
- East Village (Main story and recap)
- Bowery (Main story and recap)
- Empire State University (Main story and recap)
- Peter, Randy, & Fred's apartment
- Bowery (Main story and recap)
- Life Foundation Tower (Destruction)
- Upper West Side
- Central Park West
- May Parker-Jameson's apartment
- Central Park West
- Manhattan (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- New York City (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- New York (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- United States of America (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- Africa (Only in flashback)
- Southern Africa (Only in flashback)
- North America (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
Items:
- Web-Shooters (Main story, recap, and flashforward)
- Spider-Man's Suit (Main story and recap)
- Isotope Genome Accelerator (Main story and recap; destruction)
- Spider-Tracer and Spider-Tracer-Tracker (Behind the scenes)
- Westworld (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Uncle Ben's (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- The Neverending Story (Topical Reference)
- Black Ant's Suit and Helmet
- Pym Particles (Behind the scenes)
- Kraven's Lion's Head Vest
Synopsis for "Back to Basics: Part Five"
Afraid and unsure, Peter does what he should have in the first place and went to Mary Jane for consult. Although originally happy there was more time with Peter, reflection on his not being Spider-Man would become a lie to himself as that's who he is, and part of why she fell in love with him was his heroism. With no access to the lab at the moment and his relationship with Felicia tenuous, despite her return to vigilantism, Peter recalled Boomerang and talked about the Accelerator enough to have Fred steal it and Peter stole it in turn. But as he readied to blast the laissez-faire Spider-Man, an army of Tri-Sentinels flew overhead into Manhattan. In his bunker, Mendel Stromm was laughing maniacally that his plan had worked, but the mysterious entity that aided him killed him as payment of their deal.
As Spider-Man runs to save himself, Peter sacrifices himself to save him from a blast, who confessed to having turned off his Spider-Sense. Fatally wounded, Peter tried in futility to ask Spider-Man to merge back, and crashed the Accelerator down upon them with a well aimed web thwip. Just before the merging finalized, Spider-Man told Peter to accept the dark times but also to enjoy himself with his powers and being a superhero. Once more whole, Peter as Spider-Man successfully called on the the Spider-Bot to battle the other Tri-Sentinels while hacking into their collective signal. In control of the Tri-Sentinels, Spider-Man then reached Stromm's hideout in the Life Foundation bunker, but found him dying. On his last breath, Stromm told Spider-Man to "guess his name" just before the Tri-Sentinels repeat the phrase and kamikaze strike the bunker, destroying themselves and the Master Mold.
Distracted by events, Peter was reminded by Mary Jane that the day was saved and it was their time to be together. Complying, Peter cozied up with her despite feeling something was amiss and that his troubles had only started. In Federal custody, Taskmaster and Black Ant are met by DHS Agent Garrett Stone, and both took turns berating him in comparison to SHIELD Agents. Upon mentioning their leave, Taskmaster's hovercraft blew a hole in their holding cell, with Taskmaster commenting on their patron playing a bigger game. In Africa, Bob begged for his life, surprisingly earning the pity of his pursuer, who revealed to Bob that he was Kraven the Hunter.
Solicit Synopsis
• Things look bad for Peter Parker…
• …but GREAT for Spider-Man!
• The first arc of the epic new run on ASM comes to a climactic finish!
