Dawn in Queens: a taped‑up suit, rent past due, one rule—stay small. Then a string of “Spider‑Man” robberies turns the city against its own hero. Footage looks perfect—your moves, your webbing—until the wall breaks and there’s nothing behind it but static. A copycat with a face for every camera hunts in daylight while a laughing silhouette in ember‑green tests bombs in the rain.

MJ, chasing an internship exposé, maps a pattern nobody wants to see. Web‑wings slice between crane forests; a museum ceiling unzips into freefall; a Roosevelt Tram rescue swings over the East River; a neon alley knife‑fight ends with a webline slingshot through a billboard. Police scanners scream, JJJ roars, and the city becomes a court without a judge. “If they think I’m the villain,” Peter says, “how do I prove the hero even exists?”