The next day at school, he found that he'd grown taller overnight and that his hands and feet could stick to any surface, something that ruined an encounter with the tough and level-headed Wanda, a fellow student he admired from afar in his class.
In December of 2018, while putting up graffiti in an abandoned subway, Miles was bitten by a radioactive spider that mutated his DNA. His closeness with Aaron and general attitude towards academics drove a wedge between Miles and his father, especially when he won a scholastic contest that enrolled him in the Brooklyn Visions Academy, as Miles was very reluctant to change schools. Growing up to be a friendly, humorous, and awkward teenager, Miles formed a bond with his uncle Aaron, and with him gained a love for art, spray-painting graffiti around Brooklyn. Miles Morales was born to Jeff and Rio Morales in 2004 and was raised in Brooklyn, New York, protected from supervillains and other threats by the famous superhero Spider-Man.
