 "Ultimate Spider-Man" is a modernized reboot of the Spider-Man story, starting from the very beginning, with a plot that is inspired by, but very different from, the original continuity, and thus is a parallel universe counterpart to the mainstream version of Spider-Man.The main purpose of the series is to be accessible to new and young readers, as it is free from the decades of history of the original, but it has been embraced by many longtime fans as well.In the ongoing series "", a second Spider-Man was shown to be one of its members, and is simply referred to as the Spider.