Pavitr Prabhakar
Spider-Man India: a village boy in Mumbai who gets a spider's powers from a yogi.
Pavitr Prabhakar is an Indian alternate version of Spider-Man who lives in Mumbai, published by Marvel Comics together with Gotham Entertainment. He first appeared in Spider-Man: India #1, dated January 2005. A shy student from a small village, he lives in the city with his Aunt Maya and Uncle Bhim. He made his film debut in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in 2023, voiced in English by Karan Soni.
Last updated 2026-10-11 from the source article.
Quick Facts
- Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Debut
- Spider-Man: India #1
- Home
- Mumbai; Mumbattan, India
Lore & Background
Pavitr comes to Mumbai on a partial scholarship to the Heritage International School, where he is bullied for his rural background, and befriends Meera Jain, who also moved there from a village. An ancient yogi grants him a spider's powers to fight the evil threatening the world. When his uncle is fatally hurt helping a woman Pavitr had chosen not to save, he learns that great power brings great responsibility. He defeats the crime lord Nalin Oberoi, who had been possessed by a demon through a magic amulet, throws the amulet into the sea and later begins a romance with Meera.
Reader's Guide
In the Spider-Verse storyline Pavitr fights the villain Karn, mistaking him for a demon, and joins the Superior Spider-Man's army of Spiders; in the second volume he teams up on Battleworld with Spider-Gwen, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-UK and Anya Corazon, the group later called the Web Warriors. In Across the Spider-Verse he belongs to Miguel O'Hara's Spider Society, lives in Mumbattan, a city blending Mumbai and Manhattan, and fights in a style based on kalaripayattu. Cricketer Shubman Gill voiced him in Hindi and Punjabi.
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