Miles Morales was born to police officer Jefferson Davis and nurse Rio Morales, and with his family lived happily together in Brooklyn As a young teenager he and his parents were at the lottery drawing to enter the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy, and his name was drawn, being accepted as one of the attendees After Norman Osborn was arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D and publicly revealed as the Green Goblin, and nearly two months before Peter Parker's death, Miles' uncle, Aaron Davis, broke into the abandoned Osborn Industries. Unbeknownst to the thief, a spider genetically enhanced with the Oz Formula crawled into his bag