F.E.A.S.T. (comics)

Food, Emergency Aid, Shelter and Training
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Amazing Spider-Man #548 (March, 2008)
Created by	Dan Slott Steve McNiven
In-story information
Type of business	Non-profit charitable organization, homeless shelter, soup kitchen
Base(s)	New York City, New York Chinatown, New York
Owner(s)	Martin Li (formerly) May Parker
Roster
See: Martin Li May Parker Eddie Brock Andi Benton Randy Robertson Guinevere Enrico Ken Tyler

Food, Emergency Aid, Shelter and Training, otherwise known by its acronym F.E.A.S.T., is a fictional organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, mostly in association with the character Spider-Man. It is a non-profit charitable organization headquartered in New York City, that specializes in the housing and hospitality of displaced and underprivileged civilians.

Debuting in The Amazing Spider-Man #548, F.E.A.S.T. was iniitally founded by Martin Li, a successful businessman presenting himself as a philanthropic and selfless pillar for the city's community. In actuality, it was discovered to be a front for his criminal activities under the identity of the crime lord Mister Negative, as well as a base of operations for his associated gang, the Inner Demons. Upon the exposure of these revelations to the public, Li himself would go into hiding, while F.E.A.S.T. would remain open, albeit in a limited capacity under the supervision of continued volunteer May Parker, before shutting down completely at some point in the future. May would elect to reopen the project out of inspiration for a homeless man who saved her life. It currently remains active and is being operated by Parker herself and Randy Robertson.

F.E.A.S.T. has appeared in other media outside comics, such as television and video games. The organization made its first live-action appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

Publication history

While the founder of F.E.A.S.T. itself, the character Martin LI / Mister Negative had already made several appearances in comics since his debut in Free Comic Book Day: Spider-Man (2007) by Dan Slott and Phil Jimenez, the organization would be retroactively incorporated into his backstory and affiliations in its first appearance during issue #548 (January 2008), written by Slott and penciled by Steve McNiven.

Fictional history

See also: Mister Negative

To further his influence on the criminal underworld in New York City, the crime lord Mister Negative used his charitable and politically powerful background as Martin Li to jumpstart the "F.E.A.S.T. Project", a non-profit soup kitchen dedicated to providing for the impoverished and homeless, while secretly doubling as a front for his criminal activities. He would also be approached by the White Dragon and his gang in the midst of an oncoming turf war over Chinatown between himself and the Hood. Li, expressing disinterest in working with them, corrupted Dragon and dispatched him to attack the Hood as a demonstration of his criminal influence, resulting in the incorporation of former Dragons members as part of his personal syndicate, the Inner Demons and F.E.A.S.T. as a whole. Soon after, May Parker, the aunt of Peter Parker began volunteering at F.E.A.S.T. out of a desire to help the community in her own way. Early in F.E.A.S.T.'s activity, the shelter would be visited by a mutate and drug addict nicknamed "Freak", who had recently turned towards a life of crime as a result of being mocked for his appearance. Attempting to fix his mutation, he robbed other disadvantaged civilians to amass enough money for an antiserum, only to be interceded by F.E.A.S.T. as they protected residents of the shelter. When presented with an offer for refuge by the organization, he instead ran from the premises and resumed his search for a cure elsewhere.

Sometime following his first encounter with Spider-Man himself, Li would also meet Eddie Brock while he visited the soup kitchen, and promptly offered him a volunteer position. To Brock's shock, a single touch from his hand directly caused his cancer illness to completely dissolve by virtue of allowing the remains of the Venom symbiote to merge with his white blood cells, resulting in his transformation into Anti-Venom during a later confrontation with Mac Gargan, who was the symbiote's host at that time. The ensuing encounter also caused a local F.E.A.S.T. shelter to be completely destroyed, and a later confrontation with Mister Negative resulted in Anti-Venom witnessing his transformation back into Li, making him the first person aware of his dual identity and use of F.E.A.S.T. to further his criminal operations. Despite initially failing to believe Brock, Parker helps him expose Li and F.E.A.S.T.'s ulterior motive to the public with the assistance of the vigilante Yuriko Watanabe / Wraith, who collectively disrupt a heroin-smuggling operation and use the latter's visual recognition software to broadcast said attempt to the public across New York, outing Li, F.E.A.S.T., and the Demons. As police arrive to the scene, Li and his men retreat, with the former being captured by his own associates as Martin Li, as they awaited his reversion back to Mister Negative.

Several years later, a confrontation between Spider-Man, Anthony Masters / Taskmaster, and a Life Model Decoy of Eric O' Grady / Black Ant causes a nearby restaurant attended by May Parker and a homeless man to be hit, causing its foundation to collapse. May and the individual were conversing over dinner about her nephew's background in photography due to the man alluding to his original occupation in journalism. Despite initially teaming up with Rhino to defeat the two mercenaries, Spider-Man unintentionally left him to be recaptured and placed in a holding cell under the supervillain Arcade, before proceeding to lift the rubble of the building and allowing everyone to escape, including May. However, as she and Brett Alstettler are assisting with the evacuation of patrons, the homeless man pushes them both out of the way to save their lives, leaving the ceiling to fall and fatally wound him. Spider-Man recognizes the homeless man as former Daily Bugle writer Ned Leeds. While dying, he asked Spider-Man to protect his former girlfriend Betty Brant, but passed on before he would be able to reveal why. Out of respect for Brant's previous experience losing Leeds. Peter opts not to tell her of Leeds' repeated demise. However, the events surrounding the incident prompts Parker's friend and roommate Randy Robertson to meet with May regarding the restoration of F.E.A.S.T., out of inspiration for Leeds' selfless act and unfortunate disposition. Thus, the facility is reopened in New York City, now under the supervision of May and Robertson themselves.

Fictional staff members

• Martin Li (founder, former)
• May Parker-Jameson (owner)
• Andi Benton
• Eddie Brock (former)
• Enrico (former)
• Guinevere
• Ken (former)
• Randy Robertson
• Tyler (former)

In other media

Film

• F.E.A.S.T. is an organization featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise, appearing in the film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). Similar to its comics counterpart, it is headquartered in New York's Chinatown district, while May Parker volunteers to assist with displaced and underprivileged civilians at the Community Center stationed in New York City, and her nephew Peter Parker publicly endorses its efforts under his Spider-Man persona. During the film's events, the recently displaced Norman Osborn, an industrialist and scientist from another reality, discovers an ad for F.E.A.S.T. upon his arrival in the MCU's New York, prompting him to seek shelter at the Community Center. May discovers Osborn, taking him back to her station in order to care for him while informing Peter of his arrival. Peter then escorts Osborn in a F.E.A.S.T. transport truck back to the New York Sanctum, where the other displaced adversaries of Spider-Man are kept in custody. Some time afterwards, Peter uses the truck to bring said individuals to Happy Hogan's personal conduminum in order to synthesize cures for their abnormalities, in an attempt to send them back to their respective realities safely. One such adversary, OsCorp scientist Curt Connors / Lizard, is hidden away in the F.E.A.S.T. truck. During the film's ending, Peter converses with a now-oblivious Happy Hogan following the restoration of his secret identity, as the two of them mourn the recently deceased May Parker. Peter assures Happy that the work May had done to better the community at F.E.A.S.T. would be continued by those touched by her selflessness.

Television

• F.E.A.S.T. makes a brief appearance in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man (2012-2016), during the season 4 episode "The Moon Knight Before Christmas". During the events of the episode, May Parker is seen volunteering at the New York City station during Christmas Day.

Video games

• F.E.A.S.T. is indirectly mentioned in the mobile game Spider-Man Unlimited, developed and published by Gameloft.

Marvel's Spider-Man game series

F.E.A.S.T. is a recurring location in the Marvel's Spider-Man video game series developed by Insomniac Games. Its in-universe history presents a significant deviation from its comics counterpart in regards to the motives behind its establishment. Like the source material, philanthropist and entrepreneur Martin Li founded the project in New York. However, it was never meant to serve as a front for any ulterior criminal activity, nor was it immediately connected to his dual-identity as the crime lord Mr. Negative. F.E.A.S.T. was instead formed out of Li's genuine empathy for the displaced and underprivilleged population of the state, and a way to provide for such people usually discarded by society. Five years prior to the events of the first game, Li recruited May Parker, the aunt of protagonist Peter Parker, to assist with running the Community Center stationed in New York City.

• In Marvel's Spider-Man, Peter first visits F.E.A.S.T. after successfully apprehending crime lord Wilson Fisk and sending him to The Raft for incarceration. Upon arrival, he was tasked by Martin Li to keep his aunt May distracted while the former set up a party to congratulate her for five years of servicing the Community Center. Peter later visits Li himself to have him examine a mask he seized from one of the emerging Demons' gang members as Spider-Man with the assistance of Daily Bugle journalist Mary Jane Watson. Unbeknownst to Parker, Li leads the Demons under the identity of Mr. Negative, prompting him to caution Peter as to not get involved with the source of the masks, which he implied was linked to a dark history recounted to him through ghost stories he was told as a child. Upon being evicted from his apartment in Queens partway through the story, May lets Peter sleep at her personal office at F.E.A.S.T. overnight, additionally providing him a small sum of money to help him financially recover. Li interjects with the two of them, announcing that he would be away from the Community Center for some time while May was expected to supervise the shelter in his absence. Miles Morales also eventually volunteers at the organization following the death of his father Jefferson Davis under the recommendation of Peter himself. May's leading of operations at the Community Center would then be extended indefinitely following Martin Li's public outing as Mr. Negative and subsequent arrest. May herself eventually passes away as a result of poisoning incurred through exposure towards the Devil's Breath virus that was unleashed in Times Square by Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus and his Sinister Six. Her death directly inspires a great expansion of F.E.A.S.T. shelters across Manhattan, with the project adopting her mantra of "When you help someone, you help everyone" as its personal motto.
• In Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the North branch of F.E.A.S.T. is put at risk by Wilson Fisk's attempt to drive off small businesses in Harlem, in an attempt to purchase land and rebuild his criminal empire while imprisoned. It subsequently becomes a battleground among many in the neighbourhood during the turf war between conglomerate Roxxon and its CEO Simon Krieger, and the terrorist group "The Underground" led by Phin Mason / Tinkerer. During the conflict, Fisk attempted to dispatch his remaining forces to steal various memorabilia from the main F.E.A.S.T. Center in Chinatown as part of his takeover. However, he would be apprehended by Miles Morales as the second Spider-Man, causing his sentence served at the Raft to be extended and for Fisk himself to be put under tighter surveillance. Miles would also eventually team with his uncle Aaron Davis / Prowler to put a permanent stop to the war between Roxxon and The Underground.

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