This might seem unimportant in the grand scheme of the Archive's size, but it helped strengthen the groundwork for Peter Parker being tied to a queer identity without him actually being paired up with a man. On Archive of Our Own, there are 1435 fanfics tagged 'Steve Rogers/Tony Stark' just within the Spider-Man tag. It didn't help that the movie that introduced Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Civil War, featured a ton of moments that Steve/Tony shippers lapped up. Due to this, Tony Stark's recruitment of the young Peter Parker in the MCU led to many fans who also shipped Tony and Steve seeing the development as an opportunity to create a faux-family out of their ship, with Steve and Tony being Peter's adoptive father, tying Peter even closer to the queer community. The following subsection of queer Spidey 'fanon' is an an intersection of several other fan ships and pairings that built up to the creation of Bi-derman.Ī very popular ship among some Marvel fans is Tony Stark and Steve Rogers.
