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What is Ned's ethnicity?

Jacob Batalon, the actor who plays Ned, is of Filipino descent. But it's never been explicitly stated in the MCU Spider-Man films that Ned is part Filipino or that his family is Filipino. The scene solidifies that there are more canon Filipino characters in the MCU.
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What ethnicity is Ned from Spider-Man?

Jacob Batalon is an American actor. Batalon achieved international recognition playing Ned Leeds in five Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, beginning with Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Jacob Batalon was born on October 9, 1996, in Hawaii, to Filipino parents.
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What ethnicity is Spider-Man's friend?

We all know spiderman's sidekick Ned as an Asian but some of us just recently found out that he is a Filipino. The Filipino representation was strong in the recently released 'Spider-Man: No Way Home,' movie what with the introduction of Ned's lola and the Filipino language spoken in the movie.
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Is Ned Leeds White in the comics?

Because Ned Leeds in the original Spider-Man comic books was a Caucasian character.
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Is Ned Leeds Hispanic?

This version is Filipino-American. Leeds is introduced in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), as Peter Parker's best friend who is initially unaware of his friend's secret identity before shortly finding out and supporting him as Spider-Man.
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Which Spider-Man is white?

His full name is Peter Benjamin Parker. He is caucasian and a heterosexual. His parents become absent from his life during childhood. From the time his parents become absent he is raised by Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City.
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Is Ned supposed to be Filipino?

PINOYS IN THE MCU

Jacob Batalon, the actor who plays Ned, is of Filipino descent. But it's never been explicitly stated in the MCU Spider-Man films that Ned is part Filipino or that his family is Filipino. The scene solidifies that there are more canon Filipino characters in the MCU.
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Which Spider-Man is Mexican?

Miles Morales (Spider-Man)
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What race is Ned's grandma?

If not, then you may not know that a short clip in the film made many Filipinos burst with pride. Hawaiʻi resident Mary Rivera played a small role as Lola, the Tagalog-speaking grandmother of Spider-Man's best friend Ned — played by Jacob Batalon, also from Hawaiʻi.
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Who is the Filipino superhero in Marvel?

In July, a panel at San Diego Comic-Con confirmed that Marvel Comics' Filipino superheroine Pearl Pangan, aka Wave, will make her onscreen debut via Spider-Man: Freshman Year in 2024.
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Has there been a Mexican Spider-Man?

Instead, it belonged to a Mexican-published Spider-Man comic, one that was allegedly officially licensed by Marvel Comics! These were original stories, and the numbering of this Mexican comic stretched past Amazing Spider-Man 121, which is when Gwen had passed on.
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Is Silk Spider-Man Mexican?

Miguel O'Hara, an engineer of Irish and Mexican descent, was born after his mother Conchata had an affair with her husband's boss Tyler Stone, though grew up believing his stepfather was also his biological father. As an adult, he worked for Alchemax.
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What ethnicity is Morales?

Morales is a Spanish surname.
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What superhero is Mexican?

There were other Mexican superheroes on film and TV: Kaliman, the Incredible Man had telepathic powers. And El Santo was a masked Lucha Libre wrestler, a luchador who fought zombies, vampires, Frankenstein and rivals like Blue Demon.
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Is there a hispanic Marvel hero?

One of Marvel Comics' most notable and famous Hispanic superheroes is Bonita Juarez, who is better known as Firebird. Born in New Mexico, Bonita is a devout Catholic who gained her powers after coming into contact with an irradiated meteorite.
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Who was the first Hispanic superhero?

A Puerto Rican, White Tiger was the first Latin American main character in the history of American comics and Marvel's first Hispanic superhero. The first member of his family to hold the mantle, Hector is the uncle of Angela del Toro and the brother of Ava Ayala.
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Is Ned Native American Spider-Man?

In No Way Home, Marvel Studios confirmed Ned's Filipino heritage by having his grandmother's (played by Mary Rivera) house as the setting for the two older Peters' entrance into the MCU.
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Is there a Filipino in Family Guy?

Ricardo from Family Guy. Although considered as a minor character, Ricardo has made various cameos in the popular American cartoon called Family Guy. He's the husband of Brian's gay cousin, Jasper, and is confirmed to be from the Philippines. Jasper describes him as a skinny, hairless Filipino boy.
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Is the grandma in Spider-Man Filipino?

The Filipino-speaking grandmother of the character of Ned Leeds in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was spotted in her hometown in Iloilo City. Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas shared that Mary Egida Rivera paid him a courtesy call on October 5, saying that she is a “certified Ilongga.”
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Who is the only black Spider-Man?

When Marvel's editorial staff decided that the Ultimate universe's Peter Parker would be killed in the 2011 storyline "Death of Spider-Man", the character Miles Morales was created. Although Morales is the first black Spider-Man, he marks the second time a Latino character has taken the Spider-Man identity.
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Why did Spider-Man turn black?

Introduction in Secret Wars

Discovering a machine he thought was a fabric creator, a black orb emerges from the machine, immediately covering Peter Parker in a strange sludge-like substance. To his surprise, the sludge began to form itself into a new suit, creating the Symbiote Suit that is now known and loved.
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Can Spider-Man be black?

That's been true since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created the Spider-Man character in 1962. But everything changed in 2011, when Miles Morales, a black teenager of Hispanic descent, was introduced in the comics, after the surprising death of Peter Parker.
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What race is Cindy Moon?

Silk is a Korean-American superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Silk is the alias of Cindy Moon, who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (April 2014) and was created by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos. She was a member of the Spider-Army / Web-Warriors and Agents of Atlas.
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Is Spider-Man 2099 Mexican?

His real identity is Miguel O'Hara, a brilliant Irish-Mexican geneticist living in Nueva York (a renamed New York City) in the year 2099 who attempts to re-create the abilities of the original Spider-Man in other people and later suffers a related accident that causes half of his DNA to be rewritten with a spider's ...
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