"Identity Crisis" is an eight-part storyline printed in Marvel Comics' Spider-Man family of books in May - June 1998. Spider-Man was framed by Norman Osborn and the Trapster for murder of a small-time crook named Joey Z using "web fluid" to fill his lungs. Norman Osborn also "provoked" Spider-Man into attacking him on tape, leaving Spider-Man with a five-million-dollar reward posted for his capture and unable to even go out on patrols without the police or even normal people attempting to shoot him.
Instead of his normal costumed identity, Peter Parker adopted four other costumes with different crime-fighting personae in order to stay under the radar, reasoning that the emergence of one new superhero with spider-like powers immediately after Spider-Man's disappearance would be too suspicious, but that the appearance of a few different superheroes would allow him fallback options if any one of the identities were exposed.
With two identities- the Hornet and Prodigy- posing as heroes while the other two- Dusk and Ricochet- pretended to be criminals,
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Who should Y/N become even he's old enough?
The shadowy avenger known as Dusk.
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The high-flying wonder called Hornet.
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The coldly efficient Prodigy
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The hyper-kinetic, freewheeling Ricochet.
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