A five-year-old boy fell to his death from his 19th-floor bedroom window after he was refused permission to watch the latest Spider-Man movie, according to reports.
Naming him only as Valentino, police in Indonesia said the boy locked himself in his room at an apartment complex in the capital Jakarta after an argument with his mother.
Officers are investigating the possibility the tragic youngster may have either taken his own life or mimicked his screen hero.
According to Indonesian media the boy was in the bath on Thursday when he asked his mother, a 23-year-old woman named as Eva, if he could see the latest superhero film.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was released in Indonesia on Wednesday and has been a smash hit, scoring the country's highest opening day box office figures of all time.
But the boy's mother said he could not go because his one-year-old brother was ill and she wanted to visit the toddler at her mother's house, kompas.com reported.
'After his request was declined, Valentino then rushed to his room and locked it from the inside,' police Senior Commander Suyudi told the website.
The police chief continued: 'The mother was still trying to unlock the door when she heard a sound that turned out to be her son jumping from the room's window.'
The child's body was later found on the fibreglass roof of the food court in the apartment complex, according to reports.
He was taken to the nearby Pluit Hospital in north Jakarta, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
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