An underappreciated moment in the show is when Shocker inadvertently teaches Spidey about how a man honors his responsibilities. Peter already had the whole "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" motif, but Shocker taught him an important angle; Don't dismiss your responsibilities to those closest to you. Just because you're saving the world, that doesn't mean you should forget YOUR world.
I loved that moment especially how it helped Peter make his decision with aunt may it was really nice one of his villains unintentionally taught him something
Fully agree personally. Part of what made this show so fun to me was seeing all these background characters gradually turn into the classic Spidey villains and seeing them fleshed out. It also helped play up the fact they were people being the suits, and that was nice. I ESPECIALLY love Brock, because he's introduced as this nice guy who's close friend with Peter, making his gradual descent into hatred for Spider-Man and eventual transformation into Venom all the more shocking by contrast.
I love how smooth and easy it is for background characters to become A tier villains. The chameleon henchman becoming mysterio blew my mind when I first saw it.
@@AndreNitroX I just hated how Norman Osborn got away with screwing these villains over. I get that’s his character but sick of seeing him get away all the time with no consequences. I just wish we had a sinister six revenge film with Osborn as the antagonist.
I love the gradual build up towards Otto becoming Dr Octopus. It is honestly tragic. Otto was a timid scientist who was forced to help Norman turn criminals into supervillains. He expressed remorse when he believed Flint died and tried to warn Alex about the Rhino suit being permanent. He still had some morality inside him. Even after his transformation, he was considerate enough to warn May to move out of the way and even prevented Rhino from attacking until May and her friend got to safety. In his final moments before his transformation, he meekly said "I've been good". Like a scared little boy who was being punished and he didn't know why.
However, another thing I love about Otto is his evolution as the series goes on. When he becomes Dr. Octopus, he feels liberated and is sure of himself regarding his actions. He feels secure that his plans will work due to his high intelligence, now combined with the liberation of his ego and his willingness to take assertive and drastic action. So, when his smartly crafted plans constantly get thwarted by Spider-Man, he gradually starts to become more embittered, selfish, and cruel. He develops a hatred for Spider-Man, and there's a palpable nastiness and an unhinged state to his character as a result. When Spider-Man ruins his hard work and plans in "Shear Strength", at the end, he's fine letting Gwen and Electro die without a second thought. Electro is especially noticeable, considering Otto developed a father figure relationship with him, and Electro himself, feels nurtured and cared for by Otto. Suitably, just like in the comics, I'd say The Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and Venom are Spider-Man's archenemies in the series. An argument can be made for Tombstone, who is taking the place of Kingpin due to rights issues. While Venom actually thrives on his hatred for Spider-Man, as it's in his very nature, and The Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) is cool, calm, and collected by nature, always strategizing coldly and logically to play the game of crime, and just life period, in a smart way, Doc Ock hates Spider-Man as he is extremely frustrated by him. With Tombstone, he is also noticeably cool, calm, and collected by nature, though certainly not as ambitious and driven as Norman, and there is a palpable sense of decency to his character as well, as opposed to Norman's ruthlessness. There's a respect for Spider-Man with him, but he's also firmly a villain, and will do what he deems needs to be done to thrive best in the criminal underworld.
I also liked that hints of his own darkness seeped in here and there, like his fantasy about attacking Norman just before the incident, or the way he was almost proud when talking about the features of the Rhino suit.
@@tornadochaser2457 I think the reason why Otto has a silly voice is to make the audience doubt the idea of Doc. Ock being the Master planner the whole time. Which makes it more surprising that it's true. I get a very Peter Lorre vibe from him.
I loved the Harry's drug problem through the show. even though this is a Y7 show for kids it had the guts to talk about addiction through a green potion.
Especially since it turns out that the Globulin *isn’t* causing him to become the Goblin - it’s just the sort of realistic substance problem that many face.
One of my favorite parts of this show is that time progresses: you can tell with the change of weather in the background, as well as holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas occurring to really give the audience a sense that Spectacular Spider-Man’s world and its events have a certain “timeline” in a way. Personally I’m just glad that my Thanksgiving doesn’t have Venom in it like Peter does; he doesn’t even get the holidays off.
It seems the show also took some inspiration from the Ultimate Comics - Peter and Eddie being old friends because their parents worked together, as well as both their sets of parents dying in a plane crash - Getting the symbiote in a lab where Eddie worked - Modernizing Peter's photography by incorporating emails - Peter having a scrawnier build - Peter trying out for football is similar to the comics when he first used his powers to get on the basketball team (until Uncle Ben died) - Electro seemingly being "made of" electricity (or just generating so much that it looks like he's pure energy - Even their original plans to include characters like the X-Men is reminiscent to how often Peter interacted with them in the Ultimate Comics - Thombstone reflecting Kingpin is reminiscent to how in those comics, Kingpin was one of the first villains Spider-man dealt with, and on their first encounter, Spider-man gets layed out because he underestimated Thombstone/Kingpin and overestimated himself
This show was amazing. It wasn't taking inspiration, they were literally taking the best of the Ultimate Universe and the best of the 616 universe. Thus, they create the best versions of their characters, like Eddie Brock, for example. Mf was so mediocre in both universes, but in SPM he was really fucking cool.
This is why I don’t understand when people call this show overrated. If you pay attention you realize how much they manage to accomplish within one episode yet it’s still coherent and entertaining at the same time. There’s no filler garbage and no wasted screen time. This show was a masterpiece. Great video
Introducing a plethora of characters in the background as normal people only for them to “debut” as villains in their own episodes happens so much in the series that they even were setting up future villains for a potential third season: Cletus Kassidy (Carnage) in the rehabilitation center, Roderick Kingsley (Hobgoblin) during the gang wars, Morris Bench (Hydro-Man) when attempting to defuse the bomb set off by Master Planner, and Mac Gargan (Scorpion) was mentioned in the final episode. All of these characters would’ve likely appeared and become their alter egos in the following season.
The thing I loved so much about spectacular Spider-Man is how effortless they were able to weave in spidey rogue gallery with the life of Peter Parker. That combined with often seeing how the villains adapted to Spider-Man and the effect he has on the criminal underworld and how they deal with each other was one of the best parts of the show.
@Donniedrako I wish the show can still get revived or something out of the blue tops this. Plus the music and animation give the Saturday morning vibes that make it feel extra wholesome
I'd actually like you to do an exploration of the character of Rhino, from his start to his last appearance, and how the show handled him with more respect than he tends to get in the comics. In most other media, Rhino has become something of a one-note thug character that Spidey takes down with relative ease, but SSM made him a powerful menace in his first appearance, and even after that, the closest he comes to being treated as a joke is one scene where he's tricked into walking on thin ice. And he later gets to pull one over on Spidey in "Accomplices."
Even that one scene came after he stomped Spidey's head into the wooden piller. If it had been concrete, Spidey would have been dead. It's funny how he just kept fighting the rest of the night after that. I do love this version of Rhyno. My only problem is how does he use the bathroom?
My suggestion is the theme of how much organized crime factors into this Spidey show. Norman was threatened by the mob and then became a mob boss himself (a crazy one who wasted military grade weaponry on gangbangers…but still). Even the formation of the Sinister Six was the beginning of Octavius cornering the supervillain market and becoming the mob boss known as the Master Planner. Another theme that doesn’t get talked about much is Peter’s life being separate from his Spider-Man one. I don’t think any adaptations since spectacular found a way to balance it. With the Peter specific part of Spider-Man being almost nonexistent in every thing afterward (with all his friends either gaining powers too, or being too involved as civilians when it comes to super-heroics)
Made it feel more like a small world. I wish with carnage who was going to be introduced that the show also had disorganized crime be more of a feature
It was crazy how it managed to be speedy, but never tripping over itself with its swift pacing. Electro shows up to terrorize Connors, and inadvertently causes the lizard serum to become supercharged, making it go from a previously ineffective shot to actually restoring the doctor's arm, and setting on the course of his mutation into the lizard. They could have had it just be an entire episode in and of itself, with Connors trying to crack the formula for regrowing his arm, and then going right into the lizard transformation, instead, it was given a boost from a completely unrelated and unintentional bit of help from someone who was seeking to do anything but help Connors.
The thing I loved most about Spectacular Spider-Man was how connected Eddie was to Peter Parker I know this is basically an adaptation of Eddie's ultimate character but how it was handled set up such a close brotherly connection it wouldn't have been a difficult jump to turn him into an antihero in season 3. Which I believe the creators said was at least partially going to be adapted in a Maximum Carnage storyline they had been planning on developing. What I would really love to see is an introspective into Eddie's character arc and development in this series that haven't been done before and is personally my favorite interpretation of the character
I really loved this series giving us glimpses of what could have been. It was breathing and thriving. I love the villains like Shocker, Doc Ock who I think was done better then the 90s version, Norman Osborn. I would have loved to see Hobgoblin, Carnage and Hydro Man appearing.
@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674 the cancellation happened before Disney even got Marvel. It was due to the rights between Sony and Marvel with the messy legal troubles.
The show is cause and effect entirely, there's never an action without a reaction, by creating characters they created the plot, by creating the settings they created the characters, there's no wasted movement. They came in with a question and when it wouldn't answer itself they didn't scrap it, rather they tweaked the character so that their actions would answer it, even if it's just by meeting another character that forces them to action because they want to do something the other doesn't. It's so simple yet by always looking at cause and effect it created depth, it created more, and probably would be on season 12 by now with minimal wear because of the emphasis on causation. I hope more shows adopt this, asking what would happen if we created x world, what would grow there, and what do they do. By doing that, you've got everything needed to make a great show, no matter the length.
I can't think of any show that has more fan support for a revival than Spectacular Spider-Man. Clone Wars, I believe, had stronger support but since that did end up coming back, it makes Spectacular Spider-Man the new frontrunner.
One little detail when Doctor Octopus is being transformed is that he says "I've been good" and I don't know if the dock ock origin comic came out in 2008 but it could be a reference to the fact he was abused.
The Sinister Six episode also has this subtle untold worldbuilding that works brilliantly in that the villains actively found ways to counter their first defeat. Doc Ock was beaten by exploiting the tentacles’ battery, so he got a more reliable source in Electro. Electro was beaten by zapping himself in water, so he taught himself to keep it together when wet. Sandman was beaten by exploiting his sand biology, so he made sure to stay out of the water that was dissolving him. Vulture was beaten by getting his glider smashed, so he reinforced it. Rhino got tricked into exhausting himself in a tunnel, so he stayed away from the sewers. Shocker was beaten by recklessly blasting his surroundings, so he made sure to keep track of his teammates throughout the fights (like when he warned Vulture to move). Hell, there’s even the foreshadowing of the Symbiote’s weakness when it briefly gets disrupted while holding Shocker’s gauntlet, a blink and you miss it moment that isn’t even brought to attention.
one of the many more amazing details of the show, and the fact that there would be a new version of the Six every season, shows that they would be more and more unbeatable against Spidey
The best thing about this show is how amazing the world building is and how great the characters are written, especially the effort it is put in fleshing it all out. Peter goes up the rung fighting street crooks to gangsters to super powered maniacs and how the city's criminal element changes. He also learns with each fight and improves with each fight. Not to mention, he needed an upgrade through the symbiote to fight against the sinexter six for the first time. Speaking of the characters....jeez. This show taps into the vast insane cast of Spidey's supporting characters from the comics and has some deep pulls and creates a couple of OCs as well. None of this feels soap opera ish or too dramatic. While each character is introduced as the template-flash being the bully and Mary Jane being the amazing girl next door....they do go deeper with exploring them beyond. And this entire show is character driven, with how peter and his choices affecting not just affecting his own life, but the lives of those around him. This show wins based on the way it understands the biggest factor that has always driven spider-man:his constant dilemma between his choices, the one he has to make between personal life and the responsibility of the great power he inherited. Then again....that's what you get from Greg freaking Weisman.
I don’t view it as a choice between responsibility and personal life because usually it’s responsibility for him which is why I don’t get how it’s framed as that
I loved how captain Stacy was hinting that he knew Spider-Man was Peter n being cool w it and understanding why he’s being a vigilante . Also the fact that he looks out for him even when he was blackmailed. Also loved how the show incorporated Peter Parker’s job at the bugle to help him get intel on what’s going on and knowing who’s pulling the strings of crime in New York . it just felt realistic . And I love how Peter will always choose to sacrifice his personal life to do the greater good. And the show does it in such away that u care about peters personal life and want him to just succeed in being a person and that makes u appreciate him more because he doesn’t choose to get caught up in all that . He remembers he still has a responsibility
I really loved Spectacular Spider-Man as a kid. I still do, everything about it was great and still is great. The plot is 10/10, the charming art style and much more. Also keep up the content, your videos are nice to watch, I binge some of your videos. (sorry for a long comment)
I only just found this on Netflix and really enjoyed it. It should have had its 5 season arc. I loved that it had a timeline, the school play, flashes broken leg, the weather changing, peter saving up for a better camera... It wasn't just episodic rinse and repeat. Cartoons rarely, if ever, do that sort of thing. I believe we'd have seen parker graduate and go to college in his later seasons, the lizard would have happened, i suspect they'd have had a carnage storyline, tombstone could have been working for or battle kingpin for power. So many possible stories. It was a joy to watch.
My favorite member of the Six was definitely Shocker. As a long time fan of the Enforcers it was great to see my favorite member get the glow up to full on super villain. If you want to know why Montanas my favorite, just look at my name, I don't get a lot of Montanas in media so I'm happy anytime I get one that isn't a Disney country music starlet or the rich brat from Tiny Toons. ENFORCERS FOR LIFE!!!
There are a lot of aspects of Spectacular Spider-Man that work really well. Including Gwen Stacy makes it more exciting because, unlike Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy is allowed to die. The layers of misdirection around the Green Goblin allowed it to actually surprise me with the reveal... something that's been spoiled for me since I was negative twenty. The toll his heroics takes on his personal life... the just straight up bad decisions he makes that feel totally organic and earned. It's magnificent. Cutting it short was a real tragedy.
9:36 A perfect example of what you're talking about here that was DEFINITELY being set-up for a future season was Miles Warren. If Season 3 happened, there's a good chance we'd have seen The Jackal sooner or later because of Warren's arc. Well made video! The Spectacular Spider-Man is one of, if not, my all-time favorite piece of Spider-Man media as it gets everything right. I would totally love a video where you dissect Tombstone as a character as, even if he is a reskinned Kingpin due to legal reasons, Spectacular Spider-Man (as well as Insomniac's first Spider-Man game) made him one of my favorites in Spidey's rogues gallery! :) I love how calculated and, dare I say, affable he was to Spider-Man throughout the series and I'd love to see a deeper dive to his character.
That's why this series is one of the best. Every little detail on screen is important. Maybe it's for the moment or maybe it will gain more importance in the future. It isn't really canon, but I like to think of Kraven. We may think his lion transformation is just important for his episode and a way to make him capable of fighting Spider-Man, but the writers had more plans for that decision for season 3. Why is the Yostverse so good and so short at the same time?
It was a nice and natural way of changing Kraven's weird nature potion he made to become strong into just a straight up lion mutation thing in Spectacular.
I think one of the things that the series does well is that it also takes a bit of inspiration from Batman TAS when introducing the villains, although of course, with more seasons, we could have seen Spectacular reach the glory of that series, at least in characters. I'm also not sure if the '90s series took on some Batman elements as well, but the characters clearly share some similarities in their gallery of villains. By the way, I was enjoying young justice solely because of Josh keaton as Black Spider
He’s redemption arc felt a bit forced but then again he always said he only wanted his big score and was one of the few villains who genuinely weren’t mentally ill
I'm also glad the Master Planner's Sinister Six didn't recycle the entire group's roster. It would've been a bit repetitive if we saw Shocker getting defeated by Spider-Man for the third time, but I feel the most misused member was Vulture. Maybe it was in the plans for the 3rd Season, but I wish they could've tied him back to Oscorp since his original motivations stemmed from hating Osborn.
I like to think that Spectacular Spider-Man was also working towards team-ups with other heroes, as were the other series in the Yostverse. If the series were to get a third season, I would say they probably would be working towards a team-up with the X-Men at some point, and it would at point a bit earlier than the start of Wolverine and the X-Men but also setting up pieces of what we would see in the early part of that series, and the establishment of the groundwork for a mentor-mentee relationship between Beast and Spider-Man, maybe even some bits where Peter learns Hanks real name and Hank lightheartedly says to Peter in his Spider-Man persona that he might be willing to share the secret of his identity with them someday with Peter saying he's not so sure about that. In a way, the series would touch on what the prior 1990s series hinted at while establishing an avenue for future storytelling paths. There have been some storylines in the comics where Peter was part of other superhero teams for some period of time, we got a few shades of this in a few episodes of EMH that featured Spider-Man, but Spider-Man has also been part of Fantastic Four and X-Men teams in some past comics. And because of how Spectacular Spider-Man is structured with its economics, Peter might even be willing to sign up with the Xavier Institute because he'll see it as a way of both opening avenues of possible future income and lessening the financial burden on his family, maybe even having the bulk of his income while at institute going to Aunt May. And in those same storylines, the series can set up a future appearance by Peter as Spider-Man in Wolverine and the X-Men when the series makes are return. They can even handwave away why Peter/Spider-Man was never mentioned because of other concerns and not wanting to inadvertently getting him and his family dragged into the problems the X-Men see as theirs to deal with, so avoiding even mentioning him would help in taking things along that way. In quite a few Spider-Man stories, comics, and otherwise, it's implied (and sometimes openly stated) that Spider-Man might be a mutant. When Spectacular Spider-Man was still airing, my brother and I would joke about how both Peter and Gwen would cause partial blips on Cerebro, seeing how Peter's mutant gene was partially activated by the accident that gave him his powers and Gwen's "the look" could be her expressing some sort of conscious control over her own mutant gene for a brief period of time. Mind you, that was all fan theory work by two nerds that watched the shows, but it isn't without merit and could further help with the connectedness in worldbuilding between series.
Greg Weisman and Victor Cook actually had their own plans for the X-Men and other Marvel heroes (starting with a Human Torch team-up), but they couldn't do them because they weren't allowed to since Sony only had the rights to Spider-Man and Ghost Rider characters. Also the reason why I don't consider it part of the "Yostverse".
@@GamerSlyRatchet1 I would loved to have seen a morbius arc that featured a team up with blade or an arc where kingpin is properly introduced and spidey and daredevil (and maybe punisher too) have to take him down
I think the main thing that sets this show apart from the 90s cartoon is that it's way less campy in comparison. The 90s cartoon was made with that specific "super child friendly" vibe with words like destroy, eliminate, and defeat instead of just saying kill despite the plots often being pretty deep and mature. The pacing of the episodes in SSM is also way better too. I prefer the 90s show solely because of how many stories it tells and it's Artstyle but you have to acknowledge the fact that if SSM got like 5 seasons it would easily be one of the greatest cartoon shows ever made. I'd say on par with BTAS. All this comes from the biggest BTAS fan ever.
@@Seasonal-Shadow_4674 Those guys are wearing tinted glasses or something then. The 90s show is fun but it isnt like perfect or the best spiderman show. It's what I grew up with so I prefer it but I know it is far from good quality.
I think a trait like this is especially powerful for media today with all out short attention spans. It's a difficult line to balance potentially more boring set up and satisfying payoff, with one usually relying on the other. Being able to maximize the efficiency of it all by intertwining these stories is a genius way to condense entertainment to have better bang for your buck and should be a model for people looking to make adaptations of large source materials in general
Seriously, I watched this show for the first time and I loved how every single moment was significant and always hit hard, when Eddie turns into Venom thinking Peter was a backstabber, it hurts, you feel it, when Otto pleads to not be taken by the arms again, you genuinely feel the desperation in his plea, that’s what makes this show so engaging and emotionally gripping, and it still only got 2 short seasons to do so.
I really adore Spectacular Spider-Man in how it can balance episodic nature while having connected plotline with great set ups. Something I really hate in Invincible is how it spoils one of the twists from get go, ruining built up it had prior in the comic and just overshadows any other episodic plotlines (most of which happened before and after Nolan first plotline was resolved) and it feels like drag because it lacks development up until final moments. Arcane is masterful in storytelling, yet still has similar issue of not fully developing stuff in Echo connection to Jinx and Jayce bond with his mother, which feels weird when other stuff was done well. I think "full plot, no filler" gets really hard right now and while I'm all for having shorter shows with tight plotlines, their oversaturation and some issues arising when you try to cut all side stuff is worrying. Something like "The Puppetmaster" from Avatar and school arcs in MHA, and Spectacular Spider-man Molten Man episode are great as complete stories of themselves with no need of everything being tie in to main plot, yet being great place for making support cast and themes be better for it, allowing writers to add something beyond main conflict and expand universe in fun ways.
I mean spoiling one of the twists from the get go was honestly the best call for Invincible. When it came to the actual comics, before Issue 8 dropped, interest was steadily declining as people thought "this is just a normal superhero story, but the issues are kinda just getting neatly resolved, there's not much conflict". So much so that Kirkman thought the story would only get to the end of the first arc, and that would be it. But the sudden interest of issue 8 brought everyone and more back on. With a show in this dsy and age, there was ppenty of people losing interest in invincible nearing the end of it's first episode, so they needed that hook. And honestly, i think it does it better in the show, speaking as someone who adores the comics as one of my favorite comic books of all time
This was honestly one of my favourite things about the show, and something I'm trying to reflect in my fanfiction based on the show (even if it's only in the planning stage right now). And trying to reflect that has made me appreciate even more how impressive it is that the writers pulled it off the way they did.
I think what made this show really special is how they used the early spidey comics as somewhat of a base, and filled in certain gaps with stuff taken from different sources. Not just for the sake of using those sources but they knew exactly what parts to take to help their story. Oh, we wanna use Eddie but Peter didn’t meet him until much later in the comics? Let’s take the Ultimate comics route and establish him as Peter’s childhood friend. Or like how they made Peter’s origin almost exactly how it was in the Raimi trilogy. It’s great how they even do that for the little stuff too, like having MJ recite her iconic “Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot” line from the 1994 animated series, or having Sally Avril reject Peter in the first episode, just like she did in the very first comic Spidey appeared in (Amazing Fantasy #15). They didn’t just honor their source material, they made the material work FOR THEM, and that’s why the show is as spectacular as its title suggests.
I already knew this show was good but your analysis showed just how good it really was. Like dang, Spectacular Spider-Man really was fantastic in almost every way
If it’s what the people want then yeah - it might be a while though because I’ve not watched any of it in aaaages so I’ll have to refamiliarise myself first :)
I love everything about this show from start to finish. The only thing I disliked overall was the thing the writers said about Mary Jane being the endgame for Peter. Disliked that since she seems to be rather distant form him in this show and I liked that. Focusing on a Gwen relationship for Peter is something that has not been shown in animation in full.
Obviously if the show continued, they would have put hints here and there that MJ is getting an interest in Peter until the eventual death of Gwen that would make them more closer and etc.
@@uncannydcmarvelous5732 I dislike that personally. It sort of bugs me that people think Gwen Stacy "has" to die if she is in any form of media. If she is not Spider-Gwen then she must die. Find it rather distasteful but that is just me.
@@aerostrafe1075 Funny enough, the 90's TAS had a Gwen Stacey who didn't die. She was actually engaged to Peter Parker, albeit from a different universe. Still, the main Spidey of the show was able to rescue her with the help of Uncle Ben (also alive in that universe).
@@aerostrafe1075 Gwen Stacy was never meant to die in this series(although Captain Stacy could have been killed), but she wouldn't be endgame for Peter
@@spider-manunknown9193 Agreed! And I see you have insomniac Spider-Man as your profile pic. Insomniac is one the best thing to happen to Spider-Man.In the next Tom Holland Spider-Man Trilogy I hope they take more inspiration from the PS4 game. They already gave taken inspiration from the game, Tom uses one of the moves from the game in the final fight with Green Goblin, Aunt May dies, and the apartment Peter moves into looks a lot like from the PS4 game.
The people who work on the show really cared about Spider-Man which is excellent and which is why I love to show more than Batman animated series tbh .
I love that they introduced so many important characters that way. Greg Weisman and Victor Cook would later apply that form of world building and storytelling to their post-Spectacular shows, Young Justice and Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, respectively.
I didn't even see this when it aired. I first saw it when I saw the dvds of volume 2, 4, and 8. After that I never saw anymore of the show or anything. I still have 4 and 8 but I have no idea where 2 went. I am planning on getting the whole collection though so wish me luck on finding the rest.
I recently got the series as a birthday gift to myself and i loved every second, best $20 i spent. When seeing these characters in the background it was setting up so much that by the time their transformations hit it had already set up all the flags it needed. I think this show has my favorite green goblin out of the adaptations I've seen, being equal parts funny and scarily threatening. Not to mention i Love the idea of Ben being in Peters head during the symbiote stuff... Both from the perspective that Peter still thinks back on him when needing help, and as an idea that Ben is a person that meant so much to Peter and is so ingrained into Spider-man's origin that even the Symbiote cannot corrupt Peters thoughts of him. A perfect choice to represent Peters good side trying to drive out the Symbiote. (P.S) on a smaller note, i love spider suits that have the classic underarm webbing and the webbing looks so good in the shows art style
When you stop and think about it... we get introduced to five of the sinister six in the first episode. We saw Adrian Toomes/Vulture, Otto Octavius/Doc Ock, Montana/Shocker, Flint Marko/Sandman & Alex O'Hirn/Rhino. Even then, Electro is only introduced in the next episode. We see the first line-up of the sinister six in the first two episodes.
Spectacular Spider-Man is the reason why I love Spider-Man so much I use to watch this show and pretend I was Spider-Man and my little brother would join in the fun too everytime my friend tells me if I want to come out and play I choose to watch spectacular Spider-Man instead and it gives you this feeling of being Spider-Man and what’s it’s like as a kid and it explains it very well this show could of gone up to season 6 if Sony never bought the rights for Spider-Man and then cancel the show for ultimate and make merchandise we almost had scorpion carnage Hob goblin too in the 3rd season
Spectacular spider is the most praised marvel cartoon that didn’t get the conclusion it deserves Disney: Let’s revive that 90s X-Men series that was praised and got a satisfying concluding long before we owned marvel
Yet we still get stupid debate like who's the best Spider-Man or Captain America The Winter Soldier Vs. Spider-Man Far From Home which movie is better and so on and so forth......
I'm kinda ashamed to say that I only know him from FNAF and League of Legends (mostly because that puts me in the embarrassing and unenviable position of having to admit I play League of Legends... ) But his voice work for the character of Fiddlesticks has shown me that he is an absolutely GOATED VA and would most definitely be a great Carnage.
I personally love the decision to make Eddie Brock a big brother-esque best friend of Peter Parker at the start. It makes his transformation into Venom all the more tragic, because it's a consequence of the distance and secrecy inherent in Peter's life as Spider-Man
Talks about how 2 13 episode seasons is such an amazing accomplishment to have a story on when that has bern the standard for shows for years... That said it is a good show.
Hey how come doctor octopus later on is just fine working with vulture his former boss, that gave him a lot of shit. You’d think he’d just beat the hell out of him out of revenge and call it a day.
Excellent analysis and video presentation. I look forward to watching more of your videos!! This is one of my favorite television series. I also enjoyed your " Stop Making Superman Jesus" and "Marvel's Best Doom" (I hope that's the direction the MCU goes in as well. I'd be interested in a TMNT 2012 treatment.
I just rewatched this series recently while trying to destress from school. The Spectacular Spiderman and X-Men Evolution were the two staple superhero cartoons of my childhood. I wish I could go back and become excited everytime a new episode would broadcast. X-Men Evolution lasted for quite a while, although I wish it could've lasted longer. However it should be a crime that The Spectacular Spiderman only aired for 2 seasons. The season 2 finale got me so hyped. I really hope Disney takes inspiration from this series in Spiderman: Freshman Year. The story, character development, acting, and design were all spot on. It was spectacular then, and it's still spectacular now.
I'll keep myself short to not be annoying, but to answer your question posed at the end, 100% Venom. I know one could argue he is an adaptation of the Ultimate Spider-Man version of the character, but I'd say there are enough differences to distinguish him as an entirely unique take. The way he builds resentment towards peter over the course of the show is well handled. Idk, I like him. Even if I don't ever see him going the Anti Hero route. But that's okay because this time I do actually for once see him having a couple reasons to hate Peter. (Even if you could argue that him finding out that Peter is Spider-Man should technically redeem a lot of "Peter's shitty behaviour". Anyway. Other mention I most importantly wanted to make is that I think this take on the Green Goblin is fantastic, however not as a standalone but as a complementary piece to the comics/movies. Everyone already knows the Goblin's identity. So I love how the show makes it a point to keep the viewer guessing on who it actually is this time around. Norman or Harry.
It was honestly the best Spider-Man Cartoon. I’d say even better than the 90s series which was amazing. The Venom arc was amazing. Having the best Eddie Brock incarnation that really made it personal for Peter. It’s really where “We are Venom” came from. “For now on we’re poison to Peter Parker and Spider-Man. We’re VENOM!” Great origins for the villains too. Sandman and Rhino starting out as regular crooks. The evolution of a nervous Otto into the confident Doctor Octopus. And Tombstone was a surprise, when I heard “big man” and I thought for sure it was Kingpin. Also, holy crap was it h*rny. I went back as an adult and I was getting hot under the collar. Especially with Black Cat, who also was one of the best incarnations. Pete was a harem protagonist. And it’s a shame we never got to see the conclusion. I guess Gwen was gonna die like in the comics and he’d marry MJ. That’s what I heard anyway. But he had Gwen, Liz, Mary Jane, Felicia, and even Sally seemed to be getting the hots for him.
this is why I think this is the best Peter Parker show out there I love ultimate spider-man and the classic 90s, but where Ultimate excels at making the best spider-man, this Spectacular fleshed out everyone so well, you pity the bad guys. ah Spectacular deserved an ending, ultimate ended like a champ
If you dig a bit more at some characters who only show up briefly you can actually find some set ups for hydro man, carnage and the jackal! Seriously it’s mind boggling and an absolute tragedy we don’t get to see them play out.
Honestly, I still prefer the original 90s cartoon. Not only because it was how I was originally introduced to many of these characters but also and even moreso because it took it's time with developing said characters. You make a nice argument for how the writers were able to do so much with so little but a shortcoming that this show has is that it was not able to fully flesh out a lot of these characters, especially the villains after there introductions.
I feel similarly despite spectacular being my absolute favorite. Being cut off after the second season absolutely fucked with it, and from what we've seen, it seems that we'll never get a season 3 or even a concept. If only it could've run the full planned length.
