History Fanfic / SpiderX

* GeniusCripple: Doctor Conners, naturally; he’s so intelligent he swiftly forms a close friendship with Hank [=McCoy=].

* ProfessorGuineaPig: [=McCoy=] and Conners both regret their decision to do this to themselves, particularly since, unlike with Conners’, there is no way for Beast to reverse his.

* TragicMonster: Used for Curt Conners as the Lizard and [[spoiler:Peter when he mutates into the Man-Spider]].
* TrainingFromHell: Logan demonstrates this on several occasions.

* WouldHitAGirl: Averted for Spider-Man; in his confrontations with Black Cat, she either runs away rather than fighting him, or she ends up fighting with Rogue when she gets involved in the fight.
* XMakesAnythingCool: Tabitha basically makes this observation when [[spoiler:convincing Wanda to join her and Lance in defecting to the X-Men]].

* TheTrickster: Bobby's attempts to figure out a way to prank Peter despite his spider-sense culminate in a mansion-spanning prank war, the students (save for Scott and Jean) becoming 'divided' between Peter and Bobby as they try to prank each other's side, such as Kitty dying Rogue's hair pink and Rogue applying Goth makeup to Kitty's face while she's asleep.

* OfficialCouple: Scott/Jean, Peter/Rogue, Kurt/Amanda; Jamie/Spyder also gets an in.

* PlatonicLifePartners: Peter develops a particularly close dynamic with Kurt as he spends time with the team.

** Curt Conners has retained a peripheral role as one of the few normal humans aware of the X-Men’s secrets, but there is no indication that he will transform back into the Lizard.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: While [[spoiler:powerless after being ‘cured’ of the Man-Spider transformation]], Peter is briefly visited by [[spoiler:Madam Web]], and it is implied that [[spoiler:she arranges for him to regain his powers]] when he chooses [[spoiler:to save Mystique when the two of them are trapped in a collapsed warehouse when it would be easier for him all round to just leave her and focus on trying to get out by himself]].

*** As previously mentioned, Xavier mentions his past relationship with Gabrielle Heller, hinting that David still exists in this series.

* Main/{{Foreshadowing}}: Xavier mentions his past relationship with Gabrielle Heller to May, but makes it clear that he believes the relationship ended without any children.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In a sense; while Gambit and Colossus are portrayed as being on Magneto’s side as they were in ''Evolution'', a few Spidey-focused villains have undergone a comparative ‘upgrade’ in villainy;
** In the comics Electro was powerful, but somewhat dim and fairly direct in his use of his abilities against active opponents, whereas this version is not only determined to prove himself intellectually, but is also outright abusive, beating his ‘girlfriend’ Tabitha when she starts defying him and rendering at least two people brain-dead.
** Comes up a few times with Black Cat as the story unfolds; while she developed a flirtatious relationship with Spider-Man in the comics, in this version she soon abandons this interest due to his explicit rejection of her in favour of Rogue, [[spoiler:to the point where she is now actively working for the Kingpin as a double agent in Magneto’s Brotherhood]].
** In the comics Eddie Brock was ‘justifiably’ angry at Spider-Man for indirectly ruining his career, but this version also has a [[FantasticRacism racist]] attitude towards mutants, attributed to the suit being angry at Peter rejecting it in favour of the X-Men.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Peter Parker and Olivia ‘Ollie’ Osnick (AKA Spyder), as two characters with spider-themed powers, go on to form a sibling-esque dynamic (although there are hints that Spyder’s feelings are now becoming mixed with a confusing semi-crush as she gets older).
** Sometimes Kurt is included in this group due to their shared ability to stick to surfaces, to the point where the three of them have developed a program in the Danger Room where they race against each other; during individual Danger Room training sessions, Kurt and Peter even face variants of the same test.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: None of the Brotherhood are comfortable when they learn that Max was physically abusing Tabitha, although they tolerate his presence due to his raw power.

* EvilCounterpart: The usual examples apply, such as Wolverine=Sabretooth and Spider-Man=Venom, but there are a couple of more unconventional ones in this storyline;

* FateWorseThanDeath: When Peter [[spoiler:is mutated into the Man-Spider]], Rogue speaks for Peter when she learns that [[spoiler:the cure might take away his powers]], affirming that he would [[spoiler:rather be powerless]] than live in his current state.
** Also for Electro’s abusive father; after gaining his powers, Dillon subjected his father to such a massive electric shock that it left the man brain-dead.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Rogue says this word-for-word when the symbiote starts to take Peter over

* PragmaticVillainy: Used more than once;
** Kingpin pays particular attention to events in Bayville once the Sirens become active, but doesn’t pay too much attention to the city once the Sirens stop.

* PutOnTheBus: To various degrees;

* SecondSuperIdentity: In a sense; in recognition of Peter’s refusal to abandon his role as Spider-Man, the X-Men provide him with a second costume to use when he’s fighting with the rest of the team (this version being a black one with X-Men-style shoulder-pads and a large white spider with the legs in the shape of an ‘X’ on his chest), known in the field as ‘Spider-X’.
** After the X-Men’s identities go public, Peter is able to further protect his identity by setting up a chain of events to create the impression that ‘Spider-X’ is actually an android he created that can be controlled by remote.

* SequelHook: There are no immediate plans for more stories in this series, but the author has left potential for a few plot threads to be explored;
** Nathaniel Essex and Miles Warren were part of the team Norman Osborn hired to examine Jean and Peter’s DNA.
** Peter was involved in the capture of Cletus Kassidy while Kassidy was just a ‘regular’ serial killer.
** As previously mentioned, Xavier mentions his past relationship with Gabrielle Heller, hinting that David still exists in this series.
** Apocalypse is still a potential future threat.

* Foreshadowing: Xavier mentions his past relationship with Gabrielle Heller to May, but makes it clear that he believes the relationship ended without any children.

* ShippingTorpedo: While Peter had a secret crush on Mary Jane back in New York, he never got the nerve to tell her how he felt, and by the time they meet again in person, although MJ reflects that her feelings for him were starting to change when he left, Peter is now explicitly dating Rogue.
* ShoutOut: When Kingpin is musing on threats to his business, he thinks about (but doesn’t explicitly name) Daredevil, Moon Knight, Cloak and Dagger, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: When the students at Xavier’s first get the chance to meet some of Peter’s old friends, various characters note that Flash Thompson and Mary Jane are remarkably similar on a superficial level to Duncan Matthews and Jean Grey respectively, although this isn’t a particularly big deal or even an explicit example, as Peter rarely interacts with Duncan and has no romantic interest in Jean.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Black Cat, as always
* AbusiveParents: Magneto towards Wanda, Tabitha mentions her own bad family history, and Max Dillon’s father was rough on him also (although even he didn’t deserve what his son did to him later)
* AccidentalAimingSkills: When Spider-Man is fighting Venom in a church, he is saved when Cyclops blasts the door of the church down with an optic blast so that it strikes Venom and knocks him off, initially assuming that Jean gave him telepathic instructions on where to aim for maximum damage before learning that Scott was actually just lucky
* AdaptationalBadass: Indirectly; May Parker was always a comparatively tough old woman, but being an official part of the staff at Xavier’s gives her a better chance to show it, to the point where she’s the only member of the staff who actually scolds Logan for smoking indoors
* AdaptationalHeroism: Tabitha and Lance were always more tentative members of the Brotherhood in the show, but in this version they outright defect to Xavier’s [[spoiler:to save Wanda and escape Max]]

** In the comics Electro was powerful but somewhat stupid and fairly direct in his use of his abilities only against active opponents, whereas this version is not only determined to prove himself intellectually, but is also outright abusive, beating his ‘girlfriend’ Tabitha when she starts defying him and rendering at least two people brain-dead

** In the comics Eddie Brock was ‘justifiably’ angry at Spider-Man for indirectly ruining his career, but this version also has a [[FantasticRacism racist]] attitude towards mutants, attributed to the suit being angry at Peter rejecting it in favour of the X-Men

* AlmightyMom: May takes on this role to the X-Men, to the point where she can actually tell Logan not to smoke inside. On a more affectionate note, Jean becomes comfortable enough with her to talk to May about her feelings for Scott when she’s trying to figure out if she’s in love with him
* TheAtoner: Peter’s efforts as a hero are all based on his desire to atone for the actions that led to his uncle’s death
* BadassNormal: Black Cat and Bullseye hold their own against Spider-Man and the Bayville Sirens respectively
* BashBrothers: Logan remembers having this with Captain America, and he also mentions having formed a good bond with the Parkers when he worked with them
* BirdsOfAFeather: Peter Parker and Olivia ‘Ollie’ Osnick (AKA Spyder), as two characters with spider-themed powers, go on to form a sibling-esque dynamic (although there are hints that Spyder’s feelings are now becoming mixed with a confusing semi-crush as she gets older)
** Sometimes Kurt is included in this group due to their shared ability to stick to surfaces, to the point where the three of them have developed a program in the Danger Room where they race against each other; during individual Danger Room training sessions, Kurt and Peter even face variants of the same test
** Cyclops and Rogue share this dynamic to some degree; as with Peter and Kurt, their individualised Danger Room training sessions are fairly similar, and they even have a weekly tennis match as the only two on a similar physical level (although [[spoiler:they may abandon this tradition after Rogue’s physical enhancements reach a point where she could easily beat Scott]])

** Observed by Wolverine when the team are searching the sewers for the Lizard, Logan musing to himself that the kids are lucky they don’t have his senses

* BrokenBird: Rogue and Wanda as in canon, but Spyder also gets this, considering that she was abandoned by her parents and witnessed her uncle’s death a few months ago; Peter helps Rogue and Spyder settle in better, and even plays a part in helping Wanda study

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Max Dillon is an abusive jerk who hits women, defies Mystique, and thinks he’s better than most of his ‘teammates’, but the Brotherhood tolerate him because of his raw power

** Peter only learns the day after he did it that he assisted the police in capturing a major serial killer, arguing that he didn’t mention it at first because it didn’t seem like a big deal
** Also applies when Peter learns [[spoiler:that he is being framed for a series of crimes by Mysterio for ruining Quentin Beck's early attempt at revenge,as it takes him a few minutes to remember who Beck is even after unmasking him]].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Norman Osborn serves this role, as he is interested in using mutants as test subjects for biological weapons projects, although he is sane enough in this adaption to keep it relatively discreet, publically stating that he doesn’t mind if people are mutants or humans so long as their money’s green.
* CrossoverShip: In a sense; Peter starts dating Rogue in this series, but although they have met briefly in some of Marvel’s major crossover events they have rarely interacted directly one-on-one

* DomesticAbuser: Max reaches this point in his relationship with Tabitha; she only tolerates it as long as she does because she was initially scared of what he’d do if she broke up with him, and later decides to stay on until she can get Wanda away from Mystique

** Although Harry discovers explicit evidence that his father was involved in [[spoiler:the attack on the Xavier Institute and the subsequent abduction of Xavier, Jean, Peter and Tabitha]], he claims that the work was actually carried out by a mole in the company to protect his father
* EvenEvilHasStandards: None of the Brotherhood are comfortable when they learn that Max was physically abusing Tabitha, although they tolerate his presence due to his raw power

* EvilIsPetty: Electro; as in canon, Max Dillon has the power to be particularly dangerous, but while determined to apply himself at school, he makes it clear more than once that he is less interested in the Brotherhood’s long term agenda of war against the humans in favour of having fun with his abilities right now, such as going out and robbing [=ATMs=]. This can also be shown in his first actions when he realises that he has his powers; what he did to his father was essentially an accident (albeit one he wasn't sorry about), but Dillon then proceeds to render his old school bully brain-dead.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Peter falls victim to this on a few occasions due to the ''Daily Bugle'', and naturally the X-Men get dragged into it when they go public

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Not explicitly invoked, but although Spider-Man tries to give the impression that he has no connection to the Xavier Institute when he is first confronted by Magneto, the fact that he specifically takes Magneto’s helmet off is enough to prove to Magneto that the wall-crawler knows his old friend as only Xavier’s students would know why his helmet is so important
* IWorkAlone: Acknowledged and subverted; while Peter started out as a solo hero, and sometimes has trouble adapting to a team environment, he has generally been shown to work well with the rest of the X-Men

* JuniorCounterpart: Olivia 'Spyder' Osnick techinically fulfils this role towards Peter, as they both have spider-powers, although Spyder can only climb sheer surfaces and generate electric webbing
* LethalChef: Kitty’s cooking is so bad that Peter’s spider-sense went off when he was about to bite into a cookie she’d baked; May offers to help her, but characters all acknowledge that there’s only so much May can do given how bad Kitty is
* LogicalWeakness: In the initial confrontation with the Sentinel prototype, the Sentinel initially ignores Spider-Man as he isn’t a mutant, although it upgrades itself to accommodate him as a target once he does some damage
* LoveTriangle: There is the potential for one with Spider-Man/Rogue/Black Cat, but Peter’s feelings for Rogue and Black Cat’s criminal actions each become too intense too soon for him to seriously feel anything for Black Cat
* LovesMyAlterEgo: In a sense; Black Cat has demonstrated an attraction to Spider-Man, but Peter won’t give her the chance to really get to know him under the mask, both because of her criminal status and because he was developing feelings for Rogue before he met Black Cat

** Sandra Deel, AKA Shriek, bluntly informs Kurt that she is now his adopted sister and she won’t ‘disappoint’ their mother like he did

* MadScientist: Osborn, to the point that he is involved in the creation of the equivalent of the Spider-Slayers (although these versions are designed to go after the X-Men as a whole as well)

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The storyline sticks to the ‘bitten by radioactive spider’ origin for Peter, but his meeting with [[spoiler:Madam Web]] hints at the more mystical elements that have become a part of his history in more recent storylines

** Magneto gives one to Spider-Man when he tries to convince the wall-crawler to join him

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Peter has one after the symbiote is removed, when he realises that he hit Rogue

** Gambit flirts with Rogue when he meets her, but Rogue scolds herself for being even briefly tempted as she already has someone

* NerdsAreSexy: Peter often expresses his surprise that he ended up with Rogue, and his old (pre-Spider-Man) friends comment on this when they see her for the first time

** Peter mentions an incident, from a point before he joined the team, when he stopped a mugger and the man subsequently threw up all over him
** While it was the subject of a whole episode in the series, Mesmero’s temporary brainwashing of certain X-Men is just skimmed over here, as Peter was absent from the whole experience because he was ill with a serious case of flu
** Logan worked with Richard and Mary Parker at some point before his amnesia, and remembers liking the two despite them working for different agencies
* NotGoodWithRejection: Basically the reason the Venom symbiote is lashing out at Peter and the X-Men, with its attention particularly focused on Rogue due to its warped 'feelings' for Peter

* OddFriendship: A few examples, but Tabitha and Wanda in particular, as Tabitha tries to help the socially awkward Wanda adjust to life as a regular teenager after spending the better part of her life locked up
* OfficialCouple: Scott/Jean, Peter/Rogue, Kurt/Amanda; Jamie/Spyder also gets an in
* OneManArmy: The Juggernaut holds his own against the entire team, including Spider-Man
* OneSteveLimit: Referenced when Doctor Conners’ wife calls for her husband while he’s talking to the students by the pool, causing both him and Nightcrawler to respond before they confirm who she’s talking to

* ParentalSubstitute: Along with the rest of the teaching staff at Xavier’s, May takes on this role after she starts working at the school, such as offering emotional support when Jean is trying to work out if she’s in love with Scott
* PlatonicLifePartners: Peter develops a particularly close dynamic with Kurt as he spends time with the team
* PowerIncontinence: Rogue suffers from a power overload [[spoiler:after she absorbs Venom, due to the symbiote’s non-human nature disrupting her ability as she was never intended to absorb anything that wasn’t human or mutant]]

** Kingpin pays particular attention to events in Bayville once the Sirens become active, but doesn’t pay too much attention to the city once the Sirens stop
** Norman Osborn knows exactly who the X-Men are and what they can do, but once his initial attempt [[spoiler:to capture some of them as test subjects is brought to an end]], he leaves them alone even though none of the X-Men know that he was behind everything ([[spoiler:Harry claimed that the facility was set up by someone inside the company misappropriating funds]]) and he could easily make similar arrangements

** Kitty is quick to support the idea of Peter and Rogue as a couple, and Spyder joins her in her efforts to encourage them to get together

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Subverted; after Tabitha and Wanda leave the Brotherhood, they are replaced by Delilah and Sandra Deel, AKA Shriek

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: When the students at Xavier’s first get the chance to meet some of Peter’s old friends, various characters note that Flash Thompson and Mary Jane are remarkably similar on a superficial level to Duncan Matthews and Jean Grey respectively, although this isn’t a particularly big deal or even an explicit example, as Peter rarely interacts with Duncan and has no romantic interest in Jean

** Black Cat is physically enhanced by a machine Magneto has developed that gives regular humans mutant powers (others subjected to this process include characters who were members of Spider-Man’s Rogue’s Gallery, but Black Cat is the only one who never had any actual powers in the original storyline)

* UnluckyEverydude: Subverted; Peter might still get some bad breaks, including his initial fears over expressing his feelings for Rogue, [[spoiler:being infected by the Venom symbiote, captured by [=OsCorp=], and mutating into the Man-Spider]], but he has a far better support system to deal with them now that he’s on a team
* WouldHitAGirl: Averted for Spider-Man; in his confrontations with Black Cat, she either runs away rather than fighting him, or she ends up fighting with Rogue when she gets involved in the fight

* DemotedToExtra: Doctor Otto Octavius is one of Spider-Man’s greatest adversaries in canon, but in this storyline he has never even met the wall-crawler, his vendetta being focused on Norman Osborn for causing the accident that led to his arms being fused to him.

** In the comics Electro was powerful but somewhat stupid, whereas this version is not only determined to prove himself intellectually, but is also outright abusive, beating his ‘girlfriend’ Tabitha when she starts defying him and rendering at least two people brain-dead

** Also applies when Peter learns [[spoiler:that he is being framed for a series of crimes by Mysterio ]].

* CareerEndingInjury: Referenced for Doctor Conners and (in a sense) Hank [=McCoy=]/Beast; Conners was forced to leave his old research job at Oscorp because of the accident that cost him his arm, and [=McCoy=] left his old teaching job because his mutation accelerated to the point where he mutated into his blue state
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Peter, to such an extent that Xavier allows him to continue as Spider-Man despite his current desire to keep the existence of mutants secret
* ContrivedCoincidence: With no obvious sign that they were aware of the other, Xavier and Mystique each recruit their first ‘mutate’ (an artificially-enhanced human rather than a traditional mutant) at the same time, Xavier recruiting Spider-Man and Mystique enlisting Electro

** Another example is more like ‘even {{Jerkass}} has standards’; when Eddie Brock presents Jameson with photos of a robbery where he saw Spider-Man try to stop Shocker and Rhino stealing a truck, he initially only sells Jameson photos which support the idea that Spider-Man was helping the other two commit the crime and reports the situation as such. When other photos of the theft are sold to a different newspaper to give the true story (having been [[spoiler:stolen by Spider-Man while he’s under the influence of the black suit]]), Jameson informs Brock that he might imply Spider-Man was involved in criminal activity, but he would never outright say that Spider-Man was a criminal unless all the evidence pointed in that direction

* FateWorseThanDeath: When Peter [[spoiler:is mutated into the Man-Spider]], Rogue speaks for Peter when she learns that [[spoiler:the cure might take away his powers]], affirming that he would rather be powerless than live in his current state
** Also for Electro’s abusive father; after gaining his powers, Dillon subjected his father to such a massive electric shock that it left the man brain-dead

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Used for [[spoiler:Mysterio, who attempts to frame Spider-Man for a series of crimes based on an accident that occurred during a previous incident that Peter doesn’t even remember at first]]

* GeniusCripple: Doctor Conners, naturally; he’s so intelligent he swiftly forms a close friendship with Hank [=McCoy=]

* HeroesWantRedheads: After Peter arrives in the manor and starts talking about Mary Jane, Kurt jokes that he and Scott have something in common and introduces Peter to Jean

** Mary Jane and Harry Osborn are no longer a regular part of Peter’s life after he moves to the Xavier Institute, but he still talks with them over the phone and meets them in person when the opportunity comes up
** Mystique’s ‘secret identity’ as Risty Wilde is exposed ahead of schedule thanks to Peter’s spider-sense; the revelation that he can somehow see through her disguises prompts Mystique to abandon her and Magneto’s future plan for her to pose as Xavier
** Curt Conners has retained a peripheral role as one of the few normal humans aware of the X-Men’s secrets, but there is no indication that he will transform back into the Lizard
** Rahne and Jubilee still leave the school, but they are given an actual farewell party rather than just vanishing from the cast with no explanation
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Noted when Peter is possessed by the symbiote, as the X-Men are all concerned about his change in attitude even before they learn what happened

** Peter was involved in the capture of Cletus Kassidy while he was just a ‘regular’ serial killer.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Peter’s presence throws off both Mystique’s immediate plan to spend time with Rogue as Risty and her and Magneto's more long-term plan to infiltrate the manor and pose as Xavier, as his spider-sense makes him aware of her even when she isn’t explicitly doing anything dangerous (although she doesn't actually know how he sensed her).
* SplitPersonality: Norman Osborn clearly doesn’t remember that he is the Green Goblin at this point, to the extent of wondering who stole the equipment used by the Goblin, but he is still pursuing his own criminal agenda as himself
* StalkerWithACrush: Referenced for Black Cat, but while she flirts with Spider-Man a few times and tries to convince him to leave with her, he never responds in a manner that would make her believe she has a chance

* TookALevelInJerkass: Duncan Matthews was just a jerk in the show, but here he explicitly tells Peter at one point that he’s only with Jean for the possibility of having sex with her, and when he learns about mutants while witnessing the fight against the Sentinel he starts wondering if he could have ‘caught’ something from them as though it’s a disease

* TrainingFromHell: Logan demonstrates this on several occasions

* EnemyMine: A minor example; Shriek hates Mystique’s other children as potential competition, and thus has issues with those close to them such as Amanda and Peter, but after Peter saves Mystique from [[spoiler:Electro when the former Brotherhood member decides to leave the team]], she decides to let him go.

* EvilCounterpart: The usual examples apply, such as Wolverine=Sabretooth and Spider-Man=Venom, but there are a couple of unusual ones;
** Spider-Man=Electro, both serving as the first ‘mutate’ (ordinary human given powers through chance mutation) on their respective teams
** Rogue=Black Cat, as each are fairly evenly matched in their fights, coupled with their mutual interests in Spider-Man

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Peter falls victim to this on a few occasions due to the Daily Bugle, and naturally the X-Men get dragged into it when they go public

* UnluckyEverydude: Subverted; Peter might still get some bad breaks, but he has a far better support system to deal with them now that he’s on a team
* WouldHitAGirl: Averted for Spider-Man; in his confrontations with Black Cat, she either runs away rather than fighting him, or she ends up fighting with Rogue

* SixthRanger: Although the seventh member of the core X-Men team, Peter essentially fulfils this role after he joins the team due to his unique position

* TheTrickster: Bobby's attempts to figure out a way to prank Peter despite his spider-sense culminate in a mansion-spanning prank war, the students becoming 'divided' between Peter and Bobby as they try to prank each other's side, such as Kitty dying Rogue's hair pink and Rogue applying Goth makeup to Kitty's face while she's asleep.

* CareerEndingInjury: Referenced for Doctor Conners and (in a sense) Hank McCoy/Beast; Conners was forced to leave his old research job at Oscorp because of the accident that cost him his arm, and McCoy left his old teaching job because his mutation accelerated to the point where he mutated into his blue state

* EvilIsPetty: Electro; as in canon, Max Dillon has the power to be particularly dangerous, but while determined to apply himself at school, he makes it clear more than once that he is less interested in the Brotherhood’s long term agenda of war against the humans in favour of having fun with his abilities right now, such as going out and robbing ATMs. This can also be shown in his first actions when he realises that he has his powers; what he did to his father was essentially an accident (albeit one he wasn't sorry about), but Dillon then proceeds to render his old school bully brain-dead.

* GeniusCripple: Doctor Conners, naturally; he’s so intelligent he swiftly forms a close friendship with Hank McCoy

* MuggleBestFriend: Amanda forms a romantic version of this with Kurt, but Scott and Jean’s friends Paul and Taryn are also elevated to this after they decide to tell them the truth about mutants, the Conners family all form this kind of relationship with the team (Curt forms a bond as a fellow scientist with Hank McCoy, his wife Martha gets along well with Ororo, and his son Billy hits it off with Jamie and Spyder), and Mary Jane and Harry Osborn still consider Peter a friend even after learning that he didn't tell them about his powers (although Harry [[spoiler:is lying about his father's role in the abduction of some of the team]]).

* ProfessorGuineaPig: McCoy and Conners both regret their decision to do this to themselves, particularly since, unlike with Conners’, there is no way for Beast to reverse his.

** Mary Jane and Harry Osborn are no longer a regular part of Peter’s life after he moves to the Xavier Institute, but he still talks with them over the phones and meets them in person when the opportunity comes up

* FishbowlHelmet: Mysterio; who else?

* GiveGeeksAChance: Peter ends up dating Rogue despite his geeky background

* MuggleBestFriend: Amanda forms a romantic version of this with Kurt, but Scott and Jean’s friends Paul and Taryn are also elevated to this after they decide to tell them the truth about mutants, and the Conners family all form this kind of relationship with the team (Curt forms a bond as a fellow scientist with Hank McCoy, his wife Martha gets along well with Ororo, and his son Billy hits it off with Jamie and Spyder).

* ParentalAbandonment: Peter’s parents are deceased, and Spyder notes that she was abandoned by her parents at a young age due to her obvious mutation, and was raised by her uncle ever since

** Nathaniel Essex and Miles Warren were part of the team Norman Osborn hired to examine Jean and Peter’s DNA
** Peter was involved in the capture of Cletus Kassidy while he was just a ‘regular’ serial killer
** Apocalypse is still a potential future threat
* ShipperOnDeck: Kitty is quick to support the idea of Peter and Rogue as a couple, and Spyder joins her in her efforts to encourage them to get together

* SpannerInTheWorks: Peter’s presence throws off Mystique’s plans to infiltrate the team as his spider-sense makes him aware of her even when she isn’t explicitly doing anything dangerous to the team

* XMakesEverythingCool: Tabitha basically makes this observation when [[spoiler:convincing Wanda to join her and Lance in defecting to the X-Men]].

The ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1898532/1/SpiderX Spider-X]]’’ series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/522267/Agent-G Agent-G]] is essentially a crossover between the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' series and ''Franchise/SpiderMan''. Starting when Cyclops and Rogue are rescued from a mugging by Spider-Man during their time in New York, they go on to offer him a place at the Institute, where he forms particular friendships with Kurt and Kitty while falling in love with Rogue. Whether as a direct result of Peter’s presence or just interesting coincidences, several of Spider-Man’s villains and potential allies thus become involved in the events of ''Evolution'', introducing new friends for the X-Men while also forcing them to face new problems.

The ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1898532/1/SpiderX Spider-X]]’’ series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/522267/Agent-G Agent-G]] is essentially a crossover between the WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution series and Franchise/SpiderMan. Starting when Cyclops and Rogue are rescued from a mugging by Spider-Man during their time in New York, they go on to offer him a place at the Institute, where he forms particular friendships with Kurt and Kitty while falling in love with Rogue. Whether as a direct result of Peter’s presence or just interesting coincidences, several of Spider-Man’s villains and potential allies thus become involved in the events of Evolution, introducing new friends for the X-Men while also forcing them to face new problems.

* AdaptationalVillainy: In a sense; while Gambit and Colossus are portrayed as being on Magneto’s side as they were in Evolution, a few Spidey-focused villains have undergone a comparative ‘upgrade’ in villainy;

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The original Evolutions series already inverted this trope, but the series takes the final step by having Rogue tell Peter her real name is [[spoiler:Anna]], although she makes it clear that he shouldn’t tell anyone else.

** In the comics Electro was powerful but somewhat stupid, whereas this version is not only determined to prove himself intellectually, but is also outright abusive, beating his ‘girlfriend’ Tabitha when she starts defying him

* EvilIsPetty: Electro; as in canon, Max Dillon has the power to be particularly dangerous, but while determined to apply himself at school, he makes it clear more than once that he is less interested in the Brotherhood’s long term agenda of war against the humans in favour of having fun with his abilities right now, such as going out and robbing ATMs

* JerkJock: Duncan Matthews and Flash Thompson demonstrate this

* AbhorentAdmirer: As in the original series, Toad fills this role for Wanda, and there is a certain hint at this in the symbiote’s feelings at being rejected by Peter (albeit [[spoiler:when ‘translated’ by Rogue after she absorbed Venom to stop him, musing that comparing the symbiote’s feelings towards her to jealousy is the best analogy she can come up with]]).

* FriendsWhoNeverHang: It is stated that Ororo is good friends with Martha Connors, the wife of the former Lizard, but they are never shown spending time together one-on-one.