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* BadToWorse: In The Sandman is coming Spidey ends up in the Everglades and has a fight with an alligator. He wins and sends the beast flying but then half a dozen more attack. After a few problems with his webshooters Spidey makes a quick exit...


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* FromBadToWorse: In The Sandman is coming Spidey ends up in the Everglades and has a fight with an alligator. He wins and sends the beast flying but then half a dozen more attack. After a few problems with his webshooters Spidey makes a quick exit...
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*BadToWorse: In The Sandman is coming Spidey ends up in the Everglades and has a fight with an alligator. He wins and sends the beast flying but then half a dozen more attack. After a few problems with his webshooters Spidey makes a quick exit...
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** Peter refusing to donate blood is probably one to the "Master planner" arc in the comics where (after previously giving blood to Aunt May she developed radiation poisoning and Peter barely managed to find a means to save her in time. Given the series opens a number of years into his career its very possible Spidey faced that issue in this universe as well and has no desire to go though that again.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Lizard is depicted as a straight-up madman bent on helping reptiles overthrow humanity from the get-go, when the comics portrayed him as an innocent scientist whose transformations were a side effect of attempting to regrow his lost arm. For all we know, this incarnation of Curt Connors may have even deliberately caused his transformation into a humanoid reptile.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Lizard is depicted as a straight-up madman bent on helping reptiles overthrow humanity from the get-go, when the comics portrayed him as an innocent scientist whose transformations were a side effect of attempting to regrow his lost arm. For all we know, this incarnation of Curt Connors may have even deliberately caused his transformation into a humanoid reptile. This version also depicts him with the ability to speak.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Goron from “The A-B-Cs of Doom”. Not only he is Doctor Doom’s frequent enemy and Spider-Man knows of him [[spoiler: including his true form]], but the world leaders appear to be personally aquinted with him as well.
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* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: "When Magneto Speaks...People Listen" at one point has Spider-Man fight a bunch of missile launchers shaped like Easter Island heads.
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* BigDamnKiss: Between Spidey and Medusa. They share a quick yet tender embrace before parting company.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: "The Sandman is Coming" has two cases of unscrupulous characters immediately getting their just deserts. J. Jonah Jameson sees Spider-Man about to get hit by a truck and refuses to help him, only to get arrested because a bystander saw him gloat about photographing Spider-Man's death and reported him to the police. Peter Parker's mean-spirited classmate also tries to get Peter expelled by claiming that he left her at the mercy of the Sandman, but she ends up expelled instead when Spider-Man presents the teachers with photographic evidence that she shoved Peter into harm's way.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: "The Sandman is Coming" has two cases of unscrupulous characters immediately getting their just deserts. J. Jonah Jameson sees Spider-Man about to get hit by a truck and refuses to help him, only to get arrested because a bystander saw him gloat about photographing Spider-Man's death and reported him to the police. Peter Parker's mean-spirited classmate Sally-Ann Beaumont also tries to get Peter expelled by claiming that he left her at the mercy of the Sandman, but she ends up expelled instead when Spider-Man presents the teachers with photographic evidence that she shoved Peter into harm's way.
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** In "Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man" a bespectacled man who looks exactly like [[ComicBook/Superman Clark Kent]] is using a phone-booth and Spider-Man remarks that he looks familiar.

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** In "Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man" a bespectacled man who looks exactly like [[ComicBook/Superman [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] is using a phone-booth and Spider-Man remarks that he looks familiar.
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** In "Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man" a bespectacled man who looks exactly like [[Franchise/Superman Clark Kent]] is using a phone-booth and Spider-Man remarks that he looks familiar.

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** In "Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man" a bespectacled man who looks exactly like [[Franchise/Superman [[ComicBook/Superman Clark Kent]] is using a phone-booth and Spider-Man remarks that he looks familiar.
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** In "Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man" a bespectacled man who looks exactly like [[Franchise/Superman Clark Kent]] is using a phone-booth and Spider-Man remarks that he looks familiar.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the episode "The Capture of Captain America," just as Spidey was heading towards the sewers to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If get away from the New Yorkers after him for seemingly letting Red Skull capture Cap, you are reading this can make out a vandalized wall in the future, please check background with writing spelling out the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.word "jackass."

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* ShoutOut: In "Dr. Doom, Master of the World", an elderly pilot retorts to Spider-Man's remark about his beat-up plane by asking if he was expecting [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the Starship Enterprise]]. The end of the episode also has Peter Parker ask Betty Brant if she'd like to see [[Film/SupermanTheMovie a movie about a super-guy from another planet who is allergic to green rocks]].

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In "Dr. Doom, Master of the World", an elderly pilot retorts to Spider-Man's remark about his beat-up plane by asking if he was expecting [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the Starship Enterprise]]. The end of the episode also has Peter Parker ask Betty Brant if she'd like to see [[Film/SupermanTheMovie a movie about a super-guy from another planet who is allergic to green rocks]].rocks]].
** "The Incredible Shrinking Spider-Man" features at least two iconic moments from the Creator/RichardMatheson book in which Spider-Man encounters a cat and a Black Widow spider.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Red Skull forces Dr. Niemann to do his bidding despite the latter wanting to use his inventions for the good of humanity, all while insulting and threatening him. When Niemann gets a chance to render him harmless by separating his mind and his body, he jumps at the opportunity.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The episode "The Capture of Captain America" at one point shows graffiti reading "jackass" in the background.
** In one episode featuring Black Cat, she attacks Jonah, and is seen grabbing him. In one shot, her hand goes off panel, and she delivers a telling smirk. While it wasn't shown on screen, the obvious intent was that she'd grabbed his crotch.

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* HalfArcSeason: The majority of the show is episodic in nature, with the exception of a handful of episodes that comprise the Doctor Doom StoryArc.
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* BigBad: Doctor Doom is depicted as the most recurring villain, whose episodes make up a StoryArc where Spider-Man opposes his efforts to take over the world, while aiding rebels in Latveria to depose him.


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Doom is done in by his own KillSat in "Countdown to Doom".


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* KilledOffForReal: Heavily implied to be the case for Doctor Doom after being blasted by his own KillSat in "Countdown to Doom", the finale of his multi-episode StoryArc. Tellingly, he never returns after this and every Doombot across the world shuts down after his demise.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: "The Doom Report" opens with a rebel leader escaping captivity. The man in charge of the site is an old friend of Doom's and profusely apologizes for this. Though acting conciliatory, Doom blasts the floor under the guy's feet to send him into the dungeon, saying he would've done worse if the guy wasn't an old friend.

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* WithFriendsLikeThese: "The Doom Report" opens with a rebel leader escaping captivity. The man in charge of the site is an old friend of Doom's and profusely apologizes for this. Though acting conciliatory, Doom blasts the floor under the guy's feet to send him into the dungeon, saying he would've done worse if the guy wasn't an old friend.friend.
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* CostumeCopycat: "The Capture of Captain America" features a heroic version. With Spider-Man getting blamed for Red Skull capturing Cap, he can't be seen in public without getting attacked by a mob. Peter goes to a costume shop and dresses up like Captain America in order to get around and follow a tracer to the Red Skull's location. He briefly tries to imitate Cap's voice while trying to bum a ride.

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"The Capture of Captain America" features a heroic version. With Spider-Man getting blamed for Red Skull capturing Cap, he can't be seen in public without getting attacked by a mob. Peter goes to a costume shop and dresses up like Captain America in order to get around and follow a tracer to the Red Skull's location. He briefly tries to imitate Cap's voice while trying to bum a ride.ride.
** "Arsenic and Aunt May": Chameleon resorts to this. He doesn't have any big scheme for why; he just wants to flee from his lair, while Spider-Man is fighting his way through various traps. This choice of disguises was in order to evade police, as the Chameleon had just broken out of prison and the real Spider-Man had been on the police's good side recently for some good deeds.



* {{Flashback}}: A brief one in "Arsenic and Aunt May" features part of the origin. Told by the Burglar's cousin, we see Spider-Man go from his show business career to hunting down Ben's killer.



* GoneHorriblyRight: The Chameleon's plan in "Arsenic and Aunt May" is to take advantage of Spider-Man's role in Ben's death by drugging and manipulating May into becoming determined to kill Spidey. Spider-Man doesn't even recognize what's happening until he spots the Chameleon's truck outside May's and follows him back to his lair. As Spider-Man gets caught up in various defenses, the Chameleon intends to slip away and avoid police by dressing up as the webslinger. What he didn't know was that May was nearby and saw him in costume, so she started attacking him and inadvertently foiled his getaway.



* SecretKeeper: Spider-Man shows Medusa the face under the mask, as a show of trust.

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* TheScapegoat: "Arsenic and Aunt May" establishes that a lot of criminals know Spider-Man started fighting crime the night Ben Parker was killed by the unnamed burglar. As a result, that guy isn't very popular among those that Spidey sent to prison, but they also hate the Burglar's cousin just by association and will vent any frustration towards him.
* SecretKeeper: Spider-Man shows Medusa the face under the mask, as a show of trust. [[spoiler:She refuses to look out of respect for his secret, so it's actually averted]].

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