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* AdaptationalJerkass: Black Cat is still a thief but far more antagonistic towards Spider-Man. Instead of being playfully amorous, she wants to publicly humiliate him for interfering in one of her robberies.
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* ClearMyName: In "Carnival of Crime", Spider-Man has to clear his name when the Ringmaster and the Circus of Crime frame him for their crimes by using a gas to make everyone hallucinate Spider-Man as the perpetrator.
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** "Carnival ofCrime", Crime": Spider-Man has to clear his name when the Ringmaster and the Circus of Crime frame him for their crimes by using a gas to make everyone hallucinate Spider-Man as the perpetrator.perpetrator.
** "The Capture of Captain America": Spider-Man accidentally gives Red Skull the opportunity to capture Cap, but Jonah gins up an angry mob into believing Spidey did it deliberately. With the entire city condemning him, Spider-Man needs to rescue Cap.
* 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.
** "Carnival of
** "The Capture of Captain America": Spider-Man accidentally gives Red Skull the opportunity to capture Cap, but Jonah gins up an angry mob into believing Spidey did it deliberately. With the entire city condemning him, Spider-Man needs to rescue Cap.
* 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.
* GreenEyedMonster: Peter admits to a bit of jealousy towards Captain America, who is also a mask-wearing superhero but adored by the public (even by Jonah!). Peter wonders if he subconsciously wanted the Red Skull to capture Cap.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Magneto ends up escaping Spider-Man at the end of the episode "When Magneto Speaks...People Listen".
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Magneto ends up escaping Spider-Man at the end of the episode "When Magneto Speaks...People Listen".Listen".
* 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.
* 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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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Stopping the missiles in "The A-B-C's of D-O-O-M" requires inputting a special code that Goron programmed on behalf of Doctor Doom. With only 30 seconds, Spider-Man types in "Doom" as a guess and proves lucky. He reasoned that Doom's own massive ego made it so likely.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: "Triangle of Evil" has a couple examples. During their first televised challenge, the Stuntman zaps Spider-Man's webline. As it starts to give out, the director says it's time for a commercial break, which the actual episode soon cuts to. Later, Spider-Man has trouble crawling up a building and asks a worker to spray it clean with his hose. The water is animated splashing back against the fourth wall and briefly dripping from there.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Betty has black hair, as opposed to the brown or dark red hair she's usually depicted with.
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* SecretKeeper: Spider-Man shows Medusa the face under the mask, as a show of trust.
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* StoryArc: Dr. Doom's five appearances form a loose story arc, as Spider-Man thwarts his multiple attempts to take over the world and learns of the growing rebellion effort in Latveria.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Jameson's nephew Mortimer stops appearing in the series after the episode "The Hunter and the Hunted".
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends''. The fact that it aired in syndication helps, compared to the more strict guidelines of Saturday morning network TV.
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* Spider-Man deals with the Wizard, a ''Fantastic Four'' villain, in "Under the Wizard's Spell".
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* Spider-Man deals with the Wizard, a ''Fantastic Four'' villain, in "Under the Wizard's Spell".
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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Spidey and Medusa grow fond of each other in ''Under the Wizard's Spell'', but she's unable to stay in New York.
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* PromotedToLoveInterest: Unlike the comics, Medusa is not married and becomes Spidey's love interest for an episode.
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** 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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* OfficerOHara: Spider-Man encounters an Irish-accented cop in "Revenge of the Green Goblin".
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Jameson's nephew Mortimer stops appearing in the series after the episode "The Hunter and the Hunted".
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* TheGhost: Harry Osborn is mentioned in "The Vulture Has Landed", but is never seen.
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* IdiosyncraticWipes: Spider webs are used for the scene transitions.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The episode "The Capture of Captain America" at one point shows graffiti reading "jackass" in the background.
* GrandTheftMe: The Red Skull's plan in "The Capture of Captain America" was to switch minds with Captain America.
* GrandTheftMe: The Red Skull's plan in "The Capture of Captain America" was to switch minds with Captain America.
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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: "The Incredible Shrinking Spider-Man" had Spider-Man shrink to the size of two inches after being zapped with a shrink ray by a villain called the Gadgeteer.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In contrast to his tendency to have it in for Spidey in spite of time and time again stopping criminals and saving the day, J. Jonah Jameson always thinks that Doctor Doom is a good person. You'd think that the name would tip him off.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In contrast to his tendency to have it in for Spidey in spite of the web-slinger time and time again stopping criminals and saving the day, J. Jonah Jameson always thinks that Doctor Doom is a good person. You'd think that the name would tip him off.
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* ExplosiveLeash: In "Under the Wizard's Spell", the Wizard uses an explosive collar to force Medusa of the Inhumans to be his accomplice in crime.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: In contrast to his tendency to have it in for Spidey in spite of time and time again stopping criminals and saving the day, J. Jonah Jameson always thinks that Doctor Doom is a good person. You'd think that the name would tip him off.
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* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', which had Spider-Man team up with Iceman of the X-Men and an original character named Firestar ([[CanonImmigrant who later made it into the comics]]). In spite of a few minor discrepancies between the two series, it is generally believed to be in the same continuity.
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* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', a concurrently airing series which had Spider-Man team up with Iceman of the X-Men and an original character named Firestar ([[CanonImmigrant who later made it into the comics]]). In spite of a few minor discrepancies between the two series, it is generally believed to be in the same continuity.
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* HalloweenEpisode: The episode "Revenge of the Green Goblin" took place on Halloween.
* HypocriticalHumor: In "Revenge of the Green Goblin", one scene has Spider-Man run into a black cat. He notes that it's a good thing he isn't superstitious, then he crosses his fingers.
* HypocriticalHumor: In "Revenge of the Green Goblin", one scene has Spider-Man run into a black cat. He notes that it's a good thing he isn't superstitious, then he crosses his fingers.
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* ClearMyName: In "Carnival of Crime", Spider-Man has to clear his name when the Ringmaster and the Circus of Crime frame him for their crimes by using a gas to make everyone hallucinate Spider-Man as the perpetrator.
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* ActuallyADoombot: The trope namer himself pulls this off in the episode "The Doctor Prescribes Doom", where Spider-Man confronts Doctor Doom at the end of the episode, only for him to turn out to be a robot double.
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* RoboticReveal: In "The Doctor Prescribes Doom", Spider-Man accidentally knocks Robbie Robertson out of the window. Upon crashing to the ground, he is revealed to be a robot duplicate of the real Robbie Robbertson, but Spider-Man is unaware of this and believes he killed Robbie Robertson before meeting the real Robbie and finding that he's the genuine article when he tears off his shirt to try and expose his mechanical insides.
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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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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Doctor Doom is featured as a recurring villain in the series with no mention ever made of his usual enemies the Fantastic Four.
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** Doctor Doom is featured as a recurring villain in the series with no mention ever made of his usual enemies the FantasticFour.Four.
** Spider-Man fights Magneto in the episode "When Magneto Speaks...People Listen", with Magneto's usual enemies the X-Men being nowhere in sight.
** Doctor Doom is featured as a recurring villain in the series with no mention ever made of his usual enemies the Fantastic
** Spider-Man fights Magneto in the episode "When Magneto Speaks...People Listen", with Magneto's usual enemies the X-Men being nowhere in sight.
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* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', which had Spider-Man team up with Iceman of the X-Men and an original character named Firestar ([[CanonImmigrant who later made it into the comics]]). In spite of a few minor discrepancies between the two series, it is generally believed to be in the same continuity.continuity.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Magneto ends up escaping Spider-Man at the end of the episode "When Magneto Speaks...People Listen".
* VillainExitStageLeft: Magneto ends up escaping Spider-Man at the end of the episode "When Magneto Speaks...People Listen".
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* BrownBagMask: After losing his mask while fighting the Sandman in "The Sandman is Coming", Spider-Man is forced to wear a paper bag mask to keep his secret identity safe.
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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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* MythologyGag: "The Sandman is Coming" has Spider-Man forced to flee from fighting the Sandman after losing his mask to avoid having his secret identity exposed. The same thing happened during Spidey's first fight with the Sandman in the comics.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In "Curiosity Killed the Spider-Man", Spider-Man at one point encounters a well-built man in a blue suit with a red tie and glasses using a phone booth, noting that there's something familiar about him. The obvious implication is that the man is Franchise/{{Superman}} in his civilian identity Clark Kent.
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* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', which had Spider-Man team up with Iceman of the X-Men and an original character named Firestar ([[CanonImmigrant who later made it into the comics]].comics]]). In spite of a few minor discrepancies between the two series, it is generally believed to be in the same continuity.
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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 regrowing 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 regrowing 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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The series isn't as remembered as ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', a SpinOff that aired concurrently.
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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 regrowing his lost arm. For all we know, this incarnation of Curt Connors may have even deliberately caused his transformation into a humanoid reptile.
* CanonForeigner: J. Jonah Jameson is given a nephew named Mortimer, a relative he never had in the comics.
* PlotAllergy: In "Lizards, Lizards Everywhere", Spider-Man has difficulty bringing down the Lizard because of sneezing fits. After he finally defeats the Lizard and consults a doctor, it turns out that the constant sneezing was because he was allergic to reptiles.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Doctor Doom is featured as a recurring villain in the series with no mention ever made of his usual enemies the Fantastic Four.
* 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]].
* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', which had Spider-Man team up with Iceman of the X-Men and an original character named Firestar ([[CanonImmigrant who later made it into the comics]]. In spite of a few minor discrepancies between the two series, it is generally believed to be in the same continuity.
The series isn't as remembered as ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', a SpinOff that aired concurrently.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* 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 regrowing his lost arm. For all we know, this incarnation of Curt Connors may have even deliberately caused his transformation into a humanoid reptile.
* CanonForeigner: J. Jonah Jameson is given a nephew named Mortimer, a relative he never had in the comics.
* PlotAllergy: In "Lizards, Lizards Everywhere", Spider-Man has difficulty bringing down the Lizard because of sneezing fits. After he finally defeats the Lizard and consults a doctor, it turns out that the constant sneezing was because he was allergic to reptiles.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Doctor Doom is featured as a recurring villain in the series with no mention ever made of his usual enemies the Fantastic Four.
* 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]].
* SpinOff: ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', which had Spider-Man team up with Iceman of the X-Men and an original character named Firestar ([[CanonImmigrant who later made it into the comics]]. In spite of a few minor discrepancies between the two series, it is generally believed to be in the same continuity.
