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** Morbius was introduced as an arrogant jerk and a romantic rival for Felicia Hardy, and he proceeded to steal Peter's blood in his attempts to get ahead in their 'rivalry,' but he still goes through more than enough bad karma for that by being turned into the TV-Y7 version of a vampire and eventually further mutated into a bat beast right in front of Felicia.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: This show's take on the black costume is how most people remember the origin of Venom. It got a LiveActionAdaptation with ''Film/SpiderMan3''! The version in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman'' also followed most of the same beats. ComicBook/{{Kingpin}} for a time became better known as a Spider-Man villain while he's actually more of a ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} foe, which gradually corrected itself as Daredevil got his own [[Film/{{Daredevil}} film]] and [[Series/{{Daredevil}} series]] adaptations.
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** This show's take on the black costume is how most people remember the origin of Venom. It got a LiveActionAdaptation with ''Film/SpiderMan3''! The version in''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' also followed most of the same beats. beats.
** ComicBook/{{Kingpin}} for a time became better known as a Spider-Man villain, which is fitting since he made his first appearance in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #50 and was chiefly a Spider-Man villainwhile he's actually more of a ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} foe, which gradually corrected itself as before being associated with the Daredevil got his own [[Film/{{Daredevil}} film]] and [[Series/{{Daredevil}} series]] adaptations.franchise.
** This show's take on the black costume is how most people remember the origin of Venom. It got a LiveActionAdaptation with ''Film/SpiderMan3''! The version in
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** Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man. Many fans think that he is the definitive voice for Spider-Man, like Kevin Conroy is the definitive voice for Batman. But there are fans who think that Barnes was way too melodramatic as Spidey and his voice didn't fit Spidey at all.
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** Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man. Many fans think About half the fanbase thinks that he is the definitive voice for Spider-Man, like as Kevin Conroy is the definitive voice for Batman. But there are fans who think The other half thinks that Barnes was way too melodramatic as Spidey and his voice didn't fit Spidey at all.
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: The dissolution of Mary Jane's clone]] became more of a {{tearjerker}} after the release of {{One More Day}}, which retconned their marriage in Marvel comics.
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: The dissolution of Mary Jane's clone]] became more of a {{tearjerker}} after the release of {{One ComicBook/{{One More Day}}, which retconned their marriage in Marvel comics.
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** Daredevil's solo appearance takes the best bits from his then recent movie, and distills them into a concise, tightly-written two-parter. His honesty, good nature, sense of humor, and remaining idealistic despite the odds makes him a very likable character. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Shame his spinoff series never went off the ground]].
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** Daredevil's solo appearance takes the best bits from his then recent movie, backstory, and distills them into a concise, tightly-written two-parter. His honesty, good nature, sense of humor, and remaining idealistic despite the odds makes him a very likable character. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Shame his spinoff series never went off the ground]].
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* CreepyAwesome: Carnage, before and after his transformation, due to his shear batshit insanity.
** Daredevil's solo appearance takes the best bits from his then recent movie, and distills them into a concise, tightly-written two-parter. His honesty, good nature, sense of humor, and remaining idealistic despite the odds makes him a very likable character. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Shame his spinoff series never went off the ground]].
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* GatewaySeriesGatewaySeries: For many kids, this was their first exposure to Spider-Man and it's mythos. While it certainly took some liberties with the comics, the results generally work well, all in all providing a good jumping off point for a fan.
** Venom. Sure he went off the deep end in his first appearance, but it was motivated by the loss of his job, apartment, and reputation thanks to Peter's unintended actions as a reporter. In his second appearance, it's established he's cooled down quite a bit without the Symbiote. Even when he merges with it again, it's purely out of protection for his girlfriend, and later implied to be from the shared knowledge he gained from Peter. As a result, he gets a very tragic DisneyVillainDeath.
* MoralEventHorizon: If Kingpin didn't already cross it by the time Daredevil made his appearance, he certainly did after letting his son be convicted of his own crimes to keep his reputation clean. He justifies this with the coldly-delivered "sacrifices must be made", in essence doing the exact thing his father did to him, without any remorse to speak of.
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** The cab drivers from the episode "Attack of the Octobot. '''Big time''', ''especially'' Mousie. It's mostly due to their annoying voices. Tina from episode the same episode and "Make a Wish" qualifies to lesser extent.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: In the Russian dub, a direct translation of "venom" wouldn't match the lip movements, as well as sounding somewhat awkward. What did they change it to instead? The admittedly cooler name, "Black Death".
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* FirstInstallmentWins: There are fans who see the first season of the show as the one with the most memorable and well-written episodes, like "The Night Of The Lizard" and "The Alien Costume Saga", and with the best animation in the entire series. The following season are more [[BrokenBase divisive]].
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* FirstInstallmentWins: There are fans who see the first season of the show as the one with the most memorable and well-written episodes, like "The Night Of The Lizard" and "The Alien Costume Saga", and with the best animation in the entire series. The following season seasons are more [[BrokenBase divisive]].
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* BrokenAesop: Great power may demand great responsibility, but the extent to which the story takes it at times is ridiculous. Case in point, in the second season of the 90's animated series, when Peter's body begins to mutate, fellow student Michael Morbius steals a sample of Peter's blood from his locker, believing that Peter is trying to one-up him for the post of Dr. Curt Connor's assistant, which ultimately transforms him into Morbius the living vampire. Despite the fact that his becoming a monster was the result of Morbius' own morally objectionable behavior, Peter is depicted as being at fault for leaving his blood sample for Morbius to find.
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** Among the Spider-Men from alternate universes in the ''Secret Wars'' arc, there is one in particular that claims to have taken Doc Ock's CombatTentacles after defeating him. Almost twenty years later, ''[[SuperiorSpiderMan The Superior Spider-Man]]'' the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' debuts.
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** Cletus Kasady, aka [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]], is introduced as an AxCrazy lunatic willing to use a bomb to kill himself and everyone within a 200 meter radius just [[ForTheEvulz for giggles]]. After entering into the service of the DimensionLord Dormammu and bonding with the offspring of Eddie Brock's symbiote, Kasady uses his newfound power and connections to become an even worse menace. Unlike Eddie who, when bonded with his symbiote, creates a combined persona called Venom, Cletus is so psychotic that he still remains completely aware and in control after bonding with his symbiote. First helping Venom steal an interdimensional probe, Kasady quickly displays contempt towards his "dad's" [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes softness]] and proves himself willing to kill Venom on the flimsiest of pretexts. Kasady would later go on to [[YourSoulIsMine steal the souls]] of numerous innocent people in order to summon Dormammu and herald TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Once Spider-Man defeats him by letting him be sucked into Dormammu's home dimension, Kasady attempts to grab Eddie Brock's LoveInterest, Dr. Ashley Kafka, to [[TakingYouWithMe take her with him]]. He's only thwarted by Eddie sacrificing himself instead. Rampantly homicidal and needlessly sadistic, Kasady was a far cry from the usual Spider-Man villain, [[ForTheEvulz doing evil solely for the carnage it unleashed on the world]].
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** [[ComicBook/{{Carnage}} Cletus Kasady, Kasady]], aka [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]], is introduced as an AxCrazy lunatic willing to use a bomb to kill himself and everyone within a 200 meter radius just [[ForTheEvulz for giggles]]. After entering into the service of the DimensionLord Dormammu and bonding with the offspring of Eddie Brock's symbiote, Kasady uses his newfound power and connections to become an even worse menace. Unlike Eddie who, when bonded with his symbiote, creates a combined persona called Venom, Cletus is so psychotic that he still remains completely aware and in control after bonding with his symbiote. First helping Venom steal an interdimensional probe, Kasady quickly displays contempt towards his "dad's" [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes softness]] and proves himself willing to kill Venom on the flimsiest of pretexts. Kasady would later go on to [[YourSoulIsMine steal the souls]] of numerous innocent people in order to summon Dormammu and herald TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Once Spider-Man defeats him by letting him be sucked into Dormammu's home dimension, Kasady attempts to grab Eddie Brock's LoveInterest, Dr. Ashley Kafka, to [[TakingYouWithMe take her with him]]. He's only thwarted by Eddie sacrificing himself instead. Rampantly homicidal and needlessly sadistic, Kasady was a far cry from the usual Spider-Man villain, [[ForTheEvulz doing evil solely for the carnage it unleashed on the world]].
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*CreatorsPet: Madame Web. She appears an awful lot in this show and has a pivotal role for such a minor character in the comics. Of course, showrunner John Semper was a huge fan.
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** The quality of episodes after [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]]. Some fans think that the show [[GrowingTheBeard grew the beard]] after the first season with its story arcs, CharacterDevelopment, focus on Peter's personal life, others think that the show declined in quality, citing bad animation, constantly recycled footage, the overuse of the Kingpin, Morbius or Madame Web and more space and vampire stories.
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** The quality of episodes after [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]]. Some fans think that the show [[GrowingTheBeard grew the beard]] after the first season with its story arcs, CharacterDevelopment, and focus on Peter's personal life, while others think that the show declined in quality, citing bad animation, constantly recycled footage, the overuse of the Kingpin, Morbius or Madame Web and more space and vampire stories.
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** The show's opening theme. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciyaD7bOgwg Takes you back huh?]]
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** The show's opening theme. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98ywGDvOr4 Takes you back huh?]]
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** This show had the Kingpin being played by a black actor, long before the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' film caused such an uproar by doing it.
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** The show was pretty infamous for seeking to avoid every variation of "die" or "kill". Sometimes the aversion of the word death would take the dialogue into this territory. In the episode "Return of Hydro-Man, Part II", Mary Jane says, with all seriousness, "I just can't shake the feeling that when we find out what's wrong with me, it's going to lead to my destruction!" Serious intents or not, try saying that out loud and see what kind of reaction you get. [[spoiler:This Mary Jane was later revealed to be a clone, and did indeed die shortly later.]]
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** Among the Spider-Men from alternate universes in the ''Secret Wars'' arc, there is one in particular that claims to have taken Doc Ock's CombatTentacles after defeating him. Almost twenty years later, TheSuperiorSpiderMan debuts.
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* TheUntwist: The identity of the Hobgoblin, thanks to Mark Hamill's distinctive voice. Even the credits didn't try to hide it!
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* AdaptationDisplacement: This show's take on the black costume is how most people remember the origin of Venom. It got a LiveActionAdaptation with ''Film/SpiderMan3''!
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The show's opening theme. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98ywGDvOr4 Takes you back huh?]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt7tVxO48n8 There is also a second version that played during the credits.]] Fun fact: It was preformed by [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Joe Perry]]. That cements its awesomeness.
** The ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' theme in "The Mutant Agenda".
* BadassDecay: Several villains. The Lizard in particular gets this bad past his initial appearance.
* BrokenBase:
** The quality of episodes after [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]]. Some fans think that the show [[GrowingTheBeard grew the beard]] after the first season with its story arcs, CharacterDevelopment, focus on Peter's personal life, others think that the show declined in quality, citing bad animation, constantly recycled footage, the overuse of the Kingpin, Morbius or Madame Web and more space and vampire stories.
** Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man. Many fans think that he is the definitive voice for Spider-Man, like Kevin Conroy is the definitive voice for Batman. But there are fans who think that Barnes was way too melodramatic as Spidey and his voice didn't fit Spidey at all.
* CompleteMonster:
** Cletus Kasady, aka [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]], is introduced as an AxCrazy lunatic willing to use a bomb to kill himself and everyone within a 200 meter radius just [[ForTheEvulz for giggles]]. After entering into the service of the DimensionLord Dormammu and bonding with the offspring of Eddie Brock's symbiote, Kasady uses his newfound power and connections to become an even worse menace. Unlike Eddie who, when bonded with his symbiote, creates a combined persona called Venom, Cletus is so psychotic that he still remains completely aware and in control after bonding with his symbiote. First helping Venom steal an interdimensional probe, Kasady quickly displays contempt towards his "dad's" [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes softness]] and proves himself willing to kill Venom on the flimsiest of pretexts. Kasady would later go on to [[YourSoulIsMine steal the souls]] of numerous innocent people in order to summon Dormammu and herald TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Once Spider-Man defeats him by letting him be sucked into Dormammu's home dimension, Kasady attempts to grab Eddie Brock's LoveInterest, Dr. Ashley Kafka, to [[TakingYouWithMe take her with him]]. He's only thwarted by Eddie sacrificing himself instead. Rampantly homicidal and needlessly sadistic, Kasady was a far cry from the usual Spider-Man villain, [[ForTheEvulz doing evil solely for the carnage it unleashed on the world]].
** Herbert Landon is a MadScientist, the EvilFormerFriend of [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Hank [=McCoy=]]], and a genocidal SmugSnake driven solely by hatred. A [[FantasticRacism rabid anti-mutant extremist]], Landon created a formula that destroyed mutant cells and killed any mutant exposed to it. His endgame was to market this formula to the public as a cure for mutants only to instead use it to [[FinalSolution wipe them all out]]. The first person Landon attempted to test out this formula on is his "old friend," Hank. Thwarted in this endeavor, Landon would go on to become TheDragon to [[TheDon the Kingpin]], and performed various unsavory deeds such as forcibly converting Alistair Smythe into a cyborg slave and testing out a SuperSoldier SuperSerum by using Felicia Hardy as a guinea pig.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: J. Jonah Jameson.
* FanPreferredCouple: Spider-Man/Black Cat. Mary Jane was a bit of a BaseBreaker.
* FirstInstallmentWins: There are fans who see the first season of the show as the one with the most memorable and well-written episodes, like "The Night Of The Lizard" and "The Alien Costume Saga", and with the best animation in the entire series. The following season are more [[BrokenBase divisive]].
* GatewaySeries
* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the first episode Spidey complains about why he has to crawl around sewers and can't land an easier superhero gig with the Avengers. He also complains about not being "a galaxy hopping superhero," which he essentially becomes in the final episodes.
** In episode 48 "The Vampire Queen" Whistler wonders why all the girls go after vampires and if it has something to do with the fangs. Maaany years before ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
** DavidHayter voices the SuperSoldier ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. A year later he plays his most famous role as [[Franchise/MetalGear another super soldier]].
** Then there's pre-vampire Morbius, who looks and sounds kind of like [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]].
* IronWoobie: The Scarlet Spider. He's been through all the same trauma that Spider-Carnage has, but somehow came out okay.
* JerkassWoobie:
** J.Jonah Jameson's distrust and dislike of Spidey make much more sense when we learn that his wife was killed by a masked gunman. Alistair Smythe arguably qualifies for this trope, along with Morbius.
** Also, the scene where Kingpin's wife leaves him is surprisingly sad and is the one time the Kingpin shows actual remorse for his actions.
** You could make a case for all of the antagonists on the chance that they pull an EnemyMine with Peter.
* MagnificentBastard:
** The Kingpin. Oh, ''lord'', the Kingpin. He's behind nearly ''everything'' in this series.
** The Hobgoblin fits this trope pretty well too... [[spoiler:until {{Villain Decay}} set in after his unmasking in ''Goblin War''.]]
** [[spoiler:The Red Skull]] in the few episodes he appeared turned out to be a pretty good one as well. Even Electro's [[TheStarscream random betrayal of him]] was something he anticipated.
* MemeticMutation: Morbius ''hungers for PLASMA!''
* {{Narm}}:
** The epic {{Executive Meddling}} the show faced to make it more kid-friendly. Especially odd is their treatment of Morbius; any kid knows what vampires do, so who exactly did they think they were protecting?
** SHOOOOOOOOCKERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
* TheScrappy:
** '''Anna Watson'''
** Madame Web
** Silvermane and all his associates, to a lesser extent.
** Morbius post MotiveDecay got on many viewer's nerves.
** Mary Jane and Harry Osborn also came across as annoying for many fans. Harry's case got ''even worse'' once [[ReplacementScrappy he became the new Green Goblin.]]
--->'''Goblin Harry:''' Nyahahahaha! Excellent! ''Eeeeeeexcellent!''
** The cab drivers from the episode "Attack of the Octobot. '''Big time''', ''especially'' Mousie. It's mostly due to their annoying voices. Tina from episode the same episode and "Make a Wish" qualifies to lesser extent.
** ReplacementScrappy: Landon for replacing Smythe.
* TakeThatScrappy: Spidey's tirade against Madame Web matched what many viewers felt about her.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' I am sick of you... and your riddles. And your ''lessons!'' And your SUPREME ARROGANCE! Don't you ever, EVER enter my life again! Do you hear me? DO YOU HEAR ME!?
:: And she did, until the "Secret Wars" episodes. Which she says she foretold about before leaving.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The death of the Mary Jane clone was positively gut wrenching.]]
* VillainDecay: Many of the villains within the course of the show suffered this. Most glaring would be:
** Dr Octopus, who became a mere flunky for the Kingpin, even giving up on his plans to become TheStarscream shortly after the time he got ''defeated by a child.''
** Hobgoblin, who was revealed to be nothing more than a petty crook and a wuss in his last appearance.
** And Alistair Smythe, who TookALevelInBadass by becoming a mutant and leaving the Kingpin's services only to end up becoming a flunky for Silvermane in an even ''less'' important position than he was as the Kingpin's lackey.
* WhatAnIdiot: In "Day of the Chameleon," none of the SHIELD agents present noticed that "ComicBook/NickFury"'s eye-patch was on the wrong eye, despite being right in front of them. Spidey was briefly fooled, too, but he noticed after mere seconds and despite being farther away.
* TheWoobie: True to the comics, the sheer amount of crap poor Spidey gets put through over the course of this show, particularly from the second season onwards, is unbelievable.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The show's opening theme. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98ywGDvOr4 Takes you back huh?]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt7tVxO48n8 There is also a second version that played during the credits.]] Fun fact: It was preformed by [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Joe Perry]]. That cements its awesomeness.
** The ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' theme in "The Mutant Agenda".
* BadassDecay: Several villains. The Lizard in particular gets this bad past his initial appearance.
* BrokenBase:
** The quality of episodes after [[FirstInstallmentWins the first season]]. Some fans think that the show [[GrowingTheBeard grew the beard]] after the first season with its story arcs, CharacterDevelopment, focus on Peter's personal life, others think that the show declined in quality, citing bad animation, constantly recycled footage, the overuse of the Kingpin, Morbius or Madame Web and more space and vampire stories.
** Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man. Many fans think that he is the definitive voice for Spider-Man, like Kevin Conroy is the definitive voice for Batman. But there are fans who think that Barnes was way too melodramatic as Spidey and his voice didn't fit Spidey at all.
* CompleteMonster:
** Cletus Kasady, aka [[NamesToRunAwayFrom Carnage]], is introduced as an AxCrazy lunatic willing to use a bomb to kill himself and everyone within a 200 meter radius just [[ForTheEvulz for giggles]]. After entering into the service of the DimensionLord Dormammu and bonding with the offspring of Eddie Brock's symbiote, Kasady uses his newfound power and connections to become an even worse menace. Unlike Eddie who, when bonded with his symbiote, creates a combined persona called Venom, Cletus is so psychotic that he still remains completely aware and in control after bonding with his symbiote. First helping Venom steal an interdimensional probe, Kasady quickly displays contempt towards his "dad's" [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes softness]] and proves himself willing to kill Venom on the flimsiest of pretexts. Kasady would later go on to [[YourSoulIsMine steal the souls]] of numerous innocent people in order to summon Dormammu and herald TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Once Spider-Man defeats him by letting him be sucked into Dormammu's home dimension, Kasady attempts to grab Eddie Brock's LoveInterest, Dr. Ashley Kafka, to [[TakingYouWithMe take her with him]]. He's only thwarted by Eddie sacrificing himself instead. Rampantly homicidal and needlessly sadistic, Kasady was a far cry from the usual Spider-Man villain, [[ForTheEvulz doing evil solely for the carnage it unleashed on the world]].
** Herbert Landon is a MadScientist, the EvilFormerFriend of [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Hank [=McCoy=]]], and a genocidal SmugSnake driven solely by hatred. A [[FantasticRacism rabid anti-mutant extremist]], Landon created a formula that destroyed mutant cells and killed any mutant exposed to it. His endgame was to market this formula to the public as a cure for mutants only to instead use it to [[FinalSolution wipe them all out]]. The first person Landon attempted to test out this formula on is his "old friend," Hank. Thwarted in this endeavor, Landon would go on to become TheDragon to [[TheDon the Kingpin]], and performed various unsavory deeds such as forcibly converting Alistair Smythe into a cyborg slave and testing out a SuperSoldier SuperSerum by using Felicia Hardy as a guinea pig.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: J. Jonah Jameson.
* FanPreferredCouple: Spider-Man/Black Cat. Mary Jane was a bit of a BaseBreaker.
* FirstInstallmentWins: There are fans who see the first season of the show as the one with the most memorable and well-written episodes, like "The Night Of The Lizard" and "The Alien Costume Saga", and with the best animation in the entire series. The following season are more [[BrokenBase divisive]].
* GatewaySeries
* HilariousInHindsight:
** In the first episode Spidey complains about why he has to crawl around sewers and can't land an easier superhero gig with the Avengers. He also complains about not being "a galaxy hopping superhero," which he essentially becomes in the final episodes.
** In episode 48 "The Vampire Queen" Whistler wonders why all the girls go after vampires and if it has something to do with the fangs. Maaany years before ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.
** DavidHayter voices the SuperSoldier ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. A year later he plays his most famous role as [[Franchise/MetalGear another super soldier]].
** Then there's pre-vampire Morbius, who looks and sounds kind of like [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]].
* IronWoobie: The Scarlet Spider. He's been through all the same trauma that Spider-Carnage has, but somehow came out okay.
* JerkassWoobie:
** J.Jonah Jameson's distrust and dislike of Spidey make much more sense when we learn that his wife was killed by a masked gunman. Alistair Smythe arguably qualifies for this trope, along with Morbius.
** Also, the scene where Kingpin's wife leaves him is surprisingly sad and is the one time the Kingpin shows actual remorse for his actions.
** You could make a case for all of the antagonists on the chance that they pull an EnemyMine with Peter.
* MagnificentBastard:
** The Kingpin. Oh, ''lord'', the Kingpin. He's behind nearly ''everything'' in this series.
** The Hobgoblin fits this trope pretty well too... [[spoiler:until {{Villain Decay}} set in after his unmasking in ''Goblin War''.]]
** [[spoiler:The Red Skull]] in the few episodes he appeared turned out to be a pretty good one as well. Even Electro's [[TheStarscream random betrayal of him]] was something he anticipated.
* MemeticMutation: Morbius ''hungers for PLASMA!''
* {{Narm}}:
** The epic {{Executive Meddling}} the show faced to make it more kid-friendly. Especially odd is their treatment of Morbius; any kid knows what vampires do, so who exactly did they think they were protecting?
** SHOOOOOOOOCKERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
* TheScrappy:
** '''Anna Watson'''
** Madame Web
** Silvermane and all his associates, to a lesser extent.
** Morbius post MotiveDecay got on many viewer's nerves.
** Mary Jane and Harry Osborn also came across as annoying for many fans. Harry's case got ''even worse'' once [[ReplacementScrappy he became the new Green Goblin.]]
--->'''Goblin Harry:''' Nyahahahaha! Excellent! ''Eeeeeeexcellent!''
** The cab drivers from the episode "Attack of the Octobot. '''Big time''', ''especially'' Mousie. It's mostly due to their annoying voices. Tina from episode the same episode and "Make a Wish" qualifies to lesser extent.
** ReplacementScrappy: Landon for replacing Smythe.
* TakeThatScrappy: Spidey's tirade against Madame Web matched what many viewers felt about her.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' I am sick of you... and your riddles. And your ''lessons!'' And your SUPREME ARROGANCE! Don't you ever, EVER enter my life again! Do you hear me? DO YOU HEAR ME!?
:: And she did, until the "Secret Wars" episodes. Which she says she foretold about before leaving.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The death of the Mary Jane clone was positively gut wrenching.]]
* VillainDecay: Many of the villains within the course of the show suffered this. Most glaring would be:
** Dr Octopus, who became a mere flunky for the Kingpin, even giving up on his plans to become TheStarscream shortly after the time he got ''defeated by a child.''
** Hobgoblin, who was revealed to be nothing more than a petty crook and a wuss in his last appearance.
** And Alistair Smythe, who TookALevelInBadass by becoming a mutant and leaving the Kingpin's services only to end up becoming a flunky for Silvermane in an even ''less'' important position than he was as the Kingpin's lackey.
* WhatAnIdiot: In "Day of the Chameleon," none of the SHIELD agents present noticed that "ComicBook/NickFury"'s eye-patch was on the wrong eye, despite being right in front of them. Spidey was briefly fooled, too, but he noticed after mere seconds and despite being farther away.
* TheWoobie: True to the comics, the sheer amount of crap poor Spidey gets put through over the course of this show, particularly from the second season onwards, is unbelievable.
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