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Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Peter Parker / Spider-Man
"Hello? What am I, invisible?"
"So go with me here. I run around Manhattan saving people, and I'm a menace. Turbo Jet steals a small fortune, and he's the hero. Maybe I need an image makeover."
Voiced by: Neil Patrick Harris note
A student at Empire State University and photographer for the Daily Bugle, Peter also fights crime as Spider-Man. Living with his best friend Harry, who unfortunately blames Spider-Man for the death of his father, while having a complicated relationship with his dream girl Mary Jane, Peter attempts to balance his responsibilities with his desires to live a normal life. After being ripped off one too many times he decided to start selling video footage to Empire 1, which is where he met a research assistant named Indy, who he starts developing feelings for.
- Adaptational Badass: Peter's spider-sense has been upgraded from simply warning him of danger to letting him know of potential danger and crimes near him, even if he won't be harmed himself. This also includes visions of the potential danger, making it easier for him to find it.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Like with the Raimi films, he as organic webshooters and his wall crawling ability is caused by his skin having small but sharp "barbed" like material. In the comics his webshooters are mechanical and he wall crawls due to being able to control electrostatic force.
- Adaptation Personality Change: A pretty odd example. He's pretty accurate and faithful to the usual depiction of Spider-Man, but the series is (supposed to be) a direct sequel to Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, where he is shown to be more serious and an Extreme Doormat. That said, the series does do an admirable job of bridging the two characterizations as the series goes on. On another note, he's also far more cynical than most incarnations of the wall-crawler, with his trademark sarcasm being much more bitter and caustic.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: Looks NOTHING like the movie version of Peter the show is based on. In fact, this Peter shares an even stronger resemblance towards his comic book counterpart than Tobey Maguire does. That said, it is also somewhat downplayed, given he lacks Maguire’s incarnation’s Heroic Build.
- Adaptational Comic Relief: Inverted. He's one of the least jokey incarnations of Spider-Man, though he's still pretty quippy and snarky (it is Spider-Man, after all). He does make more jokes than the version from the films, despite being based on that version of the character, but his humor is much more bitter and caustic than other incarnations.
- All-Loving Hero: Not as much as other versions, but he frequently offers enemies he knows personally like Electro, Talon, and the Lizard the chance to stop and turn back. They never listen.
- Badass Bookworm: He's intelligent and able to hold his own against all the criminals he fights.
- Baritone of Strength: Invoked. He deepens his own voice while in costume, both to disguise himself and intimidate his enemies.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Kraven found out the hard way that it's a bad idea to set him off. Also, he outright leaves the psychic twins to die after attacking them with lethal intent when they put his friend in a coma.
- Comes Great Responsibility: Averted. This is the first adaptation do so but Peter never uses the trademark phrase nor does he ever refer to it.
- Composite Character: He's a combination of the usual depiction of Spider-Man and the Raimi films Spider-Man, demonstrating a milder version of the Raimi-Spider-Man's shyness and meek nature, while also being as self-confident, snarky, and compassionate as he is in the source material.
- Deadpan Snarker: Wouldn't be Spider-Man if he didn't have a sardonic wit.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Peter's love life has always been hectic, but this version has even worse luck than usual. Indy ends up in a coma, and as a result of his guilt over that, he tells Mary Jane that he can't be with her either, in spite of their shared feelings.
- Expressive Mask: The eyes on his mask are able to register his emotions.
- Genius Bruiser: He has both brains and brawn.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Among the worst he has ever received by the end of the series, where everyone in New York considers Spider-Man a menace in spite of all he's done for the city.
- Knight in Sour Armor: He's far more cynical than most incarnations of Spider-Man, but he still does his best to save people.
- Lightning Bruiser: He can hit hard and hit fast as well.
- Nice Guy: He's compassionate, kind, and often tries to reason with his enemies.
- Thou Shall Not Kill: Deconstructed, because while he genuinely tries to stick it, he occasionally faces enemies where he's forced to do things that end up killing them even if that's not what he intended. For example, while fighting Shikata he destroys her sword, not knowing that it would kill her like she intended.
- Unstoppable Rage: Unleashed upon Kraven after the Gaines Twins create a mental illusion, causing him to think that Kraven killed Mary Jane.
- You Fight Like a Cow: It wouldn't be Spider-Man if he didn't taunt his enemies while fighting them.
Mary Jane Watson
Mary Jane "MJ" Watson
Voiced by: Lisa Loeb note
A struggling actress who's majoring in drama at Empire State University, Mary Jane is close friends with Harry while having a complex relationship with Peter, due to their shared feelings for each other but his often absences to be Spider-Man. Having been saved by the crime fighter in the past, she is his biggest supporter while also having some romantic interest in him, not knowing that he and Peter are one and the same.
- Adaptational Hairstyle Change: The length of MJ's hair here is pretty short compared to the traditional long and red hair that the Mary Jane of the comics (both Original and Modern) and other adaptations are usually depicted with having.
- Adaptational Relationship Change: Like with the film, she's known Peter since she was a child and he's had a crush on her since the second grade.
- Amicable Exes: She dated Harry in the past, but the two are simply close friends during the show.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Mary Jane throughout the series wears a purple shirt that leaves his belly uncovered.
- Betty and Veronica: She's the Betty, being the childhood friend to Peter, to Indy's Veronica, being the new girl in Peter's life.
- Damsel in Distress: Though she is able to defend herself from time to time, and was the reason Spider-Man figured out destroying Shikata's sword would stop her. She even tried to do it herself. The first episode even showed her elbowing Turbo Jet in the face so hard it broke his helmet.
- Fiery Redhead: As per usual, she's a redhead who can get quite petulant. But, as noted above, the length of MJ's hair is noticeably shorter than any other version.
- Stood Up: Well, she thinks this is what Peter has done to her several times in the series, but really he is prevented from turning up by unforeseen circumstances (battling villains, interrogated by the FBI, involved in a hostage situation, etc).
- You Are What You Hate: In "Head Over Heels", after complaining about how insane Christina had sounded with her obsession with Spider-Man, realises that she herself had acted similar with Peter by trying to force him to open up to her.
Harry Osborn
Harry Osborn
Voiced by: Ian Ziering note
Never short of snappy one-liners, Harry has been best friends with Peter since high school and at Empire State University, the two of them living together off-campus. Harry tends to college for social life, rather than the education, as he controls the majority of the stock from his late Father’s company, Oscorp.
Despite being Peter and MJ’s best friends, he hates Spider-Man, blaming the wall-crawler for his father’s death, unaware that he was the Green Goblin. Still struggling to come to terms with his dad’s death, Harry is often found drinking or trying his luck with the ladies.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: James Franco has reddish-brown hair in the role and most other versions of Harry are straight-up redheads. This Harry is blond.
- The Alcoholic: Was heading toward having a drinking problem. Nearly every episode had him drinking something with alcohol in it.
- Amicable Exes: He dated Mary Jane in the past, but the two are simply close friends during the show.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's not dumb, but cares little about doing work, as evidenced by this quote.Harry: Kids. Try to get them to spend their time wisely, like, watching R-Rated DVDs. But noooo... they can't wait to do their web research.
- Deadpan Snarker: Possibly more prone to making sarcastic quips than even Peter in this series, as opposed to his comic book incarnation.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Looks quite similar to his father, Norman Osborn. Commented upon by MJ.
Supporting Characters
Indy Daimonji
Indira "Indy" Daimonji
Voiced by: Angelle Brooks
A research assistant attemping to become a reporter, who develops a romantic interest in Peter.
- Ambiguously Brown: Indy has slightly darker skin than the other characters, but it's not exactly clear what her racial background is. Compounding matters is her full name. Indira is a Hindu name, whereas Daimonji is Japanese.
- Betty and Veronica: She's the Veronica, being the new girl in Peter's life, to Mary Jane's Betty, being the childhood friend to Peter.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for the series in order to be an amalgamation of Gwen Stacy and Betty Brant.
- Composite Character: She was created as a combination of Gwen Stacy and Betty Brant.
- Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments of sardonic banter.
- Decomposite Character: Though created as a combination of Gwen Stacy and Betty Brant, both still exist albeit as The Ghost. Betty is mentioned to still be Jameson's secretary while Gwen is implied to be Peter's online friend "GS122".
- Disabled in the Adaptation: She wears glasses while Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy, whom she is a combination of, did not.
- Girlish Pigtails: She has pigtails.
- Race Lift: She is based on Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy, both of whom are white, while she herself, if her full name is any indication, is half-Hindu and half-Japanese.
J. Jonah Jameson
J. Jonah Jameson
"Just remember, this is a high class newspaper, not Animal Planet."
Voiced by: Keith Carradine
Peter's boss who, as usual, considers Spider-Man to be a menace to society.
- Alliterative Name: His first, middle, and last name all begin with J.
- Da Editor: He's in charge of a newspaper and has quite a domineering attitude toward his employees.
- Deadpan Snarker: As opposed to his comic book counterpart or other versions (who are usually portrayed as Large Hams).
- Demoted to Extra: He is nowhere near as prominent as his comic book counterpart or other versions, only appearing in a small amount of episodes.
- I Reject Your Reality: He choses not to believe anything optimistic Peter has to say about Spider-Man.
- Motor Mouth: He talks a mile a minute, though he’s not as much of a Motor Mouth as J. K. Simmons' portrayal of the character.
Francesca
Francesca
A girl that Harry starts to date in the final two episodes.
- Ascended Extra: Became Harry's girlfriend after being a background character throughout the series.
- Canon Foreigner: She was created for this animated series and hasn't made an appearance in the comics.
- The Voiceless: Due to seemingly not speaking English, she doesn't say anything.
Officer Barr
Officer Barr
Voiced by: Edward Asner
A police officer with a hatred for Spider-Man.
- Hate Sink: He's pretty much a representative for the public's hatred of Spider-Man, and is thus made as unlikable as possible.
- Insane Troll Logic: His general logic when investigating a crime is that if Spider-Man was present or even in the general vicinity, he was involved. If a witness says otherwise, they're either lying or making a mistake. It's not like Spider-Man could be a hero, after all.
- Inspector Javert: He's obsessed with capturing Spider-Man and firmly believes him to be a criminal, and he convinces himself pretty much anything Spider-Man does as proof of this through a bunch of mental gymnastics.
- Jerkass: He allows his biases to influence his investigations and he ignores the witnesses when they say something he doesn't want to hear. He also verbally abuses pretty much everyone he meets.
- Mauve Shirt: The only cop in the series to get a name and personality, and he makes frequent appearances investigating some sort of crime that Spider-Man got involved with.
- Pet the Dog: When the Lizard assaults the police station, he does his best to protect Peter (who he was interrogating while investigating a robbery), who he assumes to be a civilian.
Doug Reisman
Doug Reisman
Voiced by: Jeff Fischer
The leader of a fraternity who bullies Max Dillon.
- Asshole Victim: After humiliating Max Dillon and rejecting him to join their club, Max returns as Electro and shocks him to death.
- The Bully: Reisman was the kind of person who exists to make life miserable for those around him, especially Max.
- Hate Sink: He’s more serious, sadistic and less cartoonish than the other villains, and being a thoroughly despicable person in a realistic, non-superpowered way makes him more hateable. His death at the hands of Electro can be seen as satisfying and not in any way remorseful.
- Laser-Guided Karma: For rejecting Max and humiliating him by saying: "Sucks to be you." Max now as Electro says the exact same thing to him, before being electrocuted to him.
Professor Williams
Professor Williams
Voiced by: Cree Summer
A science teacher at ESU.
- Black and Nerdy: "Nerdy" is a stretch, but as a chemistry teacher she technically counts.
- Hot Teacher: She's very attractive. Could also count as hot scientist given the subject she teaches.
- Uncertain Doom: She was last seen being taken to the hospital, barely alive after Electro tries to turn him into a being like himself. Peter mentions at the end of the episode that "they say [she's] gonna be alright" but doesn't elaborate further.
Villains
Turbo Jet
Lewis Wyler/Turbo Jet
Voiced by: Harold Perrineau
A criminal admired for stealing valuables and selling them, only to give the money to people trying to keep their home from being destroyed.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When he fights Spider-Man in public, he claims he's making a difference for the people. In private, he calls the very same people stupid for assuming he's a hero in the first place.
- Canon Foreigner: He was created for the series.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Subverted in that he started out working for a high-tech company that worked with NASA. During his time there, he invented the technology that allowed him to attract and repel objects, and run at super speed by "repelling" the ground. It's implied that his employer nixed the project because NASA considered it unfeasible, so he started stealing company resources to build Powered Armor based on his tech. He was fired when his employer discovered his thefts, so he used his technology to become a full-time criminal.
- Dirty Coward: Seriously hurts a random bystander in his efforts to make an escape. He'd already done this to a security guard earlier putting him in a coma which was called out by Peter, but it was seen as a justifiable sacrifice by supporters (especially by Mary Jane who likened it to a policeman running over a bystander in a high speed chase) who believed he was a hero still trying to help the people at the time.
- Expy: He is loosely based on Rocket Racer, mainly in being an African-American villain with technology that gives him super speed.
- Insufferable Genius: He has a very low opinion of pretty much everybody around him.
- Irony: His status as a Villain with Good Publicity is gained by interference with his thefts, while Spider-Man’s heroics leave him derided as pure evil.
- Jerkass: The man is an utter asshole and deeply unpleasant, and has a Lack of Empathy towards everyone around him.
- Kick the Dog: The minute his facade gets blown, he tosses a decoy he was trying to steal at an innocent bystander and severely injures her. She can even be heard screaming and then sobbing in pain.
- Newspaper Backstory: He keeps newspaper clippings of his original scientific work and some of his criminal exploits on a bulletin board in his workshop, which is how the audience learns his origin.
- Starter Villain: He is the first villain to be fought by Spider-Man in the series.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He becomes beloved by the people living in Villeroy Towers because circumstances led them to think he's helping them in their protests to keep their homes. In his last fight with Spider-Man, Spidey reveals to the protesters just how little Turbo Jet actually cares about them. In his frustration at being backed in a corner, he pretty much confirms what Spidey reveals.
The Kingpin
Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin
Voiced by: Michael Clarke Duncan
A crime boss who tricks Spider-Man into stealing a chip that will allow access to all the bank accounts in the world.- Badass Normal: He has no powers, but is still a very formidable fighter.
- Bland-Name Product: He's a regular patron of "Happy Burger", a fast food chain that's an obvious parody of McDonalds.
- Fat Bastard: He's an obese criminal.
- Genius Bruiser: He's a criminal genius who is also very strong.
- Lightning Bruiser: He can move swiftly in addition to being strong.
- Manipulative Bastard: In his first appearance, he tricked Spider-Man into stealing a chip for him by pretending he was working for the government.
- Race Lift: The Kingpin is white in the comics, but he's Black here because this series was based on the Marvel films of the early 2000s. Michael Clarke Duncan played the Kingpin in Daredevil (2003), and he voices the character here.
- Scary Black Man: He's an intimidating black criminal.
- Stout Strength: True to form, he looks massively overweight but he's also terrifyingly strong.
- Villainous Glutton: This version of Kingpin is shown to be obsessed with food. He threatens one of his underlings over the possibility of a french fry being missing in his bag of fast food and tops his cup of coffee with an assload of whipped cream. Spider-Man at one point even jokes about him eating his henchmen.
The Lizard
Curt Connors/The Lizard
"Parker, what the hell are you doing? I hope you're not hoping you'd rather be out there having mindless enjoyment than helping me rewrite the book on cell regeneration."
Voiced by: Rob Zombie note
A scientist at ESU who is trying to regrow limbs using lizard DNA, and has a painful history with Oscorp.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: In this version, he lost his arm to what's implied to be the prototype of what became the Green Goblin's pumpkin bombs.
- Adaptational Villainy: Curt himself is nastier and more bitter than his usual portrayal, even pre-Lizard.
- Beast Man: Upon becoming The Lizard, he's a humanoid animal.
- Death by Adaptation: He's alive and well in the comics, whereas here he ends up getting killed.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: Besides the lost arm, this portrayal of Connors requires glasses, something his mainstream counterpart does not require.
- Family-Unfriendly Death: Got his arm cut off again by an air-conditioning exhaust fan, then fell from a helicopter. And his body is actually shown after the fall.
- Healing Factor: Similar to his mainstream counterpart, he can regrow body parts after losing them.
- Killed Off for Real: He is killed off permanently at the end of his debut episode.
- Mad Scientist: He's pretty focused on studying reptiles' regenerative abilities.
- Pet the Dog: Before Curt became the Lizard, he was saved by Spider-Man during a robbery. As he's giving a statement to the police, he gets slightly pissed at the officer claiming Spider-Man and the robbers were working together even though he just said Spider-Man saved him.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: His arm was lost when Oscorp were testing a new explosive device in the same area as the swamp he was gathering samples from, known as WAFER (Wide Area Fragmentation Explosive Round).
- Wall Crawling: As the Lizard, he can scale walls.
Shikata
Shikata
"Honor means everything to me."
Voiced by: Gina Gershon
An assassin with a magic sword, hired to hunt down and capture Spider-Man.
- Action Girl: She's a woman with great fighting ability.
- Canon Foreigner: Another villain created for the cartoon.
- Decomposite Character: Despite being created for the series, She received the role of traveling from a foreign country into New York City in order to hunt and kill Spider-Man that is usually associated with Kraven the Hunter (who does show up later in the series).
- Face Death with Dignity: Starts looking very despondent when her sword is broken, but she recomposes herself and bows to Spider-Man, acknowledging his victory.
- Healing Factor: She can use her sword to heal wounds and gain youth by exposing it to moonlight.
- Hypocrite: She talks about honor, but is more than willing to use MJ as leverage to finally get her fight with Spider-Man. Also, despite earlier making comments about not being scared by death, she visibly loses her cool the moment Spider-Man gets her sword (the thing that keeps her young). At the very least, when the sword gets broken, she bows in defeat before dying.
- Killed Off for Real: Rapidly ages and disperses into nothingness after Spider-Man destroys her katana.
- Mysterious Past: What's her actual age? Where did she come from? Why does her sword have magical life-restoring powers? We never find out.
- Noble Demon: Initially, she was hired by a rich collector to capture Spider-Man alive for him. After fighting Spider-Man for the first time and acknowledging him as a Worthy Opponent, however, she gives back the money to her employer after admitting she can't assure she'll not kill him, even mentioning it would be dishonorable to catch him for such a reason.
- No Immortal Inertia: She dies seconds after her sword is broken.
- Really 700 Years Old: She used the magic of her katana to stay young for centuries.
- Off with His Head!: She decapitates the guy who hired her to capture Spider-Man after she calls off their deal because he was interrupting things between her and Spidey.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: She cuts off one of her troops' trigger-fingers because he opened fire on Spider-Man, and no one decides how to take down an opponent but her.
- Outside-Genre Foe: Her powers are derived from magic, whereas every other villain was either mutated or used technology.
- Worthy Opponent: Sees Spider-Man as an adversary worthy of her respect.
Talon
Cheyenne
"If it's worth something to them, it's worth something to me."
Voiced by: Eve note
A thief who starts dating Harry Osborn.
- Badass Normal: She's just a regular thief with no super powers, relying entirely on her gadgets to fight and perform heists. Despite this she's still able to match Spider-Man in fights and evade him.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Subverted. Despite her antagonism with Spider-Man, her kindness towards Harry, Peter, and MJ was genuine.
- Canon Foreigner: She has no comic book counterpart, but is based on Black Cat.
- Captain Ersatz: She is loosely based on Black Cat and was even originally intended to be this continuity's version of Black Cat before the MTV executives persuaded the creators to retool the character to be more like her voice actress.
- Classy Cat-Burglar: Being based on Black Cat, she steals for a living.
- Curtains Match the Windows: She has purple eyes and (possibly dyed) purple and black hair.
- Dating Catwoman: Harry manages to fall for her civilian persona, Cheyanne, much to Peter's surprise. This is the reason why Spider-Man tries to get her to stop being a criminal.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: She gets annoyed at Spider-Man's frequent attempts to figure out her Freudian Excuse and his constant pleading that she's better than this, demanding to know why he even gives a crap.
- It's Personal: She's a thief who is only interested in stealing objects that have emotional value to the people they belong to, saying if it's important to them that makes them worth stealing.
- Sassy Black Woman: She's a black woman who likes to mouth off others.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: A pampered yet sweet rich girl who Harry has serious feelings for and saves MJ at one point, and also a cat burglar only interested in stealing things people would genuinely be despondent to lose and willing to manipulate the police into getting Spider-Man off her back.
- "Take That!" Kiss: Not a physical example, but she blows two kisses to Spider-Man to taunt him during their first fight. First, after she kicks him away and puts her goggles back on she turns back to him and blows a kiss before running off. Then, after Spider-Man is stuck holding a piece from a construction building in place to stop it from falling into the streets, Talon blows him another goodbye kiss to taunt him before disappearing.
Pterodax
Pterodax
Voiced by: James Marsters (Sergei)
Three Russian thieves with high tech equipment.
- Butt-Monkey: In their encounters with Spider-Man, Alexei was usually the first guy who wound up in webs.
- Canon Foreigner: Villains exclusive to this continuity who never appeared in the comics.
- Jetpack: They all wear jetpacks so they can fly.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: They're really just a trio of a tricked out diamond thieves and their gear makes them plenty dangerous to civilians, but once Spider-Man enters the picture, they're soundly trounced. The main reason they're a threat in "Tight Squeeze" is because Peter has to find a way around them without exposing himself, and once he does, the group is taken down in short order.
Christina
Christina
Voiced by: Tara Strong note
A classmate of Peter's with a crush on Spider-Man, which grows into a deadly obsession when she receives brain damage from an experiment.
- All of the Other Reindeer: To the point someone like Max Dillon considers her a freak.
- Anti-Villain: Due to the fact that she received actual brain damage. She's nuts and she did try to kill MJ, but she legitimately believes that it's what Spider-Man wants because her mind is telling her that. Christina needs medical attention and a good psychiatrist.
- Ax-Crazy: It sort of helps that her psychosis manifested as a result of actual brain damage thanks to her malfunctioning ESP crown. That being said, she takes MJ hostage with her acid gun and it makes it clear she'll use it on her, laughing at the idea of her organs splayed out on the ground in a puddle.
- Bungling Inventor: When she tried to make a glue gun, it turned out to be an acid gun. Her attempt at an "ESP crown" that would allow her to read minds simply shorted out her brain and made her delusional.
- Canon Foreigner: Yet another villain who was created exclusively for this continuity.
- Cloudcuckoolander: One has to wonder how she came to the conclusion that a stout coffee vendor was Spider-Man's true identity.
- Eye Twitch: During her last attempt on MJ's life.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: She only wants someone to love her.
- Killed Off for Real: Averted. Despite being trapped in an elevator as it plummeted to the ground, she just ended up on a stretcher with a neck brace.
- Loony Fan: Oh so very much. She believed she was soul-mates with Spider-Man long before she got zapped.
- Love Makes You Evil: As long as she can get Spider-Man, she doesn't seem to think there's anything wrong in committing murder to get him despite one of the things she finds attractive about him is his heroism.
- Loving a Shadow: She loves Spider-Man, but more precisely she loves the image of him and the hallucinations her brain is creating. Christina thinks the only reason the real Spider-Man isn't with her now is because he doesn't know he loves her and needs coaxing.
- Mad Scientist: She built a glue gun in high school that turned out to be highly acidic and dangerous, and her ESP crown actually does let her read minds. The wiring is a mess, though.
- Moment of Lucidity: When she's about to use her ESP crown to read Spider-Man's mind to see if he truly loves her, MJ questions how she can be certain she won't just be projecting her own feelings onto him. Christina admits that MJ has a point and decides to test the crown's reliability by using it to read Spider-Man's mind for something she can verify as true or false: his Secret Identity.
- Motor Mouth: She talks very rapidly.
- No Name Given: We never learn what her last name is.
- Nosebleed: Whenever she hallucinates or whenever she is acting particularly psychotic her nose will begin to bleed, most likely an indicator of her brain damage.
- Perky Goth: She has black lipstick and dark hair, yet she's very excitable and claims she can get along with almost anyone.
- Psychopathic Manchild: As she has MJ hostage, she indicates being insane and childish:Mary Jane: [scared] How do you know it's you Spider-Man wants? How do you know it's not someone else?
Christina: [laughing and holding her acid gun to MJ's face] Then ya better hope it's not you! - Rescue Romance: Tries to pull this off. She expects Spider-Man will save her when she walks off the roof of a very tall building, and he does. But the "romance" part doesn't take off. She gets sad and angry later on because she was "Just trying to be a good girlfriend."
- Sanity Slippage: Despite her Stalker Shrine, she didn't become dangerous until after her ESP crown electrocuted her. Instead of giving her powers, it made her hallucinate that her pictures of Spider-Man were talking to her and ordering her to do whatever it took to make sure they became a couple, including kill Mary Jane.
- Slasher Smile: Has a creepy grin, especially after she goes after MJ.
- Stalker Shrine: Naturally, she has one to Spider-Man in her closet.
- Stalker with a Crush: She has an obsession with Spider-Man and desperately wants to be with him.
- That Liar Lies: When MJ asserts she's not interested in Spider-Man. "You LIE! I don't like liars!"
- Wrench Wench: Not so much for cars, but she has jury rigged an acid gun, and an ESP crown, although the latter has some issues...
- Yandere: She flips out when faced with the truth that Spidey isn't interested.
Electro
Max Dillon
"No one is innocent. No one!"
Voiced by: Ethan Embry
An intelligent and lonely classmate of Peter's, who is transformed into the Electro after being the victim of a humiliating college prank.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: This version knew Peter in high school and college, and was a classmate of Harry and Mary Jane. In the comics, Max was an adult when Peter was a teen and they didn't meet until Max became Electro.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, Electro was an asshole and a criminal even before he got his powers. Here, however, he’s depicted as a tragic character who isn’t evil, but simply mentally unstable.
- Anti-Villain: Electro isn’t evil, but his mental instability and his dangerous powers make him extremely dangerous to everyone around him.
- Ax-Crazy: As Electro, he becomes insane and violent.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Why he tries to convert Sally into an electrical being like him, thinking she actually loves him.
- Companion Cube: Ditches Peter for a partner in a class project, for an AI computer version of himself. Then again, he didn't want to deal with Christina.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Max Dillon/Electro deconstructs the Butt-Monkey. Max was constantly abused by bullies throughout high school and college, with some of these pranks nearly killing him, leading to him developing numerous mental problems and a desire for acceptance among his peers. This proves to be a dangerous combination, and once he becomes Electro, he snaps and goes on a killing spree against anyone he feels that tormented him.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Appears as a minor character in "Head Over Heels" before his role is expanded on and he becomes Electro in "The Party".
- Face–Heel Turn: He started off as one of Peter's friends from high school and didn't turn into a villain until halfway into the show.
- Freudian Excuse: His crimes are motivated by the psychological damage inflicted on him by years of bullying and loneliness and his transformation into a horrific abomination.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Spider-Man frequently points out to him that this is no excuse for hurting innocent people.
- Guilt by Association: After killing Doug, Max starts seeing everyone as him and judges them all to be complicit in his suffering, thus deserving of the same retribution.
- Harmful to Touch: Most versions of Electro are flesh and blood people who can control electricity but will still be hurt by anyone punching them. This version of Electro is innately charged with energy and shocks Spider-Man when the latter punches him. Spider-Man gets around this by covering his hands in webbing, though it still hurts.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: He just wishes for acceptance among his peers. In his second appearance, he tries to convert a girl he has a crush on and who was one of the only people who was nice to him into a female version of himself.
- Killed Off for Real: His second appearance as Electro ended with him being destroyed by getting sucked into an OsCorp containment unit and tossed into the sea.
- One-Winged Angel: When drained of electricity, he turns into a thin, clawed version of himself
- Psycho Electro: As Electro, he has electrical powers and is mentally unstable.
- Shock and Awe: How he received his powers, just like in the comics.
- School Bullying Is Harmless: Heavily heavily subverted as his origin episode shows the consequences bullying can have on people. Max already had low self-esteem and didn't hang out much with others. Just as he was improving Doug and his cronies kept messing with him, culminating in him getting stuffed in an assaulted by paint guns in a hazing ritual. The poor guy finally snapped and killed Doug with his own electricity.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He has some issues, yes, but it's hard not to feel bad for the guy in spite of what he does.
- X-Ray Sparks: He inflicts this on Spider-Man when he gets ahold of him.
- Younger and Hipper: In the comics, he's an adult when Peter is in high school. Here, he's a college classmate of Peter's.
Dr. Zellner
Dr. Zellner
"Don't worry. You'll be dead soon enough."
Voiced by: Jeffrey Combs
A scientist, who tests his intelligence increasing formula on those with a low intellect.
- Canon Foreigner: Created exclusively for this continuity.
- Expy: He reminds many fans of Miles Warren, the mastermind of the The Clone Saga.
- Mad Scientist: He has very few scruples and has created a smart drug with potentially fatal side effects.
The Biker Twins
Jack and Mack
Voiced by: David DeLuise
Twin brothers infamous for being complete fools, who somehow gain an increase in their intelligence.
- All There in the Script: Their names are only given in concept art and model layouts, which are visible as special features on the show's DVD.
- Canon Foreigner: Created exclusively for this continuity.
- Dumb Muscle: They're both thugs who aren't very smart, to the point that one of them shot off their own toe while reloading their gun in the middle of a robbery. Zellner's formula however turns them into intelligent men able to be their own lawyers, at the cost of slowly losing their strength.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Jack is bald and wears yellow, while Mack has a beard and wears red.
- Those Two Guys: They're never seen apart.
Silver Sable
Silver Sablinovia
Voiced by: Virginia Madsen
A hired killer who usually hunts down criminals.
- Adaptational Name Change: Her name in the comics is Silvija.
- Adaptational Villainy: This version of Sable is more villainous than her comic book counterpart, even planning to kill Harry, MJ, and Indy just to spite Peter when he refused to give into her demands.
- Anti-Villain: Though she was attempting to assassinate an important politician, she had really good reasons to do so; the man was actually a terrorist attempting to infiltrate the White House.
- Badass Normal: She has no powers, but is still a formidable adversary to Spider-Man.
- Contralto of Strength: She has a very deep and low voice.
- Enemy Mine: Works together with Kraven, a guy she would usually kill, to get vengeance on Spider-Man. But that's just an illusion.
- Knight Templar: Her mission had a honorable goal, but she was willing to use methods such as stealing weapons, taking teenagers hostages (and wanting to kill them herself when it didn't work as planned), and putting a bomb on the mayor's car.
- Never Found the Body: She apparently ends up killed, but no corpse is found.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She usually has her real hair in this style.
Kraven The Hunter
Sergei Kravenoff
Voiced by: Michael Dorn note
A criminal that Spider-Man had fought in the past.
- Badass Normal: As per usual, Kraven is a skilled hunter whom Spider-Man defeated prior to the series and he does not appear to have any superhuman abilities.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Zigzagged with Blood Knight.
- Blood Knight: Zigzagged with Boisterous Bruiser.
- Decomposite Character: The role of traveling from a foreign country into New York City in order to hunt and kill Spider-Man (due to being contacted by a criminal mastermind that hates the Web-Slinger and wants him dead) that is usually associated with the Kraven of the comics and most versions is given to Canon Foreigner Shikata. Although, the Kraven of this series still portrayed a skilled hunter from Russia whom Spider-Man has encountered prior to the series.
- Egomaniac Hunter: He was willing and able to hunt and kill anything (particularly the parents of the Gaines Twins) until he fought Spider-Man.
- Enemy Mine: He works together with Silver Sable in order to get vengeance on Spider-Man. But it's just an illusion.
- Husky Russkie: His Russian accent is not as emphasized as the other versions, but it's still there.
- Killed Off for Real: Subverted; He was about to be this during a battle that he fought with Spider-Man in an empty power plant when the Web Slinger was about kill him (through nearly hanging Kraven! Now that's harsh!) after the Gaines Twins created a mental illusion that caused Spider-Man to believe that Kraven killed Mary Jane. But fortunately for Kraven, Spidey snaps out of it (after he saw outside the ESU science sign when he remembered it was ripped off), relents his decision, and turns Kraven over to the police.
- Movie Superheroes Wear Black: An animation (and super villain) example. This Kraven wears a black leather jacket instead of the lions mane vest of the comics and most adaptations.
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Unlike most portrayals of Kraven the Hunter, Michael Dorn's version of him doesn't give him a Russian accent.
- Remember the New Guy?: He's introduced in the last two episodes of the show, which reveals that he's already fought Spider-Man before. Justified since he was in prison and had only recently broke out.
The Gaines Twins
Roland and Roxanne Gaines
Voiced by: Kathy Griffin (Roxanne Gaines), Jeremy Piven (Roland Gaines)
Two twins who received mind control powers due to the experiments the KGB forced on their parents.
- Canon Foreigner: They were created exclusively for this continuity.
- Creepy Twins: A pair of eerie twins with mind control powers.
- Kick the Dog: While most of their actions are at least somewhat understandable, given what Kraven did to them, Roxanne tricking Spider-Man into shoving Indy off the roof of a building was just needlessly cruel.
- Killed Off for Real: They end up apparently dying in an explosion.
- Manipulative Bastards: They use their mind powers to manipulate and deceive people.
- Mind Control: They have the power to influence people's minds to manipulate them and make them see what isn't really there.
- Non-Action Guy: Roland. When he makes the notion that they should be trying to kill Kraven themselves, rather than mind-controlling Spider-Man into doing it, Roxanne points out that his senses are too keen in order for them to get close enough and brings up a Noodle Incident of "the last time you [Roland] used your tiny little hands to fight." Later when he switches from using his mental powers to attempting to attack Spidey with a pipe, he does indeed get his ass kicked.
- Theme Twin Naming: Their names both begin with R.
- You Killed My Father: Kraven the Hunter captured their parents for scientific experimentation, which eventually killed them, but it also gave Roland and Roxanne their mental abilities. Rather than try and kill him themselves however, they opt for Spider-Man to do it by manipulating him.
Richard Damian
Richard Damian
Voiced by: John C. McGinley
A movie director and also a collector of rare animals, who hires Shikata to capture Spider-Man.
- Asshole Victim: No one feels pity for him when Shikata decapitates him.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He sees Shikata as an attack dog he can control easily with a hefty paycheck. Shikata very quickly proves him wrong.
- Collector of the Strange: He loves collecting rare animals for his own amusement, and decides to add Spider-Man to his collection on a whim.
- Dirty Coward: His final moments are spent blaming his lieutenant for trying to kill Shikata.
- Faux Affably Evil: He’s good at putting on a friendly attitude, but he’s really a selfish monster who cares only about his own momentary desires.
- Insane Troll Logic: Essentially his reasoning on why he should kidnap Spider-Man. Since he calls himself Spider-Man and has Super-Strength and shoots webs, he’s obviously more spider than man, and therefore it’s perfectly alright for Damian to add him to his collection of rare animals.
- Off with His Head!: Shikata decapitates him for trying to have her killed, and she subsequently takes over his operations.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: He pretty much goes around doing whatever he wants with no thought of the consequences, and thinks kidnapping Spider-Man to add to his collection is perfectly rational.
- The Unfought: He and Spider-Man never even meet.
