Audience-Alienating Premise: Generally, the series isn't held in high regards compared to other Spider-Man series, as it puts Peter Parker/Spider-Man on an alternate futuristic world (which many saw as straying too far from his grounded New York roots), lacks most of his supporting cast (who are mostly replaced by expies), and replaces most of his rogues gallery with entirely new villains (with only Venom and Carnage remaining). As interesting as the concepts were on paper, the show is viewed by critics and audiences as being too much of a radical departure from the Spider-Man people know and love. Unsurprisingly, the show only ran for 13 episodes before it was cancelled.
Awesome Art: Say what you will about the show's writing, but nobody's complaining about the series' comic book-inspired visuals (which was planned to be used by a planned Captain America series for Fox the year before this show aired, but that got canned by Marvel going bankrupt — it's likely that producer Will Meuginot imported it).
Broken Base: A lot of fans weren't fond of the series because of how radical a departure it was from previous and subsequent Spider-Man adaptations, but there are some fans who see the show as a decent cartoon in its own right and having some interesting concepts.
Sir Ram is a Bestial and the cruelest of the High Evolutionary's servants on Counter-Earth. A scientist who views humans as inferior, a decade ago Sir Ram experimented on a child named Git Hoskins, leaving him an emotionally scarred freak as an adult. Sir Ram later kidnaps several other humans, planning to perform similar gruesome experiments on them. When a Machine Man, X-51, defies the High Evolutionary, Sir Ram plans to experiment on it too, despite it being sapient, and later tries to use a device to try to force X-51 to kill several human rebels. When Sir Ram captures Spider-Man, he subjects him to painful experiments designed to make him into a mind-controlled puppet. In the finale, Sir Ram helps the High Evolutionary destroy the human race on Counter-Earth, by first destroying human neighborhoods and not caring whether the humans flee in time, and taking sadistic delight when the High Evolutionary tries to destroy humanity with a sonic weapon, with his associate Lord Tyger being disgusted by Sir Ram's cruelty.
Tie-in comic issue #5: The Chameleon is a monstrous Bestial capable of changing his appearance to those he has murdered. To use this to his advantage, Chameleon systematically stalks and murders over a dozen innocent people, then uses their identities to commit crimes. After being stopped by Spider-Man during a bank robbery that nearly leaves several people dead, Chameleon boasts his plans to ruin Spider-Man's name and crush the hope of his people by framing Spider-Man for the killings. Even in a world of dictators and monstrous symbiotes, the Chameleon stood out as a vile Serial Killer who disgusted Spider-Man more than any other villain he encountered.
Jennifer Hale had her Star-Making Role as Felicia Hardy in the previous Spider-Man series. Here she voices Mary-Jane in the pilot, as well as Lady Vermin for the rest of the series. While MJ is Felicia's biggest rival for Spider-Man's affections, Lady Vermin is a humanoid rat and Abhorrent Admirer whom Spider-Man is not attracted to.
The entire storyline involving the Synoptic would be reused beat-for-beat in Donny Cates'Venomrun. Knull is basically a humanoid version of the same "Symbiote god" concept with a few minor tweaks.
Counter-Earth's Green Goblin sports goggles. When the Spider-Man Trilogy incarnation of Green Goblin gets transported to the MCU after Norman Osborn breaks the helmet, he sports goggles to replace the mask once his Goblin side takes over.
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Complete Monster: Dark Mysterio hails from a dimension in which he led the Sinister Six to destroy Spider-Man and conquer the world. In his quest to obtain further power, Dark Mysterio travels to hundreds of other dimensions, killing their heroes and stealing their energy source of Iso-8 to boost the Six's abilities, a process that destroys each dimension they invade. With countless billions left dead in his wake, Dark Mysterio dispatches his minions to the Earth this game takes place on, using the Six to cause all manner of destruction such as poisoning civilians; experimenting on hundreds of people with Iso-8; or nearly blowing up all of New York City. Dark Mysterio desires nothing more than the continuous invading and decimation of all realities until he reigns supreme.
Unexpected Character: This game goes well past scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Spider characters, marking the video-game debuts of the likes of Anya Corazón as Araña (both with and without her Instant Armor) and Spider-Girl, Mayday Parker, Spider-Gwen and the other Spider-Verse totems, Silk (both with her Cheap Costume, her second outfit,note With the grey scarf, which hasn't been released yet. and her third outfitnote With the red scarf.), Superior Spider Man's original costume, Superior Venom, Spider-X...and more are being announced.
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