Sunday 31 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Fifty-Four: The Avenging Spider-Man, Part Two

The Avenging Spider-Man, Part Two


First Aired: August 31st, 2014

Synopsis: With the Avengers thinking he's Loki, Spider-Man runs away from them, and is somehow able to swim through a sewer to get to Midtown High, where he knows that his former team will be able to tell that it's him. After a brief fight with them they're convinced, but the Avengers and Loki show up and attack them, convinced that "Loki" has brainwashed the heroes. As the fight goes on a train is derailed which Spider-Man saves, convincing the Avengers that he's the real Spider-Man. Loki leaves, and the heroes go off to free Thor and the Hulk, encased in ice by a symbiote-powered dragon. Afterwards Spider-Man gets a call from Nick Fury, saying that Doctor Octopus' old base has an energy signature coming from him. Spider-Man volunteers to go and check it out with his old team, but once they get there Ock starts flooding it and escapes. The team are able to escape using a giant ball of webbing made by Spider-Man.

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Fifty-Three: The Avenging Spider-Man, Part One

The Avenging Spider-Man, Part One


First Aired: August 31st, 2014

Synopsis: Spider-Man and his team fight Doctor Octopus, and after defeating him the Avengers approach them, wanting Spider-Man to join them. He's reluctant to leave his team but does so with their blessing. At Avengers Tower he passes a quick test and is given an upgrade to his web shooters from Iron Man, but Black Widow points out that he's not unmasking and showing them the same trust that they're showing him. Captain America says it's fine, though, and the team soon go out to fight threats such as Fin Fang Foom and Attuma. Spider-Man manages to defeat Batroc on his own when his old team are fighting him and gets praise from civilians, who ignore what his old team contributed. Meanwhile, Loki frees Doctor Octopus from his imprisonment and restores his old underwater laboratory, and the two make plans to create more symbiotes from Spider-Man's blood so that Loki can power up some Asgardian monsters for an invasion.

Sunday 24 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Fifty-Two: Ultimate

Ultimate


First Aired: November 10th, 2013

Synopsis: Spider-Man's riding around on the spider-cycle when the old SHIELD helicarrier, previously destroyed, bursts out of the water. Spider-Man gets onto it and is attacked by the Green Goblin and his team, all of whom have been given the same serum that transformed Norman Osborn and are now goblins themselves. The Green Goblin reveals that he's planning on using the serum on all of New York from the helicarrier, which he dubs the Hellcarrier. Spider-Man tries fleeing but is chased by his team and has to fight them until SHIELD are able to evacuate him. Coulson gives Spider-Man a briefcase from Doctor Connors which contains an anti-goblin innoculator, before Spider-Man returns to the Hellcarrier to confront the Goblin. The Green Goblin reveals that he wants to transform all of New York so that he'll have a kingdom with which to take over the world, before Spider-Man's team reappear and attack him again.

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Fifty-One: Return of the Sinister Six

Return of the Sinister Six


First Aired: November 3rd, 2013

Synopsis: Spider-Man and Iron Patriot are in the sewers chasing after the Lizard, who is wearing a high-tech suit. When Iron Patriot damages the walls of the area they're in Spider-Man has to hold it up, and while Iron Patriot fixes it up Lizard escapes. Spider-Man notices some scrawls on a wall, and deduces that it's a chemical formula. He creates it back on the SHIELD Helicarrier and speculates that it'll cure the Lizard, and that it was written by Connors, still trying to break free of the Lizard's body. Spider-Man and his team hear about a prison breakout, so they head there alongside Iron Patriot, who was also on the helicarrier. They split up at the prison and Spider-Man finds the Sinister Six there, all wearing upgraded suits, and with Beetle having been replaced by Scorpion. 

Sunday 17 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Fifty: Sandman Returns

Sandman Returns


First Aired: October 27th, 2013

Synopsis: Spider-Man is in the helicarrier, where Doctor Connors' lab is getting modified. Awesome Andy tries disposing of some chemicals but all he does is create fires around the lab, which result in Sandman being freed. To Spider-Man's surprise, Sandman helps put out the fires. Later, Nick Fury explains that they've been trying to rehabilitate Sandman, which Spider-Man is fully on board with. He offers to take Sandman into the field. Sandman's given a suit which can restrict and stabilise his powers, and he and Spider-Man go out for a walk. News comes in of an attack on a SHIELD facility, and Spider-Man convinces Sandman that they should go and stop it. The attack turns out to be courtesy of Swarm, who Fury points out absorbs technology and could absorb Sandman's suit. Swarm starts to do so, so Spider-Man removes the suit from Sandman, but without it, Sandman soon starts getting erratic and unhinged as he defeats Swarm. He calms down as SHIELD approaches him but Spider-Man is shaken.

Wednesday 13 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Forty-Nine: Second Chance Hero

Second Chance Hero


First Aired: October 20th, 2013

Synopsis: Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, and Norman Osborn are all playing board games together, but unbeknownst to the others Peter is really there to keep an eye on Norman for Nick Fury to see whether he's still a villain. Norman leaves which prompts Peter to follow, and as Spider-Man he discovers Norman in a suit of Iron Man-esque armour, calling himself the Iron Patriot. To Spider-Man's surprise, Norman fights the Frightful Four, leading to Spider-Man joining him. Unbeknownst to them, an octobot watches them and identifies Norman through the suit. The two heroes are able to stop the villains, but at the expense of Norman using Spider-Man as a distraction. Spider-Man is still suspicious of Norman and the two get into a fight, but when a billboard is damaged during it Norman goes out of his way to stop it while Spidey saves civilians, which convinces Spider-Man that Norman is really trying to redeem himself. Later, Norman offers to tutor Harry, which just further solidifies Peter's trust. Nick Fury, however, doesn't buy it, and insists that Peter keep watching Norman.

Sunday 10 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Forty-Eight: The Howling Commandos

The Howling Commandos


First Aired: October 5th, 2013

Synopsis: Spider-Man meets the Howling Commandos, consisting of the Living Mummy, Werewolf by Night, and Frankenstein's Monster, as well as a yet-unseen fourth member. Spider-Man explains the events of the previous episode right before Dracula and Spider-Man's mesmerised team show up via a portal. After a brief fight Dracula is able to get away with both halves of the ankh, but Werewolf by Night reveals that he can't use them to become immortal until dawn. He also warns that Spider-Man's loved ones may be in jeopardy from Dracula, so Spider-Man and the Howling Commandos go to Aunt May's. They set up a combination of mystical and technological wards to protect the house, and run into Blade there, who joins them. Using the Howling Commandos' transport, the Monster Truck, the group go to Transylvania. A horde of shadow vampires attacks them outside Dracula's castle but are stopped by the fourth member of the commandos - the Man-Thing.

Wednesday 6 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Forty-Seven: Blade

Blade


First Aired: October 5th, 2013

Synopsis: Spider-Man and his team are waiting in a graveyard for a special agent when they're attacked by feral humanoids. They're saved by Blade, who reveals that they're shadow vampires. Although Blade tells everyone to run Spider-Man insists that they should fight, and Spider-Man eventually gives Nova orders to create a burst of light which defeats the vampires. Everyone moves to the helicarrier since Blade doesn't trust the team with the package he's brought - half of an ankh. Coulson explains that in the past the full ankh could raise the dead, and that Dracula is after both halves of the ankh since it will remove his weaknesses and make him immortal. He also explains that the other half is in a special area of the museum, which sends Blade heading off to retrieve it. Nick Fury forbids Spider-Man and his team from joining in, saying that he's underestimated how dangerous the mission is, but Spider-Man and his team follow Blade and join him anyway.

Sunday 3 October 2021

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Forty-Six: Game Over

Game Over


First Aired: September 29th, 2013

Synopsis: Spider-Man and his team are fighting LMDs as part of a training session, but they start acting more deadly as the fight goes on. Nick Fury comes in and stops them, and reveals that it was a test by the mutant terrorist Arcade, who can control technology. He reveals that Arcade is also trying to hack nuclear missiles and that they only have twenty-four hours to stop him, and that an arriving Captain America has been called into help. Captain America attacks Fury, who turns out to be another LMD. The real Nick Fury sends Cap to the country of Madripoor, and Spider-Man decides to stow away on Cap's plane. Arcade ends up hacking the plane, forcing them to evacuate it. In Madripoor they go to a building where LMD ninjas are fighting Wolverine. He attacks Captain America, but it turns out to be a test as to whether Cap is an LMD or not. Wolverine reveals that Arcade is in that building, but LMD duplicates of the trio show up to fight them, while some hologram technology changes the room into a faux boxing ring.

The End

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