Marvel's Spider-Man Episode Thirty-Six: Bring on the Bad Guys, Part Four

 Bring on the Bad Guys, Part Four

First Aired: August 6th, 2018

Synopsis: Peter finishes his power amplifier for Horizon's open house then heads to Horizon High as Spider-Man, where he's attacked by Electro, a woman in an electricity-generating suit. She ends up taking his power amplifier when he drops it but when she uses it on her suit it turns her into a being of electrical energy. As the fight breaks into Horizon Spider-Man is able to use equipment from the other open house projects to defeat her, but in the process Horizon is damaged badly enough that the open house can no longer be held. Spider-Man vows to find out who put the bounty on his head and stop them, and as such goes to the warehouse where, according to Prowler, the bounty was first put on his head. He finds a Daily Bugle flash drive with footage of him on it, and realises that J. Jonah Jameson must have put the bounty on his head.

Marvel's Spider-Man: Origin Shorts

Origin Shorts

For this series, Marvel embraced the digital age and released a series of six shorts on Youtube as a lead up to Marvel's Spider-Man, telling Spider-Man's origin. While it screws with my usual episode format, I'll go over them all here, in one post. The six shorts were condensed into one episode, but having just watched them, I think that it's more fair to view them each as an individual piece - short of some serious modifications, I think that the pacing of them would hurt an individual episode thanks to the constant stop-start nature of the storytelling.

Introduction!

First Aired: July 24th, 2017

Synopsis: Spider-Man thinks back to an Oscorp trip several weeks ago, where he got his powers. There, he runs into his friend Harry Osborn, who is going to a separate school from him, Horizon High. There's an alert that some spiders have escaped, and the tour guide emphasises the scientific method to the students. As Peter goes to test a robot with his partner Liz Allen, a spider bites him. He runs off to the bathroom, but knocks down a locked door in the process and begins to wonder what's happening to him.

Miscellaneous Notes:

• While Peter is in line to enter Oscorp, the student ahead of him looks to be Miles Morales.
• Spencer Smythe is apparently a teacher at Peter's school, and his son, Alistair, is a student.

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Ninety-Three: The Symbiote Saga, Part Three

The Symbiote Saga, Part Three

First Aired: July 17th, 2016

Synopsis: Harry, Peter, and Flash are admiring the good work they've done when the remnants of the Carnage symbiote start forming together. Harry runs off to get help while Spider-Man and Flash go after the symbiote, which soon moves towards Midtown High, the only unevacuated place nearby. Spider-Man hits it with his taser webs and it explodes all over the school. Flash and Peter enter the school to look for Mary Jane, and find Stan Lee there. The symbiote attacks them from the wall, forming tiny Carnages which burn Venom when they touch him. Stan escapes via a hidden elevator and the heroes soon run into Morbius, now more vampiric. He's draining Venom's life energy when Harry shows up in the Patrioteer armour and attacks. This causes Morbius to flee, but not before mentioning that he's looking for "the queen". The team are attacked by Carnage-spiders, since the symbiote is apparently evolving, and the heroes flee from them. They soon find Mary Jane, but she turns out to be the Carnage Queen. Morbius reappears and uses a device he prepared earlier to control her.

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode Forty-One: Stan By Me

Stan By Me

First Aired: July 7th, 2013

Synopsis: Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and Harry Osborn are the only people at school on a Friday evening, as Peter needs their help with some science classes he missed. The power ominously goes out, and the school's janitor, Stan, says there's something ominous about. In the darkness Coulson, who is also at school, disappears at the same time large claw marks appear on the walls and ceiling. Thankfully, Stan prompts Peter to run and get help, giving him the excuse he needs to change to Spider-Man. As Spider-Man rejoins his friends he's attacked by the Lizard, but saved by Stan attacking it with his mop. His communicator is damaged in the process, which means he can't call his team for help. The group of Spider-Man, Stan, Mary Jane, and Harry head to the boiler room after the Lizard, but Harry is grabbed by the Lizard when the monster grabs a high-tech security panel from a wall.

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode One: Great Power

Great Power

First Aired: April 1st, 2012

Synopsis: Spider-Man is in the city and planning to pick up a cake for Aunt May, but runs into the Trapster. He manages to defeat the Trapster but Nick Fury and SHIELD show up to take the villain in. Nick Fury points out how much collateral damage Spider-Man caused, and asks Spider-Man to come work with SHIELD so that he can learn to be a better superhero. He also mentions that he knows that Spider-Man is Peter Parker. Spider-Man thanks Fury for the offer, but rejects it and heads to school for the day. Unbeknownst to him, Doctor Octopus and Norman Osborn spy on him, as Norman wants to recreate his powers so that he can weaponise it and profit. At school, Peter runs into Mary Jane, Harry Osborn, and Flash Thompson, then has lunch with the former two. The cafeteria is unexpectedly attacked by Wizard, Klaw, and Thundra, who with the still-captured Trapster form the Frightful Four. They've heard from Trapster that Spider-Man attends school here and want him to reveal his secret identity.

Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Fourteen: Blueprints

Blueprints

First Aired: June 22nd, 2009

Synopsis: Peter's unsure how to proceed with Gwen after she kissed him, and wants to look for Eddie, who's disappeared. He resolves to talk to Gwen, but when he goes to school things are awkward between them. At the city docks a shipment of computer parts for Empire State University has just arrived. A flamboyant man, Mysterio, shows up and says that he'll save people from the evils of technology, then says some vaguely Latin-sounding words and makes the shipment disappear. Back at school, Peter tries to talk to Gwen, but Liz Allan interrupts and asks Peter to tutor her, which he agrees to. Later, Mysterio goes to liberate a truck of its cargo, but Spider-Man appears and fights him. Mysterio ends up using his magic to throw the truck off the bridge they're on, and while Spider-Man's saving the driver Mysterio disappears. When Peter mentions what's happened to Liz, in the context of reading a Daily Bugle article about it, she mentions that if Mysterio is doing magic, it's probably all about misdirection.

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Episode Twelve: Mind Games, Part One

Mind Games, Part One

First Aired: September 5th, 2003

Synopsis: The psychic Gaines twins, a brother and sister, are being transported to a new prison. They somehow manage to get rid of the sedatives keeping them under and control a guard into shooting the driver and taking over their transport. Spider-Man shows up and they use their psychic powers on him, but he manages to resist it and sedates the two of them. Later, Spider-Man's looking over the city with Mary Jane, and after a discussion about what you should do and what you want to do, he heads off to stop a crime. Later, Peter has lunch with Indy and Harry, and Indy reveals that Pterodax and Silver Sable were sprung from prison by the Gaines twins before they were stopped. Pterodax have taken hostages on top of a construction site being run by Oscorp, but Spider-Man shows up and is able to defeat them, although Harry, watching from the ground, is injured in the process. Returning home as Peter, though, he finds Mary Jane and Indy there, who have found out that he's been seeing both of them, and neither of them are happy about it.

Spider-Man: The Animated Series Episode Sixty-Five: Farewell Spider-Man

 Farewell Spider-Man

First Aired: January 31st, 1998

Synopsis: Spider-Carnage starts activating the device that will blow up every reality but the Beyonder sends the powerless Spider-Man to stop him, using sonic grenades to delay him. Beyonder teleports Man-Spider away from Scarlet Spider and Spider-Man, but it's taxed his powers and the rest is up to the heroes. Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider save the powerless Spider-Man from Kingpin and Spider-Carnage, and the latter activates his bomb. The heroes are able to disable it but Spider-Carnage uses the transporter to jump to another dimension. Madam Web teleports the heroes away and reveals that Spider-Carnage is going to try blowing up the multiverse in another dimension, and only has the power to send one Spider-Man there; ours. In the new dimension Spider-Man finds that people love him and his alter ego, who is engaged to Gwen Stacy and has a public identity. Nobody is aware of the threat of Spider-Carnage, and Spider-Man's supporting cast are insistent that he come to a charity event his company is throwing. Wilson Fisk, who is his lawyer in this universe, takes Peter away, but it's revealed to be a trap and Fisk is working with Spider-Carnage.