Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Eleven: Group Therapy

Group Therapy

First Aired: May 31st, 2008

Synopsis: Electro is released from therapy and contacts Doctor Octopus, who is in prison and has contacted him, as well as Vulture and the Enforcers; Vulture in turn has contacted Sandman and Rhino. That night Electro shuts down the prison's transformer which lets Rhino and Sandman free themselves and the others, who are given their gear by Hammerhead. In the Parker household, Peter finds out that Aunt May is feeling weak, but encourages her to go to a play she was planning on seeing with Anna Watson regardless. He goes to catch up with Eddie Brock, who's annoyed at him once more for seemingly taking photos of Spider-Man stealing the alien organism rather than calling the police. In the city, Rhino goes on a rampage and Spider-Man shows up, but is soon ambushed by the rest of the group. Aunt May is coincidentally in the area, and Spider-Man ushers her into her theatre, but unbeknownst to him she has a heart attack once inside. Spider-Man tries fighting the villains, but they've anticipated the tricks he used to defeat them last time and prepared for it. Spider-Man ends up escaping via the sewers, and when the villains futilely try to follow him they soon end up bickering.

Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Ten: Persona

Persona

First Aired: May 17th, 2008

Synopsis: Peter's excited about the black goo that's been found on John Jameson's shuttle, as it's been discovered to be organic. It's been taken to Curt Connors for research, and when Peter's connection to Eddie Brock doesn't let him get in to see it, he decides to check it out as Spider-Man. When he does so he catches a thief, Black Cat, trying to steal it, so he fights her as Spider-Man. In the course of the fight the goo gets loose and attaches itself to Spider-Man's leg, but he doesn't notice. Black Cat eventually leaves when Professor Connors shows up, attracted by the alarm, but since the goo is missing Spider-Man assumes she somehow got it. The next day Spider-Man is accused of the robbery in the Daily Bugle, and when Peter protests he discovers that Connors didn't get to the lab until that morning. Unbeknownst to him, the Connors who showed up to the lab is actually the Chameleon, who's working with two men named Mason and Beck. Having failed to get the alien substance, he asks for his men's help with a new impersonation. The next day as Spider-Man's swinging around, the alien substance spreads throughout his entire costume and turns it black, and as he soon discovers, enhances his abilities.

Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Nine: The Uncertainty Principle

The Uncertainty Principle

First Aired: May 10th, 2008

Synopsis: Halloween is coming up, and there's going to be a carnival in Manhattan. The Green Goblin attacks Hammerhead's car and captures him, but Hammerhead refuses to work with him. Later, the Green Goblin meets Tombstone in his office and reveals that thanks to Hammerhead he has a drive with evidence of Tombstone's crimes on it, and that he'll release it later that night - Tombstone will know where. Meanwhile, with Harry Osborn's increasingly erratic behaviour worrying Gwen, she asks Peter to look for him, and as he's heading over to the Osborns' as Spider-Man, he runs into the Green Goblin, who lets him know about the drive before losing him. When Spidey gets close to the Osborns' he sees the Green Goblin enter, and upon going inside sees Norman emerge from a secret entrance, shortly before Harry returns home. Not sure what to make of it, Spider-Man decides not to see Harry immediately and instead calls him and asks to meet him at the Halloween carnival. Shortly afterwards, Norman returns to Oscorp, but while he's copying some files from his computer it gets attacked by the Green Goblin. Shortly afterwards, some pumpkin fireworks announce the Green Goblin's presence at the Halloween carnival, and Spider-Man and Tombstone follow them to the factory where Hammerhead is being held - at which point it's revealed to all be a trap by the Goblin; there was never a drive with evidence.

Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Eight: Reaction

Reaction

First Aired: May 3rd, 2008

Synopsis: Spider-Man is looking for the Green Goblin when he stops a truck stealing cars from getting away. As Peter Parker he heads to a football game and is surprised to discover that Flash invited Mary Jane to watch it; when he expresses his surprise she tells him that she and Peter are just friends. Liz Allan invites Peter to a Coney Island trip the next day to celebrate the team's victory. After the game Harry has some shakes and drinks his green serum, and disappears before the locker rooms are locked up. Gwen later finds him collapsed on the footpath, but he brushes off her concerns. At Oscorp Otto Octavius is bullied by Norman Osborn and forced to work on experiments, but shortly afterwards the Green Goblin appears and disables the safeties on Octavius' experiments, causing a gigantic burst of light which fuses Octavius' tentacle harness to his spine. Spider-Man investigates it but is attacked by Octavius, now calling himself Doctor Octopus and no longer meek, who thinks that Spider-Man is responsible for the explosion. The power source for his tentacles runs low and he has to leave the fight, but knows now that his next move is to get a replacement power source that lasts longer.

Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Seven: Catalysts

Catalysts

First Aired: April 26th, 2008

Synopsis: Spider-Man is at a fancy party fighting the new supervillain the Green Goblin, and thinks back to how his evening started. Earlier that night Harry was at the Fall Formal and popular since he was hosting the afterparty, but Peter arrived with Mary Jane to everyone's shock. Harry was jealous at the attention, and things were made worse when his date Glory's ex, Kong, convinced her to get back with him. As a result Harry ran off an drank from a vial labelled Globulin Green. At the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson was getting ready for a fancy party that he was taking his son John to since John's going into space next week. They showed up at the party, which was being hosted by Tombstone, but it was soon attacked by the Green Goblin, using the Goblin Glider he'd stolen from Oscorp and with some thugs of Tombstone's that he'd turned. Jonah managed to get a call to the Bugle and request that Peter show up, since this is exactly his sort of scene. When the call got through to Peter he headed off, and shortly after arriving as Spider-Man, ended up where the episode started.

Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Six: The Invisible Hand

The Invisible Hand

First Aired: April 12th, 2008

Synopsis: Alex O'Hirn undergoes a procedure overseen by Otto Octavius, becoming the supervillain Rhino in the process. He heads off to look for Spider-Man. At the Daily Bugle, Peter tries asking Betty Brant to be his date to the Fall Formal once more, and she eventually says that she'll think about it, which he's incredibly excited by. When he mentions it to Aunt May she heads to the Daily Bugle and asks Betty out for coffee. At school, Peter makes a bet with Flash that he'll show up to the formal with a date, but receives a text from Betty saying that she's having coffee with Aunt May. He heads to the Daily Bugle, worried about what the outcome will be, but finds Rhino there, asking for Peter Parker so that he can track down Spider-Man. Peter changes to Spider-Man and starts fighting him, but finds that nothing injures him. He manages to get Rhino to crash through a wall of the Daily Bugle and fall to the ground, but Rhino is predictably unharmed. Spider-Man web swings away, hoping to lead Rhino away from civilians and the police officers that have shown up.

Spectacular Spider-Man Episode Five: Competition

Competition

First Aired: March 29th, 2008

Synopsis: Aunt May discovers that Peter's school is hosting the Fall Formal and suggests that he ask out Mary Jane Watson, but he's not too keen on the idea. At school Harry forgives Peter for not helping him out with his calculus, and says that he wants to try for the football team since there's two openings available. Peter doesn't want to join at first, before hearing that the jocks are planning on beating up Harry, so he agrees to audition with Harry. The jocks want their friend Hobie Brown to join the team, but although they conspire to stop Peter and Harry, the two do pretty well in their tryouts. Elsewhere, criminals Flint Marko and Alex O'Hirn, who have been captured by Spider-Man, are freed by Hammerhead. Marko is taken away to a lab where Otto Octavius performs an experiment on him, turning him into the superhuman Sandman. Although Hammerhead wants Sandman to get revenge on Spider-Man, Sandman refuses and instead robs a bank, which still works fine for Hammerhead. Spider-Man encounters Sandman shortly after this, and Sandman ends up fleeing after a brief fight, although he doesn't get away with his money.