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The 15 Best Episodes Across Every Animated Spider-Man Series
The web-slinger’s latest cartoon adventure, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, premieres on Disney+ later this month.
Though it does an admirable job of opening the rising plot of the villains, a mostly gangland institution that quite literally mutates in order to match this new Spider-Man character who keeps taking them out, the real feat of “Survival of the Fittest” is the rhythm it attains in establishing Peter’s friends and peers. Mainstays like Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy are there, but there’s also Midtown High classmates like “Flash” Thompson, Liz Allan, Sally Avril, Rand Robertson, Kenny Kong, and more, some of which weren’t introduced until decades after Stan Lee’s original run on the comics. Its animation bore little in the way of personality, its first few story lines mainly felt like milquetoast retreads from previous Spider-Man outings, and it aired on pay channel Disney XD just as the monumental shift toward streaming services, even when it came to children’s television, was in full swing.
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