5 Things That You Would Change About Show:

Only thing I'd change is swap the designs of Sally and Liz. Liz's design just really bothers me for some reason.

The only problem with that is that she would look a bit too much like Gwen because of the simplified art style (Sally already does, despite having different noses)...They made Deborah Whitman black because of this same thing. And with Liz dating Peter it would look a bit wierder, although it would be a great dynamic because it does seem like he does imagine being with Gwen while being with Liz a lot more so because they look similar.

I think it was a nice move giving more ethicitity into the show. Cause originally only characters who were not white in the comics were the robbie's family, hobie brown, and a few others i may not know. So i didnt see it really bad to change a few supporting/minor characters races as long as the essences of the characters stay true which they have.

Agreed. The thing I just noticed was outside of those couple of people (Robbie and Hobie and by default their families) EVERY minority on this show was originally white... Some people may hate it, but I love the fact that Roderick Kingsley is black in this as it does show progression FROM being politically correct all of the time. I assume that Spidey doesn't have many minority or female villains because of the time period he debuted in with all of the civil rights and womens's sufferage stuff going on in that time period. It would be kinda taboo for a white male hero to be against a female or minority villain in those times. Here the villain is black and the hero is white for once, and the black villain isn't just some misguided soul who just had a rough life growing up. We can be bad too people! White people aren't the only people who can just be despicably evil.
 
totally yea the race changes didnt piss me off one bit. More so once i learned why they did it and all that it worked. Only thing that would be jarring if it was jj/peter/osborns/etc.... characters.
 
Oh just thought about the guns...(even though it was mentioned on the first page...)

I have no problem with the mace bullets and bazookas for the gangs of New York when they became "Gob Squads" simply because Gobby himself is a weirdo, so it fits for him to theme the guns that his underlings use (the guns that he actually supplied the first Gob Squad trio looked odd but it fit because it's the Green Goblin [the man goes out of his way to design his bombs to look like jack-o-lanterns]). Even Sable having a specialty gun didn't bother me at all.

However, low level thugs should just have normal guns unless they are working for a weirdo, as the thugs themselves have no personality quirks to really justify why they would have such odd weaponry. In Nature vs. Nurture we wouldn't even had been able to tell the difference if they didn't give a close up to the mace bullets.
 
the only thing i would change about this show was Kraven the Hunter. i would have never turned him into a bestial creature. i believe Kraven's major attraction was always the fact that he never had any superpowers and relied upon his skills and occasionally some jungle potions!
 
yea and greg has stated he has plans with kraven, so i would guess he probably would turn him back into a human.
 
Make Spidey's head smaller. I know they do it to make him look younger but it looks like an over-inflated balloon. It looks like, if you went at it with a safety pin, it'd pop.

Apart from that, there's barely anything I'd change. Easily the best Spider-Man cartoon there's ever been.
 
i dont see spidey's head to big in this show.
Me neither, I would love to see Kingpin and The Punisher appear as villains in the show even if they are from another series. (The Punisher did first appear in Spidey!) Plus some Daredevil action, but maybe that would be too much. But i'm pretty much fine with the way the show is.
 
1. Harry's voice actor. Seriously he's a high school kid, not a rugrat
2. Kraven would stay Human
3. Real Guns
4. That stupid tag on Peter
5. Season 3 would have already started:cwink:
 
There is something about Otto Octavious's characterization prior to his tranfromation into Doctor Octopus that bugs me a bit, something that conflicts with his origin in the comics also. You see, in Spider-Man Unlimited: #3 which finally revealed his past and even in his debut in Amazing Spider-Man #3 it was shown that even before the lab accident Otto Octavious was a megalomaniacal person whom many people disliked including his colleagues at work. In the wonderfully written Spider-Man Unlimited: #3, You really see all the various elements of what made Octavius turn out the way he is. It is a tragic history that Octavius has. And one similar to Peter Parker's, with regards to the isolation and bullying because of being a science geek, having no friends, being unpopular with girls, losing a parent at a young age, and acquiring an awesome power thru a science accident.
The lab accident was the final push Octavius needed to send him over the edge into villainy. And this is the wonderful parallel between Peter and Otto. Peter is the geek gone good, while Otto is the geek gone bad.
But in the show, the Otto before the accident and the Otto seem to be completely different people! I mean he is meek and fearful and even with some conscience until the freak accident turns him into a full-blown supervillain hell-bent on destroying the world. However, it seems to me that in the comics he was always bitter, haughty and kinda villainous and always had issues due to his rough childhood. He was an accident waiting to happen. This, in my opinion, is ignored in the show.
of course i dont have any problem with Doc Ock in Season 2 (actually it is awesome) but with his portrayal in season 1 before he is transformed.
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There is something about Otto Octavious's characterization prior to his tranfromation into Doctor Octopus that bugs me a bit, something that conflicts with his origin in the comics also. You see, in Spider-Man Unlimited: #3 which finally revealed his past and even in his debut in Amazing Spider-Man #3 it was shown that even before the lab accident Otto Octavious was a megalomaniacal person whom many people disliked including his colleagues at work. In the wonderfully written Spider-Man Unlimited: #3, You really see all the various elements of what made Octavius turn out the way he is. It is a tragic history that Octavius has. And one similar to Peter Parker's, with regards to the isolation and bullying because of being a science geek, having no friends, being unpopular with girls, losing a parent at a young age, and acquiring an awesome power thru a science accident.
The lab accident was the final push Octavius needed to send him over the edge into villainy. And this is the wonderful parallel between Peter and Otto. Peter is the geek gone good, while Otto is the geek gone bad.
But in the show, the Otto before the accident and the Otto seem to be completely different people! I mean he is meek and fearful and even with some conscience until the freak accident turns him into a full-blown supervillain hell-bent on destroying the world. However, it seems to me that in the comics he was always bitter, haughty and kinda villainous and always had issues due to his rough childhood. He was an accident waiting to happen. This, in my opinion, is ignored in the show.
of course i dont have any problem with Doc Ock in Season 2 (actually it is awesome) but with his portrayal in season 1 before he is transformed.
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What're you talking about?? They actually handled Ock on this show extremely well. If anything, the Otto on this show, too was an accident waiting to happen. And after his transformation you didn't so much as hear him BEG for ANYTHING.
 
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yea sure it was a bit different from the comics, they probably wanted otto to be a different type of villain and went with the change.
 
The only thing I hope they DON'T change, is the actual brutality in certain battles in this show...But then again dinsey'd be a little hypocritical. They had a sword impale the heart of a dragon and have it bleed! Or just plain on screen death.
 
What're you talking about?? They actually handled Ock on this show extremely well. If anything, the Otto on this show, too was an accident waiting to happen. And after his transformation you didn't so much as hear him BEG for ANYTHING.

I agree. Otto was a repressed individual in this show. He sat on a bundle of rage, hate, and violent tendencies beneath his meek exterior.

Remember the vision he has of impaling Norman with his tentacles when Norman is berating him about something? It was a key hint that Octavius had violent and homicidal tendencies.
 
i dont think disney has any issues for the tone/feel of the show. I believe there was no changes to things for the show at all once it aired on XD.
 
I agree. Otto was a repressed individual in this show. He sat on a bundle of rage, hate, and violent tendencies beneath his meek exterior.

Remember the vision he has of impaling Norman with his tentacles when Norman is berating him about something? It was a key hint that Octavius had violent and homicidal tendencies.

His megalomaniacal tendencies also showed in "Invisible Hand", where he excitedly ranted about the Rhino suit's destructive features, before interrupted by Norman.

Also, loved how he assumed the worst out of Spidey and was paranoid. Yep, Otto was not a good guy before the transformation.
 
he probably had good intentions and all that. But the accident just helped drive up his evil tendencies to the for front.
 
i dont remember what episode it was but do you recall Hammerhead's remark to Norman when Otto was designing Rhino's suit and was actually warning him about the consequences: "is your man trying to talk my man outta this?" (or something like that). and in one episode he is afraid of his own shadow!!! again not the Otto i know.
and as i said earlier i dont have any problem with Dock Ock and he is the second best villain of the show. maybe they should have revealed a bit of his past or maybe they will if the show goes on (God willing)
 
I think they were trying to go back to that period of time where Ock was actually afraid of Spider-Man (which in this show, Otto was afraid Spidey was out to get him for the supervillains.) When he became Doc Ock it all changed.
 
I would have liked it if they had shown him having fantasies of killing Norman and Hammerhead before "Reaction".
 

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