World Spider-Man: The Animated Series

[The Joker]

Friggin' Kingpin was involved in nearly every story in some shape or form. I think the Morbius and the Venom storylines are the only ones that were Kingpin free.

Actually no scratch that, even in the Venom three parter he's in two of the episodes. He steals the promethium X and sends Shocker to kill Brock.

Season 1 was the best of the series. Minimum Kingpin, and several of the villains all got to shine in their own episodes solo.

 

[Shikamaru]

Friggin' Kingpin was involved in nearly every story in some shape or form. I think the Morbius and the Venom storylines are the only ones that were Kingpin free.

Actually no scratch that, even in the Venom three parter he's in two of the episodes. He steals the promethium X and sends Shocker to kill Brock.

Season 1 was the best of the series. Minimum Kingpin, and several of the villains all got to shine in their own episodes solo.

It's very funny that Season 1 had the least amount of Kingpin considering that he is in 6 out of 13 episodes. That's almost half the whole season right there.

I felt Season 1 was the best season as well. Each villain got a chance to shine in a solo, something we barely got after that. Other than barely half a handful of villains, I can't think of any other villains from season 1 that got their own chance to shine like that after the first season.

Shocker and Rhino were reduced exclusively to the Sinister Six.
The Lizard had one (awful) Lizardmen episode in Season 4, and that was about it.
Mysterio had another solo episode later on with his old GF, and that was about it. Other than that, he was reduced to the S6.
Kraven only had one solo episode in Season 4.
Chameleon - same thing. Reduced to the S6.

Another problem were the number of other Marvel characters they used. Starting with Season 2, they used non-Spidey related characters almost every other episode.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Friggin' Kingpin was involved in nearly every story in some shape or form. I think the Morbius and the Venom storylines are the only ones that were Kingpin free.

Actually no scratch that, even in the Venom three parter he's in two of the episodes. He steals the promethium X and sends Shocker to kill Brock.

He had nothing to do with Carnage, at least

I felt Season 1 was the best season as well. Each villain got a chance to shine in a solo, something we barely got after that. Other than barely half a handful of villains, I can't think of any other villains from season 1 that got their own chance to shine like that after the first season.

Hobgoblin
At least until his last episode

Shocker and Rhino were reduced exclusively to Kingpin's Insidious Six.

More in tone with the show

 

[The Villain]

Still is a super Spider Man toon & I loved the revamped colourfull character designs & not forgetting the action figures.

My big and only pick was too much Kingpin and not enough of Mysterio, Hammerhead, Prowler, Chameleon or Vulture episodes.

fav eps include, Menace Of Mysterio, Day Of The Chameleon, Sting Of The Scorpion & Sinister 6 two parter.

Anyone for Spider Man The Animated Series MOTUC type collectors figures?

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[Spider-Aziz]

Yeah, I have to agree with the complaints of how overused Kingpin was. It made the other villains suffer. Especially Doc Ock. Ock is a leader of man, not a follower. Kingpin even stole his thunder by creating the "Sinister" Six. The only time he had any real dignity was his debut episode. That episode even gave the impression that he could operate on his own rather than being a glorified Kingpin stooge.


The Ottobot two parter was Ock's chance to reclaim his arch nemesis status, but it gets ruined when it's shown that was working for Kingpin. Kingpin didn't even attribute to anything in that episode other than showing that Ock wasn't acting on his own.

And the second part of that arc helps him less

fav eps include, Menace Of Mysterio, Day Of The Chameleon, Sting Of The Scorpion & Sinister 6 two parter.

Insidious
Go with the toon's tune man

 

[Picard Sisko]

I think this series has plenty of good individual story arcs that almost feel like DTV movies. The Venom Saga, Spider-Man vs. Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man vs. Dardevil, Return of the Green Goblin, Secret Wars, and so on. Its hard to watch it from start to finish though.

I really liked the last season with Spider-Man traveling across different dimensions and meeting Stan Lee. If only they made a sixth season and concluded the show. Oh well.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

If only they made a sixth season and concluded the show. Oh well.

If only, we wouldn't dread the idea of USM being the longest running Spider-Man cartoon next year

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I like the show a lot. one of my greatest memories from childhood. I think it's just as good as Batman: TAS, both of which I'd rank 9/10 (for television cartoons).

 

[Picard Sisko]

I like the show a lot. one of my greatest memories from childhood. I think it's just as good as Batman: TAS, both of which I'd rank 9/10 (for television cartoons).

Yeah, I think its on par with Batman: TAS. It actually had good long running story arcs, something Batman TAS did not have.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The problem with long running arcs is when they trip on their foot and make a few mistakes here and there
It's one thing I respect about Batman:TAS for not using the arcs formula

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The problem with long running arcs is when they trip on their foot and make a few mistakes here and there
It's one thing I respect about Batman:TAS for not using the arcs formula

 

[Picard Sisko]

The problem with long running arcs is when they trip on their foot and make a few mistakes here and there
It's one thing I respect about Batman:TAS for not using the arcs formula

So you respect Batman: TAS for not even trying? lol

If there were any continuity mistakes in Spider-Man: TAS, then they were pretty minor and did little to ruin my enjoyment of the series.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

So you respect Batman: TAS for not even trying? lol

If there were any continuity mistakes in Spider-Man: TAS, then they were pretty minor and did little to ruin my enjoyment of the series.

Yeah, I do, it kept it the respectable thing it is today

Spider-Man:TAS storytelling has a bunch of inconsistencies, unexplained random things, disappearing people with absent needed return act....
It's entertaining and fun, but not strong in quality

 

[Picard Sisko]

Yeah, I do, it kept it the respectable thing it is today

Right. Batman: TAS is well respected because it avoided using story arc.

Spider-Man:TAS storytelling has a bunch of inconsistencies, unexplained random things, disappearing people with absent needed return act....
It's entertaining and fun, but not strong in quality

I highly disagree with you.

 

[Green Goblin]

This series got me into the web head. I havn't watched cartoons in a while though :|

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Right. Batman: TAS is well respected because it avoided using story arc.

It prevented the inconsistencies Spider-Man suffered

I highly disagree with you.

You disagree about it being entertaining and fun

 

[Picard Sisko]

It prevented the inconsistencies Spider-Man suffered

You disagree about it being entertaining and fun

No...

 

[Spider-Aziz]

No...

You bolded that part and said "strongly disagree with me"

I will list some continuity breakers here:

• Octavius makes it clear he wants to do his science stuff in the Insidious 6 episode, nothing is shown of it later.
• As soon as May enters the Taxi and it moves, the illusion goes off the hospital, in a way May can see it, but no one said a thing. Insidious 6 part 2
• Smythe tells Kingpin how convenient it is he (Fisk) owns this hospital, but we're shown it's broken. Does he own it or what?
• By the end of that arc, everyone drops out of Kingpin's service, to bee seen working for him and report to him in most things they do. Nothing explains why, they just serve him
• "Herbert Langdon" betrays Kingpin, and Fisk knows it in "The Mutant Agenda", but he works for him later, no questions, no reason, we don't know why he trusts him now when Smythe failed Fisk's son, everything is out of the blue
• By the end of season 2 scorpion and Vulture both go their separate ways, next thing is both are together in Gargan's apartment, and Vulture is his prisoner. Vulture switches between youth and old age, what happened to the Man-Spider? Where did it go? Why are is he a youth? What happened to give Gargan reason to trap Toomes? All answers thrown out the window
• Quentin Beck is the cause of that actress accident, but that is ignored for a long time, then he says he loves that maniac and dies with her in some goofy way

And there are plenty more

 

[Picard Sisko]

I bolded "It's entertaining and fun, but not strong in quality", meaning I disagree with the whole statement. I think the show is entertaining and fun, but it is strong in quality.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I bolded "It's entertaining and fun, but not strong in quality", meaning I disagree with the whole statement. I think the show is entertaining and fun, but it is strong in quality.

You said you disagree with the whole statement, yet you said you agree with a part of it

It's entertaining and fun, but not strong in quality

Take the part like this

It's not strong in quality

Or this

It's not like changing the meaning of what I said, it's only taking the part you disagree with

The show has loads of faults in storytelling, I used to give a blind eye to them

 

[SilentWarriorZ]

The Show was Still better than the crap we get to watch these days and with all characters and crossovers it was fine treat of Entertainment .

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The Show was Still better than the crap we get to watch these days and with all characters and crossovers it was fine treat of Entertainment .

Easily true

 

[Picard Sisko]

You said you disagree with the whole statement, yet you said you agree with a part of it

Take the part like this

Or this

It's not like changing the meaning of what I said, it's only taking the part you disagree with

Seriously? I explained what I meant in my post.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Seriously? I explained what I meant in my post.

I told you how to make it look more convincing

 

[The Joker]

[*]Octavius makes it clear he wants to do his science stuff in the Insidious 6 episode, nothing is shown of it later.

Actually what he says is he's not a petty hireling, he is a Scientist. Kingpin then promises him he can provide him with the finest laboratory in the world with unlimited resources. Ock then responds that Spider-Man won't know what hit him. So the implication is that if Ock helps kill Spider-Man then Kingpin will provide him with a state of the art lab.

[*]As soon as May enters the Taxi and it moves, the illusion goes off the hospital, in a way May can see it, but no one said a thing. Insidious 6 part 2

I don't understand this one. Are you saying May should have seen the illusion turn off?

[*]Smythe tells Kingpin how convenient it is he (Fisk) owns this hospital, but we're shown it's broken. Does he own it or what?

Yes he owns it. He uses the place to patch up his men. But he doesn't want to draw attention to it so it looks like a run down building. They only made the place look like a fancy hospital called 'Octavius clinic' to fool Aunt May.

The rest of your list is valid. The Vulture one bothered me most. How was he not the Man-Spider any more and how the hell did Scorpion get a hold of him?