Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion/City of Heroes, Part 3: American Cats

City of Heroes, Part 3: American Cats is the 9th episode of Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion.

Featured Characters

 * Spider-Man / Peter Parker (flashback and main story)
 * Tigra / Mary Jane Watson (flashback and main story)
 * Lion King / Marcus Thompson (First full appearance) (flashback and main story)

Supporting Characters

 * Kid Arachnid / Miles Morales
 * Ghost-Spider / Gwen Stacy
 * American Knight / Kevin Hunt (First appearance)
 * Black Panther / T’Challa (First appearance)
 * Barbara "Barbie" Morse (First appearance) (flashback and main story)
 * Jack Thompson (First appearance)
 * Cassie Lang (First appearance)
 * Eugene "Flash" Thompson (full name revealed) (flashback and main story)

Antagonists

 * Shadow Council
 * Killmonger / N’Jadaka (First appearance)
 * Vulture / Adrian Toomes
 * Wake Riders
 * Barkley Blitz
 * Unnamed Members
 * Jack O'Lantern / Jason Macendale (First appearance) (flashback and main story)

Other Characters

 * Avengers
 * Captain America / Steve Rogers (mentioned only)
 * Iron Man / Tony Stark (poster)

Plot
Having been exposed as criminals following J. Jonah Jameson's arrest, Barkley Blitz and his fellow Wake Riders are following Vulture in a attempt to steal Stark Industries' technology for their unseen benefactor. They are intercepted by Spider-Man, Tigra and Kid Arachnid, who take them into a fight. Attempting to escape on his own while the Wake Riders keep the couple occupied, Vulture is ambushed by Wakandan king T'Challa the Black Panther, who was informed that Vulture and his henchmen are in league with the Shadow Council. Before Vulture can answer, however, the young heroes and Black Panther end up encountering Jack O'Lantern, a new criminal with equipment and weapons based on Harry's HobGoblin technology, who arrived intending to destroy the "places of Flash Thompson's glory". And because Stark Expo was one of them, he starts by throwing numerous bombs in the area.

Spider-Man, Tigra, Kid Arachnid and Black Panther work to stop the chaos and ensure the safety of the citizens. Just then, Jack O'Lantern is attacked and driven off by Lion King, a lion-themed superhero vigilante with attributes similar to those of Black Panther, although Vulture and the Wake Riders manage to take advantage of the distraction caused Jack O'Lantern and escape. Later in Horizon High, Peter is with Gwen Stacy working on some animatronics alongside Kevin Hunt, who secretly operates as the armored superhero American Knight, before they overhear Mary Jane having a heated argument with Flash and dismissing him. Later on, Mary Jane is having a conversation with Gwen and explains she dropped out of Midtown High and became resentful of Flash because Flash indirectly insulted her and other classmates by referring to costumed party entertainers as "useless clowns" while excluding Jason Macendale, one of Midtown High's jocks, from the school's football team because he was dressed as a clown in a children's hospital. Overhearing this, an upset and angered Mary Jane ended up dropping the school, leaving Flash brokenhearted. Mary Jane is soon calmed down and comforted by Gwen over her anger and sadness, while Mary Jane mentions that at least Flash's younger brothers are more well mannered than he is. Later on, Spider-Man and Kevin (as American Knight) are fighting crime on streets before they confront Vulture and his and the Wake Riders' employer, who is revealed as Wakandan exile and leader of the Shadow Council N'Jadaka / Killmonger.

Spider-Man and American Knight fight Killmonger while Vulture departs to seek Killmonger's candidate for his Shadow Council. Just as he overpowers the two heroes, Killmonger is stopped by Black Panther and Lion King, forcing him to retreat. Later on, Lion King soon unmasks himself and reveals himself as Flash's younger brother Marcus Thompson, whom Peter recognizes as a party entertainer who brings joy to children in hospitals and daycare yards as cartoon character Lyle the Happy Lion, wearing an animatronic mask Peter and Mary Jane made for him. Marcus also tells them that he is also as resentful of Flash as Mary Jane is, and has wishes to impress his high school crush Barbara "Barbie" Morse with his work as an entertainer. Later on, while helping track down Jack O'Lantern and Killmonger, Marcus also reveals that he got his powers from a ancient lion spirit which bonded to him, which Black Panther recognizes as a spawn of, the Egyptian god of war who is also symbolized by lions. Remembering having overheard that Jack O'Lantern plans to destroy all the places where Flash was a champion at, Spider-Man and Lion King begin to suspect that Jason Macendale is Jack O'Lantern, and Marcus remembering that Flash had the absurd thought that their younger brother Jack is the villain.

TBD

Voice Cast

 * Robbie Daymond as Spider-Man / Peter Parker
 * Ashley Johnson as Tigra / Mary Jane Watson
 * Jason Marsden as Lion King / Marcus Thompson
 * Nadji Jeter as Kid Arachnid / Miles Morales
 * Laura Bailey as Ghost-Spider / Gwen Stacy
 * Cameron Bowen as American Knight / Kevin Hunt
 * James C. Mathis III as Black Panther / T'Challa
 * Katie Leigh as Jack Thompson
 * Jessica DiCicco as Cassie Lang, Barbara "Barbie" Morse
 * James Arnold Taylor as Jack O'Lantern / Jason Macendale
 * Keston John as Killmonger / N'Jadaka
 * as Vulture / Adrian Toomes
 * Ogie Banks as Barkley Blitz
 * Benjamin Diskin as Flash Thompson
 * as Vulture / Adrian Toomes
 * Ogie Banks as Barkley Blitz
 * Benjamin Diskin as Flash Thompson