Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles/Shadow and Light

Shadow and Light is the 12th episode of Spider-Man's arc in Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles.

Featured Characters

 * New Champions
 * Spider-Man / Peter Parker
 * Tigra / Mary Jane Watson
 * Iron Phoenix / Teresa Parker
 * Cloak / Tyrone Johnson (first appearance) (joins team)
 * Dagger / Tandy Bowen (first appearance) (joins team)

Supporting Characters

 * Shang-Chi (first appearance)
 * Dragon Society
 * Daredevil / Matt Murdock (first appearance)
 * Silk / Cindy Moon (first appearance)
 * Iron Fist / Danny Rand (first appearance)
 * White Fox / Colleen Wing (first appearance)
 * Silver Samurai / Tadashi Hamada (first appearance)
 * Lin Lie the Sword Master (first appearance)

Antagonists

 * The Hand
 * Kenuichio Harada (single appearance; dies)
 * Elektra (first appearance)
 * Shadow Slayer / Kaine (first appearance)
 * The Mandarin / Chen Lu (single appearance) (flashback and main story) (as a spirit or illusion, dies)
 * Harbingers of the Mandarin (single appearance; death)
 * Shadow Council
 * Madame Masque / Whitney Frost (mentioned only)
 * The Butterfly / Sha Shan Nguyen
 * Electro / Max Dillon (first appearance)
 * Shocker / Herman Schultz (first appearance)

Other Characters

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. (mentioned only)
 * Jimmy Woo (first appearance)
 * The Goblin (mentioned only)
 * Norman Osborn (mentioned only)

Plot
While watching as his sister Teresa is having Karate lessons with his secret Martial Arts teacher Shang-Chi, Peter Parker is visited by his Inhuman friends Tyrone Johnson / Cloak and Tandy Bowen / Dagger, who inform him of most Midtown High School students being well despite their school having been shut down and (as Cloak and Dagger have sensed) and the Goblin having fully taken control of Norman Osborn's body. Just then, they find themselves chasing after Sha Shan Nguyen / the Butterfly and super-criminals Electro and Shocker, who were sent by Madame Masque to steal an mystical artifact stored on a Shaolin museum of New York City. They defeat the villains, although the Butterfly ends up possessed by an evil spirit and worshiper of the Mandarin.

With eventual help from Mary Jane Watson / Tigra, Spider-Man, Cloak and Dagger defeat and destroy the evil spirit and place the relic back to the museum, although the Butterfly escapes while Electro and Shocker are arrested. The four consult Shang-Chi, who tells them that the evil spirit is one of the Harbingers of the Mandarin, revenants of demonic sirens who were in service of Chen Lu the Mandarin, a powerful Chinese dark sorcerer who once sought to being darkness to China until he was destroyed by the monks of the K'un-L'un dynasty, and his soul was sealed away. Knowing that the Mandarin's impending return is about to be performed by a ritual orchestrated by the Hand, Shang-Chi takes the young heroes (including Teresa in her Iron Phoenix suit) to the K'un-Lun Temple, where they meet with the members of the Dragon Society, a group of young masters in Martial Arts trained by Shang-Chi; consisting of Matt Murdock / Daredevil, Danny Rand / Iron Fist, Colleen Wing / White Fox, Cindy Moon / Silk, Tadashi Hamada / Silver Samurai and Lin Lie the Sword Master. During the meeting, Teresa, Cloak and Dagger hear more about the Hand, a clan of fearsome mystical ninjas formed by Chen Lu, and currently led by his last descendant Kenuichio Harada. While Teresa learns some moves from White Fox, and Cloak and Dagger meditate, Spider-Man and Tigra discuss with Daredevil and Silk an strategy to help stop the Hand. Suddenly, they are ambushed by Harada's main apprentices in the Hand Elektra and Kaine the Shadow Slayer, who view Cloak and Dagger's presence as a disturbance for the Hand's ritual and seek to exterminate them.

The young heroes battle the assassins, and defeat them. Just as more of the Harbingers emerge, Cloak and Dagger arrive and destroy them, forcing Elektra and Kaine to retreat. Regrouping in the temple while Cloak and Dagger continue meditating, the New Champions and Dragon Society learn from Shang-Chi that the combined power of Cloak and Dagger is a result of their dyad, which the K'un-L'un monks view as a sign of. Peter is amazed to hear this, although he never saw the two reaching their full potential. The Champions and the Society are informed of the Hand's ritual taking place in a Chinese outpost, and make it there to set up an ambush. Meanwhile, Cloak and Dagger's meditation progress results in the two landing on a astral plane, where they begin learning more about their deeper nature, and the balance it brings to themselves and everything around them. Arriving at the outpost, the New Champions and Dragon Society ambush and incapacitate numerous ninjas in time to stop Harada and his Hand sorcerers from sacrificing S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jimmy Woo to be Chen Lu's host. Losing his temper, Harada (against the sorcerers' warnings) uses the dagger containing Chen Lu's soul on himself, transferring Chen Lu's soul in his body.

As the Champions and the Society battle the Harbingers (which are now attacking both the young heroes and the Hand ninjas), Spider-Man and Daredevil continue battling Chen Lu, who (feeling that his descendant's body is too weak) opts in trying to absorb young souls to fully restore his power. He targets Iron Phoenix and Silk, but Cloak and Dagger, having completed their training, emerge and battle Chen Lu in the astral plane. The combined power of the young couple effectively overwhelms Chen Lu, destroying his soul along with Harada's body and the Harbingers in the progress. Elektra and Kaine retreat along with the Hand ninjas, as Elektra seeks to report to the Hand's true grandmaster of the great result of Harada's failure. Back in the K'un-L'un Temple, Shang-Chi and the Dragon Society members voice their good compliments over Cloak and Dagger's performance, as the two earn membership in the New Champions team. Peter and Mary Jane are also pleased with the outcome... and also to have seen the wonders about the balance between dark and light.

Voice Cast

 * Haley Joel Osment as Spider-Man / Peter Parker
 * Ashley Johnson as Tigra / Mary Jane Watson
 * Jessie Flower as Iron Phoenix / Teresa Parker
 * Ogie Banks as Cloak / Tyrone Johnson
 * Tara Strong as Dagger / Tandy Bowen
 * Roger Craig Smith as Daredevil / Matt Murdock
 * Stephanie Sheh as Silk / Cindy Moon
 * Greg Cipes as Iron Fist / Danny Rand
 * Kari Wahlgren as White Fox / Colleen Wing
 * Eric Bauza as Silver Samurai / Tadashi Hamada
 * Matthew Yang King as Lin Lie the Sword Master, Jimmy Woo
 * James Sie as Shang-Chi
 * Andrew Kishino as Kenuichio Harada, Chen Lu the Mandarin
 * Alyssa Milano as Elektra
 * Dante Basco as Shadow Slayer / Kaine
 * Steve Blum as Electro / Max Dillon, Shocker / Herman Schultz