Spider-Man: The Web-Swinging Years

Spider-Man: The Web-Swinging Years is an American animated superhero TV series, airing on Disney+.

Premise[]

The series follows Peter Parker throughout his high school life starting with both his freshman year and him getting bitten by a radioactive spider as he combats various threats and villains as Spider-Man.

Characters[]

Main[]

Peter Parker / Spider-Man (voiced by Haley Joel Osment) - a teenager who got bitten by a radioactive spider as he deals with both high school life and several enemies.

Supporting[]

Mary Jane Watson / White Tiger (voiced by Erica Lindbeck) - a popular, yet kind-hearted teenager at Midtown High who befriends Peter, developing a soft spot for him. She is initially unaware of his identity as Spider-Man (whom she is also fond of), until Peter reveals himself while having to save her and the tiger cub they were supposed to look after from Kraven the Hunter. She would soon grow closer to him, helping him wherever she is needed, while the two develop hidden feelings for each other, eventually becoming a couple in the end of the first season. Also in the end of the season, she is revealed to be White Tiger, a free-spirited superheroine with feline-based superhuman abilities. Second season reveals that Mary Jane earned her powers from a alien gemstone discovered by her parents years before their deaths, and has been White Tiger for the same period Peter has been Spider-Man. However, she has mostly kept her superhero alias in secret from the public until she was ready to reveal herself to Peter.
Carlie Cooper (voiced by Alyson Stoner) - Peter's extremely geeky best friend who has always stuck by his back, and is the first to figure out he is Spider-Man. She also becomes close friends with Mary Jane.
Aunt May (voiced by Jennifer Hale) - Peter's widowed aunt and sole guardian, she is supportive of Spider-Man's heroic ways, and often gives him advice of how to solve certain problems. May also hints awares of her nephew's connection with Spider-Man, and supports it out of belief that Peter is having justice for Uncle Ben. She is also an employee at F.E.A.S.T. along with Carlie's mother and Mary Jane's aunt Anna, whom she is friends with.
Teresa Parker (voiced by Jessica McKenna) - Peter's long lost younger sister, who was born in secret after Peter's parents left him to Uncle Ben and Aunt May. After her parents' deaths, Teresa was raised by the Durand family until she learns of her brother's existence.
Robbie Robertson (voiced by Billy Dee Williams) - a good-hearted chief editor of the Daily Bugle, who (unlike the more distrustful J. Jonah Jameson) has a positive view towards Spider-Man, and considers him a true hero in his right.
Flash Thompson (voiced by Will Friedle) - a goofy yet sometimes idiotic student who is one of Peter's best friends although he is completely unaware of him being his hero, Spider-Man.
Matt Murdock / Daredevil (voiced by [Roger Craig Smith, Brian Bloom, Troy Baker, or TBD]) - A blind pro-bono lawyer, with his remaining senses enhanced, who is secretly a fearless vigilante in red.
The Fantastic Four, a crew of astronauts and outer space explorers who developed their powers following a freak accident in space. They soon became another team of the world's greatest heroes, with the purpose of protecting the innocents from random threats which come by and working to maintain peace with other worlds and keep their surrogate family together. They consist of:
- Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic (voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos) - The leader of the Fantastic Four who has the ability to stretch his body into different forms and lengths. He is one of Peter's idols and mentors.
- Susan Storm / Invisible Woman (voiced by Catherine Taber) - The second-in-command of the Fantastic Four and Richards's wife, who has the ability to create and manipulate light, allowing her to create protective force-fields and turn herself and other objects and people invisible. She acts as a mother-figure for Peter and Mary Jane.
- Johnny Storm / The Human Torch (voiced by Will Friedle) - The youngest member of the Fantastic Four and Susan's 25 year-old younger brother, who has the ability to mentally create and manipulate fire and fly.
- Ben Grimm / The Thing (voiced by Nolan North) - Richards's best friend and the "muscle man" of the Fantastic Four, whose body became stone while granting him superhuman strength and durability.
Miles Morales (voiced by Bumper Robinson) - Peter's classmate and good friend, who idolizes Spider-Man and wishes to be like him. He is also good friends with Carlie, and has a mutual attraction for her.
Liz Allan (voiced by Hynden Walch) - One of Peter's classmates and is extremely witty and sometimes cold and short-tempered. She is Flash's ex-girlfriend.
Kenny "King Kong" McFarlane (voiced by TBD) - Liz's current boyfriend who TBD
J. Jonah Jameson (voiced by John DiMaggio) - the head of the Daily Bugle who believes that Spider-Man is too inexperienced for heroics, although his beliefs sometimes anger others. Eventually, after Spider-Man saves Jameson's son John from Mysterio (whom Jameson ironically praised as a hero), Jameson eventually sees the error of his ways, and quits criticizing Spider-Man.
Marc Spector / Steven Grant / Jake Lockely / Moon Knight / Mr. Knight (voiced by Matthew Mercer) - a British mercenary who after being betrayed by his former comrade, gains multiple personalities: the flamboyant American millionaire Steven Grant, the humble taxi driver Jake Lockely, a mysterious vigilante and avatar of Khoshnu Moon Knight and the calculating masked detective Mr. Knight as he occasionally meets and helps Spider-Man.

Antagonists[]

Wilson Fisk / Kingpin (voiced by Clancy Brown) - the owner of Fisk Industries and New York's most ruthless crime-lord. Although he has conflicts with Spider-Man, Fisk is also rivals with Norman Osborn, and seeks to take over Oscorp by every means necessary.
- Patricia "Pat" Mason / Tinkerer (voiced by Laura Post) - An intelligent and cocky student who believes herself to be the greatest mind alive, becoming a terrorist known as the Tinkerer. She soon gets convinced by Kingpin to work for him.
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin / Demogoblin (voiced by Gideon Emery) - The morally corrupt CEO of OsCorp who has a mental disease which is slowly turning him insane, turning him into a goblin-like monster who seeks to overthrow every metahuman to become "New York's true master". In Season 2, he makes a deal with a devil known as Demon to make him more powerful, turning into the demonic Demogoblin, but at the cost of his humanity.
- Dr. Miles Warren / Jackal (voiced by TBD) - A dangerous mad scientist who is loyal to OsBorn as he creates several experiments to help out Osborn. In the second season, he attempts to replicate Osborn's Goblin serrum, which mutates Warren into the villainous Jackal.
The Sinister Six, a group of supervillains seeking to impose their will on New York City, and clash with both Spider-Man for standing on their way, and Green Goblin, whom they see as personal competition. They consist of:
- Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal) - A former executive and head scientist of Oscorp who was presumed dead after one of Fisk's henchmen sabotaged an experiment in Octavius's lab which caused his harness with tentacle-like appendages to be permanently fused to his body.
- Max Dillon / Electro (voiced by Jason Spisak) - A shock jock who worked for the Daily Bugle until he was fired by J. Jonah Jameson for spreading lies about both himself and Spider-Man and accidentally got in the crossfire of an explosion of an OsCorp brand lightning generator, turning him into living lighting as he grows a massive grudge on both Spider-Man and Jameson.
- Sergei Kravenoff / Kraven the Hunter (voiced by Matthew Mercer) - A calm and menacing Hunter from Russia who has an obsession with hunting down prey, wielding various high tech weapons to do so.
- Adrian Toomes / Vulture (voiced by Mark Hamill) - A psychotic yet elderly terrorist who has stolen a high tech harness as he is obsessed with causing as much chaos and anarchy as he possibly can. He was also a former Midtown High School teacher whose work was savagely reviewed by J. Jonah Jameson.
- Herman Schultz / Shocker (voiced by Steve Blum) - Electro's stepbrother, and a pathetic mercenary who wields two gauntlets allowing him to control shockwaves as he tries to use it for crime.
- Quinton Beck / Mysterio (voiced by Troy Baker) - A manipulative former special effects artist who became a illusionist supervillain after obtaining a suit of Oscorp technology powered by a illusion-inducing gem of unknown source. He was first believed by J. Jonah Jameson to be a hero until Mysterio revealed his true colors by trying to kill John Jameson.
Alister Smythe / Swarm (voiced by TBD) -
Flint Marko / Sandman (voiced by Fred Tatasciore) - A construction worker who has transformed into living sand by an experimental particle accelerator. He is also Carlie's estranged stepfather, who wants to reunite with her.
Lonnie Lincoln / Tombstone (voiced by Khary Payton) -
Mark Raxton / Molten Man (voiced by TBD) - Liz's stepbrother, and a supervillain with Pyrokinetic powers.
Morris Bench / Hydro Man (voiced by TBD) - TBD
Andrea Gerard / Cyclone (voiced by TBD) - TBD
TBD / Vermin (voiced by TBD)

Neutral[]

Felicia Hardy / Black Cat (voiced by Mae Whitman) - Kingpin's adopted daughter who is forced to be a part of his mob, becoming fascinated with Spider-Man and occasionally helps him and sometimes faces him.
- TBD - Felicia's companion pet, and a female [which cat breed?] cat.
Dr. Michael Morbius (voiced by TBD) - A scientist suffering from a rare blood disease whose attempts to cure himself afflicted him with a form of transgenic vampirism, gaining all of the superhuman abilities but none of the superstitious weaknesses associated with vampires.
Eddie Brock / Venom (voiced by Zeno Robinson) - A former Daily Bugle journalist who was fired for attempting to rant against Carlton Drake and Life Foundation without sources or evidences, and is bonded to an alien symbiote which imbues him with superhuman abilities. He occasionally clashes with Spider-Man on his goals, but also works alongside him when necessary.
- Venom Symbiote (voiced by Keith Silverstein) - A alien symbiote of Klyntar who became an exile from his people, and currently is attached to Eddie's mind and body, as they both sympathize with each other as mutual outcasts.
John Jameson / Man-Wolf (voiced by Kyle McCarley) - J. Jonah Jameson's dedicated-later-estranged son who, after surviving a murder attempt by Mysterio, gains a curse from his lunar stone, turning him into a pseudo-werewolf.

Differences[]

Harry Osborn doesn't exist but Norman treats Peter like a son.
Flint Marko is Carlie Cooper's stepfather.
Kingpin is Black Cat's adopted father.
Eddie Brock is African American, although he has a history similar to that of Tom Hardy's character in Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

Episodes[]

Season 1[]

No	Title
1	“Origins”
Peter Parker recalls the events of his first week as the superhero Spider-Man; from the moment he was bitten by a super-spider of Oscorp, to the night when his Uncle Ben was killed by a unknown burglar.
2	“First Foe”
Peter, having been Spider-Man for a few days now, faces his first super villain in form of Flint Marko a.k.a. the Sandman, a construction worker who was transformed into a sand-themed supervillain, as he attempts to reconnect with his estranged stepdaughter by force. Things get worse for Peter when he learns that Sandman's stepdaughter is his best friend Carlie Cooper.
3	“The Vulture and the Octopus”
Spider-Man faces two rival villains: the wing-suited psychopath Adrian Toomes / Vulture, and former Oscorp executive and head scientist Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus, as both villains hold a vendetta against Norman Osborn. Things get even worse when both of them crash a ceremony intended to open up a new F.E.A.S.T. mandated hospital where Peter's aunt May is working on.
4	“Shock and Awe”
Mysterious power outages are taking place in the streets of New York, and Spider-Man is entrusted to help deal with the situation. It is soon discovered that the cause of the black-outs are happening because of criminal step-brothers Electro and Shocker, who seek to blackmail Spider-Man's critic J. Jonah Jameson into starting a manhunt against Spider-Man.
5	“Face It, Tiger!”
In a Family Studies class involving young animals (on which each animal is looked after by two paired students), Peter is paired with his neighbor's niece Mary Jane Watson, and they are tasked to look after and take care of a male tiger cub named Kobe, who takes a liking to the two. It only becomes complicated when Kobe is targeted by Kraven the Hunter, who plans to use him to lure a runaway mutated tiger out of hiding, and Curt Connors, who believes that Kobe's blood DNA could be useful to fabricate a cure for his mysterious, growing Lizard condition. Peter now needs to be brave in having to tell Mary Jane that he is Spider-Man so that she will have better understanding of the situation, and he can stop Kraven and Lizard.
6	“A Place So Sinister”
During a fight against the new supervillain group known as the Sinister Six (consisting of Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Kraven, Electro, Shocker, and an unseen villain hiding in the shadows), Spider-Man encounters Quentin Beck, the Master of Illusions known as Mysterio who is undergoing heroics, and earning praise from even Jameson. But Spider-Man and Carlie eventually grow suspicious of the new self-proclaimed hero when Mysterio's acts are shown to be too easily performed, which means that Mysterio might be the sixth secret member whom Jameson least suspects. By the end of the episode, after Mysterio (who is revealed to be masquerading as a hero to overthrow Jameson's son John, and to be the sixth member of the Sinister Six) is defeated is Spider-Man, Jameson eventually sees the error of his ways, and finally quits criticizing Spider-Man as a menace.
7	“Evil in Your Shoulders”
Seeing Peter's potential at Midtown High, Osborn becomes interested with giving him an internship at Oscorp. But Peter is eventually convinced by himself and by Carlie and Mary Jane that Osborn is only seeking to use him for his plans against Wilson Fisk the Kingpin and Spider-Man; plans which include an alien symbiote which is being experimented on by Oscorp's scientists and seeks a suitable host to survive. Things get out of hand when the symbiote (dubbing itself Venom) finds its host in the form of former Daily Bugle journalist Eddie Brock. After stopping Venom's rampage, Spider-Man comes to discover that Osborn has a multiple personality disorder, on which Osborn shares his mind with that of a psychotic monster.
8	“A Man-Wolf Among Sheep”
Still traumatized by Mysterio's murder attempt during the Sinister Six incident, John Jameson attempts to find solace with a lunar gemstone he found during his travels as an astronaut. But the gemstone (which possesses mystical powers) senses John's negative emotions, and turns him into a pseudo-werewolf dubbed "Man-Wolf". Driven insane and vicious, Man-Wolf begins to hunt his own father, whom he blames for his condition, forcing Spider-Man to take action, protect Jameson, and stop Man-Wolf.
9	“Daddy's Dearest”
Spider-Man chases after the professional thief known as Black Cat, who appears to be seeking to steal from Kingpin in behalf of his rival crime lords. But Spider-Man soon discovers that she is actually seeking answers about her past, to which Kingpin is connected. During which, Kingpin hires Kraven to exterminate both Spider-Man and Black Cat, but is unaware that Black Cat is his adopted daughter Felicia Hardy.
10	“Night of the Vampire”
People have been suddenly attacked by a supposed vampire-like beast as Peter tries to stop this vampiric monster. Soon he learns the truth about this vampire, revealed to be troubled scientist Michael Morbius, and how he is being blackmailed by the mysterious Master Planner.
11	“Duel of the Arachnids”
Spider-Man works to defeat Scorpion, who was hired by Osborn to defeat and expose the hero. At the same time, Midtown High's football team captain Flash Thompson is chosen to cosplay as Spider-Man as the school's team mascot. Things get worse and complicated when Scorpion mistakes Flash for the real Spider-Man, and exacts to capture him.
12	”Molten Hearts”
Flash requests help from Peter in reconciling with his girlfriend Liz Allan, who broke up with him for Kenny MacFarlane. To do so, Peter suggests Flash in attempting to earn back the trust of Liz's family, including her stepbrother Mark Roxton. Of course this proves to be a problem for both Peter and Flash, because Mark is the true identity of Spider-Man's newest enemy Molten Man, who wants to protect Liz in terrifying ways.
13	”Between Wind and Water”
Two bickering students, Andrea Gerard and Morris Bench, have been experimented by the mysterious Miles Warren into being monsters of wind and water. Peter investigates with the help of the mysterious new heroine White Tiger and soon learns of Warren's ties to Osborn.
14	“Mind Over Matter”
Osborn has commissioned a high tech mind control device as things get worse when forces of Kingpin as well as the Sinister Six clash for the device, forcing Spider-Man to find a way to stop this turf war.
15	“To Slay a Spider”
Osborn hires Alistair Smythe to build the Spider-Slayers, a series of advanced robots designed to destroy Spider-Man. Things get worse when Spider-Man's latest opponent Patricia "Pat" Mason the Tinkerer steals the Slayers' data to usurp Osborn as Peter attempts to stop things from getting from bad to worse.
16	“Elemental Chaos”
Element-based supervillains (Molten Man, Cyclone, Hydro-Man and Hydro-Man) are fighting each other for dominance of territory in New York, as Spider-Man tries to calm down the battle, soon learning they are all being manipulated by Kingpin.
17	“Homecoming Night”
Growing close to confess his feelings for Mary Jane, Peter takes her as his partner for the Homecoming dance party in Midtown High, on which a supportive Carlie earns a partner with Miles Morales. Things however turn upside down when a group of criminals led by Tombstone break into the dance to find a high tech experiment hidden in Midtown High by Osborn.
18	“Our Sinister Delights”
Presuming that Spider-Man cannot be easily defeated, Mysterio convinces the Sinister Six that they should enlist him to their team as a seventh member. And because they know Spider-Man will not accept their proposal, the villains have two options: to capture and brainwash Spider-Man, or to create another metahuman with Spider-Man’s powers; the latter plan is predicted by Spider-Man to have more dangerous side-effects.
19	“Turf War” (1)
Peter and Mary Jane, closer than usual to confess their hidden feelings for each other, schedule a private date in a F.E.A.S.T. restaurant. The only thing standing between them and their plans, however, is a turf war between the Kingpin's mob and the Sinister Six, who are battling each other for a device which is believed to be hidden in the F.E.A.S.T. shelter. Of course, Peter / Spider-Man knows this is another scheme by Osborn (who is manipulating both factions against each other for his own personal plans), and exacts to expose his fraud and save F.E.A.S.T..
20	“The Green Goblin” (2)
Osborn has been exposed for his crimes, but not before injecting himself with a Super-Soldier serum which transformed him into a goblin-like monster and donning a power suit of armor of Oscorp technology; as Osborn now dubs himself the "Green Goblin". Spider-Man exacts to stop the Goblin, who (to the young hero's shock) has deduced Spider-Man's identity, and is seeking to go after Mary Jane to make him suffer. Fortunately, between him and Mary Jane, Peter is not the only one keeping secrets, which means the Goblin is at the mercy of an enemy he was not prepared for. By the end of the episode, Mary Jane reveals to have metahuman abilities of her own, and helps defeat the Goblin, who develops a new mental illness which causes him to hallucinate every man and woman as Spider-Man, erasing his memory of the hero's identity. Also, as she becomes Peter's girlfriend, Mary Jane also reveals herself to be the true identity of White Tiger.

Season 2[]

No	Title
1	“The White Tiger”
Mary Jane tells about her early days as the superheroine White Tiger, which took place during Peter's early career as Spider-Man; revealing when she was trained by a tribe of feline worshippers (including Greer Grant / Tigra), and when she fought against the mutated terrorist group known as the Ani-Men, lead by the rat-man Vermin.
2	“Always Bet on Black and White”
[a team up episode with White Tiger and Black Cat] This is the only episode where Spider-Man does not appear.
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5	“The Wild Side!”
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6	“It's All About Family”
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8	“Kraven's Last Hunt”
Discovering that he is dying of a terminal disease, Kraven believes this is his last chance to accomplish his greatest hunt in life, making him more obsessed than ever with hunting Spider-Man and White Tiger. Now the couple must stop Kraven, and convince him to TBD
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Shared Continuity[]

The series also shares continuity with a few spin-off series and a TV movie which are also airing on Disney+, consisting of:

Avengers: United as One - The first spin-off, which centers around the Avengers.
A-Force: Women of Infinity - The second spin-off, which centers around the titular superheroine team.
Marvel Superhero Adventures: War of the Realms - A TV movie which is a crossover between the three shows.