History Headscratchers / TheSpectacularSpiderMan

* In "Opening Night", why did the Goblin/Norman opt to release the inmates and fool Captain Stacy and J J Jameson into thinking that the Vault had been hacked? He (Norman) was trying to sell them on the Vault's security, and having a lunatic hack and take over the place during its demonstration doesn't scream "secure".

** [[spoiler: It would seem that them being friends in preschool would also have something to do with it.]]
*** [[spoiler: That just makes it harder to accept. The guy who used to be your friend and then turned into a bully decides to call you a jerk just when you're going through the crappiest point of your life? How would you react?]]

** That's not much of a spoiler by the way. In any case, the logical argument is it has to do with the fact [[spoiler: Eddie and Peter share memories thanks to the symbiote. So Peter's knowledge of webs could've easily been passed on to Eddie no problem. Its probably not even real web, it may just be rope.]]

*** [[spoiler: Venom wants to make him squirm. Ending things quickly in any way runs counter to that purpose - and dragging things out probably gives the symbiote more emotion from Eddie to feed on, which is all it really cares about anyway.]]

* In "Identity Crisis", if they have [[spoiler:a bunch of vials of gene cleanser brewed up, couldn't they give one to poor Electro]]? If not, ''why are they even making them¬?''

** [[spoiler: Not to mention in the Halloween episode you could see a kid wearing a Spider-Man costume without the mask (At least I think you can).]]
*** [[spoiler: In fact, Peter himself wears his costume as a costume in that episode, and no-one finds it odd he has a Spidey costume.]]

* So how come in Subtext [[spoiler: several people identify Mark as Molten Man but nobody's ever noticed Peter's voice as Spider-Man?]]

*** [[spoiler: I'd argue differently. Spidey almost has a DJ's affected polish, while Peter's voice is higher, softer and occasionally cracks]]

*** Uhhh the symbiote has always been able to create its own webbing in every continuity so far. Just another perk the symbiote has over Spide-Mman's web shooters. Its basically just shooting a sticky strand of its body out of the user's hand.

** Well according to Greg Weisman in the Spectacular Radio podcast Eddie's father and Richard Parker worked together on the adhesive formula (even proposing it to Normie but being rejected and given the thoomes treatment of being used by dear old Gobby). So if Peter got a copy of the formula it makes sense Eddie would have it two as both their parents worked on it.
* So Venom just [[spoiler:breaks through the wall, shouts "Peter Parker is Spider-Man!"]] and then leaves? There's definitely some missed drama. If nothing else he should have [[spoiler:picked a fight to force Peter to defend himself]].
** [[spoiler:Peter would probably just dodged or ran away, and killing Peter would defeat the purpose.]]

*** [[spoiler: Venom wants to make him squirm. Ending things quickly in any way runs counter to that purpose- and dragging things out probably gives the symbiote more emotion from Eddie to feed on, which is all it really cares about anyway.]]

* In "Identity Crisis", if they have [[spoiler:a bunch of vials of gene cleanser brewed up, couldn't they give one to poor Electro]]? If not, ''why are they even making them''!?

* At the end of the third episode of the first season, everybody is pissed at Peter for taking photos of the Lizard and Spider-Man instead of helping. Well... why didn't Pete just tell them he's Spider-Man? Eddie and Gwen have been his best friends for years and have both proven to be able to keep their mouths shout (at least before his FaceHeelTurn regarding Eddie) and neither Mr. nor Mrs. Connors will reveal the secret of somebody who knows that Curt is the Lizard. I get that this is Spider-Man and drama over how Peter's secret identity ruins his life is required, but why put him in the position where he has no logical reason not to tell them?

*** Flash is much more than a gigantic dick. He was bordering on criminal behavior. Remember the first episode? He attacked Peter and stole his shoes, and had done so multiple times, leaving it to Peter to dress up as Spider-Man and steal them back. Not to mention throwing a football at a teacher and throwing water balloons at Peter and he just kept going. By all logic, Black-Suit Peter should have beaten Flash to a bloody mess, but instead, he just bows down and kisses Flash's feet. Jerk.Sue.
*** You're missing a few things; first of all, by the time that the crappiest point in Peter's life is happening, Flash has toned down his bullying of Peter. Secondly, regardless of how he treats Peter, Flash does have a good heart, given his admiration of Spider-Man (there are a few times he tries to help Spider-Man fight a supervillain and stupid or not, that takes guts). Finally, Peter is acting like a complete jackass to the people who are trying to help him, and Peter did seem to have a suspicion that something was wrong inside his head, Flash's speech was just the catalyst for him to peice together that the symbiote was manipulating him.

*** Peter didn't really socialise with Flash or any of the popular crowd before the show started. In fact, during the time when Ben Parker was shot Peter was likely on Summer Break. How could they know? Maybe if they told them, but at the same time if you were to use your Uncle's death as a ploy to get people to like you, then you've got some pretty serious problems with your attitude.

** Thats not much of a spoiler by the way. In any case, the logical argument is it has to do with the fact [[spoiler: Eddie and Peter share memories thanks to the symbiote. So Peter's knowledge of webs could've easily been passed on to Eddie no problem. Its probably not even real web, it may just be rope.]]
*** It looked a lot like Black Cat's cables or whatever; [[spoiler:how Eddie his hands on one, I have no idea. Maybe she accidentally left one at the lab during her break in and he took it with him because... um... he has a girlfriend we don't know about and wanted to try something new? IDK.]]
*** I agree with the second guy. [[spoiler:They definitely look like webs and webshooters, same sound effects and everything. Plus, in addition to Eddie having Peter's memories, he's also a science whiz himself in this continuity, so I think it makes plenty of sense that he built a pair of his own.]]
*** Uhhh the symbiote has always been able to create its own webbing in every continuity so far. Just another perk the symbiote has over spiderman's web shooters. Its basically just shooting a sticky strand of its body out of the user's hand.

** Well according to Greg Weisman in the Spectacular Radio podcast Eddie's father and Richard Parker worked together on the adhesive formula (even proposing it to Normie but being rejected and given the thoomes treatment of being used by dear old gobby). So if Peter got a copy of the forumla it makes sense eddie would have it two as hoth their parents worked on it.

*** [[spoiler: In fact, Peter himself wears his costume as a costume in that episode, and noone finds it odd he has a Spidey costume.]]

** Think of it like this.. This guy manage to defeat supervillians that are capable of defeating entire armies, can dodge gunfire like they were snails and took out some of the most dangerous crime boss in New York. If you were trying to find out Spider-man secret identity the last thing you would think he is would be a high-school student..most people would think he's some sort of super-soldier, heck most people probably think he isn't even fully human.

*** On this show, you do have to think of Spidey in a vacuum; according to Ask Greg, Xavier's school just opened, and the public doesn't know about mutants. The Fantastic Four, a result of a freak accident, are doing space exploring. Hulk is an urban legend to most people. Spider-Man is just starting out, and he's one of the first super heroes in the world, and the only publicly known way to get powers is through cosmic radiation (Fantastic Four) at the beginning of the series, expanding to freak lab accidents, advanced tech, and super mercenary experiments as time goes on. Peter did have a lab accident, but not even the Conners thought that a spider bite could result in genetic change. It wasn't dramatic or recorded. And suddenly, there's this wise cracking man out there that can move his body in weird ways who mostly fights mutated or high tech villains. It's not hard to see why people think Spidey isn't a mutant.

* Okay, so Spider-man's geeky alter ego, using his own funds, managed to create a spider web material for human use, something real world scientists haven't been able to do, but would love to. What does he do with it? Fights crime and takes photos of himself. Does he market it? NO, of COURSE NOT, because what if the criminal underworld had spiderwebbing? They could be unstoppable! So, instead of using his formula to save millions of lives in geologically active areas of the world, by using spiderweb to hold buildings together, instead he adds some chemical to it, so it'll dissolve and plays Superman around New York City, to hell with every other city in the world.

** Eddie was certainly angry with Peter (and from his perspective, not knowing about Spider-man, it was completely justified), but I'm of the opinion he would have eventually calmed down and made up with him- unfortunately, the symbiote got him first, and "calming down" wasn't on its agenda.

*** Exactly, Spectacular was made by sony, But sony lost the rights to make TV shows about spidey. It's not that hard to understand why it couldn't continue. They didn't cancel the show for kicks.
*** There's also the fact that not everyone could return. Victor Cook(Who deserves as much credit for this show as Weisman does) had already moved on to work on the new Scooby Doo show and some of the others had exclusive contracts with Sony. Wesiman himself had moved on to Young Justice(Which wasn annouced not long after the cancellation of Spectacular, so he was probably attached to YJ when Spectacular officially ended). So if they have to hire a lot of new people anyway, i can understand why they went with making a new show.

* In "Natural Selection" Peter senses when Flash is about to barrage him with water balloons, dodges some but then realises he's giving away his superpowers and just stands there and allows himself to be drenched. Uhm, why doesn't he just run away?

*** Actually I meant, that since Peter, I think, knew the simbiot's origin, it's weird he'd try something as mundane as cement. As for vulnerability to fire, funny thing is, I've just learned, courtesy of Cracked.com, that Venom is supposed to be ''especially'' vulnerable to fire. So?

* Seeing how Tombstone didn't want Spidey actually working for him as much as not interfering with his operations, why didn't he just kill or at least cripple the webhead when he had him pinned? Moreover, when Black Spidey takes his offer on but then refuses in face, Tomb just sits there only to demand that Venom kills Spidey seconds later. Why didn't he attack Spidey himself?
** Tombstone, like [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} a certain other]] MagnificentBastard from the same creator, probably considers an enemy like Spidey to be potentially useful while alive, not so much if dead. After all, they share many enemies (Green Goblin, Master Planner and his operation, any ordinary criminals not associated with Tombstone's empire) so he probably would rather lay low and let Spidey take ''them'' on and stay out of his way, while quietly making a hefty profit from his normal business on the side. Killing Spidey was probably a test for Venom, and had it gone off, Tombstone gets, essentially, a more powerful Spider-man he can control- which he wanted in the first place. Keeping the original around would, in that particular situation, be both redundant and a potential liability.
** Except that by the time of the first confrontation none of those are on the scene yet, and Tombs' "hefty profit" was severely hurt by Spidey's interferance.

* End of the third episode of the first season - everobody are pissed at Peter for taking photos of Lizard and Spider-Man instead of helping. Well....Why didn't he just told them he is Spider-Man? Eddie and Gwen are his best friends for years and they both proved to be able to keep their mouth shout and neither Mr or Mrs Connors will reveal the secret of somebody who knows that Curt is the Lizard. I get that this is Spider-Man and drama over how Peter's secret idientity ruins his life is required, but then why put him in the position where he has no logical reason not to tell them.

* Norman's mantra in this series is "I never apologise," this even became a plot point in the final episode, tipping Harry off cause Chameleon!Norman did apologize. Except in the Fourth episode his meeting with Hammerhead is interrupted by Harry knocking over a plant. When he come back he says, "My apologies for the interruption." Huh? Dude, you wouldn't apologise when Vulture threatened your life and you constantly go on about how you don't apologise, so what happened?

*** I have to admit this does have a strong whiff of WhatMeasureIsANonHuman. Many, if not all, of his human or meta-human enemies have repeatedly tried to murder him, endangered other people and comitted all kinds of crimes, and yet he never entertained the idea of killing any of them. But here bam, "it's too dangerous, it could fall into the wrong hands" - it's deep freeze time, nevermind that "it" is a sentient being! Hell, my own first question was "why didn't Peter try fire when cold failed" for which I'm kinda ashamed now.

* Where the heck was Black Cat during "Accomplices"? After her little cameo at the beginning she just disappeared. Why didn't she go for the device? She could've helped Spider-man in his battle with Silver Sable and Hammerhead while Rhino destroyed the Macguffin and and the two them take him out. SERIOUSLY, WHERE WAS SHE?!?!

** Well, in the comics, he started out fighting Spidey as a BadassNormal African American EvilAlbino; he got superpowers some time after he'd been introduced as a villain. The 1990s cartoon just [[AdaptationDistillation collapsed his two origin stories into one (more sensible) story.]]

* On his Characters tab Tombstone is listed as, among other things, a ScaryBlackMan. [[EvilAlbino Am I missing something]]?

* In the last episode, what does Spider-Man say when he blows up Norman's glider in the end of the fight? Something along the lines of "you had no right to blow up your son?" It sounds really garbled.

* In the second season, Flash gets cast as Nick Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after the director sees him figuratively making an ass of himself. But this is ''after'' the director had already announced a casting list that did not include Flash, so presumably someone had already been cast as Nick. Nick is a pretty major role, so did the director really just push some more qualified actor aside from one of the play's most memorable roles in order to mock Flash?

* Throughout ''Accomplices'', why does Peter play keep-away with the drive instead of just pitching it into the harbor? He has no reason not to destroy it. [[spoiler: It wouldn't have helped, since it was fake, but he didn't know that]]
** Most likely he was in a rush and didn't consider throwing it. After all he was supposed to be in a date.

* In ''Catalysts'' both of Spidey's web shooters run out of web-fluid mid-battle. During a free-fall, he reloads his left one. What bugs me is that he can still clearly be seen shooting web out of ''both'' wrists, even before he takes the time to reload the shooter on the right. 0_o

* In regards to the theme song, what the heck does "arriving in the speed of time" mean?? Spider-Man travels at the blistering pace of one second-per-second? It gets worse when you consider that they could have put "nick of time" or "speed of light" in there and it would have sounded fine. Doesn't stop it from being a [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome kickass theme song]] though.

* The way the show's been in reruns for six ''months'' is a headscratcher.
** The show was in hiatus. The second season has been released now, which should put an end to the reruns.

* The way the show's been in reruns for six ''months'' JustBugsMe, a ''lot''.

* Norman's mantra in this series is "I never apologise," this even became a plot point in the final episode, tipping Harry off cause Chamelaon!Norman did apologize. Except in the Fourth episode his meeting with Hammerhead is interrupted by Harry knocking over a plant. When he come back he says, "My apologies for the interruption." Huh? Dude, you wouldn't apologise when Vulture threatened your life and you constantly go on about how you don't apologise, so what happened?

*** If the webbing only lasts for an hour, shouldn't guys like Ox, half the city (all the crashed helicopters, buses and trains should do massive damage if the webbing suddenly broke) and other guys Spidey have caught be very dead. If the one hour limit is to be accepted why doesn't the Bugle or anyone else mention how great Spidey is at murder?

** It's a kids' show. The animators know that their target audience won't care about something like that, and they also know that the media watchdogs would freak out over a naked baddie, so they just cut a corner there. Kind of stupid, yeah, but it saved them a lot of trouble in the PR department.
*** The producers stated that their target audience was Spider-Man fans in general but especially longtime fans, not kids.

** [RuleofFunny Yes.]