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->'''Loki:''' The Trickster tricked... by a MORTAL!?\\
'''Thor:''' He is no mere mortal. He is the Man of Spiders!\\
'''Spider-Man:''' Close enough.

''Ultimate Spider-Man'' is an American animated series based on the [[Franchise/SpiderMan superhero character]] published by Creator/MarvelComics. Creator/PaulDini (of Franchise/{{DCAU}} fame), Creator/BrianMichaelBendis and Creator/ManOfActionStudios (of ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' fame) were involved in the making of the show, which premiered April 1, 2012 as part of Creator/DisneyXD's WesternAnimation/MarvelUniverse block. The executive producers consist of Creator/JephLoeb and Creator/StanLee, and is the replacement series for the fan-favorite ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', which was cancelled when Creator/{{Sony}} lost the TV rights to Spider-Man ([[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan movies]], on the other hand...).

Peter Parker has been Spider-Man for one year when ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} sits up and takes notice. ComicBook/NickFury invites him to be professionally trained in superheroics, alongside other young heroes: ComicBook/IronFist, [[ComicBook/LukeCage Power Man]], ComicBook/{{Nova}}, and ComicBook/WhiteTiger. With SHIELD's experience and resources backing him, Peter might just become the ''Ultimate'' Spider-Man!

The third season sub-titles the show as ''Web Warriors'', which opens up the 'Spider-Verse' arc and routinely crosses over with other shows in the ''WesternAnimation/MarvelUniverse'' (which also includes [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent a crossover episode]] with the sitcom ''{{Series/Jessie}}'', [[IntercontinuityCrossover of all things...]]).

The series ended January 2017 after a standard four season run [[note]]Four seasons is usually the average life of a Disney series if it proves to be popular[[/note]], under the subtitle "Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six", with a new show, ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'', that took its place, likely to coincide just in time for ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''.

Not related to the ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' comic book, outside of the usual incorporation of ComicBook/UltimateMarvel elements. Although confusingly enough, it has [[RecursiveAdaptation its own comic book tie-in]].
There's a [[Recap/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}} recap]] page in progress.

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* AbortedArc: When the Lizard first appeared, a serum for scorpion mutations were seen as well. When the Scorpion finally appeared on the show, it was as as BadassNormal and later with a suit of PoweredArmor. At no point did he ingest or get his powers from the serum.
** Man-Wolf [[spoiler:aka John Jameson.]] He only appeared once, [[spoiler:still having the wolf's curse by the end of the episode.]] He is never seen again.
** During the season one finale, Harry Osborn swore he would "get to the bottom" of what happened between his dad and Spider-Man, and have his revenge, suggesting he would become a new villain later on. But as season two rolled around, he showed no signs of actually investigating what happened to Norman, or of taking revenge on Spidey, instead settling on hating the webslinger from afar.
** Near the beginning of Season 3, it was established that Echo, Gravity, and Speedball were potential S.H.I.E.L.D. recruits handpicked by Nick Fury to undergo training. One season later, we never see these three superheroes again.
** In "The Parent Trap", Luke is exposed to a burst of energy when Scorpio suffers PhlebotinumOverload from a tampered batch of super soldier serum. At the end of the episode, his eyes glow with the same energy, suggesting that he would gain some kind of MidSeasonUpgrade. However, nothing ever came of this.
* ActionGirl: White Tiger
* ActorAllusion:
** Spidey sings in the episode "I am Spider-Man" - voice actor Creator/DrakeBell has several albums under his belt.
** When White Tiger (Caitlin Taylor Love) and Nova (Logan Miller) team up for the science fair, that's not the first time those guys were [[Series/ImInTheBand paired together.]]
** Creator/MattLanter voices Harry Osborn, another [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars former ally turned enemy who faces off with his closest friend.]]
*** [[HilariousInHindsight Funny enough]], Harry [[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan had been previously voiced by]] Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor, who starred alongside Lanter as said closest friend.
** Steven Weber as a villainous counterpart to Drake Bell's hero. [[Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner Again]].
** Creator/RogerCraigSmith (ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) is no stranger to voicing [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 military men]].
** Creator/DanteBasco (Scorpion) voicing an ArrogantKungFuGuy? [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Now if only he could firebend.]]
** It's not the first time Creator/TroyBaker has voiced [[WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex a British-accented-villain]] in a Creator/ManOfActionStudios TV show.
** Creator/RobPaulsen has voiced a character with an over the top French accent before in ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''.
** Creator/ChristopherDanielBarnes is by far one of the most experienced veteran voice actors for Spiderman of alternate universes: ([[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Spider-Man in the '90s]], [[VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions Spider-Man Noir]], [[VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime Spider-Man 2099]] and Spyder-Knight)
** This isn't the first time Will Friedle has voiced [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays a wise-cracking mercenary with questionable morals and an itchy trigger finger.]]
** Creator/GregCipes is [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans once again a member of teenage superhero team.]]
** [[Series/{{Jessie}} Luke]] is dressed as a pirate in "Halloween Night At The Museum". Creator/CameronBoyce was the second voice of Jake on ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverlandPirates'' .
* ActuallyADoombot: In "Doomed", Spider-Man and the team fight and capture who they think is Dr. Doom, only to realize too late that it was really a Doombot that Doom let get captured so it could destroy the helicarrier. Reversed in "Not a Toy" when Spider-Man is being chased by an army of Doombots and he wonders if one of them is actually the real Doom pretending to be a Doombot. Captain America tells him it's never that easy.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
** Electro finds Spidey's LightBulbJoke amusing, though the rest of the Sinister Six don't.
** John Jameson actually laughs at Spidey's comment about coming to the Moon to get some [[{{Pun}} space]] from his dad.
* AdaptationalBadass: For a show that's fairly light-hearted, there are some good cases:
** Beetle is portrayed as a cunning ProfessionalKiller who can deal with all of Spider-Man's team of his own.
** Amazingly, Sandman, an already powerful villain from Spider-Man's RoguesGallery, is portrayed as ''even more'' dangerous than he is in the comic.
** The Wrecking Crew, while not exactly more threatening than they were in the comic, are portrayed as MUCH smarter than their DumbMuscle comic counterparts, as they come up with an actual plan instead of just wrecking everything.
** Agent Coulson can fight on equal terms with the Beetle, using nothing more than {{Improvised Weapon}}s.
** Arcade is a goofy jokester in the comics, whose only real claim to fame (before the Arena Murderworld arc of ''Avengers Arena'', anyway) is that he's supposedly an elite assassin who [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything never actually manages to kill anyone]] (or at least not anybody that [[NominalImportance has a name]]). In the show, he's a teenage {{Technopath}} who hacks S.H.I.E.L.D. and almost starts WorldWar3 before narrowly being stopped.
** Jessie Prescott (yes, [[Series/{{Jessie}} THAT Jessie Prescott]]) fights Morgan Le Fay on equal ground, though it's thanks to a magic sword that kept the witch imprisoned.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Norman as Iron Patriot. In the comics, Iron Patriot was just Norman's attempt to appropriate symbolism from Comicbook/IronMan and the [[Comicbook/CivilWar then-deceased]] ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in order to rally the public behind his Comicbook/DarkReign. In the show, his HeelFaceTurn is genuine, and he seeks to use the Iron Patriot armor to atone for his past mistakes. [[spoiler: At least until Doc Ock forcibly turns him back into the Goblin. He returns to this role after being permanently cured of being the Goblin in Season 4.]]
** Initially downplayed with The Collector. During the "Contest of Champions" Arc he controls the team of heroes while his brother, The Grandmaster, controls the villains. He is initially just the lesser of two evils, while he sees his collection as valuable items to be safely stored, despite many of them being people, his brother simply wants to play with them in their "game" until they break, much like a [[BigBrotherBully big brother breaking his little brother's toys]]. It is played straight during the final episode of the arc, where The Collector fights alongside Spider-Man and other heroes, saving Spider-Man from his brother at one point and after winning agrees to stop collecting things from Earth. He also states he plans to take a break from collecting things and is more interested in friendships and relationships with others, inspired by Spider-Man's own friendships.
* AdaptationalModesty: Zigzagged with Red Hulk. During the "Contest of Champions" Arc, Red Hulk is at one point shirtless like his comicbook counterpart, then in another instance he appears he is dressed as he was in ''Hulk and The Agents of SMASH''.
* AdaptationalOriginConnection:
** Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, Venom, Carnage, Rhino and Vulture. Their origins are all tied to [=OsCorp=].
*** ''Spider Slayers'' further reveals Scarlet and Octavius to have origins with [[spoiler:Hydra]].
** Some of Spider-Man's classic team have ties to other heroes and villains
*** Ava Ayala became the new White Tiger after Kraven killed the old one, her father.
*** Luke Cage got his powers from a Super Soldier serum to protect him from Scorpio.
*** Danny Rand trained along side Scorpion.
*** Sam Alexander aka Nova was originally a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy along with being with the Nova Corps.
** Spider-Gwen's origin is due to Miles Morales disappearing into Peter Parker's dimension.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The Captain Stacy of the ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'' comics is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, who only hunts Spider-Woman because she has been falsely accused of murder. In "Return to the Spider-Verse, Part Four", he is far more hard-nosed, harboring a deep dislike for all masked vigilantes, to the point where he tries to arrest them on sight.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** In both the original and ''Ultimate'' comics, Aunt May doesn't trust Spider-Man. Here, she doesn't seem to acknowledge him in anyway. [[spoiler: Presumably because she's been aware he and Peter Parker are one and the same.]]
** In the original comics, May has a crush on Doc Ock. Here, she sees him as the dangerous criminal he really is.
* AdaptationalWimp: Loki - This version of him, while still a genuine threat, is shown to not be a match for Thor, and actually ends up OutGambitted by Spider-Man, ending up in the realm where he banished the Nordic beasts. Even worst in ''Run Pig Run'', where [[PowerCreepPowerSeep Spidey actually defeats him in a hand-to-hand fight]].
** Averted in season three, where he easily manages to smack Spidey around. His body even withstood a massive electric shock, with him claiming that such a thing is the equivalent to a stubbed toe to Asgardians. Though considering his arch-enemy is the Thunder God, it would make sense.
* AdaptationDistillation: The symbiote's origins in the series are noticeably similar to that of the Ultimate version of Carnage; it's created from a stolen sample of Peter's blood.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** In the comics, Mr. Negative's minions are called "Inner Demons". In "Return to the Spider-Verse, Part Three", he calls them "Dragons".
** In the comics, the identity Norman tried to force Harry to assume during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' was American Son. Here, Norman still makes the armor for Harry, but the identity is called the "Patrioteer" instead.
** [[spoiler:In the comics, Luke Cage was born "Carl Lucas" and he legally changed his name. Additionally, his parents were named James and Esther. Here, he was born "Luke Cage" and his parents are named Walter and Amanda.]]
** In the comics, the Rhino's real name is Aleksei Sytsevich, with his original name, Alex O'Hirn, {{Retcon}}ned into being an alias. In the cartoon, Alex O'Hirn is his real name.
** Arcade's amusement park is changed from Murderworld to Madland.
** As with ''Spider-Man: Noir'', the ComicBook/GreenGoblin is just called the Goblin here.
** To avoid the confusion of having two characters named "Spider-Man", Comicbook/MilesMorales temporarily changes his superhero name to Kid Arachnid while staying in Peter's dimension, [[spoiler:then adopts is permanently after he chooses to stay.]]
* AdaptedOut:
** This series marks the first time outside the comics that Venom has appeared without Eddie Brock. [[spoiler:Even Anti-Venom is not Eddie.]]
** Similarly, Cletus Kasady isn't Carnage, or even shows up for that matter.
** A majority of the Daily Bugle staff members from the comics, such as Betty Brant and Joseph "Robbie" Robertson, practically don't exist in this universe.
** Ditto for Gwen Stacy, but while her alternate dimension counterpart Spider-Gwen is featured in "Return to the Spiderverse", this begs the question of what role Gwen Stacy had in this universe.
** Like Gwen Stacy, Hammerhead and Mr. Negative seem to be exclusive to the show's version's of the ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir'' universe, as is the Hulk's Mr. Fixit persona pulling a DecompositeCharacter and merely being the Hulk's counterpart in that universe.
* AdvertisedExtra: Shriek appears prominently in the promos of the "Spider-Man vs Sinister 6" special but only shows up for a few minutes in the beginning of part 1.
* AirVentPassageway: "For Your Eye Only." The Helicarrier has squeaky clean vents!
* AgeLift:
** Power Man and Iron Fist are depicted as teenagers rather than adults like their comic counterparts.
** Nova is depicted in his mid-teens while as his comic version is in his early teens.
** Conversely, Amadeus Cho goes from mid-teens to early teens.
** Arcade is given this treatment in Season 2.
** Echo, Ka-Zar, Vulture, and [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Triton]] as well in Season 3.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: Power Man gets a hot foot from a tiny Doombot.
** Spidey, trying to kick TheJuggernaut is ''not'' a good idea.
* AlliterativeName
** Peter Parker obviously, but also Ava Ayala (White Tiger).
** Subverted by Nova. Richard Rider's replacement, Sam Alexander, was created specifically for this show.
* AlmightyJanitor: Played with, lovingly. Stan the Man is not just a Janitor. He's armed with a special multi-weapon mop, and is a Founding [=SHIELD=] agent (Even implying that he is the one who came up with the acronym).
* AlternateSelf: The premise of Season 3's subtitle, "Web Warriors", is that Peter is set to team up with [[spoiler: [[http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2014/06/USM-WW-2.jpg alternate versions of Spider-Man]]: Spider-Knight, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Man Noir, Miles Morales, Spider-Ham, and Spider-Girl - not May Parker but a {{Gender Flip}}ped version of Peter named Petra Parker)]].
* AlternativeSelfNameChange: When Miles Morales arrives in the main universe and starts working alongside Peter Parker, he changes his superhero identity from Spider-Man to Kid Arachnid.
* AmbiguousSituation: At the end of "Me Time" Spider-Man, having just saved Doc Ock from underwater death, is falling deeper into the ocean, drowning, while Octopus drifts towards the surface, seemingly unconscious. Spidey blacks out then wakes up safe with SHIELD The circumstances of his rescue aren't shown and Ock is nowhere to be seen, so there is the possibility that Doc Ock saved his life.
* AmusingInjuries: Due to the nature of the show, ventures into this territory from time to time with Spidey being the main recipient.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The GrandFinale of the show has Spider-Man and his team graduate from S.H.I.E.I.D Academy with Agent Venom and Scarlet-Spider become professors to train new students. Peter finally becomes the Ultimate Spider-Man, swings off to stop another robbery, and narrates that despite this accomplishment this is only the beginning for him.]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Spider-Man, White Tiger, the Beetle, and most of the Spider-Man villains introduced in season 2.
* AnimationBump: The fight-scenes are wonderfully crisp and fluid, with smooth animation and lots of attention to detail. It's best seen with the intricate ways Venom or Doctor Octopus move their pseudopodia/limbs.
** In season three, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Hawkeye have new character models, ones which more closely resemble their appearances in ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble''.
* {{Animesque}}: With Man Of Action as one of the producers and Creator/DongWooAnimation and Creator/MOIAnimation[[note]]owned by Creator/StudioGallop and Creator/{{Madhouse}}, respectively[[/note]] animating. This is pretty much a given.
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* AppropriatedAppellation: [[spoiler: Miles Morales tries to decide a new codename for himself to not be confused with Peter Parker after he ends up stranded in Peter's dimension. After going through several bad names Doc Ock mockingly calls him Spider-Man's "Kid Arachnid" and Miles takes a liking to it.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Spidey and Power Man invade Scorpio's base, Spidey comments on some of the evil stuff Scorpio's scientists are working on. They involve future tech, doomsday weapons, and [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil pirating the latest hit movies]].
** In a Spidey [[ImagineSpot imagine spot]] of how Hulk could deal with anything by just punching, it shows the latter punching out Doctor Doom, Juggernaut, and scaring a hot dog guy.
* ArtShift: The art shifts all over the place.
** There's "doodling on the notebook" style for when Peter is reviewing his earlier fights and giving himself bad grades.
** There's [[SuperDeformed chibi style]], for various {{Imagine Spot}}s, SHIELD graphics, or Spidey's inner voices.
** The Spider-Verse four parter had Spidey and Goblin reanimated in CG (2099 universe), more subdued colors (Noir universe), and a cartoonier art style (Tooniverse).
** The ChristmasEpisode showing Peter's early days as Spider-Man is animated in the same style as ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967''.
** Easy to miss, but in Contest of Champions: Part Two, the close-up on Black Widow's face looks a lot more {{Animesque}} than the rest of the show.
* ArtEvolution: The character designs for season two have become a little more streamlined and less rounded than in the first season. Somewhat reminiscent to what happened for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' when it underwent a TimeSkip.
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Season 3, episode 24: Spidey zaps Ymir the ice giant with electricity, after having an Eureka Moment about that "Suddenly flashing back to high school science and what electricity does to water, or, in this case, ice". In reality, ice is poor electric conduct; electric conductivity of water is based on mobile ions diluted into water, which act as charge carriers (water itself doesn't really carry current). When water is frozen, the ions get in stuck into the ice lattice (="freeze in place"), making them much less mobile and thus they can't act as charge carriers. You were supposed to be a top science geek, Pete.
* AscendedFanboy: Based on what was revealed for the 5th episode, Spider-Man is a massive fanboy of Iron Man and in return, Tony makes him his own Iron Spider armor. Also, White Tiger is a SHIELD fangirl and geeks out every time they are in the Helicarrier. Agent Coulson, true to the movies, is a rabid Captain America fanboy. Flash Thompson is also a Spider-Man fan boy, before he becomes Agent Venom.
* AscendedMeme: [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules Amadeus Cho: "Cool story, bro."]]
* AssholeVictim: Spider-Man is tempted to think of Flash this way whenever he's attacked but resists the urge.
* AuthorAvatar: Stan Lee appears as the janitor (see also MythologyGag).
* AwesomeByAnalysis: Taskmaster
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Blade''': There are worse threats out there tonight then [[OurVampiresAreDifferent these things]].
-->'''Spider-Man''': Like what?
-->'''Blade''': Me!
** From Peter himself:
-->'''[[MakingASplash Hydro-Man]]:''' You think you gonna get past me? I'm a force of nature.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Yeah? So am I!
* BadassBystander: Mary Jane Watson kicks a plate of slippery, messy cafeteria food under Thundra's foot to help Spidey win the battle of Midtown High School.
** Aunt May blasts Beetle with a jet engine.
** [[spoiler:Stan Lee]] initially seems to be one, but [[SubvertedTrope turns out to be]] [[spoiler:one of the founders of SHIELD and thus a RetiredBadass instead]].
* BadassInDistress: In "Me Time" Doc Ock manages to capture Spidey for a bit. Also plays into the episode's Aesop, in that Spidey likely would have never been captured in the first place if he hadn't insisted on having some time to himself.
* BaitTheDog: Goblin [[spoiler: drops his son to his possible death right after telling him how [[SoProudOfYou proud]] he was of him.]]
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Nick Fury!
* BalefulPolymorph: Thor is turned into a [[spoiler:frog]] for most of "Field Trip". Despite this he's still pretty badass.
** "Run Pig Run" has Peter turned into [[spoiler: the talking pig Spider-HAM]] as well.
* BashBrothers: Power Man and Iron Fist, they are usually seen fighting side by side. Which is, of course, a ShoutOut to their comic series, appropriately named ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Power Man and Iron Fist]]''.
* BeachEpisode: "Snow Day."
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: For Spidey's lack of respectability due to Jonah's bad press, Nick Fury, Coulson, Thor and his team of heroes are more than ready to do all they can do save him when he gets turned into a talking pig. Showing he was a lot more desirable than thought, ironically, by Loki.
* BerserkButton:
** PlayedForLaughs -- Spidey ''really'' doesn't like being called a bug or insect. Spiders [[InsistentTerminology are arachnids]]!
** In the "Hydra Attacks" two-parter, Fury totally ''loses it'' when he sees that his Tri-Carrier has been transformed into Hydra's new base.
* BigBadEnsemble:
** There's a real tug-o-war for the title of BigBad, and as such, none can truly claim sole big bad title. Norman Osborn's one of the more honorable versions where Green Goblin is his SuperpoweredEvilSide, so he doesn't really get to be behind ''everything'' the way he usually proves to be. Doctor Octopus is the highest-level recurring threat, making with the MadScientist routine that creates other villains, but others such as Loki also step up to menace Spidey as well.
** In season three, the role clearly belongs to the Taskmaster. It's a race to recruit the new heroes for the team, SHIELD and Taskmaster working from the same list. The name of the game this year is OnceAnEpisode it's Spidey vs. Taskmaster for the guest hero of the week. Quite a jump for a guy who had only appeared twice before in fairly unimportant episodes and was nowhere near the top of the RoguesGallery. However, he ended up releasing Green Goblin and gets imprisoned, so now, Green Goblin takes the role. After the Spider-Verse 4-parter, Arnim Zola takes the part for the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy arc, and then The Grandmaster winds up being the FinalBoss. Doc Ock has undoubtedly stepped up as the main villain in season 4, but it doesn't last. The role later goes to Wolf Spider being the main antagonist of Return to the Spiderverse four-parter. After that, Ock takes the BigBad mantle back.
* BigDamnHeroes
** Power Man, White Tiger, Iron Fist, and Nova pull one in episode 2.
** The four do it again in "Beetle Mania", after Spidey takes a beating from Beetle.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Iron Spider shows this mindset in "Beached," seeing the likes of Vulture and Sandman as "viruses" that need to be expunged. Spider-Man is quick to point out that they are still people underneath it all. [[spoiler: After getting to know Sandman, Iron Spider changes this mindset.]]
* BlahBlahBlah: How Spider-Man tends to hear Nick Fury once he's gone into lecture mode.
* BondGunBarrel: The episode "For Your Eye Only" begins with a parody of the iconic gun barrel sequence from the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films where Spider-Man shoots his webbing at the gun barrel.
* BookEnds:
** Though not the end of the show, it was the end of a StoryArc of sorts: During the end of the episode "Carnage", Harry gives Peter a ride in his limo right when it was raining outside mirroring the day they met. This is the point when Peter and Harry begin to reconcile their friendship as well.
** The first and final villain Spider-Man fights in the series is The Trapster, showing how far he's come since the first episode. Nick Fury himself also shows up, exclaiming Spider-Man has finally broken Captain America's record.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: Comes up around the most notorious catchphrases.
-->'''Spider-Man''' ''([[FreakyFridayFlip in the Hulk's body]])'': All you did was make me angry. And you don't wanna make me angry. ''You wouldn't like me when I'm angry''.
-->'''The Thing''': ''Niiiice''.
-->'''Spider-Man''': Thanks, man.
* BrainBleach: Requested by Peter at the end of Episode 6.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
** Near the end of four-part episode "The Spider-Verse", Spider-Man remarks after returning to his home dimension how he's relieved that J. Jonah Jameson isn't a funny animal, a woman, or a funny animal woman.
** In "Return to the Spider-Verse", Spider-Man at one point wonders whether the universe he and Miles have entered is a world of monsters, a world of clowns, or a world of monsters who are clowns.
* BrickJoke: In "[[ComicBook/DamageControl Damage]]", J. Jonah Jameson announces he's keeping an eye on Spider-Man's cleaning job, and shortly afterwards, he appears on the TV screen in Times Square. He wonders who's recording him, but then he sees a camera truck with a camera man perched on top who yells "Yo, Spidey!" At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:the team take down the Wrecking Crew in the same area with minimal collateral damage and the help of Mac. Spidey wishes Nick Fury could have seen it, but then Mac points at the large screen showing everything was televised. He's confused, but then he sees the camera truck from earlier in the episode with the cameraman yelling: "Yo, Spidey!"]]
* BringHimToMe: Norman believes that Spider-Man can be used to create a new generation of spider-enhanced super soldiers and is not above hiring super villains to capture him ''as of episode '''one'''.'' He seems to respect Spider-Man's balance of strength, speed and agility and how he can combine them with his smarts to take on threats that are on paper way more powerful than him.
* BringIt: In his first appearance in Season Two the Beetle at the climax of their fight [[spoiler: inside the incomplete helicarrier, the Beetle has Spider-Man dead-to-rights with his ArmCannon. Spidey knows it too but instead of firing]] he deactivates his gun and makes the classic hand-gesture. He's gonna beat Spidey the old-fashioned way.
* BrokenAesop: One of the main morals of the show is that Peter needs to know and become friends with his teammates. One problem is that several episodes have gone by that make no use of the teammates, instead focusing on Spider-Man solo. The other problem, though, is that these people know more about him than he knows about ''them'', keep finding some way to insert themselves into his life, and [[DisproportionateRetribution tending to attack him in the end of the episode for doing something minor]].
** The "Electro" episode tries giving an aesop about people becoming too dependent on technology. That coming from a show that made Spidey go from a guy with relatively simple web-shooters to using high tech gadgets for the sake of merchandise. Spidey doesn't even uses his ordinary web-shooters in the episode. (Although this is used to highlight the Aesop; Spidey no longer ''has'' his regular web-shooters because the high-tech ones were so cool, and this was a mistake. But still...)
** Lampshaded at the end of one episode where Coulson asks Spider-man if he's learnt his lesson about not touching things that don't belong to you after he lost Captain America's shield. Spider-man points out that if he hadn't done this then they never would have found out about Doctor Doom's plan to take over the world.
* BrokenGlassPenalty: The plot of "Not A Toy" is kicked off by Spidey losing Captain America's shield while playing with it. He ends up going after it, only for it to ''end up in the Latverian embassy where Doctor Doom just happens to be.'' After a failed attempt of asking for it back (in which Doom responded with a missile), Spidey then teams up with Captain America to get the shield back.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: During the "Graduation Day" two-parter, Spidey, in order to save Aunt May, is forced to allow himself to be injected with a serum that removes his powers. He manages to regain them in the second half, and uses the same serum to cure Rhino and Vulture.]]
* BruceWayneHeldHostage: Spidey gets grabbed as Peter, turned into this continuity's Carnage, and sent to attack...Spider-Man. Doesn't get much more held hostage than that.
* TheBrute: Thundra is a rare female example. She's the muscle of the Frightful Four.
* BucketHelmet: Worn by Peter Parker in a secret recording in his bathroom when he was mocking Nova. This is a direct reference to the original Nova of the comics, Richard Rider, and his semi-affectionate nickname "Bucket-Head" given to Rider by his teammates in the New Warriors.
* ButtMonkey: The team doesn't seem to care much if anything happens to New Jersey.
** The Trapster totally fills this role.
** Spidey tends to get more than his fair share of this.
* TheCameo
** [[spoiler:The [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow Super Hero Squad]] and Spider-Ham]] in "Flight of the Iron Spider".
** ComicBook/HowardTheDuck makes a cameo in "Awesome", also making this his first appearance in animation.
** Captain America, ComicBook/BuckyBarnes, Miss America, the Golden Age Human Torch, the ComicBook/RedSkull, and Baron Zemo all appear in "S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy" as part of the Whizzer's flashback.
* CanonDiscontinuity: ''WesternAnimation/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2015'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble Avengers: Black Panther's Quest]]'', despite the former taking place earlier in the chronology of the animated universe and the latter's earlier seasons featuring this Spidey, features a crossover with ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'', suggesting that this series has either been overridden or is being treated with a large dose of BroadStrokes.
* CanonImmigrant:
** The new White Tiger, Ava Ayala, was created for the show and debuted in the comics in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy''. She then joined Luke Cage's Mighty Avengers and Sunspot's New Avengers.
** The new Nova, Sam Alexander, was also created for the show and was introduced in the comics during the prelude to the ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' CrisisCrossover.
** Phil Coulson, a SHIELD agent undercover as the principal of Spidey's school, is an immigrant from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. And then made the transition to the main Marvel Universe.
*** Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, members of Coulson's team that debuted in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' appear in season four. Jemma has since appeared in the main universe comics and as an NPC in the video game ''Marvel's Future Fight'' before turning up in this show.
* CassandraTruth: Fury and the rest of the team blow Spidey's concerns off about Black Suit Spidey being Venom returned. Spidey takes off to prove himself right -- and he is.
** This also appears in the second half of "Blade and the Howling Commandos" where checking on his Aunt May, Peter appears at the house in costume. She immediately recognizes him, but since it's Halloween thinks he's going to a party. She even says that it's a [[YourCostumeNeedsWork lame Spider-Man costume]] and he should get his money back.
* CastingGag:
** Drake Bell voices Peter/Spidey, a role he previously parodied in ''Film/SuperheroMovie''.
** Creator/WillFriedle voicing the insane & wacky Deadpool, having played Eric Matthews in ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''/''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'', a character who became increasingly wacky as the show went on.
*** Perhaps unintentional, but this isn't the first time Will Friedle has voiced [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays a wise-cracking mercenary with questionable morals and an itchy trigger finger.]]
** [[Music/ChildishGambino Donald Glover]] being cast as [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Miles Morales]]; his audition to play the role of Peter Parker in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' actually gave Bendis the inspiration to create Miles in the comics.
** Creator/DanteBasco as Scorpion, an [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender exiled warrior obsessed with honor]].
** Creator/ChristopherDanielBarnes and Creator/BenDiskin as voice Spyder-Knight and Spider-Ham respectively. They were respectively the voices of Spidey in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'' (as well as Barnes voicing ComicBook/SpiderManNoir in ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'' and ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 in ''VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime'' and Diskin voicing ComicBook/{{Venom}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'').
** Creator/DiedrichBader as Comicbook/MoonKnight, a [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman]] voice actor playing a CaptainErsatz of Batman.
** Groot is not the [[WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed first character ]] Michael Clarke Duncan voiced, only to be replaced by Kevin Michael Richardson later on. Both shows are also controversial for their radical takes on the characters.
* CatGirl: White Tiger/Ava Ayala.
* CerebusSyndrome: The finale of Season 1 is considerably darker than the rest of the series.
** CerebusRollercoaster: While it is LighterAndSofter and DenserAndWackier than the usual Spidey fare, it's main arc plot is much darker than the comedic episodes. Season 2 seems to be going for a more mature arc plot too, while still maintaining humour.
* CharacterFilibuster: Literally every time J. Jonah Jameson is on screen he's going on about how bad Spider-Man is.
* TheChessmaster: By manipulating the laws about the Asgardian Boar Hunt, Loki seems to get a chance at revenge when [[spoiler: he disguises himself as a hot-dog vendor to give a hungry Peter a free hot-dog that turns him into a talking pig.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Peter and Mary Jane. At the moment they're in the JustFriends stage though.
* ChirpingCrickets
** Spider-Man makes a joke about his new SHIELD webshooters that falls flat.
** There is also an occasion in "Back in Black" where a joke falls flat the same way.
* ChristmasEpisode: [[ItsAWonderfulPlot "Nightmare Before Christmas"]], appropriately [[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife enough]].
* TheChosenMany: Nova. It hasn't been discussed much, but it has been mentioned that he's a part of the "Nova Corps."
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Mary Jane no longer appear after Season 2.
*** TheBusCameBack: She appears in season 4, taking care of Harry - [[spoiler:only to come back as Queen ComicBook/{{Carnage}}]].
** J. Jonah Jameson. He's been completely absent from season four (save for a brief unspeaking appearance as one of the people [[DemonicPossession infected]] by Carnage in "The Symbiote Saga"), but was referenced in "Strange Halloween" via a kid dressed up like him.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In "Strange", Spidey confesses a complete lack of belief in magic. ("My 'non-sense' is tingling.") By the end of the episode, he has come to realize that ''magic'' is real but ''nightmares'' are not, which gives him enough power to defeat [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange Nightmare]].
* ClothingDamage
** PlayedForLaughs, as the tentacle-bot pinches Spidey's ass. He slaps it away and wins the battle, only to find out the hard way that the crowd is taking pictures of the hole in his Spidey-suit... which also reveals ''he goes commando'' underneath.
** After Iron Fist is freed from being stuck to a wall by Venom, most of his clothes vanish along with the symbiote's webbing.
** In "Back in Black" Spidey recalls how inconvenient his Spidey suit can be in comparison to [[spoiler:Harry Osborn's Venom-slick-it-on, slick-it-off Spidey suit]], including the time it ripped in the back and revealed his [[GoofyPrintUnderwear red polka dotted underwear]]... which might explain why he was going commando in the second episode.
** "Kraven The Hunter" give us a variation of what happened to Spidey in "Venom" only to Nova. Since they're chasing Ava he ties a pizza box to keep hidden that he too goes commando under his costume.
* CloudCuckoolander: Captain Webbeard, AKA Pirate Spidey. Being stuck on a deserted island for who knows how long with only a coconut for company does wonders for your sanity.
* ColdOpen
* CombatTentacles: The Venom Symbiote's main form of attack, in addition to whatever abilities its host has.
** Doctor Octopus as well, obviously. In fact his primary limbs appear to be non-functional.
** Carnage uses them, too, through they're more like tendrils in his case.
* ComesGreatResponsibility: {{Lampshade}}d by Peter when trying to explain [[spoiler:to Harry Osborn why using the Venom symbiote to be Spider-Man in a black suit just to feed his ego is a ''very bad idea''.]]
** Norman has his own version. "With great power, comes great reward."
** As does Iron Fist [[spoiler:when posing as Spidey]]. "With great power, comes inner peace!"
** Also used against Deadpool [[spoiler:in the form of a sucker punch]].
* TheComicallySerious: Nick Fury, several times.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Electro is a "multiple versions of the same character" type. He changes from the 616 version to the Ultimate Universe version when he gets supercharged.
** The Rhino has the same name as Rhino in the comics, but his personality and motivation make him closer to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Weiderman Charlie Weiderman]], one of the Molten Men. He also looks strangely similar to the version of Seymour O'Reilly from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan,'' though that also may be a coincidence.
** The show's version of Scorpion is a of mix of Scorpion and the Iron Fist villain Davos. And with a little bit of [[Franchise/MortalKombat another]] Scorpion thrown in. He also uses a hook weapon [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan Maximus Gargan]].
** The show's version of Korvac is a mix of Michael Korvac and ComicBook/{{Thanos}} (especially the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] version). His name and appearance come from Korvac, while his role as a galactic tyrant come and the leader of the Chitauri come from Thanos.
** Max Fury/Scorpio, Nick's evil brother, is a cross between Jake Fury/Scorpio, Nick's evil brother in the comics, and Max Fury, Nick's evil robot duplicate in ''Secret Avengers''.
** In an in-universe example, Spider-Man points out that Iron Patriot is quite literally the result of taking ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's iconography and applying it to Comicbook/IronMan.
** The Vulture is Adrian Toomes, but in contrast his comic book counterpart (who has no powers and relies on [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman a winged flight suit]]), is an actual bird mutate like the Jimmy Natale version of the Vulture.
** Flash Thompson briefly tries to fight crime as the Comicbook/ScarletSpider before becoming [[spoiler: Agent Venom]].
** The Goblin from Miles Morales's universe, is a mix of the Goblin from the Ultimate comics and the Goblin from 2099.
** Harry Osborn shares a few similarities to his comic counterpart such as being Peter and Mary Jane's closest friend, and his grudge against Spider-Man for ruining his relationship with his father. He also shares some traits of various versions of Eddie Brock like his good looks, bad temper, and being the former host of the Venom symbiote.
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: ''Juggernaut'', of all people, pulls this off for awhile.
* ContinuityLockout: Anyone who hasn't seen the ''WesternAnimation/HulkAndTheAgentsOfSmash'' episode "The Collector" will no doubt be confused about Spider-Man and the Collector already being familiar with each other in "Contest Of Champions."
* ContinuityNod: Ant-Man's membership in the Avengers in his self-titled episode carries on from the ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' episode ''The Ultron Outbreak''.
* ContinuitySnarl: The season three episode "Inhumanity" introduces a teenage version of the Inhuman Triton. The season finale, "Contest of Champions" confirms that the series shares the same continuity with ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' and ''WesternAnimation/HulkAndTheAgentsOfSmash''. However, the earlier ''Agents of Smash'' episode "Inhuman Nature" featured an ''adult'' version of Triton.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The episode "Not a Toy", when Spider-Man accidentally tosses ComicBook/{{Captain America}}'s shield out of the helicarrier. It lands in the Latverian Embassy ''while Doctor Doom is standing in the specific room it flies into''. Spider-Man even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how only [[CosmicPlaything he]] could get that result.
** Not to mention, it manages to bounce off of Iron Man, mid-air, and also strikes Trapster in his backpack before landing in the embassy. Talk about unlucky.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Oddly enough both averted and played straight in "The Parent Trap": the lava heats metal enough to hurt Spider-Man and it burns his web when it is close to it, but it has no effect on Luke; while you can argue his skin is protecting him,there is no reason why his clothes, hair and sunglasses are not burning.
* CoolBike: The Spider-Cycle. It fires webs that it can drive on, and can drive on any surface Spidey can wallcrawl on.
* [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady]]: Aunt May
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As in any Spider-Man show, ComicBook/NormanOsborn.
* CostumeCopycat: When Deadpool shows up, he notes the similarities between his and Spidey's costumes, and takes it as a sign that Spidey is a huge fan of his. Spider-Man, of course, has never heard of him. (For the record, the comics did eventually reveal as a gag that Deadpool's costume is one rejected by Spider-Man.)
* CoveredInGunge
** Spider-Man's first training session with SHIELD results in him getting slimed.
** Peter's sneezes in "Back in Black" produce a frightening amount of green discharge.
** Both [[spoiler: Coulson]] and [[spoiler: Juggernaut]] are covered in grey goo after the Awesome Android spits them out, in the latter's case helps hide his [[NakedPeopleAreFunny lack of clothes]].
* CrackOhMyBack: In "Stan By Me" Spidey imagines Stan the Janitor as an action hero, except for this trope getting in the way.
* {{Crawl}}: There's one running on the DBC news broadcasts, which contains a number of {{Mythology Gag}}s, such as, "ComicBook/SquirrelGirl launches new perfume line."
* {{Crossover}}: With ''Series/{{Jessie}}''. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No seriously]], the third season Halloween special had the cast of the Disney series animated and running into Spider-Man while getting caught up in a caper.
** Though not in the actual cartoon, it was also involved in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', with this universe's Peter not only meeting up with another Miles Morales, but also the Peter Parker from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967''
* CrossoverPunchline: The Living Laser is beaten [[spoiler:by being sent to dimension of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'']].
* CurbStompBattle: Anytime Ock versus Goblin happens, it results in Goblin kicking Ock's ass with Ock unable to fight back.
* CurseCutShort: Spider-Man webs Thundra's mouth shut just as she is about to sling a vulgar insult at him. He explains that he gagged her to prevent her from cursing in front of "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the kiddies]]".
* ADayInTheLimelight: "Kraven The Hunter" delves into White Tiger's backstory and "Journey of the Iron Fist" explain Iron Fist's origins. "Guardians of the Galaxy" give some insight on Nova's past and "Parent Trap" reveals Power Man's orogin.
* DaChief: Nick Fury. Like most versions of him, he's the "Top Cop".
* DarkerAndEdgier: Season two is considerably darker, with less humorous moments and more drama-centric episodes. Season 3 [[UpToEleven takes this even further]] by sparingly using cutaway gags, favoring Spider-Man's [[YouFightLikeACow quips]] and character-based dialogue. Season four only takes further: MoodWhiplash quickly comes into effect - with Spidey's 'perfect day' [[spoiler: soon almost turning into a TheBadGuyWins moment for Hydra]]. New character Scarlet Spider suffers from anger and self-loathing issues due to being [[spoiler: kidnapped and experimented on by Doc Ock]]. And [[KnightOfCerebus the Ultimate Green Goblin]] becomes a recurring villain and winds up ''killing Baron Mordo'' in a highly FamilyUnfriendlyDeath. [[spoiler: TheReveal that the Scarlet Spider was the true mole for Ock only makes things worse.]]
* DeadpanSnarker
** White Tiger
** Nova as well:
--->''(after Spidey lets the Venom Symbiote possess him to stop it from hurting anyone else)''\\
'''Nova:''' Ah, I wish we hadn't just had a special moment where you'd sacrificed yourself and junk. ''(proceeds to blast Venom)''
* DefrostingIceQueen: Ava, for most of season 1 she's an uptight jerkass to Peter, until comes the "Kraven the Hunter" episode where she warms up to Peter since they can both relate to the loss of a loved one.
* DemotedToExtra: Spider-Man's original team: Nova, Power Man, Iron Fist, and White Tiger have become more or less minor characters since season 3.
* DenserAndWackier: Even aside from Peter's FourthWall {{Imagine Spot}}s, the show's tone is much more comical than your usual Spider-Man fare.
* DesignatedGirlFight: When Loki tricks Spider-Man's team and the Avengers into fighting each other in "The Avenging Spider-Man", White Tiger fights Black Widow.
* TheDeterminator: Peter states when MJ sets her mind to something, nothing can change it. He seems to believe if she wanted to, she could get Galactus to stop eating planets.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Dr. Octavius dies in Norman Osborn's arms, but obviously, he's not really dead.
* DieHardOnAnX: Die Hard On A SHIELD Helicarrier. Spidey even yells "yippie-ki-yay" at one point.
* DirtyOldMan: Wolverine (when in Peter's body) makes a pass at Mary Jane, [[LikeBrotherAndSister who is thoroughly disgusted]]. Considering he's something like 120 and she's a lass of 16, quite understandable. Trapster tries it as well.
* DisappearedDad: Norman Osborn is the "neglectfully absent/physically present" variation.
* DiscriminateAndSwitch: During the Spider Verse arc, Peter winds up in the comic book world of ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan, where he runs into [[AffirmativeActionLegacy Miles Morales]]. When Miles takes his mask off, Peter is shocked to see that that world's Spider-Man is so...''young''.
-->'''Miles:''' I'm thirteen! I can ride my bike to the store ''alone!''
* DistaffCounterpart: Gets taken UpToEleven when Spider-Man winds up in a parallel world where the gender roles are all reversed and he meets Petra Parker and Norma Osborn. Even historical figures in this world are reversed, demonstrated when both Spideys head for the Georgia Washington Bridge.
* DistressedDamsel: Subverted bigtime! Aunt May alternates between scolding and sweet talking the Beetle until he's distracted enough for her to run off, then [[spoiler: pulls a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Ripley]] on him with a jet engine]] then bats her eyes at Coulson and Spider-Man like she was helpless all along.
** Mary Jane also has no problems with kicking a guy right in the sourdough area when he tries to take her hostage. Especially if its the [[ButtMonkey Trapster]].
* DontTryThisAtHome:
-->'''Spidey:''' ''(addressing the audience)'' Yes, I am riding the Spider-Cycle in a subway. No, I am not allowed to do this. And neither are you.
* DoomedByCanon: Dr. Connors [[spoiler:gets his right arm crushed]] in the Season 1 finale. [[SarcasmMode Gee, whatever will happen to him next season?]]
* DopeSlap: Venom decides hit Spider-Man and tells him to shut up shortly after when he tires of Spidey's babbling in "Carnage."
* TheDragon: Doc Ock, to Norman Osborn.
** DragonWithAnAgenda
* DramaticSpotlight: Peter gets one after a comment from Sam upsets Harry and Peter can't explain why he's hanging with Sam and the other new kids.
* DrivingUpAWall: The Spider-Cycle can drive up or along walls just like Spider-Man.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: He saves the city on a regular basis, has to balance his home life, crime fighting, time with non hero friends and shield training and has repeatedly shown himself to be the most able member of the team. The thanks he gets? Repeatedly slandered by Jameson, turned on by the people he protects the second a reward is involved. Called unreliable by his normal friends, taken advantage of by his hero friends, forced to study or train when the rest of his team gets to have fun and tormented unfairly and called out on when he rightfully decides to do something for himself.
** Explained/Justified in Season 3 to an extent. The other heroes look up to him, and know that whenever they need help he will be there for him. [[spoiler:Iron Fist knew that the reason Iron Spider wasn't punished for activating Zola was because Peter took all the blame upon himself. Agent Venom and Rhino both look up to Spider Man to the point that they not only became heroes on Spider Man's request but were also able to put aside their difficult relationship (namely bully and bullied) to save him when it mattered the most. In the Christmas episode, we see not only that his original team truly cares about him, but that when they couldn't get a hold of him they went out to look for him and picked up his gift for Aunt May. Hell, Nick Fury trusts Peter with commanding two different teams of teenage superheroes and even explicitly states that everyone there is harder on Peter because they have higher expectations from him and want him to do his best.]]
* DwindlingParty: In Season 4, Spiderman puts together a new team of Web Warriors, but one way or another, but he loses teammates as the season goes on; [[spoiler:Agent Venom is badly injured and sidelined, then Scarlet Spider is probably dead after pulling a HeroicSacrifice]]. Spiderman is down to just Iron Spider and Kid Arachnid. [[spoiler:Gets subverted when Agent Venom returns to the fold]].
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Peter's past "Picture Day" photos are a few
** Present-day embarrassing photos include pics of Spidey going commando under his costume, and Spider-Ham's time during the Asgardian Boar Hunt (which had everyone else laughing).
* EnergyBeings
** Living Laser, who is made of living photonic energy.
** Also the Hulk villain Zzzax in the episode "Exclusive".
* EpicFail: Nick Fury of all people gets one of these in "Out of Damage Control". After spending pretty much the entire episode lecturing Spider-Man and his team for causing way too much damage in battle, he's in the midst of reinstating them as SHIELD-sanctioned superheroes when he accidentally brushes against a pile of culvert pipes marked with a sign marked "Caution: Unstable Structure". The pipes immediately start rolling and crash into a building that had recently been damaged in a fight with the wrecking crew, '''causing it to completely collapse!!'''
* EpicHail: In "The Sinister Six" Spidey needs to contact his team. What does he do? Jumps on a Daily Bugle Helicopter and records himself stating he needs help. Of course, JJJ doesn't like this.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Norman is genuinely distraught when he learns that the Frightful Four is attacking his son's school. Though he's mainly concerned with Harry's safety, making it more an EvenEvilHasLovedOnes case.
** Loki might not spit in another's hot dog, but with things so close, he won't let a time limit deny him (or he won't try to)
* EvilAllAlong:
** In Season 4, we are introduced to Scarlet Spider [[spoiler: Who claimed to be a former subject of Doc Ock's experiments who had been living in the sewers ever since he escaped and done something that he can't forgive himself for, but then Episode 10 reveals it to be a ruse. Scarlet Spider is actually a spy working for Doc Ock as part of his Sinister Seven. While initially loyal to Ock because he allegedly took him off the streets in his time of need and gave him his powers, he finds himself BecomingTheMask, especially after it becomes clear that Ock doesn't care about him one bit, leading to his HeelFaceTurn and redemption arc.]]
** There's also the bizarre case of "Amoral All Along" with Deadpool about two seasons earlier. Initially, the Merc With A Mouth appears to have been re-imagined as a freelance hero who used to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., claiming that a mysterious villain named "Agent [=McGuffin=]" had stolen encrypted S.H.I.E.L.D. files with the secret identities of every known hero with intent on selling the information to Taskmaster. But after Deadpool easily defeats Taskmaster with his sheer unpredictability, Spider-Man learns the hard way that "Agent [=McGuffin=]" never really existed, and that it was really Deadpool himself who stole the list with intent on selling it. Taskmaster merely stole the list right from under Deadpool's nose, ''while he was doing some bathroom business''. Deadpool's fight with Spidey makes it clear that he's actually a mercenary who will do literally anything for money. Truly a faithful G-rated adaptation of the Merc With A Mouth.
* EvilCripple: Doc Ock. Because of an accident, he lost the use of his limbs. He uses his metal arms to work, fight and move around. He's still menacing and looks rather creepy.
* EvilerThanThou: Goblin is this to Ock, especially when [[spoiler: Ock is stupid enough to turn Norman back into the Goblin again.]] Best summarized by this piece of dialogue:
-->'''Goblin:''' All this time, you've had it all wrong, Octavius. I've always been your master.
* EvilRedHead: Thundra of the Frightful Four.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Spider Man states this when fighting the Beetle and smashed him with the couch he was aiming at.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: the season 2 episodes; no, seriously, ''all'' of them so far are named after the villains or new characters showing up in them: "The Lizard", "Electro", "The Rhino", "Kraven the Hunter", "Hawkeye", "The Sinister Six"... you can hardly get more obvious than that.
* ExactWords: Fury did promise Spidey that the surveillance tapes of him would be erased in 24hrs. He never did say he won't show them to the team before that.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Peter suffers these as a result of being sick and not getting enough rest due to wall-crawling heroics.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: One of the Zodiac {{Mook}}'s quotes is this about Spider-Man.
* ExpressiveMask: The Spidey mask is very expressive, though Peter [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] that ''you can't see'' all his expressions. Same goes for White Tiger.
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: A paperboy was shouting that in "Spidah Man" and Spidey found himself surprised there were still people doing that.
* FalseReassurance: Nick Fury has cameras spying on the young heroes and their families to keep them safe. In one episode, Nick told Spidey all embarassing images of him would be erased in [[ExactWords 24 hours]]. ''23 hours and 23 minutes'' later, he had finished showing said images to the other young heroes and then he deleted them.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: "Pew pew guns" and Spider-Man's Web Cannon 3000, which is so friendly that Spidey, who DoesntLikeGuns, will use it.
** Spidey's second visit to the Noir universe has gangsters having shootouts in the streets with hi-tech energy weapons.
* {{Fanservice}}: For the female viewers! Iron Fist, once freed from Venom and webbing, is stripped down to his matching banana hammock.
** Plus, the whole team in bathing suits in "Snow Day".
** Given their age, these moments of fanservice can easily shade into FanDisservice to older viewers.
** Coulson also ends up in various degrees of undress surprisingly often. [[NakedPeopleAreFunny It's played for laughs]] but [[HotTeacher he doesn't look half-bad.]]
* FantasticVoyagePlot: The episode where Spider-Man and Ant Man must shrink down into Fury's body that has been infected with Doc Ock's nano-bots.
* FirstKiss: Peter and MJ had [[http://www.comicvine.com/mary-jane/29-13380/all-images/108-209288/screen_shot_2012_04_02_at_6/105-2272557/ theirs with each other]] when they were 12 years old, apparently.
* {{Flashback}}: A couple, on Peter's part, relating to Uncle Ben, Aunt May, and his growing up with Mary Jane.
** Later, Peter flashes back to how he became Spider-man, but since everybody is sick to death of Spidey's origin story, his chibi avatar rushes through it.
* FiveManBand: The complete Web Warriors from season 4:
** TheHero: Spidey himself, obviously.
** TheLancer: Scarlet Spider, as he's the one Peter usually goes to talk to about his problems.
** TheSmartGuy: Iron Spider. The armor's not the most dangerous thing about him, it's his brain.
** TheBigGuy: Agent Venom, the toughest member of the team.
** TheHeart: Kid Arachnid, as the youngest out of the group and basically the younger brother of the team.
** [[spoiler: SixthRanger: Spider-Woman. Mary Jane bonded to the Carnage symbiote near the end of the series.]]
* FoodFight: Peter starts one against the Frightful Four to give him the chance to get away.
* FourthWall: Peter abuses the hell out of it, talking directly to the viewer. Basically, it's his trademark inner monologue visualized!
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Language, Thundy. [[LampshadeHanging Kids are watching]].
** Then there's ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, who does it more than Peter, even breaking into Spidey's fourth wall breaking. Of course, it's Deadpool.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the Lizard episode, Doc Connors shows Spidey tubes of glowing animal DNA, one is labelled with a lizard, the other two with a ''Scorpion'' and a ''Vulture''. [[spoiler: The vulture isn't too clear, but it's emphasised by the ImagineSpot two seconds later featuring an evil petting zoo]].
* ForgottenAesop: More than a few episodes centre aound Spidey and one or more of his teammates learning that they need to put aside their differences and work as a team. Expect to see them be right back to bitching at each other next week.
** Same thing apply to Spidey; no matter how many times he learns about responsibility and humility, he keep forgetting it again so he can get humiliated to learn it over and over again.
** Less forgotten than a Deconstruction of both aesops: becoming a team is more than a matter of just realizing that you should be a team, it takes a lot of work, training, and gradual personality and relationship development. Adding to the difficulty, the main cast are all teenagers, and thus prone to distraction, moods, and bouts of selfishness. This kind of deconstruction is actually what the Ultimates universe was mostly intended to do.
* FreakyFridayFlip:
** Wolverine and Spider-Man have one in an episode (appropriately titled "Freaky"), a plot taken directly from the ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' comic.
** Later the incident is repeated with Spider-Man and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]].
** And [[spoiler: Loki]] in the first episode of the third season.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After Agent Coulson invites Aunt May on a date, Peter starts talking about it. In the background you can see Coulson's shadow jumping around in the principal's office, and then you can hear something crash.
* GeniusCripple: Dock Ock. See Evil Cripple above.
* GeniusLoci: The heroes vacation on a classified island and meet Sandy, a CreepyChild who looks a lot like [[spoiler: Sandman]], and later his older brother ''[[spoiler: Flint]]''. Eventually the ''entire island'' turns against the heroes. [[spoiler: Or at least its soil: Sandman]] - we find pictographs on the mysterious ruins that hadn't been there a minute before that depict his old-school origin, ''completely unchanged'' - has assimilated every single bit of soil until the place was an extension of himself. Near the end, it's [[spoiler: a race against time because a little dirt had clung to one of their costumes, allowing Sandman to come home with them. They had to keep him from the mainland]] because if ''any part of him'' had touched the ground on the mainland, he could have assimilated it all. ''All.'' As in, "North America, you were nice while you lasted."
* GenreBlindness: Doc Ock is hit with this hard. Despite observing Spider-Man's movements for months, he falls for every single on of his tricks.
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* GoingNative: The exact words used to describe Agent Coulson, who seems more concerned about the school budget and meatloaf than keeping an eye on the teen heroes.
** PapaWolf: Yet when the students of the high school the teen heroes are going to are endangered because of the Asgardian Boar Hunt being brought to the school, he's not going to let them get hurt.
** LetsGetDangerous: He also hides an arsenal in the principal's office to show he's serious.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Spidey gets [[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1tq9tODhL1qa7gyjo1_500.gif chibi good and evil Spideys]] helping him think through whether or not he wants to work with Iron Fist, Power Man, White Tiger and Nova. Unfortunately, the angels' dialogue ''very'' quickly devolves into a grudge match, which gets quite rough if Peter's reactions are any indication. And they ''agree'' on letting Taskmaster do what he wants to Flash Thompson, forcing Spidey to web them both out of the shot after saying, "Only Flash could get these two to agree on something."
** Later Bad Angel is replaced with Hulk Angel, when Peter has to decide between being honest and looking out for a friend.
* GoryDiscretionShot: "Freaky" deals with Wolverine, and so has a few "we are experiencing technical difficulties" screens to keep the less kid-friendly aspects of Wolverine's character from going onscreen. I.E., Peter accidentally stabbing himself with Logan's claws, Logan beating the tar out of Flash, etc.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Nightmare!Shoulder-Devil Spidey grumps that he's only allowed to say "heck" in the Christmas Episode.
* GottaGetYourHeadTogether: The entire cafeteria's reaction to Klaw's sonic attack.
* GrandFinale: The two-part finale "Graduation Day" manages to solve an impressive number of dangling subplots, and brings back a large number of characters from the previous episodes to boot.
** Also unlike the previous Spider-Man shows... THIS ONE DOESN'T END IN A UNRESOLVED CLIFFHANGER!!!!
* GravityMaster: The Wizard has this ability thanks to his tech.
* GroinAttack: Used by Mary Jane on Trapster when he attempts to use her as a hostage. Peter even lampshades it.
* [[GuessWhoImMarrying Guess Who I'm Dating?]]: Aunt May and Agent Coulson? HELP!
* GutPunch: In the middle of the action-packed season three finale, Spider-Man is rescuing civilians from Grandmaster and the Collector's games. [[spoiler:Then he hears Aunt May saying, "[[AdultFear Peter?]]" and running to him. Spider-Man tries to reassure her that Peter is probably fine]]. She delivers this WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Don't patronize me. I lost Ben; I won't lose you too, Peter]]!" It turns out that [[spoiler:she knew for a while that her nephew was Spider-Man, and is terrified because these space aliens are beyond standard New York villains. Spider-Man, with his voice cracking, tells her that he has to be the one to defeat them]].
* HalfArcSeason: With all the one-shot stories, but also with the interconnected stories mixed in as well, it looks like the first season is shaping up to be this.
* HeroesWantRedheads
** Subverted. Peter and Mary Jane in this series have been childhood friends. Although this is keeping in with the comics, before Peter and MJ got a RelationshipUpgrade.
--->'''Peter:''' At 12, we decided to ''"get serious"''.\\
''(they kiss, and immediately go "ewww!")''
** Wolverine, whilst in Peter's body, attempts to make a move on MJ, stating that he's always had a thing for redheads. Due to her and Peter deciding to be JustFriends, MJ is understandably put off by this.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Power Man and Iron Fist.
* {{Hologram}}: Fury appears to Spider-Man as one after his training session on the Helicarrier.
* HonorBeforeReason: The Hunters Loki uses for "Run Pig Run" enjoy a good hunt, but when time's up, they won't kill someone who's won because he outlasted the clock.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Iron Fist, White Tiger, Power Man and Nova all think highly of Deadpool, who once trained alongside them for a time, and never saw anything amiss about him. Spidey, on the other hand, only has to spend a brief amount of time with Deadpool to realise how deranged he is.
* HotBlooded: Nova is rather quick to act without thinking.
* HowDoIShotWeb:
** A very literal example. When Iron Fist has to wear Spidey's costume to protect Peter's secret identity, he has trouble figuring out the web shooters.
** Done hilariously in every FreakyFridayFlip episode.
* HulkSpeak: [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]], naturally, he loses it in "The Incredible Spider-Hulk" while gaining increased intelligence.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: When Loki turns Spidey into Spider-Ham in "Run Pig Run," he's made the porcine Wall Crawler into the prey for an "Asgardian Boar Hunt." Fortunately, Thor, Coulson, Fury and "the team" are with Spidey.
** Kraven the Hunter is confirmed to appear in season 2. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the character should expect this. [[spoiler:Surprisingly enough, his prey isn't Spidey. It's White Tiger.]]
* HurricaneOfPuns:
** After Loki turns Spidey into Spider-Ham (nicknamed thus by Thor of all people) in "Run Pig Run", the pig puns range from "Pig man on campus" from Nova to "Porker" (Parker) thanks to Coulson. Even Nick Fury gets one in. Peter, notably tries to not make one, and when he does, it's accompanied by [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking the fourth wall]] to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] it.
** Spidey and Deadpool have a {{Pun}} BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind within an ImagineSpot via [[FourthWallObserver Fourth Wall Observation]]. ([[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Phew.]])
* HurtFootHop: Spidey jumps around a bit while holding his foot after trying to kick the Juggernaut. Yeah, bad idea.
* HypocriticalHumor: When fighting the Doombots in "Doomed", White Tiger complains about Spidey and Nova competing with each other rather than working in team. Then she tells her teammates Power Man and Iron Fist to stick together, just as she splits off from them to fight the Doombots on her own. Power Man and Iron Fist look at each other and shrug.
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: White Tiger and Iron Fist to the Venom-possessed Spider-Man.
** Peter does this several times to Venom-posessed Harry. Harry does it to his goblin-enhanced father.
** Yet again to Goblin-fied Tiger, Fist, Nova, and PM by Spidey and once more when they're hypnotised by Dracula.
** He also regularly attempts this with Rhino and Vulture after they fall under Doc Ock's control.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Sometimes Peter's excuses to get out of mundane life and go superheroing when needed run to this. For example, in episode 25 of season 1.
-->'''Peter:''' Harry! I just remembered, Aunt May needs me to do something at home. Some sort of...goldfish emergency.
* IShallTauntYou: Spidey's preferred method of banter, with a sizeable dollop of DeadpanSnarker added.
* IdeaBulb
** Played with. The lightbulb is over Peter's head, and a little chibi imaginary Spidey plugs it into Peter's ear to power it from his thoughts as he realizes something.
** The lightbulb flashes over Peter's head only to be replaced by another of the more ecologically improved lightbulbs. Peter even comments on this directly to the audience.
* IdeaDing: Mary Jane saves Peter's day by coming up with the idea of a study date for Harry to get used to the idea of Peter's "new friends": Danny, Ava, Luke, and Sam.
* IdiosyncraticWipes: Lots of speed swoosh, and trains passing by.
* IdiotBall
** Spidey's team as a whole has already seen Venom in action, been possessed (each member except White Tiger) by him and all of them are perfectly aware he is a shapeshifting symbiotic organism whose appearance changes according to his host. Yet, when a "mysterious" black Spider-Man shows up, not only is Peter the ''only'' one to recognize the symbiote, but when he points out the similarity, they dismiss it without any doubt, arguing that "Venom was huge, this is just a normal guy in a suit." Made even worse by the fact that Octavius, on the other hand, immediately recognizes his work.
** Doctor Octopus actually managed to capture Spidey in "Me Time", but he chooses ''not'' to remove his mask or webshooters, and places him in restraints he easily breaks out of.
** Spidey himself loses his otherwise high intelligence and even his ''spider-sense'' whenever the script decides it'd be funny (and can be easily attributed to him being a very high-strung teenager).
** The Team didn't seem to think a LARGE GAPING HOLE into an EMPTY BANK VAULT was suspicious.
** Nova is nowhere near the - well, [[IncrediblyLamePun brightest]] of the bunch, but even he grips the ball tight, when he thinks that a beach is labeled "Classy Fied" instead of "Classified."
* IgnoringBySinging: Peter does this when Coulson talks about finding Aunt May attractive.
* ImagineSpot: Lots and lots of them, including one where Spidey imagines how him trying to show up in costume and hide his true identity from Mary Jane. He also imitates the Christian Bale Batman voice.
-->'''Mary Jane:''' [[ClarkKenting Peter, what are you doing in that ridiculous costume?]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Zodiac soldiers seem to have taken a few courses there. They actually manage to hit each other ''way'' more often than they do Spidey or Fury.
* InNameOnly: Despite having some of the same characters, taking place in a similar setting and having a few of its design choices, the show has nothing to do with the comic of the same name, instead coming off as a strange hybrid of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends''.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Spidey flung a few at Doc Ock, but he warns the audience that the Trapster makes cringingly bad ones based around his glue schtick.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' ''(running out of webbing as he falls from the Helicarrier)'' Okay, now I'm scared ''thwippless!''
* IndyPloy: Kind of Deadpool's thing.
-->'''Deadpool''': [[LargeHam I have a plan!]]
-->'''Spider-Man''': Plan?
-->'''Deadpool''': '''Improvisation!''' (''hits eject button on jet'')
* InkSuitActor
** Agent Coulson is both voiced by and designed to look like the actor that plays him in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, Clark Gregg.
** Stan Lee as the school janitor also counts.
** Peter Parker without his costume is designed after his VA, Drake Bell.
* InsistentTerminology: Anytime someone calls Spidey a bug, he always insists that they are arachnids.
* InstitutionalApparel: The black-and-white stripes variety appears as Spidey describes the Trapster's time in jail.
* IntercontinuityCrossover: The "Spider-Verse" storyline in Season 3 also bounces over to the comic-book ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' storyline. To the point where ''this'' Ultimate Spider-Man gets to meet ''another'' Miles Morales!
* IntrepidReporter: In "Exclusive", MJ doesn't let a rampaging Hulk [[spoiler:or an invisible energy being]] stop her from getting her interview with Spider-Man.
** In "Stan By Me" MJ refuses to go for help when it's obvious there's a dangerous creature loose in Midtown High who's cut the power off. She wants her story.
* ItsAWonderfulPlot: "Nightmare on Christmas" sees [[spoiler: Nightmare subject Spider-Man one of these, if he'd decided to quit being Spider-Man after beatng Shocker earlier in the episode.]]
* IronicEcho: In "Back in Black" Spidey starts the episode of sick, and eventually White Tiger warns him not to get her sick... [[HilarityEnsues guess what happens at the end of the episode.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: This is definitely Jameson's trope. While he is always shown to rant about how dangerous Spider-Man is and is portrayed as a loudmouth [[{{Jerkass}} jerk]] for doing so, he is not entirely wrong. Spidey in this show is reckless and has caused problems, or exacerbated them, from time from time. For example: the episode "Awesome" has Spidey stealing one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s inventions without knowing what it is. The invention turns out to be the Awesome Android, who proceeds to wreck the city. On another occasion, Spidey decided to go along with a plan to capture Doctor Doom, who turns out to be a Doombot and almost destroys the Helicarrier and the entirety of New York, simply to spite Nova. Sure, Spidey does try to be a better hero and acknowledges his mistakes, but it's more reasonable in this incarnation for Jameson be suspicious of Spider-Man.
* JerkJock / TheBully: Flash Thompson
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: J. Jonah Jameson. He compliments MJ on her video report for the Bugle's contest, even though the video was very Pro-Spidey and he even gives her a new camera. We repeat, this is JJJ we're talking about.
* JetPack: Early in the series, we see Spidey fantasizing about flying with a jetpack. In "Me Time", Spider-Man discovers that SHIELD has given one to Nova -- who doesn't need one because he can fly.
* KillTheLights: Spider-Man and White Tiger turned off the lights and used night-vision to get an advantage over Taskmaster. Taskmaster boasted that he could easily navigate the room with his PhotographicMemory, only to find that the two heroes moved everything in the room after turning off the lights.
* KnightOfCerebus
** Venom, after the relatively lighthearted first half of the episode he appears in, barring the parts with Octavius, the second half is accompanied by less {{Imagine Spot}}s and jokes.
** Dr. Octopus also, as he's never played for comedy in all his scenes, [[spoiler:or unless he's fighting Spider-Man.]]
** In general, most of the main villains of the series (Norman Osborn, Doctor Doom, Loki, Nightmare) are played dead serious.
** [[spoiler: The Green Goblin]] really makes his mark as a KnightOfCerebus. For once, Spidey doesn't snark at all while fighting him.
** The Rhino/ [[spoiler: Alex]] can be seen as this, at least in his debut episode. [[spoiler: Alex, like Peter was bullied by Flash Thompson. ''Unlike'' Peter, however, Alex's status as victim of bullying is ''not'' played for laughs and issue of bullying is treated seriously. Not to mention that Flash, who was quite an asshole towards Alex and Peter throughout the series, is horrified that his harrassment led Alex to become Rhino. The same episode also reveals that Flash only has car station as a home and that his family has no money]]
** The Ultimate Green Goblin establishes himself as the biggest one yet. He's able to rather handily overpower his counterpart from the main universe and has successfully killed the Peter Parker of his universe. In his episode, he comes close several times in their fight to killing Miles and main!Peter. When he returns, not only does he murder Baron Mordo, but FamilyUnfriendlyDeath is in full effect. Plus he also tries [[spoiler: to destroy reality using the Siege Perilous, and Miles winds up having to trap himself in the main universe in order to stop him]]. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Highly dangerous and downright psychotic]], the Ultimate Goblin pushes the show into DarkerAndEdgier.
* KonamiCode in the Season 3 Episode "Revenge of Arnim Zola" Spider-Man starts reciting the code but is cut off by Zola.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doctor Octopus. He openly admits that he cares for no-one but himself, and believes that compassion make you weak.
* LargeHam
** Doctor Doom, naturally.
** Thor also counts, especially because he's voiced by Creator/TravisWillingham.
** Doctor Strange.
** Goblin, to the point where a majority of his dialogue is stock villain wordage and phrases.
* {{Laser Sight}}s: The [=SHIELD=] helicarrier has dozens, all pointed at Spidey the first time he comes calling.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall
** PaintingTheMedium: When Spidey narrates introducing a new character, they get a title screen that they usually knock around. Occasionally, a really powerful attack generates a textual sound effect as well.
** Deadpool, natch. He even breaks the fourth wall while Spidey's doing it!
** In the two-part GrandFinale, White Tiger jokingly says that back when the S.H.I.E.L.D. team first got together, it seemed like Spidey [[AesopAmnesia had to relearn the same lessons about trust and leadership every single week]].
* LegacyCharacter: It's mentioned that the White Tiger mantle is one that is passed down in Ava Ayala's family. "Kraven the Hunter" reveals that her father was the original White Tiger. [[spoiler:He passed it to Ava before dying from injuries sustained battling Kraven.]]
** AffirmativeActionLegacy: Amadeus Cho becomes the new Iron Spider in Season 3.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Subverted with Hulk in "Exclusive", where Hulk ignores Spidey in favor of focusing on fighting Zzzax. Hulk even tells Spidey he doesn't want to fight "Bug Man".
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the three previous animated incarnations of Spider-Man. This series has yet to have anything ''too'' dark. So far, two of the [[KnightOfCerebus Knights of Cerebus]] (who coincidentally are the only truly active Spider-Man rogues thus far) have added a touch of darkness whenever they come in, but their appearances have been limited due to the constant one-shot adventures.
* LightBulbJoke: Spider-Man makes such a joke in "The Sinister Six".
-->'''Spider-Man:''' How many Sinister Sixters does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Six! Four to hold down Electro. One to screw the lightbulb into his mouth.
-->'''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Electro:]]''' ''(to the rest of the Sinister Six)'' Heh, you guys want to see that? It actually does work! ''(the other villains glare at him)'' ...Maybe later.
* LoopholeAbuse: As the son of Odin, Thor can't call off the Asgardian Boar Hunt without going against his father's law. Officially anyway. The laws never said anything about him stalling the hunters before sunset.
* LosingTheTeamSpirit: While the rest of Spider-Man's team were initially happy when Spider-Man is recruited by the Avengers, its clear that it takes a toll on them. When Spidey encounters them again while they were chasing Batroc the Leaper, Nova and White Tiger are resentful of him for stopping Batroc for him, and Iron Fist makes it clear that things have not been the same without him.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Parodied. When Luke Cage is looking for his parents, Spidey is concerned they might be villains--so his ImagineSpot turns to Doctor Doom reciting this line to Cage, who gives a BigNo. Spidey then turns to the audience and says they were probably thinking the exact same thing.
** Which is HilariousInHindsight given BOTH Marvel and Lucasfilm are both owned by Disney as of 2013.
*** As well as the fact that Luke Cage is also named Luke.
* MacGuffin: Deadpool's episode is about retrieving a flashdrive of heroes' secret identities stolen from SHIELD...by...[[LampshadeHanging Agent [=MacGuffin=]]]. ([[InvokedTrope Invoked]] -- The plot point ''was'' introduced by [[NoFourthWall Deadpool]].)
* MacrossMissileMassacre: So the Beetle is cornered by Spidey's team, what is his response? To reveal that his armor carries an unholy number of missile launchers, which triggers a MassOhCrap expression from the heroes.
* MagicalSecurityCam: This trope is very noticeable in Doctor Octopus's lab, where most of the footage of Spider-Man is recycled footage from previous episodes.
* MagicPants: Alex's clothes seem to change with him when he goes to and from Rhino form. The animators seem to choose angles that will specifically keep the audience from seeing how.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Klaw from the Frightful Four!
* MaleGaze: Although it's justified, and averted as well. White Tiger wears a skin-tight suit and is... Developed as most females in their late teens would be. Her proclivities towards acrobatics only help this trope. But, given how her male colleagues also wear skin-tight outfits, their [[{{Pun}} assets]] [[FemaleGaze also get some nice screentime]].
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Zodiac soldiers all wear animal masks (lion, bull and ram to be specific).
* MamaBear: Aunt bear rather. Aunt May is in good physical shape and she knows self-defense. If anyone threatens her nephew, she will defend him. [[spoiler:In the season 3 finale, she's all-prepared to help him fight the Grandmaster and the Collector, or at least to convince Peter that he needs to evacuate, and Peter has to convince her that it's safer for both of them if she uses the teleporter]].
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: On one side of the mirror, Peter. In the reflection, Spidey, alternately berating him for being a loser, and encouraging him to take Fury up on his offer to be trained by SHIELD.
* MarqueeAlterEgo: The heroes tend to stand around in costume with their masks up or off, just as in the movies -- presumably so it won't be so jarring to fans when watching the movies.
* MartialPacifist: Iron Fist, who is generally spouting philosophical advice, advises the symbiote to back up, lest he forget he's a pacifist.
* MerchandiseDriven: With all the toys they're giving Spider-Man this is obvious. Why else would someone who can web-swing need a motorcycle (though the show does make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jHp1FoWiQ a decent stab at justifying this one]]) or a suit that enables him to fly?
* MetaOrigin: Like the [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries 90's Spider-Man show]], many of Spidey's foes have their origins tied to another character for the sake of stronger continuity. Venom, Carnage, the Lizard, and the Rhino all owe their origins to Doc Ock's experimentation, while Deadpool and Awesome Android are both tied to S.H.I.E.L.D. in some manner.
* MidSeasonTwist: In "Back in Black", the 8th episode, we find out that in this show, Venom is [[spoiler:Harry Osborn]] and Dr. Octavius is hiding this fact from Norman Osborn, and [[DragonWithAnAgenda thus clearly has his own plans for him.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: [[spoiler: In "The New Sinister 6, Part 2", Doctor Octopus scoffingly tells Spidey that he doesn't care about anyone--including Scarlet Spider. For Scarlet, who's been motivated by gratitude and personal loyalty to Ock, it's the last straw and he switches sides.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus -- although in the latter's case, he was a real doctor before the lab accident that left him in his current state.
* MoralityPet: Harry to Norman Osborn. While a he's CorruptCorporateExecutive and he kinda wishes he was more like Peter, he does seem to care for his son's well being.
** Horribly twisted when [[spoiler: Norman finds out that Harry is Venom. His response is to tell Harry how proud he is of what he's become.]]
* MoreDakka: Norman blasts [[spoiler:a copy of]] Iron Man with a huge gatling gun. Spider-Man then wonders if this is the side of Henry's dad he was hinting at complete with a goofy shot involving blasting a pickle jar.
* MotiveDecay: Rhino, when first introduced, was an AntiVillain with a sympathetic motivation who seemed willing to get help for his condition. This is completely dropped in ''The Sinister Six'', where he now only cares about getting more serum from Doctor Octopus.
* MrImagination: Spidey. Not that Spider-Man's ever been particularly unimaginative, but it's usually spent on [[YouFightLikeACow insulting his opponents or making jokes.]]
* MuggingTheMonster: MJ frees herself from Trapster's clutches, and lays a GroinAttack on him.
* MuggleBestFriend: Harry Osborn and Mary Jane Watson for Peter.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Not a Toy" is basically "Kid throws ball/frisbee into neighbor's house and needs to get it back", except the kid is Spidey, the Frisbee is Captain America's shield and the house is the Latverian Embassy and the neighbor is Doctor Doom.
* MundaneUtility: In "Electro," Iron Fist uses glowing fist as a light source.
** Agent Venom says that his spider-sense also warns him when he is about to take a bite of a slice of pizza that is too hot.
* MythologyGag: Has [[MythologyGag/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}} his page]].
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[[folder:Tropes N-Z]]
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Anyone who gets eaten by the Awesome Android loses their clothes once they are "expelled."
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond:
** Courtesy of Spidey's smart-aleck attitude in the series premiere.
--->'''Nova:''' The name is Nova, creep!\\
'''Spider-Man:''' Nova Creep. Catchy. ''(makes "loser" gesture with thumb and forefinger)''
** The episode "For Your Eye Only", being a spoof of ''Franchise/JamesBond'' in general, begins with Spider-Man introducing himself to the audience as "Man, Spider-Man".
* NearMissGroinAttack: In one episode, Spider-Man just misses a pike at the top of a building during an aerial chase scene.
* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: This comes up in "Spidah-Man!", when thanks to a ten million dollar bounty causes ''everyone'' in New York to turn into a UngratefulBastard.
** This is lampshaded by Batroc the Leaper in "The Incredible Spider-Hulk":
--->'''Batroc:''' "''I'm'' the one who robbed the bank, yet ''you're'' the one they all hate.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Aunt May has [[TookALevelInBadass Taken a Level in Badass]]. She is a tech at work, does yoga, and bowls; not your typical frail and helpless doting old lady. She even beats her nephew in a superhero fighting game.
* NeverSayDie:
** Danced around in some cases, averted in others as Spidey ruminates on dying within moments of joining S.H.I.E.L.D.
** "Kraven the Hunter" is almost reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' in how obvious this is. [[spoiler:Ava's father was killed by Kraven]], and yet the only time, despite discussing it very often, anyone says anything along the lines of die or kill is in a throwaway joke.
--->'''Peter:''' I bet you guys would kill in Vegas.
** Deadpool lampshades the heck out of this, when he has to use a HurricaneOfEuphemisms instead of "kill" due to a verbal tic (his favorite being "[[UnusualEuphemism unalive]]")... and then Spidey says "Wait, you mean KILL them?!"
** Norman Osborn says "I have you now... Die, Peter Parker! Die!" in the opening to ''Second Chance Hero''... he's talking about [[{{Pun}} game dice]].
** Played with when Peter goes to the world where Miles Morales is Spider-Man. After spending a solid minute stuttering nervously around the word "dead," (i.e., a string of lines like, "I thought you were d--! Are you a ghost? Peter Parker is d--!") Miles takes Peter to his own gravestone and says that the Peter of his world sacrificed himself.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero
** The team manages to lead a whole cadre of Doombots right onto the SHIELD Heli-carrier.
** Sam Alexander does some damage to Harry and Peter's relationship with a thoughtless comment about Harry's wealth.
** And again in "Snow Day", he causes Sandman to escape by picking his island prison as a place for vacations;
** An episode has Spider-Man accidentally giving ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's shield to Doctor Doom.
** "The Symbiote Saga Part 1." Spider-man and Agent Venom have to deal with the 2nd incarnation of Carnage, a symbiote capable of independent function without a host. They manage to blow it up with a double sonic attack...only to realize too late that this was what it wanted, as its pieces are able to take over the people of New York.
* NoHuggingNoKissing: The show avoid completely every form of teen romance. WordOfGod Loeb established "Our show lives in a world that is pre-romance".
* NoodleIncident: In the episode "Burrito Run", Spider-Man is against Squirrel Girl taking her squirrels into town, mentioning a "pistachio incident".
* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Harry while his father stares at a Spider-Man newscast.
-->'''Harry:''' ...and I thought I'd move to the sewers and train albino alligators for the circus. ''({{beat}})'' [[SarcasmMode ...Father of the year.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Hey, look! Nick Fury and Iron Man! What do you think they may be talking about? Top-level national security issues, perhaps? Not exactly... Stark is detailing the women that he took to his bed.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Spidey says this about him and Hulk, since people also call Hulk a menace even though he's trying to do the right thing.
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus ''loses it'' in "Why I Hate Gym", where, after being told that Spider-Man isn't at a High School, he starts ''destroying his own lab in rage''. He spends "Me Time" in a more or less continuous state of UnstoppableRage.]]
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the team meets Dr. Doom.
* NotWearingPantsDream: "Attack of the Synthezoids" begins with Peter Parker dreaming that he goes to school in his Spider-Man costume. He then looks down to see that he's missing his costume's pants and that his underwear is exposed for all to see.
* OhCrap: Spidey, after having been captured by Doctor Octopus, is rather distraught when Fury manages to track him down and tells him that he's deep under the East River. Even ''Fury'' seemed surprised.
** The expression on the team's faces when the Beetle reveals his armor carries more missiles than some ''warships'' counts also. Cue Nova yelling that five against one wasn't enough to beat him.
** Taskmaster does this when Spidey mentions Deadpool was with him.
** Spidey does this when Nick Fury knows his secret identity.
** Loki goes from gloating to this in "Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man" [[spoiler: after he captures Nord Stone in mid air and he belatedly realizes what that means for him.]]
* OneSteveLimit:
** Franchise/SpiderMan a.k.a. Peter Parker and The Trapster a.k.a. [[UnfortunateNames Paste-Pot Pete]] or Peter Petruski. They got around it by never having The Trapster called by any of his other names.
** To get around Peter and Miles both having the hero name of "Spider-Man", the latter adopts the moniker of "Kid Arachnid".
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou:
** [[spoiler:Taskmaster lies to Doctor Octopus about Spider-Man's connection to the school so he can have another crack at the wall crawler.]]
** Ultimate Green Goblin won't like it if somebody else defeats his universe's Spider-Man.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: [[WingedHumanoid Ultimate Green Goblin]] thinks the Goblin is a weakling and proves it by [[CurbStompBattle easily defeating him]].
* OutOfCharacterMoment: In "Back in Black", Jonah J. Jameson suddenly starts supporting Black Spider-Man for no apparent reason when he shows up, despite the character being well-known to hate ''all'' costumed heroes.
** He does it again in "I Am Spider-Man" where he ''praises the musical version of Spider-Man.'' Now he's just coming off as a major hypocrite.
* OutOfFocus: While they're still around, Power Man, Iron Fist, White Tiger and Nova are far less prominent from Season 3 onwards.
* PardonMyKlingon / UnusualEuphemism: Spidey resorts to one when a sizable chunk of the Osborn penthouse falls toward Harry and [=MJ=]
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Awww, ''schnitzel''.
* {{Patricide}}: Harry as Venom, attempts to do this in "Carnage" only to be talked out of it by Peter.
** He attempted it earlier in "Venomous," by throwing Norman out of a window. Spidey had to jump in and save him.
* PetTheDog: Norman Osborn actually seems kind of angry that the Frightful Four attacked the school, showing what looks to be legitimate concern for his son.
** In a similar vein, at the end of "Carnage", the Goblin is about to make his escape with a kidnapped Harry in tow (Harry as Venom having kicked the Goblin's ass before [[HeroicWillpower overpowering the symbiote and reigning it in]]). Suddenly, he stops short, pulls Harry close to his eerily serious face, says his father would be proud, [[BaitTheDog and drops him.]]
* PhraseCatcher: "Thwipp Thwipp!" Said to Spider-Man and Peter Parker.
* PlayingPossum: Spidey does this in his second battle against the Frightful Four.
* PowerCopying: Taskmaster
* PowerGlows: Nova/Sam, at least when he is in flight and Iron Fist's hands glows when he is using his chi.
* PoweredArmor: Doctor Doom and ComicBook/IronMan. Also, Spider-Man in the Iron Spider armor Iron Man gave him.
* PromptingNudge: In the second episode, Luke Cage nudges Sam Alexander so he can introduce himself.
* PsychologicalTormentZone: Nightmare catches the whole world in one so he can feed off the energy of their bad dreams. Comicbook/DoctorStrange, Iron Fist, and Spidey are briefly caught up in it too but manage to get free.
* PullARabbitOutOfMyHat: The closing gag of "Strange". Poor Nova...
* PunchClockVillain: The Asgardian Hunters weren't too bad when they heard the horn and saw sunset at "Run Pig Run": those were the signs the Asgardian Boar Hunt was over--and Peter, magicked into Spider-Ham thanks to Loki, didn't need to worry about becoming their dinner.
* PutOnABus: Coulson is effectively written out of the show in Season 3. Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are brought in to replace him in Season 4.
* RaceLift:
** Scorpio is black like his older brother, Nick Fury. While Fury was always black in the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate comics]], his brother had never been shown in them.
** The Scorpion in the original comics was a white guy named Mac Gargan. In the TV show, Scorpion is instead from K'un L'un, the Tibetan city where Iron Fist received his training.
** Arcade, who is a redheaded white guy in the comics, is an Asian teenager from the fictitious country of Madripoor in the show.
** In the ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' comics, Spider-Punk is an alternate version of the African-American Hobie Brown. During his brief appearance in "Return to the Spider-Verse, Part Four", Spider-Punk, while not unmasked, is voiced by Creator/DrakeBell using a British accent, implying that this version is a British counterpart of Peter Parker.
* RecordNeedleScratch: The whole party at Harry's stops this way when Sam says, "Tell me you rented a lion!"
* RelaxOVision: Employed several times in the episode "Freaky," including instances of "Wolverine" stabbing himself with his claws, and "Peter" giving Flash Thompson a well-deserved pummeling. [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6wpsmVT0w1qh8rq6o1_500.jpg]]
* {{Retirony}}: Parodied. A Doombot in "Doomed!" says "three days 'til retirement" after he's slashed by White Tiger.
* {{Revenge}}: Played for laughs. Marvel released a trailer for a later episode in which Loki comes to New York in order to exact his revenge on Spidey for defeating him. He tricks Spidey into eating an enchanted hot dog that turns him into a pig -- otherwise known as the Spectacular Spider-Ham.
** Played for drama with Aya intent on [[spoiler:avenging her father's murder at Kraven's hands.]]
* TheRival: Nova and Spider-Man constantly bicker over who will lead the team, even though Spidey has more experience (a whole year).
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Curiously, as of the first dozen episodes or so, the series seems to be mostly avoiding classic Spider-Man antagonists with the exception of Venom (minus Eddie Brock) and Doctor Octopus. Spider-Man has taken on the Frightful Four (Wizard, Trapster, Thundra and Klaw), Doctor Doom, Living Laser, Batroc the Leaper, Taskmaster, Zzzax, Loki, Mesmero, Sabertooth , The Wrecking Crew and Whirlwind for example.
** In turn, Spidey villains like Kraven the Hunter and Scorpion are made into archenemies of White Tiger and Iron Fist, respectively.
* RookieRedRanger: [[PlayingWithATrope Toyed with.]] Spidey is the newest member of SHIELD and lacks the others' discipline, but he's been a hero longer and has first-hand experience in how to act when fighting threats.
* RuleOfCool: The Spider-Cycle. Though Spidey didn't like it at first.
* RuleSixtyThree: In ''The Spider-Verse'', Spider-Girl's universe.
* RunningGag:
** Spidey runs out of webbing at the ''worst'' possible moment.
** J. Jonah Jameson tirading on jumbotrons in the background of any episode. Said jumbotron is usually damaged or completely destroyed by the end of whatever fight occurs.
** RuleOfThree with the "Flag on the joke!" Chibi Spidey Referee bit in "Me Time".
** "Flash! You'd better run, this is gonna get messy!" is said by Spidey, and the next scene has Flash breaking out in a run (GenreSavvy Spidey seems to know wherever Spidey goes, Flash probably got there first).
** Spiders aren't bugs! They're arachnids!
* SaveTheVillain: In "Me Time".
** Spidey pulls this a bunch of times. "Journey of the Iron Fist," Spidey saves Scorpion from being buried in gold. In the series finale, he cures Doc Ock from his rash transformation into a giant octopus monster.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: "Thwipp Thwipp!"
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqcMrukEt_M "Pew-Pew guns! Oh, I love Pew-Pew guns!"]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After New York turns on him for a reward, and being forced to study while his team gets to have fun with the message of "Team leaders don't get to have fun." ringing in his ear. Spidey decides to move his heroing to Boston where he will be respected.
* SealedEvilInACan: Doctor Strange traps Nightmare in box with an EldritchAbomination in it.
* SecretIdentity: Peter, Danny, Luke, Ava, and Sam.
** Peter even endures being StuffedIntoALocker by Flash Thompson on a regular basis to help preserve his.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] ''again'' by Spidey, as [=MJ=] offers to tell his side of the story against Jameson's "menace!" tirades. (See ImagineSpot).
** And yet again as Peter ponders Harry revealing to him that he's the new "Black Suit Spider-Man"... and why it's a terrible idea to reveal his true identity.
* SecretSecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Aunt May]] reveals that [[spoiler:she always knew her nephew was Spider-Man]] when he orders her to evacuate from Grandmaster's lair. She is ready to throw down to [[spoiler:protect Peter. Spider-Man tells her he needs to do this, and promises he'll make it home safely]].
* SeriesFauxnale: The 4-part "Contest of Champions" arc was written with the knowledge that it would likely be the end of the show, so the creators tried to make it serve as a fitting conclusion to the series. Before it even aired, the show was unexpectedly picked up for one more season by Disney XD.
* ShipTease: Peter and Ava in "Kraven the Hunter" , especially the hug near the end. Maybe even as far back as ''I Hate Gym'' when she admitted his improvising worked and even admitted she had fun using his web-shooters when they were tag-teaming Taskmaster.
* ShockAndAwe
** Spidey has ''electro-webbing'' that, when grounded against metal, forms a high voltage circuit that effectively fries foes. Unfortunately, Spidey himself is part of the circuit and gets the shock as well.
** White Tiger later gains electric claws.
* ShoutOut
** In the ColdOpen for "Venom" we get a very ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''-esque recapping of Spidey's adventures with the robots of the Marvel Universe.
** Peter tells Osborn that maybe Spider-Man sits close to him in Spanish class. Cue to Spidey singing "Donde esta la biblioteca" from ''Series/{{Community}}''.
** In "Iron Spider," the dance Spidey does with the two-legged mecha in Iron Man's lab recalls the Cat's dance with the Blue Midget lander in ''Series/RedDwarf''
** In ''Me Time'', when Peter discovers Fury has been spying on him he performs a SkywardScream that pans out to show the planet, a [[BeamMeUpScotty parody of Kirk's scream]] from ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. When taunting Octavius later in the episode, he uses Bugs Bunny's catchphrase "What's up, Doc?"
** In "For Your Eye Only", there is a ''Film/JamesBond'' riff involving Spidey in a tuxedo on a snowboard.
*** Fury's magic number is "007" and the "Doctor Octopussy" title card at the end of the episode.
** Spider-Man falls into the trash compactor of the SHIELD Helicarrier.
--->'''Spider-Man:''' [[Film/ANewHope What a wonderful smell I've discovered!]]
** And Spider-Man mutters sarcastically to himself in the air vents, à la ''Film/DieHard''
** The use of the scare cord during "Snow Day" seemed [[Series/{{Lost}} awfully familiar...]]
** In "Spidah-Man" , the city of Boston provides Spidey with a gadget-filled cave, [[TheJeeves an English butler]], a [[ThemeMobile Spider-Mobile]], and even an eager KidSidekick. [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Three guesses as to who these Shout Outs are aimed at]].
** ''The Itsy-Bitsy Spider-Man'' has J Jonah Jameson airing an interview in response to accusations of the Bugle not being [[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Fair and Balanced]] about Spider-Man.
** In "Guardians of the Galaxy", Spider-Man quotes Daffy Duck's Robin Hood short as Rocket Raccoon tries to evade enemy lasers.
*** The same episode has a cutaway gag parodying the training sequence from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', with Nova and Rocket Raccoon standing in for Luke Skywalker and Yoda.
*** Let's not forget Rocket, [[WesternAnimation/SwatKats an animal-like alien who fights villains in a red and blue uniform, shouting "Let's kick some tail!"]]
** In "Game Over" Spidey, Cap and Wolverine face off against [[MirrorMatch LMD Doppelgangers]] of themselves, when they are about to square off the "Versus" image is ''a lot'' like VideoGame/CapcomVs; the doubles are even a lighter shade of PaletteSwap.
*** The VS screen returns in "The Avenging Spider-Man," this time with Spidey actually using moves lifted straight from his ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' appearances. He's even seen standing in [[PrimalStance his fighting stance from the games]] after defeating Attuma.
** From "Ultimate Deadpool":
--->'''Deadpool''': [[YouCantHandleTheParody You]] [[Film/AFewGoodMen can't handle the truth]]!
*** The Marvel vs Capcom references return with Spidey literally throwing the book at Deadpool, resulting in a "MASSIVE MORALITY KO"
** In "Awesome" Spidey steals the Awesome Android from a SHIELD lab to pass off as his science fair invention. Among the items he passed on stealing are the Ultimate Nullifier ("too tiny"), the Cosmic Cube ("too bright"), and Howard the Duck ("too weird!").
** From "The Avenging Spider-Man":
--->'''Spider-Man''': "You treat all your new members like this?"
--->'''Tony''': "[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Yes. Yes we do]]."
** The ''T. rex'' in "Savage Spider-Man" has the iconic roars from ''Film/JurassicPark''.
** The second half of ''Spider-Verse'' Episode 2 is a love-letter to Warner Bros. WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes. Spider-Man in channels WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, smooching the Goblin and calling himself "wascally". Peter Porker/Spider-Ham sounding like Porky Pig. Spider-Man ends his fight with Goblin with "That's all folks".
*** After getting a sample of Peter Porker's DNA, Goblin says "[[Film/{{Babe}} That'll do, pig. That'll do.]]"
*** A trio of talking crows reference ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' ("Did we just see a Spider-Monkey fly? Now I've seen everything!") and then [[MediumAwareness burst into laughter at the joke]].
*** Also references "Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs": "Not by the hairs of my chiny-chin-chin" (which Goblin did just that) and J. Jonah Jackal resembles more of a wolf (a la TheBigBadWolf).
** In ''Spider-Verse'' Episode 3, when Spyder-Knight corrects his pronunciation of kraken, Spidey grumbles that "Unleash the Kray-ken!" [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010 doesn't sound right]].
** At the end of Episode 4, Spider-Ham is framed by the dimensional portal as he waves good-bye to Spidey; he looks like Porky Pig saying "That's All, Folks!".
*** Spidey's response: That's [[Literature/CharlottesWeb "some pig"]]
** In "Return to the Spider-Verse Part 2", one of the Spideys showcased looks remarkably like Manga/GetterRobo.
** The episode "Nightmare on Christmas" is just one word different from a certain [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas cult-classic Disney film]].
* SickEpisode: "Back in Black." Somehow Spidey also manages to fight off Venom and Dragon Man while sick.
** There's also an episode whereupon Spidey is trying to care for an injured Aunt May and a sick Hulk at the same time.
* SmugSnake: The Wizard, he's cocky and arrogant in both fights against Spidey, but he loses his cool when Spidey turns the table on the Frightful Four, especially in the second fight, where his team loses the numbers advantage.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Spider-Man and Hawkeye's episode together is nothing but this trope.
* SoreLoser: Upon losing a game of virtual chess against Spider-Man, Nick Fury responds by placing a miniature explosive on the game board. Then casually walks out of the room as it explodes in Spidey's face.
* SplitScreen: OnceAnEpisode or more.
* SquashedFlat: Invoked in Spidey's ImagineSpot in "Hydra Attacks" when he pictures the Tri-Carrier walls closing in on him.
* {{Squee}}: Spidey's reaction to seeing Iron Man show up after taking out the Living Laser. Chibi Iron Man Cupids float around Spidey's head, complete with HeartSymbol.
* TheStarscream: Doctor Octopus to Norman Osborn. It fails because Norman as Goblin keeps turning against Ock.
* StateSec: ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}. Officially it is an intelligence agency but it has it's own private army, navy and air force that operates outside the regular military's chain of command. It also controls several teams of superheroes and has multiple R&D labs working on various projects.
* StealthHiBye: Fury makes his entrance in the first episode. Bonus points for using the Helicarrier as a distraction.
* StickySituation: Pretty much the Trapster's shtick.
* StockParody: "For Your Eyes Only" utilizes a lot of ''James Bond'' references. Despite the episode really being DieHardOnAnX. However, it ''did'' have more of Nick Fury in action than any other episode to date.
* StockScream: "Itsy-Bitsy Spider-Man" has one of S.H.I.E.L.D's agents pull this when thrown by the Destroyer.
* StuffedIntoALocker: By Flash Thompson. But Peter takes any chance he can get to turn the tables and stick Flash in the locker. Inverted in ''Symbiote Saga Part 3'', when Flash [[spoiler:as Agent Venom]] gets stuffed into a locker himself by a bunch of Carnage symbiotes.
-->'''Flash:''' Aw, I probably deserve this.
* SuperStrength: Luke Cage (His name is ''Power'' Man, duh), Nova and Spider-Man all exhibit good examples of this. Nova was strong enough to prevent a hellicarrier from falling out the sky. Spider-Man himself seems somewhat stronger than in his previous animated incarnation. So far, he has caught a falling helicopter out the sky, thrown multiple cars with ease, and even kicked Sabretooth so hard that he sent the villain flying into a bus 50 feet away, which flipped over due to the impact.
* SurvivalMantra:
--> '''Spider-Man:''' I won't screw this up. I won't screw this up!
* SwissCheeseSecurity: A lot of the plots seem to require SHIELD to have abysmal security for either their prisoners or the dangerous items they have in storage. Usually coupled with at least one teenager with needlessly high clearance holding the IdiotBall. It gets to inexplicable levels when [[spoiler: the Taskmaster frees a bunch of inmates on the tricarrier and they all are somehow already in their powered combat armors.]]
* TalkingYourWayOut: Spider-Man explains to his teammates that Mary-Jane can't be stopped once she puts her mind to something, with various examples throughout their shared childhood. The last example has Galactus about to devour earth, only to be stopped by Mary-Jane explaining to him that the Earth's populace would pose a lot of health problems. [[spoiler:He than says it didn't happen, but it could have.]]
* TakeThat: The episode "Back in Black" features one in regards to Peter's public unmasking as Spider-Man during ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', immediately pointing out why such a thing is a ''bad idea''.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Agent Venom and Rhino. Scarlet Spider is this with everyone.
* TheBait: [[spoiler: Norman Osborn]] tricks Spidey into becoming this, so [[spoiler: Osborn]] can take down the Frightful Four. Spidey's not too happy when he figures out that he's been used as bait.
* [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife The Masquerade Will Ruin Your Friendship]]: Peter's constant ditching of Harry along with his inability to tell Harry the truth puts a considerable strain on their friendship. [[spoiler:Afterwards, Peter had no choice but to reveal his secret to save his life]].
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Spidey's notion before using his electro-webs for the first time -- on a tentacle-bot, while lying on electrified subway train tracks. As the subway is approaching.
-->'''Spidey:''' This will be pain.
** And again in The Beetle.
---> '''Spidey:''' This is going to hurt.
* TigerVersusDragon: White Tiger and Iron Fist, who has a dragon motif. White Tiger is a SpicyLatina ByTheBookCop, a total {{Tsundere}} who often stresses over following the rules and gets easily aggravated. Iron Fist is a [[TheStoic Stoic]] NiceGuy who never loses his cool and always just goes with the flow. However, they are both by far the most disciplined and responsible members of their team. It's never stated in the show, but in the comics, White Tiger's tiger amulet that gives her her powers is actually from K'un-L'un, where Iron Fist trained and gained his abilities.
* TimedMission: "Run Pig Run" is one: the hunters have until sundown to kill a transformed Spider-Man (who's now Spider-HAM) or everyone else to keep Peter alive.
* TitleDrop: "The Ultimate Spider-Man" is tossed around to refer to Spidey's hypothetical SHIELD-improved self. Text actually appears around him when Fury says it!
* ToBeContinued: Spidey himself says this word for word at the end of episode 1. Considering that it's a 2-parter, it makes sense.
* TooDumbToLive:
** In episode 3, Spidey and his team decide to disobey Fury and attempt to capture a powerful villain to show they are good. The target they choose? ''Doctor Doom''. And as if that wasn't enough, they go to attack him in the middle of Lavteria, without provocation. Needless to say, Doom quickly comes up with a {{plan}} to take advantage of the situation.
** Again in the first season finale, though with a case of IdiotBall, Spidey tried to tell his team to leave the puddle they are on as the Goblin is about to electrify them, but they just stay there, letting themselves to be electrified while Spidey manages to escape.
* TrackingDevice: Used by the Trapster on Spidey in the first episode to track him to his school. Spidey finds the bug in the armpit of his costume, and [[{{Flashback}} flashes back]] to how it must've gotten there.
* TrapMaster: The guy with the same name.
* {{Troll}}: Loki turning Spidey into a pig, setting a hunting party on him and then constantly dicking around with him as he attempts to escape - usually showing up briefly to troll him, then popping away.
* {{Troperiffic}}: The trope count went over ''seventy-five'' tropes represented before the second episode was finished. And there is no doubt the creative team is having a ball cramming as many tropes into the show as they can possibly get away with.
* TrueCompanions: Cemented in the season finale. Peter admits his friends are like his family, and by the end of the episode [[spoiler: the team are living together]]. Also, with his Web Warriors in Seasons 3-4.
* TruthInTelevision: In "[[ComicBook/DamageControl Damage]]" the fact that [[spoiler:the cameraman remained despite the danger reflects real world cameramen who continue filming no matter what.]]
* ATwinkleInTheSky: Peter has an ImagineSpot of slingshotting Flash Thompson until he ends up one of these.
* TwinkleSmile: Nova has one in Episode 2.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Someone driving a motorcycle up a building at a 90 degree angle? Doesn't bat an eye.
* VerySpecialEpisode: With "Rhino", about bullying.
* ViewersAreGoldfish: One of the primary criticisms of the show is that Peter's {{Imagine Spot}}s sometimes do exposition that's already been explained, or in worse cases, explaining things that people will probably already have noticed five seconds ago (an example of this is when Peter [[spoiler:finds out Harry is the new black Spider-Man, and after Harry hisses]], Peter promptly points it out to the audience). Though some of the cut-aways aren't intended to be informative, they're more the narration of an insecure teenager seeking validation. Peter Parker is regularly bullied over the science thing, so he's defensive about it.
* VillainEpisode: "Me Time" for Doctor Octopus.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: As in several other continuities, Norman Osborn takes a definite interest in both Peter and Spider-Man, sending the not-so-subtle message that he prefers Peter over his own son Harry.
* VoicesAreMental: Surprisingly averted. Spider-Man and Wolverine's body swap actually has them keep their body's [=VA=]s. This stays the case in "The Incredible Spider-Hulk" and "The Avenging Spider-Man". Steve Blum, Fred Tatasciore, Troy Baker and Drake Bell have lots of fun in the episodes in question.
* VomitDiscretionShot: As a result of The Hulk's SickEpisode where Spider-Man has to take care of him.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Peter, but also the other heroes, after Nick Fury gets the idea to send them to school with Peter. Later on, Peter goes to S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy under the guise of it being an advanced science program.
* WalkingArmory: Spider-Man tries to do this in "For Your Eyes Only", but couldn't walk.
** The Beetle however, plays it straight.
* WarriorPoet: Iron Fist
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: A RunningGag throughout "Freaky".
* WeCanRuleTogether: Taskmaster offers Spidey the chance to work with him over being brought to his employer because [[spoiler:he says that he also worked on a team lead by Fury before Fury double-crossed him.]] Spider-Man's subsequent ImagineSpot is of him in an apron and cleaning Taskmaster's lair as Taskmaster lazes about on the couch in a pair of boxers.
* WeirdCrossover: The Halloween ep with ''Series/{{Jessie}}'', largely due to the fact it's a crossover with a live-action series in animated form with characters who are far from superheroes. Plus honestly who was expecting that?
* WellDoneSonGuy: Harry Osborn, as in most Spidey-continuities.
* WhamEpisode: The two part season finale. After a whole season of dancing around it, [[spoiler: ComicBook/NormanOsborn finally becomes the Green Goblin as a result of a fusion of both Spider-Man's blood and the Venom compound. At first driven crazy, he regains his sanity, and seeks to revert his son to Venom. While he fails, a ton of shakeups to the Status Quo happen. Dr. Octopus leaves his services forever, the SHIELD Helicarrier is destroyed (for now), Harry loses the Venom symbiote which Norman takes a sample of, Dr. Connors gets one of his arms crushed, Harry hears of how the Green Goblin came from Spider-man and vows revenge, Spider-Man realizes just how important having a team is, and finally, the rest of the SHIELD team moves in with Peter. Whew.]]
** "The Sinister Six" to a lesser extent. The Sinister Six is created, which test Peter's strength as a leader. In the end, the team does manage to work together and Spidey gets some CharacterDevelopment. However, the real WHAM is that, although Spider-Man and his team bring in five of the six, [[spoiler: Curt Connors fully becomes The Lizard and runs away, leaving Peter feeling helpless after he tried to save him]].
** In the vein of the "The Sinister Six", "Stan By Me" is another whammer in the Lizard arc. Can be summed up by a sole line by Spidey: [[spoiler: "Oh, no. The Lizard part of his brain changed it to drive out Connors? And I just helped!]] [[note]] The Lizard was building a machine that Spidey thought that the Connors part was building in order to drive out the Lizard, so Spidey and company subdue the Lizard and use the machine on him.[[/note]]
** [[spoiler: "The New Sinister 6, Part 1": Doctor Octopus not only completed his Sinister Six and steals an anti-HYDRA weapon, but reveals that he was really building a Sinister Seven. The worst part? The Scarlet Spider turns on Peter and reveals that he was the real mole for Ock, not Rhino.]]
* WhamLine: In the episode "Stan By Me", Spider-Man finds out that the Lizard is building a machine which Spidey believes that the Connors part of the Lizard built in order to drive out the Lizard. So, Spidey and company subdue the Lizard and use the machine on him. However...
--> [[spoiler: '''Spider-Man''': Why isn't it working?]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Lizard''': Working good. Erase Connors. Connors no more. Lizard forever!]]
** In the Vulture, the titular character is trying to find his past, flying toward the rising sun. And then...
---> [[spoiler: '''Taskmaster:''' Adrian.]]
** The season 3 finale has Aunt May deliver one when Spider-Man orders her to evacuate with the other civilians and she wants to find her nephew: [[spoiler: "Don't patronize me. I lost Ben; I won't lose you too, Peter]]!".
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Peter takes no issue with Star-Lord and the Guardians slaughtering a bunch of Chituari or leaving Korvac to die in his exploding ship.
** However in "Blade", he gives the [[Comicbook/{{Blade}} title character]] a WhatTheHellHero speech after seeing him kill a horde of vampires. Blade then explains that the vampires were humanoid drones conjured from shadows, meaning they were never alive to begin with.
* WhatTheHellHero: Spider-Man tells ComicBook/SquirrelGirl off after she stops the Juggernaut...and levels what looks like a city block in the process, as well as completely fails to restrain him.
* WheelOfDecisions: Peter's imagination gives him:
** Wheel of Excuses for what to tell his {{Muggle}} friends when duty as Spidey calls. It finally breaks in "Agent Venom".
** Wheel of Explanations shows up when Peter struggles to explain to Harry Osborn that his father Norman is "an evil mastermind", "his mind go crazy bye bye" and "a liar liar pants on fire". He ends up jumbling together the explanations he got from his head.
** Wheel of Bad News for when he needs to tell Harry that [[spoiler: Green Goblin has showed up in town and may be coming after Harry.]]
** Wheel of Responses for when Venom is back in town, and Fury believes that Spidey knows more than he's letting on.
* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Spidey admonishes Loki for breaking the doors to Odin's chamber.
* WildTeenParty: Harry throws one after feeling ignored by his father. It gets interrupted by the arrival of the Venom symbiote.
* YouAndWhatArmy: When ComicBook/SquirrelGirl confronts the Juggernaut and tells him that she's gonna stop him, he asks this question. Only to find out that she ''does'' have an army...of squirrels.
* YourWorstNightmare: "Strange", featuring (appropriately) Nightmare, lets us see the worst fears of the main cast. White Tiger fears unexpected final exams and failing class; Power Man fears being too weak to save innocents or his teammates; Iron Fist fears losing his Iron Fist power because he subconsciously believes he is unworthy; Nova fears... bunnies? Naturally, Spidey [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat takes advantage of this last one]].
** Spider-Man is immune to this spell because his worst fear is [[spoiler: refusing to take responsibility for his powers and allowing Uncle Ben to die. He lives with his worst nightmare daily, and accepts the responsibility of Uncle Ben's death, so all manifesting it does is allow Peter to have a friendly chat with his beloved uncle.]]
* YouWontFeelAThing: In "The Iron Octopus":
-->'''Doc Ock:''' This won't hurt...for long.
** And again in "Ultimate", courtesy of [[spoiler: A Goblin-fied Nova]].
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Peter Parker has been Spider-Man for one year when ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} sits up and takes notice. ComicBook/NickFury invites him to be professionally trained in superheroics, alongside other young heroes: [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], [[ComicBook/LukeCage Power Man]], ComicBook/{{Nova}}, and ComicBook/WhiteTiger. With SHIELD's experience and resources backing him, Peter might just become the ''Ultimate'' Spider-Man!

[[caption-width-right:350:Spider-Man and his [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends Amazi]]-- er, Ultimate Friends [[labelnote:cast]][[ComicBook/WhiteTiger White]] [[ActionGirl Tiger]], [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Power]] [[TheBigGuy Man]], [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} No]][[DeadpanSnarker va]], [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron]] [[TheStoic Fist]][[/labelnote]]]]

Peter Parker has been Spider-Man for one year when ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} sits up and takes notice. ComicBook/NickFury invites him to be professionally trained in superheroics, alongside other young heroes: [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Power Man]], ComicBook/{{Nova}}, and ComicBook/WhiteTiger. With SHIELD's experience and resources backing him, Peter might just become the ''Ultimate'' Spider-Man!

* NotSoDifferent: Spidey says this about him and Hulk, since people also call Hulk a menace even though he's trying to do the right thing.