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The most recent animated take on MarvelComics' [[{{Spider-Man}} web-slinging superhero]], headed by Greg Weisman of ''{{Gargoyles}}'' fame. The series follows 16-year-old Peter Parker through his Junior year of high school, after getting his powers at the end of the previous year and spending all summer as Spider-Man.

The series' biggest influences come from the early comic stories by StanLee & SteveDitko, although numerous elements from [[{{Film/Spider-Man}} the film series]] and more recent comics have made their way in as well. Combined with fluid animation thanks to the simple art style of artist [[http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/ Sean "Cheeks" Galloway]], sharp dialogue, interwoven character origins and a pleasing lack of its [[SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries predecessor's]] crippling censorship, it seems set to become the greatest AnimatedAdaptation of the character to date. A third season has yet to be picked up and, according to [[WordOfGod Greg Weisman]] himself, will depend on how well Disney XD's ratings with Season 2 are late in June.

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'''This show provides examples of, well, just about everything:'''

* AcademyOfAdventure - Midtown High, moreso in Season 2 than in Season 1. Also, Empire State University, though the fact that it's a school in addition to a research lab is barely brought up.
* AbnormalAmmo - Bazookas and machine guns that fire metal slugs which sprout tiny spikes, and giant staple guns complete with giant staples make the best of the show's prohibition on actual bullets.
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer - The New York sewer system is marvelously cavernous, used by Spidey and his RoguesGallery for fights and flights.
* AbusiveParents - Norman Osborn barely conceals [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent contempt]] for his son Harry, from [[CompassionateCritic snide criticisms]] to blatant displays of [[ParentalFavoritism favoritism]] towards Harry's ''best friend'' Peter. Harry's mother [[TheVoiceless barely acknowledges him]].
**[[spoiler:Osborn takes this to a whole new level after revealing that he was the Green Goblin, and showing that he not only blamed his son, ''but faked a limp and then injured his own son's leg to make sure Spider-man would believe it.'']]
*** The creepiest part is that, after all this, Norman claims it was all out of ''love'' for Harry, claiming that "he never would have learnt to become a man" without it. Wow...what a psycho.
**** It gets creepier due to Harry's angst at the end that... it's working.
* AccidentalAesop - Every time the show hands us a lesson about responsibility and the right thing in conjunction with Peter's keeping his identity secret, it ends up telling us that ''secret identities are a stupid idea and nothing good can ever come of them.'' Which is more or less true, if largely [[FantasticAesop inapplicable to our daily lives]].
** Then again, it never said it was talking about ''identities'' specifically when it comes to keeping secrets.
* AchillesHeel - The [[SuperStrength superstrong]] Rhino's [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman costume]] is [[NighInvulnerable tough]], but fused to his skin, so he only perspires from his exposed face. Spider-Man traps him in a [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer sewer]] steam-tunnel, which causes Rhino to overheat and collapse.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism - Harry Osborn snubs his old friends once he's InWithTheInCrowd.
* AdaptationDistillation - The series is already well-thought-of by comic fans.
* AdaptationDyeJob - Sally Avril goes from a brunette in the comic books to a blonde here. Also, Liz Allan, who was originally blonde, becomes a brunette (though this change is not restricted to hair color, in her case).
* AirVentEscape - [[InvertedTrope Black Cat uses it as an entrance.]]
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders - Peter asks TheLibby Sally Avril out, and later dates Liz Allan.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* AllJustADream - The fight with Venom at the start of "Blueprints".
* AlmostKiss - Peter and Gwen in "Identity Crisis"
** [[spoiler:and... *sigh* again, as of Final Curtain. They stop just in time to not betray their current significant others till they break-up with other.]]
* AmusementPark - Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus duke it out in the middle of Coney Island, causing chaos amongst the fairgoers.
* AndThisIsFor - Spider-Man delivers a particularly violent kick to Green Goblin for "making [him] [[SaveTheVillain protect]] [[BigBad Tombstone]]."
* AndZoidberg - "Yes gentlemen...''and Rhino''..."
* AnimatedAdaptation
* {{Animorphism}} - Curt Connors transforms into the Lizard
** Sha Shan has an ImagineSpot of Flash as the role of Nick Bottom, and how [[{{JerkAss}} perfect]] [[{{Incredibly Lame Pun}} he is for the role]]
**Also, Kraven the Hunter's mutation into a more feline-looking form
* TheAppleFallsFar - "Shear Strength" When Spidey has The Tinkerer perched on top a tall building we get to see Tinkerer's glasses fall
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* AppropriatedAppellation - Many.
* ArtificialLimbs - Curt Connors' elaborate prosthetic arm, Doctor Octopus' robotic arms
* AsideGlance - After Spider-Man repeats Tombstone's dialogue verbatim, Green Goblin turns to the camera and quips, "Anyone else getting ''deja vu?'' Oh well, let's run with it!" and then repeats his response.
* AuctionOfEvil "Accomplices"
* AuthorAppeal - Anyone who's seen ''{{Gargoyles}}'' knows that Weisman loves his [[WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]; and it's worked its way into Spidey's season 2 as well. Especially "Growing Pains" and "Opening Night", which use the play's auditions and performance, respectively, to throw in appropriate quotes whenever possible:
-->'''Sha Shan:''' ''(shown right after Venom appeared)'' Why strewest thou sugar on that bottled spider, whose deadly web ensnareth thee about? Fool, fool! The day will come to curse this venomous bunchback toad!
* BadAss - Venom and Kraven
** And Tombstone, who may or may not be a BadassNormal.
* BadassBookworm - Doctor Octopus
* BadassBystander - When the Lizard is about to bite Spidey's head off in a subway train, some old lady hits him (the Lizard) on the head with her purse.
* BadassGrandpa - The Vulture, sort of-he's dangerous because of his outfit, not any inherent ability.
* BadassLongcoat - Doctor Octopus
* BadassNormal - Black Cat presumably, and George Stacy. Season 2 gives us Sergei Kravinov (Kraven [[{{Animorphism}} before his tranformation]]) and Silver Sable
* BadGuyBar - Montana's Big Sky Billard Room
* BaitAndSwitch - Kingsley in "Accomplices". He even uses the phrase.
** The Green Goblin's Identity is also handled in such a manner.
* BarrierWarrior - This is a secondary function of Shocker's [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman costume]], that enables him to survive a building's collapse.
* BatSignal - [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. As in the SilverAge, Spider-Man uses the Spider-Signal to announce his arrival.
* BatmanColdOpen - Frequently
* BattleButler - Hammerhead's Driver
* BerserkButton - Calling Electro his real name, "Max"
* BewareTheNiceOnes - Otto Octavius
* {{BFG}} - Silver Sable uses one.
* BigApplesauce
* BigBad - Tombstone, Green Goblin, Venom/the Symbiote, or Dr. Octopus, depending on the StoryArc.
* BigEater - Kenny Kong
* BigNo - The Sandman, on seeing his new form. Spider-Man, several times: getting trussed up and threatened by Venom; when it looks like he's accidentally dropped Gwen to her death... and ''again'' in the Season 2 premiere when Venom tosses Spider-Man off a ledge in his dream (Seems like Venom loves this trope).
* BilingualBonus - Speaking Latin allows you to know that some of Mysterio's ominous intonations are actually MC Hammer lyrics.
* BitterSweetEnding - Of course, if there's a Season 3 then this doesn't apply as much. But Season 2's ending took the universe's directive to screw Peter over at every turn and ran with it so fast it mocked the {{Flash}}. [[spoiler: Congrats, Spidey, you finally defeated the biggest baddie of them all. Only a) you had to traumatize your best friend to do it and pretty much black spot Spider-Man forever for him as a result (Which will likely drive him into becoming the new Green Goblin), b) You don't have a girlfriend to show for it (and on top of that, Gwen is going to be utterly miserable as a result of feeling sorry for the manipulative Harry..), and c) You didn't really defeat the Goblin because Norman Osborn still lives.]]
* BlackBestFriend - Rand Robertson to Flash Thompson
* {{Blackmail}} - Green Goblin unsuccessfully attempts this twice with L. Thompson Lincoln, threatening to [[SecretIdentity out him]] as Tombstone if he won't step down as The Big Man, or won't come to the Goblin's DeathCourse.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands - The Green Goblin's {{mooks}} shoot a [[FrickinLaserBeams laser]] [[WhereDidTheyGetLasers rifle]] out of HeroicBystander - John Jameson's hands.
* BlessedWithSuck - Electro is [[PowerIncontinence Power Incontinent]], when angry, [[PsychoElectro which is often]]. He has to wear an insulation suit at all times.
* TheBlob - The Sandman
* BloodyBiometric - Black Cat hacks a fingerprint scanning lock
* BookEnds - In the first episode "Tell me there's something better. Go ahead, try."
** Season 2's usage of "Don't apologize. I never do."
* BriarPatching -- Used and referenced during one of Spidey's fights with Shocker.
* BriefAccentImitation - Spider-Man mocks Shocker in this way.
* BrokenBad - Electro and especially John Jameson
* TheBrute - Hammerhead, the Sandman, the Rhino
* BurningBuildingRescue - Colonel Jupiter's first attempt at heroics.
* ByWallThatIsHoley - A hole in the bleachers is quite handy when Venom throws them around
* CakeEater - Peter very publicly proclaims his interest in twenty-year-old Betty Brant, and plays the DoggedNiceGuy to pressure her to be his date for the HighSchoolDance, only to be thwarted by Aunt May.
* CandidCameraPrank - When Ned asks Aunt May if Peter is Spider-Man, she looks for a hidden camera and [[IsThisAJoke asks if she's being "Punked"]]
**[[TheCameo Stan the Dockworker]] has a similar line when Mysterio first appears.
* CainAndAbel - Peter and Eddie, though not blood relatives, fit this nonetheless.
* TheCameo - Stan Lee as "Stan" the Dockworker in Season 2. Character Designer [[http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/ Sean Galloway]] also appears at a DJ at the dance in Season 1.
* CannotSpitItOut - Gwen's crush on Peter is a secret to him, and almost everybody else, except Mary Jane and the audience, if they've read the comics.
* CanonForeigner - In Season 2, Aaron Warren; Mayor Waters is a female version of the male mayor with the same name in the comic "Spider-Man: Reign"
* CareerKillers - The mercenary Enforcers, Shocker
* CarFu - Hammerhead's driver likes to practice it against Silver Sable.
* CasualDangerDialog
* CardCarryingVillain - Doc Ock drinks out of an Evil Genius coffee mug
* CeilingCling - Spider-Man, Black Cat
* ChannelHop - Moved to [[ToonDisney Disney]] [[XtremeKoolLetterz XD]] from [=CW4Kids=] in March.
* CharacterDevelopment - Much. Flash Thompson seems to be getting a fair bit.
** In this show, it seems even the ''villains'' have character development moments.
* ChairReveal - Tombstone; Green Goblin pulls this ''on'' Tombstone in Tombstone's office
* CheckPlease - Said by Doc Ock, to a waiter who, fortunately for him, knows better than to respond with anything other than "It's on the house".
* ChekhovsGun - Connors' formula, seen in the first episode, and later, the [[PowerNullifier gene cleanser antidote]] Peter hides in his room. The latter was a subversion, as he eventually decides to just pour it down the drain.
** Last one is played straight again later, as Venom attempts to use the Gene Cleanser to [[BroughtDownToNormal strip Spiderman of his powers]], only for Spidey to turn it back around, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using the formula to weaken the symbiote and force it off of Brock]].
* ChekhovsGunman - Most of the series [[EarlyBirdCameo early bird cameos]] function this way, as ostensibly tertiary characters soon become very important.
* ChestInsignia - Spider-Man's spider
* ChewbaccaDefense - Venom's attempt to out Spidey as Peter Parker in "Identity Crisis"
* ChickMagnet - Peter. With Gwen, Liz, Betty, and of course MJ around, it's a {{shipping}} [[strike:goldmine]]minefield. (Cf "[[FanNickName BITCHES LOVE SPIDER-MAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES]]").
** This seems to bother Flash and Sally (concerning her friend Liz).
* ChristmasEpisode
* CivvieSpandex - Doctor Octopus tops his [[ArtificialLimbs harness]] and jumpsuit with an ordinary [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoat]].
* CityOfAdventure
* ClassyCatBurglar - The Black Cat
* ClearMyName - Spider-Man must do this when MasterOfDisguise the Chameleon [[CostumeCopycat impersonates]] him for a series of robberies; then again when Venom returns and tries to ruin his reputation.
* CliffHanger - Big one in "Growing Pains" when Venom [[SuperWindowJump bursts through the window]] of the Bugle and tells Jameson (and in front of Pete):
--> '''Venom''': "You want the wall-crawler? Than here's a scoop - Peter Parker is Spider-Man!"
* ClipShow - "Intervention" contains a lot of archival footage
* CloserToEarth - Of the series' ThreeAmigos, it is Gwen who is most observant and concerned for Harry.
* ClothingDamage - Spidey's suit receives more rips and tears per episode than in any other adaptation. Despite the strong continuity of the series, [[{{Snapback}} it's always good as new by the next battle]]. Although Pete has noted that garbage stink and smoke smell are hard to remove.
* TheCollectorOfTheStrange - Norman Osborn collects masks and other such antiquities. Spidey even briefly considers that his strange collection might be evidence of Norman being the Green Goblin.
* ColorCharacter - Green Goblin, Black Cat, Silver Sable.
* CombatTentacles - Doctor Octopus' [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four]] [[SuperStrength super strong]] [[ArtificialLimbs arms]] are used for battering and throwing, and the claws can rotate like miniature sawblades.
* ComeAlone - Green Goblin's warning when baiting Tombstone into a DeathCourse
* ComesGreatInsanity - Electro, Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin. Also a heroic example: John Jameson/"Colonel Jupiter"
* ComesGreatResponsibility - Spider-Man. The phrase itself is uttered multiple times throughout the series, which is expected since [[TropeNamer it's near synonymous with the franchise]].
** Sometimes, it's even subverted:
--> '''Sandman''': [Talking with Spider-Man in the middle of a fight] Gee, you really think I can do some good?
--> '''Spider-Man''': Well, yeah, I mean with great power comes gr--
--> '''Sandman''': ''Gullibility''!! [sucker punches Spidey]
* CompassionateCritic - Norman Osborn towards his son
* CompilationMovie - The first DVD release "Attack of the Lizard", contains the first three episodes but is advertised as a movie. The other arcs were originally supposed to follow suit, but this idea was eventually scrapped.
* CompleteMonster - [[spoiler:Norman Osborn, otherwise known as the Green Goblin. He completely framed his own son, even ''twisting Harry's ankle'', to throw Spider-Man off his track. [[MagnificentBastard God... damn]]]]
* CompositeCharacter - Montana of the Enforcers and the Shocker (originally Herman Schultz in the comics) are now a single character.
** Tombstone is taking the role of the Kingpin from the comics. Quite possibly because the Kingpin's legally attached to unoptioned Daredevil projects that will likely never see the light of day much like its main character.
*** For that matter, People call him ''the Big Man'' on the show while Big Man was a completely different character in the comics.
** Hammerhead combines aspects of the original comics' Hammerhead and Hammer Harrison of the Enforcers, the latter of which mostly comes through from the punching-based fighting style and distinctive knuckledusters.
** Mark Allen is Mark Raxton and Bennett Brant, [[WordOfGod according to Weisman]].
** Gwen Stacy, having midlength blonde hair and glasses, looks as much like a teenage Deb Whitman as, well... Gwen Stacy, at least in season one. In season two she grows her hair out and starts wearing contact lenses; in that same season an actual Deb Whitman shows up, though unlike in the comics this Deb isn't a nervous wreck and has received a RaceLift.
* ConspicuousCG - The 3-D black helicopters tend to stick out against the bright, flat backgrounds and characters.
** The camera that goes down the stairs in "Group Therapy", kinda looks like something out of {{Doom}}
** And then there's the falling Christmas tree...
** And [[spoiler:the helicopter Harry Osborn is impressively adept at piloting...]]
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat - [[spoiler:Green Goblin]] in "Subtext"
* ContinuityNod - "Tell me I didn't fall for a gag I used on Shocker..."
** In "Gangland", we see the nerdy guy Spidey webbed up with a hot girl during a car chase in season 1 proposing to said girl.
** When Mysterio [[spoiler:is revealed to be another duplicate in Opening Night, Spidey grimaces "I KNEW he was a bot" after making sure the one he put in jail wasn't, well, a bot.]] That's {{irony}}.
** "I can't believe someone is posing as me, framing me, AGAIN! Please be Chameleon, please be Chameleon"
*** And in that same episode, Captain Stacy reminds Jonah what happened last time he jumped the gun when someone impersonated Spidey.
* ContestWinnerCameo - There was an advertised contest for a given school to appear in a future episode. Appeared in "Gangland".
* CorruptCorporateExecutive - Norman Osborn, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected]] Oscorp CEO, very much exemplifies this trope, working both sides of the fence with impunity. And in his own way, L. Thompson Lincoln/Tombstone.
* CostumeCopycat - Chameleon [[MasterOfDisguise disguises]] himself as Spider-Man to perform a series of robberies.
* CouldHaveBeenMessy
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome- in "Final Curtain", Spidey [[spoiler:takes on the Green Goblin, his ''mini-army of "Pumpkinheads"'' (armed to the brim with high-tech weapons, in fact), ''while going through a booby-trapped city street'',]] ''all by himself''. [[SoYeah Whoah...]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiR34__1VXU&feature=related Start at 6:50.]] The CMOF comes out of ''nowhere'', and during EVERY repeated watching this troper has burst into uncontrollable giggles. GAHHAHAHAHA!
**I don't get it.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Much of the later part of Intervention.
** And the ChristmasEpisode!
* CryingLittleKid - [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The child's ''mother'' pushes her out of harm's way, but remains in danger herself until Spider-Man swings to the rescue.
* CueCullen - The series gained a lot of fan support when Greg Weisman, the creator of ''{{Gargoyles}}'', was revealed to be handling the show.
* CurbStompBattle - Tombstone's first encounter with Spidey
* CurseCutShort
* CutLexLuthorACheck - [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Norman Osborn and the Big Man ''turn a profit'' by antagonizing Spider-Man. One gets research funding, while the other keeps Spidey too distracted by {{Supervillain}}s to bother with him.
** Mysterio and Tinker play it straight, though. Those RidiculouslyHumanRobots must cost a ton of money, and they would likely make them tons of profit legitimately. Green Goblin's squad of hover-tanks would also revolutionize warfare if he sold them to the government instead of giving them to gang-bangers.
* TheCyrano - Flash Thompson tries to get Peter to help him impress a girl immune to his JerkJock charms.
* DaEditor - [[IronicNickname "Jolly"]] J. Jonah Jameson
* TheDanza - StanLee as Stan the Dockworker.
* DarkActionGirl - Black Cat, Silver Sable
* DatingCatwoman - Spider-Man and the Black Cat
* DeadlyDodging - Spider-Man does this to cause Shocker to destroy a building, and again to get the Rhino to rupture sewer pipes. And ''constantly'' during the Sinister Six fight.
** Lampshaded in the first season finale when he tricks Venom into punching a float, causing it to slowly descend:
---> '''Spider-man''': (to Venom) "Now shouldn't y'all have seen that coming?"
** Subverted in the second season when [[DumbMuscle RHINO]], of all people, manages to make this backfire on him.
* DeadpanSnarker - Most of the characters have mild instances of this. Like always, Spidey is the '''king''' of [[{{DeadpanSnarker}} deadpan snarking]].
* DeathByOriginStory - Uncle Ben. [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready Come on!]]
* DeathCourse - Green Goblin sets up one of these for both Tombstone and Spider-Man at a refinery with NoOSHACompliance.
* DeathGlare - Gwen has "The Look", which has the same general effect.
* DefrostingIceQueen - [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders Cheerleader]] Liz Allan warms up to Peter.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome - The scenes in the JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind in ''Intervention'', including the SuperHeroOrigin FlashBack
* DestinedBystander - Nearly all the villains, as well as, probably, Gwen Stacy
* DingSportswearPantyhoseAndTropes: In "Reinforcements".
--> '''Mysterio''': "Second Floor - Toys, Housewares, Superhero Defeat."
* DiscoDan - Hammerhead is a walking throwback to Al Capone-era [[TheMafia gangsterism]], from his accent to his vintage car.
* DistressedDamsel - [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Spider-Man points out that Norman Osborn is his very first rescue of this type. Liz, Gwen, and Mary-Jane all get their moments too.
* DoIReallySoundLikeThat? - "Persona"
--> Chameleon Spider-Man - "How 'bout a taste of Spider-PUNCH!"
--> Spider-Man - "Please tell me I don't sound like that, or at least that I offer a higher-quality quip."
* DoggedNiceGuy - [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Betty Brant turns down Peter's advances after a talk with Aunt May.
* DontExplainTheJoke: "Reinforcements"
-->'''Spider-Man''': [Being knocked into a vehicle] Ohh! Anyone get the number of that sleigh?
-->'''Sandman''': [laughs] Ain't he a clever boy! [To Rhino] See, it's Christmas Eve and he said "sleigh". You know, instead of "truck"?
* DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime - Spidey tries appealing to seasonal spirit to stop the new Sinister Six. No such luck.
* DoubleEntendre - The show's favored method of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, like when Liz admires Peter's [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself Halloween costume]]:
-->'''Liz Allan:'''"You can web me up anytime, Petey."
---> '''Black Cat:''' ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Just don't get any of your goo in my hair]]''.
----> '''Black Cat:''' "If you're fed up enough with the thankless hero thing to match your image to mine, then I have to ask, are we going to bad guys together, partner ... or just plain bad?" ;)
* DramaticIrony - Peter sees Jameson is calling him and doesn't pick up his phone, presuming that he's just going to yell about not getting pictures; instead he's calling to let Peter know Aunt May had a heart attack.
** To those [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready who indeed knew this already,]] the implied dramatic irony of making us love her so was subverted by avoiding [[TheGwenStacy Gwen Stacy's arc.]]
* TheDragon - Hammerhead, right hand man to Tombstone.
** Silver Sable for her father Silvermane
** Electro and the Vulture both play this role to Doc Ock at varying times.
* DressedToKill - Hammerhead, Tombstone
* DropWhatYouAreDoing - Gwen Stacy drops her books in shock at finding Harry Osborn passed out cold on the ground.
* EarlyBirdCameo - So very many. The first episode alone introduces nearly a dozen pre-villainy {{supervillain}}s.
** It seems like every named character is a reference to the comics. WordOfGod confirms there will be no "original" characters in this series.
** Just to show TheProducerThinksOfEverything, the actor who runs the school play in season 2 was the one who called in May's heart attack in season 1.
* EatingLunchAlone - Gwen in "Intervention".
* EconomyCast - If an episode needs cops bursting into a scene, it's going to be Jean [=DeWolff=] and Stan Carter--a bit surprising, considering the show's surprisingly large cast.
* EliteMooks - Tombstone's bodyguards.
* EmbarrassingOldPhoto - Flash earned his nickname when he was four, [[{{If You Know What I Mean}} and it wasn't just because he was fast.]]
* EnemyMine - Spider-Man and Rhino extremely reluctantly team up in "Accomplices".
** Also, back in season 1, Tombstone and Spidey team up against the Green Goblin, with both saving the other's lives. Things return to normal between them afterwards though.
** Tombstone also does this when caught out in public with Doctor Octopus and Silvermane in a cybernetic exoskeleton, seeing as he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity he has to fight ''alongside'' Spider-Man until the cameras are no longer pointed at him..
* EnemyWithin - The Symbiote in "Intervention". After it fuses with Eddie Brock at the end of the same episode, they become...
** EnemyWithout - Venom
* EstablishingShot
* EvenEvilHasStandards - Doc Ock politely asks and waits for Aunt May and Anna Watson to excuse themselves from the upcoming brawl between the Sinister Six and Spidey, even halting Rhino as he tries to charge through them.
** That may be a nod to a brief storyline where Doc Ock tried to marry Aunt May in the comics.
* EverythingIsOnline
* EvilAlbino - Tombstone
* EvilCostumeSwitch - Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man
* EvilDuo - Flint Marko and Alex O'Hirn before they became {{Supervillain}}s; they team up again in "Reinforcements" as the second tier of Sinister Six members.
* EvilForeigner - If the Chameleon's stuffy Russian accent is any indication.
** Kraven too.
* EvilPowerVacuum - Season 2's Gang War story. "And nature abhors a vacuum..."
* EvolutionaryLevels - "Lizard DNA is more primitive than human."
* ExactEavesDropping - [[spoiler:Season 2 finale - Harry overhears Peter and Gwen ''finally'' admitting their true feelings to each other... as well as their realization that they have to break up with their current significant others to be able to actually do anything. Guess who Gwen is dating?]]
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt
* ExecutiveMeddling - The original plan was to create extra material for each episode, then use it to edit each Story Arc into a movie for the DVD releases. But only the first arc was released like this before Sony switched to just plain episodes on DVD, leaving extra footage we might not ever see.
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* ExpressiveMask - Spider-Man's, Green Goblin's and Chameleon's masks, Doctor Octopus' ''goggles'', Flash's ''[[AMidsummerNightsDream donkey's head]]'' especially.
* EyepatchOfPower - Patch
* TheFaceless - The Chameleon's real face is concealed behind a featureless white full-head [[ExpressiveMask mask]].
** Mysterio, when he has his crystal ball-shaped helmet on.
* FaceFramedInShadow - [[spoiler:Walter Hardy]], in "Opening Night".
* FailedASpotCheck - "Group Therapy" Peter doesn't know the Sinister Six have escaped despite it being the number one item in the news. Aunt May's absence also eludes him.
**Also, S02 E07: Identity crisis, in which two thugs see Flash dressed up as Spider-Man wearing a cast and decide to beat the stuffing out of him... In front of about fifty reporters.
* FakingTheDead - [[spoiler: Norman Osborn (Green Goblin)]] in the season 2 finale. He even changes his appearance and leaves on a plane.
* FallingChandelierOfDoom - in "Gangland"
* FanNickname - Many.
** THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-BRO.
** Doc Ock has two. Pre-breakdown is "[[TheWoobie D'awww]]c Ock", post- is "DOCTOR OCTOPUS, LORD OF THE VAMPIRES". Just watch the episode with the famed opera fight to see what I'm talking about.
** Due to the various girls Pete/Spidey attracts, fans have decided to rename the show "BITCHES LOVE SPIDER-MAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES".
* FantasticAesop - Green Goblin Harry, Venom and Colonel Jupiter teach us the extremely applicable life lesson that WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* FantasticDrug - Impressively, Harry's [[PsychoSerum Globulin Green]] addiction manages to evoke steroid, Ritalin ''and'' heroin abuse all at once.
* FastballSpecial - Spidey and Rhino's Team Up, Ox and Ricochet
* FearLeadsToAnger - Gwen to Peter
* FeedMe - '''"TREACHERYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!"'''
* FemmeFatale - The Black Cat
* FieryRedhead - Mary Jane Watson
* FiveBadBand - The Sinister Six
** The BigBad - Doctor Octopus, the leader of the bunch and perhaps the most competent.
** TheDragon - Electro wields more raw power than anyone else on the team, and is also the most loyal to Doc Ock.
** The EvilGenius - Vulture, a GadgeteerGenius.
** TheBrute - Sandman and Rhino share the position.
** The DarkChick - Shocker. The closest thing to an ordinary guy on the team. While quite formidable, his teammates tend to outstrip him in power and/or smarts.
*** The SixthColumn - Mysterio and Kraven, who join in Season 2.
* FlashBack - "Intervention"
* FlawExploitation - This is Spider-Man's standard MO for defeating villains. Doctor Octopus attempts to do this with a HostageForMcGuffin.
* {{Flight}} - The Vulture's magnetic air [[PoweredArmor transport system]] and the Green Goblin's Tech-Flight [[HoverBoard glider]] allow them to fly.
* FirstKiss - Peter's first kiss was actually given to him by Black Cat at the end of "Persona"--a classic Spider-Man Upside Down Kiss.
* {{Foreshadowing}} - While virtually every ChekhovsGunman could quality, Season 2 earns mention when [[spoiler:Harry literally casts the Goblin's shadow]]
* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself - Peter goes to a Halloween festival as Spider-Man, and gets compliments on how well he fills out his costume. Black Cat [[EarlyBirdCameo evidently]] likes Halloween too.
* FreakLabAccident - Spider-Man, Electro, The Sandman, Doctor Octopus
* FreakOut - Electro snaps, [[ComesGreatInsanity unable to cope]] with his [[PowerIncontinence loss of humanity]]. Doctor Octopus suffers traumatic [[LightningCanDoAnything electrical shock]], and goes from [[NotSoHarmless meek]] to [[MadScientist megalomaniacal]].
* FreudianSlip - Pete says Gwen's name instead of Liz's in an inner monologue
* FridgeBrilliance - You really have to watch each episode two or three times in order to pick up on the subplots, subtext and foreshadowing that become important later.
* FunPersonified - Mary Jane Watson
* GadgeteerGenius - The Vulture invented his {{flight}}-capable PoweredArmor, while Mason creates all the Chameleon's ShoePhone technology.
* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke - Spider-Man, Electro, The Lizard
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
-->'''Mary Jane Watson:'''...but if I can't dance with Pete, I guess I'll dance with...it's Randy, right?
-->'''Rand Robertson:''' ''Very''.
** and...
--> "Well, you '''are''' the expert on premature gloatalation."
** and...
-->'''Liz Allen''' "You can web me up anytime, Petey."
** and... well a good chunk of Black Cat's dialogue but:
--> "You better not get your goop in my hair."
** After Peter, Liz, Harry and Gwen decide to go to Flash's birthday party as a double-date:
-->'''Harry''': "Then it's settled! This Saturday we're a foursome!"
* GladIThoughtOfIt - J. Jonah Jameson does this with Peter Parker's idea to take pictures of Spider-Man.
* TheGlassesGottaGo - Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy
* [[GrenadeTropes Grenade Hot Potato]] - Goblin tosses up a Pumpkin Bomb in the Billiard Room that gets tossed from person to person until it blows up a pool table.
* TheGoodCaptain - Colonel Jupiter
* GoofyPrintUnderwear - Peter's Heart-Pattern Thermals. (They were on sale.)
* GoshDangItToHeck - Spider-Man says "Every single blasted fragment of you?!?"
* GrapplingHookPistol - Spider-Man's webshooters, Black Cat's rope shooter
* GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave - Well, more like Aunt May What Massive Hotness You Have. She does not look her age.
* HardHead - Hammerhead.
* HeartSymbol - Peter and Gwen hide from reporters behind a sculpture with a heart shaped window that frames their faces.
* HeavySleeper - in "Group Therapy", Peter or rather, the symbiote using Peter's body while he's ''asleep'', fights AND defeats the Sinister Six.
* HeKnowsTooMuch - The motivation behind the Green Goblin's attempted [[FreakLabAccident murder]] of Otto Octavius.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen - [[TheChessmaster Master Planner]]
* HellishPupils - The Vulture/Adrian Toomes has comma-shaped pupils, which look particularly odd when he's out of costume.
* HeroesWantRedHeads - Peter is interested in Mary Jane, but is [[JustFriends rebuffed]].
* HeroicBystander - Eddie Brock defends his friends from Electro, and helps Spider-Man fight the Lizard. John Jameson helps Spidey find a timebomb. Flash Thompson [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this, putting himself in harm's way.
* HeroicSacrifice - Sandman, [[NotQuiteDead sort of]].
** A variation in Opening Night, [[spoiler:as the Cat Burglar decides to unleash the tranquilizer gas on the escaped prisoners, leading to him being knocked out as well, and going back to prison.]]
* [[HeyItsThatVoice Hey It's That Voice]] - Try to watch a whole episode and '''not''' recognize at least one character's VA from a different show. The voice actors of this series are on the same level as Comicbook/TheAvengers in both quality and quantity.
* HopelessSuitor - Liz Allan verges on this with Peter in the second season, even when they actually are dating. Despite being completely empathetic and nice to him, Peter is preoccupied with Gwen for most of the time, to the point that when leaving in the middle of a date, he apologizes to ''Gwen'' who is double-dating with Harry and ignores Liz.
* HostageForMcGuffin - Doctor Octopus takes Liz Allan hostage to force Spider-Man to fork over desired AppliedPhlebotinum.
** The Master Planner also takes Gwen hostage so that Captain Stacy can get him Homeland Security Defense Codes. [[spoiler: The Doc/ Planner]] is very fond of this tactic.
* HostageSituation - Played straight when Electro holds the genetics lab staff hostage to force them to develop a cure for [[BlessedWithSuck his condition]].
* HowWeGotHere - "Catalysts", "First Steps"
* HighSchoolDance - The fall formal is the subject of much agonizing as Peter tries to find a suitable date.
* HollywoodCyborg - Doctor Octopus
* HollywoodNerd - Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker
* HomageShot - Numerous Comic Book Covers are used in the series including Amazing Fantasy #15, ASM#33 ASM #39, ASM #100 and more.
* IJustWantToBeNormal - Peter briefly considers taking a PowerNullifier. Electro is in pursuit of a cure for [[BlessedWithSuck his powers]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming - Episode titles are all derived from scientific terminology, grouped by field:
** Weisman has referred to the season 1 groups as "Biology 101", "Economics 101", "Chemistry 101", and "Psychology 101".
** Season 2 has "Engineering 101", "Pediatrics 101", "Criminology 101" and finally, "Theatrics 101".
* IdiosyncraticWipes - Spider hordes, symbiote pseudopods, and pumpkin bombs.
* IfYouKnowWhatIMean - Peter and Harry both know what "nice personality" usually means, and the viewers are expected to as well.
* IgnoredVitalNewsReports - the Sinister Six's breakout in "Group Therapy"
* IKnewIt - In the first season, we are introduced to Green Goblin. Most people by now know that [[spoiler: Norman Osborn]] is the Green Goblin, and at first the show didn't do much to deny this, giving several indications that it was he. Then later that season, we were shown that it was in fact [[spoiler: Harry Osborn]]. When Goblin made his return in the second season, the final episodes played up the idea that other people could be the Goblin, giving the audience some very serious misdirection. Even this troper, who is rather well versed in Spider-Man lore, thought that possibly they would change the identity of the Goblin. Of course, all of this was proven to be just subterfuge, as in the final episode it was revealed that the Goblin had, in fact, been [[spoiler: Norman Osborn]] all along.
** Adding to the confusion, of course, was the fact that [[spoiler:Harry Osborn]] was ''also'' the Goblin in the comics for a while.
* ImagineSpot - When asked to try out for the football team with Harry, Peter has a brief, absurdist fantasy of making touchdowns while in costume and wearing a football helmet.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The Vulture clearly attended before he added lasers to his harness.
* ImprobableWeaponUser - Silver Sable wields a giant staple gun.
* IncrediblyLamePun - The Goblin reports to Tombstone that Hammerhead is "tied up at the moment", and chuckles. "You gotta love the classics."
** In "First Steps" Sandman is hired to steal "The Urn of Morpheus" (Morpheus is the God of Dreams and is also known as "The Sandman")
* IndulgentFantasySegue - Otto Octavius fantasizes about attacking his [[MeanBoss domineering boss]] Norman Osborn mere minutes before his [[LightningCanDoAnything high-voltage]] FreakOut, after which he does it for real.
* InMediasRes - "Subtext"
* IntrepidReporter - Daily Bugle reporter Ned Lee is investigating Spider-Man and the Green Goblin.
** Fredrick Foswell fits this trope as well, if not more so.
* [[strike:IsThisAJoke?]] [[IsThisAJoke Am I Being Punked?]] - StanLee ironically provides same the explanation for the surrounding weirdness that he gave to the citizens of the Marvel U when he was writing back in the Silver Age. Aunt May asks the same thing when questioned if her nephew is Spider-Man.
* IronicEchoCut - "Intervention" Tombstone says "That's the deal." Cut to Martha Connors saying "That's the deal."
* ItOnlyWorksOnce - Doc Ock explicitly mentions that none of the previous methods Spider-Man has used to beat members of the Sinister Six will work this time. He has an alternate power source, Vulture has an armored control unit, and Electro can now control his powers in water, and The Rhino isno longer dumb enough to enter closed spaces.
* ItsAlwaysSpring - Averted. Time passes realistically, with Season 1 going from September to November and Season 2 from December to March.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique - Spidey does this with The Tinkerer in "Shear Strength".
* JerkJock - Flash Thompson, Kenny "King" Kong. Flash is softening up, though; He's the one who brought Pete back down to earth and clued him in on the way he was acting
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - J. Jonah Jameson. Phenomenal dick? You betcha, but he's a phenomenal dick that would risk death by giant rhino-man to protect a worker. Also Flash Thompson by Season 2.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind - Spider-Man is forced into one of these by the symbiote
* JustFriends - This frustrates Gwen, because [[CannotSpitItOut she doesn't want to risk their friendship]] by telling Peter that she wants to be More Than Friends.
* JustHitHim
* JustThinkOfThePotential - Connors' rationalization for developing his formula
* KarmaHoudini - Black Cat, but thankfully, '''not''' [[spoiler:her dad, who murdered Uncle Ben, and stays in prison despite Cat's break out attempt]]
* KickTheWrongDog/ MistakenForMurderer - Dr. Octopus attacks Spider-Man on the wrong accusation that he tried to kill him because the doc thought Spider-Man figured out he "created" Sandman and Rhino; it was actually Green Goblin behind the accident.
--> '''Doc Ock''': Don't play games with me, ''hero''. You tried to [[NeverSayDie destroy]] me! But you failed.
--> '''Spider-Man''': Destroy you? [[strike: Hell]] [[{{Mondegreen}} Pal]], I don't even ''know'' you!
* KidHero - Spider-Man
* LanguageOfMagic - Complete with Latin
* LargeAndInCharge - Tombstone
* LargeHam - We're ''VENOM!!'' Eddie
** And later on Mysterio. Oh so much. As Tinkerer mutters, ''"Actors"''
** Doc Ock, especially the first time he speaks after completing his FaceHeelTurn: "''Silence!!'' You imperious '''moron'''!!!" He later gets lines like "Arachniiiiid!", "TREACHERYYYYYY!", and "Then L. Thompson Lincoln is WEEEEAK!"
* LaserHallway - [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys Peculiarly]], appears in the ESU genetics lab to deter theft of the "ooze."
** Black Cat remarks "Lasers, how original."
* LatexPerfection - MasterOfDisguise the Chameleon wears this type of mask ''over'' his own full-face [[ExpressiveMask mask]].
* LeParkour - This Spider-Man doesn't just WallCrawl, he wall ''runs,'' too. Black Cat pulls it off as well.
* LaughingMad - Harry Osborn
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall
--> '''Doctor Octopus:''' Do you ever ''shut up!?''\\
'''Spider-Man:''' Sorry, no. My fans expect a certain amount of quippage every battle.
* LegionOfDoom - The Sinister Six
* LegoGenetics - Spider-Man, the Lizard
* LeftHanging - As of the second season finale, there are a few unresolved plot threads, such as Miles Warren taking control of Connors' old lab and using it to perform illegal experiments to create super soldiers.
* {{Leitmotif}} - Snippets from the 60's and 90's series can be heard in the background music.
* LexLuthorSecurity - Tombstone's office, lampshaded.
* TheLibby - Sally Avril. Gradually, she becomes just a ''little'' nicer.
* LightningCanDoAnything - Electric and bioelectric shocks grant Electro [[PsychoElectro superpowers]], which catalyze a [[LegoGenetics gene-altering]] formula. Electromagnetic shock fuses Doctor Octupus' harness to his spine, causing his FreakOut.
**Miles Warren actually [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshades]] (or [[{{JustifiedTrope}} justifies]], depending on [[{{YourMileageMayVary}} your point of view]] this by saying that the only way to '''get''' the gene-altering formula to work is to catalyze it with a big dose of electricity.
* LimitedWardrobe
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - It's what happens when you take nearly every major and minor character from Spider-Man's history and put them all in one show.
**Find any named character. Any of them. Then look them up on TheOtherWiki. They will be there.
* LoveDodecahedron - The dynamics of the Midtown high group are enormously complicated, but succinctly - Gwen and Liz both like Peter, Peter likes Gwen & Liz and also MJ, MJ flirts with Flash but also comes to really like Mark Allen, Liz has lingering feelings for ex-boyfriend Flash, who finds MJ attractive but then focusses on Sha-Shan, Gwen dates Harry, who previously dated Glory, who left him somewhat inexplicably for Kenny, and I'm sure there are others in there.
* LoveMakesYouCrazy - Eddie Brock's love for... [[spoiler: the Symbiote.]]
* LoveTriangle - A fairly straightforward one as of the end of season 2 between Harry, Gwen and Peter. [[spoiler:complicated by the fact that Harry is aware of Peter and Gwen's mutual attraction, but they are unaware that he knows.]]
** Also, Peter, Eddie Brock and the Symbiote. Yeah.
* MasterOfDisguise - The Chameleon, [[spoiler:Fredrick Foswell]]
* MasterOfIllusion - Beck, the Chameleon's special effects wizard, who, in season 2, dons the guise of Mysterio.
* MeanBoss - Norman Osborn, J. Jonah Jameson
* MeaningfulName - Patch
--> Spider-Man - Really? Your parents must have had foresight.
** [[spoiler:Justified - it's a cover identity for Fredrick Foswell.]]
* {{Meganekko}} - Gwen Stacy.
* MeleeATrois - The massive battle between Silvermane, Tombstone, Doctor Octopus and Spider-Man in "Gangland".
** And a couple episodes earlier (in "Accomplices") with everyone's lieutenants: Silver Sable, Hammerhead, Rhino, and Spidey.
* MindHug - Peter's memories of Uncle Ben allowing him to fight off the symbiote, culminating in a very heartwarming pair of {{montage}}s
* MadScientist - Doctor Octopus
* MadeOfIron - The Rhino can bust through walls and survive a fall from the top floor of a building unscathed. His environs aren't so lucky. Hammerhead can likewise smash walls with his extraordinarily hard skull.
* MagnificentBastard - Tombstone, Dr. Octopus, Norman Osborn, whose schemes run rings around every other character in the show.
* MaleGaze - [[RebusBubble Black Cat + Tight Air Vent =]]
* MarilynManeuver - Spidey uses a web slingshot that causes a breeze that causes a nearby woman to experience this in "Reaction"
* TheMasochismTango - Randy Robertson/Sally Avril; seriously, Rand, ''why?''
* MirrorScare - Octavius discovers the Green Goblin in this way. It's also [[InvertedTrope inverted]] when [[spoiler:the ''viewer'' sees Harry's face reflected as the Green Goblin.]]
* MonsterOfTheWeek - Tombstone explains that he wants to keep Spider-Man busy fighting super-powered brutes to distract Spidey from combating his rather profitable crime empire
* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler: Norman framing Harry solidifies him as an amoral bastard. But injuring Harry's leg to do it demonstrates a casual cruelty and cowardice that erases any hint of redemption.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate - Doctor Octopus
* {{Motifs}}: Speakspeare Quotes, The Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream
* MotiveDecay - Averted in "Group Therapy", where after the first go at fighting Spider-Man, the Sinister Six nearly break up because most of them view fighting Spider-Man as a distraction from their personal goals.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous - Doctor Octopus, yet ''again''.
* MythologyGag - many shots are based on or even directly stolen from [[{{Film/Spider-Man}} the live-action movies]]
** Some shots are straight from comic book covers, including the famous Amazing Spider-Man #100 cover.
** Spidey uses one of [[FantasticFour The Thing]]'s many {{Catchphrase}} "What a revoltin' development this is"
**Combining this with possible {{Foreshadowing}}, Stan Carter complains that Spider-Man "doesn't go far enough" when dealing with criminals. The comicbook version of Carter was actually the psychotic vigilante Sin-Eater, who went way beyond "far enough" [[spoiler: including the murder of Jean [=DeWolff=]]]
** Doc Ock had two girls on his arms in "Accomplices", and the blond one of them bears a resemblance to Stunner, one of Doc's in-comic girls. Some say the black haired one looks a bit like Mary-Alice, his first fiance.
**As well as some to the fans for example, lack of banter was a complaint about [[{{Film/Spider-Man}} the movies]], so when fighting a villain who yells "Why won't you just shut up?!" Spidey responds, "Sorry, my fans expect a certain amount of quippage in every fight."
** The Season 2 episode "Shear Strength" has Spidey trapped into a situation similar to the comic books, where he had to save the life of a loved one despite being buried under a big fricking machine.
* NameThatTune - In the season 2 episode "Probable Cause" Ox starts humming the show's theme tune while he and the other Enforcers are riding down an elevator. When Shocker and Ricochet look at him incredulously he responds . . .
--> '''Ox''': What? [[EarWorm It's catchy]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - Tombstone, Venom. Peter even lampshades it.
--> Peter - "The guy calling himself "Venom", Does that name inspire trust?"
* {{Narm}} - Eddie Brock, post-Venom, in his moments without the symbiote.
--> Eddie - It only loves me for the hate!
* NecroCam - The camera dives into Peter's bloodstream after the spider bites him in the opening theme.
** Also when we see Dr. Octopus' harness merge with his spine.
* NerdGlasses - Otto Octavius' coke-bottle lenses reduce his eyes to hazy black dots
* NeverSayDie - The occasional "destroy" still gets dropped, but so do actual terms like murder and die.
* NewTransferStudent - Mary Jane Watson
* NewYorkCity
* NiceJobBreakingItHero - Peter wasn't responsible for Electro's StartOfDarkness, but he sure helped push him over the edge.
* NightmareFuel - Curt Connors' transformation into the Lizard, around the time that the good doctor's head ''implodes.''
** Or just a few episodes later when Flint Marko's head ''explodes'' after turning into the Sandman.
** Should call it the "Spooktacular Spiderman". Guys like Venom, Tombstone, Otto's tenticles.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat - [[spoiler:Season 2 finale. The Green Goblin, a.k.a. Norman Osborn, atop his trademark flyer sails right into a roof-mounted pumpkin-bomb launcher--which proceeds to go boom with gusto. At the end of the episode, we see a newly blond and facial-hair-sporting Norman Osborn boarding a flight to a tropical island.]]
* NoOSHACompliance - The refinery DeathCourse Green Goblin sets for Spider-Man and Tombstone.
* NotNowBernard - Shocker dismisses O'Hirn this way when fighting Spider-Man
* NotSoHarmless - Doctor Octopus
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging - Invoked, by Harry ''pretending'' to be oblivious but really being a ManipulativeBastard.
* OffModel - Occurs throughout the series from time to time. According to WordOfGod, the animation was inconsistent.
* TheOneWith - ...insert {{Supervillain}} debut here
* OpenTheIris - In particular, Harry's irises shrink to pinpricks when he's angered under the influence of Globulin Green.
** Hilariously, with the way all characters' irises are ''huge'' in this series, when this happens to Harry, instead of making him look scary, it makes him look ''more normal'' than his fellow cast members.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent - Peter Parker
* OrphanedPunchline - "...making this the third time the singer's baby was found driving her car."
* TheOtherDarrin - After the first episode, Keith David is replaced with Kevin Michael Richardson in the role of Tombstone.
* ParanoiaFuel - Eddie Brock uses this to make Peter reveal the location of the symbiote, making him Venom once more.
* PeekaBoo - Flint Marko is depicted as nude when serving as an experimental subject, but clever blocking conceals anything below waist level.
* PetTheDog - Sandman helps a little girl at the beach. Hammerhead calls him out on it.
* PlayingWithFire - [[spoiler:Mark Allan/]]Molten Man
* PostKissCatatonia - Peter after Gwen kisses him in the season 1 finale
** It's turned into a running gag, what with Black Cat kissing him in "Persona", and then Liz Allan kissing him in "Shear Strength". Same reaction every time (Though he said the kiss from Gwen was a lot more shocking to him than the one from Black Cat)
* PowerIncontinence - Electro
* PowerNullifier - The "gene cleanser" antidote for Curt Connors' transformation, a tube of which Peter considers taking himself, and later washes down the sink, as an affirmation that Spider-man is "his destiny".
* PoweredArmor - Silvermane
* ThePowerOfFriendship - How Peter fights against the Symbiote for control of his body.
* ThePowerOfLove - Pretty much how Spider-Man defeats Venom in "Nature vs. Nurture".
* ProfessorGuineaPig - Curt Connors doses himself with his own formula.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles - The theme from the first few episodes showcased our ThreeAmigos plus J. Jonah Jameson. In episode 10, Mary Jane replaced Harry's spot and since then, Peter, along with the three other characters most important to the episode's story are used in the credits.
* PsychoElectro - Electro, in his debut episode, provides a perfect example of this trope, essentially running around in a panic and discharging voltage uncontrollably. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't get much better; if anything, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity he's gotten worse.]]
** Hell, he provides the trope's picture.
* PsychoSerum - Globulin Green, an addictive steroid, causes blackouts and gives its user a SuperpoweredEvilSide. It's a handy way to adapt the comic book Harry's famous [[VerySpecialEpisode drug addiction]] for Saturday morning cartoons.
* PunchClockVillain - The reluctant Otto Octavius, before his FreakOut. Also, the Sandman is generally only in it for a "big score," hates revenge, and is [[PetTheDog kind to children]].
* PutOnABus - Harry Osborn was sent on a trip [[strike:abroad]] to rehab for multiple episodes.
* RaceLift - Liz Allan is now Latina. Ned Leeds is now Asian, and re-named Ned Lee. Kenny "King Kong" [=McFarlane=] is now Kenny "King" Kong, also Asian. Jean De Wolff, Debra Whitman and Roderick Kingsley are also noticeably darker than their comic counterparts.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure - Captain Stacy
* RecordNeedleScratch - Accompanies cheerleader Sally Avril's blunt rejection of Peter when he asks her out in the first episode.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath - [[spoiler: Sandman]]
* ReflectiveEyes - "Final Curtain" The Unmasked Goblin is reflected in [[spoiler: Harry]]'s Eyes.
* RescueRomance - Spidey saves a guy and a girl by webbing them together. For them its LoveAtFirstSight
--> Spidey - "You Can Thank Me Later Dude."
** In a ContinuityNod, , we see this guy propose to the same girl in "Gangland"
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Mentioned with regularity. Notably, the Shocker can take tons of punishment for the same reason that he is unharmed by his own weaponry.
* RhymesOnADime - [[spoiler:Green Goblin in "Opening Night"]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots - Mysterio has many to disguise himself with, fitting his illusionist persona.
* RightHandVersusLeftHand - From a few obscure lines you'd think that the Sinister Six were going to tear themselves apart through arguments, which is what SpiderMan has invoked in other adaptations. Instead they stayed relatively cool with each other, but their individual attacks would accidently take out other teammates.
* RoguesGallery
* {{Roofhopping}} - Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus
* RunningGag - Gwen gives her friends "the look" when angry. Mary Jane, before she actually appears, is repeatedly described as having a "wonderful personality ''shudder''." Hobie Brown being [[TheVoiceless interrupted every time he attempts to say something]].
** "Am I being punked?"
* SaveTheVillain: Spidey, to his dismay, saves Electro from Master Planner's CollapsingLair.
* ScaryBlackMan - Tombstone...no, ''really''. EvilAlbino, remember? Also, all his {{mooks}}. Except for the albino thing. Oh, and [[EqualOpportunityEvil a few of those mooks]] are Scary Black Women.
* SchoolPlay - The production of {{A Midsummer Nights Dream}} becomes a major subplot in Season 2.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules - Tombstone offers to buy Spider-Man's services in exchange for looking the other way now and then, but he declines. Though he takes the deal when fused with the Symbiote, once it's gone, he rejects the offer again.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork - Why DisneyXD waited until summer to air Season 2 I'll never know.
* SecretIdentity
* SecretIdentityChangeTrick - Used often. At one point, this backfires on Peter, when it looks as though he lied about where he was going in order to take pictures of Spider-Man.
* SecretKeeper - George Stacy keeps hinting that He Knows.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness - Doctor Octopus
* ShadowDiscretionShot - The first time the Lizard appears, the horror of the transformation is depicted in shadows and the reactions of Mrs. Connor, Eddie Brock, and Gwen Stacy.
* SheCleansUpNicely - Gwen shows up to her date with Harry [[TheGlassesGottaGo sans glasses]] and in a dress and heels
* SheIsAllGrownUp - Hammerhead says this about Silver Sable
* ShipperOnDeck - Mary Jane; a Peter/Gwen shipper all the way.
* ShipTease - '''><;;;'''
* ShortRunInPeru - Canada aired the entire second season before the US even started on it. And then Disney put it on hiatus midway through...
* ShoutOut - Greg Weisman's ''{{Gargoyles}},'' quite a number of comic book cover homages, and musical {{leitmotif}}s from the 60's and 90's series are all referenced.
** The statue of Atlas is a reoccurring feature, likely a shout out to "Atlas Shrugged" in keeping with Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko's objectivism.
**In "Opening Night" [[spoiler:Black Cat uses a fake ID with the name "Selina Drew" "Drew" is probably a reference to Spider-Woman, aka Jessica Drew, while "Selina" may refer to [[{{Batman}} Catwoman]], of whom Black Cat is an {{Expy}}.]]
** In "Nature Vs. Nuture" Peter wonders if "Romita's" delivers Turkey Pizza. A reference to artists John Romita and John Romita Jr.
** There may also be some homage to {{Batman Beyond}} Because, at some point during the fight with the Sinister Six (First fight), Spider-Man defeats Shocker the same way Shriek was defeated.
** The battle damage that Spider-Man suffers in his fight with the Green Goblin in season 2 looks like it came from the movie.
* SignificantAnagram - Of course a criminal named Alex O'Hirn would be called The Rhino.
* SkywardScream - A minor version in the season finale; after Venom ties Spidey up and threatens to destroy everything in his life, the camera pulls out just a little bit as Spidey lets out a fairly low-grade BigNo.
* SlaveToPR - To preserve his [[VillainWithGoodPublicity public image]], Tombstone refuses to do or say anything villainous when civilians that could incriminate him are around.
* SlipperySkid - Spidey uses bowling balls to try and stop The Rhino
-->'''Spider-Man:''' "[[GenreSavvy This always works in the cartoons!]]" [[SubvertedTrope *Rhino smashes them by stepping on them rather than slipping*]] "Agh! Television ''so'' [[TVNeverLies cannot be trusted]]."
* SmugSnake - Miles Warren (who admittedly seems perfectly content as right-hand-man to real MagnificentBastard Norman Osborn), Hammerhead (in the [[spoiler: Gang War arc, when he turns against Tombstone only to become the Goblin's pawn]].)
* SoProudOfYou - [[spoiler: Osborn, after revealing to be the ''real'' Green Goblin, says he's never been so proud of Harry in the second season finale. A shame [[WellDoneSonGuy poor Harry]] probably didn't hear him...]]
* SoftGlass
* SoftWater
* SomethingPerson - Spider-Man, Sandman
* SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay - [[spoiler: "Norman Osborn ''never'' apologizes!"]]
* SpiderSense
* SpotOfTea - John Devereaux was having one in the faculty lounge in "Identity Crisis".
* TheStarscream: Pretty much everyone's [[TheDragon Dragon]] in the gang war arc, especially Hammerhead, which is surprising because he seemed to be extremely faithful toward ''his'' leader. However, he is understandably fired by said boss shortly after they (Or at least the boss) were arrested.
* SteppingStonesInTheSky - at the beginning of "Shear Strength"
* StevenUlyssesPerhero - Otto Octavius = Doctor Octopus.
* StoryArc - There are multiple arcs that overlap one another. They consist of three episodes unless stated otherwise:
** Season 1: The Lizard, The Big Man, Green Goblin, The Symbiote (4 episodes)
** Season 2: Master Planner (4 episodes), Venom Strikes Back, Gang War, Return of the Green Goblin
* StrangeBedfellows - in "Accomplices": Hammerhead and Silver Sable, Spidey and Rhino
* SuperHeroOrigin - presented in flashback during "Intervention"
* SupervillainLair - The Master Planner's Underwater Fortress, complete with HackerCave and SelfDestructMechanism that causes it to [[{{CollapsingLair}} collapse]].
* SuperpoweredEvilSide - The Green Goblin. And naturally, with the addition of the alien symbiote, Spider-Man's getting his very own. At first, it simply made him slightly more ruthless and convinced him to lie to protect it. But apparently, it took over completely during his second confrontation with the Sinister Six, given that he doesn't remember the battle afterwards, he didn't make a single quip during it, and he nearly killed Doc Ock before Captain Stacy told him not to.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction - [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. When Spider-Man takes the time to say "Woah! My SpiderSense is tingli--!" he is caught in a net before he can finish. Afterwards, his sense is never announced again.
* TalkingToHimself - Several instances
* TearJerker - Venom: "'''WE'RE NOT BROTHERS!!!'''"
* TemptingFate - at the beginning of "Natural Selection": "Looks like I'm finally making all the right decisions... all the right choices."
* ThirdPersonPerson - Mysterio and Kraven. Venom, on the other hand, refers to himself in the first-person ''plural''.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck - Spidey actually says the line (substituting "hurt" for "suck") in "Accomplices"
* ThisIsReality - Spidey trying to use bowling balls to make Rhino trip and failing:
-->"This always works in the cartoons!"
-->"Oh, television can so not be trusted!"
* ThrowTheDogABone - Hobie Brown is given the role of Puck in "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" after having previously been [[TheVoiceless interrupted every time]] he opens his mouth in the show.
* TitleDrop - Spidey is referred to specifically as "The Spectacular Spider-Man" during his introduction as a wrestler in "Intervention".
** And even earlier in the first scene of the first episode.
* TitleThemeTune
* TooDumbToLive - When Spidey apparently walks right into an ambush and gets pounded, Shocker uses these exact words to describe him. He is ''very wrong'', and the fact he fell for Spidey playing possum possibly makes him an example.
* TookALevelInBadass - Eddie Brock returns in the second season with what seems to be his own mechanical webshooters, and, more importantly, enough ninja skills to reliably track Spidey across the city and mislead him into thinking that Venom is back ''before'' actually reuniting with the symbiote.
* TotallyRadical - Averted with the usage of common slang, such as "Don't go emo on me, bro."
* TransformationTrauma - Again, Connors' Lizard transformation. Flint Marko's transformation into the Sandman, a painful process that culminates when he ''explodes'' into sand.
* TraintopBattle - Spider-Man fights the Lizard atop and inside a subway car.
* {{Trickster}} - Spider-Man, Black Cat
* TropeOverdosed - And how!
* TwoGuysAndAGirl - Peter, Gwen, and Harry have been best friends for at least 4 years. Harry's dark side seems to be growing.
* UnderwaterBase - Master Planner's HQ
* TheUnfavorite - Harry Osborn
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend - Gwen has this problem when trying to get Peter to notice her. Even after she ''kissed'' him, Pete is... "easily distracted," as MJ put it, and falls for the much more direct Liz Allen.
** Their {{UST}} finally headed for a resolution in the second finale only for a LoveTriangle with Harry to [[LoveHurts put the hurt on again]].
* UnnecessaryMakeover - Gwen Stacy. YourMileageMayVary
* VillainousBreakdown - Dr. Octopus suffers a rather calm breakdown in Shear Strength.
* VillainBall - grabbed very jarringly by Eddie Brock
* VillainTeamUp - "Group Therapy"
* VillainWithGoodPublicity - Norman Osborn, CorruptCorporateExecutive and The Big Man, L. Thompson Lincoln, who is the philanthropic public face of crimelord Tombstone.
** Note that Tombstone manages to pull this off despite having superstrength and sharpened teeth that make him look ObviouslyEvil. That is some ''good'' publicity.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
* WallCrawl - Spider-Man, The Lizard,Venom
* {{Wangst}} - Venom's motivation
* WeCanRuleTogether - Tombstone again, and later the Green Goblin
* WellDoneSonGuy - Harry Osborn, just, Harry Osborn. When he accomplishes something, he even brushes off his girlfriend congratulating him to call his dad.
* WhamEpisode - Identity Crisis.
** And now Final Curtain.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer - Sandman gets progressively more creative with the ability to turn into sand. By the second season he's using his sand-shifting with a finesse that would impress [[OnePiece Sir Crocodile]].
* WhereDidTheyGetLasers - While the guns most people carry are supposed to be realistic "shoot bullets" ones, they sound more like lasers or silenced shots. High-tech villains such as the Green Goblin, however, are all about the lasers. There's also a couple of instances of abnormal ammo, although these are rarer.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys - So far, it hasn't been mentioned where his webbing comes from, or where the web shooters themselves came from, or how he got his hands on a spotlight that fits on his belt and projects an image of his mask.
** Not to mention, how did he ''sew that suit'' without his aunt catching on to what he was doing?
* WolfMan - Spidey refers to mutant Kraven as one of these, even though there's no evidence of wolf DNA in his change.
* TheWoobie - Gwen, Otto Octavius
* XanatosGambit - "It's all about misdirection", and boy is it ever...
** Eddie Brock, of all people, pulls a classic one, goading Spidey into leading him straight to the place where the alien symbiote is buried through ParanoiaFuel.
** [[MagnificentBastard Norman Osborn]] is the undisputed master of this, though it borders on XanatosRoulette.
***Well what do you expect from a show written by the creator of David Xanatos?
* YouBlockhead - Poor Peter gets this all the time
* XRaySparks - Otto Octavius, during a massive electromagnetic shock
*{{Yandere}} - The Venom symbiote.
* YankTheDogsChain - Well, it is Spider-Man. Probably the best is "Hey, look, someone else gets superpowers and decides to use them for good! Not."
* YawnAndReach - Flash to Mary-Jane
* YouFightLikeACow - Spidey's famous battle patter
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