Characters / Marvel's Spider-Man, The Spiders

The Spiders

Peter Parker / Spider-Man

Peter Parker

^{Click here to see him in his Spider-Man costume.} 

Voiced by: Robbie Daymond

---

• Adaptation Dye-Job: Peter is usually portrayed as having either brown, blue, or hazel eyes in the comics and other versions. Here, his eyes are green.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Peter's physical strength has gotten an upgrade from most incarnations where he's 15 years old. He's strong, but you wouldn't think he could catch a falling helicopter or a careening van as a teen, something he could do in his adult years. This version doesn't make that feat look hard at all. Then there's also the fact that he's strong and fast enough to create a miniature cyclone simply by swinging a heavy object around him in a circle.
  • Same goes for the enhancement provided by the Venom Symbiote. Previous versions did enhance his strength, but not to the point his punch would generate a shockwave and cause an Elemental Shapeshifter to back down.
• Adorably Precocious Child: His interest in the sciences goes way back, to the point that he'd rather play with a chemistry set than go outside and hang out with other kids his age when he was younger.
• Alliterative Name: Peter Parker.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: In case Spider-Man didn't tip it off for you.
• The Apprentice: Peter becomes one to Max Modell so that he can pay off his tuition until Otto's will helps him.
• Ascended Fanboy: A fan of Superheroes who became one himself.
• Badass Adorable: A cute fifteen-year-old science geek who fights supervillains.
• Badass Bookworm: He not only solved an incredibly complex equation that served as an admittance test to an exclusive science school, but he also repurposed it to help fight a fire that the Villain of the Week had caused.
• Berserk Button: "Spider-Man on Ice" reveals that Peter despises the idea that inventions could be weaponized, calling Harry out for turning their thermal gauntlet into a sword.
• Beta Outfit: His original costume is a hoodie with goggles and sweatpants similar to the original outfit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's jovial, wise-cracking, and friendly most of the time. You really don't want him angry though.
• Big "NO!": Let's one out when Flint Marko AKA Sandman is seemingly killed by his daughter.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: He is made into an Unwitting Pawn of Doctor Octopus via mind control in "The Hobgoblin, Part 1". Thankfully, Harry is able to snap him out of it.
• Brainy Brunette: Brown-haired and a Teen Genius.
• Bystander Syndrome: Why he let the robber who would end up killing Uncle Ben go. He was so focused on making his debut in the wrestling ring that he couldn't even spare any time to get in the robber's way. This actually makes his origin story fairly loyal to his comic book roots.
• Clothing Damage: His original costume gets continually ripped up as he's forced to repair it. He finally ditches it in favor of the high-tech version he made in his lab while facing the first Spider-Slayer.
• Comes Great Responsibility: Well, it is Spider-Man after all. Uncle Ben framed it as a pseudo-math equation in this continuity.
• Composite Character: He is a teenage version of the Dan Slott era Peter Parker, is a fan of the older heroes just like the MCU and Ultimate cartoon versions and he's the Sinister Six's unwilling sixth member like in the Ultimate Comics.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: As Peter wears the V-252, he becomes much more uncooperative and aggressive as the suit takes greater control over him. Even after he takes off the suit and very briefly has to put it on again to save the day in "Stark Expo", he briefly considers just keeping it on forever before Iron Man and Max talk him out of it.
• Geek Physique: Unlike most versions of the character, Peter didn't gain much of an increase in muscle mass or tone from his mutation. He still weighs a paltry 97 pounds even though he stands at 5'10''.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: He enters this territory in season 2 when J. Jonah Jameson shows up, complaining about the collateral damage in his wake.
• I Have Many Names: Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Spidey, Stealth Spider, Robo-Spider.
• Indy Ploy: Sometimes, most notably when he dives out a window to save Max while not actually being sure whether or not his new parachute web function actually worked or not.
• I Shall Taunt You: Come on, it wouldn't be Spider-Man without this.
• It Began with a Twist of Fate: His mutation arose after being bitten by an escaped radioactive spider while attending Oscorp's demonstration. Anyone could have gotten spider-powers if Harry hadn't volunteered him for the job. And it would have been his partner Liz Allen if she hadn't let Peter take her place because she was left-handed.
• Kid Hero: Barely meets the criteria as a 15-year old.
• Leitmotif: Often accompanied by a loud, heroic orchestral piece as he engages his enemies.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He's not filled in about what Otto did while their minds were swapped (i.e. quitting Horizon High, tarnishing his reputation with un-Peter-like behavior, getting Jameson's approval as Spider-Man, and encouraging Aunt May to eat healthier), leaving him baffled until Miles explains what happened.
• The Mentor: Becomes this, as both Peter and Spider-Man, to Miles after he gets his powers. Peter does note that he has all of three months' experience, and isn't exactly a veteran. Miles counters that he needs a mentor with his powers, which narrows his options down to... Peter.
  Peter: I'm...flattered?
• Motor Mouth: As both Peter and Spider-Man, he never shuts up.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: His proportionate Spider-Strength allows him to lift and punch well above what his wiry frame would suggest. According to Iron Man, Pete only weighs 97 pounds, which would be considered very underweight for a boy his age. It doesn't stop him from catching cars and helicopters.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Outside of the "My God" part, Peter literally says this upon realizing that Ben's killer was the guy he let get away earlier.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Peter is not only gifted in every kind of physical science, but is also a skilled enough computer programmer to design his upgraded costume and program all sorts of functions, sensors, and scanners into it.
• Relative Button: Don't disrespect Uncle Ben, as Rocket Raccoon found out the hard way.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He doesn't get brain freeze. He gets sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia. Though this aspect is greatly toned down midway through season 1 and rarely shows up for the rest of the show.
• Ship Tease: He lights up like a fire hydrant when he finally sees Mary Jane in-person during Maximum Venom.
• Super-Soldier: Unlike most versions of Spider-Man, Raymond Warren intentionally created the genetically modified spider that bit Peter to create an army of spider-powered super soldiers. Peter just happened to be in the right place at the right time after one of them escaped.
• Techno Babble: With the show's emphasis on science, this version engages in this more than other incarnations.
• Teen Genius: Peter is exceptionally gifted in math and science, as best seen when he quickly neutralized a haywire experiment involving vibranium by pouring the corresponding materials into the machine in the correct order. However, while the show goes out of its way to emphasize this, it's also downplayed by the fact that he goes to a school for geniuses, meaning that he comes across as a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond at times.
• Truer to the Text: In regards to why he didn't stop the robber who would end up killing Uncle Ben. Most adaptations had him refuse to stop the robber to get back at a specific person who had wronged him, but it's pure Bystander Syndrome in this case just like it was in his comic book origin.
• Younger and Hipper: While Peter canonically started his superhero career as a teenager, this version borrows from The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott), including Horizon Labs being reimagined as a special high school he gets accepted into as opposed to a lab he works at as an adult and the updated costume being a modified version of the Spider-Armor Mk IV from All-New, All-Different Marvel rather than a normal cloth costume.

Miles Morales / Spy-D

Miles Morales

^{Click here to see him in his Spy-D costume.} 

Voiced by: Nadji Jeter

---

• Adaptational Badass: His venom blast from the comics goes from Fingerpoke Of Doom to electrical energy blast that can total two giant robots to instant submission.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Since the context in which he began as Spider-Man from Ultimate Marvel is no longer there (i.e. he became Spider-Man after Ultimate Peter temporarily died), and indeed becomes Spider-Man while Peter is still a teenager, Miles's show personality has changed, going from being nervous and reluctant about being a Legacy Character to being a superhero who is a Thrill Seeker and goofball who eventually mellows under Spider-Man's mentorship.
  • Even beyond the aforementioned context of how he became Spider-Man, Miles is canonically an introvert, albeit a more realistic version who's functional, as opposed to the more typical Hollywood versions. It is an occasional point of contention that this is changed Depending on the Writer, with the implication that healthy extroverts are easier/more familiar to write than healthy introverts. This show completely upends this part of Miles' character, making him a full-on extroverted person, once again, regardless of the context of how he becomes Spider-Man.
• Adaptational Intelligence: While Miles is bright and canonically a student at a STEM school, in the comics he got there through a lottery. Here, he's shown to have built a security robot.
• Age Lift: Miles Morales is 15 at the time Spider-Man makes his debut rather than 12/13. Additionally, he's 15 around the same time Peter is instead of being younger than Peter.
• Alliterative Name: Miles Morales.
• Badass Bookworm: A given since Horizon is a genius school. Miles designed a working robot.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Blurts his secret identity to Peter, Anya, and Gwen within minutes of finishing his costume, and the only reason he didn't tell more people is because Peter convinced him to keep it a secret.
  • He gets better after absentmindedly revealing where he lives on the Evening News and endangering his neighborhood and his father.
• Comically Missing the Point: Once he obtains his spider powers, the lessons Peter tries to instill into him about secrets, power, and responsibility go over his head until the Smythes send their respective Spider-Slayers to capture him.
• Dark Is Not Evil: His costume is black and red and he can use red lightning, but he is still one of the heroes.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Literally until he learned that they were tech-based.
• Jumped at the Call: Literally when he saves Spider-Man.
• Keet: Once he gains his super-powers, he gets really excitable and eager to use them.
• Kid-Appeal Character: He's usually the first one to crack a joke in most situations, is more excitable than Peter in more mundane ways, might even be slightly younger than him, along with being relatively new to superheroics.
• Out of Focus: Tends to come off like this, likely due to the above-mentioned Trope. It gets even more frustrating when he does nothing to help Peter during the "Bring on the Bad Guys" arc.
• Secret Public Identity: He's never adopted his own superhero alias and Peter calls him "Miles" even when they're in the middle of fighting villains.
• Secret-Keeper: In "Kraven's Big Hunt", he finds out Peter's secret identity as Spider-Man and promises not to tell anyone at school.
• Story-Breaker Power: Due to the fact that most of the villains Spider-Man faces in this series wear Powered Armor or use heavily electronic weaponry, this trope is likely why Miles sporadically does any heroing in the series; his powers, which can short out electrical devices, would make capturing a number of these tech-based villains too easy.

Anya Corazon / Spider-Girl

Anya Crazon / Spider-Girl

^{Click here to see her in her Spider-Girl costume.} 

Voiced by: Melanie Minichino

---

• Age Lift: Played with as this version is also a teenager but her comics counterpart was introduced after Peter Parker had finished college and was thus older than her. Here, the two are the same age.
• Ambiguously Bi: While rather heat of the moment, she clearly says to Miles Morales during season 1's "Spider-Island" arc that she could deliver a kiss for a good job. At the same time, she's shown to have a very special connection to Gwen in said arc.
• Badass Bookworm: A given since Horizon is a genius school. She designed a scrambler that cuts the power to any electronic equipment.
• Brought Down to Normal: Subverted. Anya is the only person to have kept her spider-powers after the "Spider-Island" arc.
• Composite Character: Her thermal suit resembles the attire of Adriana Soria (aka Spider-Queen), and her Spider-Slayer usage envokes Peni Parker.
• Cute Bruiser: She won't hesitate to get into a physical fight if there's danger around.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Her Spider-Girl costume has the same motif and colors as the Venom symbiote and is one of the heroes.
• Foil: She serves as one to Gwen Stacy. Compared to Gwen, who becomes more open-hearted, and is more of herself out of costume than in it (on top of being more emotionally vulnerable), she tends to be more cynical, has some skewed priorities, yet is also shown to be more level headed when it comes to heroics, with her ego downplayed.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She may be stern and ambition driven, but she won't hesitate to leap into action to help others.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Literally; out of all the protagonists, she is by far the one who has the most trouble getting used to her spider-powers when she gets them and is freaked out by it.
• Never Trust a Trailer: Promotional materials featured her in a version of her Spider-Girl costume with inverted colors on the torso (a black spider on a white torso). Not only does she wear a more-accurately colored costume (white spider on a black torso), but she didn't even don the Spider-Girl identity until season 2.
• Not So Above It All: In season 2's "Dead Man's Party", she joins Miles in doing the robot.
• Related in the Adaptation: She has a stepsister, Maria Corazon, unlike her comic counterpart.
• Secret-Keeper: She and Gwen know Miles's secret identity, but not Peter's until Maximum Venom.
• Skewed Priorities: She chews out Peter for messing with her device, seemingly not knowing that Midtown High would've been destroyed by her invention had he not stopped it.
• Socially Awkward Hero: To a degree. In season 1, she was shown to be very against the school dance that Peter accidentally came up with in "Party Animals" and was absent for the party in "Halloween Moon" (Miles at least has the excuse of possible training). She seems to have grown out of it in season 2, judging by her willingly attending a Ross Caliban concert and going to Peter's party.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Gwen's Girly Girl.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She calls Harry out for not being appreciative of being saved by Spider-Man from a Spider Slayer.

Gwen Stacy / Spider-Gwen / Ghost-Spider

Spider-Gwen / Ghost-Spider (Gwen Stacy)

^{Click here to see her in her Spider-Gwen costume.} 

^{Click here to see her in her Ghost-Spider costume.} 

Voiced by: Laura Bailey

---

• Academic Alpha Bitch: Known as "the Princess of Preparation" at school, she is very smart and she likes to flaunt it with little false modesty. This does reflect parts of Gwen's early appearances but differs in both kind and degree^note Early-Installment Weirdness Gwen was snobbish because she was a beauty queen and a kind of Uptown Girl. Becomes a much more lovable type after she bonds with Peter following her uncle's arrest.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Even after becoming a more humble person than she was at the start, Gwen can't help but relapse into being somewhat cocky when she first becomes Spider-Gwen, a hero with no secret identity, and everyone promptly adores her for it.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Like most adaptations of Gwen Stacy, her personality has no resemblance to her original comics appearance (beyond the reworked variant on her initial snobbishness as stated above) — she's especially different from the comics' Spider-Gwen who's an underdog musician — and she's more or less an original character who just so happens to be named Gwen Stacy.
• Broken Pedestal: Her uncle, Raymond Warren, was her mentor who inspired her to get into science and she is disappointed when he is revealed to be a super-villain.
• Character Development: At the start, Gwen thinks Spider-Man is a bungler who causes more problems than he solves. Her opinion of him improves over the course of the first season, and by the time of "Spider-Island", she is passionately defending him from an angry Harry, saying that Spider-Man isn't a bad guy and only ever tries to do the right thing. She also grows a closer bond with Peter Parker, due to how much he's influenced and supported her.
• Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: She isn't a big fan of Spidey at the start, and points out what he could have done better any time he saves the day.
• Composite Character: She has the look and fashion of her mainstream depiction, the scientific intelligence of the Amazing Spider-Man films (here taken to genius levels), and the powers of Spider-Gwen. When she's repowered she gains the power to glide, much like Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman.
• A Day in the Limelight: She has a major role in the season 2 episode "The Day Without Spider-Man".
• Foil: To Anya Corazon. While Anya has some skewed priorities and is more comfortable with heroics, Gwen is the opposite. She's very altruistic when out of costume, but when it comes to major tragedies and being in costume, she shows more emotional vulnerability.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Or rather Masks Are Hardly Heroic. While Gwen wears her Spider-Gwen costume in the first season like in the comics, she is lacking the mask. Averted in the second season.
• Hourglass Plot: Her first appearance has her criticizing Spider-Man every chance she got. After she gets spider powers of her own, Spider-Man is the one who points out all her faults. The only difference is that she cheekily waves off his comments.
• Little Miss Snarker: Frequently snarks at people, whether she likes them or not. She even does it to the Hulk.
• Loves My Alter Ego: In a reverse on the usual trope, it's Peter that Gwen is nice to and appreciates. Conversely, she doesn't seem to care too much for Spider-Man at first.
• Nice Girl: She eventually becomes this after "Party Animals". Snarky and no-nonsense that she is, she's also the most willing to help others.
• Secret-Keeper: She and Anya know Miles's secret identity, but not Peter's.
  • She's also the only one who knows about Anya keeping her powers from Spider-Island.
• Spared by the Adaptation: This version of Gwen Stacy is not imported from an alternate universe. Rather, she is alive in this continuity and becomes Spider-Gwen. And given the show's target demographic, an adaptation of The Night Gwen Stacy Died is unlikely.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Anya's Tomboy.
• Took a Level in Badass: From Gwen to Spider-Gwen.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Her Academic Alpha Bitch side only really shows up in her first episode; the following ones, particularly following "Party Animals", downplay it considerably, depicting her as still somewhat academic, pretty nice to Peter, and not particularly hostile to Spider-Man after he helps save her from her uncle. That said, she still maintains a snarky side.
• What the Hell, Hero?: And boy does she bring down Harry hard during the "Spider-Island" arc. She tells Harry to knock it off with his treatment of Spider-Man, telling him Spider-Man has been trying his hardest to make things right, did his best to save his father, and tells him that his sentiment towards any spider-person is completely baseless and misguided.
• You Don't Look Like You: Outside of being a Caucasian female with blonde hair and blue eyes, she does not visually resemble her comic book counterpart and other versions that much, mainly through having a different hairstyle and lacking her iconic headband. Her Spider-Gwen costume in Season 1 lacks the mask. She does get a wardrobe upgrade in Season 2, wearing a blue shirt instead of a pink one, and wearing her hair in a ponytail instead of a bun and finally wears a mask for her super alter ego.

The Anti-Hero (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

The Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius)

Voiced by: Robbie Daymond, Scott Menville

---

• Adaptation Dye-Job: His costume is primarily navy blue in place of the blacks of his comic costume. Averted later on as his costume gradually darkens to his comic costume's shade of black coinciding with him slipping into Knight Templar territory.
• Adaptational Heroism: Barring an interrupted attempt to shatter Keemia Marko after she's been turned into glass, SpOck doesn't murder anyone in this adaptation.
• Age Lift: While Peter was an adult when Otto took over Spider-Man's body in the comics, here Peter is a teenager. Otto himself is also significantly younger than his comic counterpart.
• Anti-Hero: Through Peter's memories, Otto finally understands the value of altruism. Despite now desiring to become a hero and understanding With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, he still hasn't lost his old ruthlessness or his ego for that matter. It's demonstrated rather brutally in "Critical Update" when he outright tries to kill Sand Girl for daring to oppose him only to be stopped by Miles. He was also willing to let an innocent man dangle on the edge of scaffolding in order to keep Miles off his back.
• Black-and-White Morality: In "Cloak and Dagger", he admits that the eponymous duo suffered Tiberius Stone's horrific experiments and that Stone will be made to pay for these crimes, but adds that they are also guilty of criminal activities, and he will bring the two down too.
• Black Eyes of Evil: Well, more like Black Eyes of Anti-Heroism. His costume's eyes are black, in contrast to Peter, Miles, Anya, and Gwen's white.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: As a consequence of retaining Peter's memories including the death of Uncle Ben, he finds himself incapable of resisting the urge to help those in need even when it inconveniences him. Of course, he proves to be a lot more flexible with this newfound urge, considering he willingly passed by a man dangling on scaffolding just because he knew Miles would be following behind him and intervene on his behalf.
• Composite Character: In-universe, he is Otto Octavius's mind in Spider-Man's body. His spider-symbol also closely resembles the Iron Spider suit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Did Not See That Coming: He admits to himself that he miscalculated how much Peter's residual memories would end up affecting him.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: Otto in Spider-Man's body. However, he still does retain at least some of Peter's memories, which are what drive him to be a hero in the first place.
• Good Feels Good: His reaction when people thank him for saving their lives. It seems that this is a genuinely foreign feeling for him.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Otto initially took over Peter's body with the intent of using Spider-Man's powers for conquest. Peter's memories end up teaching him the value of heroism, forcing him out of his previous villainous mindset. However, this leads him to slide into Knight Templar territory instead. He cements his turn to good in "Superior" by agreeing to swap back with Peter so Peter can face Venom.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He swaps back with Peter so that Peter can successfully deal with Venom, even though this means going back into a dying mechanical body.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In "My Own Worst Enemy", Silver Sable attempts to use the Giant Octo-bot against SpOck while she thinks it is merely the original Spider-Man (without knowing about the mind swap). Averted when SpOck combines Spider-Man's agility and his own knowledge of the Octo-bot's design to deactivate it.
• Insufferable Genius: He retains his incredibly high opinion on his intelligence and is more than willing to lord over others with it.
• Knight Templar: He does seem to earnestly want to do good. Unfortunately, "Critical Update" shows that he's more than willing to impose his views on how the world should work onto those he deems his opposition.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The promotional material for season 2's second half doesn't even bother to hide his origin.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His aggressive takedown of every major supervillain in New York creates a power vacuum that allows the much more dangerous and unified Goblin Nation to emerge.
• Not Himself: Otto doesn't even try to act like Peter. Other characters quickly notice this, though they're in the dark as to the sudden shift in Peter's personality.
• Not His Sled: Unlike the comics version who completely erased himself to allow Peter's restoration and thus lost out on his Character Development, Peter ends up saving Otto and returns him to his body with his Character Development intact.
• Not So Stoic: After "recalling" Uncle Ben's murder and realizing the arena criminal Peter failed to stop was the culprit, Otto breaks down crying in what he describes as the first time in years.
• Terror Hero: Upon taking up the Superior Spider-Man mantle, Otto conducts himself more like a slasher villain, sticking to the shadows and brutally picking off mooks one by one.
• Trust Password: "My Own Worst Enemy" has SpOck deliver a passcode to Silver Sable in her cell to convince her that he wants to proceed with the original plan.
• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • Shows no gratitude whatsoever when Miles saves him from Sandgirl's trap in "Critical Update".
  • He does the same in "Cloak and Dagger" after Peter saves him from Stone.
• Voices Are Mental: Averted. Though Scott Menville voices his internal monologues, his speaking voice is Robbie Draymond, albeit with Otto's distinct cadence and accent.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: In his whole life, no one has liked Otto, much less loved him. The warmth and grief in Peter's memories of Uncle Ben are so foreign that they successfully overwhelm him in just a few hours.

Harry Osborn

Harold "Harry" Osborn

^{Click here to see him in his Hobgoblin costume.} 

Voiced by: Max Mittelman

Peter's best friend and Norman's son.

---

• Adaptational Attractiveness: As in the Ultimate, Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) and film versions, Harry Osborn is more good looking here as opposed to his counterparts' nebbish look in the original comics, Spider-Man: The Animated Series and The Spectacular Spider-Man. When we see him in civies in Maximum Venom, he's borderline Hunk territory, especially with his more casual, sporty clothing choices.
• Adaptational Heroism: As the Hobgoblin. While his Ultimate counterpart was a Tragic Villain, this version is willing to be a hero, and is still one by Maximum Venom.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Not that his comic counterpart was dumb to begin with, but Harry's just as enthusiastic about science as Peter Parker is and was admitted into Horizon High, a high school "for geniuses" while Peter didn't at the time. He also created most of the Goblin technology he uses as the Hobgoblin himself.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: While most depictions are traditionally depicted as brown or red-haired, this version's hair is black.
• Big Damn Heroes: In "Generations", he shows up just in the nick of time to save Spider-Man from the Dark Goblin once his father has the former cornered.
• Broken Pedestal: He is very heartbroken to learn that Norman has been conspiring against Spider-Man all along, realizing that Peter's claims of Norman getting Harry suspended from Horizon High on purpose were true.
• The Bus Came Back: After being Put on a Bus, Harry finally returns in the "Goblin War" arc.
  • Harry's Put on a Bus again after that and he once again returns in time for the climax of Maximum Venom.
• Character Development:
  • He's the most vocal in his distrust of Spider-Man in Season 1 despite reluctantly working with the web slinger. It gets worse when the Jackal attacks Oscorp, making him think the two are working together. It takes the "Spider-Island" arc where Spider-Gwen calls him out for his bias and Peter revealing being Spider-Man that he gets over his feelings of betrayal, puts much more faith in Spider-Man and stops trying to justify why Spider-Man could be evil.
  • In Season 1, he tries to get some form of appreciation from Norman Osborn, unaware that his father is manipulating him, but loses respect for Norman after Season 1's finale. By Maximum Venom, he confronts his father trying once again to turn him against Peter to which Harry says that he has no interest in trying to get his father's approval anymore, even saying that Norman was no father to him.
• Composite Character: He is an amalgamation of his comic counterpart and Phil Urich. Like his various counterparts (original, Ultimate, and first two film series), Harry is Peter's and Gwen's friend and Norman's son. Phil's post-Face–Heel Turn is also fused into his character as his look evokes a more spiky black hair and he knows Anya. Additionally, his mecha knowledge is taken from his son Normie Osborn having a similar knowledge.
• Cool Sword: Creates one that forms a blade out of fire, getting even cooler as the show progresses and Harry gains more skill in wielding the weapon.
• Deuteragonist: Outside of the Spider heroes, he gets the most screen-time, plot importance, and characterization in Season 1 out of Peter's circle of friends.
  • This makes his Out of Focus periods in Season 2 and Maximum Venom all the more jarring, both because he was pretty much the secondary main character throughout Season 1 (one of the biggest things Peter had that Harry didn't was being the Character Narrator) and especially since it happens after the point where he's reconciled with Peter and where one might assume that would lead to the two working in active consort with one another. When Harry and Peter do just that, making a superb combat team, during the climax of Maximum Venom, it just highlights what could have been if Harry maintained his Season 1 focus throughout the rest of the series.
• Green-Eyed Monster: At least part of his Irrational Hatred for Spider-Man is his desire to have a chance to be in the spotlight as a hero the way Spider-Man is.
• Hates My Secret Identity: Of all the civilian characters, he easily dislikes Spider-Man the most (though not as much as his dad and Jameson) despite being best friends with Peter Parker.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: As Hobgoblin, particularly post-Heel–Face Turn. Harry is frequently seen with his Hobgoblin facemask off, and sometimes with his whole hood down too. This stands out more when you consider Spider-Man is as covetous of his own secret identity as ever. Yet Harry often can't keep his mask on or his hood up for nothing, in spite of Harry potentially being more vulnerable if his secret identity were to be spread too wide than Peter would.
• Horrible Judge of Character: When Horizon High's demonstration at Midtown is sabotaged resulting in his suspension, he thinks Spider-Man (who saved everyone) is responsible while believing the Smythes (the real culprits) wouldn't sink so low. His opinion on Spider-Man is so low that he immediately assumes that the web slinger is The Dragon to the Jackal after the latter's sarcastic complement to the former, and this assumption refuses to disappear especially after learning about the Jackal's plans for an army with Spider abilities even though Spider-Man has been clearly shown fighting the Jackal. Seems to be getting somewhat better in "Spider-Island, Part 1" after he loudly states he thinks Spider-Gwen might be part of the Jackal's Spider army to which Spider-Gwen tells him that he's being irrational, and he makes a clearer (if still begrudging) attempt to just trust Spider-Man and even tries to repair his friendship with Peter.
• Hypocrite:
  • During the "Rise of Doc Ock" storyline, he finds out about Peter's "alliance" with Spider-Man and breaks off their friendship as he's angry that Peter had lied to him. But not long after, he pretends to want to reconcile their friendship in order to trick Peter into helping him find the Jackal's lab.
  • This goes a step further when Harry learns that Peter and Spider-Man are actually the same person during the "Spider-Island" storyline but their friendship gets better in "The Hobgoblin". However, the "Goblin War" storyline reveals Harry lied about being overseas and actually built the Goblin Mech, something Peter points out.
  • In "The Hobgoblin", Harry's Hobgoblin technology included the Vulture's sonic scream. But in the "Goblin War" storyline, Harry gets gradually enraged by the Goblin King leading the Goblin Nation using mass-produced Goblin technology.
• "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: After learning that Doc Ock has brainwashed Spider-Man into joining the Sinister Six, Harry drops all his hatred and tries to reach Peter to break out of the mind control. He succeeds.
• Irony / Dramatic Irony: He values his friendship with Peter but distrusts Spider-Man. Naturally, this leads to loads of dramatic tension throughout Season 1.
• Irrational Hatred: No matter how many people Spider-Man continues to save, Harry refuses to see the web slinger in a positive light until the "Spider-Island" arc when Spider-Gwen calls him out and after he finds out Peter is Spider-Man. This hatred is dialed up when Peter lets Oz Academy get destroyed even though it can always be rebuilt and that it helped cure everyone in New York City.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Harry may have an irrational hatred of Spider-Man, and can be morally skewed but is ultimately a good person. A good example is in the last two parts of the "Spider-Island" arc, where he's understandably upset about Peter not telling him of being Spider-Man, but at least tries to make amends when he sees Peter saving his father. "The Hobgoblin" expands on this where he's still mad at Peter for letting Osborn Academy blow up when trying to save the city, but has a change of heart when he sees Peter brainwashed committing crimes, is initially mad, but then tries to get to Spider-Man when he sees the truth. He's got quite a bit to do, but he's getting better.
• Mythology Gag:
  • His thermal jumpsuit and breathing mask which is a homage to the New Goblin.
  • His Hobgoblin alter ego is a homage to his Ultimate counterpart in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics.
• The Not-Love Interest: Similar to his counterpart in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012). Harry's friendship with Peter, and how it's affected by Peter's supposed flakiness, is the focus of multiple episodes and one of Peter's most important relationships.
• Put on a Bus: Season 2 has Harry (initially) running Oscorp overseas, or so Harry had claimed. Maximum Venom also has a noticeable lack of Harry until the climax, though Harry's whereabouts aren't explicitly alluded to this time.
• Red Herring: During "The Hobgoblin" arc, Harry believes that his Hobgoblin alter ego has become a Split Personality who is trying to kill Spider-Man. Subverted as it's actually Norman gaslighting him and impersonating the Hobgoblin to eliminate Spider-Man due to believing Harry wouldn't.
• Secret-Keeper: He finds out that Peter is Spider-Man in "Spider-Island, Part 4", and was willing to keep it secret even though they weren't on the best of terms.
• Took a Level in Badass: Happens gradually throughout the series, usually coinciding with Harry's moments of character change and growth.
  • His fight against Dark Goblin in "Generations" shows that Harry's stepped up his game as a fighter during his long periods Out of Focus in Season 2 and Maximum Venom. He's shown to be able to keep up with Peter and the other Spiders, performing honed parkour and acrobatic feats with just his Hobgoblin suit. While he loses his Goblin Glider early on, Harry still manages to keep pace and show off some epic maneuvers with a little help from Pete as support. He even deals the finishing blow to his dad that knocks the Dark Goblin back into the containment unit that transformed his dad in the first place, complete with a heroically timed One-Liner. A stark contrast to his first real fight against Blizzard in Season 1.
• Uncle Pennybags: Wants to be this for Peter, bringing lunch and breakfast and offering to help cover the tuition costs of attending Horizon High, but Peter turns him down on the basis that it wouldn't feel right to be using his connections that way.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Rather than show appreciation for being saved from the Spider Slayer, he accuses Spider-Man of trying to kill him. Subsequent episodes have him develop a grudge against the web-slinger. He reaches his lowest point in the "Spider-Island" arc when he lashes out at Spider-Man for getting Osborn Academy destroyed even when New York is saved.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He really wants Norman's appreciation, going out of his way to try and impress Norman at every turn with his increasingly over the top and dangerous inventions. But, surprise, surprise, poor Harry doesn't get any of it because his dad is Norman Osborn.
  • This dilemma is officially resolved in "Generations". Upon confronting the Dark Goblin, Harry muses that there was a point where he'd do anything for his father's approval. He then definitively concludes that that point has long since past, and they may share blood but Norman is no father of Harry's.
• We Used to Be Friends: He ends his friendship with Peter in "The Rise of Doc Ock, Part 4" after he gets fed up with Peter backing up Spider-Man, and again during "Spider-Island, Part 5". Thankfully, their friendship is rekindled during "The Hobgoblin" arc.

---