History Recap / SpiderManTheAnimatedSeriesS05E06SixForgottenWarriorsChapterV

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mary Jane is able to survive and recover a blast from Electro, despite being a normal person with no powers. This is the first of her true nature in the next two episodes.

* EurekaMoment: When Captain America mentions how the Red Skull would never allow someone to be more powerful than him during the time he spent with in the vortex, Spider-Man than realizes the vortex was created to inhabit Electro's powers.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mary Jane is able to survive and recover a blast from Electro, despite being a normal person with no powers. This is the first of her true nature in the next two episodes.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Electro demonstrates how powerful he is, the remaining five members of the Insidious Six decide to leave, not wanting to deal with Electro and feeling that working the Kingpin is too much trouble.
* TheStarscream: Electro ultimately betrays his father when he grows sick of his father's arrogant cruelty and realizes that his father was willing to use the empowering machine on him despite knowing it could have killed Rheinholt.

* AxCrazy: Electro. Given the man wanted to bring back the Red Skull and conquer the world with him, this goes without saying. Post powerup, it becomes even more prominent, as he realizes his immense powers means that global conquest as solo project is now within his grasp.

* ChekhovsGun: The Vortex that was built in the complex of Project Doomsday, The Red Skull built to keep Electro's powers in check in case the latter decided to betray him.
* CompositeCharacter: While his costume comes from Max Dillion, his origin as a Russian agent who was in an experiment to battle Captain America is influenced by the second Electro, named Ivan Kronov. He also has much of the character of Albert Malik, by being a Russian agent masquerading as the real Red Skull and has involvement with the cover-up of what happened to Peter's parents, though he wasn't directly responsible for their deaths like Malik was.

** The Fate of Felicia's father, John Hardesky, who allowed himself to be taken back into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody to protect his knowledge of the super solider formula that made Captain America who he is, when Electro destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters is never revealed.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: While Electro's costume may look ridiculous, he proves himself to a dangerous threat to the world.

After Electro leaves with the Red Skull's robots, whom he reenergized as his loyal troops, NYPD and FDNY arrive at the bunker, where while the Six American Warriors present their IDs to the first responders to show they are federal operatives, Spider-Man helps the wounded Kingpin into an ambulance, where Fisk is taken into custody while being treated for his injuries, while Doctor Octopus and the other members of the Insidious Six take their leave to return to their old criminal lives. After Kingpin is taken away, Spider-Man and Captain America convince Silver Sable and the Wild Pack to return home and leave fighting Electro to them.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Electro attacks the United Nations, to show how serious the President is taking Electro as a threat S.H.I.E.L.D. reveals its existence and has its headquarters appear in plain at the U.N. to demand Electro's surrender.

** The Fate of Felicia's father, John Hardesky, who allowed himself to be taken back into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody to protect his knowledge of the super solider formula that made Captain America who he is, when Electro destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: It is unknown what became of the Kingpin after he was taken into an ambulance after being shocked by Electro.

* UndyingLoyalty: The Chameleon to the Red Skull. While Electro betrays his father after getting his powers and decides to TakeOverTheWorld himself, the Chameleon remains completely loyal to his adoptive father and stays by his side.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: The Kingpin is disappointed when he discovers that the Doomsday Weapon is Electro, a solider that can control and harness energy, as he sees Electro as another fool in costume. Electro proves the Kingpin wrong when he demonstrates just how powerful he truly is.

The Doomsday weapon is revealed is able to give a person to the power to control energy, which the Red Skull uses on his son to turn him into a powerful villain known as Electro, who then turns on his father and decides to archive world domination for himself, and it's up to Spider-Man, Captain America, and the American Six to stop Electro.

* Ax-Crazy: Electro. Given the man wanted to bring back the Red Skull and conquer the world with him, this goes without saying. Post powerup, it becomes even more prominent, as he realizes his immense powers means that global conquest as solo project is now within his grasp.

* BittersweetEnding: Electro is stopped and imprisoned the vortex after Spider-Man is able trick, alongside his father and Captain America, and the American Six and Spider-Man destroy the complex for Project: Doomsday to keep the Red Skull and Electro never escape, but trapping Captain America alongside them for good.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While in the comics the Red Skull had no son, so it appears Rheinholt was simply created for the show, then it turns out he's the cartoon's incarnation of Electro.

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: While in the comics the Red Skull had no son, so it appears Rheinholt was simply created for the show, then it turns out he's the cartoon's incarnation of Electro.

The Doomsday weapon is revealed is able to give a person to the power to control energy, which the Red Skull uses on his son to turn him into a powerful villain known as Electro, who then turns on his father and decides to archive world domination for himself.

AdaptationalLateAppearance: Electro in the comics was notably one of the first villains Spider-Man faced, while this incarnation doesn't show up until the fifth season.

* AdaptationalBadass: Technically, zigzagged. In the comics, Electro is actually a huge powerhouse... but he's so psychologically screwed up that he continuously thwarts himself, which has even been lampshaded in the comics. This version of Electro has all of the power and none of the psychological hang-ups. He brings down all of S.H.I.E.L.D. with a gesture, and is too powerful for Spider-Man to confront directly. It probably helped that the cartoon version was literally a different person from the comics incarnation.