T'Challa attempts to escape from the Vault with Klaue's aid, but is betrayed when the arms dealer is assisted by Dr. Adrien Tombs, leading the King of Wakanda to Horizon High, and an encounter with a certain web-spinner...
Tropes:
- Armor-Piercing Question: Black Panther manages to get Spidey to let him go by asking if he ever made a hideous mistake he would do anything to correct.
- Blatant Lies: Vulture tries swearing blind to Spider-Man he's a good guy in the process of apprehending Klaue and Black Panther. Peter doesn't buy it for a second.
- The Bus Came Back: Spider-Man finally returns in this episode after a long absence since Season 2, which was four years ago.
- Cardboard Prison: Vault security still sucks. The guards apparently do nothing to stop prisoners just walking out of their cells to attack others, security cameras are protected by a little panel with easily removed wires, and the storage room for villain tech is guarded by one guard... who's asleep on the job. Never mind that once inside, prisoners can just rummage through the drawers and lockers at will.
- Crossover: With Marvel's Spider-Man, featuring Spidey and Vulture from that show, and a majority of the action taking place at Horizon High.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The "fight" between Black Panther and Crossbones doesn't even deserve the name. T'Challa decks him with one good punch to the stomach.
- Diving Save: The fact T'Challa does one of these helps convince Spider-Man that he's not the bad guy, since a bad guy would never risk his life to save someone he was fighting.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: Iron Man starts reading Spidey the riot act with such a sentence.
- Mêlée à Trois: Between Spidey, Black Panther, Klaue and Vulture, with Peter seeing all three of them as criminals needing webbed up.
- Mythology Gag: Black Panther is able to help persuade Spider-Man to stop attacking him by pointing out he, practically the codifier among superheroes for being a Hero with Bad Publicity, is no stranger to being falsely called a threat and / or menace himself.
- No Honor Among Thieves: Klaue helps Toombs escape, gets him to Horizon Labs, and then Tombs tries to kill him for no real reason. It's not like Klaue had even done anything to Tombs personally that might justify it, like being a Jerkass.
