History Trivia / SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries

** He also hated the Spider Slayer robots featured in two season 1 episodes and only included them [[ExecutiveMeddling at Avi Arad's insistence]].

** Another UPN-related character embargo happened because of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996'' airing on that network. Because of this, the Hulk is only mentioned a few times in the series and couldn't be used in the show's ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' adaptation, which replaced him with the Lizard.

* FlipFlopOfGod: When drafting ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', writer Dan Slott and editor Nick Lowe decided that ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' was "logically" the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', and killed off the show's Spider-Man to show how dangerous a threat the Inheritors were. A few years later, the 1990's animated series' Spider-Man cameoed in ''ComicBook/Xmen92'' with no explanation whatsoever as to how he was still alive. However this turned out to be false as both TAS and ''Unlimited'' had already been established to take place in two different realities, Earth-92131 and Earth-751263 respectively, while the designation Slott used, Earth-7831, is a new universe showing a BroadStrokes version of ''Unlimited''.

** Linda Gary reprised her role as Aunt May in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1981'' (at least until Gary died and was replaced by Julie Bennett).
** The three-part adaptation of ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' had Creator/QuintonFlynn reprise his role as the Human Torch from the second season of ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries''.

** Creator/JamesAvery reprised his role from the first season of ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'' as War Machine, likely because of his successor, Dorian Harewood, voicing Tombstone.

* FlipFlopOfGod: When drafting ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', writer Dan Slott and editor Nick Lowe decided that ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' was "logically" the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', and killed off the show's Spider-Man to show how dangerous a threat the Inheritors were. A few years later, the 1990's animated series' Spider-Man cameoed in ''ComicBook/Xmen92'' with no explanation whatsoever as to how he was still alive. However this turned out to be false as both TAS and ''Unlimited'' had already been established to take place in two different realities, Earth-92131 and Earth-751263 respectively, while the designation Slott used, Earth-7821, is a new universe showing a BroadStrokes version of ''Unlimited''.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/DavidWarner, who is of Jewish descent, voiced the ComicBook/RedSkull (but only for a cameo, Skull's main voice actor is Earl Boen), a literal Nazi.

*** Iron Man is voiced by Aiko Kaito (''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'') instead of Masashi Ebara (his voice actor from ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries''.
*** Captain America is voiced by Toru Okawa instead of Wataru Takagi.

** A very notable example for the Japanese dub is that none of cast members for ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' reprise their roles for the crossover episode.

* TheOtherDarrin: In the Japanese version:
** None of the X-Men characters are reprised by their voice actors from the Japanese version of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''.
** Iron Man is voiced by Aiko Kaito (''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'') instead of Masashi Ebara (his voice actor from ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries''.
** Captain America is voiced by Toru Okawa instead of Wataru Takagi.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Has its own page.]]

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** Several key cast members on this show also played major characters on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. These include Creator/EfremZimbalistJr (Alfred Pennyworth) as Dr. Octopus, Creator/MarkHamill (the Joker) as Hobgoblin, Creator/DavidWarner (Ra's al Ghul) as Dr. Landon, Creator/EdwardAsner (Roland Daggett) as J. Jonah Jameson and Creator/RichardMoll (Two-Face) as the second voice of the Scorpion. Additionally, Creator/JohnVernon (Rupert Thorne) and Creator/MaryKayBergman (the second voice of Batgirl) voiced Doctor Strange and Gwen Stacy in their respective guest appearances.
** Several voice actors who would go on to be in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' franchise are involved here. Among others, [[Creator/DavidHayter Captain America]] is Solid Snake and Naked Snake, the Green Goblin is Col. Volgin, [[Creator/JenniferHale Black Cat]] is Naomi Hunter and Emma Emmerich, [[Creator/CamClarke Mr. Fantastic]] is Liquid Snake, [[Creator/QuintonFlynn the Human Torch]] is Raiden, the Red Skull and the Beyonder are Sergei Gurlukovich, [[Creator/GreggBerger Mysterio and Kraven]] are the Pain, and [[Creator/RobPaulsen Hydro Man]] is the Cyborg Ninja.

* In the Japanese version, many of the characters are reprised by their voice actors from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends''.

** None of the X-Men characters are reprised by their voice actors from the Japanese version of ''WesternAnimationXMenTheAnimatedSeries''.
** Iron Man is voiced by Aiko Kaito (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends) instead of Masashi Ebara (his voice actor from ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries''.

* TheOtherDarrin:
* In the Japanese version:

* FlipFlopOfGod: When drafting ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', writer Dan Slott and editor Nick Lowe decided that ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' was "logically" the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', and killed off the show's Spider-Man to show how dangerous a threat the Inheritors were. A few years later, the 1990's animated series' Spider-Man cameoed in ''ComicBook/XMen92'' with no explanation whatsoever as to how he was still alive. However this turned out to be false as both TAS and ''Unlimited'' had already been established to take place in two different realities, Earth-92131 and Earth-751263 respectively, while the designation Slott used, Earth-7821, is a new universe showing a BroadStrokes version of ''Unlimited''.