- Ascended Fan Nickname: The Brazilian Portuguese dubbing of the series used the Brazilian nickname for Spider-Man, "Miranha", as a translation for "Spidey" (which had already been done in Marvel's Avengers). Miranha is a deliberate wordplay with the translated name of the hero in Portuguese, "Homem-Aranha" note that got popularized by YouTube comedian Lucas Inutilismo in a series of viral videos in which he wears a purposely ill-fitting Spider-Man costume and calls himself "miranha", and then got adopted by the Brazilian fandom of the hero as an affectionate nickname.
- Awesome Music: "Neighbor Like Me
" by The Math Club is a poppy rap remix of the classic Spider-Man (1967), going the lengths to praise Spidey's impact as "your friendly neighborhood" in Queens. It deserves bonus points for giving a mainline Spider-Man cartoon a proper theme song again, with the full song being three and a half minutes. Plus it's filled with references to Spider-Man's history, calling him "Spectacular, Ultimate, he's Amazing," and even has Miles Morales's "Imma do my own thing." - Growing the Beard: While people were initially put off by the animation style and the changes to the Spider-Man lore in the first batch of episodes (1-2), viewers who stuck around agree that the show starts picking up during the second batch (3-5) after Peter's alliance with Norman and his growing friendship with Harry, and the subplot of Lonnie getting involved with the 110th is seen as pretty engaging.
- Ho Yay: Harry telling Peter "go get 'em, tiger", a phrase usually associated with Spider-Man's Love Interest Mary Jane Watson, comes across as flirty.
- Memetic Mutation:
- Miguel's gettin' UPSET. Explanation
- Watcher PTSD Explanation (spoilers for X-Men ‘97!)
- Memetic Psychopath: This version of Spider-Man has immediately received this reputation from fans thanks to a scene in the first trailer of him webbing up a brick and hitting a criminal in the head with it, which many have noted would most likely kill the person in real life, given how hard bricks are. Peter's voice actor Hudson Thames' controversial comments about concerns of the show being "annoying" or "woke" have also led to a slew of unflattering memes of The YFNSM version of Peter being a flat-out racist, or a variant of the controversial Spider-Man: Lotus. One such example is seen in this article
from parody website Hard Drive: Peter Parker calls for a Sentinel attack on the mutants at Xavier School, and this time is not a clone, nor due to symbiote influence. - Older Than They Think:
- This is not the first time in which a Spider-Man show is done in CGI animation. Both Spider-Man: The New Animated Series and Spidey and His Amazing Friends were also done with CGI animation.
- This show also doesn't mark the first return to full theme songs post-The Spectacular Spider-Man for Spidey cartoons; Spidey and His Amazing Friends beat it to the punch by three years, provided by Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump.
- The show gives a Race Lift to various characters, which isn't anything new to the franchise. It's happened with other shows, such as The Spectacular Spider-Man making Liz Allan a Latina and Ned Leeds Asian.note
- Lonnie not having albinism and getting his trademark white skin from the accident that empowers him is something that had previously occured with his depiction in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
- Harry starting WEB, the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, which isn't original to the show. It was also used in Avengers C.A.M.P.U.S., albeit created by Tony Stark.
- Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading: Some viewers interpreted Nico's interactions with Peter in episode 5 as romantic due to her being disappointed that the two weren't able to spend time together and her behavior when Peter brought Harry with him to join them at the movies when said behavior was implied to actually be because of Nico fearing that Peter would stop hanging out with her because of his association with the Osborns.
- Shocking Moments: The scene where Scorpion impaled a 110th member on-screen caught viewers off-guard.
- Spiritual Successor: The show can be considered the modern day equivalent to Spider-Man: The New Animated Series. Both adaptations are alternate universe stories to their timely film counterparts, presented in a cel-shaded art style inspired by specific eras of Spider-Man comics. Furthermore, unlike most Spider-Man shows aimed squarely at young kids, TNAS and YFNSM feature consistent amounts of swearing, more overtly mature themes, and surprisingly amounts of bloody violence atypical for their animated medium.
- Tainted by the Preview:
- Fans were not impressed by the cel-shaded CGI animation in the first trailer, with many accusing it of being cheap, slow, and choppy looking. It didn't help that the show had the poor luck of coming out in the wake of the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse films (which uses a similar comic-book-inspired Painted CGI aesthetic), which has led to many unfavorable comparisons. It also didn't help that much of the show's concept art and promotional art is 2D, which gave fans the false impression that the show would be traditionally animated, leading many to feel lied to when the trailer dropped.
- Many groaned when it was revealed that the show will once again depict Peter Parker as a high school student, which many found to be extremely overdone given how many adaptations have done it at this point. It doesn't help that the show is coming out in light of the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse films, the Insomniac video games, and the 2024 Ultimate Spider-Man comic, which were acclaimed for portraying Peter as a grown-up.
- Some fans were annoyed with the announcement of other Marvel characters like Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and Nico Minoru appearing as major characters. Mainly because of worries that the show will be more focused on crossovers with the greater Marvel universe than on Peter Parker and his own supporting cast, not unlike the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon and the MCU Spider-Man Series, which were hit by that very criticism.
- Changing the death of Uncle Ben literally made the news
. It's clear that removing something so fundamental to Peter's origin and motivations is not going over well with certain parts of the fandom.
- Tear Jerker: Lonnie's entire subplot and Start of Darkness can be considered this. He starts off as a smart, kind, welcoming Big Man on Campus in a happy relationship with Pearl and on great terms with his family (albeit being profiled by a police officer). It all goes downhill from there as he finds out that his little brother is in a gang and was escorted home by police after having been caught doing graffiti. He goes to bring him home when he sneaks out and makes a deal to take his brother's place. He ends up being forced to miss classes and football practice and lies to Pearl about what is going on; Big Donovan even makes it so that their rival gang the Scorpions know of his involvement. He ends up warming up into his place in the gang as he is kicked off the team and pushes Pearl away more and she confronts him in the gang's hideout and the Scorpion attacks. Pearl pleads with him to take the chance to leave, but he doesn't, thinking that the gang is his best bet to protect his family and feeling that he owes them for looking out for him. Pearl breaks it off with him and Lonnie doesn't listen when Peter tries to reason with him. Really, it's heartbreaking to look at the all around Nice Guy he was at the start who was welcoming to Peter, a great boyfriend for Pearl and a Cool Big Bro to Andre; and compare him to the aloof stubborn person he's become who has thrown his life away and has embraced his place in the 110th Street Gang.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- Many were upset when it was revealed that the "Future Foundation" suit (which Peter wore when he joined the Fantastic Four after the death of Johnny Storm) was changed to be an Oscorp suit, with many finding the move to be lazy and disrespectful to its original context. Many also wondered why the cartoon didn't use the pre-existing Oscorp suit from Zeb Wells' run instead. Word of God would clarify that the show entered production before the comic run so it wasn’t created to be used at the time.
- The show's deviation from Peter's typical supporting cast — replacing the likes of Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy, Liz Allan, Flash Thompson, etc. with characters typically entirely unrelated to the Spider-Man brand such as Nico Minoru, Pearl Pangan, and an aged-down Lonnie Lincoln (otherwise known as the grown, established albino supervillain Tombstone) of all people — has also been met with some contention by fans.
- The reveal in the tie-in comics that Uncle Ben's death was changed from him being killed by a criminal Spider-Man failed to stop to him passing away a few years before Peter became Spider-Man immediately had fans up in arms, upset that something incredibly fundamental to Peter's character and the Spider-Man mythos as a whole had been changed like that.
- Unexpected Character:
- The series is set to feature
several Marvel characters who don't have particularly close, if any, ties to Spider-Man or his supporting cast. The most notable example is arguably Nico Minoru — who's being made Spidey's best friend here — but Amadeus Cho, Jeanne Foucault, and Pearl Pangan are also set to make appearances (with this also being the first time that Jeanne and Pearl have appeared in a non-video game adaptation period). - While obvious in retrospect, Norman and Harry were briefly this due to the original plan for the show being a prequel to the Captain America: Civil War, with No Way Home establishing that Oscorp, and seemingly the Osborns, don't exist in the MCU.
- Daredevil and the Kingpin being involved in this show is quite surprising. While both characters are affiliated with Spider-Man in the source material, they aren't predominantly part of Spider-Man's origin story. They're also being voiced by their MCU actors Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio, which is shocking since not only are they best known for their Darker and Edgier depictions of their respective characters in live-action. However, this show is explicitly confirmed as Canon Discontinuity with the mainline MCU.
- Among the interns at Oscorp is Asha
, a Wakandan girl who appeared in some Black Panther comics in the 2010s and who has no connection to Spider-Man. - The football coach in Episode 2 is named Coach Grayfield in the end credits, as in Phil Grayfield, aka NFL SuperPro. The fact that such an obscure character who was previously supposed to be Exiled from Continuity due to the licensing agreement between Marvel and NFL ending managed to make a cameo shocked many.
- Speed Demon is a villain who's faced Spider-Man in the comics before but has never appeared in any notable Spider-Man media before this (having only appeared once in an adaptation before this when he appeared in Avengers Assemble, which adapted his earlier history as a Corrupted Character Copy of The Flash who was part of the Squadron Sinister, whom the show combined with the Squadron Supreme). As such, it can be surprising to see him finally get representation in "Secret Identity Crisis" considering we've had decades of Spider-Man cartoons and no writer apparently ever considered him notable or interesting enough to use in all this time.
- Mikhail Sytsevich being used in a similar role filled by his son Alexei before he becomes the Rhino. Not only has he not appeared in any of the adaptations before, but he has never even appeared in the comics before (only mentioned).
- The first season finale features a scene of Aunt May visiting none other than Peter's father Richard, normally a Posthumous Character who is supposed to have died in a plane crash along with Peter's mother, in prison. And the fact that Richard is voiced by Josh Keaton makes it more shocking, especially to fans of The Spectacular Spider-Man.
- The day after the first season finale, Jeff Trammell confirmed on his social media
that Gwen Stacy will appear in Season 2. While Gwen appearing is not totally unexpected given that she's one of Peter's most iconic supporting characters, she's more known as Spider-Gwen these days, which came as even more of a shock when it's confirmed she'll also appear as Spider-Gwen in the show.
- The series is set to feature
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Spider-Man shows are generally appropriate for kids to watch in some way, shape, or form. This show is not like those shows. It's rated TV-14, and it definitely shows due to a good deal of swearing and more intense violence.
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