#ultimate spider-man TV show

[zunshiner]

bro ultimate spider-man is insane, like wdym the first thing they do as a team is try to beat up dr dooms ass

[oswaldthehero]

The 2nd consistency I’ve seen is doc ock and vulture being bros/knowing each other

I just like details

[tvandfilmarvel]

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (2012) Great Power - 1x1 dir. Alex Soto & Tim Eldred.

[brown-spider]

The mass consensus seems to be that Spectacular Spider-Man is the best spidey tv show for characterization of Peter and Spider-Man, but one of my favorite things about spidey is his relationship with new york and the way he becomes a role model. Rn its rlly hard to see Spectacular Peter as any sort of role model, and the story is more focused on either supervillains or high school struggles. Even at his most petty/obnoxious, variations of spidey still at least comes off as what kids would see as a Cool Big Brother if nothing else, and thats what im missing from the show. Idk if he matures in a later season or something but rn i feel like im watching a 12 yr old with a job fhskdb

[jolikmc-thoughts]

I really need to do more reports regarding what I've been watching…

I recently finished watching Ultimate Spider-Man from 2012. It starts off kind of annoying, since it ditches the whole "Spider-Man doing his own thing" pretty early. It also kind of tanks in the middle of Season 3, but I'll get to that.

The initial premise is "what if S.H.I.E.L.D. made a team of teenage heroes and trained them to their 'ultimate' potential?" Well, Nick Fury does exactly that, tossing an eclectic team of Spider-Man, Nova, White Tiger, and Iron Fist head-first into training and being super. I wasn't on-board at first, since I kind of prefer how other series did Spider-Man and his day-to-day life, but it didn't take long for the other characters to grow on me.

Nova is a dork. White Tiger is pretty cool. But Iron Fist? He's simply the best of the team, aside from Spidey. He's the best of both a "surfer dude" and "zen martial artist" and is often the voice of neutrality when problems within the team pop up. He has his issues, of course, but he's just a joy to have around!

So, around the middle of Season 3, the series shifts dramatically and starts focusing almost exclusively on the "Web Warriors" of Iron Spider, Kid Arachnid, Agent Venom, and Scarlet Spider. And… the show quickly goes downhill from that point on. There are still a few good episodes here and there, but the shift to the "spider-clones" just makes for a really uninteresting and unappealing show, to me. Why they thought this was a good idea is beyond me. 'Cause it wasn't.

Anyway… while it's not as absolutely amazing as Spectacular Spider-Man or even Spider-Man (2016), it has its charms. For example, it absolutely loves… loves… to make shout-outs to Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends from the 1980s. I was kind of surprised Iceman and Firestar didn't show up at some point, even if just for a cameo. They did bring back the worst villain from that series: Swarm, but made it way more interesting, so there's that. Beetle is there, too, though I don't think he originated from Amazing Friends. I digress, though.

Flaws aside, it's a pretty decent watch and I'd recommend it. Just don't let this very strange interpretation of Dr. Octopus turn you away too hard. It's… unique.

[juustalexx]

day 60 of drawing spider-man until beyond the spider-verse comes out

[flamegobrrrr]

deciding to watch ultimate spider-man was. certainly a choice that i made. i love and hate this show at the same time. the moment i finish im gonna rewatch it. it focuses too much on the action and bad guys for me but damn when i get those little scraps of friendship it makes my next 5 minutes. the fact that im on season 4 of 4 kills me but at the same time im annoyed with the direction they chose to go. love hate relationship with media is the best way to consume it tbh

[g4zdtechtv]

FULL EPISODE: The Man Show S1E1

You’re Dam Right.

[sinnermannn]

Didn’t expect to see Ms. Minutes tell me about one Spider-Man’s most traumatic moments in his life but here we are. Subscribe for more!

[cwtchartsworld]

I read comics (young avengers accurately), watch "ultimate Spider-Man" tv show and read fanfiction on Ao3, all day.

This is how I face this horrible period. I hope it passes soon...

For now I look for comfort in this things.

[pxparkerr]

would probably be something like this:

(from Amazing Spider-Man 2014 issue #11)

What would happen if MCU Peter met Miles? Cause tbh I think they'd become friends right away. They are just so alike, and aghhh!

[ariyougood]

My favourite thing EVER is the little sub fandom that’s currently all of my tiktok fyp of Peter Parker in Gotham.

Like- I could go on for hours about how amazing theses fics are, but even on a sentimental level it’s so fucking cool to see.

Spider-Man (and the MCU in general) was literally my entire childhood. Ultimate Spider-Man? Avengers Assemble? Earth’s Mightiest Heroes? Little six year old me was drawing fanart before I even knew what fanart WAS. Andrew Garfield? #1 Celebrity crush growing up. The Marvel Cinematic Universe? I have my walls covered in posters, my laptop wallpaper is that one Cap vs Thanos’ army scene from endgame and I have an infinity gauntlet lamp on my bedside table.

Recently though, like October 2022, I’ve been obsessed with the batfam and DC in general. Learning as much as I can about the comics, watching all the CW tv shows (including titans) and all the movies. Hell- I’ve been watching shows like Young Justice (which was another childhood show), Teen Titans (03) + the tie-in comics for both, the Justice League animated series, and so many other that I’m blanking on.

It’s so fucking cool to see people who love Spider-Man and Marvel find these fics and start asking how to get into DC and vice versa. Like- humans are so fucking cute man idk T°T

[hurtspideyparker]

Being a Spider-Man fan is great because you will never know everything about that guy. There's just so many versions and iterations of him, especially in comics and TV.

I got a Spider-Man sticker set and I didn't even recognize one of the characters and googled it—it's Spider-Man in his homemade suit from the 2017 animated show. Like my bad, I only watched the Spectacular Spider-Man show and Ultimate Spider-Man show this year, plus whatever crunchy animation I found as a kid. Clearly I'm underperforming!

At least I rest assured he's such a cash cow that Marvel will never stop the Spider-Man content. Bro can't even go one year without a new television production 😭 let him rest !!!

[theneonghosts]

Started reading 'Your friendly Neighbourhood Spider-man'

And Nico Minoru is on the like second pannel?!?

Is this a Runaways resurgence we are seeing in the year of our lord 2024, first Ultimate Xmen now this!

Also this looks to be a mix of MCU and original content due to young Aunt May and Nico not being in LA like in the Runaways TV show (which is indead cannon to the MCU).

[whocaresstillthelouvre]

👍🏻2024 Faves👍🏻

Thanks for the lovely tags! @sawymredfox and @jolapeno

Books Listen, I'm terrible at reading now that I make too many make 'em up scenarios in my head and have to write them out. I'm going to give you recs of comics I read this year.

Astonishing Spider-Man (Scott Aukerman can do it all folks.)

Disney x Marvel (Very wacky, love the Donald Duck What If? Wolverine.)

Ultimate X-Men (Peach Momoko's stories are just as amazing as her art.)

Monster High (I'm definitely older than the target audience but it's cute and fun af.)

Fantastic Four (I'm not just saying this because of the Pedro of it all, but the newer comics have been amazing. Looking at you, #8)

Transformers (Holy crap. I only started because my husband loved them and WOW the story. I'll read anything Daniel Warren Johnson writes.)

I CANNOT WAIT FOR ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER IN MARCH

Movies (* are rewatches)

I Saw The TV Glow

Holdovers*

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Dicks: The Musical

Late Night With The Devil

Y2K

Here's a list of classic movies I ALWAYS rewatch: Philadelphia Story, Auntie Mame, What's Up Doc?, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Home, Horse Feathers, Rear Window, Night of the Hunter

TV Shows (* are rewatches)

Smosh and Smosh compilations. Pretend it's on TV.

RIVALS

Ghosts (both CBS and BBC*)

Taskmaster

Narcos*

Fallout

Artists/Albums

Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift

God Said No by Omar Apollo

Hit Me Hard & Soft by Billie Eilish

Short 'n Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter

SOS Deluxe: LANA by SZA

Charm by Clairo

SO MUCH The 1975 for the latter half of the year.

Went through mild relisten obsessions with Interpol, TV On The Radio, Bloc Party, Oasis, James Blake, Jeff Buckley, Frank Ocean.

(Guys, I used to listen to metal and hardcore.)

Tagging: @ohheypedrito, @mothandpidgeon, @schnarfer, @almostfoxglove, @perotovar

[yellowocaballero]

hi! i've been reading some of your older fics and was wondering if there's any merit in watching buffy for the first time in the year 2024

This may not be obvious, but this is actually an extremely complicated and highly subjective question. I'll try to go on for too long.

As background: my mother loved Buffy and its spin-off Angel growing up. It was our Bible (besides the actual Bible). Not kidding, she was on the forums and fan groups and wrote fanfiction for it and everything (These days, she's really into kdramas and Asian dramas, and calls me about how the Thai seem like big fans of gay people). So I'm quite biased.

BTVS is both a product of its times and ahead of its times. It was a show about feminism and the struggle of living in this world as a woman, when very few shows were doing that. It was the first show to have a long-lasting lesbian couple, and the first show to depict a kiss between them. For better or for worse, it was one of the codifiers of broody vampire boyfriend. It was pretty unafraid to be experimental in a lot of what it did. It had incredibly complex and nuanced character work and growth that I still aspire to. Spike's arc is still matched in quality only by Avatar's Zuko. Angel's long term arc, from Buffy to his spin-off series, still makes him one of the most complex characters on TV. It had the most complex depiction of depression on TV at the time and I still think it's one of the best. I think the show had very high highs.

It also had very low lows. Some of the feminism is problematic in retrospect. The sapphic couple has a rather famous element that was severely problematic. There are, overall, some deeply atrocious arcs that I can appreciate objectively but not in practice. Xander: a whole-ass character aged awfully. On a meta level, the workplace conditions were bad (thanks, Whedon.) There are no people of color. The spoiler's sake I won't go into detail on this, but in general the good stuff was so influential and the bad stuff was just awful.

I think these days people tend to brush off the entire thing because it's Whedon. That is more than fair. But I'd also say that Whedon & Buffy is extremely similar to Brian Michael Bendis & Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis was fantastic at writing sassy, bouncy, permanently stressed-out teens - issue was, he wrote entirely different serious adult characters the way he wrote these sassy teens. Same with Whedon: the annoyingly constant quips are perfect for Buffy, because that's who the characters are. They're awful in Marvel, because Steve Rogers is not Xander. Kinda similarly, Buffy was genuinely feminist for 90s TV - issue is, Whedon has not grown or developed his views, and now his works feel so sexist (oh my fucking god why did you treat Natasha like that). After a certain point it's egotistical: you're writing like that because you're Joss Whedon and it's how you write, not because it's what's best for the characters and story. But it was really important to me to get the character voices right, and it's freaking difficult to endlessly write dialogue that distinct, full of voice, witty, and clever.

I think BTVS & Angel TV's greatest influence on my writing is how intensely character-driven both of those shows were, and how intricate the characters were. What every character did was something they would do, if that made sense. Even the stuff I hated to watch, that made me uncomfortable, was the culmination of so much (usually). I think I also picked up the constant wit and humor lol. On a personal level, the conversations I would have with my mother where she broke down the character motivations and composition of the story was my first exposure to looking at storytelling from an analytical perspective and a framework of critical analysis, which was an approach I carried into the rest of the media I consumed and that was the primary reason I was able to become a decent writer. Thanks, Mom. Have fun with your kdramas.

TL:DR: There is merit, especially if you care about good character work. There are things about it that may make you want to drop it, which is extremely valid. Season 1 is rough but interesting, Season 2 and 5 are the best, Season 3 is pretty good, Season 4 and 7 skippable, and Season 6 is........epic highs, epic lows......