Why Spider Man (The Animated Series) Is Important

The Uncle Ben and Spider Carnage moment made me tear up.

It really hits hard when a VA has such a genuine, heart breaking scream. Christopher Barnes definitely has one of those. Every time Peter was screaming like when the Mary Jane clone died, it just hits harder than it should, his performance is THAT good.

The ending to this show was amazing. Him meeting Stan Lee really brings the inner guilt and depression that Peter suffered throughout the series full circle. “For Once I love my life”, was Spider-Man embracing who he was and is something we can all inspire for inner peace and acceptance of who and what we have gone through.

You forgot to mention that Doc Ock was voiced by the late great Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who also voiced Alfred Pennyworth from the DCAU. He even reprised his role in the 2000 video game and the first version of the Universal Studios attraction.

Im glad someone agrees with me about the ending. Peter's character arc is complete in a way the comics never could.

As someone who grew up in the UK. This is my introduction to Spider-Man. Comics were annoying to collect, you would get 1-4 then none for weeks then 6-8. Every comic book I collected I had gaps. The cartoons were my real introduction to Spider-man, Batman, xmen, fantastic 4 and iron man. I feel like a lot of kids who grew up in the 90’s might be the same.

I think the way they changed the symbiote was the most impactful aspect of the show's legacy by far.

The theme song still holds up to this date

What can I say? It’s my favorite piece of spidey media of all time. I love it the most these days because it managed to do everything the other animated shows either didn’t or didn’t get to do.

That underwater fight scene between him and the Lizard. THAT was revolutionary animation.

Christopher Daniel Barnes and Joshua Keaton are still my favorite Spider-Men, regardless of medium. No other iteration of the character have ever captured the character better than the 90s Animated Series and the criminally underrated "Spectacular Spider-Man".

This show was great. People always talk about the "censorship" (which this show didn't have any more than X-Men). No matter how old this series gets, it will always be great. I'm also glad it stayed true to the 60's comics.

I really like 90s Spider-Man animated series it was really awesome and tons of fun and basically my childhood growing up in my opinion.

Spider-Man: The Animated Series is an important part of media because of how well it established the characters, themes, and stories in ways that were never done before, helping create one of the best iterations of Spider-Man to date.

This show was one of the best adaptations of Venom. A good reason to hate the wall-crawler, reasoning to become an anti hero by fighting Carnage, and working with Spider-Man.

This show is still my favorite superhero show of all time. The Raimi movies feel like great companions since they took inspiration from the show. Really feels like it was the character from the show brought to life.

This may be a 90s show but I was born in 2000 and this was one of my first introductions into spiderman as well as the 2002 movie I had this show on vhs as a kid and I saw reruns on abc family and jetix I love this show and have watched all the seasons a legit billion times in my life like I’ve probably seen it more than people who watched it when it was on the air I love this show it’s the goat of spiderman cartoons

Thank you for making this video. I grew up in the 80s and 90s and this was the first well-made Spider-Man cartoon series I watched growing up. I read The Uncanny X-Men & X-Men as a kid while the original X-Men 90s series was on, but didn’t really get into Spidey until the show aired (I was in 6th grade when it first came out on Fox). I got heavy into Spider-Man reading Amazing, Spectacular, The Web Of, Sensational, & what was then known just as Spider-Man comics. I’d leaf through long boxes at the local comic book stores in my hometown (there used to be so many, usually next to arcades) to get the original available prints that the animated series had episodes based on and to this day, in my 40s now… Pete’s my favorite superhero of all time and I have all my old comics from the 80s and 90s. Watching this video brought back so many memories and even a tear to my eye. 😢

While Spidey wasn't allowed to punch people, the villains most certainly were, the biggest punch i remember is Smythe punching Kingpin in the gut

"Power of web shooters! Get real STICKY!" All in all, a fantastic retrospective of one of my personal favorite Spidey (and 90s era) cartoons (👏)!