Summary
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is a classic, Steve Ditko-inspired show focusing on a broke Peter Parker balancing life in high school and as a superhero.
- The animated series should provide fans with more traditional Spider-Man stories than the MCU.
- Spider-Man 4 should also explore a more classic direction for the character after Spider-Man: No Way Home's ending.
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The upcoming animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has just received an exciting update. Tom Holland will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Peter Parker in Spider-Man 4; however, that will not be the only project focusing on Spider-Man at Marvel Studios. The animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man should premiere before Spider-Man 4 on Disney+, and newly revealed details of the show make it the project MCU fans have been asking for the character for some time.
Speaking to ComicBook.com, Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios' Head of Animation and Streaming, revealed that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is everything fans of the character have been asking for. According to Winderbaum, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is a story that strips the character back to the basics, focusing on Peter trying to help his aunt while completely broke and balancing that with a life as a superhero. After the MCU's Spider-Man movies tried new things with the character, the fans' wishes for more classic Spider-Man stories by Marvel seem to be answered by the animated series. Check out the full quote below:
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"I mean, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is amazing, to say the least. I think it's really going to surprise people. It is very much like a cut from that Steve Ditko era of the comics. It's Peter Parker back in high school just trying to make it work, take care of his aunt, completely broke, and having to be a superhero. It's so essentially Spider-Man, and what Jeff Trammell, the creator of that show, did, which I think people are going to love, is he built this ensemble of characters around Peter that you fall in love with."
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How Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man & The MCU Could Connect
The MCU's Spider-Man Is Heading In A New Direction
The MCU has tried to do new things with Peter Parker. Over Holland's three solo movies as Spider-Man, the character had his story tightly linked to Iron Man's, and while that presented a fresh cinematic take on the character, fans have been asking for a more classic version of Spider-Man in the MCU for some time. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will do just that. The animated series presenting a broke Peter Parker who tries his best to both save the world and help his aunt is just what the character needs.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man comes just at the time that the MCU itself seems poised to present a more classic story for the character in Holland's Spider-Man 4. That is because Spider-Man: No Way Home's ending set up Peter to go back to basics in the MCU. At the end of the film, Peter is left alone due to Doctor Strange's memory spell and thus has to move into a small apartment all by himself and sew his new Spider-Man costume, as he has no more access to Stark Tech.
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The main difference between the new direction Holland's Spider-Man is headed in and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is related to Peter Parker's age. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter was finishing high school, setting him up for more mature stories and perhaps a college setting in Spider-Man 4. In the animated series, Peter will be back in high school for classic Spider-Man adventures. While Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has no set release date, the series is expected to arrive on Disney+ in 2024.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is a 2D-animated series that retells Peter Parker's early years and pays homage to the character's original comics. Although Marvel Studios produces it, the show does not occur in the same MCU continuity as Tom Holland's live-action Peter Parker. Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio reprise their roles as Daredevil and Kingpin.
- Cast
- Charlie Cox , Paul F. Tompkins , Vincent D'Onofrio
- Seasons
- 2
- Streaming Service(s)
- Disney Plus
- Main Genre
- Animation
- Creator(s)
- Jeff Trammell
Upcoming Marvel Movies | Release Date |
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| July 26, 2024 |
Captain America: Brave New World | February 14, 2025 |
Thunderbolts* | May 2, 2025 |
Fantastic Four | July 25, 2025 |
Blade | November 7, 2025 |
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty | May 1, 2026 |
Avengers: Secret Wars | May 7, 2027 |
Source: ComicBook.com
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