The Times Spider-Man TV Shows Got Weird

Spider-Man may do whatever a spider can, but there are some things our favorite web-slinger does that would make any self-respecting arachnid blush. As our costumed crusader “thwips” his way through the streets of New York, Spidey falls into all sorts of crazy situations. With nine animated Spider-Man TV Shows behind us, writers try to keep things fresh and this means our wall-crawler can find himself in situations that get bizarre and wild.

While it is true that the animated world has offered us some really weird and odd issues, Spider-Man has also appeared in other shows. For example, he has appeared in most incarnations of the Avengers TV show as well as another Disney TV show called Phineus & Ferb. Truly, he stands out in everything he is in. However, sometimes he gets into some very odd situations we just had to talk about. For your enjoyment, here’s our list of times a Spider-Man TV show got weird.

 

Technically A Spider-Man? 

• Show: Spider-Man (1994)
• EP: Make a Wish

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This particular scene from the 1994 Spider-Man series had to be on this list. Why? This moment was actually my first exposure to Spider-Man as a franchise. As a youngster, I stumbled upon this fever-dream of a moment completely out of context. I’m gonna be honest, it very nearly made me write off this character as too strange for my tastes.

A newly mutated Peter Parker finds his head transposed onto the giant body of an actual spider. He starts to freak out right before an enormous Aunt May (Pete is a spider obviously) comes in and washes him down the drain. It’s true this turns out to be a dream, but just imagine seeing this moment with no idea of what you were watching.

 

Spider-Man & His Rent-Controlled Apartment 

• Show Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
• EP: N/A

This is less of a weird moment in Spider-Man’s TV history and more of a weird era. The webhead has shacked up with The X-Men‘s Iceman and a newly created heroine named Firestar. When the three heroes aren’t fighting crime, they are avoiding moving too much and hanging out in a gadget-filled apartment that would make Batman green with envy. This show tends to not really have conflicts so much as it has minor inconveniences to our three young leads.

They’ll stumble into some sort of problem, easily overpower a villain who won’t stop talking, and then go back to gleefully flaunting their god-like powers in really obvious ways. If that isn’t enough, there’s a “funny” dog that is used in all sorts of weird jokes! This entire series is odd, uncomfortable, and obviously has no interest in following any established Spider-Man canon.

 

Spidey On The High Seas 

• Show: Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man
• EP: Return To The Spider-Verse Part II

To be fair, this episode was definitely meant to be weird, but oh boy does it deliver. Peter Parker and Miles Morales are dimension-hopping in pretty standard Spider-Verse fashion when they come across Web-Beard. This pirate version of Spider-Man is marooned on a desert island with a coconut painted up like the volleyball in Castaway.

Things spiral quickly from here as we learn that Web-Beard’s pirate crew consists of Howard the Duck, Rocket Raccoon, and an inexplicably anthropomorphized Cosmo the Dog. Still not convinced this is weird? They sail around in a boat made out of Groot. We kind of feel that there were better uses for the alien tree being, but oh well!

 

You’re the One Who’s Out, Gobby!

• Show: Spider-Man Unlimited
• EP: Where Evil Nests

When it comes to Spider-Man TV Shows, Spider-Man Unlimited was a bit of a journey into the center of weirdness. It’s based around an alternate Earth on the other side of the sun. There are animal people living in a city above the human New York, which should be odd enough. In addition, Carnage and Venom are trying to awaken an alien evil that’s buried in the old subway systems. It’s wild, confusing, and completely out of control. There’s a lot of weird to go around. This brings us to the Green Goblin of this universe.

Gobby has always been a bit of a weirdo. He dresses like he’s inventing techno-larping and certainly has campy origins, but he can still usually bring in some manner of menace. Not so here. Spider-Man Unlimited does our green boy dirty as this wild-gummed Goblin is literally pantsed during his first outing. Let’s skip past his custom-print boxers and the fact that his pants were stolen by sentient slime and ask the real question on everyone’s mind: why is he wearing skin-tight pants the same color as his legs?

 

MJ M.I.A.

• Show: Spider-Man (1994)
• EP: Turning Point

Mary Jane Watson: the girl next door. Also a longtime Spidey love interest, and a constant victim of his rogue’s gallery of villains. However, it is Spider-Man (1994) that holds the exciting achievement of being the only Spider-Man TV show to have “yeeted” the red-headed actress right out of existence.

During a battle with the Green Goblin and a portal generator, Mary Jane, complete with her signature high-waisted jeans and cowboy boots combo, gets thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge. While this is not an uncommon occurrence for Mary Jane, she ends up going through an errant portal and we never see this Mary Jane again! This Spider-Man TV show seemed to really love making MJ into a constant thread, yet somehow Peter Parker remains anonymous as Spider-Man for most of his rogues. Yet they STILL went after MJ anyway. Just…what?!?

 

The Disco Missile Crisis

• Show: Spider-Man (1981)
• EP: The Pied Piper Of New York Town

The 1981 Spider-Man series is packed with implausibility. If we were talking about weird plans and bizarre reactions on this list, it would literally all be this series. Yet the weirdest of the weird in this series comes from Mysterio. The Domehead has started a disco dancing television show. Spider-Man is announced as a special celebrity guest and somehow we end up with Spidey trying to stop a missile from being launched.

With insane music, Peter in a gladiator costume, and a moment where J. Jonah Jameson almost knocks himself out of a window, this strange episode has everything. Keep in mind that, while disco was a 1970s fad, it had not died off. Thus, an early 1980s series was clearly able to connect with that audience. This made sense, but the additional missile crisis issue was pretty “far out.” Get it? 1980’s reference.

 

Deadpool & Spidey

• Show: Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man
• EP: Ultimate Deadpool

Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man is a show that thrives on fourth-wall breaks, so it only makes sense that the merc with a mouth would make an appearance. This toned-down Deadpool teams up with Spider-Man for an episode that really pushes the boundaries of fast-paced dialogue.

He drops into Spidey’s fantasies, wants to steal his spidey-sense, and just goes about as far as the Disney censors will let him. It’s a wild ride. Of course, this is obviously a Disney show. Therefore, we cannot assume they are going to allow him to get in F-Bombs. This is why they have live censoring as needed, which gives Deadpool the opportunity to be himself while literally being censored in real-time.

I Am Lizard!

• Show: Spider-Man (1994)
• EP: The Lizard King

Imagine a fearsome race of lizard people swarming through the sewers of New York. What horrors will they bring upon the unsuspecting Big Apple? What evils will they plot? If you guessed “gladiator-style fighting arena” you may be ready to pursue a career in television writing for the 1990s!

When Kurt Connors and Spidey are kidnapped and thrown into a lizard-themed coliseum, it is up to the beleaguered girlfriends of the Spider-Man team to save the day with girl power. Oh yeah, and a bomb. We cannot forget about the bomb! One might conclude that we simply just ignored a lot of information to make sense of things. Leaving out major details. Trust us, it doesn’t make much more sense with any context.

 

Itsy-Bitsy Spider-Man

• Show: Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man
• EP: Ant-Man

Do you know what kids these days love? References to 1966 science fiction films about anatomy! At least that seems to be the thought process for this micro-sized episode. Spider-Man teams up with Ant-Man to journey into Nick Fury’s brain ala The Magic School Bus. This is happening to take out a tiny robot that is controlling the S.H.I.E.L.D director.

There are evil nano-bots, a complete disregard for Nick Fury’s health & safety, and all sorts of burp-related humor! Strap in, true believers. We’d like to say that this episode mattered to the season or the overall series in some way. Not only can we not do that, but we also cannot tell you it needs to be shown at all. You could skip it and understand things perfectly.

 

That’s The Power Of Love!

• Show: Spider-Man (1994)
• EP: Farewell, Spider-Man

This is a twofer as we hit the series finale of Spider-Man (1994). Up until this point we’ve seen things get pretty hokey but as Peter Parker faces down a Carnage Symbiote-infused version of himself, he reaches for his greatest weapon. That weapon it turns out is familial nagging. Spidey unleashes an alternate universe version of Uncle Ben upon Spider Carnage. Ben then straight-up talks his nephew into blasting himself out of existence while maintaining an eerie calm.

The crazy isn’t done yet because less than a minute after watching himself die, Spider-Man is teleported to yet another dimension. It is there that he drops in for a heart-to-heart with the literal Stan Lee. This isn’t a Stan Lee cameo where he’s a different character or just existing within the Marvel Universe. This is Stan Lee, currently in the process of writing more Spider-Man entertainment for us all to enjoy.

The two of them gush over Stan Lee’s imagination for a while and then Spider-Man ditches the senior citizen on a roof-top with no way down and nopes outta there. I really would not have had this series end any other way. In some ways, it did make sense to end it like this. Writer meeting his creation and all. Yet it felt sort of empty, missing something it truly needed to end strong.

 

Did We Miss Anything?

That’s it, everyone. We went over the super weird moments from Spider-Man TV shows! Did we miss any surreal encounters? Is there a bizarre villain they put in that we are forgetting? Anything in a lost series you’d like to see in a future list? Post the series and episode below! The world always needs more strange Spidey.

However, we don’t want to give Disney or Marvel any ideas. Try not to make more episodes that end up on this list or any other like it, cool?