The Spiders' Webs: Profiles

Spider-Man, the Animated Series

Profiles

Spider-Man

Real Name: Peter Parker
Aliases: Petey, Parker, Wall-crawler, Wall-weasel, Web head, Spidey, Spider
First Appearance: The Night of the Lizard Episode 1, Season 1
Special Powers: Ability to stick to walls, Spider sense, Proportional speed and strength of a spider, Mathematical intelligence
Origin: After gaining his powers through a radioactive spider bite Peter's Uncle, Ben, was killed by a burglar Peter felt he could have stopped. After Ben's death Peter vowed never to neglect his responsibilties again for his Uncle was right in saying, "With great power comes great responsibility."
Notes: Peter Parker is a student at Empire State University, this contributes to the complications in his life. Webslinging all night, taking classes all day, and still trying to find time to go out on Friday with Mary Jane Watson, Felcia Hardy, or occasionally Alisa Silver.

Aunt May

Real Name: May Parker
Aliases: May Reilly
First Appearance: The Night of the Lizard Episode 1, Season 1
Special Powers: Ablity to tolerate Peter's lateness and disregard for his own safety
Background: Married Ben Parker, Richard Parker's brother, and became like a mother to Peter after his parents' deaths.
Notes: Aunt May is good friends with Anna Watson and partially responsible for setting Peter and Mary Jane up on a blind date in "The Spider Slayer" Episode 3, Season 1.

Uncle Ben

Real Name: Ben Parker
Aliases: None
First Appearance: Episode , Season 1
Special Powers: Ability to help Peter through problems without physically being there
Background: Ben Parker, Richard Parker's brother, became like a father to Peter after his parents' deaths.
Notes: During the entire series Ben Parker is only seen in photographs, flashbacks, and parellel dimensions.

Richard Parker

Real Name: Richard Parker
Aliases: NONE
First Appearance: Doctor Strange Sins of Our Fathers Chapter 1, Episode 1, Season 3
Special Powers: NONE
Background: Peter Parker's biological father was also an American Spy who was killed in a plane crash trying to protect the secret of the Six American Warriors.
Notes: Richard Parker, like Ben Parker, is only seen in flashbacks and false visions. The first of which occured when Peter joined a cult run by Baron Mordo in search of Mary Jane after her first disappearance. The cult garunteed to reunit one with their long lost loved ones.

Mary Parker

Real Name: Mary Parker
Aliases: NONE
First Appearance: Doctor Strange Sins of our Fathers Chapter 1, Episode 1, Season 3
Special Powers: NONE
Background: Peter Parker's biological mother was also an American Spy who was killed in a plane crash trying to protect the secret of the Six American Warriors.
Notes: Mary Parker is also only seen in flashbacks and false visions. The first of which was created by Baron Mordo.

Scarlet Spider

Real Name: Peter Parker
Aliases: Ben Reilly
First Appearance: I Really, Really Hate Clones Spider Wars Chapter 1, Episode 12, Season 5
Special Powers: Ability to stick to walls, Spider sense, Proportional speed and strength of a spider, Mathematical intelligence
Origin: In another dimension Earth's Miles Warren cloned Spider-Man to learn his secret identity. The Peter Parker who thought he was the clone changed his name to Ben Reilly and died his hair blonde. Ben Reilly took on the persona of the Scarlet Spider and continued to fight crime as he did (or at least thought he did) as Spider-Man.
Notes: The Scarlet Spider invented the impact webbing first seen in I Really, Really Hate Clone, making the billionaire Spider-Man jealous at having not thought of it himself.

Mary Jane

Real Name: Mary Jane Watson
Aliases: M.J., Red
First Appearance: The Spider SlayerPart 1 of 2, Episode 3, Season 1
Special Powers: Gymnastic capablities, Actress, Attended New York Self Defense classes
Background: Mary Jane Watson has lived with her Aunt Anna since her Father abandoned her and her sister.
Notes: Mary Jane is an actress and a model. For help with promotion photos she often goes to Peter Parker.

Aunt Anna

Real Name: Anna Watson
Aliases: None
First Appearance: Doctor Strange Sins of Our Fathers Chapter 1, Episode 1, Season 3
Special Powers: NONE
Background:
Notes: Anna Watson has never really liked Peter due to his cronic lateness.

Black Cat

Real Name: Felicia Hardy
Aliases: Cat, Kitten, Felicia Hardesky
First Appearance: (As Felicia Hardy)The Sting of the Scorpion Episode 2, Season 1 (As Black Cat)The Black Cat Partners in Danger Chapter 3, Episode 3, Season 4
Special Powers: Was injected with the Super Soldier Formula that created Captain America, Ability to morph from Felcia Hardy to Black Cat to hide her secret identity
Origin: Felcia's father, John Hardesky, as a boy learned the Super Soldier Formula, realizing it's importance he vowed never to tell anyone of it. The Kingpin, Wilson Fisk, found out about John Hardesky's knowledge and threatened to hurt Felcia if John didn't tell him the Formula. To make sure John had given them the right formula it was tested on Felicia.
Notes: Felicia Hardy has had a crush on Spider-Man ever since he saved her and her mother in Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous and Enter the Green Goblin. This would have worked out great if she hadn't dumped Peter Parker for Micheal Morbius in The Insidous Six Episode 1, Season 2.

The Cat

Real Name: John Hardesky
Aliases: NONE
First Appearance: The Cat Partners in Danger Chapter 2, Episode 2, Season 4
Special Powers: Photographic memory, Agility from circus preforming
Origin: As a boy John Hardesky was paid by Nazi spies to learn the Super Soldier Formula, realizing it's importance he vowed never to reveal the secret. He later took on the name of the Cat and began burglarizing the city.
Notes: After John Hardesky was saved from the Kingpin by Spider-Man and the Balck Cat he voluntarily went back to the prison at S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep the Super Soldier Formula safe.

Anastashia Hardy

Real Name: Anastashia Hardesky
Aliases: NONE
First Appearance: Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous Episode 6, Season 1
Special Powers: NONE
Background: After her husband, John Hardesky, was imprisoned at S.H.I.E.L.D. Anastashia changed her and her daughter's names to Hardy to hide their involvment in the crimes he had commited.
Notes: Anastashia Hardy is a good friend of J. Jonah Jameson and stayed at his penthouse when Doctor Octopus threatened her reputation and kidnapped her daughter Felicia.

Lizard

Real Name:Doctor Curt Connors
Aliases: Doc., Lizard
First Appearance: Night of the Lizard Episode 1, Season 1
Special Powers: Strength of a giant lizard, Keen scientific mind that is sometimes overrun by the reptillian part of his brian.
Origin: After losing his right arm Doctor Connors began experimenting with reptillian DNA in mammals using the Neogenic Recombinator. After regrowing the lost arm of a mouse Doctor Connors tested the process on himself, transforming him into the Lizard.
Notes: Doctor Connors scientific knowledge was very helpful to Spider-Man and his group during the Secret Wars.

J. Jonah Jameson -

Real Name: J. Jonah Jameson
Aliases: Picklepuss, Squid lips, Flat top, Prunce Face
First Appearance: Night of the Lizard Episode 1, Season 1
Special Powers: None
Background: Jameson used to be a journalist and now runs the newspaper the Daily Bugle and J3 comunications.
Notes: Jameson's wife Julia was killed by a masked man becuase Jameson wouldn't give up a story. Since then he has vowed never to allow masked men run rampant. This is part of the reason he dislikes Spider-Man so.

Julia Jameson

Real Name: Julia Jameson
Aliases: NONE
First Appearance: The Sting of the Scorpion Episode 2, Season 1
Special Powers: NONE
Background: Julia Jameson is the wife of J. Jonah Jameson and mother of John Jameson. She is deceased.
Notes: Julia was accidentally shot when Jonah refused to give up a story. The bullet was aimed at Jonah, but hit her instead.

John Jameson

Real Name: John Jameson
Aliases: NONE
First Appearance: Alien Costume Part: 1 Episode 7, Season 1
Special Powers: Trained by NASA
Background: John Jameson is the son of J. Jonah Jameson. He is also an astronaught. He manned the shuttle that brought the venom symboit to Earth.
Notes: For his bravery during the crash of the shuttle that brought the venom symbiot to Earth, Jameson had a space probe named after him. The space probe was the first to be launched in New York.

Green Goblin 1 -

Real Name: Norman Osborn
Aliases: Green Goblin
First Appearance: (As Norman Osborn) The Spider Slayer Episode 3, Season 1 (As Green Goblin) Enter the Green Goblin Episode 4, Season 3
Special Powers: Effected by gas manufatured for the King-pin, Muscle enhanceing armor, Goblin glider, Inventive mind, Pumpkin bombs, Smart missles, Gloves that shoot electric current.
Origin: In Episode 4, Season 3 Enter the Green Goblin Norman Osborn and his assistant were working on a gas for the King Pin that would increase a person's strength. In a rush to finish production, Norman forgot to secure the airlocks causing an explosion and releaseing the gas. The assistant escaped, but Norman was changed by the gas and discovered the Hobgoblin's suit and weapons stored at Oscorp had also changed after coming in contact with the gas.
Notes: After surpressing the Goblin for a long time he began to take control over NOrman again like a second personality. Norman and the Green Goblin often converse with each other as if they wre two different people. In Episode 14, Season 3 Turning Point the Green Goblin and Mary Jane Watson were both trapped in Dimensional Limbo.

Green Goblin 2

Real Name: Harry Osborn
Aliases: Green Goblin
First Appearance: (As Harry Osborn) Hobgoblin Part 1 Episode 11, Season 1 (As Green Goblin) Return of the Green Goblin Episode 8, Season 4
Special Powers: Sees visions of his Father who is trapped in dimensional Limbo, Effected by gas manufatured for the King-pin left over from after his Father became the Green Goblin, Muscle enhanceing armor, Goblin glider, Inventive mind, Pumpkin bombs, Smart missles, Gloves that shoot electric current.
Origin: Harry was huanted by his Father's disapearance until his Father found a way to comunicate with him through Dimensional Limbo as the Green Goblin. The Green Goblin convinces Harry that to find his Father he must do as the Green Goblin commands. Harry is sent to a hidden room in Oscorp where he finds left over containers of the gas that transformed Norman into the Green Goblin. He releases the gas and is transformed as well.
Notes: Before becoming the second Green Goblin Harry dated Mary Jane Watson for a while, he is currently seeing Liz Allen while recieveing mental care from Ravencroft Institute.

Liz Allen

Real Name: Liz Allen
Aliases: NONE
First Appearance: Hydro-Man Episode 3, Season 2
Special Powers: NONE
Background: Liz is a student at Empire State University, she also works at the Coffee Bean. She is friends with Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker, and Harry Osborn.
Notes: Liz has developed a crush on Harry Osborn, despite his problems as the Green Goblin.

Hobgoblin -

Real Name: Jason Philip Macendale
Aliases: Hobgoblin
First Appearance:(As Hobgoblin) Hobgoblin Part 1 Episode 11, Season 1. (As Jason Philp Macendale) Rocket Racer Episode 5, Season 3.
Special Powers: Goblin glider, Pumpkin bombs, and other gadgets invented by Norman Osborn.
Origin: The Hobgoblin was originally hired by Norman Osborn to destroy the Kingpin of crime, Wilson Fisk.
Notes: Jason Philip Macendale was briefly engaged to Felcia Hardy.

Doctor Octopus -

Real Name: Doctor Otto Octavius
Aliases: Doctor Octopus
First Appearance: Doctor Octopus: Armed and Dangerous Episode 6, Season 1
Special Powers: Metallic arms wielded to his spine in a lab accident, Scientfic intellect.
Origin: Doctor Otto Octavius's life's work was to create a new compact energy source. He worked hard on his creation, but not quickly enough for his funders, the Hardy's, his research grants were cut and he was forced to finish his work in an apartment basement lab. An explosion occured and without vital safety gaurds the heat melted the metallic arms Octavius used for his experiments to his spine.
Notes: Doctor Octopus was once a member of the Insidious Six.

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