Spider Wars

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"I Really, Really Hate Clones" and "Farewell, Spider-Man" were the 64th and 65th and final episode of Spider-Man: The Animated Series. They originally aired on January 31, 1998.

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[edit] Spider Wars, Chapter I: "I Really, Really Hate Clones"

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Spider-Madame Web reveals to Spidey that she and the Beyonder have been training 5 different Spider-Man, besides himself, in order to save all reality from being blown up. They are: a billionaire Peter Parker who wears the Spider-Armor, a powerless Spider-Man, Six-Armed Spider-Man, Octo-Spidey, Scarlet Spider, and Spider-Carnage. Anyway, Spider-Man finds himself in yet another dimension, thanks to Madame Web, where he meets .... himself, an exact duplicate of Peter Parker, or, better known as Spider-Man. It seems that in this dimension, a Spider-Clone was created by Warren, but he fled his lab. In this reality, the current Spidey found out about the clone, and reason led himself to believe he was the clone. So, the real Spidey of that dimension dyed his hair blond and called himself the Scarlet Spider. The other Spidey, the clone, went to work for the Kingpin, and Smythe. Later, the Spider-Clone used the Time Dimensional Accelerator to open a portal to another world, but unfortunately became bonded with the Carnage symbiote, who was trying to escape Dormammu's world. Later, Spider-Carnage plunders New York and destroys the Daily Bugle, with the other Spidey's right behind him. All of the Spidey's, sans the powerless one, attack Crime Central, only to be surprised by Green Goblin and Hobgoblin. A battle begins, in which Six-Armed Spidey is transformed into Man-Spider, and he attacks the real Spidey and Scarlet Spider, while Armor Spidey is transported back to Madame Web's base. The episode ends with the Scarlet Spider and Spider-Man caught in the grip of the Man-Spider.

[edit] Spider Wars, Chapter II: "Farewell, Spider-Man"

Spider-Carnage is foiled to destroy all reality in his world, but he escapes via the Accelerator. Madame Web brings back Spider-Man and the Scarlet Spider to her base and informs the Spider-Men that Spider-Carnage is now in a different dimension. She says she can only send one of them there, and the real Spider-Man says he will go. It seems this time, Spidey winds up in the billionaire Peter Parker's world. It seems in this dimension, the Spidey is engaged to Gwen Stacy, Jonah Jameson is his godfather, Wilson Fisk is his lawyer, and Uncle Ben is still alive. Not to mention the fact that he owns the Peter Parker Science Foundation and his identity is public. Moments later, Spider-Carnage kidnapps Gwen and Armor-Spidey tells the boys that he has a secret weapon since Spider-Carnage is obviously too insane to be reasoned with by him or any of the Spideys. The weapon turns out to be Uncle Ben, since Spider-Carnage lost his Uncle Ben, similar to the way the real Spidey did. Uncle Ben tells Spider-Carnage the rule of power and responsibility, which convinces him to try his hardest to seperate from the Carnage symbiote, but it does no good. So, Spider-Carnage does the only thing he can. He used the TDA to create a disintegration portal and kills himself when he jumps in there. Then, the powerless Spidey, from the real world, like the one you and me live in, takes Spidey to see a very special man, which is Stan Lee. The real Peter thanks him for creating him and when Stan sees Madame Web, he says "Who is that exotic woman?". The series ends with Madame Web promsing Spidey that they will find the real Mary Jane Watson.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

  • This episode marks the first time Gwen Stacy, Spider-Carnage and The Scarlet Spider were shown outside of the comics.
  • This is the first animated appearance of Stan Lee in a series. Lee would later make another animated appearance at the first season finale of Spider-Man: The New Animated Series in 2003 as a minion of the villains, The Gaines Twins, trying to manipulate Spider-Man into Kraven the Hunter after the hero thought Kraven killed Mary Jane Watson by the twins.
  • There was originally going to be a sixth season after this, so it would have made this not the series finale, but only the fifth season finale (which is what this also obviously is) in order to tell the further adventures of Spider-Man on how he finds Mary Jane Watson in limbo since the events of Turning Point with the help of Madame Web. But there was a sixty-five episode contract for this series and producer John Semper revealed in an interview that he considered against another season, because he felt if he continued on after Spider-Man saved all reality, which is pretty big for a hero to do, he would have been doing it for the money.
  • There is an inside-joke that when Stan Lee looks at Madame Web and asks, "Who is that exotic woman?" And when Spider-Man and Madame Web are looking for Mary Jane in limbo, Web says that she thinks Lee is truly special. This is all because these two are actually related in real life as husband and wife, because Web is played by Joan Lee, Stan Lee's wife.

[edit] Cast

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