The Spot (Spider-Man)

"The Spot" was the title of a third season episode from the Spider-Man animated series.

Sypnosis

Dr. Jonathon Ohnn was a brilliant scientist who created the Time Dilation Accelerator portal-making machine for Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. But after Iron Man and Spider-Man defeated Venom and Carnage, when they tried to free Dormammu from another dimension with the machine, he shut down the Accelerator. Ohnn quit and was later approached by the Kingpin who funded Ohnn's research to have him continue the Accelerator project and Ohnn got a partner he fell in love with, Dr. Silvia Lopez, who wanted to seek greater reward for her efforts and she also fell in love with Ohnn as well. After they completed the machine, Ohnn was accidentally sucked into a portal, where numerous other portals were formed onto him, and he could create and recall the portals. Ohnn called himself the Spot and started stealing money to help fund his project go further. Later Fisk holds Dr. Lopez hostage so the Spot can kill Spider-Man. Although the Spot failed to kill Spider-Man, Spider-Man figured out his dilemma and agreed to work with him to save Lopez and defeat Kingpin. Once they confronted Kingpin, it was figured out that when Ohnn became the Spot, numerous other portals were created. The Spot took care of them except for one that grew so big in the sky that it was impossible for the Spot to recall. So Spider-Man and Lopez use the Kingpin's jet for extra power for the Spot to close the portal. Once the process was halfway done, the Spot decided his powers increased powerfully in the vortex that he can close the hole - from inside. He went in, and Dr. Silvia Lopez goes in with him, admitting her feelings for him, and the Spot closes the portal. In the end the Hobgoblin is on the phone about Kingpin's failure to get the accelerator.

Cast

• Christopher Daniel Barnes — Spider-Man/Peter Parker
• Joseph Campanella — Dr Curt Connors
• Robert Hays — Tony Stark
• Roscoe Lee Browne — Kingpin/Wilson Fisk
• David Warner — Herbert Landon
• Wanda De Jesus — Dr. Sylvia Lopez
• Oliver Muirhead — The Spot/Dr. Jonathan Ohn
• Mark Hamill — The Hobgoblin

Trivia

• This episode references the two-part Venom/Carnage episode. Tony Stark fires Dr. Jonathon Ohn from the Time Dilation Accelerator project because the audience obviously knows Stark knows the project is dangerous after Carnage almost released Dormammu to Earth using Accelerator machinery.
• Even though this is the Spot's only notable appearance in the series, his alter ego, Dr. Jonathon Ohn, would make a cameo appearance in the first episode of the two-part series finale of the show where he created the Accelerator in the Scarlet Spider's dimension for the Kingpin and that dimension's Ohn was defeated by the Scarlet Spider, only for the Accelerator to get a symbiote that resembles Carnage to hook up to the mentally unstable Spider-Man of that dimension, who hated the Scarlet Spider.

Spider-Man, for the first time in the series, throws a punch. He would later do this again in the episode Turning Point.^[1]

Reception

Following its original air, the episode proved to be an extremely unlikeable episode, and has been in comparison with the Rocket Racer episode by the shows fans, to conclude which episode was the worst. However, it was considered redeemed at the very end of the episode, as it sets up the Goblin War! episode by showing the Hobgoblin.^[2]

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