My baby cousins are in town and one of them loves watching thisĀ "Spidey and His Amazing Friends" show, which is a preschool show about Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen Stacey fighting bad guys. Now, I'm not gonna hate on this show for not being as hardcore as Marvel usually is, because obviously, it's aimed at toddlers, it''s stupid to expect them to have the Lizard try to eat people or Carnage to... actually, Carnage isn't in this show, which I totally get (Venom isn't either, guess his mug's a bit too spooky for little kids.) But it is really funny being a Marvel fan who knows these characters so you just see stuff like the Lizard steal a kid's skateboard because I guess he just wanted to be a dick.
That's not where it ends either, this show also has Arnim Zola. You know, that creepy face-on-his-belly man who works for Hydra, the supervillain Nazi organization? The one that transfefred his mind into a robotic body to escape death? He's in this show, and he looks like this. Are you not grateful to be alive? Naturally, he's not a Nazi here, he's just some crazy guy who shrinks people and steals balloon carts. I mean, again, no hate, it's a good design (This show does have some pretty good designs for its characters) but it's still funny as hell and I'm tempted to just headcanon that Hydra did exist in this show's universe but it just got disbanded and now with his life's purpose gone, Zola just became a burden to society.
He and Lizard aren't alone in this department given Rhino in one episode steals a monkey for, as far as I know, no reason at all which... okay, that one might be in-character, Rhino's not that smart. And one episode they were just watching had Green Goblin, Rhino, and Electro turn themselves into dinosaurs so they can ruin people's picnics. Truly a horrifying plan that could only come from Norman Osborn's depraved mind. I also like that Rhino somehow came up with a better dino-name than Electro (Dino-Rhino and Electrosaurus if you were curious). I think someone working on this show saw Sauron's "I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs!" and took it to heart.
Scudlez
Nowadays, kids shows like this are just brainrot, as a Spider-Man fan I used to watch OG Spider-Man shows like Spectacular Spider-Man and spider-man Unlimited.
Hypno-Scream
I don't think it's a bad show, I just find it amusing to see these characters act like this. It's like that old Fantastic Four show where Magneto went from "Tragic villain who wants his people to prosper" to "Angry old man who beefs with a gas station attendant, forces the Fantastic Four to rob a bank with him, then gets fooled by a wooden gun."