Spider-Man: The New Animated Series/Characters

Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, young Peter Parker attempted to cash in on his new powers, and signed up for a pro wrestling contest, and pinned the champion. When the promoter cheated him out of his winnings, Peter stood by as a thief robbed the promoter.

The same thief later killed his Uncle. Peter began using his newfound powers responsibly and began fighting crime. One of the first criminals he faced was The Green Goblin. When The Goblin learned that it was Peter under the mask, he attacked his Aunt May, and kidnapped the girl he loved, Mary Jane. After a dramatic battle, The Green Goblin revealed himself to be Norman Osborn. Seconds later, The Goblin was killed when he accidentally impaled himself on his glider.

He later began studying at ESU, along with his dream girl Mary Jane and his best friend Harry, the son of The Green Goblin. Harry isn’t aware that his Dad was The Green Goblin, and hates Spider-Man, believing he murdered him. Peter makes his living by selling pictures of Spider-Man to J. Jonah Jameson. After being ripped off one too many times, he decided to start selling video footage to Empire1, where he met Indy, a research assistant who took a great shining to Peter.

Peter is still in love with Mary Jane, but feels that being with her would only jeopardise her safety again, which often leads to awkward feelings between the two of them, especially as he recently began seeing Indy.

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 * Badass Bookworm
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Kraven found this out the hard way.
 * Comes Great Responsibility
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Expressive Mask
 * Genius Bruiser
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Hero With Bad Publicity: Among the worst he has ever received by the end of the series.
 * Hey Its That Voice: Neil Patrick Harris.
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Unstoppable Rage: Unleashed upon Kraven after.
 * You Fight Like a Cow

Mary Jane Watson
Mary Jane has been the object of Peter’s desires since he was in the 2nd grade. After previously being engaged to Flash Thompson, she later moved onto Harry before she fell for Spider-Man, after he saved her life. Later realizing that she loved Peter, Peter rejected her love because he didn’t want to cause her any further harm due to his double life as Spider-Man.

She later began majoring in drama at Empire State University, where she remained good friends with Peter and Harry. She still has feelings for both Peter and Spider-Man, not knowing they are really the same person.


 * Betty and Veronica: Competes with Indy for Peter's affections.
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Green Eyes
 * Green Eyed Red Head
 * Heroes Want Redheads
 * Stood Up: Well, she thinks this is what Peter has done to her several times in the series, but really he is prevented from turning up by unforeseen circumstances (battling villains, interrogated by the FBI, involved in a hostage situation, etc).

Harry Osborn
Never short of snappy one liners, Harry Osborn is the best friend of Peter Parker, the two of them live together off-campus and attend Empire State University together. Harry tends college for the social life, rather than the education, as he controls the majority of the stock from his late Father’s company, Oscorp.

Despite being Peter and MJ’s best friends, he hates Spider-Man, blaming the wall crawler for his father’s death, unaware that he was The Green Goblin. Still struggling to come to terms with his Dad’s death, Harry is often found drinking or trying his luck with the ladies.


 * Deadpan Snarker: Possibly more so than even Peter in this series.
 * Strong Family Resemblance: Looks quite similar to his father, Norman Osborn. Commented upon by MJ.

Indira "Indy" Daimonji

 * Betty and Veronica: With MJ over Peter.
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hot Scoop: Aiming to be one of these eventually.
 * Meganekko

J. Jonah Jameson

 * Alliterative Name
 * Da Editor
 * Deadpan Snarker

Francesca

 * Ascended Extra: Became Harry's girlfriend after being a background character throughout the series.
 * You Gotta Have Pink Hair

Lewis Wyler/Turbo Jet

 * Canon Foreigner
 * Expy: Of Rocket Racer.

Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin

 * Badass Normal
 * Fat Bastard
 * Hey Its That Voice: Michael Clarke Duncan reprises the role from the Daredevil movie. Notably, he also bares a resemblance to Duncan.
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Manipulative Bastard: In his first appearance, he tricked Spider-Man into stealing a chip for him by pretending he was working for the government.

Curt Connors/The Lizard

 * Beast Man: Upon becoming The Lizard.
 * Family Unfriendly Death: Got his arm cut off again by a valve, then fell from a helicopter. And his body is actually shown after the fall.
 * Healing Factor: Similar to his mainstream counterpart.
 * Hey Its That Voice: Rob Zombie.
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Mad Scientist
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Played with; sure, he's an antagonist, but he wasn't truly evil and was at least partially well-intentioned.
 * Wall Crawling

Shikata

 * Canon Foreigner
 * Healing Factor: She can use her sword to heal wounds and gain youth by exposing it to moonlight.
 * Hot Chick With a Sword
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Noble Demon: Initially, she was hired by a rich collector to capture Spider-Man alive for him. After fighting Spider-Man for the first time and acknowledging him as a Worthy Opponent, however, she gives back the money to her hirer after admitting she can't assure she'll not kill him, even mentioning it would be dishonorable to catch him for such a reason.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: She cuts off one of her troops' trigger-fingers because he opened fire on Spider-Man, and no one decides how to take down an opponent but her.
 * Worthy Opponent: Sees Spider-Man as such.

Talon

 * Badass Normal
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Expy: Of Black Cat.

Pterodax

 * Canon Foreigner

Christina

 * Ax Crazy
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Goth
 * Hey Its That Voice: Tara Strong.
 * Stalker With a Crush: For Spidey.

Max Dillon/Electro

 * Killed Off for Real
 * Psycho Electro

Dr. Zellner

 * Canon Foreigner
 * Hey Its That Voice: Jeffrey Combs.

The Biker Twins/Jack and Mack

 * Canon Foreigner
 * Dumb Muscle

Silver Sable

 * Badass Normal
 * Hero Antagonist: Though she was attempting to assassinate an important politician, she had really good reasons to do so; the man was actually a terrorist attempting to infiltrate the White House.
 * Knight Templar: Her mission had a honorable goal, but she was willing to use methods such as stealing weapons, taking teenagers hostages(and wanting to kill them herself when it didn't work as planned), and putting a bomb on the mayor's car.
 * Never Found the Body
 * White Haired Pretty Girl

The Gaines Twins/Roland and Roxanne

 * Canon Foreigner
 * Creepy Twins
 * Non Action Guy: Roland. When he makes the notion that they should be trying to kill Kraven themselves, rather than mind-controlling Spider-Man into doing it, Roxanne points out that his senses are too keen in order for them to get close enough and brings up a Noodle Incident of "the last time you [Roland] used your tiny little hands to fight." Later when he switches from using his mental powers to attempting to attack Spidey with a pipe, he does indeed get his ass kicked.
 * You Killed My Father: Kraven The Hunter captured their parents for scientific experimentation, which eventually killed them, but it also gave Roland and Roxanne their mental abilities. Rather than try and kill him themselves however, they opt for Spider-Man to do it by manipulating him.