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== Peter Parker/Spider-Man ==

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: As Peter.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Threatening Aunt May sets Spidey off so much that he's able to drive off ''Venom.'' To clarify, he can almost never match Venom in a fair fight, ''except'' when Venom tries to go after Aunt May.

* [[Building Swing]]

* [[Chest Insignia]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Expressive Mask]]

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: As Spider-Man.

* [[Teen Genius]]

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: [[Evil Genius|Tinkerer]] calls him out on it.

* [[Trickster]]

* [[Wall Crawl]]

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility]]

 

== Midtown Manhattan Magnet High Students ==

 

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: {{spoiler|She and Peter finally seem to hook up at the end of Season 2, but Harry puts a stop to it.}}

* [[Closer to Earth]]

* {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]: [[Word of God]] said that, even if the series hadn't been cancelled, they had no plans to kill her off.}}

* [[Two First Names]]

 

* [[Fantastic Drug]]: [[Psycho Serum|Globulin Green]].

* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]

* [[Put on a Bus]]: From "The Uncertainty Principle" until "First Steps."

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: In spades. If you've seen the first movie, well... this is taken up multiple notches.

 

* [[Book Dumb]]: Not ''completely'' stupid (especially compared to his pal, [[Dumb Muscle|Kenny Kong]]), but still a walking academic disaster area.

* [[Character Development]]: The second season saw Flash abandon much of his [[Jerk Jock]] characteristics in a bid to impress a girl he had a crush on. As a result, he also became less antagonistic towards Peter.

* [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Eventually.

* [[Heroic Bystander]]

* [[Jerk Jock]]

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Not quite there yet, but moving in the right direction.

* [[Popular Is Dumb]]

 

* [[Black Best Friend]]: To Flash.

* [[The Masochism Tango]]: His inexplicable (even to himself, much of the time) relationship with [[Alpha Bitch|Sally Avril]].

* [[What Does She See in Him?|What Does He See In Her]]

 

* [[Alpha Bitch]]

* [[Ascended Extra]]: In the comics, she appeared in two panels on the second page of the first Spider-Man comic, ''Amazing Fantasy #15'', and doesn't show up again for over thirty years.

* {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Although considering that her comics counterpart dies as an adult and the series was canceled while she's still in high school...}}

 

* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: Is a cheerleader and Peter's first girlfriend on the show, though Peter later decides that he does not, in fact, want a cheerleader.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Initially extremely dismissive of Peter at first.

* [[Spicy Latina]]: Is she ever.

 

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Especially toward Gwen. [[Word of God]] even describes her and Gwen as being best friends.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Very pro Gwen/Peter.

 

 

* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]: Of Season 2 and arguably the whole show. Due to the fact that he was working with Tombstone to make supervillains and was responsible for Otto Octavius [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]], he's got some connection to every major villain except for Venom.}}

* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]

* [[We Can Rule Together]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: More than once.

 

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Most notably, when Rhino asks for Peter, JJJ notices Peter and gestures for him to hide, then lies to Rhino - claiming that he's never met Peter, that everything is done through email - even though this could easily cost him his life.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: When Aunt May has a heart attack, he feels it's his responsibility as Peter's boss to break the news to him. It backfires, but that's not his fault.

** We also see that he is extremely affectionate to his son.

* [[Motor Mouth]]

* [[Troll]]: Of Spider-Man naturally.

 

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Big Good]]

* [[The Obi-Wan]]

* [[Papa Wolf]]

* {{spoiler|[[Secret Keeper]]: He knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man in later episodes.}}

 

* [[Inspector Javert]]

* [[Lawful Stupid]]

 

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: He's voiced by Thomas F. Wilson of [[Back to The Future]] fame.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Stan believes Spider-Man didn't go far enough taking down criminals.

 

* [[Death by Origin Story]]

* [[My Greatest Failure]]

* [[The Obi-Wan]]

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility]]

 

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Acts affable only to ''increase'' his jerkassery.

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

 

* [[Parental Neglect]]: She didn't pay attention to Harry when he made the team. Nor did she came to Harry's play.

* [[The Quiet One]]: She never spoke.

 

* [[Expy]]: Of Miles Warren from ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]''.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: With Aunt May.

 

* [[Happily Married]]

 

== Villains ==

* [[Bald of Evil]]

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]

* [[Hellish Pupils]]

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Robert Englund, of [[A Nightmare on Elm Street]] fame. A few years earlier, he had also voiced [[The Batman|The Riddler.]]

 

* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]

* [[The Dragon]]: To Tombstone.

* [[The Starscream]]

* [[Use Your Head]]

* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]}}

 

* [[Berserk Button]]: ''Don't'' call him Max, or he'll '''FRY'' you into nothing!

* [[Blessed with Suck]]

* [[Crispin Freeman]]

* [[The Dragon]]: To Doc Ock.

* [[The Millstone]]: He really tries to help Doc Ock, but he's so impulsive with using his powers that he probably does more to foil his schemes than [[Spider-Man]].

* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Inverted, as he now hates being called "Max Dillon" and insists on being referred to as Electro.

* [[Never My Fault]]: Max beats out Harry in terms of blaming others when he accuses his accident of being Curt Connors' fault even though it was Max's own negligence that caused it.

* [[Power Incontinence]]

* [[Trigger Happy]]: Much to the misfortune of everyone else in the vicinity, including his own teammates.

 

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type IV. He's a perfectly nice guy, it's just that there's this ''one'' time he turned into a mindless, vicious animal, and no one is ''ever'' going to let him forget it.

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: For one episode, but that once was ''more'' than enough.

 

* [[The Blob]]

* [[The Brute]]

* [[Noble Demon]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: He shows kindness to a little girl in "First Steps."

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]

* [[Story-Breaker Power]]: Getting there by "First Steps", once he's started to get a proper hang of his abilities. It's probably no coincidence that his last appearance in the show is in the episode where he absorbs Rockaway Beach. Yes, ''all of it''.

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Evil Albino]]

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Kingpin in His Gym]]

* [[Large and In Charge]]

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

* [[Noble Demon]]: Only shows this when up against [[Eviler Than Thou|The Green Goblin.]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]: He definitely enjoys trying to blow people up.

* [[The Chessmaster]]

'''Spidey:''' Keep telling yourself that! }}

 

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Sinister]] [[Five-Bad Band|Six]].

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Drinks out of an "evil genius" mug, in addition to naming his team the ''Sinister'' Six.

* [[The Chessmaster]]

* [[Combat Tentacles]]

* [[Drunk on the Dark Side]]: ''Relishes'' his [[Evil Genius]] persona.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Doc Ock politely asks and waits for Aunt May and Anna Watson to excuse themselves from the upcoming brawl between the Sinister Six and Spidey, even halting Rhino as he tries to charge through them.

* [[Freak Lab Accident]]

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]

* [[The Unfettered]]

 

* [[Badass]]

* [[Benjamin Diskin]]

* [[Rival Turned Evil]]: though more like bestfriend turned evil, since he wasn't especially in rivarly with Peter at the beginning.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Shipped Gwen/Peter.

* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: About the time Peter got the black costume and even moreso after he started wearing it.

* [[Villain Ball]]

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]

 

* [[Abnormal Ammo]]

* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Anti-Hero/Hero in the comcis, [[Daddy's Little Villain]] in this show.

* [[Mafia Princess]]

* [[She's All Grown Up]]

 

* [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

* [[Aloof Big Brother]]

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]

 

* [[The Brute]]

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Just like in the comics.

*** Something similar in happened with Scorpion in [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]], a character largely considered a dullard is the first one to make this connection.

* [[Evil Duo]]: With his partner in crime, Flint Marko, both before and after they got their powers.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: "O'Hirn" is an anagram of "Rhino".

* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]

 

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]

* [[Wisdom from the Gutter]]: In an early appearance, he speaks to [[Spider-Man]] about a man needing to follow his commitments and [[Spider-Man]] being one of his (i.e. it goes against his "code" to fail to kill a target). Peter later repeats this verbatim to Aunt May when offering to chip in to pay the bills.

 

* [[Actually a Doombot]]: The first time Spidey caught him, the Mysterio that was captured turned out to be a robot double. The second time, Spidey is smart enough to pinch Beck to make sure he caught the real one... turns out that this Beck was also a robot double.

* [[Adorable Evil Minions]]: The gremlin/gargoyle like robots he uses, which would also qualify as [[The Imp]].

 

== Others ==

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type II

** [[Anti-Villain]]: Type III

* [[Catgirl]]

* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]

* [[Dating Catwoman|One-Time Makeout With Black Cat]]

* [[Femme Fatale]]

* [[Trickster Archetype|Trickster]]

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

* [[You Killed My Father|You Imprisoned My Father]]: When her father {{spoiler|becomes [[The Atoner]] and willingly stays in prison, Black Cat blames Spider-Man and their good relationship promptly ends.}}

 

* [[My Greatest Failure]]

* [[You Killed My Father]]: {{spoiler|Peter}}'s reaction to him. [[Not So Different|Ironically enough]], Black Cat basically gives this right back to him when {{spoiler|Walter decides to stay in prison}}.

 

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