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*** Well it removes foreign DNA from a subject, and you don't get much more foreign than a Symbiote grafted to your body.
**** Except symbiotes don't graft themselves to a subject's DNA, they sort of feed off them or attach to their system. If the cleanser killed anything foreign, it'd wipe out things like from necessary bacteria in the digestive system, which... wouldn't be good.
*** In "Identity Crisis", {{spoiler|apparently it ''does'' work on the symbiote. But to paraphrase [[Farscape
** It wasn't the power of friendship, it was a very Squicky Power of Love, the symbiote's love for Peter made it betray Eddie. Coolest use of the Power of Love I ever saw.
** Technically, it was ''both''. [[The Power of Love]] made the symbiote choose Peter over Eddie, then [[The Power of Friendship]] prevented the symbiote from successfully possessing Peter.
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** It's a kids' show. The animators know that their target audience won't care about something like that, and they also know that the media watchdogs would freak out over a naked baddie, so they just cut a corner there. Kind of stupid, yeah, but it saved them a lot of trouble in the PR department.
* Similar to the above--in "Intervention" Peter is wearing his usual pants and a black shirt (possibly just the Symbiote?) with ''short-sleeves,'' so you can see that he's not wearing his normal costume under it. (And why would he when he has the black suit?) After his [[Journey to
** [[Rule of Cool]], man. It was more dramatic that way.
** Actually this is explained. Peter specifically mentions that the symbiote is bonded to his suit. So the red and blue is actually inside the symbiote the entire time. When he rips off the symbiote, the red and blue is back on, just like when it first assymilated.
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** [[Word of God]] mentioned after the show was cancelled that they never intended to kill her. There was also no executive meddling, so i don't know were you got that idea. Greg himself wanted to keep her alive. Besides, as Greg pointed out, Gwen dies in college, so it wouldn't have happened in the show anyway.
* What exactly does {{spoiler|Norman Osborn}} have to gain by becoming the Big Man of crime? As it stands, he suffers from [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]] Syndrome, possessing vast wealth without to begin with. So why go to all the trouble of {{spoiler|dousing himself with the Goblin serum}} and becoming a supervillain? To be fair, this was never really explained in the comics either=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131031002828/http://www.spideykicksbutt.com/GreenwithEvil/goblinmysteries.html This guy] put a lot of thought into it, but a lot of it was his exceptionally clever [[Wild Mass Guessing]] rather than anything confirmed in the comics. So what's the Goblin's excuse in the Greg Weisman version?
** Maybe {{spoiler|Osborn was driven insane by inhaling the globulin green gas, and he didn't act coherently anymore.}}
** That Mad Goblin guy isn't too far from the actual truth actually. In 2004, ''Marvel Knights Spider-Man'' ran a year long storyline in which Green Goblin kidnaps Aunt May. At the end of the story, even though Spidey won, Goblin twists the knife by mailing him a letter congratulating him on his victory and ''thanking'' him for being Norman's bitter enemy, because otherwise Norman would just be a regular businessman and would grow quite bored with life.
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** Eddie was certainly angry with Peter (and from his perspective, not knowing about Spider-man, it was completely justified), but I'm of the opinion he would have eventually calmed down and made up with him- unfortunately, the symbiote got him first, and "calming down" wasn't on its agenda.
** While Eddie isn't in his right mind when he says it, he accuses Peter of having it easy, since he had his aunt and uncle to adopt him while Eddie was sent to foster homes. There's the possibility that he's subconsciously resented Peter all these years and is looking for an excuse.
* It Just Bugs Me that they finally cancelled it, in spite of the extraordinary critical acclaim (more than once has it been named second only to [[Batman
** There are a few reasons why what happen did happen.
*** One: Marvel did get the animation rights back, but they still didn't get the rights to the show. Assuming they really did try to get them and couldn't, they probably said, "Screw this!" and just opted to do their own show.
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** Well, in the comics, he started out fighting Spidey as a [[Badass Normal]] African American [[Evil Albino]]; he got superpowers some time after he'd been introduced as a villain. The 1990s cartoon just [[Adaptation Distillation|collapsed his two origin stories into one (more sensible) story.]]
** Apparently, Weisman learned early on he couldn't use Kingpin, so he looked around for another mob-affiliated villain to stick in his niche, and settled on Tombstone because of his uniquely intimidating appearance and sense of physical power- which proved, when wedded to the [[Magnificent Bastard]] intellect this incarnation gave him, to be quite formidible indeed.
* Ok, the cold didn't kill the symbiont. Why didn't Peter try to [[Kill It
** Spidey may have thought that the cement would crush or suffocate the symbiote; it's only after he thinks he's seeing Venom around again that he seems worried that there was a possibility it could have been freed.
*** Crush and suffocate a creature that originated in space and survived a shuttle re-entry? I don't think so. Although it might explain why he wouldn't trust fire either. Are the simbiots destructible at all?
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**** Whether or not the symbiote is vulnerable to fire isn't important, since Peter never actually tried fire and had no way of knowing what effect it would have. On reflection, seems more likely he wasn't trying to kill the symbiote by burying it, just entomb it, hopefully forever.
* Seeing how Tombstone didn't want Spidey actually working for him as much as not interfering with his operations, why didn't he just kill or at least kripple the webhead when he had him pinned? Moreover, when Black Spidey takes his offer on but then refuses in face, Tomb just sits there only to demand the Venom kills Spidey seconds later. Why didn't he attack Spidey himself?
** Tombstone, like [[Gargoyles
** Except that by the time of the first confrontation none of those are on the scene yet, and Tombs' "hefty profit" was severely hurt by Spidey's interferance.
** And Tombstone still thinks there's a chance he can get Spidey to work for him; besides, he outright states that while Spidey is busy fighting supervillains he's ''not'' seriously hurting Tombstone's empire at all, and guess what he's been doing for the past few episodes. But the real issue is that he's too much into [[Pragmatic Villainy]] to throw away such a potentially useful resource, even when said resource hates his guts.
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*** If the webbing only lasts for an hour, shouldn't guys like Ox, half the city (all the crashed helicopters, buses and trains should do massive damage if the webbing suddenly broke) and other guys Spidey have caught be very dead. If the one hour limit is to be accepted why doesn't the Bugle or anyone else mention how great Spidey is at murder?
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