Spider-man TAS

[socool83]

We don't have a thread on this.................and WE NEED ONE!!!!! :p

post your thoughts on the 90's series of Spider-man.
I'll start:
I have 3 HUGE complaints.
1)Spidey threw 1 punch in the whole series!!!!
2)Sandman was never in it
3)People shot lasers! Not bullets

but overall i give it a 4/5

[Rodger-Dodger]

I'm pretty sure I saw multiple threads on it-

I love the introduction of the symbiote and venom. It did such a great job without the secret wars and should have been used for the movie.

[socool83]

I'm pretty sure I saw multiple threads on it-
I love the introduction of the symbiote and venom. It did such a great job without the secret wars and should have been used for the movie.

really?!
i didn't
anyway
i agree with u on the symbiote storyline but they did throw in a few of those elements in the movie

[Rodger-Dodger]

really?!
i didn't
anyway
i agree with u on the symbiote storyline but they did throw in a few of those elements in the movie

eh, not really much in the film.

[socool83]

eh, not really much in the film.

well there was when he first got the symbiote and that it didn't come from Secret wars!
but other than that nothing :p

[Rodger-Dodger]

well, then you can say the same thing about ultimate spiderman, or the "Marvel Adventures:Spider-Man"

[Spider-Tim 075]

Love this series. The 90's was a good year for Spidey cartoons.

I think Sandman wasn't in it cause they already had Hydro-Man.

This series reached 5 seasons... Thats big succes for a cartoon.

[MaxGSpideyFan]

Love this series. The 90's was a good year for Spidey cartoons.

I think Sandman wasn't in it cause they already had Hydro-Man.

This series reached 5 seasons... Thats big succes for a cartoon.

The 90s was a good year for Comic Book Animated series because we had Spider-Man TAS, Batman TAS, X-Men TAS, Silver Surfer TAS and a whole bunch of others and Sandman wasnt in it because there was originally going to be a Spider-Man movie made by James Cameron and it was going to feature Sandman as a villian but the movie never happened so he was never in the series.

[Rodger-Dodger]

Love this series. The 90's was a good year for Spidey cartoons.

I think Sandman wasn't in it cause they already had Hydro-Man.

This series reached 5 seasons... Thats big succes for a cartoon.

Dude, what are you talking about? The simpsons have 19 seasons!

[MaxGSpideyFan]

Dude, what are you talking about? The simpsons have 19 seasons!

Yeah but for its time it was good.

[spider-man guy]

I'd give SMTAS a solid 4. I think TSSM is the best so far, but I have a soft spot for SMTAS.

[spider-jide]

This series had too few awesome episodes. Other than that, it was pretty mediocre on all fronts except for the voice acting. Christopher Daniel Barnes is still by far the best spidey voice actor because he had an extraordinary range for voicing the various emotions spidey went through.

However, stand out episodes such as, night of the lizard, doc ock armed and dangerous are incredible classics.

[MaxGSpideyFan]

This series had too few awesome episodes. Other than that, it was pretty mediocre on all fronts except for the voice acting. Christopher Daniel Barnes is still by far the best spidey voice actor because he had an extraordinary range for voicing the various emotions spidey went through.

However, stand out episodes such as, night of the lizard, doc ock armed and dangerous are incredible classics.

And The Alien Costume Trilogy and Turning Point :D

[Spider-Tim 075]

This series had too few awesome episodes. Other than that, it was pretty mediocre on all fronts except for the voice acting. Christopher Daniel Barnes is still by far the best spidey voice actor because he had an extraordinary range for voicing the various emotions spidey went through.

However, stand out episodes such as, night of the lizard, doc ock armed and dangerous are incredible classics.

agreed. He just IS spider-man. One of the best voice actors ever.

I basicly agree with those two but I also agree with MaxG. The Alien Costume stuff certainly made venom more popular back then in the 90's. The "We" stuff. Really TAS assisted in making the symbiotes so popular

[MaxGSpideyFan]

agreed. He just IS spider-man. One of the best voice actors ever.

I basicly agree with those two but I also agree with MaxG. The Alien Costume stuff certainly made venom more popular back then in the 90's. The "We" stuff. Really TAS assisted in making the symbiotes so popular

And they did, And Venom was awesome in TAS :venom:

[BackinBlack07]

Christopher Daniel Barnes is still by far the best spidey voice actor because he had an extraordinary range for voicing the various emotions spidey went through.


I know right? Whenever I read a Spidey comic, it's his voice.

[Rodger-Dodger]

I know right? Whenever I read a Spidey comic, it's his voice.

lol, do we share brains? I do the same thing!

[Jick08]

4/5.
great series.

[GreenGoblin075]

the series simply rocked but it sometimes suffered from other marvel characters

[Spider-Tim 075]

lol, do we share brains? I do the same thing!

I know right? Whenever I read a Spidey comic, it's his voice.

Same here
And every so often I imagine a film version when I'm reading a comic cause sometimes like Amazing Spidey 153, it feels like a film

the series simply rocked but it sometimes suffered from other marvel characters

indeed. The further the series went the more Marvel introduced other characters... A bit too bad. But those seasons weren't bad at all

[The Iron-Spider]

The series was kind of boring and old. The themesong isn't good.

[Joelio]

For those of you wondering, Sandman wasn't in it because he was going to be in James Cameron's film (which, obviously, never got made).

I love some of the episodes, although I haven't seen many of them. The ones that stand out for me are the Night of the Lizard and the Symbiote trilogy. The Carnage episodes were weeeeeird....

Oh, and about the punching thing, check out this! It's insane!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_%281994_TV_series%29#Censorship

By 1994, heavy censorship was being enforced by Fox because certain shows were being banned for excessive violence in some countries. So in a bid to make the Spider-Man animated series as politically correct as possible, the producers of the show were instructed to abide by their extensive list of requirements.[1] Among the notable restrictions were:

* Not mentioning "Death", "Die", "Kill" or other words with a strong negative meaning. Death was to be avoided, leading Semper to skirt around the issue. "Destroy" and "destruction" were frequently employed as synonyms.[2] For example:
o Rather than explicitly stating that Uncle Ben was killed it is only said that he "was shot" and that Peter "let him down."
o It is stated that the Punisher's family was "caught in a crossfire between rival gangs", and the same applied to the wife of the Destroyer.
o At one point, when the Green Goblin returns after seemingly perishing, Spider-Man says, "You?! But I thought you were-" and the Green Goblin cuts him off with, "I'm not.. but you'll soon be!" before throwing a Pumpkin Bomb at Spider-Man.
o When Hydro-Man was defeated and evaporated, Mary Jane asked "Is he-?" Spider-Man cuts her off by saying "Not necessarily." He goes on to explain that water that evaporates always eventually returns to the earth in the form of rain.
o There were exceptions, such as when Felicia's mother was attacked by Kraven, and stated "That madman nearly killed you." or when Mary Jane suggested that Harry was trying to "avenge the death of his father."
* Many realistic guns were not allowed, and no firearms could shoot bullets, so instead they fired lasers complimented by 'futuristic' sound effects. This often led to scenes in which ordinary policemen wielded futuristic pistols. However, in Episode 3.09, Robbie Robertson's son Randy finds a real-looking gun in his father's desk, though it is never fired on screen, and in Episode 56, when Keane Marlow is telling the story of how he lost his wife, the bank robbers are firing a pistol and a semi-automatic. In "Day of the Chameleon", the Chameleon is about to pull out a realistic looking pistol from behind his back before Spider-Man stops him. In "Sting of the Scorpion" a flashback show's Jameson's wife's killer supposedly using a realistic gun in a drive by shooting.
* Spider-Man was not allowed to hit anyone with his fist, however there were a few exceptions.[2] In Episode 39 ("The Spot") in which he used his spider-sense to guide a punch through a dimension portal and knock out the Spot. He also punched the Scorpion twice in "The Final Nightmare."
* No crashing glass was allowed. However, in Episode 43, when Spider-Man and Doc Ock were battling in Felicia and Anastasia Hardy's home, Ock accidentally smashed a glass window with one of his tentacles.
* No children in peril, although there was a scene where a teenager was stuck to the bottom of an elevator, about to be crushed until Spider-Man saved him.[2]
* No vampires were allowed on the show. This created complications with the use of the characters Morbius the living vampire and Blade the vampire hunter. Consequently, Morbius only drained victims through suckers on his hands, rather than by biting them in the traditional vampire style on the neck, and rather than blood, his sustenance was referred to only as "plasma." However, the word "blood" is used regularly in non-vampire episodes.

True vampires later appeared anyway, primarily in the form of Blade's vampire mother, but they are not shown actually biting anyone.

* Spider-Man was not allowed to harm any pigeons when he landed on rooftops.[2]
* Cletus Kasady a.k.a. Carnage was not a serial killer in the series, he was just a madman. Carnage never actually used his symbiotic blades to harm anyone, he was either stopped or dodged. He also absorbed people's energy rather than killing them outright. However, he has made a few references to attempts to murder. For instance, when Baron Mordo stated to him that he needed a few more life forces, Carnage said "Only a few? Too bad!". He also referred to his process of draining life force as "feeding".

There are, however, notable exceptions to these rules. Examples include:

* When Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson confront Hydro-Man in Episode 2.03 for the last time, Hydro-Man vaporizes when he touches hot ground, and never returns.
* Due to the unstable DNA structure of the clones of Mary Jane Watson and Hydro-Man, they vaporized and died.
* Several other characters, including Mysterio, Jameson's wife and the Kingpin's father were implied to have died off-screen.
* It should be noted that the restricted words were sometimes mentioned regardless of Fox's censorship. For example, in "The Insidious Six", Scorpion states that he'd "kill to work for the Kingpin" (a common exaggeration used by many). Another variation appears in "Hydro Man", where Liz Allan says the word in pig latin to Mary Jane. When trying to reason with The Spot, Spiderman said "You're no killer." Scorpion even said the word "kill" in his first appearance and the death words were used regularly in the Six Forgotten Warriors five-part episode saga.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, ABC Family heavily edited the episode "Day of the Chameleon" to remove the World Trade Center buildings, parts of the New York skyline, and a helicopter crashing into a building, exploding, and falling to the ground below, among other shots. This resulted in the first scene being impossible to comprehend as it was originally intended. Dialogue was re-looped to match the new, shorter version. Some production credits from the episode are missing as well, due to their being on screen during the omitted footage. They also removed the last two episodes of the second season since both of them featured a building burning down. Another noticeable edit can be view in season three's "Enter the Green Goblin" episode. In the original, the Goblin Glider slams into a building with Spider-Man riding on top. In the newly edited version, the scene is cut, and Spider-Man emerges from a hole in the side of the building. Another edit occurs near the end of episode 21, when it is revealed that Kraven and Punisher's last battle with the "Man-Spider" was in fact inside the parking garage of the World Trade Center, and that Kraven had deduced the location by smelling some webbing left at a previous battle and detecting remnant soot in it from the terrorist bombing of the early 1990s. The whole sequence of Punisher finding out where they are and Kraven's explanation of how he knew where to look for them was cut, though the battle scenes within the garage are left intact, since obviously they could belong to any parking garage until the final revelation.

Hehe... kinda long...

[socool83]

For those of you wondering, Sandman wasn't in it because he was going to be in James Cameron's film (which, obviously, never got made).

I love some of the episodes, although I haven't seen many of them. The ones that stand out for me are the Night of the Lizard and the Symbiote trilogy. The Carnage episodes were weeeeeird....

Oh, and about the punching thing, check out this! It's insane!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_%281994_TV_series%29#Censorship



Hehe... kinda long...

that was a bad time for cartoons on Fox :shake:
that explains a lot!

[Joelio]

that was a bad time for cartoons on Fox :shake:
that explains a lot!

Yeah I know. Also gave me and my friends a laugh lol :p

[raider34r]

the series was fun, great , very exciting, alot better than the spidey movies.

i wish the spidey movies had been more like TAS

[ss3kid]

Spiderman TAS was good when I was younger and I dind't know anything about spiderman. Now that I know more, I realize it;s only flaw was coming out during the time FOX had heavy censorship.

[Lizardboy]

yup.

[ss3kid]

yup.

Glad you agree

[MaydayParker143]

3/5

I really liked the series when I was a kid, but now I can't even remember most of the episodes. I have the Venom Sage on DVD which includes the Carnage stroy.

I think the best thing about the cartoon was that we got to hear what Parker was thinking all the time. Though, I think that Spectacular Spider-Man does just as good a job of that (if not better) with Spidey's expressions.

I remember the Censor stuff. It always use to throw me off! But it was a good show despite the lack of good fights.

[Lizardboy]

The series was kind of boring and old. The themesong isn't good.

I disagree with that and the theme song is awesome.:mad:

Glad you agree

np.

[Caveboy0]

I disagree with that and the theme song is awesome.:mad:



np.

i thought it was cool, but it took me awhile to realize it was just a remix of the original song.

[Lizardboy]

How was it a remix of the original song? the 1960's theme opening was the common "spider-man spider-man, does whatevver a spider can, spins a web any size, etc" while the 90's was "spider-man spider-man, then some guitar music plays along with tech no then goes spider rider spider glider something something spider flier," and you know the rest.

[xFredSlacks77x]

i enjoyed the spider-man animated series, and i rewatched them all after spiderman 2 was released. sandman was left out and electro was botched because of james camerons film. fox's censorship caused many barriers in story and action. yet the episodes are still exciting, and there are many memorable episodes and storylines that have had a major influence on spider-man comics, films and shows ever since. goblins wars, night of the lizard, secret wars, symbiote storyline, and doc oc: armed and dangerous are all great episodes, and thus i give the series a 4 out of 5.

[Bluefury]

5/5
Bring back so many memories. Have all Episodes recorded on VHS ^^

The only bad thing is chameleons belt.. that should never have been putt in.

Good episodes? Doesnt know what the names is in English so.
But I really Enjoyed the Venom episodes and the ones with the x-men, Blade and Morbius.

The Series introduces me to so many marvel heroes like Blade the x-men and Daredevil. Without TAS i Wouldnt Be reading comics.
Spider-man is the shiat =)

Great series.

btw, Love the Swedish Voice Actors. Cheers

[Lizardboy]

yup.