Although it reinvents the canon, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man understand one key aspect of the hero better than the MCU.

Unfortunately, because everyone is so dang interesting, the character who ends up being the least compelling is Peter Parker himself. [ Ed. note: This post contains some spoilers for the latest episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.]

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man premiered on Disney+ on January 29, 2025, and has already aired five episodes. The show is an animated retelling of Spider-Man’s origin story. In this MCU timeline,

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is having an identity crisis. Wednesday’s three-episode drop — “Secret Identity Crisis,” “Hitting the Big Time,” and “Unicorn Unleashed” — picks up where the first two episodes left off: with Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo) discovering that newest Oscorp intern Peter Parker (Hudson Thames) is Spider-Man.

When Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was announced, it was going to be a prequel series for Tom Holland's Peter Parker. However, it has since shifted away from that initial

It’s a web fight! Watch as Spider-Man tries to take on two foes in this Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man clip from this 10-episode animated series. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man's voice cast includes Hudson Thames,

Man's premiere on Disney+ covered Peter Parker's origin story and might have teased another hero's origin too.