What A Cartoon! - Spider-Man 1994 "Mutant's Revenge"
Added 2023-08-07 04:00:02 +0000 UTCIn the year of the wonderous webcrawler's return to the Spider-Verse, we're also returning to his classic Saturday morning TV series for the second half of the epic two-parter meeting mutants. Yes, we're returning to the second season of the 1994 Spider-Man Animated Series for his crossover with the X-Men, which has origins in both comic books and newspaper pages. Learn all about that, Henry's love for Hank McCoy, a whole bunch of silly voice acting over budget-minded animation, and tons more on the spider-sensible podcast!
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I was bored about 6 weeks ago and had this show on in the background for a couple of nights while finishing up some sidequests in Tears of the Kingdom, and oddly enough, had stopped right after this episode, so I just had to restart it for this podcast rewatch. As cool as it is to see the X-Men team up with Spidey in this, they really don't get to do anything that cool, and in general look a lot better back on their own show. -- I picked up the Mutant Agenda comic on a digital sale a couple of years back but hadn't read it yet, and had no idea that it did in fact predate the show by only a little bit, nor that it was part of some weird late-career Stan Lee moves. It might be the only story that the show adapts which is almost inarguably improved over the source material? -- I absolutely get why Hank is pissed off about Beast's treatment in... well, nearly the last decade of the comics, but I have to admit despite that, I still really like the Benjamin Percy Wolverine & X-Force comics that have been running since the Krakoa era began in 2019. Part of it is just knowing that once this era is over they'll do a reset on his character and he'll be back to what he was like before, and the other part of it is just that I feel like it's a fairly reasonable and believable development as far as the "heroes go too far in trying to protect people and border on evil" trope goes. It IS kind of a character assassination, but part of Beast being the uber nerd science guy makes it fit in 2023.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2023-08-16 00:24:53 +0000 UTCWe definitely have chili cook-offs in Canada, and I hope Bob was or will be invited to one to celebrate his move. I'm not really sure when I began to understand the idea of an interconnected universe like Marvel, although it was almost certainly this Spider-Man series that introduced me to characters like Blade, Dr. Strange, the Punisher, and Daredevil. In any case, I think this two parter was probably one of the first times I saw characters from one cartoon I watched appear on another cartoon I watched, complete with the proper voices and designs, and that blew my mind at the time. I really didn't know that a thing like this was possible, and I was always excited when something like it happened in other shows...like, for example, when Homer Simpson appeared at the end of an episode of Duckman.
Christmas Ape
2023-08-08 23:24:06 +0000 UTCI cant believe it’s been THAT long. I remember the first episodes of What a cartoon and talking simpsons. Wow thanks for all the content!
Michael Branson
2023-08-08 03:42:11 +0000 UTCSmall but important correction: I showed Bob the Michael Morbius (one of many) episode not for him, but for The Punisher. I hate Morbius (especially the watered down cartoon version) and would not want to watch him even ironically
nina matsumoto
2023-08-08 00:27:27 +0000 UTCThe movie Bob was thinking of is Turtles Forever, the big finale to the TMNT show that started in 2003. It was actually a 4Kids production, famously non-union, so Saban can't be blamed for that one (not that he'd have done it any different). And I feel bad to do it, but gotta lob a correction Henry's way as it relates to Wolverine and his healing ability in games. He does have a healing factor in the Genesis games, but you literally have to sit and do nothing in order for it to work. It's always a good sign of a game's quality when it essentially encourages the player to not play. This two-parter was a fun trip down the nostalgia hole. Like Henry, I was very pumped for this cross-over since these were my two favorite shows at the time. And watching it as an adult, a lot of the stuff that bugged me as a kid are still there. The odd color palette compared with the X-Men show, Wolverine being way too tall, and the lack of X-Men outside of Wolverine and Beast are a bummer. Though in the show's defense, working in the entire X-Men would have been a challenge, but maybe get to the big Kaiju battle faster? A lot of the show doesn't hold up very well, but there's some decent writing in there and I continue to love Mark Hamill's Hobgoblin. Like Henry, I was annoyed/confused that Hobby came before Green Goblin, but the show handled it okay by having Osborne outfit the Hobgoblin before basically deciding to do the job himself when all of that failed. And apologies to Joe Perry, but I do not and never have cared for that opening song. When it shows up during an episode as an orchestral theme though it works quite well which makes it kind of a shame that everyone just remembers "Spider blood! Spider blood!" instead.
Joe Hodgson
2023-08-07 18:32:37 +0000 UTCWoo! Glad you’re returning to this show. It is a real guilty pleasure among the plethora of superhero cartoons out there. Shoutout especially to Christopher Daniel Barnes who gets clowned on a bit for cheesy line reads, but I feel he is the perfect voice for that 70’s/80’s era of young adult Spider-Man. I can’t explain it, but the man has a knack for delivering the worst quips in the funniest way possible. Hope we can get more Spidey talk in the future once the dust has settled on your move-ins. A Spectacular Spider-Man episode is LONG overdue
Tashmon Dimps
2023-08-07 18:30:46 +0000 UTCI always love it when you guys talk Spidey. 😁
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2023-08-07 12:08:58 +0000 UTC
