{"id":1129068,"date":"2026-02-02T23:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=526033"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:56:48","slug":"your-friendly-neighborhood-spider-man-is-the-first-mcu-thing-in-ages-to-care-about-people-other-than-superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/your-friendly-neighborhood-spider-man-is-the-first-mcu-thing-in-ages-to-care-about-people-other-than-superheroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is the first MCU thing in ages to care about people other than superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/your-friendly-neighborhood-spider-man-is-the-first-mcu-thing-in-ages-to-care-about-people-other-than-superheroes.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">With the finale of the first season of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel\/521809\/spider-man-your-friendly-neighborhood-episode-8-breakdown\">Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man<\/a><\/em>, the animated Spider-Man series aimed at teens has, perhaps unexpectedly, become one of the best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23519049\/best-marvel-movies-mcu-ranked-worst\">Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> shows to hit the small screen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Granted, that\u2019s not <em>that<\/em> high of a bar to clear. And <em>YFNS<\/em> is only sort of set in the MCU? Technically it\u2019s spinning out of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/501626\/marvel-what-if-season-3-review\">What If\u2026?<\/a><\/em> and takes place in parallel Earth in the Marvel Multiverse. So it\u2019s more like a totally original, but MCU-event-referencing, Spider-Man reboot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But forget about all that multiverse stuff: <em>Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man <\/em>is the rare modern MCU project that has the time of day for anybody in the world who isn\u2019t currently a superhero or supervillain. Showrunner Jeff Trammell did not skimp on living up to the \u201cFriendly Neighborhood\u201d in the show title, and in doing so his series does exactly what the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s television projects promised they would do and almost never did.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">And that makes for good television, but also \u2014 and maybe more importantly \u2014 good superhero stories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note:<\/strong> This piece contains spoilers for <em>Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man<\/em> season 1.]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/your-friendly-neighborhood-spider-man-is-the-first-mcu-thing-in-ages-to-care-about-people-other-than-superheroes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Over the course of its first season, <em>YFNS<\/em> showed emphatically and sincerely that it was interested in a wealth of characters who were not Peter Parker. There\u2019s a whole episode B plot that\u2019s just about Harry Osborn and Nico Minoru learning to like each other via a mostly mundane joyriding adventure, while Peter is stuck doing superhero stuff. Even someone as tertiary as Pearl Panga, Peter\u2019s old babysitter and his friend\u2019s girlfriend, gets enough screen time to be seen as a layered person with goals and needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Of course, the big breakout in <em>YFNS<\/em> was certainly Lonnie Lincoln, who nearly becomes a whole second protagonist over the course of the season, as his arc toward gang leaderdom runs carefully parallel along Peter\u2019s growth toward independence as Spider-Man. And rather than sidelining Peter, Lonnie\u2019s arc supports and amplifies what\u2019s going on with our kiddie webslinger and Norman Osborn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>YFNS<\/em>\u2019 Norman Osborn is such an out-and-out supervillain that his \u201copen a dangerous space portal for cold, hard profit\u201d and his \u201cmanipulate a teenager into becoming my superhero lackey\u201d schemes <em>aren\u2019t even connected<\/em>. Peter isn\u2019t key to his big evil plan \u2014 he\u2019s just a teenager Norman saw and thought, <em>Oh, I could totally gaslight that child into an asset<\/em>. That\u2019s, it needs to be said, the kind of instinctual evil-genius thinking that all superhero writers should aspire to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But it\u2019s also pretty far out there. And so, on the other side of <em>YFNS<\/em>, Lonnie\u2019s lack of support from institutions that ought to be protecting him puts a precipitous swerve on his ambitions. And all of that reminds the viewer that there are <em>real<\/em> stakes to getting the wrong kind of mentorship, not just that you might have to stop your friend\u2019s dad from opening a portal to the Dimension of Only Venoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In the grand scheme of television writing, this is not so remarkable. Parallel character arcs, A-plot-to-B-plot structure, and consistent time spent with secondary cast are the bread and butter of serialized TV. But it\u2019s worth calling it out, because these are exactly the things that the MCU needs as it struggles to get the audience to reinvest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Even <em>three<\/em>-hour films lack the time to build this kind of emotional tissue between characters and the audience \u2014 or even between characters and <em>characters<\/em>. That goes double when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel\/453241\/who-is-teen-in-agatha-all-along\">every<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22798331\/hawkeye-kate-bishop-marvel\">single<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22823969\/hawkeye-episode-4-yelena-florence-pugh\">new<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22744741\/harry-styles-eternals-character-post-credits-scene-pip-starfox\">secondary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22340308\/falcon-winter-soldier-new-captain-america-us-agent-john-walker\">character<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23060363\/doctor-strange-2-america-chavez-in-marvel-comics\">introduced<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23055624\/doctor-strange-2-credits-scene-explained-multiverse-of-madness-end-clea\">promised<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23196904\/thor-love-and-thunder-post-credits-scene-hercules-actor-brett-goldstein\">return<\/a> as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23449644\/riri-black-panther-wakanda-forever-actor-dominique-thorne-ironheart\">hero<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23402424\/skaar-she-hulk-son-wil-deusner-mcu-caiera-oldstrong\">villain<\/a>, which is where we\u2019ll \u201creally\u201d get to know them. But television <em>does<\/em> have the time for an ensemble. That was the original promise of the Disney Plus Marvel TV shows, and exactly what they failed at. With very few exceptions, Marvel\u2019s Disney Plus output has proved itself to not really be television shows, with room to stand on their own \u2014 but simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/tv\/22375650\/falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-episode-4-super-soldiers\">eight-to-10-hour miniseries<\/a> that tee up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/522443\/captain-america-brave-new-world-review-harrison-ford\">movies that don\u2019t arrive for four years<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/reviews\/23955824\/loki-season-2-finale-review-ending\">maybe<\/a> never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/sdcc\/24201657\/avengers-doomsday-5-kang-dynasty-doom-robert-downey-jr\">arrive at all<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/your-friendly-neighborhood-spider-man-is-the-first-mcu-thing-in-ages-to-care-about-people-other-than-superheroes-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">While we wait for Kate Bishop and Ms. Marvel to team up, or for whatever the hell is in store for White Vision, it\u2019s gratifying to see a brand-new Marvel Disney Plus show like <em>YFNS<\/em> so confident in its own future that it can introduce well-known superheroes as characters in season 1 and then pass their origin stories off to season 2. When the final episode of <em>YFNS<\/em> teases three major superhuman transformations (and one that\u2019s apparently been the case the whole time) of already established characters (not to mention the whole twist with Peter\u2019s dad), it\u2019s exciting instead of exhausting. The folks behind the show were assured enough to give the viewer a whole season with Nico Minoru, Norman Osborn, and Otto Octavius as <em>people<\/em> before they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel\/515670\/spider-man-friendly-neighborhood-comics-easter-egg-references\">put on their costumes<\/a>, so that when they do, we give a shit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marvel\/515670\/spider-man-friendly-neighborhood-comics-easter-egg-references\">feels fully populated<\/a>, not as if there are only two kinds of people in the world: Extras and Avengers. That\u2019s not just good for making the audience care and your main characters feel real, it\u2019s a vital element of the baseline superhero genre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">When all superheroes do is fight villains or each other, they become unmoored from who they\u2019re fighting <em>for<\/em>. Not just their friends and allies, but, to borrow a phrase from Marvel Comics\u2019 own 1960s revolution: the world outside your window. The reason great power comes with great responsibility is because not everybody has it, but you gotta actually <em>show<\/em> the audience that gap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Any supervillain can mentor a Peter Parker. But it takes a neighborhood to make a Spider-Man.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man <em>season 1 is now streaming on Disney Plus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/526033\/spider-man-your-friendly-neighborhood-finale-review-season-1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the finale of the first season of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the animated Spider-Man series aimed at teens has, perhaps unexpectedly, become one of the best Marvel Cinematic Universe shows to hit the small screen.&nbsp; Granted, that\u2019s not that high of a bar to clear. And YFNS is only sort of set in the MCU? Technically it\u2019s spinning out of What If\u2026? and takes place in parallel Earth in the Marvel Multiverse. So it\u2019s more like a totally original, but MCU-event-referencing, Spider-Man reboot.\u00a0 But forget about all that multiverse stuff: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is the rare modern MCU project that has the time of day for anybody in the world who isn\u2019t currently a superhero or supervillain. Showrunner Jeff Trammell did not skimp&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/your-friendly-neighborhood-spider-man-is-the-first-mcu-thing-in-ages-to-care-about-people-other-than-superheroes\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is the first MCU thing in ages to care about people other than superheroes | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the finale of the first season of Your Friendly 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