Other than Blade, a movie I’m now convinced we will never see, the MCU project with the longest gestation period has gotta be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man🐲. Announced all the way back in November 2021, the animated series originally titled Spider-Man: Freshman Year was desc🌠ribed as an exploration of MCU Peter Parker's earliest days as the wall-crawler.
Spider-Man 2's Advanced Suit Is Coming To Marvel Rivals
I guess you could say the suit is travelling..𒉰. across the Spiderverse.
The next year, in one of the most MCU moves of all time, a second season was announce𓄧d: Spider-Man: Sophomore Year, with a projected release date of 2024. It’s now 2025 and the series is finally coming out with a differen🐼t title and a different premise. Classic Marvel.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Is MCU-Adjacent
As it turns out, the animated Spider-Man series isn’t really connected to Tom Holland’s version of the character at all. It’s actually set in a “sister timeline” outside of the main MCU canon, and will tell a story𓃲 about Spidey’s early days without any links to the existing MCU storyline. In , head writer Jeff Trammell explained the sister timeline designation, explaining that setting the show in the main MCU timeline would severely limit the types of stories that could be told, and the “shelf life” of those stories would be short.
It’s great to see that a Marvel project, especially a big-budget Disney+ show, is able to break free from the MCU. I have a lot o🐭f respect for the writing team for deciding it doesn’t want its story to be bound to a canon, which would dilute the narrative and link it to other stories and concepts it was never meant to be linked to.
Now we get to avoid all of those CinemaSins-style critiques that try to find the plot holes between this Spider-Man story and the ones that chron📖ologically come after it. The MCU has stumbled with its shift to𓆉wards standalone stories, but breaking free from the MCU entirely gives me a lot of hope for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
Unfortunately, it’s not a very clean break. Trammell still feels the need to do this🦄 canonical song and dance by defining where this story's universe exists in the multiverse. He explains that it takes place in “a sister timeline one universe over” in some kind of misguided attempt to appease pedantic fans, studio corpos, or both.
What Even Is A Sister Universe?
Sister universe doesn’t mean anything.ܫ This is a completely different take on Spider-Man than the one in the MCU, with a different voice actor and a different cast. There’s no Ned, there isn’t even an MJ. This show doesn’t have anything to do with the MCU or the MCU’s multiverse, and it’s a shame that the creatives behind it feel like they have to pretend that it does.
I don’t think they do. The MCU was built on the promise𒆙 that every story mattered and each chapter was leading towards a culminating finale, and that worked really well. Lesser-known characters like Antman and the Guardians of the Galaxy got to headline tentpole movies because audiences were bought into the idea that every story was an important piece of a bigger picture.
Endgame was the endgame, and the MCU🌞 hasn’t been the same since. Its weak attempt to build back up to a new endgame with tꩲhe multiverse saga fell apart thanks to a string of bad movies, superhero fatigue, and the loss of the series’ planned next big bad, Kang the Conqueror.
After so many stumbles in the past five years, it's safe to say Spider-Man himself is a bigger draw than the MCU at this point. I don’t think anyone is going to turn their nose up at a new Spider-Man animated series because they’re worried it won’t matter in Avengers: Doomsday. You can just make a Spider-Man show and say it's not part of the MCU. You don’t have to pretend it's🌟 a sister timeline or leave the door open for future multiverse crossovers. No one cares anymore. The sooner we can stop pretending to care about the multiverse, the better.
