Marvel have screwed up 4 Spider-Man cartoons in a row. Combined with Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends from the 80s they clearly have a fetish for Spider-Man having a social circle of fellow superheroes and so I wouldn't be surprised if the characters in YFNSM who were swiped from other super hero titles will indeed wind up as those superheroes.
Also, am I the only one grossed out that for the sake of having a diverse cast they swiped from all these different superhero brands and race and/or gender swapped other characters when they could have just used the actually diverse characters from actual Spider-Man comic books?
Like, why swipe Nico Minoru from Runaways when Sha Shan was right there!
Why bother race swapping Norman and Harry Osborn* or do a borked adaptation of Tombstone (where he is neither albino nor connected to Joe Robertson at all) where he is your Flash Thompson substitute when you could have used Hobie Brown and/or Randy Robertson?
Why crowbar in Amadeus Cho or a random Wakandan woman when you could give some attention to Phillip Chang and Glory Grant?
Why have a race/gender swapped version of Curt Connors, a character for whom his masculinity is probably critical for various reasons,** when you could use Komodo?
You can't even argue that these characters are too obscure to be used because to normies, shit even amongst most comic book fans, Nico Minoru and Amadeus Cho are also obscure as shit.
This isn't even getting into the sacrilege that is how they utterly FUCKED Spider-Man's origin, both in terms of how they handled the spider bite and Uncle Ben's death and by having Norman positioned as his father figure.
Not to mention...the animation. Shit is the animation janky AF. I literally watched an episode from the MTV Spider-Man TV show to compare it to YFNSM and, whilst that has aged, it was in practically every regards VASTLY superior to this garbage. That includes the CGI animation btw. Yes, this show's animation is WORSE than a Spider-Man TV show from over 20 years ago!
Shit dude, I remember people hated the MTV show back in the day, but looking back that was only because we were spoilt without knowing it. Back in 2003, the comics, cartoons, video games, movies, etc that we were getting were all different, they all had their unique spin on things. But they also ALL fundamentally understood this character, his world, what it was supposed to be. We too it for granted that a Spider-Man story would have Peter Parker, you know, in character.
Now? Now it's a fucking MIRACLE if they don't entirely fuck him up.
*Two characters for whom it is probably integral for them to be caucasian. In the iconic Drug Trilogy by Stan Lee, a core aspect of the story was the fact that Spidey encounters a lower class black teen (whom he didn't know) afflicted by drugs as well as discovering his affluent white roommate was an addict too. Randy Robertson literally spells out that people mistakenly think it's a problem particular to lower class/African American communities, when in reality it affects everyone. he even stares daggers at Norman when he says this.
**Such as drawing a parallel between himself and Peter. Both because they are scientists transformed into animal themsed superhumans but also because Curt's actions endanger his family, making Peter question if his powers and choices to use them may also endanger his own. A problem that, in my eyes, resonates more for a male character.
