YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Clip Reveals New Origin Story; Official Release Schedule Revealed

Marvel Animation has released the first Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man clip and it features the fateful moment Peter Parker is bitten by the spider. We also have an updated release schedule for you.

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By JoshWilding - Jan 25, 2025 04:01 AM EST

Filed Under: Spider-Man (Animated)

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is now just a few days away from arriving on Disney+ and, in this first clip from the Marvel Animation series, the young Peter Parker acquires his amazing powers!

Midtown High has been destroyed and as Peter gets to know Nico Minoru, a spider crawls up his back and bites the back of his neck. There's no science exhibit in sight and another departure from the comics is the future superhero being bitten on the neck rather than his hand.

However, this mirrors 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man where Peter was also bitten there while talking to Gwen Stacy.

Interestingly, the spider appears to escape on the backpack of another student; could that be Miles Morales or another character who will gain their own spectacular abilities? We'll have to wait and see.

Marvel Studios has also shared an official release schedule for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, confirming we're getting a two-episode premiere on January 29 followed by three episodes on February 5, another three on February 12, and a two-part finale on February 19.

That means fans will get to enjoy the 10-episode series across just four weeks, a far more palatable option than the show being spread out over two and a half months. As for those episode titles, you'll no doubt notice some big nods to the comics, starting with "Amazing Fantasy."

Check out the first Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man clip below and stay tuned for our review next week.

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows Peter Parker on his way to becoming a hero, with a journey unlike we've ever seen and a style that celebrates the character’s early comic book roots.

The talented voice cast includes Hudson Thames, Colman Domingo, Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Zeno Robinson, Hugh Dancy and Charlie Cox.

The head writer is Jeff Trammell and Mel Zwyer is the supervising director. Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt and Trammell serve as executive producers.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man premieres on Disney+ on January 29, 2025.

Amazing, spectacular, and downright astonishing - #YourFriendlyNeighborhoodSpiderMan exceeded my every expectation and is a true love letter to the world's greatest superhero. @MrJeffTrammell, you knocked it out of the park. @SpiderMan @MarvelStudios pic.twitter.com/ha7NklXzEM
— Josh Wilding (@Josh_Wilding) January 24, 2025

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26 Comments

THEKENDOMAN - 1/25/2025, 4:53 AM

New Origin story??

Ooh, when I read that, I thought maybe they changed it him being @&@%% by a spider.

I'll leave now

For [frick]s sake

Malatrova15 - 1/25/2025, 5:01 AM

Whats whit this Nintendo DS cutscene looking animation...This looks awful...just fix Norman Osborn .América Is reborn we dont accept this kind of stuff anymore

Muroh123 - 1/25/2025, 5:23 AM

So are they just going to erase Uncle Ben from his origin story? Peter's new origin is that he lives in a single-parent household lol

Toecutter - 1/25/2025, 5:56 AM

@Muroh123 - I know, right? It's such a stupid way to handle it. I understand that people got tired of it, and we don't have to see it again, but they just basically erased him from existence. The video game handled it the best.

JoshWilding - 1/25/2025, 6:05 AM

@Muroh123 - Nope, Ben factors into the story and why Peter is Spider-Man.

Muroh123 - 1/25/2025, 8:03 AM

@JoshWilding - Glad to hear it!

McMurdo - 1/25/2025, 9:22 AM

@JoshWilding - we need an article with 10,000 words explaining this by Chandler, STAT please

Gabimaru - 1/25/2025, 5:23 AM

Tries to help her. 5 seconds later she calls peter rude. Typical western women nowadays.

MisterBones - 1/25/2025, 6:29 AM

That animation….YIKES

The background characters doing the mannequin challenge

oliverttom - 1/25/2025, 6:40 AM

Don't care, it looks rubbish so will be giving this a miss.

Feralwookiee - 1/25/2025, 7:20 AM

That cheap animation looks like steaming dogshit.
Sheesh.

TheVisionary25 - 1/25/2025, 7:28 AM

Interesting…

I guess due to the fight Dr Strange has with that Venom/Blackheart-esque creature , Midtown High is caught in the crossfire & damaged which forces Peter and Nico to move to another school which is where they meet the likes of Lonnie Lincoln and Pearl Pangan.

The spider might have come from that fight which means that the origin is rooted in magic rather then science which is an idea that’s been played with in the comics via JMS’s run that I don’t love personally but oh well.

Anyway the voice acting seems good and while I still don’t love the animation itself , that art style is cool & just pops!!.

bkmeijer1 - 1/25/2025, 7:43 AM

Still not a fan of the animation style, although I get they wanna emulate a comic book.

Also, is this is gonna be a what if situation or not? Was hoping it would atleast into MCU Spider-Man's origin as well, but this is lame if this is it.

TheVisionary25 - 1/25/2025, 7:45 AM

@bkmeijer1 - no What if situation

I heard it just borrows from comic & MCU lore (aswell as doing its own thing) to create its own take on Spidey & his world.

bkmeijer1 - 1/25/2025, 7:48 AM

@TheVisionary25 - I hope it doesn't tie itself down too much with MCU lore then. Rather see it really be it's own thing

TheVisionary25 - 1/25/2025, 7:50 AM

@bkmeijer1 - agreed.

It certainly very much seems like its own version that borrows from others but present them in a new way which might work for some or not.

StSteven - 1/25/2025, 3:53 PM

@bkmeijer1 @TheVisionary25 - In case you guys missed it, there was an article here recently where the showrunner (I believe) was in an interview and said that originally they were going to Spidey's MCU origin story, but decided that that would be too restrictive (remember that at the time when Peter meets Tony in "CA:CW" he's only been Spidey for 6 months so you can't really squeeze a lot of storytelling into that little time). So they decided to just have the show take place in another universe, which frees them up to do their own take on his origin story and on after that.

So while we'll see similar elements to MCU Spidey (as well as the comics) there will be enough that is different to make this show its own standalone thing (like Osborn being Peter's mentor instead of Stark, etc.). So while it's not quite a "What If...?" thing where one change leads to a whole different universe stemming from it, it is still a separate universe from the 616 one and not necessarily beholden to it and therefore won't affect it either (like I doubt that we'll see any characters/elements from this show carry over to the MCU/Sacred Timeline).

But then again I haven't seen the show yet, so this is just my understanding based on what I've read and seen so far. I might be completely talking out of my ass here 😉.

bkmeijer1 - 1/25/2025, 6:17 PM

@StSteven - yeah, I remember that. I was wondering then as well what exactly was up with how it's related to the MCU.

I liked the idea of the prequel and even the What If scenario, but this "it's sorta it's own thing" takes some convincing to get on board for me.

StSteven - 1/25/2025, 7:27 PM

@bkmeijer1 - Yeah, I get that. It's just that if it were closely tied to the MCU then there would likely be a good amount of characters and storylines that they wouldn't be able to use because of what's already happened in the MCU so far and what is being planned, so as to not contradict each other (which we already say with them not being able to use certain characters and such in "What If...?" before they had been properly introduced in live action first).

So this approach gives them more creative freedom which will presumably (hopefully) allow for better storytelling. I mean, most of the previous Spidey animated series were pretty good and didn't really tie into whatever Spidey movies were around at the time (except for "Ultimate SM" which I personally found to be kinda annoying at times). Welp, either way, we'll see shortly. Fingers crossed. 😊

bkmeijer1 - 1/26/2025, 4:08 AM

@StSteven - think part of what makes the MCU great is the interconnectedness. But yeah, we'll see how it goes

harryba11zack - 1/25/2025, 7:45 AM

im not watching that shit.

ObserverIO - 1/25/2025, 7:57 AM

What If Peter Parker Went To A Different High School...?

Well he would get bit by a radioactive spider and gain super powers.

Did the spider seek him out or something?

Floke - 1/25/2025, 8:59 AM

Did they make this in Clip Art?

bobevanz - 1/25/2025, 9:28 AM

I'll give it a chance but if it's all low grade CGI I will not finish it. God it's an eyesore

NGFB - 1/25/2025, 9:51 AM

Such basic and awful "animation". Why do it this way when there's so much better out there like Blue Eye Samurai, Arcane, What If. . .

BlackStar25 - 1/25/2025, 1:35 PM

*Insert Generic Whiny Animation Comment Here*

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YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Clip Reveals New Origin Story; Official Release Schedule Revealed

Marvel Animation has released the first Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man clip and it features the fateful moment Peter Parker is bitten by the spider. We also have an updated release schedule for you.

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