YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Trailer Released As Showrunner Weighs In On Hudson Thames "Woke" Remarks

A new trailer for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man offers a glimpse at the weeks ahead, while showrunner Jeff Trammell has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Hudson Thames' "woke" comments.

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By JoshWilding - Jan 30, 2025 01:01 AM EST

Filed Under: Spider-Man (Animated)

Marvel Animation has released a new trailer for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man offering a glimpse at what's to come throughout the remainder of the season this February.

In the minute-long sneak peek, Spidey battles Scorpion, Speed-Demon, and even Daredevil; unfortunately, what's proven to be a successful launch has been somewhat overshadowed in recent days.

Earlier this week, an excerpt from an interview with Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man star Hudson Thames was published. In that, the actor was asked about the decision to introduce a diverse cast of characters from the hero's corner of the Marvel Universe.

"I thought it was awesome," he started. "I mean, my biggest fear was that it was gonna be annoying and woke, and it wasn't, and I was like, 'Yes, this is great, it's so well written,' like it feels real."

"I'm the oldest of five boys, so I feel like I kind of know what's happening in their lives and in high school, and it felt like it was doing that justice," Thames added.

His remarks have received widespread negative backlash on social media, with many demanding Marvel recast the wall-crawler. Many have argued that the actor is either showing a distinctly non-Peter Parker outlook on life or trying to placate the type of fans who should be ignored.

As part of a Reddit AMA, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man showrunner Jeff Trammell was asked about the controversy and said:

"Ha, I love Hudson and didn’t focus too much on what he said. I believe he simply misspoke, and I know that’s been weighing on him. I think we made a fantastic show that is going to appeal to a wide audience and hopefully captures what I love about this Spider-Man: that he’s a guy who cares deeply about the people around him and always tries to do the right thing."

He's probably right, to be fair, and while Thames did cause a bit of a social media sh*tstorm on Tuesday, that's unlikely to have reached the vast majority of those who tuned into the show's two-episode premiere.

Check out that new trailer for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man below (and keep an eye out for a ComicBookMovie.com mention).

We need Spider-Man.

Marvel Animation's all-new series #YourFriendlyNeighborhoodSpiderMan is now streaming on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/OysNVfZSuI
— Spider-Man (@SpiderMan) January 29, 2025

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.

The first two episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man are now streaming on Disney+.

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SonOfAGif - 1/30/2025, 1:15 AM

I ask time and time again what does the word "woke" define and nobody can ever give a definitive definition of it. But it's almost always used whenever it involves diversity. Why is something that's different and unique considered woke? That term has been thrown around so much that it's lost whatever meaning it was supposed to have.

Malatrova15 - 1/30/2025, 1:43 AM

@SonOfAGif - its when you trying to hurt america mostly.

AllsNotGood - 1/30/2025, 1:58 AM

@SonOfAGif - pandering

McMurdo - 1/30/2025, 2:07 AM

@SonOfAGif - I've given an answer almost every time you've asked. It means virtue signaling via faux progressivism, pandering that is almost always corporatized in one form or another for the sake of optics. It's championing the other under the guise of it benefiting said other when in reality there is almost always industry and narcissism at play. It's saying "you" but really just saying "me".

Samsquanch - 1/30/2025, 2:16 AM

@SonOfAGif - I think the word woke is used by many different groups for different purposes. It is true that it is used by a lot of true racists/sexists/bigots etc. it is also used for those with a forced sense of superior morality that force you to believe you are indeed the problem for not liking or agreeing right away with what they are saying. The confusion begins when you try to carry out an opinion with only a word without careful elaboration. When you call people or ideas woke, racist, bigot, because of their shifted meaning, it immediately pre supposes a political stance therefore forcing one or both parties to take sides. Although I am not an American I see this take place a lot in their wide variety of persisting arguments over decades.

ProfessorWhy - 1/30/2025, 2:30 AM

@SonOfAGif - woke is most easily defined as socially aware. But that sounds like a normal, rational, handy trait and is not easily derided so it hits unused. The anti woke crowd is horrifically unintelligent

KennKathleen - 1/30/2025, 3:37 AM

@SonOfAGif - "Woke" is a flacid term used to say- "We have to place people of color in our product, or we will likely look like racists."

The problem with this theory is much of the product we consume in the entertainment realm, has largely blocked out black and brown people in a positive manner. This is likely a combination of everything being created in a time when both MARVEL & DC had little to no black and brown characters.

Unfortunately, this is largely still the case.

To combat this truth, we now are riding the girl-power movement wave, creating some form of padding to gender-bend many roles. This gives the availability to use the word "inclusion", which pushes the narrative that there is/will be more representation presently and moving forward. You can allow the feeling of that last sentence to give the illusion that things are getting better, and fill-in the hopes of what that means in accordance with your own imagination.

In large sections of entertainment, the new trend associated with inclusion is often black/brown lead actresses, in relationships with lead Caucasian males. No one talks about this too much, likely due to the fact that our black and brown people are either over the idea of entertainment narrative as a whole, or blinded from the subtle displays of disrespect, and just happy with collecting the check/seeing any form of representation.

Truth of the matter- once black/brown audiences fully pull away from these stories that are largely outdated, we may finally get to learn how vastly beautiful the black and brown community really was/is/will be again.

Until then.... Our C-A list men will wear the dress, get direspectful actions displayed towards them in film and television, then try to pretend they still have machismo/dignity in future roles, onced they've proven their ability to conform to the unspoken narrative.

Likewise, our Women will pretend they are only protected and obedient to their Caucasian male leads, and we may be gifted by a sprinkle of black and brown family structure once every 3-7 years.

🪙🪙

ObserverIO - 1/30/2025, 4:59 AM

@AllsNotGood - incorrect.

@McMurdo - incorrect

@samsquanch - correct but not an answer.

@ProfessorWhy - B-

@KennKathleen - TLDR+

@Gusto - See me after class.

ProfessorWhy - 1/30/2025, 5:07 AM

@ObserverIO - I'm on the faculty

Apophis71 - 1/30/2025, 5:15 AM

@SonOfAGif - A word exists that is fracture

Some idiots start using the word fracture when the mean splint

More idiots then use fracture for Doctors and Nurses applying splints

More idiots then use fracture for any person in a plaster cast

etc etc

THAT is the basic idea

Woke meant, as it implies, being awake to the realities of social injustice, specificaly related to black Americans originaly then expanded to include womens rights to over time then any social injustice.

Now it is being used for anything as little as having female or minority leads by some, certainly is if there is a character race swapped and if the thing has an obvious social message related to race, gender, sexuality etc etc but it is SO hit and miss when and how it is applied by some it is impossible to know why any one person is using the word and what they mean by it, good or bad.

I tend to think MOST use it as a blanket term for what they percieve is creative changes and forced inclusion in films and TV to increase diversity. IE using the word Fracture to say it is a dodgy splint being used by a Quack of a Doctor who misdiagnosed a fracture when there wasn't a fracture at all.

Apophis71 - 1/30/2025, 5:20 AM

Oh, but if it turns out to be good and/or profitable then suddenly it isn't woke.

So if the Splint looks realy cool it isn't a fracture even after they thought it was a dodgy splint being used by a Quack of a Doctor who misdiagnosed a fracture when there wasn't a fracture at all.

Nightwing1015 - 1/30/2025, 6:27 AM

@SonOfAGif - I completely agree it's mostly lost its meaning. But the vague gist of it is still there. When people use the word in this context (criticising movies/TV) it usually means they think it's crammed with ham-fisted political messaging that treats the viewer like an idiot and is generally not very subtle.

Clintthahamster - 1/30/2025, 6:43 AM

@Samsquanch - "it is also used for those with a forced sense of superior morality that force you to believe you are indeed the problem for not liking or agreeing right away with what they are saying."

I'd love to see a single example of the word woke being used in that sense.

Clintthahamster - 1/30/2025, 6:49 AM

@Apophis71 - "it is impossible to know why any one person is using the word and what they mean by it, good or bad."

I agree with everything you said except this. I'd wager almost no one is using it in its original sense anymore. If some brings up something or someone being woke, it's safe to assume they don't mean "in a good way."

DaHULK2000 - 1/30/2025, 7:30 AM

@SonOfAGif - Woke=Gay

WEAPONXOXOXO - 1/30/2025, 8:02 AM

@SonOfAGif - I have no idea what it means and I think people who use it also have no idea what it means.

Odekahn - 1/30/2025, 8:14 AM

@SonOfAGif - you mean kinda like libtards who can’t even define the word “woman”?

Itwasme - 1/30/2025, 8:31 AM

@AllsNotGood - seems more like the people who complain about something being woke are complaining because they aren't the ones being pandered to.

Basically anything not pandering to white men is woke.

AllsNotGood - 1/30/2025, 8:32 AM

@Itwasme - well that's not the case why when they gender and race swap they mainly do black people

AllsNotGood - 1/30/2025, 8:33 AM

@Itwasme - they complain because it is pandering and not earned. How do you explain the huge drive with race and gender swapping

Itwasme - 1/30/2025, 8:37 AM

@AllsNotGood - plenty of people complain when a film just stars a woman or people of color. Doesn't have to be race/gender swapped.

It literally is when something isn't catered to straight, white, men. So you're right about it being pandering.

kazuma - 1/30/2025, 8:39 AM

@SonOfAGif - The word has changed in meaning multiple times over the years and people are using different versions when they say it.

Woke used to mean being aware to injustices in society.

Woke then started to mean being over politically correct.

Now woke means anti colour/gende/women/sexuality/anything that doesn't drink bud light with a gun holster.

AllsNotGood - 1/30/2025, 8:42 AM

@Itwasme - films have stared women and people of colour since their Inception. Give me examples of film that people would have complained about

Itwasme - 1/30/2025, 8:49 AM

@AllsNotGood - She-Hulk, The Acolyte, The Marvels... plenty of examples where race/gender swapping never happened or weren't even why people were complaining about it. The fact that Rey exists at all is an issue for Star Wars anti-woke people.

Take a step back and ask yourself if the ONLY time you've seen people complain about something being woke is due to a race or gender swap. You'll find plenty of examples where its not true. Kraven fails because sometimes movies fail, but Madam Webb is because Hollywood is woke. Thats the double-standard we see. Catering to white, straight men is the only way to avoid being called woke.

Apophis71 - 1/30/2025, 8:53 AM

@kazuma - You can buy bud cans with a gun holster attached? Must be small guns that could go in those or is there supersized cans those come on?

Also, as a Brit, can never understand the appeal of bud light to anyone, full stop. Danish, German and some Australian Lager is OK as an alcholic soft drink on a hot day but gimme real traditional British/Irish ales or craft beer any day over all that (and no, we don't drink it warm).

mountainman - 1/30/2025, 9:06 AM

@SonOfAGif - Like many things it’s defined differently by different people. One undeniable trend is that projects labeled as woke tend to perform poorly. So maybe it doesn’t matter what the specific definition is and it matters more than most people clearly don’t like it.

It’s far stranger how people throw around the term Nazi to mean anyone they don’t like politically these days. Certainly a much worse term to use improperly.

Apophis71 - 1/30/2025, 9:11 AM

@mountainman - Statisticaly proven to not be true that things labeled woke fail at a higher rate than those that aren't, we are just made more aware of films/shows getting backlash thus more aware if they fail thus skewing perceptions of reality with that percieved skew made worse cos most stuff in advance called woke that turns into a hit suddenly stops being called woke.

bobevanz - 1/30/2025, 9:15 AM

@SonOfAGif - and judging from the replies, they still don't know. If someone uses thar word, it's a dog whistle. Also the usual clowns who use it are the ones trying to explain it hahaha

bobevanz - 1/30/2025, 9:16 AM

@mountainman - was Ghost Rider 2 woke? Was Jonah Hex woke? Police Academy 7? Give up ffs

Itwasme - 1/30/2025, 9:19 AM

@mountainman - most things in Holywiod fail, but people will stop calling something woke when it turns out good. Agatha was a recent example. A the woke complaints just kind of stopped. Look at Kraven vs Madam Web. One fails because it's a bad movie, the other because it's woke. It's a double standard.

mountainman - 1/30/2025, 9:21 AM

@Apophis71 - It would be tough to quantify due to two reasons: 1) People label woke differently 2) there is a far larger pushback today than a few years ago.

This subject is annoying because everyone labels the term differently and then everyone talks past each other.

But let’s just use The Acolyte as an easy example here. It didn’t earn enough viewers to justify its high budget. Its audience score was terrible. It didn’t get renewed. Objectively a failure. And that wasn’t because the lead was a black female. It was because: it contradicted existing lore, it tried making the twins to be more important than Anakin, the space witches were dumb, etc. Whether that’s woke or not is up for interpretation, but a lot of people would call it so. The public perception of the show was that it was woke. And it objectively failed.

As a counter example for you, Barbie could be considered woke and did very well. So maybe the point here is that male oriented stuff shouldn’t be woke but female oriented stuff can be. Who knows? People are complicated creatures.

mountainman - 1/30/2025, 9:22 AM

@bobevanz - It’s odd how you get your panties in a bunch at me when I clearly stated it’s a poorly defined term that is used differently by different people. Stay salty dude. I don’t call shit woke and was only using it here to tie to the article.

Apophis71 - 1/30/2025, 9:31 AM

@mountainman - Things fail cos they are not good and/or don't appeal to enough folk, end of story.

There has been multiple studies into this and on EVERY definition of what is or isn't woke there is no correlation indicating woke makes things more likely to fail. If anything there is some indication of a skew towards slightly LESS likely to fail but as I say we simply hear about the 'woke' stuff more cos of articles like this one thus hear about if they fail more, not that they DO fail at a higher rate. If a film doesn't have anything controversial in it we are way less likely to get articles on them and even when we do LESS articles and LESS comments/replies.

Again, things fail if they are not good, not due to being woke but I will add that SOME cases of badly written material does have more feel of stuff forced into it to try and artificialy increase appeal which tends to always backfire.

mountainman - 1/30/2025, 9:40 AM

@Apophis71 - One would argue that being woke is equated with bad writing. Maybe we look at video games for an easier example (despite the fact that this term continues to be poorly defined and used differently by different people). Concord is a game that most people can agree fit the definition of woke and it was an abject failure. Star Wars Outlaws was a disaster and some called it woke.MK1 performed much more poorly than SF6 did and more people called MK woke than SF.

I’m not going to split hairs with you or anyone else. If there are a lot of people calling something woke, it really doesn’t matter what the actual definition is. it is perceived that way.

Apophis71 - 1/30/2025, 9:47 AM

@mountainman - Maybe but if saying woke JUST means bad writing then it moves even further away from the original meaning thus making it even more meaningless but also undercuts the idea anyone should be able to call something woke prior to release as they can't know if it IS bad writing or not. THAT feels more like shifting the definition to prove go woke, go broke is true when it never was even if it does rhyme (the Eaton-Rosen phenominenom) lol.

AllsNotGood - 1/30/2025, 9:53 AM

@Itwasme - so Madame web didnt fail because it's lack of quality but because of the pandering? So are there any occasions where people like things led by a non white person? So she hulk the marvels and acolyte didn't fail because of quality then

mountainman - 1/30/2025, 10:01 AM

@Apophis71 - I didn’t say woke only means bad writing. Kraven had bad writing and nobody considers it woke. But the Acolyte did have bad writing and a lot of people considered it woke.

This actor said his show wasn’t woke, but it features a race swapped Osborne family. It’s pretty obvious that people have different definitions of the term and that it is seen as negative by large portions of society. Hashing out examples is such a waste of time. We are now in the post woke era. There is no going back. It doesn’t mean there won’t still be bad movies or shows or that people won’t still get in these dumb fights. But the movement overall is behind us now. Culture has moved on.

randomNPC - 1/30/2025, 10:11 AM

@SonOfAGif - my understanding is that "woke" means to be awake to the challenges,struggles and injustices of social,political and environmental issues... and I believe you have to dye your hair blue

Apophis71 - 1/30/2025, 10:18 AM

@mountainman - Yeh but Acolyte didn't change the gender or race of anyone and didn't deal with identity politics at all, it just didn't gain and retain enough viewers to get renewed (plus a lead that wasn't a white man) so how is Acolyte woke OTHER than being not that good and if only woke cos it isn't that good then Morbius was woke, Black Adam was woke whatever else wasn't good and flopped even when a white male lead was woke.

This is getting to be the thing, it may well be this voice actor is one who thinks woke means bad more so than any other aspect. As such even tho it does change characters from the source but he found it was good in his opinion then it wasn't woke when by most metrics most tend to claim defines the word it still is woke.

THIS is why the word SHOULD go back at least closer to the original meaning as in pertaining ONLY to things directly related to injustice like Barbie and Black Panther both were. Go back to other words such as pandering or forced inclusion for anything else but mostly just say a thing is bad if it's bad, good if it's good and leave the term woke out of all discussions where it ISN'T related to issues of social injustice cos otherwise everyone using it is applying double standards and making themself look like a fool even if they may have valid points pertaining to the quality of the product in question.

mountainman - 1/30/2025, 10:24 AM

@Apophis71 - I already said I’m not going to hash out specific examples with you and that the perception of woke is what matters. I can tell you why people thought that show was woke and your response will just be to fight me on it. I have more important things to spend my time on. It was perceived that way and performed poorly. That’s it.

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