![]() ![]() Forget the shonky set pieces, bad script and derailing off-screen drama the man in the suit between 20 was genuinely an amazing Spider-Man. The only thing that lets Andrew Garfield down is the films he’s in. What he’s been in: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) Most millennials will have an affinity for Christopher Daniel Barnes’ ’90s Spider-Man 4. Sixty-five episodes gave plenty of room for expansion (spanning multiverses, fighting the X-Men, introducing Venom), the real thrill was in watching a show that gave as much time to Peter as it did to Spidey. But you’ll also find a hero who feels most like he’s just swung out of the pages of the comics. Jump deep enough into the rabbit hole of the MCU multiverse and you’ll eventually reach the last two episodes of the ’90s Spider-Man cartoon – the first time Peter Parker crossed multiple dimensions and the root of everything great that’s happened to the character since. What he’s been in: Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994-1998) The OG animated Spider-Man, voiced by Paul Soles 5. Paul Soles’ Saturday morning ‘toon also carried over a lot of the fun of the original comics (see the episode where he fights pirates using a sword made out of webs) and helped set the weird, wacky tone for many a Spidey to come. Where everyone’s favourite “hey! those two things are the same!” meme never got made. ![]() Where Spidey never got his classic surf rock theme song (and where everyone from the Ramones to Homer Simpson never covered it). There’s a dark timeline somewhere out there where the ’60s Spider-Man cartoon never happened. Jake Johnson’s Spider-Dad in ‘Across The Spider-Verse’. This is a Spidey for anyone who aches a bit when they get out of their cinema seat. So goes Jake Johnson’s middle-aged Peter Parker who we first meet in Into The Spider-Verse, returning for the sequel as a happily married dad who feels no less keen on letting Miles do all the cardio. Mostly that’s because it’s really hard on the knees, but it’s also because superheroes are forced to sacrifice all their own happiness ending up divorced, alone, and obsessed with the mating habits of seahorses. What he’s been in: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018), Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023)īeing Spider-Man isn’t something anyone wants to still be doing in their forties. The best alt-spid of many in the recent films, a full live-action Spider-Man Noir series is now in the works. More Batman than Spider-Man, Cage’s character is an old-school, hard-boiled Nazi-bashing detective (who also still shoots string out of his wrists…) from a black and white 1930s corner of the Spider-Verse. Perfect, then, to play the oddest/coolest animated version of Spidey. Renaming himself after Luke Cage, calling his son Kal-El, and once having a priceless copy of Action Comics #1 stolen from his mansion, Nicolas Cage might be Hollywood’s biggest superhero fan.
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