Spider-Man Unlimited
| Spider-Man Unlimited | |
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| Genre |
Superhero Action/adventure Science fiction |
| Created by |
Stan Lee Steve Ditko |
| Based on | Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko |
| Developed by |
Michael Reaves Will Meugniot |
| Written by |
Larry Brody Robert Gregory Browne Brynne Chandler Michael Reaves |
| Directed by | Patrick Archibald |
| Voices of |
Rino Romano Brian Drummond Michael Donovan Garry Chalk John Payne II Rhys Huber Christopher Gaze Jennifer Hale |
| Theme music composer | Jeremy Sweet Ian Nickus |
| Composer(s) | Jeremy Sweet Ian Nickus Shuki Levy Kussa Mahchi Ron Kenan |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Avi Arad |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Marvel Studios Saban International Koko Enterprise Co., Ltd. |
| Distributor | Saban Entertainment Disney–ABC Domestic Television (currently) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Fox Toon Disney (reruns) YTV (Canada) Network Ten (Australia) |
| Original release | October 2, 1999 – March 31, 2001 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Spider-Man (1994 TV series) |
| Followed by | Spider-Man: The New Animated Series |
Spider-Man Unlimited is an American animated series by Saban Entertainment which features the Marvel comic book superhero Spider-Man.Unlimited premiered in 1999, and though it had fair ratings, it was overshadowed by Pokémon and the newly debuted Digimon, and canceled after airing only a few episodes.Fox Kids later resumed airing the show from 2000 to 2001, airing 13 episodes, the last ending on a cliffhanger. Several scripts were written for Season 2, including the conclusion of the cliffhanger, but were never produced.
Initially, the goal was to do a low-budget adaptation of the first 26 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man comic book, but Sony and Marvel had already engaged in a deal, and so Saban was cut from any source and could not use the traditional Spider-Man suit or adapt the early comics. Also, in the original idea, Spider-Man was stranded in a Counter-Earth in which Ben Parker didn't die and thus Peter Parker lacked the moral fortitude to resist becoming Venom. However, Marvel Comics didn't like the idea and stated that they would not do a story with two Peter Parkers.
While covering the launch of John Jameson's one-man mission to Counter-Earth (another Earth located on the far side of the Sun), Spider-Man attempts to stop his two symbiote adversaries Venom and Carnage from boarding the shuttlecraft. Blamed for Jameson losing contact with our Earth by J. Jonah Jameson of the Daily Bugle, Spider-Man becomes a target of persecution by the media and the public at large, with a bounty placed on his head. Believed to be dead after saving a person's life in a fire, Peter Parker uses the ruse to embark on a mission to retrieve John Jameson on Counter-Earth. His new Spider suit using nanotechnology discreetly borrowed from Reed Richards to design a new suit that incorporates built in webshooters, stealth technology and anti-symbiote sonic weaponry. Making his way to the planet, Spider-Man learns that Jameson has fallen in with a band of freedom fighters opposed to the High Evolutionary whose Beastials, hybrids of animal and humanoid attributes, are the dominant species whilst humans are the second-class minority.
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