Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man contains references to and cameos from popular MCU mainstays like The Avengers in its first two episodes. Accordingly, fans have become curious about all the variants of notable MCU heroes that show up in the series.

The first episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man takes a drastic detour from the MCU in pretty significant ways.

Set outside of the “Sacred Timeline” Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is set somewhere in the multiverse exploring an alternate version of Spider-Man’s origins. Under the mentorship of Norman Osborn ( Colman Domingo ), Peter Parker learns how to utilize his new powers while balancing his social life as a freshman in high school.

Since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first created Spider-Man more than six decades ago, the character has been one of the most enduring superheroes in popular culture. From comics to animated series and a slew of live-action films (as well as 2018’s animated,

Man’s placement in the endless web known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, executive producer Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt said something happens in the new Disney+ show that branches it off from the traditional timeline Tom Holland’s Spider-Man occupies.

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Head writer Jeff Trammell and supervising director Mel Zwyer pay homage to the early comics with a "moving comic" style in CG while introducing a surprising supporting cast.