Spider-Man (1994)

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Starring: Edward Asner, Roscoe Lee Browne, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Sara Ballantine

Genres: Action, Animated, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller

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The Return of Hydro-Man: Part 1 - S5-E7

Stupidity: When Spider-Man is working in the lab, he uses his webbing to barricade the door shut so no-one interrupts him. When Debra Whitman shows up and asks who is in there, he identifies himself as Peter Parker. When he is finished with his work, he leaves out of the window so that by the time the security guards break the door down, he has vanished. Since he used his webbing to keep the door closed, it would be pretty easy for Debra and the security guards to figure out that Peter is Spider-Man since Spider-Man's webbing is at the scene and Peter seemingly vanished into thin air.

Phaneron ★

Sins of the Fathers Chapter 5: The Rocket Racer - S3-E5

Stupidity: The huge rover that the criminals use to aid in their bank robberies tears up the streets they travel down, which leaves a huge trail for the authorities to follow and track them down. Adding to the stupidity is the fact that the highly intelligent Spider-Man doesn't think to follow the path of destruction they leave behind to locate them.

Phaneron ★

Neogenic Nightmare Chapter 1: The Insidious Six - S2-E1

Stupidity: When the Kingpin is breaking all of the supervillains out of prison, Shocker, Scorpion and Mysterio all have their costumes, weapons and gadgets conveniently stored at the prison, which makes their escape easier. Surely a prison wouldn't keep superpowered weapons and costumes in the same place where the inmates are being held. They would be stored in a federal evidence locker.

Phaneron ★

Six Forgotten Warriors Chapter 4: The Six Fight Again - S5-E5

Stupidity: When the Kingpin has acquired all six keys required to access the doomsday device, he gives every member of the Insidous Six a key and promises them a share in the spoils, despite knowing that one of them is a traitor. He even acts dumbfounded when the Chameleon reveals himself to be the traitor moments later.

Phaneron ★

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Neogenic Nightmare Chapter 11: Tablet of Time - S2-E9

Factual error: When Peter is walking Alissa home, the traffic signal at the intersection they stop at goes from red to yellow to green. Not what US traffic signals do - they go straight from red to green.

Phaneron ★

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Suggested correction: Not entirely true; although they are rare and may no longer exist now, I've seen traffic lights that followed the red, yellow, green pattern as recently as the mid-1990s.

zendaddy621

Interesting. What state (s) did you see this in? I'm assuming going from red to yellow was to encourage cars to cautiously enter the intersection in case someone was running a red light?

Phaneron ★

Traffic lights in the UK do this - it's more to give you a second to get ready, in gear, etc., then as soon as the lights turn green you can go. Otherwise you get no warning of when the lights are about to change.

In Illinois; as I said, such traffic lights are rare, but they did exist at least as recently as the time this episode of the series aired, and they may still possibly exist in larger cities such as New York City.

zendaddy621

This traffic light set-up (red to yellow to green) still exists today in the UK. From what I understand, it is to alert the driver that the light will be turning green imminently and to prepare themselves to put their car in gear, as manual cars are still pretty common in Europe. I'd wager this light cycle was phased out of North America due to the abundance of automatic cars today. Could have been different in 1994 though.

critterbonus

It should be noted that traffic lights that go from red to yellow before going green keep the red light illuminated so that both red and yellow are lit up. However, that's not what happens in the scene. I've never seen a traffic light operate the way it's shown. And Massachusetts still has traffic lights that go from red to yellow, however, when red and yellow are lit up together, this allows for pedestrian crossing.

Bishop73

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Spider-Man: Subtetly is not your strong point, is it?
Wolverine: Hey, can't even spell the word.

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Sins of the Fathers Chapter 9: Tombstone - S3-E9

Trivia: When Spider-Man saves Tombstone from falling into a bubbling vat he jokes about him coming out with "green hair." Clearly that's a joke referencing DC comics' Joker.

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Question: Was the script for the sixth season written before this show was cancelled?

Answer: Yes. Many things that would have been in the sixth season would have had Norman Osborne returning from limbo and reclaiming the title of the Green Goblin, Richard Fisk, the son of "The Kingpin" Wilson Fisk would return as a crime lord known as "The Rose", Ghost Rider would have appeared to help Spider-Man stop Dormammu from returning to Earth and Madame Web and Spider-Man would rescue Mary Jane from limbo.

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