Spoilers for “Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man” to comply with.
Who’s Peter Parker’s finest good friend? Harry Osborn? Ned Leeds? Johnny Storm? In response to the brand new animated collection “Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man,” it is — Nico Minoru? In case you’re an off-the-cuff Marvel fan, you could be pondering: who? Now, Nico is a longtime Marvel character, however not one who’s often linked to Spider-Man. So why use her? And what can her function within the collection to date reply about that?
“Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man” is not set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or no less than not the so-called “Sacred Timeline.” As executive producer Brad Winderbaum has explained, placing the present within the MCU continuity would’ve been too restrictive.
That mentioned, the present continues to be utilizing the MCU as a basis. Peter (Hudson Thames) and Aunt Might (Kari Wahlgren) are drawn to resemble Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei, their actors within the MCU Spider-Man movies. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio are additionally set to make visitor appearances as Daredevil and Wilson Fisk ahead of their onscreen reunion in “Daredevil: Born Again.”
Thus far, the present is leaning into an alternate timeline conceit the place butterflies flapped their wings otherwise, and so Peter Parker’s life took completely different turns. The ending of episode 1, “Wonderful Fantasy,” ends by replicating Peter’s introduction again in “Captain America: Civil Warfare,” besides this time, Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo) is ready to fulfill him as an alternative of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), the mentor of Holland’s Peter Parker.
Early in “Wonderful Fantasy,” Midtown Excessive Faculty (the place Peter went to high school within the MCU) is demolished in a struggle between Physician Unusual and a symbiote. So, Peter goes to a special college as an alternative. Presumably, he did not meet Ned (Jacob Batolan), so Nico (Grace Track) is his finest good friend as an alternative. Friendships are sometimes contingent on who you are round most frequently, and as a youngster, that is who you are in class with.
In its opening two episodes, Nico is one half of a traditional geek and Goth duo with Peter; she’s wearing black, her hair has dyed blue streaks, and so forth. Like within the comics, she’s additionally bisexual — she teases Peter if he would not ask out his crush Pearl (Cathy Ang), she is going to. However to date, Nico has not proven her comedian self’s magical facet.
Spoilers for “Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man” to comply with.
Who’s Peter Parker’s finest good friend? Harry Osborn? Ned Leeds? Johnny Storm? In response to the brand new animated collection “Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man,” it is — Nico Minoru? In case you’re an off-the-cuff Marvel fan, you could be pondering: who? Now, Nico is a longtime Marvel character, however not one who’s often linked to Spider-Man. So why use her? And what can her function within the collection to date reply about that?
“Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man” is not set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or no less than not the so-called “Sacred Timeline.” As executive producer Brad Winderbaum has explained, placing the present within the MCU continuity would’ve been too restrictive.
That mentioned, the present continues to be utilizing the MCU as a basis. Peter (Hudson Thames) and Aunt Might (Kari Wahlgren) are drawn to resemble Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei, their actors within the MCU Spider-Man movies. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio are additionally set to make visitor appearances as Daredevil and Wilson Fisk ahead of their onscreen reunion in “Daredevil: Born Again.”
Thus far, the present is leaning into an alternate timeline conceit the place butterflies flapped their wings otherwise, and so Peter Parker’s life took completely different turns. The ending of episode 1, “Wonderful Fantasy,” ends by replicating Peter’s introduction again in “Captain America: Civil Warfare,” besides this time, Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo) is ready to fulfill him as an alternative of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), the mentor of Holland’s Peter Parker.
Early in “Wonderful Fantasy,” Midtown Excessive Faculty (the place Peter went to high school within the MCU) is demolished in a struggle between Physician Unusual and a symbiote. So, Peter goes to a special college as an alternative. Presumably, he did not meet Ned (Jacob Batolan), so Nico (Grace Track) is his finest good friend as an alternative. Friendships are sometimes contingent on who you are round most frequently, and as a youngster, that is who you are in class with.
In its opening two episodes, Nico is one half of a traditional geek and Goth duo with Peter; she’s wearing black, her hair has dyed blue streaks, and so forth. Like within the comics, she’s additionally bisexual — she teases Peter if he would not ask out his crush Pearl (Cathy Ang), she is going to. However to date, Nico has not proven her comedian self’s magical facet.