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Air date | 15 April, 2012 |
Written by | Man of Action & James Felder |
Directed by | Alex Soto |
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Venom is the 4th episode of the first season of Ultimate Spider-Man. It aired on April 15, 2012.
Synopsis[]
The trainees fight off Venom, who shows up at one of Harry's parties.
Plot[]
Spider-Man is being chased by an robot with tentacle arms with his spider-cycle in the underground subway. He evades the blow of the unknown object. Spider-Man got captured by the robot and tries gather a blood sample from him. Spider-Man distracts the thing with his new modified web-shooters to electrify it, along with himself. After it got distracted, the robot got destroyed by an upcoming train. The civilians nearby mock Spider-Man as his butt showcased itself to them after the robot torned the piece off. After embarrassingly scooting away from the laughing crowd, Spider-Man leaves the station to go to school, as he went there the robot lets out a small robot, which holds a blood sample of Spider-Man.
Peter tries to get on time to school, as he arrives at the front door it shuts itself. Harry shows himself and helps Peter to get through the window. Peter then explains that Harry is a good friend to him giving the audience an example. Flash throws Peter out of the boy's locker room and girls outside in the hallway begin laughing at him when Harry comes in to the save the day with "convenient extra outerwear". Harry reminds Peter to come in the night for a movie marathon with MJ, the team approaches and drags Peter to the cafetaria.
Otto Octavius is researching the blood sample of Spider-Man, by taking out the deadliest aspects of Spider-Man's DNA he creates a living organism. Octavius promises to Norman Osborn that he can create an army of soldiers in a few months, Norman rejects it and wants something by tonight.
At the cafetaria Peter is being laughed at by his teammates, Peter gets annoyed that they are always with him and wants some times to be with Harry. Sam makes a snarky remark about Harry, as Harry hears he frustrates about it and leaves them. Peter chases after Harry, but the latter shuts him down. MJ arrives and cheers Peter up.
In Harry's home, Harry complains to his father that Peter has ditched him as Norman is distracted by the Spider-Man news and leaves the home and lets thousand dollars behind for Harry. Peter and his teammates arrives in the appartement of Harry and much to his surprise reveals to be a party. Norman arrives in the facility of Octopus that is destroyed by the symbiote Venom, Octopus deduces that Venom escaped the facility to venture to Spider-Man.
At the party Peter talks with MJ about Harry's change of plans, Harry appears next to them complaining about Peter and his new friends. As the party goers cheer on Harry, Peter Parker spider-sense tingles and goes to the bathroom. He meets Flash there, before Flash gives Peter a swirlie, the Venom symbiote comes out. The symbiote attaches to Flash and tries to get a hold of Peter, while the latter evades it.
The symbiote shows itself to the people at the party and creates a black out, the people runs away from the party. Spider-Man and Nova tries to take care of the symbiote, while the symbiote detaches itself away from Flash it attaches itself to Nova. The symbiote in Nova's body attacks Spider-Man, the both of them get outside the building and gets to the rooftop. Nova tries to withstand the symbiote as the other team members arrives, Power Man ignoring Spider-Man advice to not touch it, he grabs the symbiote and detaches it from Nova, as he tries to throw it away the symbiote envelops itself with Power Man. Nova is knocked unconscious for a while.
The symbiote using Power Man's body, fights against the team. Iron Fist takes on the symbiote and augments his chi on his fist to free Power Man. However, the symbiote attaches itself to Iron Fist and tells Spider-Man that it is confused and wants to have him. The symbiote fights off Spider-Man and punches him to the large tv-screen. Iron Fist frees himself and before it attaches to White Tiger, Spider-Man sacrifices his body for his teammates safety. As the symbiote attaches to Spider-Man, he takes over his body and reveals his name to be Venom.
Venom fights off against the young superheroes, but is easily taken care of by Venom. While the fight is happening Harry and MJ went to rooftops to get some pictures and rescue Peter. Venom notices Harry and decides to attack him, but before he could do it Spider-Man withstands Venom's power and tries to get out of his body while fighting it. Harry hangs on a ledge but gets rescued by MJ. Spider-Man then activates the electricity enchancement on his web shooters and electrifies Venom. Harry asks where Peter, which Spider-Man replies that he is safe. Norman arrives at the rooftop, he frustrates that they destroyed Venom. Norman hugs Harry that he didn't got hurt and shows gratitute to Spider-Man.
Norman arrives in Octavius's facility and demands a new improved Venom. His employee dryly promises it by making it his "life's work". In Harry's appartement, Harry is cleaining his living room, Peter arrives and the both of them make up with each other. Peter tells about his friends and that they are alright, while Harry finds a piece of the symbiote and puts it in a bottle, showing it is alive.
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Supporting Characters[]
Villains[]
- Oscorp
- Venom
- Norman Osborn
- Doctor Octopus/Dr. Otto Octavius
- Dragon Man (cameo)
- Spider-Soldiers (cameo)
Other Characters[]
- Daily Bugle
- Aunt May (cameo)
- H.E.R.B.I.E. (cameo)
Cast[]
- Drake Bell as Spider-Man/Peter Parker
- Ogie Banks as Power Man/Luke Cage and Agent
- Greg Cipes as Iron Fist/Danny Rand
- Tom Kenny as Doctor Octopus/Dr. Otto Octavius and Announcer
- Matt Lanter as Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson and Tiny Octo-Bot
- Caitlyn Taylor Love as White Tiger/Ava Ayala
- Chi McBride as Nick Fury
- Logan Miller as Nova/Sam Alexander
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
- Tara Strong as Mary Jane Watson and Cute Girl
- Steven Weber as Norman Osborn and Venom
Trivia[]
- The credits shows Matt Lanter voicing Venom, but as Harry Osborn even though the symbiote didn't attached itself to Harry in the episode.
- Venom's very first word in the series was "Nerd."
- Flash later re-bonds with the symbiote in Season 3, creating Agent Venom.
- This episode features a "Fury Files" mini-clip of Nova during the credits.
- Also revealed in the episode, Peter has a 98 Average.
Marvel references[]
- Venom's origin of being created from Spider-Man's DNA is a parallel to Marvel Adventure's origin of the Symbiote and possibly even a homage to the Ultimate Marvel version of Carnage's origin.
- The symbiote wanting to go to Peter is a nod to in the comics where the symbiote saw Spider-Man as its true host.
- Venom’s merging with Spider-Man and asserting his identity is similar to Eddie Brock’s first appearance as Venom in the comics.
- Spider-Man's electric webbing was an ability in the 2001 Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro video game.
- Iron Fist does not possess the dragon tattoo on his chest from the comics, likely due to the show’s child friendly nature.
Goofs[]
Coming soon.
Quotes[]
You wanted a monster, I made you a monster...or a master piece. - Doctor Octopus
Parker, Hey. (grabs Peter, ready to give him a swirlie) Let's see if Osborn's fancy toilet has a swirly button. - Flash Thompson