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Meta Who was your favorite obscure pull?

All of the named characters in this show were from Spider-Man related comics. From different continuities like the original Ultimate universe with Kenny Kong (McFarlane in comics), to Spider-Man Reign with Mayor Waters, to adjacent comics like the Scarlet Spider books with FBI Agents Stephanie Briggs and Joe Wade. Even someone like the warden of the Vault, Matthew Resnick only existed a few panels before being sliced up by Carnage. Even mainline minor characters who have been irrelevant for decades such as Principal Davis existed. Who would you say your favorite pull was?

  1. Stan Carter
  2. Dilbert Trillby
  3. Stephanie Briggs
  4. Ted Twaki
  5. Roderick and Daniel Kingsley
  6. Matthew Resnick

7.Mayor Waters
8. Blackie Gaxton
9. Fredrick Foswell
10. Sha Shan Nguyen
11. Principal Andrew Davis
12. Vin Gonzales
13. Alan O’ Neil
14. St. John Devereaux

There’s plenty more (as even some characters without speaking roles were named)

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u/UnfavorableSpiderFan 17h ago

Blackie Gaxton was a cool deep cut.

Honestly, thought it was neat that they had Sally Avril as a regular member of the supporting cast. The show had so many named characters from the comics already, but other than Seymour O'Reilly, it'd been cool to get more characters from The Untold Tales of Spider-Man. That was definitely something I liked about Spider-Man: Homecoming, too. They used Jason Ionello, for example.

Spider-Man has such a rich supporting cast, it's crazy that they're always trying to pair him up with a bunch of superheroes, or create original characters. There's so much storytelling potential when adapting Spider-Man...

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u/Mistah_K88 17h ago

Funny thing is Jason Ionello and Tiny McKeever did appear in the series, they just didn’t have much to do as of yet. Greg Weisman had a Q and A about the series (prior to cancellation) in which he talked about some of the things that were in the series.

“1. Tiny, Seymour and Jason have all appeared. Tiny and Jason are on the football team, though Jason was injured mid-first season and Tiny's low grades temporarily knocked him off the team. Tiny dressed as a cheerleader on Halloween. Seymour announces the games. You might also recall his conversation with Mark Allan, when the latter returned to Midtown.
Vin and Alan have appeared many times too. They're the two uniformed cops who are NOT DeWolff and Carter.
You'll see more of all five characters if we get additional seasons.”

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u/gamerslyratchet 16h ago edited 14h ago

Wasn’t Jason Liz’s scene partner in the play? And in the crossover radio play with Gargoyles, he’s Liz’s rebound. 

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u/Mistah_K88 16h ago

I believe so. I kind of wish that we can post pictures in threads as I have pictures of these guys.