The animated series "The Great Spider-Man": actors and plot

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The Great Spider-Man (sometimes translated as "perfect") is a sci-fi animated series that premiered in 2012 on the Disney Channel. To date, four seasons have been released. The project is based on the comics of the same name, it has plenty of humor, gags, and often uses the effect of the anime - chibi scenes.

Storyline

Peter Parker agrees to Nick Fury's offer from S. H. I. E. L. D. to undergo special training to improve his skills and superpowers. In her process, he meets and creates a team with five other heroes. Throughout the episodes of the animated series The Great Spider-Man, Peter, along with Invulnerable Man, Iron Fist, White Tiger and Nova, has been engaged in special combat training. For what? To successfully confront a whole army of enemies, which will be a great many throughout the series.

In The Great Spider-Man Season 1, Norman Osborn wants to get Parker's DNA in order to create an entire army of spider soldiers and sell them to the government. As his "six" he uses Doctor Octopus, who eventually decides to take revenge and turns Norman into the Green Goblin.

Throughout Season 2, Peter lives with his Aunt May and fights against a new enemy - the Sinister Six team, which includes Beetle, Rhino, Electro, Lizard and Kraven the Hunter. At the same time, the creators are gradually revealing the stories of all members of the Spider-Man team. Ava Ayala, for example, donned the cloak of the White Tiger after her father's death at the hands of the Hunter.

In Season 3, Peter is recruited by the Avengers. Fury gives him a new task - to find other superheroes and bring them to his side. The Green Goblin steals a magical artifact and gains the power to travel to other worlds, Parker follows him. He meets his 2099 self, Spider-Girl, as well as his versions as Pig, Knight, and Noir. In the end, he teams up with everyone to defeat the Goblin and Electro, who, after being repaired by Hellikerier, was able to transform him into a huge robot. In the last episode, Aunt May and Venom find out that Parker is Spider-Man. But he'll have to deal with that later.

4 season of The Great Spider-Man begins with Octupus attempting to kidnap Norman and turn him back into a Goblin, he forges an alliance with the Hydra and eventually creates a new Sinister Six. Scarlet Spider appears, who at first acts on the side of Peter Parker, but then turns out to be a spyOctupus. As a result, Spider-Man defeats the villains and becomes the Ultimate.

Jared Drake Bell

Jared was born on June 27, 1986. In addition to his acting career, he sings, plays the guitar, tried himself as a TV director. Popularity brought him shooting in the teenage series "Drake &Josh", he even wrote the soundtrack for it. And in 2005, his debut album called Telegraph saw the light.

Started playing movies at the age of eight. At the age of ten, he played the role of Jesse Remo in the film "Jerry Maguire", and was a guest on the Nickelodeon TV show "Zoey 101" many times. He received the award for Favorite TV Actor three times. In the series of actors of the animated series "The Great Spider-Man" he is perhaps the most famous.

Stephen Weber

Stephen is an American actor, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1961 in New York, graduated from the university, started his career from the theater stage and became famous after seven years of filming in the TV series Wings. After that, Steven Weber got the lead roles in several films in a row, among them "A Single White Woman", "Jeffrey", and "Temp". He has been married twice and has two children with Juliette Hounen. Among all the actors of the animated series The Great Spider-Man, he voices Norman Osborn - one of the main villains and opponent of Peter Parker for many episodes of all four seasons.

Karl Diedrich Bader

Karl Bader –actor of German origin, born on December 24, 1966 in the USA, gained fame thanks to the comedies Vampire Hickey, Meet the Spartans and The Very Hunger Games.

Most of his childhood he lived in Paris, but then returned to America, where he began to study acting. He voiced characters in many famous animated films such as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Ice Age, Hercules and The Penguins of Madagascar.

He was one of the actors of the animated series "The Great Spider-Man" and voiced the character Kraven the Hunter - a member of the Sinister Six.

Tara Strong

Of all the casting actors in the animated series The Great Spider-Man, Tara Strong was chosen for the role of Mary Jane Watson. Born in 1973, she grew up in Toronto, USA, and is best known for the films The Powerpuff Girls, Friendship Is Magic, The Fairy Parents, and her recurring role as Collins on the TV series Get Big.

She starred in films for the first time at the age of four, then she played in school productions, and at the age of thirteen she entered the art school, where she got her first serious role in the theater. Thanks to her talent and hard work, she was able to declare herself loudly and since then has not lacked good roles - both in film and in the theater.

Other voiceovers

For any cartoon, the quality of voice acting is very important, because it conveys the characters' characters and tension,the emotionality of the scenes. Voiced by the animated series "The Great Spider-Man" actors:

• Peter Parker - Drake Bell;
• Auggie Banks - Luke Cage/Strong Man;
• Caitlin Love - White Tigress;
• Curt Connors - Adrian Toomes/Vulture;
• Misty Lee - Aunt May;
• Tara Strong - Mary Jane Watson;
• Matt Lanter - Harry Osborn/Flash Thompson/Agent Venom;
• Chi McBride - Nick Fury.

Thanks to all these wonderful actors, viewers can enjoy a funny and interesting animated series. Although there are only four seasons to date, the creators promise at least two more in the near future.