Season 3: The Sins of The Fathers (1996)
| # | Title | Villains |
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| 28 | "Doctor Strange" | Baron Mordo |
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The episode opens showing Anna Watson in grief over the disappearance of Mary Jane, blaming Peter. As Spider-Man, he then witnesses Mary Jane involved in a robbery. It later unfolds that Mary Jane has joined a cult under the control of Baron Mordo, being led to believe that she has a relationship with her father. Peter thus confronts Mordo, who attempts to take control of him by giving him false presence of his parents, having overseen Peter's sought of them. Mordo orders his cult to steal the Wand of Watoom in an attempt to release his master, Dormammu, a dimension traveler, onto Earth. Spider-Man is accidentally caught in Mordo's orders and is hypnotised into helping retrieve the wand. Doctor Strange and his student Wong release Spider-Man from Mordo's control and they agree to team up to prevent Mordo from releasing Dormammu. Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, and Wong are able to defeat Mordo and Dormammu. Doctor Strange then releases Mary Jane from Mordo's control and convinces her that her father is not present. Madame Web is seen in a cameo at the end of the episode overseeing Spider-Man saying goodbye to Doctor Strange and Wong, who sense this. |
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| 29 | "Make a Wish" | Doctor Octopus |
| In a battle with Dr. Octopus a medical research building is destroyed. Blaming himself, Peter is considering giving up being Spider-Man, when he meets a mystic figure named Madame Web and his biggest fan, a little girl called Taina. Spider-Man shares his origin with her. Dr. Octopus attacks with his new invention the Octobot. After a battle Spider-Man is captured when he is gassed. After the battle with Dr. Octopus Spider-Man is captured and brainwashed by Dr. Octopus using a 'neuro neutralizer ray'. Dr. Octopus uses the ray to wipe Spider-Man's memory and convinces him (along with some news clips from Jameson) that he is his partner in crime. While the two 'criminals' plan to steal an alloy from the Wellington Foundry, a young girl (Taina) along with the help of a kind cab driver (Mousie) try to stop Spider-Man and help him realize who he truly is. Mousie contacts other cab drivers to track Spider-Man. However during a robbery she is found by Dr. Octopus and Spider-Man, who binds and gags her with his webbing. She is kidnapped, but Spider-Man releases her. He finally regains his memory, however Dr. Octopus tries to kill him. Tania gets control of the Octobot and saves Spider-Man, after which Doctor Octopus is arrested. Spider-Man reveals his identity to Tania. | ||
| 30 | "Attack of the Octobot" | Doctor Octopus |
| A continuation of the story from the previous episode. | ||
| 31 | "Enter the Green Goblin" | The Green Goblin |
| While developing a new gas for the Kingpin to use as a weapon, a mistake triggers an explosion and Norman Osborn disappears in the chaos. A new villain, the Green Goblin appears and kidnaps all of Osborn's enemies. As Spider-Man investigates the origin of this new villain, the evidence begins to point to only one person...Norman Osborn! | ||
| 32 | "Rocket Racer" | Jackson Weele and his gang |
| Spider-Man finds himself in competition with himself over Felicia. Meanwhile, Jackson Weele leads a gang of thieves armed with jet-pack technology. Weele has developed a large gyro-wheel in which he uses to plunge through the city. Robert Farrell tries to help his ailing mother by using science and the gang's technology to arm himself as the "Rocket Racer". Spider-Man and Robert team up to bring down the Big Wheel. They succeed after electrocuting it by fusing two wires. | ||
| 33 | "Framed" | Richard Fisk |
| Peter Parker is framed by Richard Fisk for selling government secrets to foreign organisations. However, Peter's lawyer, Matt Murdock, believes he is innocent. Spider-Man later teams with the Daredevil in an attempt to clear his name. | ||
| 34 | "The Man Without Fear" | Richard Fisk, The Kingpin and The Chameleon |
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Spider-Man has teamed with the Daredevil aka Matt Murdock, in an attempt to clear Peter Parker's name from crimes of treason. The Kingpin, Alistair Smythe, and Richard Fisk have the Chameleon kidnap Peter, along with MJ, in an effort to eliminate Peter from testifying against them. Meanwhile a double agent working for Richard Fisk, takes the incriminating disc from Murdock and returns it to Richard, but with help from Detective Terri Lee and the NYPD, Daredevil is able to free them and collect the disc. Richard Fisk along with an accomplice, and the Chameleon, are incarcerated after being found guilty of framing Peter. During the trial Richard Fisk excludes mentioning any involvement of his father Wilson Fisk aka The Kingpin. After the trial Wilson apologizes to Peter, pretending to know nothing about Richard's plan to frame him, but Peter secretly vows revenge on him. Following the trial it is revealed that Jameson hired Murdock to represent Peter in court. Jameson asks Murdock not tell this to Peter, so Peter does not get the idea that he actually likes him. Also Robbie Robinson gives Peter his old job back. Back at Kingpin's lair, Kingpin tells Alistair Smythe, that he has failed him for the last time (perhaps hinting to a near conclusion to their partnership). Later Daredevil and Spider-Man meet, and Daredevil explains that he must follow Murdock on assignment to DC, but reassures Spider-man that he will continue to collect evidence against the Kingpin, and wishes him best of luck in bringing him down. |
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| 35 | "The Ultimate Slayer" | The Kingpin and Alistair Smythe |
| With the secret out, Kingpin attempts to kill Spider-Man by turning Smythe into a cyborg and let him do it. | ||
| 36 | "Tombstone" | Tombstone and Alisha Silvermane |
| Tombstone is hired by Alisha Silver to destroy the story planned for the Daily Bugle revealing that she had taken over her father's criminal organisation, in exchange for large amounts of cash. Tombstone attempts to use Robbie Robertson, whom he was childhood friends with, to kill the story. After a narrow escape from Tombstone, Robbie reveals to Spider-Man that Tombstone's real name is "Lonnie Lincoln", and that he was imprisoned from a young age after breaking into an ice-cream store, whilst Robbie escaped. He claims that Lonnie fell into a vat of radioactive chemicals after being released, whilst attempting to frame Robbie. Robbie's son Randy becomes a member of Tombstone's "Posse", and Robbie teams with Spider-Man to make his son realise not to resort to crime. At the end of the episode, Tombstone is arrested, having failed to destroy the Silvermane story. | ||
| 37 | "Venom Returns" | Venom, Dormammu, Baron Mordo and Carnage |
| The symbiote returns to Earth and travels to Ravencroft to reunite with Eddie Brock, who then escapes as Venom. He is ordered by Dormammu, to whom the symbiote owes its earthly return, to steal a machine from Stark Enterprises capable of releasing Dormammu from his own far-off dimension. When Venom battles Spider-Man and War Machine, he is easily defeated by the two heroes. Baron Mordo and Dormammu help Eddie Brock's cell-mate Cletus Kassidy bond with a symbiote, who later dubs himself Carnage. Carnage then assists Venom in his task to retrieve the technology from Stark Enterprises, though when Carnage attempts to destroy Spider-Man, Venom attacks him, telling him that the wall-crawler is Venom's and Venom's only. | ||
| 38 | "Carnage" | Carnage, Dormammu and Baron Mordo |
| When Eddie refuses to continue to work for Dormammu, Carnage is considered sufficient to collect life-force which is essential for Dormammu to enter Earth. Carnage kidnaps Dr. Ashley Kafka, whom Eddie has fallen in love with. Eddie then reluctantly teams with Iron Man and Spider-Man to save her. They are forced to send Carnage as well as Dormammu into the other dimension, as it appears he has formed a link between himself and Carnage. Carnage, unwilling to leave Earth alone, attempts to drag Ashley with him, though Venom sacrifices himself for the woman he loves. | ||
| 39 | "The Spot" | The Kingpin |
| Dr. Jonathon Ohnn was a brilliant scientist who created the Time Dilation Accelerator portal-making machine for Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man. But after Iron Man and Spider-Man defeated Venom and Carnage, when they tried to free Dormammu from another dimension with the machine, he shut down the Accelerator. Ohnn quit and was later approached by the Kingpin who funded Ohnn's research to have him continue the Accelerator project and Ohnn fell in love with his partner, Dr. Silvia Lopez, who wanted to seek greater reward for her efforts. After they completed the machine, Ohnn was accidentally sucked into a portal, where numerous other portals were formed onto him, and he could create and recall the portals. Ohnn called himself the Spot and started stealing money to help fund his project go further. Later Fisk holds Dr. Lopez hostage so the Spot can kill Spider-Man. Although the Spot failed to kill Spider-Man, Spider-Man figured out his dilemma and agreed to work with him to save Lopez and defeat Kingpin. Once they confronted Kingpin, it was figured out that when Ohnn became the Spot, numerous other portals were created. The Spot took care of them except for one that grew so big in the sky that it was impossible for the Spot to recall. So Spider-Man and Lopez use the Kingpin's jet for extra power for the Spot to close the portal. Once the process was halfway done, the Spot decided his powers increased powerfully in the vortex that he can close the hole – from inside. He went in, and Dr. Silvia Lopez goes in with him, admitting her feelings for him, and the Spot closes the portal. In the end the Hobgoblin is on the phone about Kingpin's failure to get the accelerator. | ||
| 40 | "Goblin War!" | The Green Goblin and The Hobgoblin |
| The Green Goblin and the Hobgoblin clash over Dr. Ohn's Time Dilation Accelerator. Peter and Mary Jane are celebrating Felicia Hardy's engagement to Jason Macendale when it is revealed that Macendale is the Hobgoblin. In the end, the Green Goblin gets his hands on the portal technology and plans to show Kingpin, Hobgoblin and Spider-Man "what a real goblin can do". | ||
| 41 | "Turning Point" | The Green Goblin |
| Norman Osborn, still with the Goblin in control tries to use the Transporting device to find out Spider-Man's secret identity. In the end, during the battle, Mary Jane and The Green Goblin get trapped inside the limbo. |
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