7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.4
Overview
While being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Female Combat: Yes
Overview
While being trained by S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man battles evil with a new team of teen colleagues.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series' central subject matter of superhero action, personal responsibility, and the fight against supervillains is inherently apolitical, and its narrative consciously avoids promoting specific ideological viewpoints, focusing instead on universal moral lessons and entertainment.
The series demonstrates significant diversity through its casting choices, including the explicit race-swapping of a prominent character and the intentional inclusion of a diverse main superhero team. However, its narrative primarily focuses on superhero adventures and character development, rather than explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering strong DEI themes.
Secondary
The show features White Tiger, a skilled martial artist with enhanced physical abilities, who consistently engages in and wins physical fights against male opponents, often taking down multiple adversaries using hand-to-hand combat.
Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man, an animated series, does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on Spider-Man's superhero adventures and personal growth without addressing queer identities or experiences, resulting in no LGBTQ+ portrayal.
Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man does not include any discernible transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on traditional superhero adventures without engaging with transsexual identity in any capacity, resulting in no portrayal to evaluate.
The animated series features established Marvel characters, and while it introduces new iterations or original characters, none of the legacy characters widely known from source material or prior adaptations have their gender changed.
The animated series adapts characters consistent with their established comic book iterations, particularly drawing from the Ultimate Marvel universe where characters like Nick Fury were already depicted as Black. No characters established as one race in source material are portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
7.7
Critic Ratings
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