The Spectacular Spider-Man/Characters

Peter Parker/Spider-Man

• Adorkable/Comics
• Badass Bookworm: As Peter.
• Berserk Button: Threatening Aunt May sets Spidey off so much that he's able to drive off Venom. To clarify, he can almost never match Venom in a fair fight, except when Venom tries to go after Aunt May.
  • Attacking Gwen or any of his other classmates is a bad idea, as well. Also, do not make him work with the man who shot his uncle. No matter how remorseful that man is.
• Building Swing
• Chest Insignia
• Cool Loser
• Deadpan Snarker
• Did Not Get the Girl: Thanks to premature cancellation.
• Expressive Mask
• Genius Bruiser: As Spider-Man.
• Grappling Hook Gun: Webshooters, natch.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Not as bad as in the comics, though.
• Hollywood Nerd
• Lego Genetics
• Le Parkour
• Likes Older Women
• Motor Mouth
• The Nicknamer: Much to the villains' annoyance.
• Ordinary High School Student
• Save the Villain: Sometimes reluctantly.
• Screw the Money, I Have Rules: Tombstone's We Can Rule Together offer being rejected.
• Secret Identity
  • Secret Identity Change Trick
• Spider Sense
• Teen Genius
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Tinkerer calls him out on it.
  • Though ironically, at the end of the series he thinks he's killed Norman Osborn.
• Trickster
• Wall Crawl
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
• You Fight Like a Cow- As Spider-Man

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Gwen Stacy

• All Love Is Unrequited: She and Peter finally seem to hook up at the end of Season 2, but Harry puts a stop to it.
• Closer to Earth
• Death Glare: Or "The Look", which has the same effect.
• The Glasses Gotta Go
• Hollywood Nerd
• Lacey Chabert
• Love Triangle: First with Peter and Liz, now with Peter and Harry.
• Meganekko: Until "Gangland", anyway.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Especially after...
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Shows up to her Valentine's date with Harry sans glasses and wearing a dress.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Word of God said that, even if the series hadn't been cancelled, they had no plans to kill her off.
• Two First Names

Harry Osborn

• Fantastic Drug: Globulin Green.
• Green-Eyed Monster
• James Arnold Taylor
• Never My Fault: He has the highest ratio of blaming Peter/Spidey of all the characters in this series.
• Put on a Bus: From "The Uncertainty Principle" until "First Steps."
• Took a Level in Jerkass
• The Unfavorite: His father prefers Peter to his own son.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: In spades. If you've seen the first movie, well... this is taken up multiple notches.

Flash Thompson

• Book Dumb: Not completely stupid (especially compared to his pal, Kenny Kong), but still a walking academic disaster area.
• Character Development: The second season saw Flash abandon much of his Jerk Jock characteristics in a bid to impress a girl he had a crush on. As a result, he also became less antagonistic towards Peter.
• Former Friend Of Jerk Jock: In this series, he and Peter were best friends as children.
• Give Geeks a Chance: Eventually.
• Heroic Bystander
• Hidden Depths: Turns out to hold sportsmanship higher than trophies.
• Jerk Jock
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Not quite there yet, but moving in the right direction.
  • He seems to be there by the end.
• Playing Cyrano: Enlists Peter's aid to make sure he doesn't sound dumb while trying to impress a smart girl (doesn't work, but she likes him anyway).
• Popular Is Dumb

Randy Robertson

• Black Best Friend: To Flash.
• The Masochism Tango: His inexplicable (even to himself, much of the time) relationship with Sally Avril.
• Nice Guy
• Only Sane Man: For pretty much the whole school, along with Glory Grant.
• Phil LaMarr
• Positive Discrimination: The nicest of the sports clique to the main characters.
• The Stoic: In a friendly, laid-back sort of way.
• Talking to Himself: Not seen in action, but Phil LaMarr also voices Randy's father and Daily Bugle editor, Robbie Robertson.
• What Does He See In Her

Sally Avril

• Alpha Bitch
• Ascended Extra: In the comics, she appeared in two panels on the second page of the first Spider-Man comic, Amazing Fantasy #15, and doesn't show up again for over thirty years.
• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: In the first episode, Peter has a big crush on her and asks her out. The results? They ain't pretty.
• The Cheerleader: Mean as hell and none-too-bright, Sally does the stereotypes proud.
• Dumb Blonde
• Even Jerks Have Standards: She doesn't like Peter, but, after one dangerous incident, openly admits that she's glad he's alright and even hugs him out of relief. Also, back toward the end of the first season, it's mentioned that "even Sally" is worried for Peter when she heard that Aunt May had a heart attack.
  • Makes a point of laying off Peter if Liz asks her to.
• Grey DeLisle
• Jerkass: Most of the time.
• No Indoor Voice
• Popular Is Dumb
• Ship Sinking: Very against Liz/Peter. She got her wish when Liz broke up with Peter (but it was actually Peter who broke her up).
• Spared by the Adaptation: Although considering that her comics counterpart dies as an adult and the series was canceled while she's still in high school...

Liz Allan

• All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Is a cheerleader and Peter's first girlfriend on the show, though Peter later decides that he does not, in fact, want a cheerleader.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Initially extremely dismissive of Peter at first.
• Damsel in Distress: In one episode of the first season.
• Give Geeks a Chance
• Hopeless Suitor: For Peter.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch
• Race Lift: White and blonde in the comics, Latina in the cartoon.
• Spicy Latina: Is she ever.

Mary Jane Watson

• Cool Big Sis: Especially toward Gwen. Word of God even describes her and Gwen as being best friends.
• Fiery Redhead
• Fun Personified: Though that's mostly a cover.
• Heroes Want Redheads
• Hidden Depths: She said she wasn't looking for romance, until she saw a guy propose to his girlfriend in the Valentine's episode.
• New Transfer Student: As of "Group Therapy."
• Out of Focus: In the second season, where her only real role was in the Mark Allen subplot.
• Popular Is Dumb: Subverted. She may not be a Teen Genius, but she definitely has better social intelligence than most characters.
• Romantic False Lead: Intentional, her date with Peter really was just a one time thing.
• Shipper on Deck: Very pro Gwen/Peter.

Glory Grant

• Cree Summer

Civilians

Norman Osborn

• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Big Bad: Of Season 2 and arguably the whole show. Due to the fact that he was working with Tombstone to make supervillains and was responsible for Otto Octavius Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, he's got some connection to every major villain except for Venom.
• Catch Phrase: "Don't apologize. I never do."
• The Chessmaster
• Corrupt Corporate Executive
• Evil Redhead
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Alan Rachins, known to fans of Dharma and Greg as Dharma's father, Larry and fans of Batman: The Animated Series as trope-naming villain, Clock King. As for him as the Green Goblin, a different voice actor plays him, as seen below.
• Karma Houdini: He never apologizes after all.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Mean Boss
• Villain with Good Publicity
• We Can Rule Together
• Why Are You Not My Son?: Blatantly prefers Peter to Harry. Heck, he even provides the page quote.
• Wicked Cultured
• Xanatos Gambit: More than once.

J. Jonah Jameson

• Alliterative Name: John Jonah Jameson
• Anti-Villain: Type 1
• Bad Boss/ Benevolent Boss: Zigzagged with both. He regularly verbally abuses those that aren't Joe Robertson, but he's also protective of his staff.
• Butt Monkey
• Catch Phrase: Saying he wants to do something/that he wants something done, and then expressing the amount of time it should be done in seconds. (Example: "I want a title in 28 seconds!")
• Cool Old Guy
• Da Editor: Editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle.
• [[Doting Parent: He praises his son named John (who is an astronaut.)
• Everyone Has Standards: Stands up for human rights... because he hates everyone equally. He is absolutely committed to truth in reporting. Despite his hatred of Spidey, Jameson has always refused to use fake images in his newspaper.
• Good Is Not Nice: Most notably, when Rhino asks for Peter, JJJ notices Peter and gestures for him to hide, then lies to Rhino - claiming that he's never met Peter, that everything is done through email - even though this could easily cost him his life.
• Good Parents: He's a jerk, but he's a great dad too.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Toward Spider-Man, as usual.
• Hair-Trigger Temper:You do not want to get on Jonah's bad side. Unfortunately, it's hard not to.
• Hidden Depths: From his verbal tirades against Spider-Man and his own staff, you'd never know how much Jonah loves his family or how much he values those that work for him.
• Inspector Javert: He doesn't like or trust Spidey, thinking he should be arrest.
• Irrational Hatred: Jameson hates Spider-Man with such a passion that no matter how many times the superhero has saved him and his loved one over and over again, Jameson is still stubbornly convinced that he is a menace.
• Jerkass: It wouldn't be J. Jonah Jameson if he weren't one.
• Jerkass:
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When Aunt May has a heart attack, he feels it's his responsibility as Peter's boss to break the news to him. It backfires, but that's not his fault.
  • We also see that he is extremely affectionate to his son.
• Mean Boss
• Motor Mouth
• Troll: Of Spider-Man naturally.

George Stacy

• Badass Normal
• Big Good
• Clancy Brown
• The Commissioner Gordon: This version borders on Captain Ersatz.
• The Obi-Wan
• Papa Wolf
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Secret Keeper: He knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man in later episodes.

Jean DeWolff

• Inspector Javert
• Lawful Stupid

Stan Carter

• Hey, It's That Voice!: He's voiced by Thomas F. Wilson of Back to The Future fame.
• Hidden Depths: Stan believes Spider-Man didn't go far enough taking down criminals.

Ben Parker

• Death by Origin Story
• Ed Asner
• My Greatest Failure
• The Obi-Wan
• Posthumous Character
• Spirit Advisor
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Miles Warren

• Faux Affably Evil: Acts affable only to increase his jerkassery.
• Jerkass
• Karma Houdini
• Mad Scientist
• Smug Snake

Emily Osborn

• Parental Neglect: She didn't pay attention to Harry when he made the team. Nor did she came to Harry's play.
• The Quiet One: She never spoke.

Dr. Bromwell

• Expy: Of Miles Warren from Ultimate Spider-Man.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Aunt May.

Martha Connors

• Happily Married

Villains

Adrian Toomes/Vulture

• Bald of Evil
• Clothes Make the Superman
• Gadgeteer Genius
• Hellish Pupils
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Robert Englund, of A Nightmare on Elm Street fame. A few years earlier, he had also voiced The Riddler.

Hammerhead

• Badass in a Nice Suit
• The Dragon: To Tombstone.
• John Dimaggio
• The Starscream
• Use Your Head
• Smug Snake: Becomes one after switching from The Dragon to The Starscream - he's just not as good at scheming on his own as he is at carrying out someone else's schemes which leads to his becoming a pawn of the Green Goblin.
• Unwitting Pawn

Max Dillon/Electro

• Berserk Button: Don't call him Max, or he'll 'FRY you into nothing!
• Blessed with Suck
• Comes Great Insanity
• Crispin Freeman
• The Dragon: To Doc Ock.
• Freak Lab Accident
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• I Just Want to Be Normal: At first. Later he embraces his powers.
• Large Ham
• Like A Father To Me: Never overtly stated, but Electro very much treats Doc Ock like a surrogate father.
• The Millstone: He really tries to help Doc Ock, but he's so impulsive with using his powers that he probably does more to foil his schemes than Spider-Man.
• My Name Is Not Durwood: Inverted, as he now hates being called "Max Dillon" and insists on being referred to as Electro.
  • That Man Is Dead
• Never My Fault: Max beats out Harry in terms of blaming others when he accuses his accident of being Curt Connors' fault even though it was Max's own negligence that caused it.
• Power Incontinence
• Psycho Electro
• Shock and Awe
• Trigger Happy: Much to the misfortune of everyone else in the vicinity, including his own teammates.

Curt Connors/The Lizard

• Anti-Villain: Type IV. He's a perfectly nice guy, it's just that there's this one time he turned into a mindless, vicious animal, and no one is ever going to let him forget it.
• The Atoner
• Dee Bradley Baker: And it's not his first time as Connors and his alter-ego, either.
• Happily Married
• I'm a Humanitarian: Doesn't succeed in doing it, but has the inclination.
• Lego Genetics
• Just Think of the Potential
• Never Live It Down: The Lizard incident serves as an in-universe case. It even lets Warren blackmail his lab away from him.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent
• Super-Powered Evil Side: For one episode, but that once was more than enough.

Flint Marko/Sandman

• Anti-Villain: Type I. He's greedy for money but isn't out to hurt people unless it's in self defense.
• The Blob
• The Brute
• Evil Duo: With Rhino, aka Alex O'Hirn.
• Freak Lab Accident
• Heroic Sacrifice: Somewhat subverted, in that while the act really was a heroic self-sacrifice that ended in his disintegration, the episode in question uses The End - or Is It?, as after things seem to have ended, he's shown reforming and then blowing away on the wind, so he's really Not Quite Dead.
• Hidden Heart of Gold
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He and O'Hirn were constantly being humiliatingly foiled by Spider-Man.
• John Dimaggio
• Noble Demon
• Pet the Dog: He shows kindness to a little girl in "First Steps."
  • In the same episode, he saves the people from the same oil tanker he's attacking.
• Punch Clock Villain
• Revenge: ...is something he really isn't interested in, unlike most of Spider-Man's Rogues Gallery. He just wants his "Big Score," and would leave Spidey alone if he didn't keep trying to stop him.
• Story-Breaker Power: Getting there by "First Steps", once he's started to get a proper hang of his abilities. It's probably no coincidence that his last appearance in the show is in the episode where he absorbs Rockaway Beach. Yes, all of it.
• That Man Is Dead: He doesn't take it as far as Electro, but on a few occasions he and Spidey seem to refer to "Flint Marko" like he was a totally separate person to emphasize this.
• Took a Level in Badass: After eating a lot of raw silicates in prison, when he returns in "First Steps", his Elemental Shapeshifter abilities have become significantly more powerful.

L. Thompson Lincoln/Tombstone

• Affably Evil
• Badass Normal
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Big Bad: Of Season 1 and the penultimate storyarc of Season 2.
• Composite Character: Adopts elements of the Kingpin, who couldn't be used due to licensing issues.
• Curb Stomp Battle: His aforementioned first encounter with Spidey.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy
• Deadpan Snarker
• Even Evil Has Standards: Stays behind to help Spider-Man search for a bomb in his high-rise, answering Spidey's questioning with "My party, my mess."
• Evil Albino
• Genius Bruiser
• Kevin Michael Richardson
  • Kevin's The Other Darrin, as in his debut (the first episode), he was voiced by Keith David.
• Kingpin in His Gym
• Large and In Charge
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Per Word of God, it was deliberately left ambiguous whether he has actual Super Strength or if he merely trained himself to the point that he might as well.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Noble Demon: Only shows this when up against The Green Goblin.
• Scary Albino Man
• Slave to PR: Refuses to do anything villainous when civilians that could incriminate him are around.
• Villain with Good Publicity
• We Can Rule Together
• Wicked Cultured

Green Goblin

• Ax Crazy: He definitely enjoys trying to blow people up.
• The Chessmaster
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Type 2.
• Evil Laugh: Wouldn't be the Green Goblin without it. And Steve Blum does a terrifyingly good job too.
• Fourth Wall Observer: Sometimes addresses the audience directly.
• Karma Houdini: He faked his death and is still alive to plot more evil... and that's where the show ends.
• Large Ham
• Laughably Evil: He has some great lines.

Tombstone: I don't know who you are-
Green Goblin: Of course you don't! That's the point of the mask, genius!

• Manipulative Bastard
• No One Could Survive That
• Secret Identity: There's a reason why his real name isn't listed above.
• Steve Blum: Who is Cast as a Mask.
• Third Person Person
• The Unfettered
• We Can Rule Together
• Xanatos Gambit: More than once.
• You Fight Like a Cow: Unlike most of Spidey's villains, Goblin doesn't get annoyed by the Web-Head's quipping and mocking. In fact, he quips right back, and he does it pretty dang well too. Spider-Man even lampshades this.

(While Green Goblin and Spider-Man are battling all over town)
Goblin: Well you know the old saying: If you can't join 'em, beat 'em!
Spidey: Took the words right out of my mouth. Is that a felony?
Goblin: Oh, I should hope so. This little goblin wouldn't be caught dead committing a misdemeanor!
Spidey: Oooh, nice banter! Your aim could use a little work though.
Goblin: Well, practice makes perfect!
Spidey: Keep telling yourself that!

Otto Octavius/Dr. Octopus

• Affably Evil
• Badass Bookworm
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Big Bad: Of the Sinister Six.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Drinks out of an "evil genius" mug, in addition to naming his team the Sinister Six.
  • Technically the paper named his group--Ock just ran with it.
• The Chessmaster
• Combat Tentacles
• Drunk on the Dark Side: Relishes his Evil Genius persona.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Doc Ock politely asks and waits for Aunt May and Anna Watson to excuse themselves from the upcoming brawl between the Sinister Six and Spidey, even halting Rhino as he tries to charge through them.
• Evil Genius: As his coffee mug indicates.
• Freak Lab Accident
• Hollywood Cyborg
• Karmic Transformation
• Large Ham: TREACHERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
• Mad Scientist
• Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous
• Nerd Glasses
• Not So Harmless
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
• The Starscream
• The Unfettered

Eddie Brock/Venom

• Badass
• Benjamin Diskin
• Big Bad: Of Season 1 (along with Tombstone) and first half of season 2. In Season 1, aside from Peter's Character Development, Brock's increasing anger towards Peter and his eventual Face Heel Turn was one of the main plots of the season and eventually he turned into Venom in the final episodes of first season. And during the first half of season 2, Peter was mainly concerned about him. Also, his actions made Peter realize that he loves Gwen most and thus sets the Season 2 love triangle plot in motion.
• Big Brother Mentor: Started as one to Peter, but obviously didn't stay as one.
• Broken Ace: Was introduced as a Genius Bruiser liked by everyone, and as a frequent heroic bystander. Turns out that the heroism was because he was a Death Seeker, and he had some really deep-seated emotional problems. This explains his rapid Face Heel Turn when things go bad.
• Composite Character: His Eddie Brock self shares characteristic with the Ultimate version of the character, being a scientist and Peter's close childhood friend, while the symbiote retains the alien origin from the Mainstream version.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy
• Death Seeker: According to Word of God, his frequent reckless heroics in earlier episodes were a sign of this on a subconscious level.
• Evil Counterpart
• Face Heel Turn
• Genius Bruiser: Used to be a football star and was also Doctor Connors' lab assistant and a self-identified geek.
• Giggling Villain: He has a very creepy laugh as Venom.
• It's All About Me: Peter took photos of Dr. Connors as the Lizard? He's betraying Eddie's trust in him! The Connors have low funding and are forced to drop Eddie from their payroll? But how will Eddie pay for college! Spider-Man's destroying the Symbiote because its dangerous and evil? But that was Eddie's last chance at keeping his internship! And so forth. And all of this was from before he became Venom.
• Large Ham: As Venom.
• Lightning Bruiser
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Rival Turned Evil: though more like bestfriend turned evil, since he wasn't especially in rivarly with Peter at the beginning.
• Shipper on Deck: Shipped Gwen/Peter.
• Took a Level in Badass: Second season.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: About the time Peter got the black costume and even moreso after he started wearing it.
• Villain Ball
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one upon losing the symbiote.
• Voice of the Legion: Venom speaks in two voices simultaneously; Eddie Brock's normal voice, combined with a more twisted and inhuman voice by the same voice actor. And the two voices aren't always even at the same pace, making it both brilliant and terrifying.
• Xanatos Gambit

"Silver" Sable Manfredi

• Abnormal Ammo
• Adaptational Villainy: Anti-Hero/Hero in the comcis, Daddy's Little Villain in this show.
• Badass Normal
• Composite Character: Is also Silvermane's daughter in this series, which means that the character who is heroic in the comics, is a villain in this series. Word of God mentioned that, much like the show's Gwen Stacy, Silver Sable was shown from her beginnings and would grow into her comic book persona, but the show was cancelled before this was achieved.
• Daddy's Little Villain
• Dark Action Girl
• The Dragon: To her father.
• Femme Fatale
• Mafia Princess
• She's All Grown Up
• Unresolved Sexual Tension / Slap Slap Kiss: With Hammerhead, her ex-boyfriend.

Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi

• Badass Grandpa
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Powered Armor
• The Starscream
• Wicked Cultured

Mark Allan/Molten Man

• Aloof Big Brother
• Anti-Villain: Type II.
• Blessed with Suck
• Composite Character: His gambling problem and being a biological brother to Liz Allan (in the comics, his last name was Raxton and he and Liz were stepsiblings) comes from Bennett Brant (Betty Brant's brother), while his powers and first name comes the comics version of Molten Man.
• Cosmic Plaything
• The Dragon: To Green Goblin.
• Fatal Flaw: His gambling addiction is what causes him to become a meta-human against his will.
• The Gambling Addict
• Playing with Fire
• Power Incontinence
• Punch Clock Villain: He commits evil because he just wants his cure.
• Race Lift: From Caucasian in the comics to Latino in the show. Possibly because of the decision to make Mark and Liz biological siblings rather than stepsiblings.
• Unwitting Pawn

Alex O'Hirn/Rhino

• Anti-Villain: Type I. He's mean and reckless, but he has standards.
• The Brute
• Dumb Muscle: Just like in the comics.
  • Somewhat subverted: he's no genius, but he does make some fairly intelligent deductions, including being the first one to realize that if Peter Parker takes Spider-Man's pictures, he can use Peter to find Spider-Man. "I ain't stupid" is practically his Catch Phrase.
    • Something similar in happened with Scorpion in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, a character largely considered a dullard is the first one to make this connection.
• Evil Duo: With his partner in crime, Flint Marko, both before and after they got their powers.
• Meaningful Name: "O'Hirn" is an anagram of "Rhino".
• Nigh Invulnerable
• Smarter Than You Look: He's actually not as dumb as he might seem, as seen in "Accomplices".

"Montana"/Shocker

• Badass Normal
• Bad Guys Play Pool
• Composite Character: Montana and the Shocker are two different people in the comics.
• Career Killers: A seasoned professional of the hitman type.
• Evilly Affable: He speaks in a polite, somewhat aphoristic way which is enhanced by his strong Texan accent, but he's definitely not a nice person by any means (outside of the whole "killing people for money" thing).
• Hand Blast
• Wisdom from the Gutter: In an early appearance, he speaks to Spider-Man about a man needing to follow his commitments and Spider-Man being one of his (i.e. it goes against his "code" to fail to kill a target). Peter later repeats this verbatim to Aunt May when offering to chip in to pay the bills.

Quentin Beck/Mysterio

• Actually a Doombot: The first time Spidey caught him, the Mysterio that was captured turned out to be a robot double. The second time, Spidey is smart enough to pinch Beck to make sure he caught the real one... turns out that this Beck was also a robot double.
• Adorable Evil Minions: The gremlin/gargoyle like robots he uses, which would also qualify as The Imp.
• Altum Videtur
• Cape Swish
• Doing It for the Art: Beck seems to view the disguises and special effects he uses for his crimes as akin to acting and is concerned about putting on a good performance.
• Evil Genius
• Evil Laugh: Adds to his villainous dramatics.
• Evil Brit: See below.
• Fake Brit: As Mysterio, he talks in a hammy pseudo-British voice.
• Karma Houdini: At the end of the series, the Beck who was sent to prison turns out to be a robot double, and thus the real Beck is running around free somewhere.
• Large Ham: As always with Mysterio.
• Laughably Evil
• Master of Illusion
• Sissy Villain: Besides the costume and the accent as Mysterio, Beck out of costume is a wimpy actor with a bit of a lisp, and in his first appearance (before taking on the Mysterio identity), he's shown providing Room Disservice in a way (unintentionally?) evocative of Wint and Kidd in Diamonds Are Forever.
• Science Versus Magic: Mysterio is introduced as an Evil Sorceror who looks down on technology and demands to worship him. But it's all an act and Mysterio's powers are purely technological.
• Smoke Out: One of his main gimmicks.
• Stage Magician: Compared to one, and it certainly explains the persona.
• Third Person Person: Does this in his Mysterio persona.
• Teleport Cloak: As part of his act, he often uses to cape to make himself "disappear".
• You Fool!: Says this to people several times in his first appearance.

Others

Felicia Hardy/Black Cat

• Anti-Hero: Type II
  • Anti-Villain: Type III
• Badass Normal: In this continuity, though she's a Badass Abnormal in the comics.
• Catgirl
• Classy Cat Burglar
• Composite Character: Combines the original Felicia Hardy with Jessica Carridine, as her father in this show is Uncle Ben's killer.
• Dark Action Girl
• One-Time Makeout With Black Cat
• Femme Fatale
• The Tease: Really loves getting Spidey flustered.
• This Is Unforgivable!: To Spider-Man in her last appearance.
• Trickster
• White-Haired Pretty Girl
• You Imprisoned My Father: When her father becomes The Atoner and willingly stays in prison, Black Cat blames Spider-Man and their good relationship promptly ends.

Walter Hardy/The Cat Burglar

• The Atoner: He became this after accidentally killing Uncle Ben.
• Composite Character: In the comics, he's a separate character from Uncle Ben's unnamed killer.
• Heroic Sacrifice: A non-fatal example.
• My Greatest Failure
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way.
• You Killed My Father: Peter's reaction to him. Ironically enough, Black Cat basically gives this right back to him when Walter decides to stay in prison.