In the MCU, Peter Parker's billionaire mentor was Iron Man. But in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Peter's mentor is not as friendly.

The first episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man takes a drastic detour from the MCU in pretty significant ways.

The animated Disney+ series makes a bold change to Spidey’s MCU story and the result is a series that’s fun and smart with a hint of genuine danger.

An Oscar-nominated actor and returning Marvel actor are among the stars featuring on new series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe series is set in a parallel timeline to the MCU where Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo) — the alter ego of his nemesis,

The character was originally supposed to be played by Tom Holland back when it was a tie-in for Marvel’s MCU Spider-Man movies, but the project eventually transformed into something separate. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ’s first trailer showed Norman Osborn mentoring Peter Parker instead of Iron Man,

The show will have a larger amount of characters of color than the original Spider-Man comics, with Peter’s closest friend in this continuity being Nico Minoru (Grace Song). (It’s also worth pointing out that Nico is LGBT in the source material.