Spider-Man (1994)

41 continuity mistakes - chronological order

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Starring: Edward Asner, Roscoe Lee Browne, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Sara Ballantine

Genres: Action, Animated, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Thriller

Sins of the Fathers Chapter 1: Doctor Strange - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: After Spider-Man, Mary Jane, Dr. Strange and Wong escape from Baron Mordo's lair, the lair itself disappears into thin air because of, according to Wong, the fluctuation of diminishing portal energy. When Spider-Man is saying farewell to Dr. Strange, the lair is there again. (00:18:30 - 00:19:05)

Sins of the Fathers Chapter 3: Attack of the Octobot - S3-E3

Continuity mistake: When Doc Ock is being taken away in handcuffs at the end of the episode, his mechanical arms are missing. The arms were fused to his spine, so the police couldn't have confiscated them.

Sins of the Fathers Chapter 3: Attack of the Octobot - S3-E3

Continuity mistake: When Doc Ock is about to unmask Spider-Man in his lab, there is a brief shot of Doc Ock standing under a night sky. This is from their rooftop battle in the previous scene/episode.

Sins of the Fathers Chapter 7: The Man Without Fear - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: When talking with his father and Smythe, Richard Fisk's grey pants briefly turn into the same color as his suit jacket.

Sins of the Fathers Chapter 11: Carnage - S3-E12

Continuity mistake: When Carnage escapes from prison a shot of venom escaping is used before changing back.

Partners in Danger Chapter 4: Return of Kraven - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: When Kraven is climbing the cage, it briefly changes color from silver to red.

Partners in Danger Chapter 5: Partners - S4-E5

Continuity mistake: When Smythe is discussing his plan with the Silvermanes, his yellow eyes are blue in one shot.

Partners in Danger Chapter 6: The Awakening - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: When Morbius is battling Spider-Man and Black Cat on the rooftop, his red eyes are colored white in a couple of shots.

Partners in Danger Chapter 8: The Return of the Green Goblin - S4-E8

Continuity mistake: When the Green Goblin is first confronted by Spider-Man, he is riding his regular glider. Then after he pushes Spider-Man down onto the roof, one shot show him riding the larger glider.

Partners in Danger Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane - S4-E9

Continuity mistake: Mary Jane's gloves come and go when she's talking to Spider-Man on the rooftop at the end of the episode.

Partners in Danger Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane - S4-E9

Continuity mistake: Mary Jane's costume's gloves come and go between shots in Miranda's hideout.

Partners in Danger Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane - S4-E9

Continuity mistake: Miranda's pants legs go from both being torn to just the left one then the right one during her flashback.

Six Forgotten Warriors Chapter 5: The Price of Heroism - S5-E6

Continuity mistake: When Captain America and Red Skull are grappling near the vortex, their fingers are interlocked. When the shot changes, their hands are pushing against each other's torsos.

Six Forgotten Warriors Chapter 5: The Price of Heroism - S5-E6

Continuity mistake: When Captain America is giving Spider-Man moral support after Mary Jane's accident on the roof, the red glove on his right hand briefly turns blue when he puts his hand on Spider-Man's shoulder.

The Return of Hydro-Man: Part 1 - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: When Mary Jane is hiding from Hydro-Man behind the barrels, one shot shows her bare arm under her yellow sweater, when the sleeves of her purple turtleneck that she wears under the sweater should be visible.

The Return of Hydro-Man: Part 1 - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: When Spider-Man is in the lab analyzing Mary Jane's jacket for clues, the inside of the door to to the lab has the door knob on the right side. When Debra Whitman is trying to get in the lab, the door knob on the outside of the door is on the right side as well, when it should be on the left side. The inside knob also disappears when the security guards break the door down.

Secret Wars, Chapter 1: Arrival - S5-E9

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the episode, Captain America stands up to pledge his support to Spider-Man. When the shot changes, Cap is suddenly sitting down. When the shot changes again, Cap is standing up.

Secret Wars, Chapter 3: Doom - S5-E11

Continuity mistake: After the Beyonder ends the war, he teleports everyone to a floating chess board in space, with Dr. Doom lying near the edge. When the shot changes, Doom has moved closer to the middle of the board. He is unconscious so he couldn't have moved.

Spider Wars, Chapter 1: I Really, Really Hate Clones - S5-E12

Continuity mistake: When the group of Spider-Men are observing the Green Goblin and the Kingpin's henchmen from inside the ventilation shaft, the outside edge of the shaft cover is first shown to be on the wall outside of the shaft, and then inside the shaft itself when the Armored Spider-Man pulls the cover off.

Spider Wars, Chapter 2: Farewell Spider-Man - S5-E13

Continuity mistake: When Spider-Carnage has Gwen Stacy hostage, she is bound by portions of his symbiote. When Spider-Man frees her, she is suddenly bound by webbing instead of the symbiote.

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Neogenic Nightmare Chapter 11: Tablet of Time - S2-E9

Factual error: When Peter is walking Alissa home, the traffic signal at the intersection they stop at goes from red to yellow to green. Not what US traffic signals do - they go straight from red to green.

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Suggested correction: Not entirely true; although they are rare and may no longer exist now, I've seen traffic lights that followed the red, yellow, green pattern as recently as the mid-1990s.

Interesting. What state (s) did you see this in? I'm assuming going from red to yellow was to encourage cars to cautiously enter the intersection in case someone was running a red light?

Traffic lights in the UK do this - it's more to give you a second to get ready, in gear, etc., then as soon as the lights turn green you can go. Otherwise you get no warning of when the lights are about to change.

In Illinois; as I said, such traffic lights are rare, but they did exist at least as recently as the time this episode of the series aired, and they may still possibly exist in larger cities such as New York City.

This traffic light set-up (red to yellow to green) still exists today in the UK. From what I understand, it is to alert the driver that the light will be turning green imminently and to prepare themselves to put their car in gear, as manual cars are still pretty common in Europe. I'd wager this light cycle was phased out of North America due to the abundance of automatic cars today. Could have been different in 1994 though.

It should be noted that traffic lights that go from red to yellow before going green keep the red light illuminated so that both red and yellow are lit up. However, that's not what happens in the scene. I've never seen a traffic light operate the way it's shown. And Massachusetts still has traffic lights that go from red to yellow, however, when red and yellow are lit up together, this allows for pedestrian crossing.

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Quotes

Partners in Danger Chapter 8: The Return of the Green Goblin - S4-E8

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Trivia

Sins of the Fathers Chapter 9: Tombstone - S3-E9

Trivia: When Spider-Man saves Tombstone from falling into a bubbling vat he jokes about him coming out with "green hair." Clearly that's a joke referencing DC comics' Joker.

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Questions

Question: Why did they go with Jason Macendale as Hobgoblin instead of the original one, Roderick Kingsley?

Answer: In the comics, Hobgoblin's true identity was kept a mystery for a long time intentionally and while many fans deduced it was Kingsley, and creator Roger Stern was leaning that way, Stern left the series in 1984. In 1987 Hobgoblin's identity was revealed to be Ned Leeds and then Macendale became Hobgoblin. It wasn't until 1997 that Sterns wrote the mini-series "Hobgoblin Lives" and retconned Kingsley as the original Hobgoblin.

Answer: I could be wrong, but I believe the Hobgoblin in Marvel Comics around the same time this show was airing was also Jason Macendale. I have a Hobgoblin trading card from around 1992 or 1993, and it identifies him as Jason Phillips Macendale when listing his real name.

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