Marvel Studios shares new details about Spider-Man: Freshman Year at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. As part of Spider-Man's massive role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the exploration of his origin story through an animated Disney+ series was announced in 2021. Spider-Man: Freshman Year is part of Marvel Studios' growing slate of animated content, which includes Marvel's What If...? season 2, Marvel Zombies, and X-Men '97. Although the series comes from Marvel Studios, it has been reported that Tom Holland will not voice Spider-Man: Freshman Year's Peter Parker.
In the time since the animated Spider-Man show was announced, details about the series have been a bit more difficult to come by. It was originally indicated that the show was set in the main MCU timeline, meaning it would take place before Captain America: Civil War and detail Peter Parker's unseen MCU origin. This created plenty of intrigue about what Spider-Man: Freshman Year will contain and what types of adventures he will be involved in.
After keeping details about the series mostly under wraps, Marvel Studios shared the first look at Spider-Man: Freshman Year during San Diego Comic-Con. This included showing the art style for the series and Peter Parker's new homemade suit for Spider-Man: Freshman Year. The suit design incorporates a blue Spider-Man jersey and what seems to be a different prototype for his web-fluid dispensers. The Spider-Man: Freshman Year art is also reminiscent of Steve Ditko's comic art.
This new homemade suit for Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Freshman Year is one of several new suits that he will wear during the animated series. There were five other alternate Spider-Man suits shown, which included the more traditional MCU red and blue suit that Peter Parker first gets from Tony Stark. The other designs include a white and black suit reminiscent of the Future Foundation Spider-Man suit from the comics, an all-black suit, a neon-colored suit, and one with wings.
The early look at Spider-Man: Freshman Year came alongside a lot of other news about the series at SDCC. It was through these additional updates that the show's place in MCU canon was seemingly debunked, as Norman Osborn appears to replace Tony Stark as Peter Parker's mentor. This means that Peter's new homemade suit in Spider-Man: Freshman Year and any of the other costumes he wears in the animated series do not retcon his MCU storyline. While that might be disappointing to fans looking forward to learning more about Spider-Man's origin through Spider-Man: Freshman Year, it also gives the series plenty of freedom to include fun changes like these new suits without worrying about the impacts of canon.
Source: Marvel Studios
