Spider-Man: The Animated Series Episode Reviews

Six Forgotten Warriors, Chapter II: Unclaimed Legacy
Review and Media by Stu

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Episode #55 - Six Forgotten Warriors, Chapter II: Unclaimed Legacy
Original Airdate - September 26th, 1997

Spider-Man goes head-to-head with the Kingpin and the Insidious Six and is rendered unconscious. With Spider-Man in shackles, Kingpin reveals his plans to use the Doomsday Device but is interrupted when Silver Sable and the Wildpack burst into the scene!

Credits:
Written By: John Semper
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi
Animation Services By: Toyko Movie Shinsha (TMS)
Guest Starring: Christopher Daniel Barnes as Spider-Man, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Doctor Octopus, Jack Angel as Nick Fury, Jim Cummings as The Shocker, Richard Moll as The Scorpion), Don Stark as The Rhino, Alan Johnson as The Vulture, Roy Dotrice as Keene Marlow and Mira Furlan as Silver Sable

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Review: The majority of this episode takes place in Russia, throwing us deeper into the Mystery of the Six Forgotten Warriors. This episode also basically consists of everyone trying to find the mysterious doomsday weapon. I always liked that no one actually knew what the thing was, but are so desperate for it. It added to the mystery and it came as a great surprise when the mystery resulted in the creation of a big-name Spidey bad guy who has yet to appear in the cartoon!

John Semper, the show's producer, wrote every single part of this story and it shows. Semper always was the master of leaving threads dangling and picking up on them later in the season. It often lead to things coming back to bite Spider-Man and/or Peter and, most of the time, left me guessing as to what was coming next. He truly did master the continuity of a show, and made some of the weaker episodes worth watching. It's a shame Semper doesn't write for any of the current superhero cartoons (a lot of them could use him!) Justice League Unlimited is currently doing similar types of storytelling that Semper mastered years ago, and he would truly be in his element there.

One of the weirder things in this episode was Robbie Robertson. He was acting peculiar in part one, and this episode showed why. I always found Robbie to be a likeable supporting character and he was pretty well developed. He could have simply been used as the yin to Jameson's yang, but he stood out on his own. He chemistry with Jonah was great, as was his relationships with both Peter and Spider-Man, all nicely sold by his voice actor, Rodney Saulsberry.

This episode, much like part one, basically keeps the story going and introduces The Red Skull's son, who has a bigger part to play later in this arc. There's a lot of great set-up here which does pay off as we get to the arc's final chapters. Not a bad episode at all, and the best is honestly still to come!.

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