Very similar to the unique “Secret Wars” run, toy gross sales dictated a lot of “Spiderman: TAS” season 1. That meant that for first run of 13 episodes, John Semper and his crew needed to write 13 self-contained storylines, every introducing a brand new villain. However by the point season 2 began, Semper was in full management and commenced writing multi-episode arcs, adapting most of the greatest storylines from the comics. By season 5, the time had come to adapt “Secret Wars,” which has since grow to be one of many extra memorable storylines from the present.

However it might have been an much more momentous second had Semper managed to tug off his plans to herald the mutants from the equally beloved 90s cartoon “X-Males: The Animated Sequence.” Chatting with the Marvel Animation Age (by way of The World’s Best), the previous showrunner and head author defined:

“I vaguely recall that I had wished to do one episode of ‘Secret Wars’ that will have introduced the entire X-Males again to the collection. However that collection of tales was working too lengthy and I made a decision to chop that episode out. Additionally, I am positive budgetary restrictions had one thing to do with why I eradicated it.”

These budgetary restrictions really appeared to play an even bigger half than Semper let on. In an earlier interview, he claimed that Fox did not need to pay to fly X-Males voice actors from Canada to Los Angeles to file for “Spider-Man: TAS”:

“We misplaced one fully written chapter of ‘Secret Wars.’ It concerned the X-Males, however they did not need to pay once more for the entire forged, so I dropped the episode and used solely Storm.”