"Video-Man," Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

"Video-Man," Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

From The Mutant Ages by The Mutant Ages

February 24, 2026 · 1h 30m

About this episode

The hosts discuss the episode featuring Video-Man from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, exploring its plot and characters.

Todd, Ryan, and Maddy meet Video-Man for the first time (well, kind of) in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and we find out that he was originally created by the villain Electro, who may or may not be a video game developer. Either way, Electro lives in an underground lair beneath Manhattan, and he's been sending Video-Man arcade cabinets to select locations. That's because Video-Man has the power to leap out of his arcade machine, suck people into it, and also collect various pieces of metal for Electro to use to build a high-powered transformer. Flash Thompson gets sucked into a game cabinet first, in a game of Pong — actually, uh, it's called Pongo — and soon after, Bobby and Angelica get stuck in a game cabinet as well. It's up to Peter to save them all, which he actually doesn't need to do because everything just explodes at the end and Electro dies. We think? Also a bunch of other random shit happens along the way that doesn't even matter. What is this show?! Next episode: "Spidey Goes Hollywood," Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (The next episode chronologically should have been "The Prison Plot," but we already watched that because we watched this show out of order…

People in this episode

Hosts: Todd, Ryan, Maddy

Topics covered

  • Spider-Man
  • Video-Man
  • Electro
  • arcade games
  • superheroes
  • animation

Keywords

  • Spider-Man
  • Video-Man
  • Electro
  • arcade
  • Pong
  • Pongo
  • superheroes

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Video-Man, Pong, Pongo

Books & works: Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

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