A classic Spidey villain makes his debut as the Vulture flies into Spidey’s life in an attempt to…STEAL HIS YOUTH?? The Neogenic Nightmare ends here!
Credits
Story By: John Semper, Gilles Wheeler and Evelyn A-R Garbai
Written By: Evelyn A-R Garbai
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi
Story By: John Semper and Sandy Fries
Written By: Sandy Fries
Music Composed By: Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi
Animation Services By: Toyko Movie Shinsha (TMS)
THE PLOT: In an effort to circumvent Norman Osborn from inducing a hostile takeover of his buisness company, Adrian Toomes, the man seen at the end of the last episode, dons a green flying suit and dubs himself the Vulture. He flies around stealing the youth out of people through technology gained from the Tablet of Time. Through battles with the Vulture, Spider-Man is left unawares when Toomes gets the drop on him. Vulture yanks the youth right out of his veins and Spidey is now an old man!
LONG STORY SHORT: Spidey turns to Doc Connors in an effort to regain his youth. But the Doc’s cut off by not only a mutating Vulture, but the Scorpion as well! Vengeance and violence are abound in this season finale!

MY THOUGHTS: Initially in the first draft of this review, I had just merely said that the final two episodes of this second season were “okay”. Nothing bad, but nothing to write home about either. But in re-watching the episodes due to scheduling conflicts in getting these reviews out on a regular basis, This two-parter does serve as a very fitting finale to the Neogenic Nightmare arc. It’s not the best of the season, but it is enjoyable.One of the key factors that make this finale work is the strong use of Peter’s supporting cast. We’ve not seen much of Flash, Debrah, MJ or Harry all throughout the season, but at the same time they all have been there, furthering their own respective plots. In these episodes though they get a chance to shine, and it’s a definite plus. We get the most character development out of Flash than we have in the enitre series as a whole, and even with Debrah we see about as much of her as we saw in “Night of the Lizard”. They all helped further the plot, and it was remniscent of the Conway/Wein/Wolfman days on ASM. There are certain times during those runs, Wein’s run especially, where the super villain plot just isn’t as interesting as what’s being developed with the supporting cast. I felt a lot of that working here. While a budding romance between Flash and Debrah is a bit unexpected, it’s not unwelcome. The love triangle with Peter, MJ and Harry is certainly interesting, especially considering the fact that Peter’s relationship with Mary Jane has always been in the background of the episodes in this season from the very beginning. That’s something this show has to be given credit for, the gradual maturation of the romance between the two.
Why can’t Toomes be mad person who goes against anyone who speaks ill, rightfully or not? And he wasn’t busy stealing youth of skateboarders, he was busy, as you said, preparing costume. Skateborading kid was just random guy who had misfortune to be first to happen on him. You said 2nd rewatch made a little better opinion. So maybe previous episodes also should’ve been rewatched twice, and this one thrice? Every business appears on thr show out of nowhere, even Osborn appeared out of nowhere because it’s fiction, not reality. And do we need to see Toomes’ workers?
Young Toomes flirt achieved what you exactly described about Flash, and it showed Toomes’ obsession with her, whish to stark “working” on her while he’s young.
“For no real reason” – same as Kingpin – you don’t stand on his way. You could say Kingpin shouldn’t have been upset at Spidey upsetting his plans. Previous old man’s story was as annoying as any other story where Spidey has problems with villains. “No one was clamoring” – many things can be applied to that phrase.
If he created Scorpion, and Scorpion is in this episode, and we know he wasn’t dead, then his reappearance wasn’t “out of nowhere”, esp. when it’s clearly said Scorpion wants him to reverse process
“we’re supposed to care” – eh, he’s neogenics author and neugonics was what Connors thought would help prevent Lizard
It’s not lost part if it’s still there and constantly remined of. As you said, he could always mutate, and 24h time limit did put stakes up on future episodes. And it getting old is same as it getting old when same villain appears again.
“Could be in any other season” – ehm, anything can be said about that. Even Insidious 6 didn’t need to appear this season.
Why Toomes keeping spider-dicease is illogical?
“Robbie, why is it that lack of responsibility goes hand-in-hand with being young?
BND foreshadowing?
What do you know? I missed those
After the end of this season with both Vulture & Scorpion each heading his own way we later get it unexplained how they reunited as captor & captive, not to mention how Toomes became youthful instead of Vulture-Spider at some periods
Why not like Vulture? I think he’s cool