The first episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man takes a drastic detour from the MCU in pretty significant ways.

New animated Marvel series featuring Spider-Man is set to swing onto Disney+ very soon - but is it set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man explores Peter Parker's origin story and early days as Spider-Man around his Freshman Year.

The character was originally supposed to be played by Tom Holland back when it was a tie-in for Marvel’s MCU Spider-Man movies, but the project eventually transformed into something separate. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ’s first trailer showed Norman Osborn mentoring Peter Parker instead of Iron Man,