Marvel Studios Spiderman 2022 Animated Series Review

 Marvel Studios animated series Spiderman: Freshman Year, getting an update at San Diego Comic Con 2022. Spiderman: Freshman Year will tell the story of Peter Parker before he became Spiderman in the MCU. At San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2022, Spiderman: Freshman Year reveals some surprising things.

One of the things that was revealed for Spiderman: Freshman Year was that Marvel presented the figure of Norman Osborn as Peter Parker's mentor. As is known, Tony Stark aka Iron Man has become his mentor in the MCU.

Stark has been a father figure to Peter and also a motivator who always wanted Peter to be a much better person than he was. During the Marvel Studios animation panel at SDCC, they confirmed that Norman Osborn would be Peter Parker's mentor.

An image shows Osborn waiting at home with Aunt May, much like the scene in Stark waiting for Peter in Captain America: Civil War to recruit him. The next picture shows Peter in a suit and in Osborn's office.

Marvel Studios claims that the series will follow Peter Parker's journey before becoming Spiderman in the MCU "before the events of Captain America: Civil War".

In Spiderman: No Way Home, Osborn's office, Oscorp, is not shown or does not exist at all. But the picture shows that Oscorp exists and exists in the MCU.

With the presence of Osborn as Peter's mentor, the question is whether this series will be canon to the MCU?

If indeed Peter had known Osborn as his mentor, maybe in No Way Home there would be a conversation about that while talking to Doc Ock.

With some of these canon conflicts, is it possible that Spiderman: Freshman Year will happen in the multiverse? Considering Marvel's words that the timeline for Spiderman: Freshman Year takes place before Peter becomes Spiderman, it's a bit confusing.

If indeed Spiderman: Freshman Year canon into the MCU, it would be heartbreaking to know that a variant of his mentor Norman Osborn killed his aunt.