Thread:Coolot1/@comment-24839525-20170923210432/@comment-29421682-20180118175730

The way I see it, Ultimate was, in reality, the only series where the Season 1 main villain was Norman Osborn.

In TAS, Kingpin was the main villain of Season 1. In Spectacular, it was Tombstone. Both of which are crimelords who simply want to eliminate/distract Spider-Man because of his interference in their operations.

Venom was the Season 1 buildup villain in both series', with each introducing Eddie Brock and his reasons for hating both Peter Parker and Spider-Man.

However, Ultimate failed to go about it an interesting way. I feel that we could "fix the mistakes and right the wrongs" of Ultimate and make Osborn a genuinely threatening villain, like his Spectacular counterpart, only for him to have it out for Spidey even before he becomes the Green Goblin.