Spider-Man

Series Similar to Spider-Man

If you enjoyed Spider-Man, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Superman: The Animated Series

   1996 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile.

   Superman battles evil while trying to conceal his alter ego, Clark Kent.

2. The Spectacular Spider-Man

   2008 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile.

   The line of Super Villains determined to take down Spidey seems never ending. There's Venom, Electro, Dr. Octopus, Sandman and Rhino - just to name a few. These criminals are almost more than he can handle and the stress would be enough to send a lesser Super Hero over the edge, but it's all in a day's work for The Spectacular Spider-Man.

3. Batman: The Animated Series

   1992 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, highly rated (8.5), also on FOX.

   Experience the thrills of vigilante justice as millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and alter-ego Batman protect the streets of Gotham City from a host of villains including archnemesis The Joker, deadly-beautiful Poison Ivy and primitive Killer Croc in a fresh take on super hero storytelling. Intelligent, dramatic stories, unique characters and sharp dialog shaped this edgy TV series into an Emmy®-winning powerhouse that brought the Caped Crusader out of the dark alleys of TV history and into the present for fans of all ages.

4. X-Men: Evolution

   2000 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile.

   American-Canadian animated series about the X-Men. Contrary to the other X-men shows, the characters are teenagers instead of adults.

5. Batman Beyond

   1999 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, highly rated (8).

   Batman Beyond tells the story of Terry McGinnis was just an ordinary teenager...until his father was mysteriously murdered. Suspecting foul play at his father's company Wayne/Powers Corporation, Terry meets Bruce Wayne and learns a secret identity hidden for decades. Now too old to battle injustice, Wayne is a bitter shell of his former self and refuses to help. So Terry does what any brash young kid would do: steal the Batsuit and take matters into his own hands! Vowing to avenge his father's death, Terry dons the high-tech suit - tricked out with jetpacks for flying, a supersensitive microphone for eavesdropping and even camouflage capabilities - in search of his father's assassin.

6. Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

   2010 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile.

   An all-new animated series follows 16-year-old Ben Tennyson as his secret identity has been revealed to the world and he's now an international mega-star super hero, loved by kids the world over but distrusted by many adults. Armed with a mysterious new Omnitrix, Ben will see action in places he's never been.

7. The New Batman Adventures

   1997 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, highly rated (8).

   The New Batman Adventures comes from the creators of Batman and Superman. This series was created because Fox had not lived up to the contract that they had given Batman, so the WB decided to give the show another chance. Bruce Timm then went back and decided to re-design all of the characters from Batman and ended up revamping the series all-together.

8. The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

   2010 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, highly rated (8).

   When the planet is threatened by Super Villains, time-traveling conquerors, alien invaders, mythical monsters or mad robots bent on the total destruction of humanity; when the forces of evil are so overwhelming that no single hero has the power to save the world; when there is no hope left, the Avengers Assemble!

9. Cowboy Bebop

   1998 · Action, Adventure, Anime, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, highly rated (8.3).

   In the year 2071, the crew of the spaceship Bebop travel the solar system trying to apprehend bounties. In the slang of the era, "Cowboys" are bounty hunters. Most episodes revolve around a specific bounty, but the show often shares its focus with the pasts of one of each of the four main characters and of more general past events, which are revealed and brought together as the series progresses. (The show originally aired on TV Tokyo, but due to what the network considered "excessive violence", only a few episodes, out of order, were ever shown. The channel WOWOW later picked up the series and aired the entire 26 episode run, in order.)

10. Young Justice

    2010 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

    Recommended for similar Action / Adventure profile, highly rated (8).

    Young Justice is an animated series about a squad of teenage superheroes from the DC Comics universe. Three years after Young Justice was cancelled by Cartoon Network, the cult action-animated series came back on DC Universe.