Tombstone (Spider-Man)
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| "Tombstone" | |||
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 Young Tombstone (left) and Robbie Robertson (right). |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 36 |
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| Written by | Larry Brody Robert N. Skir Marty Isenberg John Semper |
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| Production code | 305 | ||
| Original air date | 1996-10-12 | ||
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"Tombstone" is the ninth episode from the third season of the Spider-Man animated series, also marking the thirty-sixth episode.
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[edit] Plot
Tombstone is hired by Alisha Silver to destroy the story planned for the Daily Bugle revealing that she had taken over her father's criminal organisation, in exchange for large amounts of cash. Tombstone attempts to use Robbie Robertson, whom he was childhood friends with, to kill the story. After a narrow escape from Tombstone, Robbie reveals to Spider-Man that Tombstone's real name is "Lonnie Lincoln", and that he was imprisoned from a young age after breaking into an ice-cream store, whilst Robbie escaped. He claims that Lonnie fell into a vat of radioactive chemicals after being released, whilst attempting to frame Robbie. Robbie's son Randy becomes a member of Tombstone's "Posse", and Robbie teams with Spider-Man to make his son realise not to resort to crime. At the end of the episode, Tombstone is arrested, having failed to destroy the Silvermane story.
[edit] References to other media
- When Spider-Man says 'Another swim in that chemical soup and your hair might turn green!', it is a reference to the Joker, notably the 1989 film, in which actor Jack Nicholson falls into a vat of chemicals in a similar building to the one in this episode.
- When Spider-Man says 'He ain't my brother - he's heavy!', it is a reference from a line in the film "Boy's Town", a statue of a boy giving another a piggy-back with the line 'He ain't heavy - he's my brother!'.
[edit] Reception
Many have speculated that the amount of repeated animation in this episode is confusing, such as when Spider-Man is scaling a wall, then crawling along a pipe down in the sewer, then scaling the wall once more, whilst he wasn't seen swinging often in the episode. Many also reviewed that they were pleased to Robbie Robertson in a storyline, rather than him permanently just seeing the opposite of J. Jonah Jameson.[1]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Tombstone at the Internet Movie Database
- Tombstone at TV.com
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