Spider-Man (2017 TV series) Burglar, Parker comes to his own terms of becoming a masked superhero named Spider-Man, learning to balance his crime-fighting career with his new enrollment at Horizon High, a school for students with genius-level intellect. In Season Two, Peter Parker will navigate his sophomore year and work at the Daily Bugle while contending with Doctor Octopus. This season will adopt plotlines from "The Superior Spider-Man" comics in which Doctor Octopus takes over Spider-Man's body while trapping his mind in the Living Brain. In October 2016, the series was announced by Cort Lane, senior vice president of Marvel Animation, as a replacement
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