Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Arachne created blasphemous images of the gods. Furious, Athena destroyed Arachne's work. Devastated, Arachne hanged herself, but Athena took pity on Arachne and transformed her into the world's first spider. Now Arachne is cursed to wander the universe and weave her web for all eternity. After class ends, Peter's ex-best friend Flash Thompson and his gang gleefully torment the straight A student ("Bullying by Numbers"). Peter has a crush on his popular next door neighbor Mary Jane Watson, but they both have unhappy lives: Mary Jane has an abusive father and suffers at home while Peter suffers the torment of
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark episode "I Am Spider-Man", which first aired September 23, 2012, features a Spider-Man musical, with Flash Thompson playing the web slinger. In "Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3", if Deadpool is fighting Spider-Man, Deadpool says that he will "rough [Spider-Man] up like a Broadway musical!" If victorious, he tells Spider-Man that "maybe it would have helped if [he] turned off the dark!" "Simpsons Super Spectacular" issue #14 features a parody musical featuring Bart Simpson's favorite superhero Radioactive Man. The story chronicles the many disasters that befall attempts to produce a musical featuring the hero titled "Turn up the Silence". Also, at