Marvel's new animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will tell the origins of Peter Parker, but is it part of the MCU?

The first episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man takes a drastic detour from the MCU in pretty significant ways.

Here's what you need to know to keep the Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man canon straight -- and how it lines up with the MCU.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is a year-one remix that trims the fat of well-trodden origin story beats while sprinkling in the expansive world-building of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man puts a surprising twist on Peter Parker's origin story from the comics and movies.

Marvel Studios' Brad Winderbaum explains why it was creatively important for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man not to be MCU canon.

Although it reinvents the canon, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man understand one key aspect of the hero better than the MCU.

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