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#REDIRECT [[List of Spider-Man (1994 TV series) episodes#Secret Wars]]
{{Infobox Television episode

| Title = Secret Wars
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| Series = [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]
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| Season = 5
| Episode = 61-63
| Airdate = Part One: November 7, [[1997 in television|1997]]<br>Part Two: November 14, [[1997 in television|1997]]<br>Part Three: November 21, [[1997 in television|1997]]
| Production =412-414
| Writer =Part One: [[John Semper]]<br>[[Karen Milovich]]<br>Part Two: [[Virginia Roth]]<br>Part Three: [[John Semper]]<br>[[Mark Hoffmeier]]<br>[[Ernie Altbacker]]
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| Episode list = [[Spider-Man (1994 animated series) Episode List]]
| Prev = [[The Return of Hydro-Man]]
| Next =[[Spider Wars]]
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'''Secret Wars''' is the last three-part episode of the ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'', right before the two-part series finale. It is based on the ''[[Secret Wars]]'' mini-series. This three parter consisted of episodes '''Arrival''', written by John Semper and Karen Milovich, '''The Gauntlet of the Red Skull''', written by Virginia Roth, and '''Doom''', written by John Semper, Mark Hoffmeier, and Ernie Altbacker. The episode was used by My Way Entertainment (makers of ''[[The Juggernaut Bitch!!]]'') in their parody "The Fellowship of the Lube."

== Plot ==
===Chapter I: Arrival===

The episode begins with [[Spider-Man]] floating around in limbo and [[Madame Web]] orders Spider-Man to look into her eyes as she takes off her glasses. Spider-Man is then paralyzed into standing straight. Spider-Man is then floated somewhere. Two yellow eyes from the sky look down at Spider-Man and a voice says he will accept him and Spider-Man will be put to the test. The eyes then transform into the [[Beyonder]]. Spider-Man is introduced to an alien planet where there is good but no concept of evil. The Beyonder then announces that he will introduce evil to the planet. The Beyonder then chooses [[Doctor Octopus]], [[Doctor Doom]], [[Alistair Smythe]], [[Lizard (comics)|the Lizard]], and the [[Red Skull]], teleporting them all to the planet. The Beyonder makes a year pass on the alien world. The Beyonder shows the destruction that the villains caused and the villains have made their own countries.

The Beyonder introduces Spider-Man to a machine that will let him get a fixed number of superheroes to fight alongside with him against evil. Spider-Man selects the [[Fantastic Four]], [[Iron Man]], [[Captain America]], and [[Storm (comics)|Storm]]. Spider-Man uses the machine to bring all the heroes at once. They all get up and wonder where they are, with the Human Torch & the Thing attacking Spider-Man due to a misunderstanding as the other heroes try to stop them. Just as they stop, The Lizard breaks in and attacks Spider-Man. All of the heroes try to stop him but initially fail. Iron Man fires out a laser to the Lizard which knocks him unconscious. The wall-crawler walks and bends down to the Lizard and tells the other heroes that it isn't the Lizard's fault. With the Lizard subdued, Spiderman attempts to explain the situation.

Later, the heroes place the Lizard's body right on a table and Mr. Fantastic states he'll try to unlock Spider-Man's friend's consciousness. He succeeds and Dr. Curt Connors awakens in the Lizard. He then sits up and asks Spider-Man what's going on. After Spider-Man just finishes telling the Lizard the story about how they got to the alien planet, the Lizard then agrees to fight with Spider-Man.

Meanwhile, Madame Web and the Beyonder watch back on the moon-like place through a window on how Spider-Man got the heroes to fight with him. Web tells him that already he has led the heroes into battle. The Beyonder calls it a most promising start, but they will have to see how this all ends up....

=== Chapter II: The Gauntlet of the Red Skull ===

Spider-Man, the Lizard and Iron Man then end up using a machine and teleports the [[Black Cat (comics)|Black Cat]] on the planet. Spider-Man tells her that she had been transported to an alien planet. Spider-Man explains the situation to the Black Cat while Storm calls from a computer, telling Spider-Man that she is with alien rebels who want to go against Red Skull's base. The heroes then prepare to go to Red Skull's fortress. Meanwhile, at the Red Skull's fortress Dr. Octopus has taken refuge because Dr. Doom has taken over his kingdom. Red Skull promises Dr. Octopus he will have his kingdom back once the doctor enhances the Cyber Skull. Dr. Octopus agrees and immediately begins.

As all the heroes going to the Red Skull's fortress are flying in a hovercraft to travel across the desert, a sandstorm immediately puts a lot of pressure to the craft and it crashes. All the heroes exit the craft and begin walking. Cap asks Black Cat how she came to be the Black Cat. Black Cat explains her father, John Hardesky, was hired by the Red Skull into thinking he was working for the Allies and spying on the Nazis. Unfortunately, he made a which he memorized formula that created Cap and after the destruction of the lab where Cap was created, Hardesky went back to the Skull but realized he was fooled. He then ran off, never telling him anything. Years later, a crime lord known as the Kingpin captured him and forced him to reveal the same formula by kidnapping his daughter Felicia Hardy. Hardesky gave the crime lord the information he knew and to test if he was telling the truth, the formula was tested on Felicia, and she was instantly turned into the Black Cat.

Later Iron Man collapses and he states his power source has been destroyed. The Lizard tells the heroes he can fix Iron Man's power source. Spider-Man asks how much time he needs. The Lizard states he needs an hour and quickly begins working and a short time later. Storm contacts Spider-Man through a walkie-talkie telling him that the rebels are getting impatient, and attack and they fight against the newly created Cyber Skulls. Spider-Man asks Iron Man if he can fly up to the top. The Lizard tells him he can't because he only gave him enough power to climb the mountain and fight. They all just climb to the top with no complaints.

Soon, the heroes all arrive and Spider-Man orders the villains to surrender. A short fight breaks out in which the villains escape, except for Smythe. The Black Cat watches as the Skull runs off and runs off after him. Smythe says that though it is strange, he agrees with Spider-Man's idea of defeating the Cyber Skulls. Smythe just wants to get back to his father and uses the self-destruct code, but the entry is denied. Spider-Man wonders if he can crack that code. Storm then buys the wall-crawler some time by having a sandstorm cover the robots. Spider-Man continues and gets the right password, making the Cyber Skulls blow up and the rebels cheer in victory.

Meanwhile, as the Red Skull still runs, the Black Cat drops in front of him and says that what she will do to him is for her father, John Hardesky, and all the others he deceived. Before she can do anything, Dr. Octopus appears behind the Cat and one of his tentacles grabs her, preventing her from killing the Red Skull. Captain America shows up and Dr. Octopus tries to shoot Cap. Spider-Man shows up, and a short fight pursues, where the wall-crawler and Cap successfully save the Cat but the Skull and Dr. Octopus escape.

Back on Earth, Blade watches Mirium's castle from a ledge and Morbius arrives to tell him that Mirium and her vampires are gone. Blade tells Morbius he thinks that the Black Cat is in a dire situation. Morbius says that may not be the case, as he senses that she is in good hands and those hands will bring her back to them safe and sound no matter what... ''To Be Continued''...

===Chapter III: Doom===

The last episode of this saga begins with Spider-Man and the Lizard going to Dr. Doom's kingdom. The [[Fantastic Four]] had given them the coordinates to where they should meet them. Suddenly, a few giant cockroach-like robots arrive out of the sand and Spider-Man and the Lizard battle and defeat them. Later they find that [[Mister Fantastic]], the [[Invisible Woman]] and the [[Human Torch]] lying on their backs and the hovercraft destroyed. Mr. Fantastic explains as they were flying in low to avoid detection, Dr. Doom's cockroach-like robots had crashed their hovercraft. When they got out to fight, the [[Thing (comics)|Thing]] was grabbed by a metallic cord and the robots flew off with him.

As the heroes get to the walls of New Latveria, the doors suddenly open and the heroes enter. The heroes see that New Latveria is a peaceful country where the aliens of the planet are enjoying themselves. As they enter Doom's castle, Ben Grimm comes out of the shadows, in his human form. Ben explains that Doom has a power separator. He then tells them that he can change back and forth between the Thing and Ben Grimm and he thanks Doom for all this. Doom then appears from a balcony above the heroes, telling them he wants nothing back from Ben, other than for him to be happy. That's what he wants for all of his people in New Latveria, as he explains. Mr. Fantastic protests, stating that he desires nothing more than the aliens' praise and servitude - he is indeed a tyrant and tries to attack Doom, but robots try to restrain him and the heroes and robots shortly fight each other with the robots winning, restraining them. The Thing tells the heroes that they don't understand - he owes Doom too much. Doom, who is standing back on the balcony, tells the heroes they are all under arrest and they will be bombarded to trial. The charge is treason against New Latveria and if found guilty in trial, they will all die.

Doom, back in his castle, asks Ben why everyone was brought here. Ben says he will explain, but in return he has to promise to let his friends go. Doom says he'll keep his word. Ben then tells him that Spider-Man says that a mystical figure called the Beyonder used some sort of machine to bring them here - the Beyonder wanted to see who's better, Good or Evil. When doom was brought to the planet with the other villains across the galaxy, he was traced by coordinates from a lab, he demands that Ben would take him to the place where they were brought. When they enter the lab, Ben tells them the machine in front of them is how they were brought here, as Spider-Man told them. Doom then gets into the machine and is transported off.

Meanwhile, in a moon-like place where Beyonder is, Doom appears and uses his elemental splitter to have the Beyonder come in towards him, the Beyonder instead actually goes into him. Doom transports himself back into his throne room along with Ben. Doom explains that he has taken over the powers of the Beyonder. Doom then frees the heroes and sends all the villains back to Earth and says all the heroes are his guests. The Lizard loses control and runs towards Doom to attack him. Spider-Man tells him to stop but is too late as Doom has a running portal go towards the heroes and the portal instantly has every hero disappear. Doom states that he promised Ben he won't harm them and he kept his word. Spider-Man realizes they're over fifty miles away from New Latveria.

Back in New Latveria, as Ben wonders through his castle, gremlins appear and thrust towards him, and he changes into the Thing to fight them. Meanwhile, the gremlins seem to be coming out of Doom as he sleeps. Spider-Man arrives to find the Thing fighting off against the gremlins. The Thing asks the Spider-man where these creatures are coming from. Spider-Man realizes that they are coming from Doom while he sleeps. He kicks Doom off his throne and wakes him up, thus stopping the gremlin-making process. Spider-Man shows him the gremlins that he created while he slept, thus giving Doom the point on why he can't control the Beyonder's powers. Spider-Man tells him the gremlins are from his troubled, unhappy mind. The Thing tells Doom, as he fights off the gremlins, that Spider-Man is right - the Beyonder's powers are going to kill him from inside. Doom calls the Thing a simpleton and tells him this is what he wanted all his life - absolute control. When Spider-Man came in to attack Doom, he uses his powers to grab Spider-Man and have him go against a wall. The Thing charges in to stop Doom. Doom attacks the Thing with his powers and throws him back behind him next to his throne. All the heroes arrive and Doom uses his powers to hold down the heroes. Doom states that this planet isn't big enough for all of them as he prepares to kill the heroes. But the Thing sees Doom's elemental splitter and fires the splitter towards Doom and it separates him from the Beyonder, knocking Doom unconscious and the Beyonder states that it is over, having all of them disappear before a blink of an eye.

The heroes then find themselves floating around in space. The Beyonder appears and says that the heroes have won and all of them will go back to Earth with no memory of any of these events, as they were prior to their summoning, to the distress of the Thing, as this meant he would no longer be able to change into his rocky form at will. The Beyonder then transports the heroes and then Doom, back to Earth. Spider-Man is the only hero left with the Beyonder and asks why are they playing this game. The Beyonder answers that he needed to make sure that Spider-Man is worthy to be the leader of the ''real'' task at hand, as they both disappear.

== References to other media ==
Various of the characters' dialogue in the saga includes references to aspects in other medias:
*In part one, [[Madame Web]]'s dialogue: "Are you afraid? You will be, Spider-Man. You will be." is an allusion to the characters of [[Luke Skywalker]] and [[Yoda]]'s dialogue in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' saga respectively: "I'm not afraid". "You will be. You will be".
*In part two, [[Black Cat (comics)|Black Cat]]'s dialogue: "Anything you can do, I can do as well... or better." is a reference to a song from the popular musical ''[[Annie Get Your Gun (musical)|Annie Get Your Gun]]'', in which [[Ethel Merman]] originally starred.
*In part three, the ''Star Wars'' saga is referenced once again by the [[Human Torch]]'s dialogue: "I have a bad feeling about this...", a common line of speech from the movies.

== Production==
This episode is based on the ''[[Secret Wars]]'' mini-series. One completely written chapter of "Secret Wars" involved the X-Men, but transporting the X-Men cast to L.A. (Where production for the Spider-Man animated series was based) from Canada (Where the X-Men animated series was based) was too costly in the previous episodes the X-Men appeared in, so the episode was dropped and only [[Storm (comics)|Storm]] was used for the rest of the chapters of Secret Wars.<ref name="John Semper Interview">{{cite web |url=http://drg4.wariocompany.com/semper.html |title=Interview with John Semper |accessdate=2009-12-13|publisher=wariocompany}}</ref><ref name="Secret Wars, Part 1: Arrival">{{Cite web|url=http://drg4.wariocompany.com/eSp61.html |title=Secret Wars, Part 1: Arrival|publisher=wariocompany|accessdate=2009-12-13}}</ref>
Hulk and She-Hulk weren't used in these episodes because the Hulk show was on UPN.<ref name="John Semper Interview" /><ref name="Secret Wars, Part 1: Arrival"/> Furthermore, [[Quinton Flynn]] was the only voice actor to reprise his role from the ''Fantastic Four'' Animated Series.<ref name="Secret Wars, Part 1: Arrival"/>

== Cast ==
*[[Christopher Daniel Barnes]] &mdash; [[Spider-Man]]
*[[Jennifer Hale]] &mdash; [[Black Cat (comics)|The Black Cat]]
*[[Iona Morris]] &mdash; [[Storm (comics)|Storm]]
*[[Efrem Zimbalist Jr.]] &mdash; [[Doctor Octopus|Dr. Octopus]]
*[[Robert Hays]] &mdash; [[Iron Man]]
*Joan Lee &mdash; [[Madame Web]]
*[[Maxwell Caulfield]] &mdash; [[Alistair Smythe]]
*[[Cam Clarke]] &mdash; [[Mr. Fantastic]]
*[[Gail Matthius]] &mdash; [[Invisible Woman]]
*[[Quinton Flynn]] &mdash; [[Human Torch]]
*[[Patrick Pinney]] &mdash; [[Thing (comics)|The Thing]]
*[[David Hayter]] &mdash; [[Captain America]]
*[[Joseph Campanella]] &mdash; [[Lizard (comics)|The Lizard]]
*[[Earl Boen]] &mdash; The [[Beyonder]]/The [[Red Skull]]
*[[J.D. Hall]] &mdash; [[Blade (comics)|Blade]]
*[[Tom Kane]] &mdash; [[Dr. Doom]]

==References==
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