- “Everyone will know and fear the name, Doctor Otto Octavius.”
- ―Otto Octavius
"The Unicorn Unleashed!" is the fifth episode of Marvel's Disney+ series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. It premiered on February 5, 2025, immediately after "Hitting the Big Time".
Synopsis[]
Peter makes a new friend. Meanwhile, Lonnie finds himself in the sights of a dangerous gang.
Plot[]
Masaryk meets with Octavius about purchasing his weapons, though he insists they be referred to as upgrades. For her troubles, he gifts her a helmet that fires a laser from the top. She accepts, later dubbing herself Unicorn, and leaves to break her crew out. In private, Octavius angrily vents to his assistant Vincent Patilio of having to work under the likes of Osborn, hoping to eventually become greater than him, Tony Stark, or Bruce Banner.
Osborn informs Peter that due to his constant workload, he has decided to have Harry be part of the team and act as his aid for when he goes around crimefighting. Peter and Harry's relationship is initially awkward, but they get along quite fine. When Harry takes Peter to school (Harry is homeschooled and thus has a lot free time), Peter is doted on by everyone including the teachers. Nico informs Peter that he is a social media star, explaining the praise, and despite her supposed antagonism towards him, Peter deduces that she might have a crush on him.
Pearl tells Lonnie that she and Peter have been covering for him due to his constant absences. While he attempts to get back to his football practice, he is constantly getting calls from Donovan demanding that he meet up with him and the One Tenths. Lonnie explains that he cannot constantly cut into his school time, but Donovan will have none of it and sends Bulldozer to come and pick him up.
Masaryk breaks her crew out of prison using her new tech. While she blows up several police cars, Dmitri and Roxanna decide to sneak away, but Mikhail refuses to leave Masaryk behind. Harry directs Peter to the chaos as he and Masaryk battle one another. Meanwhile, Lonnie meets with the One Tenths who are standing off against the Scorpions and a fight between both gangs breaks out. In a simultaneous moment, Lonnie takes a knife for Donovan from Gargan, and Masaryk intentionally blasts as Mikhail so that Peter can jump in the way and protect him.
The police arrive to break up the gang fight as Bulldozer gets Lonnie away from the danger and Masaryk attempts to finish off Peter. Mikhail stops Masaryk as she has gone too far and warns her that they are lingering. Peter recovers fast enough to web up Masaryk. He thanks Mikhail for his help, but he insists that they are still enemies, but are even.
Harry inadvertently reminds Peter that he promised Nico that he would go to the movies with her. He manages to arrive, covering that his recent bruises are from a banana peel, but reveals that he brought Harry along as well. Nico, while slightly put off by it, reluctantly accepts his inclusion. Lonnie gets a hero's welcome from the One Tenths, with Donovan confirming that he fully trusts him now. Due to how he was "almost put in the ground", they decide to give Lonnie a nickname: Tombstone, which Lonnie admits that he likes.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Hudson Thames as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Grace Song as Nico Minoru
- Zeno Robinson as Harry Osborn
- Eugene Byrd as Lonnie Lincoln/Tombstone
- Hugh Dancy as Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus
- Colman Domingo as Norman Osborn
Guest cast[]
- Cathy Ang as Pearl Pangan
- Leilani Barrett as Big Ben Donovan
- Ettore Ewan as Henry Camp/Bulldozer
- Jonathan Medina as Mac Gargan/Scorpion
- Anairis Quiñones as Carmilla Black
- Sarah Natochenny as Mila Masaryk/Unicorn
- Travis Willingham as Mikhail Sytsevich
- Kellen Goff as Vincent Patilio/Leap-Frog
- Roger Craig Smith as Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon
- Kari Wahlgren as Roxanna Volkov
Trivia[]
- The title is a reference to the tagline of Iron Man #154.
- This is the third episode to premiere on February 5th.
- When Lonnie protests Big Donovan summoning him, Big Donovan responds, "I missed the part where that was my problem". This may be a homage to the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man film, where the line is used by both a wrestling promoter, and then Parker when he refuses to stop a thief.
- Harry is described as Peter's "dude at the desk", much like how Ned Leeds becomes Peter's "guy in the chair" in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- When Peter catches a bicycle thief, he contemplates whether he should leave a note with it and the honor system, much like Peter does in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- Nico refers to Harry as "The Great and Powerful Os". James Franco, who played Harry Osborne in the Raimi trilogy, also played the Wizard of Oz in Oz the Great and Powerful.
- Harry claims Captain America was replaced by a clone four years ago, which may be a reference to how in the comics, Steve Rogers was cloned by Doctor Bong in order to commit crimes and avoid suspicion of the authorities by using the credibility of the real Steve Rogers. It is also potentially a reference to the Secret Empire comic event, where a HYDRA double of Steve was created.
- Four years ago would be 2012, which was when the battle of New York took place in The Avengers.
- The episode reveals how Lonnie Lincoln was given the nickname Tombstone in this series, unlike the comics where he is given the name for a different reason.
- Otto Octavius' hideout is in an abandoned warehouse, just like in Spider-Man 2 and the Marvel's Spider-Man video games.
- Otto's assistant is named Vincent Patilio, who becomes known as Leap Frog, who appeared in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
- While in class, an unnamed student is reading the "Amazing Adult Fantasy" comic, which Peter was reading in the first episode.
- Harry and Spider-Man are discussing the civil war and both say they are on Captain America's side of the battle, while Peter was on Iron Man's side in Captain America: Civil War.
- Peter is also a much bigger fan of Captain America than Iron Man in this universe.
- The episode picks up the morning following Harry's discovery that Peter is Spider-Man from the previous episode.
- Harry is revealed to be 16 years old, putting his birth year in 2000, which makes him about a year older than Peter and Nico. He is also revealed to have been home-schooled, where as he attends Peter Parker's school in the Sam Raimi trilogy and other media.
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