Every Suit in ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,’ Explained

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has been a hit with critics and audiences since it debuted on Disney+ on Jan. 29, 2025. Spider-Man has had many animated series over the years, and his origin story has been told countless times in comics and on film, so the fact that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man can do it in a refreshing way that feels new and exciting speaks volumes about it. The series honors many eras of Spider-Man, and one way it does that is with the costumes. The series features a prototype suit, and trailers have shown it featuring the classic red and blue suit, but along the way, Spider-Man will test out a few suits from the comics, ones that haven’t gotten the spotlight before.

Episode 4 “Hitting the Big Time” sees Peter Parker test out four new suits. Three of the new Spider-Man costumes come from the Identity Crisis storyline in the comic, a 1998 arc that saw Spider-Man framed for murder and Peter Parker adopting a series of different alternate identities to still operate as a superhero that popping up all at once would raise less suspicion on which one was exactly Spider-Man than if just one new hero emerged. The three costumes, Prodigy, Hornet, and Dusk, were adopted by other individuals after Spider-Man returned to his original suit. The other suit that Peter Parker wore throughout the series has ties to The Fantastic Four in the comics. Here is every Spider-Man suit in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, explained.

Proto-Type Suit

The first suit Peter Parker wears is a Proto-Type suit. While inspired by the homemade “PJ” suit look seen in Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming, this prototype suit is slightly different. Instead of a red hoodie, this suit features a blue athletic jersey. The spider logo is also different from the MCU version, as it is much rounder. Instead of the goggles being underneath the mask like the MCU version, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man‘s eyes appear to be on the outside of his costume.

The biggest difference might be the web-shooters. The Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man suit has a little gas valve on the back to help him create his webbing, while the MCU version does not. The big change might come from Peter Parker in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man attending a public school instead of Midtown High in the MCU, which emphasized science and likely had more resources for Peter Parker to use.

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Prodigy

When Norman Osborn first tries to upgrade Peter Parker’s suit, he first gives him the golden Prodigy suit. Prodigy was one of the heroic personas Peter Parker adopted during the Identity Crisis storyline and would later be taken on by Richard Gilmore (not the one from Gilmore Girls), an athlete who looks to become a superhero as a way to find a new thrill after he finds wrestling regular people not challenging anymore.

In Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, the Prodigy suit is meant to be a very corporate idea of what a superhero costume should be, one that has been focus tested. It has a gold color scheme like Iron Man, and the little wings on the helmet are meant to recall Thor’s helmet. Like Thor, the Prodigy suit also features a cape which allows Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man to put its own spin on The Incredibles “no capes” rule by Edna Mode and a callback to what Peter B. Parker told Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse “Spider-Man doesn’t wear a cape.”

The Hornet

After the Prodigy suit fails, Norman Osborn puts Peter Parker in The Hornet costume. The Hornet suit was another hero persona Peter Parker adopted during the Identity Crisis and was then later adopted by Edward McDonough, an engineering student. Hornet is not to be confused with The Beetle, another classic Spider-Man villain that is insect-themed and has a flightpack.

This idea of a flight pack is, in the end, why Peter Parker ditches this suit in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, as he is more comfortable web-slinging than flying. The Hornet persona also allows Norman Osborn to ask Peter Parker why he settled on a spider specifically, which feels like a meta-joke about how many characters in the Spider-Man franchise are based around insects and arachnids, including Tarantula, Scorpion, and The Hornet.

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Dusk

The third suit Norman Osborn gives Peter Parker is the Dusk suit, which, in the comics, is a criminal persona Peter Parker adopted during Identity Crisis to help clear Spider-Man’s name for murder by investigating the criminal underworld. The identity was later adopted by Cassie St. Commons, a goth college student who died early in her superhero career, only to be resurrected as a ghostly figure operating in the shadows.

Dusk allows Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man to put its own spin on the idea of a “dark” version of Spider-Man, and showing how it clashes not just with who Peter Parker is, but also with the idea of him being a friendly neighborhood-welcoming superhero, as his new persona scares children. Funny enough, in Sony Pictures’ odd attempts to try to make a cinematic universe out of Spider-Man characters without using Spider-Man, they considered making a Dusk movie back in 2021 that never came to pass.

The Future Foundation

The final suit Norman Osborn makes Peter Parker, and the one that seemingly he will wear for most of the series, is a white and black costume inspired by his Future Foundation suit. Unlike the Prodigy, Hornet, and Dusk personas, The Future Foundation suit is not part of the Identity Crisis storyline. Instead, this suit was worn by Peter Parker in the comics after the death of Johnny Storm / The Human Torch from The Fantastic Four. The surviving members of The Fantastic Four rebranded and became The Future Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to better-serving humanity’s future. Spider-Man joined the Future Foundation as a final request from Johnny Storm, who said in his will that he wanted Peter Parker to join The Fantastic Four.

The Future Foundation suit was introduced in July 2010, and since then, the organization has gotten a lot of love in adaptation. The Spider-Man Future Foundation suit is a wearable costume in video games like Spider-Man: The Edge of Time, Fortnite, and both PlayStation Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. The Future Foundation seems to be a big part of the upcoming MCU film The Fantastic Four: First Steps. While the suit in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has no ties to the team and is an OsCorp creation, it is clear Marvel wants The Fantastic Four legacy front and center in 2025.

Classic Suit

As of this writing, the classic Spider-Man suit has not appeared in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Yet marketing material for the series has already featured it, meaning that at some point, Peter Parker will ditch the Future Foundation-inspired suit and go for the classic blue and red design that fans know and love. If Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows the model of other Marvel shows like Daredevil Season 1, Ms. Marvel, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Peter Parker will don this suit in the final episode of the season.

It will be interesting to see if this is another suit created by Norman Osborn or if one of the reasons Peter Parker ditches the white and black Future Foundation suit is because he later learns he can’t trust Norman Osborn and that he has more villainous intentions, possibly related to the Green Goblin persona in the comics. If that is the case, then the iconic Spider-Man suit could be homemade, as fans saw at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home. The rounder logo on the chest certainly calls to mind the original design seen in Amazing Fantasy #15 by artist Steve Ditko, which matches the artistic style the series tries to emulate.