Harry Osborn & Daredevil Confirmed For Spider-Man: Freshman Year

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Freshman Year animated show focused on Peter Parker’s origin will include Harry Osborn, Daredevil, and many other Marvel characters. Marvel Studios is building out its animation branch by focusing on Spider-Man’s origin story, which has not been shown in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. Spider-Man’s addition to the MCU has awarded Tom Holland the opportunity to interact with countless Marvel characters in live-action. Iron Man remained a big presence in Peter Parker’s life even after his death, while Spider-Man: No Way Home gave him a crossover with Doctor Strange.

Details on Spider-Man: Freshman Year have remained under wraps ever since the project was announced in 2021, including how and if it will connect to the main MCU storyline. Even though the series takes place before any other Spider-Man stories that the MCU has told, there has still been some speculation that familiar and new characters could appear. The MCU debut of Uncle Ben has been a big question hovering over the series, but it also was unclear what types of friends and villains Peter Parker will have in Spider-Man: Freshman Year.

During Marvel Studios’ animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, it was announced that Spider-Man: Freshman Year will feature a variety of Marvel characters, which includes Harry Osborn’s debut and Daredevil, voiced by Charlie Cox, in a black suit. In addition to these characters, Nico Minoru, Amadeus Cho, Unicorn, Chameleon, Scorpion, Speed Demon, Tarantula, Rhino, Doc Ock, Norman Osborn, and Doctor Strange were also confirmed for Spider-Man: Freshman Year.

The inclusion of Cox’s Daredevil comes after he returned as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home. While he did not suit up with Spider-Man in the movie, it now appears Spider-Man: Freshman Year will have the opportunity for Spider-Man and Daredevil to team up. Meanwhile, the inclusion of Harry and Norman Osborn comes after Willem Dafoe played his iconic Spider-Man villain in the Phase 4 movie too. Based on the long list of characters appearing, evidence continues to mount that Spider-Man: Freshman Year does not take place in the main MCU timeline – or will severely break it if it does.

This multiverse exploration of Spider-Man’s origin involving Harry Osborn and Daredevil should still excite plenty of fans. Spider-Man: Freshman Year is immediately putting Peter Parker in his own corner of the world instead of immediately linking him to the Avengers and Iron Man. This means fighting some of his biggest comic villains much earlier, like Doc Ock. It also awards Spider-Man with the chance to interact with other young Marvel heroes, like Runaways‘ Nico Minoru and Amadeus Cho’s Hulk. Now it will be even more intriguing to see if Spider-Man: Freshman Year remains the only time Peter interacts with Harry Osborn, Daredevil, and others, or if this could influence Spider-Man’s live-action MCU future.