User blog comment:Epicportlemaster101/What shows deserve to be cancelled?/@comment-24175425-20140706144306/@comment-1895174-20140708034919

So there were a couple episodes in Season 2 that developed Spidey's team a little more. Four or five episodes of character development out of 52 is pretty pathetic. Harry Osborn got some character development in Season 1, but then he was all but dropped from the second season.

I don't even know if I'd go that far as to call everyone in Ultimate Spider-Man "characters." Characters typically have motivations, personalities, more than one defining trait, etc. They also usually have a reason for being there other than just because. "Figures" might be more accurate. Figures thrown into a paper-thin plot at best only there to move that plot along.

Ultimate Spider-Man has the narrative complexity of a six-year-old playing with his action figures but with none of the imagination that gives that its charm.