Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man makes good use of some relatively obscure characters from Peter Parker's corner of the Marvel Universe...and beyond. For example, The Runaways' Nico Minoru becomes a key supporting player in the web-slinger's life as his new best friend.

In an interview with ComicBook.com, showrunner Jeff Trammell revealed that Nico's role in the Marvel Animation series very nearly went to a de-aged Jessica Jones!

"What can I say? There was another character that we considered," the writer started. "I don’t know if I can say. Well, I’ll say first that, yes, as we knew we were going to do something different. It was kind of like, for this story we want to tell, we need certain characters to fit these roles. And for me, I love Nico. I love Runaways."

"This is very much like an amalgamation of just characters I love that I...