Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Season 2
Episode 11: The Ugly Kid Apocalypse: Part One
The episode starts off just after the events of The Consequence and Night of the Man-Spider, where Peter Parker is swinging in broad daylight back to his apartment, almost naked since his costume was destroyed as the Man-Spider. He enters his apartment just as the remnants of the police, who have lost several cops since the previous night, corner his apartment. A squad of cops, led by Jean DeWolffe from Episodes 5 and 6, storm the apartment and rush into Peter's apartment, where he's waiting for them. But just as they have him completely surrounded, everyone turns to Peter's window to find the sky turning red. The same is happening all around the world much to everyone's curiosity, and to the angels' horror. Meanwhile, back atForest Hills, in the aftermath of the final confrontation with the Man-Spider, Brian and Bernie wake up and react in horror just as the other angels do. Then, suddenly, dark portals all across the reddened skies of the planet open up and unleash demons from Hell, who swoop in and begin killing everyone across the planet. Brian silently declares that this is the end. Meanwhile, Ugly Kid appears on the top of theEmpireStateBuilding and revels as he watches his apocalypse come about.
A few demons crash into Peter's apartment and kill all of the cops surrounding him by vaporizing them through touch, though they don't kill Peter himself. They leave, and he begins swinging across the city, looking in haste for Ugly Kid, hoping he could at least put up a futile effort to stop the Antichrist. Meanwhile, Brian and Bernie hotwire and steal a car as they're chased by several demons. As Brian drives, Bernie tries shooting the demons down with his and Brian's Heaven guns, but find that they have no effect upon the demons; so Brian continues driving on for the sake of himself and Bernie, trying to find a safe place from the end of the world… even though there is none.
At the New York Police Department, all of the cops, captives, and almost everyone else there are killed by the demons. The only one left to survive is Aunt May, who the demons deliberately allow her to live and escape to find some way to escape the UKA (Ugly Kid Apocalypse). Elsewhere, the angels' base in the church, recently doing damage control since Jeff's murder of Beatrice Lange and his suicide, are confronted by the invading demons. The angels try to put up a fight in the face of this onslaught, but in the end, they all lose as they're vaporized by the demons' touch.
Much of the episode shows how UKA (pronounced You-ka) is bringing about the end of the world. Billions of beings, human and non-human alike, all across the planet die by the hands of Ugly Kid's demons, completely powerless to defend themselves in spite of the world's advances in weaponry and technology in the face of this invulnerable supernatural menace. Every civilization and government is brought down by the demons, and when the demons aren't killing people, chaos and anarchy roam the streets. The show of UKA's destruction ends when Brian and Bernie's car ends up in a crash, and the demons chasing them finally catch up to them and kill them.
The episode culminates with Peter finding Ugly Kid atop of the EmpireStateBuilding, enjoying the death and destruction UKA is bringing about. The Antichrist then jumps off the top of the building and lands several hundred feet to the ground alive, showing just how truly powerful he is. He turns and finds Peter's Aunt May standing before him, and Peter swings in to stop the Antichrist from killing his aunt. But Ugly Kid is able to easily best Peter in combat as May is shocked to find out that her nephew is Spider-Man. Ugly Kid beats Peter up so badly that Peter can no longer move, then chases down Aunt May, which takes him seconds. He pins her to the ground, looks at her, and ends her life by using his power to have blood run from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, just as he did to all of his victims at the airport in Evil's Ugliness: Part One. Peter, at the site of Ugly Kid torturing his aunt to death, has a rush of adrenaline to stop Ugly Kid, but the Antichrist bests him again, but allows him to look upon the corpse of his aunt for a while. Ugly Kid then completely immobilizes Peter permanently by stomping on his pelvic area, shattering his spine. The Antichrist then explains how he was able to bring about this apocalypse.
As it turns out, throughout the centuries, Ugly Kid had been accumulating enough power on Earth by absorbing all of the evil and negative emotions that humanity could produce. He was using all of his plans for world domination as a mere distraction to allay the suspicions of the angels who were hunting him. By the time his plans almost came into fruition, he found out, through Jeff's deliberate spying and Brian's inadvertent spying, about how Spider-Man could stop him when the time. So Ugly Kid delayed his plans for UKA by creating the Scorpion, who was meant to kill Spider-Man. When that plan failed with the Scorpion's death, Ugly Kid tried to have Spider-Man kill the man who murdered his Uncle Ben, Flint Marko, but that also failed because of Aunt May's interference. So Ugly Kid decided to try one more move; he would deliberately ruin his life to the point that God wouldn't even be on his side, which was what led to the events of Evil's Ugliness and the consequent episodes; tricking Spider-Man into working for him to have the angels turn on him was the perfect plan. In The Consequence, Peter ultimately killing Harry for the death of Mary Jane was the point of no return for Peter, which assured that he would be no further threat to Ugly Kid's plans, as Peter ultimately gave in to the evil that was inside him. However, when Peter turned into the Man-Spider in the same night, Ugly Kid gave Niske, Botya, and Majes the antidote to cure his Man-Spider disease, as the Antichrist predicted through his powers that it would come about due to his genetically altered genes. The reason he wanted Peter to live and be cured was to allow him to fully embrace the horror of UKA in life and to ruin his life one last time, which was through killing Aunt May. So, with that, the Antichrist literally rips Peter's heart out and eats it as he watches Peter die off.
TO BE CONTINUED…