Ever since it was first announced as Spider-Man: Freshman Year in 2021, there have been questions about exactly how (what is now) Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man fits into MCU canon. And then late last year, it became apparent that the show had essentially abandoned canon altogether. But according to showrunner, head writer, and executive producer Jeff Trammell, the actual show that made it to the screen has only ever really been part of an alternate timeline from start to finish.
"What's funny is it was kind of only in the main timeline for the initial two months of development," Trammell tells GamesRadar+, "and then it was like, 'Oh, well, this kind of limits us; let's go another route.' So the first episode is essentially the first script I ever wrote for the show. Nothing really changed. So it's not like, 'Oh, this was this, and then we scrapped it, but we saved this scene,' like it's all from its pretty much inception Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and that has always kind of been the case."
