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- Awesome Music: The opening theme.
- Internet Backdraft: Unless you wanted to be outed as a racist by the English-speaking fans who actually watched and understood the show, do not frequently refer to the series under the Romaji name, Supaidāman. Not helping matters is that one of the Marvel handbooks refer to him as such.
- Narm Charm
- Signature Scene: One of the more famous sequences is from "Shuddering Laboratory! Devilish Professor Monster," where Spider-Man uses a Ninder mook's submachine gun to destroy the laboratory. Before doing so, he warns them to duck if they value their lives. However, the continuous sharing of this scene without context has led viewers to develop an inaccurate belief that this version of Spider-Man is willing to kill, despite his actual portrayal in the series suggesting otherwise.
- So Bad It's Good
- Special Effect Failure: Many, many ways. How do they show Spider-Man clinging to walls, for instance? By having him jump at the wall and freeze the frame when he's touching it.
- The second version of Leopardon's Transformation Sequence actually has one segment played backwards, showing the panels on what become its legs splaying out instead of folding in.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In one episode, Spider-Man has to give a kid a blood transfusion. The kid does not gain spider-powers.
- What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: While it does work almost note-for-note like a typical Super Sentai series, Japanese Spider-Man contains some rather impressive violence for its time. There's blatant murder in the show (see Crying Wolf on the main page), shots of civilians being killed on-screen are commonplace, and there is one particular scene (used in the official YouTube trailer by MARVEL, no less) where a cat is sliced in half with a katana. While it is true that there is very little or no blood in the show to speak of, the amount of violence in the show would be rather unsettling for modern child and pre-teen viewers.