Ultimate Spider-Man (2011) s02e04 Episode Script
Kraven the Hunter (25 min)
2x04 - Kraven the Hunter Stay close! Don't get flanked! Hah! You almost sound like you know what you're doing! Focus, Nova! When you can see, Group up and Iron Fist, look out! This is getting embarrassing, guys.
I got your back, Spidey.
We got Whoa.
We got nothing.
New enemy? The greatest threat to peace that the world has ever seen? If chilling out on a Friday night counts as peace, then yes.
And B-T-dubs, it is very uncomfortable to freeze like this.
Whoa! This is how you train.
I thought it might be cool to let everyone takes turns leading training sessions.
Up until now they've been pretty awesome.
- How is this training, exactly? - Hand-eye coordination.
Ooh! You unlocked a ninja mushroom! Gimme! It's called carbo-loading.
Extra energy for the next smackdown.
Only the closed mind is unteachable.
open the consciousness.
Tonight, it's White Tiger's turn, and she's being way intense about it.
Time out! You proved your point, Tiger.
You win.
Stop holding back.
You wake up on the wrong side of the litter box or something? Chill! Ow! Whoa, Tiger, what are you doing? Tiger? Okay, that's new.
There she is! Is she just tricking us into training harder? She's not really known for her pranks.
And seriously.
Pizza box? Well, it's better than your idea.
But maybe I should have taken the pizza out first.
There goes my appetite forever.
But someone's still hungry.
That ain't right.
Tiger, drop the ravioli and let the traumatized people finish dinner.
Sorry.
Grab her but don't hurt her! We have to stop this now before someone, namely us, gets hurt! Everyone dive in at once! Trust me! Hey! White Tiger, snap out of it! I gotta get through to her! But how? Huh? Even I don't get this one.
Oh! Light bulb! Miss Ayala, this is principal Coulson.
Stop these shenanigans right now or this is going on your permanent record.
Huh? Tell me this is spaghetti sauce.
Yeah, lucky for us.
Want to explain why you just kicked our cannolis across Little Italy? I what? I I don't remember.
I heard drums and then everything just disappeared into a white haze.
- Drums? - Can we just go home? Ahem, you lost your box, moonboy.
White Tiger, you will be my greatest trophy yet.
The first rule of making my famous samcakes is to bring the griddle to the right temperature.
How many rules are there? We're starving.
Oh! Wow! Samcakes is good! It's your Aunt May's recipe.
I took out the fiber that she sneaks in.
Now if miss Crazy Cat would join us I don't think Ava's feeling to well.
Holy moly! You're out of milk.
Yeah.
That happened.
Whatever you get paid, you deserve more! Look, Tiger, for the last 24 hours, you haven't been yourself.
Hah? "Myself"? What if I told you that this is myself? That ever day I work so hard to be disciplined, A-student Ava, and resist my true instincts? Well, I'm done.
You guys get to be yourselves all the time.
Why can't I? Because ourselves never went feline ferocious on you, or a guy in a mouse costume for no reason.
Also, because you used my bed as a scratching post.
I dreamt I was a woodchuck? We're just worried about you.
We're a team, a family.
And if something is bothering your family Family.
You're not my family, and you'll never understand me.
So deal.
You really have a way with crazy cat ladies.
Says the guy hiding behind the water tower.
We were sending you moral support from a safe distance.
Now I need real support.
Follow her.
I'm going to get some answers.
- How could we lose her? - She's always been fast, but this is like a new universe of fast.
She's shut off her communicator signal.
Why is she out of control? I blame it on the schools.
All those tests and homework, and oof! Ooh, spark les Whoa These darts are not gonna cut it with me.
I know.
This place doesn't quite say "saving the world" the way the Helicarrier did.
Maybe more, "handing out detentions for justice".
Right Agent Principal Coulson? Okay, no small talk.
White Tiger's acting strange.
Not, "I will crush you to get an 'a'" strange, more like "I should be stalking gazelles in a nature film" strange.
See that there? It's the classic "we grown-ups know exactly what you're talking about but don't want to tell you we know" look.
Don't you hate when they do that? We've been worried about this possibility from day one.
Ava's power comes from the White Tiger amulet.
Even we don't fully understand how it works.
But it's powerful, and she's only scratched the surface.
"Scratched"! That's good! G-get it? Continue.
Ava works constantly to keep her tiger side in check.
That's why she's so disciplined.
Like her father, the last White Tiger, and his father before him.
The family business? Cool! Why don't we ask her Dad? The look again! What are they not telling me? If White Tiger has gone feral, we need to bring her in, and fast.
We're her friends.
We'll take care of her.
And if you can't? I don't do "can't".
Wait, was that a double negative? Don't, can't forget the grammar.
We got it.
I guess I really didn't have White Tiger figured out.
And I can't believe we've never even met her Dad.
Guys, tell me you found her, 'cause if we don't cage that Tiger, Nick is gonna snap his eye patch.
Guys? Hello? Central park? Why do I have a feeling you're not there for the paddle boats? Does anyone read me? This is Spider-Man.
Your handsome team leader? Okay, if no one took that bait, we're in trouble.
- You don't belong here! - Tiger, I don't know what's happening, but whatever it is, we're all involved now, like it or not.
Stay out of it.
- Water.
I hate water! - Really? You're normally so hygienic.
Wait, Tiger, this is a trap! Don't! At least one member of your pack has the survival instinct, unlike yourself.
Drawn by the call of the wild like a moth to a flame.
Kraven.
I was gonna guess Mr.
Senor Mustache, but if you like Kraven I have not come to hunt you, spider.
Take your comrades and go.
Not likely.
You hunted my father like an animal and destroyed him! - Now I will have my revenge! - Say what now? Kraven did what to your who? He took my father's life! I know this is deadly serious time, but I just gotta Wake up! According to my S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
issue scanner thingy, you guys are actually okay, just sedated.
You take your catnap and I'll do my hero thang.
You have resisted the magic song of the Savannah drum longer than either of the White Tigers before you.
- But otherwise, I'm not impressed.
- That sounds like a challenge! Okay, point goes to the Mustache.
Let's see if your little shield can stop this! - And you did.
- Children Your father would have never taken the bait so easily.
He was crafty, strong.
He understood the power of the amulet.
Don't talk about him! You think a stupid spear can stop me? One you can't see coming, yes.
Give me the amulet and I will consider letting you live.
Or don't.
I do so enjoy the hunt.
- And I do so enjoy your accent.
- Pest! I'm not gonna tell you again! Kraven is mine! Wait.
Are you a crazy hunter or a crazy landscaper? I'm confused.
I am Kraven the Hunter! What I hunt, I consume.
- What I consume, I become.
- Huh? Have you been hunting baloney? 'Cause that's what your monologue sounds like.
Ow! We need a plan.
Or a strategy, or Whoa.
I wasn't expecting that.
- Let me get him! - No! Wait! That's what he wants.
He's trying to lure you away and not give you a chance to think.
- You don't understand.
- Then help me understand.
Kraven collects weapons and tribal magic from all over the globe to be the world's greatest hunter.
That's why his stupid drum affected me.
Magic.
But everything he knows is nothing compared to the power in this.
My father was the White Tiger before me, but he was hunted by Kraven.
He did his job, protected the amulet, but he was hurt, the kind of hurt that doesn't get better.
So he gave the amulet to me.
Now it's my job to protect it and keep the Tiger side calm.
But I don't want to control it anymore.
I want to be the Tiger.
I want revenge.
You wouldn't understand.
I understand better than you know.
Afraid to fight tiger-to-man? You're so afraid to unleash the true power of the amulet.
You're even weaker than your father was.
And your grandfather they would be ashamed of what you've become.
No kitty kabob for dinner tonight! Finally.
Gonna skip the victory dance, 'cause I'd really like to kick that guy's butt now.
You don't understand.
It's over.
I've lost my power, and now - and now the Tiger is free.
- Bad kitty? Foolish child! You believe that you deserve this power? This is nature unleashed! This is the wild made flesh! This is your mouth shutting up! We get it already.
Tiger, I know you're messed up right now, but I never studied Tiger Magic 101.
I need your help.
I can't help against that.
I'm nothing without the amulet.
I realize I don't know you as well as I should, Ava, but I know you're not nothing.
It took strength and courage to wear that amulet and keep that cat power in check all those years.
That probably makes you the strongest person I've ever met.
Amulet or not, you're still you, and you always have a plan.
Just make it a really good one.
Heh heh.
Your family could have ruled for generations.
If only you had unleashed it.
He's all animal.
The man is gone.
Is that good or bad? - Ask me after my big plan.
- This plan involves us surviving, right? - Flap your arms! - What? Huh-uh, Kravey-cat.
The playpen is for party animals like us.
Where's the sophisticated repartee, Kraven? Cat got your tongue? Tiger ventriloquist? That's a weird power.
Oh, catnip! You know, if you added a little more magic to the act, I bet you guys would kill in Vegas.
Ooh.
Bad choice of words.
Hey, Kraven, you don't want to eat spiders.
They get stuck in your teeth and give you cavities.
And you're making the jokes? Now, Tiger! Whoa, hardcore! Go, team Tiger! Now who was dumb enough to take the bait? So much power.
How do you Control it? My father taught me as his father taught him.
They also taught me when to cut loose.
I don't remember the part of the plan where you get all intense and creepy again.
You are so much more than your father.
And you could be greater still if you would let go.
Dude, I'm not exactly a fan, but do yourself a favor and zip it.
What are we doing here, Tiger? I'm going to finish it.
Finish him! He took my father from me.
Forever! - You don't know how that feels.
- I do, actually.
Someone important was taken from me too.
I lost someone special to me for no reason at all.
And just like you, I had an opportunity for revenge.
I had the guy who did it cornered, helpless.
I could have finished him right there.
But I realized it wouldn't have changed what happened.
Worse, I would have become as bad as the creep who took him from me.
He always said I could choose what kind of man I wanted to be.
I chose to walk away, to be better.
To be Spider-Man.
That amulet doesn't define who you are.
Neither does the Mustache king over here.
You choose, now.
You can be like Kraven or your father, a hunter or a hero.
Guess you know me better than I thought.
Let's call Fury to pick up the trash.
Don't turn your back on me! I am the hunter! I am Kraven! - You want this? - We both earned it.
S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
? White Tiger here.
Hope you're ready for some cleanup.
- Spider-Man made a real mess.
- Oh funny, considering I rocked this one.
Yeah? Where are the boys? That's the well-groomed White Tiger we know and love in a best friends sort of way.
Huh.
Yeah.
I just wanted to thank you for your confidence in me and for sharing about your uncle.
And Uh, yeah.
Well, a-anything for the team.
Let's not get all mushy about it.
For what it's worth, I think your Dad would be proud of the hero you turned out to be.
Your uncle Ben would be proud too.
As stupid as you are you're pretty smart sometimes.
Hey, is she still all catty? Get the dot, kitty! Make the internet smile! Hey! Sorry! Hey! Yeah, go get him, Tiger! But wait for me! Cat videos are huge!
I got your back, Spidey.
We got Whoa.
We got nothing.
New enemy? The greatest threat to peace that the world has ever seen? If chilling out on a Friday night counts as peace, then yes.
And B-T-dubs, it is very uncomfortable to freeze like this.
Whoa! This is how you train.
I thought it might be cool to let everyone takes turns leading training sessions.
Up until now they've been pretty awesome.
- How is this training, exactly? - Hand-eye coordination.
Ooh! You unlocked a ninja mushroom! Gimme! It's called carbo-loading.
Extra energy for the next smackdown.
Only the closed mind is unteachable.
open the consciousness.
Tonight, it's White Tiger's turn, and she's being way intense about it.
Time out! You proved your point, Tiger.
You win.
Stop holding back.
You wake up on the wrong side of the litter box or something? Chill! Ow! Whoa, Tiger, what are you doing? Tiger? Okay, that's new.
There she is! Is she just tricking us into training harder? She's not really known for her pranks.
And seriously.
Pizza box? Well, it's better than your idea.
But maybe I should have taken the pizza out first.
There goes my appetite forever.
But someone's still hungry.
That ain't right.
Tiger, drop the ravioli and let the traumatized people finish dinner.
Sorry.
Grab her but don't hurt her! We have to stop this now before someone, namely us, gets hurt! Everyone dive in at once! Trust me! Hey! White Tiger, snap out of it! I gotta get through to her! But how? Huh? Even I don't get this one.
Oh! Light bulb! Miss Ayala, this is principal Coulson.
Stop these shenanigans right now or this is going on your permanent record.
Huh? Tell me this is spaghetti sauce.
Yeah, lucky for us.
Want to explain why you just kicked our cannolis across Little Italy? I what? I I don't remember.
I heard drums and then everything just disappeared into a white haze.
- Drums? - Can we just go home? Ahem, you lost your box, moonboy.
White Tiger, you will be my greatest trophy yet.
The first rule of making my famous samcakes is to bring the griddle to the right temperature.
How many rules are there? We're starving.
Oh! Wow! Samcakes is good! It's your Aunt May's recipe.
I took out the fiber that she sneaks in.
Now if miss Crazy Cat would join us I don't think Ava's feeling to well.
Holy moly! You're out of milk.
Yeah.
That happened.
Whatever you get paid, you deserve more! Look, Tiger, for the last 24 hours, you haven't been yourself.
Hah? "Myself"? What if I told you that this is myself? That ever day I work so hard to be disciplined, A-student Ava, and resist my true instincts? Well, I'm done.
You guys get to be yourselves all the time.
Why can't I? Because ourselves never went feline ferocious on you, or a guy in a mouse costume for no reason.
Also, because you used my bed as a scratching post.
I dreamt I was a woodchuck? We're just worried about you.
We're a team, a family.
And if something is bothering your family Family.
You're not my family, and you'll never understand me.
So deal.
You really have a way with crazy cat ladies.
Says the guy hiding behind the water tower.
We were sending you moral support from a safe distance.
Now I need real support.
Follow her.
I'm going to get some answers.
- How could we lose her? - She's always been fast, but this is like a new universe of fast.
She's shut off her communicator signal.
Why is she out of control? I blame it on the schools.
All those tests and homework, and oof! Ooh, spark les Whoa These darts are not gonna cut it with me.
I know.
This place doesn't quite say "saving the world" the way the Helicarrier did.
Maybe more, "handing out detentions for justice".
Right Agent Principal Coulson? Okay, no small talk.
White Tiger's acting strange.
Not, "I will crush you to get an 'a'" strange, more like "I should be stalking gazelles in a nature film" strange.
See that there? It's the classic "we grown-ups know exactly what you're talking about but don't want to tell you we know" look.
Don't you hate when they do that? We've been worried about this possibility from day one.
Ava's power comes from the White Tiger amulet.
Even we don't fully understand how it works.
But it's powerful, and she's only scratched the surface.
"Scratched"! That's good! G-get it? Continue.
Ava works constantly to keep her tiger side in check.
That's why she's so disciplined.
Like her father, the last White Tiger, and his father before him.
The family business? Cool! Why don't we ask her Dad? The look again! What are they not telling me? If White Tiger has gone feral, we need to bring her in, and fast.
We're her friends.
We'll take care of her.
And if you can't? I don't do "can't".
Wait, was that a double negative? Don't, can't forget the grammar.
We got it.
I guess I really didn't have White Tiger figured out.
And I can't believe we've never even met her Dad.
Guys, tell me you found her, 'cause if we don't cage that Tiger, Nick is gonna snap his eye patch.
Guys? Hello? Central park? Why do I have a feeling you're not there for the paddle boats? Does anyone read me? This is Spider-Man.
Your handsome team leader? Okay, if no one took that bait, we're in trouble.
- You don't belong here! - Tiger, I don't know what's happening, but whatever it is, we're all involved now, like it or not.
Stay out of it.
- Water.
I hate water! - Really? You're normally so hygienic.
Wait, Tiger, this is a trap! Don't! At least one member of your pack has the survival instinct, unlike yourself.
Drawn by the call of the wild like a moth to a flame.
Kraven.
I was gonna guess Mr.
Senor Mustache, but if you like Kraven I have not come to hunt you, spider.
Take your comrades and go.
Not likely.
You hunted my father like an animal and destroyed him! - Now I will have my revenge! - Say what now? Kraven did what to your who? He took my father's life! I know this is deadly serious time, but I just gotta Wake up! According to my S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
issue scanner thingy, you guys are actually okay, just sedated.
You take your catnap and I'll do my hero thang.
You have resisted the magic song of the Savannah drum longer than either of the White Tigers before you.
- But otherwise, I'm not impressed.
- That sounds like a challenge! Okay, point goes to the Mustache.
Let's see if your little shield can stop this! - And you did.
- Children Your father would have never taken the bait so easily.
He was crafty, strong.
He understood the power of the amulet.
Don't talk about him! You think a stupid spear can stop me? One you can't see coming, yes.
Give me the amulet and I will consider letting you live.
Or don't.
I do so enjoy the hunt.
- And I do so enjoy your accent.
- Pest! I'm not gonna tell you again! Kraven is mine! Wait.
Are you a crazy hunter or a crazy landscaper? I'm confused.
I am Kraven the Hunter! What I hunt, I consume.
- What I consume, I become.
- Huh? Have you been hunting baloney? 'Cause that's what your monologue sounds like.
Ow! We need a plan.
Or a strategy, or Whoa.
I wasn't expecting that.
- Let me get him! - No! Wait! That's what he wants.
He's trying to lure you away and not give you a chance to think.
- You don't understand.
- Then help me understand.
Kraven collects weapons and tribal magic from all over the globe to be the world's greatest hunter.
That's why his stupid drum affected me.
Magic.
But everything he knows is nothing compared to the power in this.
My father was the White Tiger before me, but he was hunted by Kraven.
He did his job, protected the amulet, but he was hurt, the kind of hurt that doesn't get better.
So he gave the amulet to me.
Now it's my job to protect it and keep the Tiger side calm.
But I don't want to control it anymore.
I want to be the Tiger.
I want revenge.
You wouldn't understand.
I understand better than you know.
Afraid to fight tiger-to-man? You're so afraid to unleash the true power of the amulet.
You're even weaker than your father was.
And your grandfather they would be ashamed of what you've become.
No kitty kabob for dinner tonight! Finally.
Gonna skip the victory dance, 'cause I'd really like to kick that guy's butt now.
You don't understand.
It's over.
I've lost my power, and now - and now the Tiger is free.
- Bad kitty? Foolish child! You believe that you deserve this power? This is nature unleashed! This is the wild made flesh! This is your mouth shutting up! We get it already.
Tiger, I know you're messed up right now, but I never studied Tiger Magic 101.
I need your help.
I can't help against that.
I'm nothing without the amulet.
I realize I don't know you as well as I should, Ava, but I know you're not nothing.
It took strength and courage to wear that amulet and keep that cat power in check all those years.
That probably makes you the strongest person I've ever met.
Amulet or not, you're still you, and you always have a plan.
Just make it a really good one.
Heh heh.
Your family could have ruled for generations.
If only you had unleashed it.
He's all animal.
The man is gone.
Is that good or bad? - Ask me after my big plan.
- This plan involves us surviving, right? - Flap your arms! - What? Huh-uh, Kravey-cat.
The playpen is for party animals like us.
Where's the sophisticated repartee, Kraven? Cat got your tongue? Tiger ventriloquist? That's a weird power.
Oh, catnip! You know, if you added a little more magic to the act, I bet you guys would kill in Vegas.
Ooh.
Bad choice of words.
Hey, Kraven, you don't want to eat spiders.
They get stuck in your teeth and give you cavities.
And you're making the jokes? Now, Tiger! Whoa, hardcore! Go, team Tiger! Now who was dumb enough to take the bait? So much power.
How do you Control it? My father taught me as his father taught him.
They also taught me when to cut loose.
I don't remember the part of the plan where you get all intense and creepy again.
You are so much more than your father.
And you could be greater still if you would let go.
Dude, I'm not exactly a fan, but do yourself a favor and zip it.
What are we doing here, Tiger? I'm going to finish it.
Finish him! He took my father from me.
Forever! - You don't know how that feels.
- I do, actually.
Someone important was taken from me too.
I lost someone special to me for no reason at all.
And just like you, I had an opportunity for revenge.
I had the guy who did it cornered, helpless.
I could have finished him right there.
But I realized it wouldn't have changed what happened.
Worse, I would have become as bad as the creep who took him from me.
He always said I could choose what kind of man I wanted to be.
I chose to walk away, to be better.
To be Spider-Man.
That amulet doesn't define who you are.
Neither does the Mustache king over here.
You choose, now.
You can be like Kraven or your father, a hunter or a hero.
Guess you know me better than I thought.
Let's call Fury to pick up the trash.
Don't turn your back on me! I am the hunter! I am Kraven! - You want this? - We both earned it.
S.
H.
I.
E.
L.
D.
? White Tiger here.
Hope you're ready for some cleanup.
- Spider-Man made a real mess.
- Oh funny, considering I rocked this one.
Yeah? Where are the boys? That's the well-groomed White Tiger we know and love in a best friends sort of way.
Huh.
Yeah.
I just wanted to thank you for your confidence in me and for sharing about your uncle.
And Uh, yeah.
Well, a-anything for the team.
Let's not get all mushy about it.
For what it's worth, I think your Dad would be proud of the hero you turned out to be.
Your uncle Ben would be proud too.
As stupid as you are you're pretty smart sometimes.
Hey, is she still all catty? Get the dot, kitty! Make the internet smile! Hey! Sorry! Hey! Yeah, go get him, Tiger! But wait for me! Cat videos are huge!