As the final season of its first animated adventure, What If…?, comes to a close, Marvel Studios has quickly turned its attention to promoting its next animated project. Beginning on January 29th, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will begin streaming on D+ after years in development.
Originally titled Spider-Man: Freshman Year and intended to be set in the Sacred Timeline, showrunner Jeff Trammell pivoted from that idea once it became clear that the project would be severely limited in terms of characters available to help flesh out Peter’s story. Free from its canonical shackles, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is now set to introduce dozens of characters who have yet to make their MCU debuts, including some who have not traditionally been part of Spidey ‘s cast of supporting characters.
One such character, Pearl Pangan, is relatively new to Marvel, having only been introduced in 2019’s War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas series. A Filipino hero who goes by the name of Wave, Pangan has appeared in fewer than 30 comic book stories, allowing the creative team behind Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man significant room to breathe with the character. And while it’s unclear exactly what role Wave will have in the series, thanks to an official release by Disney, we know who will voice the character.
Per Disney, Cathy Ang, who recently voiced Morgan Elsbeth in an episode of Star Wars: Tales of the Empire, will be the voice actress behind Pearl Pangan.
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