Could a Marvel Cartoon successfully take place in the future?

[Spider-Man]

With Batman Beyond: Season One coming out today I can't help but think about how they managed to bring that character into the future without ruining anyuthing about him but also making it a completely new series. Could this idea work for Marvel as well? Which character could we see make a transition to the future? Or perhaps explore a future reality that we've seen in the comics like X-Men: Days of Future's Past?

[Mercy Drive]

Spidey 2099.

[Wonderwall]

I always thought that Iron Man when hes older doing a sort of Dark Knight Returns would be alright, maybe even a Hulk cartoon in the future but not to to far into the future where he fights giant cockroaches. Spider Man 2099 would be obvious as its the only real future comic Marvel did for awhile. I'd like to say Daredevil being a Stick kind of character but that seems to much Batman Beyond and Im not sure if that would work all that great, an original DD cartoon apperently is too hard to do. Im not really all that crazy about days of future past or AOA X Men cartoon cuz those stories really are very grim, everyone just constantly dying 24 style.

[chanaldo]

Definitely Spidey 2099. I always felt Batman Beyond was influenced by 2099 Spidey (especially the character design).

I loved the first few issues of the 2099 series that came out way back when then it sort of got off the rails. However the concept was great and it would be great if someone could pick that up as an animated flick and create a new 2099-verse.

[Shantosh9500]

How about show about an African-American boy taking over the role of Spider-Man so it could be Marvel's answer to both Batman Beyond and Static Shock. I remember writing fanfics a year ago about an Afro American high school student named Adam Samuels in the Future Marvel Universe who is a pro Basketball player, a smart student and big Hip Hop fan with a girlfriend named Simone and two has two best friends Jeremy and Regina. He lives with his father, older brother and a younger sister. His science teacher is Peter Parker aka Spider-Man. Parker is still Spider-Man however even though he is 50 and above. Adam one day found out that Peter was Spidey when he saw him changing in the bathroom after school ended. One day Spider-Man got beaten badly until he ended up in a wheelchair by a new villain, the Python. Peter showed up in school in a wheelchair with everyone being surprised. Adam told Peter he knows that he is Spider-Man and he is willing to take over Peter's role as Spider-Man. Peter dosen't want him to be Spidey but he knows that the world needs Spider-Man so Adam told his friend Jeremy, who happens to be a tech genius to make a Spider-Man suit(and Peter's secret) that can give him the powers of the Spider and with extras like pison darts and Night vision. Adam put on his Spider suit and defeated Python with his mad Basketball skills. Oops i think i gotten carried with telling the origin. sorry

[Dantheman]

I've had an idea for a Future Spider-Man series inspired by Batman Beyond for awhile now. It would be about a teenager who works part-time at the Richards Foundation (A scientific think-tank runned by Franklin Richards and other great Marvel scientific minds),when the kid (I've never really named him,but since I've imagined him as an ethnic minority,let's call him Rico for now) stumbles onto something Dr. Peter Parker (Who joined the Richards Foundation when he gave up being Spider-Man) created: a suit with all the orginal powers of Spider-Man!

Rico decides to give the suit a test drive,but then finds out it's been coded to his DNA. Nobody else but him can wear it. Dr. Parker and all the other RF regulars decide,for punishment for taking the suit,he has to use to fight crime and help the helpness,in a take on that old "with great power comes great responsibility" chesnut.

The kind of bad guys I imagine this Spider-Man show having would be futuristic versions of some of the classic enemies,plus new ones that'd fit this world. One thing I've imagined is that the city is plauged by Warriors-esque street gangs that take after various facets of Marvel lore-A cowboy gang called The Two-Gun Kids,for example. But the biggest and baddest of these gangs is The Punishers,and wheter or not Frank Castle is still in control of them would make for great storyline,as well as why Peter Parker (and all the other superheroes) quit.

[spyke]

SPIDER-MAN 2099
X-MEN 2099
Spider-Girl
A-NEXT
FANTASTIC FIVE
J2
WILD THING
DUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
DRAGON'S CLAWS
KILLRAVEN
MACHINE MAN 2020 (the year the early 80's MACHINE MAN mini series took place in)
FUTURE THOR
SPACE KNIGHTS

[Spider-Man]

Spidey 2099.
I wonder why Marvel just didn't do that instead of Spider-Man Unlimited. The show drew a bit from the comic and I think they could really make it work. They would have to make some changes if they wanted to keep Peter Parker under the mask but I would've liked to have seen a series based off that cartoon.