‘Across the Spider-Verse’: Miles & Gwen’s Comics Relationship Is Different

Editor’s Note: The following article contains Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse spoilers.The first big-screen animated adventure for Miles Morales in his journey as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a major success and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2019.

Now, its sequel, Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, has quickly become a global phenomenon that is drawing rave reviews and big box office dollars.

Into the Spider-Verse introduced Miles (Shameik Moore), the film’s hero, having a crush on his new would-be classmate and later fellow spider-hero, Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), aka Spider-Woman.

Across the Spider-Verse takes their relationship a step further, but still falls short of pulling the trigger on a full-blown romance between Miles and Gwen Stacy.

That said, the third installment of Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse might be headed in that direction.

But what about Miles and Gwen in the Marvel Comics storyline?…

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