This article contains major spoilers for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”The central gimmick of both 2018’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and its new follow-up, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” is that — thanks to multiverse shenanigans — any version of Spider-Man can appear and interact with any other version.
The films center primarily on Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) and a spider-powered version of Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), but incorporate dozens of other Spider-People in supporting roles, including some of the stranger ones, like the anthropomorphic pig Spider-Ham (John Mulaney) or the rumpled-rock-flyer-constructed Spider-Punk (Daniel Kaluuya).
Many Spider-Fans entered these films with mental notepads, eager to see their own favorite version of Spider-Man represented on the big screen.
Personally, I was chuffed to see the Scarlet Spider (Andy Samberg), the 1990s Spider-Man clone in a ripped sweatshirt.The “Spider-Verse” gimmick of “infinite inclusion” also tapped into the movies’ thematic underpinnings.
The 2018 film stated outwardly…
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