Why This ‘Spider-Man’ Character Is the Same in Every Universe

Spider-Man-1967-movie-posters/”>Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is full of surprise cameos and meta references, but one appearance of a Spider-Man-1967-movie-posters/”>Spider-Man movie veteran may have escaped your notice.

A few different times in the film, we hear the familiar voice of J.

Jonah Jameson, voiced by none other than J.

K.

Simmons, who first played the role back in 2002’s Spider-Man-1967-movie-posters/”>Spider-Man.

Notably, every iteration of Jameson heard in the film is voiced by Simmons, unlike characters such as Peter Parker, whose different variations are voiced by multiple different actors.

Across the Spider-Verse features Peter B.

Parker (Jake Johnson), the Peter Parker of Earth-65 (Jack Quaid), Lego Spider-Man-1967-movie-posters/”>Spider-Man (Nic Novicki), Spectacular Spider-Man-1967-movie-posters/”>Spider-Man (Josh Keaton), and the Spider-Man-1967-movie-posters/”>Spider-Man from the PlayStation 4 video game (Yuri Lowenthal) — and there’s even more if you count the ones that appeared in its predecessor, Spider-Man-1967-movie-posters/”>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

But Jameson seems ready to defy this trend,…

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