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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

June 2, 20232h 20m๐Ÿ…95%Critic๐Ÿฟ95%Audience

A year on, Miles Morales chases a new villain across the multiverse alongside Gwen Stacy, straight into the Spider-Society โ€” a multiversal task force whose leader, Miguel O'Hara, insists Miles was never supposed to be Spider-Man at all, and that the tragedy about to hit his family is one of the "canon events" no Spider-Person is allowed to stop.

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Key Story Points

  • โ€ขGwen Stacy, now part of a multiversal task force, pulls Miles into a chase across universes after the Spot, a villain who can step through portals covering his own body.
  • โ€ขThe trail leads to the Spider-Society, a huge organization led by Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099, who explains that every Spider-Person's universe runs on fixed "canon events" that can't be prevented.
  • โ€ขOne of those canon events is Miles's own father Jefferson dying to protect Spider-Man โ€” and Miles refuses to accept it, fighting his way out of the Spider-Society's custody.
  • โ€ขMiguel reveals Miles was never supposed to be Spider-Man at all โ€” the spider that bit him crossed over from Earth-42, home to another Miles who never got the bite and became that world's Prowler instead.
  • โ€ขMiles is flung to Earth-42, where his father is already dead and Earth-42's own Miles (the Prowler) confronts him โ€” ending on a cliffhanger as Gwen rallies other Spider-People to reach him before the Spot can strike his home Earth.

The full story

A year after the collider, Miles Morales is juggling Spider-Man with a life his parents think is falling apart โ€” grounded, secretive, and slipping in school. Gwen Stacy, now working with a multiversal task force after the fallout from her own world, crosses into Miles's dimension chasing the Spot, a villain whose body is covered in portals he can step through at will and who Miles dismisses at first as a joke.

Miles and Gwen follow the Spot across universes, through Mumbattan (Earth-50101, home to Spider-Man India Pavitr Prabhakar) and eventually to Nueva York (Earth-928), where Gwen's task force is based: the Spider-Society, a huge multiversal organization led by Miguel O'Hara, Spider-Man 2099. Miguel explains that every Spider-Person's universe runs on fixed "canon events" โ€” moments, like the death of a police captain close to Spider-Man, that have to happen or the universe itself starts to unravel.

Miles learns the hard way that one of those events is about to hit him personally: his father Jefferson, about to be promoted to police captain, is due to die protecting Spider-Man, exactly like the canon event Miguel described. Miles refuses to accept it and fights his way out of the Spider-Society's custody rather than let it happen. In the process, Miguel reveals the harder truth: Miles was never supposed to be Spider-Man at all. The spider that bit him crossed over from Earth-42 โ€” where a version of Miles exists, radicalized into that world's Prowler, having never been bitten himself.

Miles escapes with help from sympathetic allies inside the Spider-Society, but ends up flung to Earth-42 instead of home. There, Jefferson is already dead, and Earth-42's own bitter, orphaned Miles โ€” now the Prowler โ€” corners him alongside that world's Uncle Aaron, still alive here. As the Spot, now vastly more powerful, prepares to strike at Miles's own Earth-1610, Gwen defies the Spider-Society and rallies other Spider-People to go after Miles, leaving the fight, and Miles's fate, unresolved for the sequel.

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