During this discussion, he mentions “Doctor Strange and the little nerd back on Earth-199999.” When Miguel O’Hara meets Gwen in the film’s opening, the former explains how he and his Spider Society deal with interdimensional crises across the Multiverse, particularly the ones caused by Kingpin’s supercollider. However, this version of the Spot proves himself to be more than just a “Villain of the Week,” as he reveals he brought the spider that gave Miles his superpowers to their universe in the first place, meaning they both made each other what they are. The Spot later suffers a horrible accident with one of his experiments when Miles destroys Kingpin’s supercollider, causing black portals to appear all over his body like in the comics.
The supervillain reveals he was a scientist working for Alchemax, the company funded by Kingpin, whom he worked for in the comics. The Spot’s history in this film is very close to his comic book counterpart. The film even throws in a pretty obscure villain, Armadillo, which Miles briefly fights on his way to a rooftop party. The Sinister Six is also name-dropped on a news broadcast at the end of the movie. There’s the Renaissance universe’s version of the Vulture and multiple versions of Rhino, Kraven the Hunter, and the Hobgoblin.
More classic villains SonyĪlong with the Spot, Across the Spider-Verse introduced some new Spider-Man villains not yet seen in this animated world or any Spider-Man film. Specifically, he says he doesn’t want to end up becoming Miles’s “guy in the chair.” This is a reference to the self-titled role Ned Leeds takes on helping Peter defeat the Vulture from afar in Spider-Man: Homecoming.įun fact: the MCU’s Ned shares many similarities with the Ganke from the comics to the point that fans have debated whether or not these characters were combined when Homecoming was in development. When Miles asked his roommate, Ganke Lee, to help him take care of the Spot, Ganke isn’t so excited about helping him with Spider-Man-related tasks.
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