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Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse: Introducing The Spider-People
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
In this article, we’ll be focusing on the major Spider-People in the movie; those important enough to have received their own individual promotional posters.
Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse premieres in Malaysian cinemas on 1 June 2023.
Voiced by: Shameik Moore
Miles Morales is once again the protagonist and main Spider-Man of the movie. Miles will find himself clashing with Spider-Man 2099 and the other Spider-People for some reason, which we will learn in the movie. In the comics, Miles Morales was bitten by a genetically-altered spider created by the Alchemax Corporation. They made a whole movie about it. Miles has most of the original Spider-Man’s powers, including super speed, strength, and reflexes. He can also turn invisible and create a powerful “venom blast” that’s unique to him.
Voiced by: Hailee Steinfeld
Spider-Gwen (also known as Ghost Spider) originates from a timeline in which Gwen Stacy was bitten by that radioactive spider rather than Peter Parker, and she became a superhero after failing to save her friend Peter. After being bitten by a radioactive spider, dancer and musician Gwen Stacy began a life of crime-fighting that sent her BFF, Peter Parker, into a spiral of jealousy and resentment. Parker toyed with his own DNA and eventually turned himself into the Lizard. Gwen accidentally killed Peter during his takedown. In the comics, Gwen is from Earth-65 and finds solace in music, often using the drums as an escape from her overbearing father.
Voiced by: Jake Johnson
Peter Benjamin Parker served as Miles Morales’ mentor in Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse. Since the first movie, he’s gotten back with Mary Jane, and they have a daughter, Mayday. In the comics, Mayday becomes the superhero Spider-Girl. In the comics, May Parker is the first-born daughter of Peter and Mary Jane. May develops her father’s spider abilities and takes up his mantle after his retirement. She was eventually known as Spider-Girl or Mayday Parker, but in the film, she is still only an infant, so it’s unclear how much of her history will be explored.
Voiced by: Oscar Isaac
His debut was initially teased in the post-credits scene of Into The Spider-Verse, setting up one major Spider-Man variant as an antagonist of the movie. He seems to have gathered a group of Spider-People, known as the Spider-Society, from across the multiverse.
Spider-Man 2099 was created in 1992, as part of Marvel’s futuristic reimagining of some classic characters. Miguel was a geneticist heading up Alchemax’s research division when he injected himself with an experimental serum that replaced 50% of his DNA with that of a spider. Rather than horrific cancers or extra eyes, O’Hara ended up with enhanced physical abilities like Parker’s, plus retractable talons, fangs, a venomous bite, organic web spinners, and extremely enhanced sight and hearing. Being a creation of the 1990s, he’s what the kids would call “extreme to the max” in toy commercials.
Marvel’s “2099” setting kicked off with a series of comic titles in the early ’90s, an imprint that aimed to present the real and true future of a high-tech, cyberpunk Marvel Comics universe — a Batman Beyond sort of idea. In comics, Miguel is a scientist whose corporate masters and research partners betrayed him, and, long story short, he wound up with 50% spider DNA and became his era’s Spider-Man, adventuring with the help of his assistant, an AI program called Lyla, also featured in the credits scene. In Spider-Verse, he seemed to already have discovered the multiverse and is about to use a universe-hopping watch of Lyla’s invention to travel it purposefully.
Voiced by: Andy Samberg
Ben Reilly was the central character of the hugely successful and widely reviled Spider-Man arc known as The Clone Saga. To boil all Clone Saga drama down to its essence, Ben was introduced in the 1970s as a clone of Peter Parker, right down to having many of the same memories, before he was killed while fighting a bad guy. It was later revealed that Ben was still alive and that he wasn’t a clone at all, but he was the real Peter Parker. In a horrifying mixup, Peter Parker who had been adventuring as Spider-Man all this time was revealed to be the actual clone. And then, Marvel did a final retcon, as it turns out that Ben really is the clone after all.
Ben lives on in Marvel Comics as an even angstier, more existential Spider-Man than Peter Parker, and he appears to have a role to play in Across The Spider-Verse. Ben Reilly is one of the most famous Spider-Man characters when he took the mantle of Scarlet Spider. In the comics, he’s currently on a villainous streak, taking on the name of Chasm.
Voiced by: Karan Soni
Spider-Man India received his first solo comic series in 2005’s Spider-Man India. Pavitr is an Indian Peter Parker. The same basic origin story, except that his powers came from a mystical yogi, and his uncle, Bhim, was killed trying to stop a robbery that Pavitr ignored. Since then, he’s found his place as a hero in Mumbai and fights for truth, justice, and the Indian way.
Voiced by: Issa Rae
In Marvel Comics, Jessica Drew may share half of Spider-Man’s name and some of his powers, but that’s about it. She wasn’t bitten by a radioactive spider, she’s not related to Peter Parker, and she doesn’t even swing on a web. She can fly. Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse introduces a new version of Jessica Drew’s Spider-Woman from Earth-404 unique from the comic version.
If this Jessica Drew is anything like her comic book counterpart, she was accidentally given powers by her father in an attempt to cure her cancer. Side note: it would be great if real cancer cures gave us superpowers rather than making us sick and all our hair fall out. At any rate, Jessica ended up joining forces with HYDRA for a while before rejecting their ways and becoming a hero. She was replaced by a Skrull, banged Hawkeye, had a kid, and did it all. She’s strong, fast, and has her bio-electric shock ability.
Hailing from Earth-404, this version of Spider-Man is five months pregnant during the events of the film. That also happened to the comics version a few years back.
Voiced by: Daniel Kaluuya
Created for the first Spider-Verse event in Marvel Comics, Hobie Brown is Spider-Man by way of classic British punk culture. In the comics, Hobie is an unhoused teenager from Earth-138 who becomes his world’s Spider-Man after being bitten by a spider that had become radioactive due to the illegal dumping of toxic waste. Hobie rallied the Spider Army to free his world from the reign of President Osborne. He also worked his love of music into his crime-fighting, using it to inspire rebellion and disable Osborne’s technology.
It’s just a cat version of Spider-Man. We have no idea why he’s important enough to justify or warrant himself getting a promotional poster of his own.
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