Marvel and Sony dropped a brand new Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse Trailer with a whole bunch of new Easter eggs, and a whole bunch of new versions of Spider-Man in the most epic-pointing meme that you have ever seen. Like literally every single version of Spider-Man that ever was on the Spider-Force here, pointing at each other at the same time.
They even literally reference the events of Spider-Man No Way Home with MCU’s Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. My man Spider-Man 2099 was literally saying that he was frustrated with what MCU’s Doctor Strange and Spider-Man did in No Way Home.
That Crazy. But you what’s crazier… there’s even a horse version of Spider-Man in this movie. I’ll explain who that is because he is right out of the Spider-Verse comics.
Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse Trailer Breakdown
They start the Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse Trailer with Miles Morales narrating the last couple of years. He’s already wearing his newer version of his Ultimate Spider-Man costume. You know, the logo’s a little more polished and that’s how, you know, he’s wearing the new suit.
Miles explains what’s been happening the last couple of years like he’s still trying to make his way through school. They have a couple of funny moments with that, but he’s been busy just trying to save people around his neighborhood.
Miles is experiencing a lot of the classic Spider-Man tropes where he’s never on time for anything. Everybody thinking about Tobey Maguire, Spider-Man 2, “It’s pizza time”. Peter Parker never being dependable, now Miles Morales is having the same problem. Like, “You’re never on time. You’re never around when we need you”. Because he’s busy out trying to be Spider-Man.
Miles winds up meeting the main villain of the movie The Spot for the first time. He’s voiced by Jason Schwartzman. The Spot is from the comics. You basically see his powers here where he can open up portals. He winds up being very hard to fight because he can open up portals all over his body of different sizes too. They featured him in Spider-Man The Animated Series during the 1990s.
Morales jokingly asked him if he was a cow because The Spot was looking white with black spots like a cow. Even though during the trailer they played like Spider-Man 2099 as an antagonist to Miles Morales, because all the rest of the other versions of Spider-Man from the multiverse come after him. He calls out a hit on Spider-Man. He was like “Everybody stops what you’re doing and takes down Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales”.
Avengers 5 Kang Dynasty Connection
I think part of what The Spot is doing has something to do with the way the multiverse is broken in Spider-Man 2099 is trying to fix it because he directly references the events of Doctor Strange’s Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man No Way Home.
Spider-Man 2099 was like “That kid, the nerd from Earth 199999”. And then he literally references Doctor Strange. That’s meant to be a reference to Spider-Man No Way Home with the two spells and Doctor Strange Messing with the Multiverse in Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness.
But he also blames Miles Morales for the events in the first movie with Kingpin’s reactor messing with the multiverse. So part of the reason why Spider-Man 2099 has created the Spider-Forces, these multiverse versions of Spider-Man and given them all this web where wristwatches, is to fix all the problems in the multiverse. Problems caused by these other big movies like the first Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse movie.
The problems that they caused during Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness with the incursions. And the problems that they caused in Spider-Man No Way Home, where Tom Holland, MCU Spider-Man, messed up the spell and started pulling all the different versions of villains to his Earth, as well as other versions of Spider-Man too.
There was a rumor that they would reference Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield‘s Spider-Man during this too. I didn’t see them specifically in the Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse Trailer, but because they’re referencing the events in Spider-Man No Way Home you can look at that as a reference to those characters.
Miles’ Parents Will Know His Secret
The whole joke with his counselor here is that he’s getting a B in Spanish and his mom gets really pissed off because she is Hispanic. Like Miles is half Hispanic, so she wants him to speak it fluently. And the other joke here is that he’s having this meeting while he’s in the middle of meeting The Spot for the first time, like, “Oh, just hit pause on this meeting. I got to go take care of something real quick then I’ll be right back.” Very Spider-Man type of problem to have.
When the guidance counselor also tells his parents that “he’s lying to you and you probably know what’s going on”, that’s them teasing that his parents will find out that he is Spider-Man during the events of the movie. Either he’ll tell them his secret or they’ll find out on their own. There’s also the same scene of Spider-Gwen coming to get him earlier in the movie, showing him the Spider-Force’s Multiverse base of Spider-Men.
Spider-Women, Spider-Punk, And Spider-Man India
They do a quick montage of the Spider-Force, the major characters. This is meant to be Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman played by Issa Rae. You notice that she is very, very pregnant like Spider-Woman in the comics. We get a bunch more footage of Holby Brown’s Spider-Punk. This is what he looks like without the costume on.
The other big thing about his character is that in the movie, he’s meant to be a big mentor to Spider-Gwen and gives her the Chuck Taylors that she wears in the movie. So her main Spider-Gwen costume is the same as the first movie, but she’s changed her ballet shoes for the Chuck Taylor’s given to her by Spider-Punk.
The other thing you notice in this scene is the way they animate his music, playing like it’s a very punk rock-looking animation style. They say that they did that for all the different characters. Like when you go to Spider-Man India’s world, in the city of Mumbai, which is kind of like their version of New York in that world. The way they animate everything on that earth completely changes. But the characters themselves each keep their unique animation style.
They had an army of people animating this. You have to imagine, “Okay, we’re going to animate different parts of this movie in completely different ways”. Probably one of the other biggest surprises to just talking about the animation style is when you see Ben Riley at the end of the Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse Trailer and he looks literally like he jumped off of a comic book page.
Like they’re all animated characters because it’s an animated movie. But the way the animator character makes it look like someone just ripped him right off of the comic book page.
We get to see Spider-Man India, swinging around in his world. If the voice sounds familiar, that’s because it’s Karan Sony, who plays Dopinder in the Deadpool movies. He’s coming back in Deadpool 3 as well. So now he’s also coming into the MCU in live-action.
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Millions Of Spider-Men In Spider-Force
We get the same scene of Miles Morales seeing the spider for space for the first time from that first Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse Trailer with the billion different versions of Spider-Man and the joke that is just the lobby. Like you think this is fantastic. It gets way crazier than this.
I already did a much longer article pointing out every single different version of Spider-Man and who they are. But just to mention a couple of my favorite ones here. On the left is Spider Cop. Behind him, are scenes like the Manga versus Spider-Man. Zoom out again and you see the Bombastic Man. Bext to him, I believe is a variant of Flash Thompson Spider-Man from the comics wearing the Midtown High Letterman jacket.
Then there is Anya Corazon. Then we have the Superior Spider-Man. Then there is a six-armed Spider-Man who grabs him with all of his arms, along with a version of the classic Spider Armor. Then there is this one of the newer Spider armor suits. It could also be the Fortnite version of Spider-Man 2.
Then there is one who isn’t meant to be MCU Spider-Man, Tom Holland. This is still a piece for Spider-Man. The same red variant next to him in what looks like a suit from the later Secret Wars event. There is Cane over on the left, for those of you hoping that Cain would be in here. There’s also Spider-Monkey up top.
Spider-Verse Tying Up To MCU
Spider-Gwen starts explaining how everything works. Who Spider-Man 2099 is, Miguel Ohara. You see him fighting a version of The Vulture, which looks much more like a comic book vulture. She basically explains what happened at the end of the first movie in the Post-Credits scene where he created the Web Wristwatches and started to create the Spider-Force and try to fix all the different tiers in the multiverse.
Like everybody causing incursions all over the place, which is what they’re doing in Marvel Phase 4, Phase 5, and Phase 6 with this whole Kang the Conqueror storyline and the Council of Kangs. So it’s kind of like they’re tying the events of this movie and all these problems in the multiverse to what’s happening in Avengers 5 Kang Dynasty and Avengers 6 Secret Wars.
This also makes me think that at the end of these two movies because they just did the Avengers, Infinity War, and Avengers Endgame thing with Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse. So instead of one movie, they actually split into two. The third movie now, which is basically like part two of Across the Spider-Verse is called “Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse”.
I think that during Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse, he is going to come into live action. Like we’ll see this Miles Morales in live-action. It’ll just be the same version. That’s probably why they’ve been waiting to cast a live-action version of the character, because it will be the version we’ve seen in the Spider-Verse movie so far.
When Miguel O’Hara’s Spider-Man 2099 says, “You can never join the Spider-Force”. As I said, that has something to do with him blaming the events of the first movie on Miles Morales. But he also blames Doctor Strange and that nerd from Earth 199999. That’s basically MCU’s Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.
That’s where we get to the connections to the MCU and what’s happening with Avengers 5 Kang Dynasty, and Avengers 6 Secret Wars. Everything we have seen in the live-action movies is stuff that they’re referencing in this movie. All the multiverse consequences, the problems the characters have been causing for the last several movies. Spider-Man 2099 has been trying to use this team of Spider-Man to fix all those.
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Spider-Man’s Daughter, Mayday Parker
We get another shot of the characters walking from a different angle in Spider-Force. This one up from the right seems like a classic version of the 616 Spider-Man. The one behind him in the armor seems like a version of Fortnite’s Spider-Man.
Peter B Parker comes to defend him. He is like “Don’t blame the kid. He had a terrible teacher”. Like he’s making fun of himself. And we see Mayday Parker, who’s got her own babies-sized webs. Like she’s got her own mechanical web shooter that Peter B Parker has made for her. But it’s designed like something that a baby would wear. That’s some serious parenting going on right there.
Later in the Across The Spider-Verse Trailer, you see that she’s wearing a baby bonnet, but it’s knitted to look like a Spider-Man mask, like they needed her a Spider-Man mask bonnet, foreshadowing her becoming a version of Spider-Woman eventually. She’s meant to be the child that he wound up having with his version of Mary Jane after he reunited with her at the end of the first movie.
Spider-Gwen Is Hesitant To Be With Miles
Then there is this scene of Spider-Gwen is a flashback of her and her version of Peter Parker on her earth that wound up dying. It’s part of her story in her relationship with Miles Morales in this movie. Part of the reason why she’s hesitant to actually start going out with him like a sort of relationship with him is that during the movie.
Gwen says that every version of Gwen winds up falling in love with a version of Peter Parker and it always winds up ending tragically, which is a reference to Amazing Spider-Man 2, Gwen Stacy dying. There’s actually a moment like that with Miles Morales’ father in this Spider-Verse Trailer.
If you’re not familiar with Spider-Gwen’s backstory, though, in her backstage, the unique twist is it is Peter Parker that dies tragically. So during this scene, she’s just remembering that.
We get the voiceover Spider-Man 2099, giving the space to Miles Morales. “It’s all about the needs of the many versus the needs of the few. Do you save the one person that you really care about, or do you try to save every single world instead?” Also, if you didn’t remember, Oscar Isaac is playing Spider-Man 2099.
Oscar played Spider-Man 2099 in the first movie too. Very meta with him referencing MCU’s Spider-Man and Tom Holland and Doctor Strange. Maybe he’ll reference Moonlight and aybe there’ll be some jokes about that. We’ll see.
Miles Morales Explains Himself
Miles Morales is trying to explain to him like his big argument against that is that his story doesn’t have to be similar to the other variants of Peter Parker’s Spider-Man. Like he’s Miles Morales, his story can be completely different because he’s from a different universe.
Also, when he’s talking about Spider-Man 2099, you see him in Mumbai trying to save Spider-Gwen. So it seems like during the movie they’re teasing that he’ll have to choose whether or not to save his family over saving the entire multiverse.
This girl here who’s facing all over the Spider-Force base might actually be a female gender-bending version of Miles Morales from another Earth. Part of the whole idea of the movie is we see multiverse versions of the character. It’d be crazy if we didn’t see another version of Miles Morales from a different Universe.
Miles Morales tries to argue with all the versions of Spider-Man about Uncle. Like “What about Uncle Ben? What if you could save Uncle Ben? And Spider-Man 2099 tries to explain to him that “if not for Uncle Ben, most of them would not have become Spider-Man.” So sometimes people do have to die.
We get a longer version of that scene of him escaping the Spider-Force base, and jumping into the portal. This might be a wide shot of a different part of the Spider-Force base. Or it might just be where two ers collide with each other through these portals. Like you see all the different versions of Spider-Man chasing Miles Morales across a couple of different universes.
This part of the Chase scene is basically all the versions of Spider-Man chasing him through Nueva York, Spider-Man 2099’s Earth.
Spider-Man Therapy And Spider-Horse
We finally get Ben Riley already explained his unique animation, and we get that epic pointing meme where we get Spider-Man PS4 pointing at Spider-Man Unlimited from that TV show, also pointing at a version of what seems like the classic 616 Spider-Man. And every other version of Spider-Man ever doing the pointing meme with each other.
Then they have a scene very similar to the Iron Man 3 Post-Credits scene where the Hulk was giving therapy to Iron Man. Here you have the business suit Spider-Man giving therapy to this classic 616 version of Spider-Man. And it seems like he’s explaining his past trauma with Uncle Ben’s death as the entire spider forms. All these versions of Spider-Man crashed through this universe, chasing Miles Morales.
And probably one of my new favorite versions in the Spider-Verse Trailer that we haven’t seen in previous Across The Spider-Verse Trailers is this horse version of Spider-Man. He is from the Spider-Verse Comics. His name is Widow. His rider is a version of Spider-Man as well, who’s a cowboy named Webslinger.
Everyone let me know what your favorite Easter egg is from the Across The Spider-Verse Trailer. Like, What’s your favorite new version of Spider-Man that we saw in this Spider-Verse Trailer that wasn’t in the previous Trailers? Most people probably going to say Ben Riley or the horse version of Spider-Man or The Big Doctor Strange and MCU Tom Holland’s Spider-Man call Out. There are so many Easter eggs and references in the Spider-Verse Trailer. You could look at this all day and still find new stuff.
