Every new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse character, explained

polygon.com:

You’ve walked out of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse suitably awed and impressed, but you can’t help seeing visions of Spider-Mans dancing across your eyes. The newest animated Miles Morales movie includes no shortage of star turns, cameos, and split-second appearances of alternate-reality and previously existing versions of Spider-Man — from comic book creations to movie iterations to the deepest of deep-cut references.

But who are all these Spider-People, and where do they come from? Polygon has you covered with this handy pocket reference to every Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and where their origin can be found — at least, all the ones that we were able to identify.

If you identified a Spider-Man that isn’t listed here, put it in a comment! Because with great knowledge of Spider-Man comes great responsibility to share that knowledge of Spider-Man.

[Ed. note: This post contains mondo spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.]

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First appearance: Spider-Man 2099 (vol. 1) #1

What’s his deal?: Miguel O’Hara lived in the far-flung Marvel future of 2099, a world dominated by corporations run rampant and dangerous innovations in genetic engineering and virtual reality. A researcher working for the nefarious and powerful Alchemex corporation, he ultimately found himself a victim of his own experimental, spider-themed research, giving him creepily spider-derived powers and eventually a costumed identity as a hero. An inverse of the classic Spider-Man, Miguel is taciturn and surly in his superhero alter ego and something of a wisecracking lothario in real life.

Power-responsibility score: 4 Uncle Bens out of 10.

First appearance: Marvel Spotlight #32(sort of)

What’s her deal?: Acros