Let’s talk about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’s biggest plot contradiction
polygon.comIt’s no secret at this point that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ends on a ginormous cliffhanger — one we won’t get to see resolved till 2024.
A lot of themes and plot points led up to that cliffhanger, but most importantly, there are two particularly big revelations for Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) in this movie that spur along the final moments. Here’s the thing, though: Those two huge truths might contradict each other. Or they could fix each other, or they could be used as a giant jumping-off point for the franchise’s themes of fate and interconnection. Or all of the above! Let’s get into it.
[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.]
The first big thing Miles learns in Across the Spider-Verse is that all the alternate versions of him across the multiverse — the Spider-People who form an elite reality-protection team — are linked not just by their spider abilities, but by “canon events” — big (often devastating) life moments they all experience, and more importantly, that they all have to experience. For instance, a police captain close to Spider-Man always dies, crushed by falling rubble while saving a child.
Miles realizes this means his father, Jeff (Brian Tyree Henry) — who just recently got promoted to captain — is going to die in just a couple of days. Miles wants to save his father, but the interdimensional Spider coalition’s head honcho Miguel O’Hara (aka Spider-Man 2099, voiced by Oscar Isaac), says he can’t, and then traps Miles to keep him from interfering. Miles breaks out of captivity and attempts to return to his home universe, fleeing from an entire army of Spider-People.
As the chase escalates, Miguel reveals that Miles is actually the original
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