Of Course Gamers Are Mad Miles Is The New Main Spider-Man

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Miles Morales will be the main Spider-Man going forward in Insomniac's games as Peter Parker is taking a much-deserved rest from the spandex and webs. But of course, gamers are gonna gamer, so there is plenty of outrage over this revelation.

Spoilers ahead for Spider-Man 2.

At the end of Spider-Man 2, with Kraven dead and Venom defeated, Miles and Peter find each other on Aunt May's driveway looking to the future. Peter wants to retire and spend more time with MJ, building up the normal life he hasn't had time for over the past ten years. With Miles having proved himself, redeeming Mr Negative, defeating a Symbiote-consumed Spider-Man, and helping take down Venom, the two agree that he can handle things from here.

Insomniac confirmed its intentions with the ending and announced that yes, Miles is the new main Spidey. Immediately after, "Peter Parker is Spider-Man" started trending on Twitter, with many repeating the same trite, "Miles Morales is Miles Morales". Even though, across comic history, we've had an entire corps of Green Lanterns, a Flash as popular as Barry Allen in Wally West, a whole conveyor belt of Robins, multiple Captain Marvels, and several Spider-Men before Miles even stepped on to the scene. Shocker, Spider-Man 2099 does not refer to himself as Spider-Man 2099.

Then there's a second camp of gamers, those who are angry at the idea of their favourite wallcrawler taking a backseat despite being the focus for the two main games we've had so far.

"I am here for Peter," Barachim said on a Reddit post sharing the news. "After this game's rather disappointing story and now their plans to shift the focus towards Miles, I think I'm done."

Peter Parker has had games going back to the '80s, whereas Miles didn't