Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Directors Give New Details On The Spot

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As popular as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is these days, there's a particularly potent brand of hype surrounding the Sony side of things. This is primarily focused on the hit animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its upcoming sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The unique and striking animation style favored by the fledgling franchise would be enough on its own, but there's more to it than that.

Fans of Spider-Verse are already familiar with the movie's fixation on multiple dimensions and alternate versions of web-based heroes, and that character focus looks to be combined with the film's stunning 2D-3D-hybrid art and animation to introduce a new villain this time around. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will see the cinematic debut of classic Spider-Man villain The Spot, with the newcomer appearing almost tailor-made for the occasion. According to the movie's directors, this connection is definitely intentional, and even appears to run deeper than that.

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In an interview with animation enthusiast news site Cartoon Brew, Across the Spider-Verse directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson discussed the new villain and how he fits into the story of Miles Morales. «Pretty early on we knew The Spot was going to be our main villain,» said Santos. «Without an awesome villain, that you sort of can understand their through-line, you don't really have a strong story for your main character. So he's an awesome sort of opposite to Miles.» Powers added to this, saying, «By the way, that's not a costume, that's his skin… It's not a guy in a polka-dot suit! That's actually his skin. So you know, the arc of Dr. Ohnn,