The MCU doesn’t deserve Miles Morales

polygon.com:

While the Spider-Verse movies appear to take place outside Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity (apart from multiverse shenanigans that form the most tenuous conceptual connections), it was always clear that the yearslong back-and-forth between Marvel and Sony over the cinematic rights to Spider-Man would eventually interfere. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige made his company’s ongoing push to keep Spidey in the MCU fold clear back in 2019, labeling the wall-crawler as “the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes.”

At first, Marvel Studios’ future plans for Spider-Man seemed to revolve solely around Tom Holland’s role as the character. Meanwhile, as Miles Morales tells Spider-Man 2099 in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, he’d rather do his own thing. In an IP-driven world, however, his freedom from the idiosyncratic norms of superhero movies wasn’t bound to last forever. As producer Amy Pascal told Variety in the lead-up to Across the Spider-Verse’s release, a live-action Miles Morales movie is already in the works. And that’s a problem, because the MCU doesn’t deserve Miles Morales.

In an era of corporate crossovers and calculations, teams of creatives are rarely free from the responsibility of tie-ins or orchestrating the next spinoff. DC can’t escape Batman, and Star Wars can’t part ways with the Skywalkers. Studios are increasingly force-feeding nostalgia to their fans through CGI re-creations of actors and deepfake voices.

Into the Spider-Verse was initially an independent breakout from that corporate-connection machine. But the team behind Across the Spider-Verse wasn’t lucky enough to escape the crossover curse. In a vacuum, that movie’s cameos can be seen as welcoming jokes for fans, and