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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Taking Miles to the abandoned subway tracks leads to Miles getting bitten by the spider that will give him powers. This causes Miles to go back and investigate where he then witnesses Blond Peter's death. This then makes him a target for The Prowler whose dogged persistence in tracking him eventually leads to their rooftop confrontation and Aaron being shot to death by Kingpin when he decides not to kill Miles.
* LikesClarkKentHatesSuperman: Is a loving and supportive uncle to Miles, but is a dangerous enemy to Miles' Spider-Man persona as the Prowler. When he discovers that Miles is Spider-Man, his love for his nephew wins out.
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* EvilEvolves: His Prowler suit is more advanced than 1610B Aaron's suit. Justified since it's been a year since the events of ''Into the Spider-Verse''.
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* {{Foil}}: To Hobie Brown. While the Prowler that first appeared in the comics was Hobie instead of Aaron, here he's a variant of Miles while another Hobie variant became Spider-Punk. While Hobie was a bit of a loose cannon, he was otherwise a friendly guy, while E-42 Miles serves as his uncle's lackey and has a very cold demeanor.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: His true identity is hinted at when we get a look at his shoelaces. Just like his 1610B counterpart, they're untied.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: His true identity is hinted at when we get a look at his shoelaces. Just like his 1610B counterpart, they're untied.
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* MirrorCharacter: To the Peter Parker of Earth 65-B. Both are examples of how Spider-Man could have turned to villainy if he MissedTheCall.
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* TruerToTheText: Prowler-Miles has more in common with the Hobie Brown Prowler from the original ''Spider-Man'' comics. He's a teenager with high aptitudes living in a world where his gifts are overlooked, so he turned to a life of crime.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: After his accident, Jonathan Ohn's body underwent several bizarre changes when he became The Spot. He lacks any human sensory organs yet can perfectly hear, see, smell, taste and feel just fine. He lacks a mouth yet can speak fluidly without problem. He can get hurt yet never gets wounded from any damage he can take and the spot in his face serve as both an eye and a mouth at the same time. Can fully touch and pull out dark multi-dimensional matter from his own skin like a band-aid and attach it anywhere he wish. Not to mention surviving getting blasted by collider-beams at multiple occasions and walk out from it with only more dark matter onto him as the only difference. All of this only distancing him from humanity even further, before he intentionally started figure out how his new body functions.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: After his accident, Jonathan Ohn's body underwent several bizarre changes when he became The the Spot. He lacks any human sensory organs yet can perfectly hear, see, smell, taste and feel just fine. He lacks a mouth yet can speak fluidly without any problem. He can get hurt yet never gets wounded from any damage he can take and the spot in his face serve serves as both an eye and a mouth at the same time. Can He can fully touch and pull out dark multi-dimensional matter from his own skin like a band-aid and attach it anywhere he wish. wishes. Not to mention surviving getting blasted by collider-beams at on multiple occasions and walk walking out from it with only more dark matter onto on him as the only difference. All of this only distancing distances him from humanity even further, before he intentionally started starts to figure out how his new body functions.
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* AlternateSelf: There's a Kingpin on Earth-138B that Hobie Brown rebels against.
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*** Spot is a skinny physicall unimpressive guy in white with random ink-blots and sketch lines. Miguel is muscular, in a blue-black HardLight suit with geometric red light patterns. Miguel can remove his suit at any time, while Spot's "suit" is actually his body.
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!!Earth-42
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The universe where the radioactive spider that bit our Miles originally came from. Due to its spider getting pulled to another dimension, Earth-42 was left the (presumably) only universe where no Spider hero existed, and thus its New York was left an anarchistic hellscape with criminals left to roam free under the control of the Sinister Six.
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The universe where the radioactive spider that bit our Miles originally came from. Due to its spider getting pulled to another dimension, Earth-42 was left the (presumably) only universe where no Spider hero existed, and thus its New York was left an anarchistic hellscape with criminals left to roam free under the control of the Sinister Six.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: The super-collider experiment in Earth-1610B removed Earth-42's radioactive spider, leaving it without a Spider-Man and at the whims of its supervillains.
* CrapsackWorld: Without a Spider-Man to protect it, Earth-42 New York City went to hell, with crime and property destruction being the norm and the city being under the control of the "Sinister Six Cartel."
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about Earth-42 would spoil the TwistEnding of ''Across the Spider-Verse''.
* WhileRomeBurns: After 1610B Miles realizes he's in the wrong universe his first proper look at the alternate New York of Earth-42 shows that over a dozen buildings can be seen ''actively burning'', with huge plumes of fire and smoke dotting the cityscape, but the city is such a CrapsackWorld that ''virtually no one seems to care'', with citizens going about their daily business, and Rio busily doing laundry and worrying over bills. Showing just how dire things are in this dimension that what should be a citywide emergency gets treated like just another average Tuesday.
* CrapsackWorld: Without a Spider-Man to protect it, Earth-42 New York City went to hell, with crime and property destruction being the norm and the city being under the control of the "Sinister Six Cartel."
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about Earth-42 would spoil the TwistEnding of ''Across the Spider-Verse''.
* WhileRomeBurns: After 1610B Miles realizes he's in the wrong universe his first proper look at the alternate New York of Earth-42 shows that over a dozen buildings can be seen ''actively burning'', with huge plumes of fire and smoke dotting the cityscape, but the city is such a CrapsackWorld that ''virtually no one seems to care'', with citizens going about their daily business, and Rio busily doing laundry and worrying over bills. Showing just how dire things are in this dimension that what should be a citywide emergency gets treated like just another average Tuesday.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: AlternateSelf: Aside from his Renaissance-themed counterpart, there's also the MCU equivalent who got sucked into Sony's Marvel Universe.
* TheGhost: He never physically appears outside of a photo the police have on file.
* NotMeThisTime: Thesuper-collider experiment in Earth-1610B removed Earth-42's radioactive spider, leaving it without a Spider-Man and at police assume the whims of its supervillains.
* CrapsackWorld: Without a Spider-Man to protect it, Earth-42 New York City went to hell,old guy with crime and property destruction being the norm and mechanical wings terrorizing an art museum is the city being under the control of the "Sinister Six Cartel."
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about Earth-42 would spoil the TwistEnding of ''Across the Spider-Verse''.
* WhileRomeBurns: After 1610B Miles realizes he's in the wrong universe his first proper look at the alternate New York of Earth-42 shows that over a dozen buildings can be seen ''actively burning'', with huge plumes of fire and smoke dotting the cityscape, but the city is such a CrapsackWorld that ''virtually no one seems to care'', with citizens going about their daily business, and Rio busily doing laundry and worrying over bills. Showing just how dire things are in this dimension that what should be a citywide emergency gets treated like just another average Tuesday.Vulture. They're half-right.
* TheGhost: He never physically appears outside of a photo the police have on file.
* NotMeThisTime: The
* CrapsackWorld: Without a Spider-Man to protect it, Earth-42 New York City went to hell,
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about Earth-42 would spoil the TwistEnding of ''Across the Spider-Verse''.
* WhileRomeBurns: After 1610B Miles realizes he's in the wrong universe his first proper look at the alternate New York of Earth-42 shows that over a dozen buildings can be seen ''actively burning'', with huge plumes of fire and smoke dotting the cityscape, but the city is such a CrapsackWorld that ''virtually no one seems to care'', with citizens going about their daily business, and Rio busily doing laundry and worrying over bills. Showing just how dire things are in this dimension that what should be a citywide emergency gets treated like just another average Tuesday.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The crags in his chin give him a strong resemblance to a Skrull.
* TheCameo: He's onscreen just long enough for Pavitr to clock him in the jaw.
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The universe where the radioactive spider that bit our Miles originally came from. Due to its spider getting pulled to another dimension, Earth-42 was left the (presumably) only universe where no Spider hero existed, and thus its New York was left an anarchistic hellscape with criminals left to roam free under the control of the Sinister Six.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: The super-collider experiment in Earth-1610B removed Earth-42's radioactive spider, leaving it without a Spider-Man and at the whims of its supervillains.
* CrapsackWorld: Without a Spider-Man to protect it, Earth-42 New York City went to hell, with crime and property destruction being the norm and the city being under the control of the "Sinister Six Cartel."
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about Earth-42 would spoil the TwistEnding of ''Across the Spider-Verse''.
* WhileRomeBurns: After 1610B Miles realizes he's in the wrong universe his first proper look at the alternate New York of Earth-42 shows that over a dozen buildings can be seen ''actively burning'', with huge plumes of fire and smoke dotting the cityscape, but the city is such a CrapsackWorld that ''virtually no one seems to care'', with citizens going about their daily business, and Rio busily doing laundry and worrying over bills. Showing just how dire things are in this dimension that what should be a citywide emergency gets treated like just another average Tuesday.
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->''"[[MeaningfulEcho I'm Miles Morales]], but you... you can call me the Prowler."''
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!!Earth-42
'''Warning: Due to the nature of [[TwistEnding this dimension]] and [[WalkingSpoiler its inhabitants]], all spoilers are unmarked!'''
[[folder:General]]
The universe where the radioactive spider that bit our Miles originally came from. Due to its spider getting pulled to another dimension, Earth-42 was left the (presumably) only universe where no Spider hero existed, and thus its New York was left an anarchistic hellscape with criminals left to roam free under the control of the Sinister Six.
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* ButterflyOfDoom: The super-collider experiment in Earth-1610B removed Earth-42's radioactive spider, leaving it without a Spider-Man and at the whims of its supervillains.
* CrapsackWorld: Without a Spider-Man to protect it, Earth-42 New York City went to hell, with crime and property destruction being the norm and the city being under the control of the "Sinister Six Cartel."
* WalkingSpoiler: Talking about Earth-42 would spoil the TwistEnding of ''Across the Spider-Verse''.
* WhileRomeBurns: After 1610B Miles realizes he's in the wrong universe his first proper look at the alternate New York of Earth-42 shows that over a dozen buildings can be seen ''actively burning'', with huge plumes of fire and smoke dotting the cityscape, but the city is such a CrapsackWorld that ''virtually no one seems to care'', with citizens going about their daily business, and Rio busily doing laundry and worrying over bills. Showing just how dire things are in this dimension that what should be a citywide emergency gets treated like just another average Tuesday.
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* BeardOfEvil: The major difference in appearance between him and his counterpart in Earth-1610B.
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* ScaryBlackMan: He's nowhere near as charming as Earth-1610B Aaron.
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* GrumpyOldMan: During the few minutes he's onscreen, Vulture shows bitter disdain for modern art and reacts to Gwen's snarkiness with violent rage.
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* SpearCarrier: He appears out of nowhere so that Miguel and Jessica would have a reason to show up in Gwen's universe, wherin Miguel states that this is a side-effect of Kingpin's multiversal collider being used haphazardly. In a metatextual sense, this also helps explain why MCU Vulture suddenly showed up in Sony's Marvel Universe at the end of ''Film/{{Morbius}}''.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Usually, the Spot is pretty incompetent, even with his surprisingly powerful ability. Here, he's hyped as Miles's "most formidable foe yet". In fact, the entirety of ''Across The Spider-Verse'' is him averting the whole VillainForgotToLevelGrind ''hard'' and becoming [[TranshumanAbomination the single most dangerous entity in the entire multiverse]] threatening to unmake ''everything'' with his multi-dimensional powers.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Usually, the Spot is pretty incompetent, even with his surprisingly powerful ability. Here, he's hyped as Miles's "most formidable foe yet". In fact, the entirety of ''Across The Spider-Verse'' is him averting the whole VillainForgotToLevelGrind ''hard'' and becoming [[TranshumanAbomination the single most dangerous entity in the entire multiverse]] threatening to unmake ''everything'' with his multi-dimensional powers. A large part of why he made so strong is that rather than his powers coming from a specific "Spotted Dimension," the film series uses the terms "universe" and "dimension" more or less interchangeably.
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General clarification on work content. The point that spot doesn't go out of his way to hurt random people at first isn't incorrect exactly, but it's overstated. Spot doesn't refuse to attack civilians in the sense that he makes some kind of moral stand against it, it just never comes up because he's specifically after Miles. Likewise he does not evacuate the Alchemax scientists from danger, he teleports them out of the control room so they can't interfere with him, and he places them literally just outside of it, which is still within the building and well within the blast zone, and never once expresses any concern for their safety. Spot is not out to kill random people, but this is being conflated with the idea that he's actively against random people being hurt, when the reality is that all indications are that he just doesn't care about them one way or the other.
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* NeverHurtAnInnocent: While he's willing to engage in thievery and ethically dubious science, he refuses to attack random civilians if they don't have any connection to Miles and [[PetTheDog personally evacuates the scientists from Mumbattan's particle collider]]. It's implied this goes out the window once he transforms himself into a living CosmicFlaw.
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* NeverHurtAnInnocent: Downplayed and then ultimately subverted. While he's willing to engage in thievery and ethically dubious science, he refuses Spot initially doesn't actively aim to attack harm random civilians if they don't have any connection to Miles civilians, with his petty crimes trying ([[IneffectualSympatheticVillain and [[PetTheDog personally evacuates failing]]) to be unobtrusive and seeking to avoid confrontation, with the exception of looking to pick a fight with Miles. This becomes increasingly deemphasized as he gains power and confidence however, he transports all the scientists from of Mumbattan's particle collider]]. It's implied this goes Alchemax out of the supercollider control room without directly harming them, but knowingly leaves them and the many hundreds of other employees in the building well within the blast zone without a care. Any moral scruples go out the window entirely once he transforms himself into a living CosmicFlaw.CosmicFlaw, with him actively looking forward to causing widespread destruction and specifically looking to kill Mile's family.
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* PunchClockVillain: Prior to his mutation, he was just an Alchemax scientist. This meant he assisted Doctor Octopus and the Kingpin in creating the Super Collider and was one of the many scientists who chased after Miles and Peter B. in the first movie, but it was ostensibly just a normal job to him. It definitely doesn't apply anymore, as he's wholeheartedly embraced being a supervillain after his condition got him fired.
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* PunchClockVillain: Prior to his mutation, he was just an Alchemax scientist. This meant he assisted Doctor Octopus and the Kingpin in creating the Super Collider and was one of the many scientists who chased after Miles and Peter B. in the first movie, but it was ostensibly just a normal job to him. It definitely doesn't apply anymore, as he's stops applying to him once he wholeheartedly embraced being a supervillain after his condition got him fired.
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-> For tropes applying to his appearance in Film/SonysSpiderManUniverse, see [[Characters/SonysSpiderManUniverse here]]
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* TheCameo: Appears in the post-credits scene of ''Venom''.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: From Miles being bitten, to Miguel forming the Spider-Society, to Jonathan Ohnn becoming the Spot, everything in the trilogy leads back to Kingpin building the Super-Collider.
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A supervillain who attacks a train Miles was riding on.
-> See his page [[Characters/SpiderManSpiderVerseTheSpot here]].
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A supervillain ->''"You make your flippy, little sassy jokes, and everyone loves them... but no one knows what it feels like... to be on the other side of 'em."''
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Formerly Dr. Jonathan Ohnn, a brilliant scientist working at Alchemax alongside Dr. Olivia Octavius, the life of the man whoattacks would become the Spot changed dramatically when, one day... [[MinorInjuryOverreaction he got hit in the head with a train bagel chucked by Miles Morales]]. Then a little later, he was riding on.caught in the explosion of the Kingpin's supercollider, fusing his body with a canister's worth of [[OurDarkMatterIsMysterious dark matter]] and turning him into a HumanoidAbomination with the power to control a set of {{Portable Hole}}s on his body. Fired from his job and shunned by his family, the newly-christened Spot now nurses a burning vendetta against the new Spider-Man, and he's willing to do anything -- ''and we mean '''[[TranshumanAbomination ANYTHING]]''''' -- to see it fulfilled.
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* BeTheBall: He rolls himself up when he's defeated, and Miles kicks him away like he's a soccer ball.
* BitPartBadGuys: He's just a random villain who has nothing to do with the main plot that Miles easily defeats on his way home.
* TheCameo: Only appears in one scene.
* CurbStompBattle: Miles defeats him in a few seconds by electrocuting him and kicking him away.
* MysteriousPast: We know absolutely nothing about his origins or his reasons for becoming a supervillain.
* TheVoiceless: Doesn't say any intelligible words.
* WolverineClaws: He has three long claws on each hand.
* BeTheBall: He rolls himself up when he's defeated, and Miles kicks him away like he's a soccer ball.
* BitPartBadGuys: He's just a random villain who has nothing to do with the main plot that Miles easily defeats on his way home.
* TheCameo: Only appears in one scene.
* CurbStompBattle: Miles defeats him in a few seconds by electrocuting him and kicking him away.
* MysteriousPast: We know absolutely nothing about his origins or his reasons for becoming a supervillain.
* TheVoiceless: Doesn't say any intelligible words.
* WolverineClaws: He has three long claws on each hand.
to:
* {{Acrofatic}}: Spot has quite a bit of a gut on him, but once he gets a handle on his powers, he proves to incredibly agile, able to keep pace and outmaneuver three Spider-Men at once.
* AdaptationalAbomination: From petty thief in a goofy costume that gets his ass handed to him by Spidey [[PunchClockVillain every Thursday]] to a HumanoidAbomination with a PortalCrossroadWorld inside of him. In his OneWingedAngel form, he fully becomes a TranshumanAbomination and a CosmicFlaw whose very existence threatens the entire multiverse.
* AdaptationalBadass: Usually, the Spot is pretty incompetent, even with his surprisingly powerful ability. Here, he's hyped as Miles's "most formidable foe yet". In fact, the entirety of ''Across The Spider-Verse'' is him averting the whole VillainForgotToLevelGrind ''hard'' and becoming [[TranshumanAbomination the single most dangerous entity in the entire multiverse]] threatening to unmake ''everything'' with his multi-dimensional powers.
* AdaptationalUgliness: He's a lot ''chunkier'' here than he is in the comics, with a flabby body paired with awkward gangly limbs that visually convey his ineffectual nature as a villain. After using Super-Colliders to power himself up his complete lack of texture ([[CosmicFlaw being effectively a human shaped hole in the Multiverse]]), along with becoming somewhat more streamlined, he becomes much more intimidatingly LeanAndMean.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, the Spot is typically a D-lister villain at best who despite [[BewareTheSillyOnes the sheer application of his powers can provide]] is ultimately a doormat who serves other more competent bad guys and ends up becoming a ButtMonkey IneffectualSympatheticVillain more often than not.[[note]]In fact, in his debut issue, he only was an antagonist to take his chances against Spider-Man with his newfound powers over dealing with Wilson Fisk [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness who was keen on killing him for his lack of progress]] and even ''then'' considered the possibility of instead going straight and [[CutLexLuthorACheck making genuine scientific progress]] with his powers, before abandoning any notion of being a villain altogether after taking exactly ''one'' punch from Spider-Man and fleeing for his life into the Spot Dimension [[PutOnABus for a whole decade before his next appearance]].[[/note]] In the films though, while still a goofball of a bad guy [[FromNobodyToNightmare at least initially]], the Spot eventually [[FauxAffablyEvil reveals his true colors and depravity when he makes clear his sheer contempt for Miles and the lengths he'll go to take his revenge on him for turning himself into a hopeless monster]], firmly setting him as Miles's ArchEnemy in the same vein as Green Goblin was for Peter.
* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Spot's powers are as formidable as ever, but in this incarnation, they're explicitly finite. Spot only has so many portals he can open and needs to absorb dark matter energy to replenish them.
* AdaptationNameChange: The Spot of Earth-1610 in the comics was called [[OnlyOneName Frank, with his surname never being revealed.]] Here, he's called Johnathan Ohnn, like his Earth-616 comic counterpart.
* AffablyEvil: At first, Spot is genuinely friendly and conversational despite his goals and is quite polite with everyone. As he goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, it shifts into being FauxAffablyEvil.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: His mutation cost him his job, the respect of his coworkers, and the acceptance of his family. With nothing left in his life, he decided to devote his entire existence to making Miles suffer, as he blamed him for what he turned into.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing:Armadillo, obviously.
* BeTheBall:He rolls himself up when actually isn't one, but both Miles and Gwen mock him by calling him a dalmatian or a cow man due to the patterns on his [[BodyHorror "costume"]].
* ApologeticAttacker: He sincerely apologizes to the store owner he tries to rob after he accidentally hits him in the face with the baseball bat he was trying to hit The Spot with.
* ArchEnemy: He's basically Miles's Green Goblin, willing to go to any extreme just to make Miles suffer because he blames Miles for what he became. While Miles doesn't take him seriously at first, the events of ''Across the Spider-Verse'' see him grow increasingly aware of how dangerous Spot really is, and Miles acknowledges that he'sdefeated, his nemesis by the end of the film.
* ArcWords: "VillainOfTheWeek". The heroes initially pass him off as some D-list villain due to his incompetence and bizarre appearance. This infuriates Jonathan because his transformation completely ruined his life, yet nobody takes him seriously. This pushes him to hone his abilities and gain more power from other universes, evolving from some silly D-lister to a threat to the entire Multiverse.
* ArtEvolution: Partly as a result of being an AscendedExtra. In ''Into'', while it's harder to see due to him being quite a distance away when being hit by the bagel he sports a ordinary hairstyle and undetailed look. His OnceMoreWithClarity {{flashback}} to this scene in ''Across'' had his closeup design adjusted to sport an undercut hairstyle to match the clean look he had just moments before his FreakLabAccident, as well as exaggerated facial details to express his MinorInjuryOverreaction.
* AscendedExtra:
** The Spot[=/=]Jonathan Ohnn is a minor IneffectualSympatheticVillain in the Spider-Man [[RoguesGallery Rogues' Gallery]], and as a result has only appeared in two previous pieces of Spider-Man media where he was still a minor antagonist (''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan''). This film bumps him to being both the BigBad and Miles' ArchEnemy, which is far above his comic counterpart's level of prominence.
** '''Literally.''' He goes from having, at most, five seconds of screentime in the first movie as the "Bagel!" scientist to being the BigBad in the sequels.
* AtrociousAlias: He introduces himself as The Spot. Cue Miles bursting out laughing.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Spot has a tendency to get distracted a ''lot'' by minor details that gets within his line of sight.
* AxCrazy: He already had signs of instability beneath his goofy and incompetent exterior, particularly his genuine seething hatred for Miles, but what was left of his sanity basically vanishes after he absorbs Mumbattan's Super Collider and becomes a full-blown CosmicFlaw. Afterwards, his only thoughts are about destroying everything Miles has ever loved.
* TheBadGuyWins: By the end of ''Across the Spider-Verse'', he's succeeded in gaining the notoriety he spent the whole movie seeking by upgrading himself into a full-blown CosmicFlaw, an entity Miles has to take seriously.
* BaldOfEvil: Due to the Super Collider mutating his body into something entirely different, he's lost the ability to grow hair and doesn't have a single strand of hair on his head or anywhere else.
* BeingEvilSucks: {{Zigzagged}}. He expresses anger over the loss of his personal relationships as a result of his transformation and how his silly-looking appearance means nobody takes him seriously, but he actually whole-heartedly embraces using his new powers for evil actions ranging from attempting (and failing) to rob an ATM to trying to fight Miles as his ArchEnemy. Part of this is implied to be his [[DrivenByEnvy envy over Miles' transformation]] into a superhero being something he had a hand in and [[EntitledBastard nobody respecting him for it]], desiring the same respect from his own mutation by becoming Miles' recurrent nemesis no matter what lengths he has to go to.
* BerserkButton: Being mocked or disrespected. When recounting the things his transformation has cost him in anger towards Miles, he verbally mentions his inability to see his family anymore, but the visual flashback of his memories shows him being mocked by a circle of his former colleagues, implying that the humiliation and anger he feels about his condition motivates him far more. When Miles utterly fails to recall any part of their prior history and treats him as a "Villain of the Week", he becomes unnervingly angry and charges at him in a feral rage whilst screaming about how he will ''make'' Miles respect him as a threat. Following his humiliating first defeat to Miles, he becomes utterly fixated on becoming stronger and more dangerous with his powers despite the personal risk out of sheer spite towards how he has been "mistreated" by his hated foe, and willingly discards what trace remnants there are of his former humanity just so Miles will take him seriously as his ArchEnemy.
--> '''The Spot:''' ''(at Miles)'' You'll finally have [[ArchEnemy a villain worth fighting]] and ''[[BewareTheSillyOnes I won't be JUST A JOKE TO YOU]]!!''
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's blatantly comical from the moment he appears, being an incompetent "villain of the week" who can't stop [[ThatCameOutWrong blathering about his holes]], quite literally kicking his own ass or being flustered when Miles [[AtrociousAlias laughs at his name]], but [[ThinkingUpPortals his powerset]] scales up the more he's able to charge it, such that [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass despite his buffoonery]], he's able to become a monolithic threat that's said to be Miles's "most formidable foe yet".
* BigBad: The primary threat of ''Across the Spider-Verse''. Initially considered a D-lister, The Spot hones his abilities to become a multiversal threat and his intent to make Miles suffer for his condition drives the plot of the film's first half. Even when Miguel takes over as the HeroAntagonist in the second half, The Spot's impending return to Miles' universe and murder of Jefferson Morales still makes him the ''overall'' threat, and Mileskicks is more focused on returning home to stop him.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Miguel O'Hara for ''Across the Spider-Verse''. The Spot aims to destroy everything Miles cares for in retaliation for being turned into what he is now, but Miguel's insistence on ensuring the "canon" event of this conflict--the death of Jefferson Morales--makes himaway the preeminent threat of the second half. It's because of this trope that Spot even grows as powerful as he does to begin with, as Miguel's refusal to compromise has the entire Spider Society chasing Miles, enabling Spot to run free almost completely unchecked.
* BizarreAlienBiology: After his accident, Jonathan Ohn's body underwent several bizarre changes when he became The Spot. He lacks any human sensory organs yet can perfectly hear, see, smell, taste and feel just fine. He lacks a mouth yet can speak fluidly without problem. He can get hurt yet never gets wounded from any damage he can take and the spot in his face serve as both an eye and a mouth at the same time. Can fully touch and pull out dark multi-dimensional matter from his own skin like a band-aid and attach it anywhere he wish. Not to mention surviving getting blasted by collider-beams at multiple occasions and walk out from it with only more dark matter onto him as the only difference. All of this only distancing him from humanity even further, before he intentionally started figure out how his new body functions.
* TheBlank: A large portal blot appears to cover his facial features, but when it's moved there's nothing underneath. Despite this, he can still talk, hear, see, and eat. The black spot on his face can retract sometimes like a pupil which allows him to emote somewhat. If you look closely, you can also see that he's literally a blank character design, as you can clearly see the sketch layer from where the fine details would be added.
* BlessedWithSuck: His opinion of his condition and what it has done to his life professionally and personally is a very bleak one, leaving him with little choice but to turn to a life of crime that he fails abysmally at on his first day due to his PowerIncontinence getting the better of him constantly to his chagrin. However, this opinion turns around once he realizes he's, in fact, CursedWithAwesome when he grasps the full extent of [[RealityWarper his abilities that's possible with his usage of portals]] and, once he masters them, he firmly believes he was ''[[FromNobodyToNightmare destined]]'' for this amount of power all along.
* BodyHorror: He states to Miles plainly that, unfortunately for both of them, the holes on him are actually ''a part'' of his body. [[ApologeticAttacker Miles is quick to give his sympathies]]. Rockets further into this territory after honing his powers and becoming a TranshumanAbomination, beginning to violently glitch in and out of reality and {{Undercrank}}ing rapidly at all times.
* ButtMonkey: First, his life is ruined when he gets mutated into a freak, leaving him shunned by his own family, mocked by people for his appearance, and unable to get any job, forcing him to turn to crime to survive. After that, he constantly gets hurt, mocked, and embarrassed until he gets the idea to use Super-Colliders to make himself more powerful.
* CallBack: Rewatching ''Into'' after ''Across'', one may notice that Miles' graffiti for his ''Great Expectations'' school project looks familiar, as it's a black, featureless human with a white outline over an abstract background of greens and purples...just like the Spot when he first obtains his new [[TranshumanAbomination more powerful form.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: A random extra among the scientists who appears for five seconds in the first movie, he ends up becoming the Spot.
* CardCarryingVillain: Taken to a horrifying degree. After having his whole life destroyed and seeing Miles as the source of his misery, he decided to become a villain so powerful that Miles will have no other choice than to respect him as his ArchEnemy after he takes everything and everyone Miles' has ever loved. In other words, because of Miles' status as TheHero, he decides to be the bad guy in order to make him suffer.
* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that random scientist that Miles chucked a bagel at in the first film? That was this guy. He even brings up this exact moment while explaining his backstory to Miles.
* CompositeCharacter: While he has the characterization and powers of his comics incarnation, resembles one-shot villain The Thousand in his motivations. Both are losers who had a prior grudge against Spider-Man before being transformed into monsters, hold themselves personally responsible for his creation, and feel entitled to the same respect. He also takes after the [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 Earth-120703 version of Electro]], both being ButtMonkey employees of a corrupt company that mutated into humanoid abominations while on the job, obsess over being recognized by Spider-Man and became serious threats once they mastered their abilities. Him being responsible for 1610B's Miles having Spider powers and plotting to murder Jefferson Davis is also taken from the second incarnation of Venom from ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan, Conrad Marcus.
* ConfusionFu: This is one of the main strengths of his portals during combat, as he is able to use them to both rapidly shift himself and his opponent around the environment to keep them disoriented as well as make it hard to hit him. At first, it almost as much of a detriment to himself as it is to Miles due to his lack of control, but when they meet again in Mumbattan, he's gotten a much better handle on them and is able to keep Miles and three other skilled spider-people on the ropes.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To The Kingpin:
** Kingpin is a feared criminal mastermind while The Spot is a nobody who starts the movie unable to rob an ATM.
** Kingpin ends up working with a group of other villains while The Spot acts as an independent antagonist.
** Kingpin is one of Spider-Man's most iconic villains while The Spot is an obscure D-Lister.
** Kingpin is a BadassNormal with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower while The Spot is a RealityWarper who got his powers by accident.
** Kingpin has an extremely bulky frame of pure muscle while The Spot is LeanAndMean.
** While both wish to exploit the multi-verse for selfish reasons, their reasons for doing so are quite different. Kingpin merely wanted his family back and the multiverse was just a mean to that end. And while he was thoroughly indifferent to collateral damage he may cause, it wasn't strictly intentional. The Spot wishes to use the multiverse to get {{Revenge}} on Miles and for his own personal gain.
** While Kingpin was thoroughly indifferent to collateral damage he may cause, it wasn't strictly intentional on his part. The Spot not only intentionally causes massive amounts of damage, he actively intends to use the multiverse to become a greater threat.
* CosmicFlaw: In his fully-powered state, he plainly looks out of place in ''every'' universe he's in, and if his {{Futureshadowing}} towards Miles is any indication, he can effortlessly destroy entire city blocks like a walking black hole.
* CostumeEvolution: Actually, that's not his costume, that's his skin. [[BodyHorror Yeah]]. But nevertheless, the spots in his skin increase both in size and number as he absorbs more dark energy. During the confrontation in Earth-50101B, he absorbs such a large quantity of dark energy that his design barely looks human anymore. He [[ArtShift stops being rendered in 3D to become what appears to be a being made out of said energy. He is more akin to a very rough sketch of a silhouette than anything now.]]
* CreateYourOwnHero: Alongside Olivia Octavius, Jonathan was responsible for building the Supercollider for Wilson Fisk, which makes him responsible not only for the radioactive spider from Earth-42 biting Miles, but responsible for the ''entire'' Spider Society across the multiverse as his actions led to Miguel discovering the anomalous backlashes across all reality and building an elite task force of Spider-people to deal with the consequences of his actions.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: His abilities have a very broad range of applications that could have made him a boon to the scientific community if not society as a whole, but he immediately chose to use them to commit crimes. To be fair, Alchemax never saw his potential post-mutation either and fired him.
* DarkIsEvil: After absorbing the Mumbattan's particle collider to get a massive power boost, he loses his [[TheNondescript featureless white appearance]] as his colors invert to a pitch black void, which matches his slip into becoming a multiversal OmnicidalManiac to get back at Miles.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype:
** The Spot is this to the IneffectualSympatheticVillain. Despite having abilities that are, on paper, ''ridiculously'' powerful--being able to create portals with his body--no one takes The Spot seriously, due to his petty crimes, jokey personality, and [[AtrociousAlias lousy villain name]]. He claims Miles is his nemesis and they're each other's origin stories, but Miles has no idea who he is, and dismissively calls him a "Villain of the Week," a sentiment all the Spider-People share. And this ''pisses him the hell off'', starting him on a quest to change that. Turns out, his gripes with Miles are ''true''; his actions did lead to Miles becoming Spider-Man, and Miles' actions in turn did lead to him becoming a HumanoidAbomination and his life being turned upside down. Understandably, being treated as a joke does ''not'' please him, and the fact that no one takes him seriously enables him to run rampant through the multiverse and figure out the full extent of his powers and become ''much'' stronger than he was before. And now, he's no longer content with killing just Miles; he wants to destroy Miles' life the way Miles (unintentionally and unknowingly) destroyed his, by targeting his loved ones... and possibly destroying his world. Lesson: if you don't take your bad guys seriously, they just might give you a reason to.
** Of BigBadWannabe. Johnny desperately wants to be Spider-Man's archenemy but appears largely incompetent with his powers and unable to handle a straight-forward fight. Unfortunately, it's his drive to be a big threat that means he ''can'' become one, as his determination is combined with his pre-existing skills to take risks with large rewards; he replicates the dangerous dark-matter explosion that initially gave him his powers, gaining a massive increase to his powerset - a powerset he steadily improves with. These factors enable him to absorb an even larger amount of dark matter, and as a result, he becomes '''exactly''' as powerful an enemy he set out to be, and then some.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Proves to have an even worse case of this than Miles, who ironically called him out for using the term "ATM machine" when the ''M'' already stands for ''Machine''. When Pavitr later on accuses him of being the type who would say "naan bread"/"bread-bread" and "chai tea"/"tea-tea"([[HypocriticalHumor which Miles himself did]]), he agrees that ''[[StrangeMindsThinkAlike he does loves chai tea]]'', [[BerserkButton setting the latter off]].
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After his transformation, Jonathan Ohnn effectively lost his life and everything he knew. At his core, the Spot is a lonely man who wants to belong and finds said belonging in becoming the ArchEnemy of the Spider-Man he helped create. When Miles, and the rest of the Spider Society (sans [[NoNonsenseNemesis Miguel]]) laugh him off as a joke, he lashes out and becomes a CosmicFlaw that threatens existence itself, all to prove his detractors wrong and cement himself as a worth adversary for Miles.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He rarely thinks anything through. His first meeting with Miles goes so poorly for him because he expected himself to be able to go toe to toe with Spider-Man despite having no training whatsoever. Even when he becomes a serious threat, he does so by worsening his condition and planning to massacre New York, something that would destroy any chances of returning to the normal life he claimed to value.
* DimensionalTraveller: His body is covered in interdimensional portals that can teleport him anywhere he needs to be.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's the undisputed main antagonist of the first half of ''Across the Spider-Verse'', but once he absorbs the power of Mumbattan's particle collider he escapes into the multiverse and the rest of the film focuses on Miles' ideological conflict with Miguel O'Hara and the Spider-Society, with the Spot remaining at large by the end. An unusual example, as he's very clearly the bigger threat and his escape is to set him up as the primary antagonist of the sequel.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Is treated as a joke by Miles in the beginning despite the Spot proclaiming how he's Spider-Man's ArchEnemy, which repeatedly gets on his nerves during their fight as he tries to make himself more menacing than he actually is. However, once he hones his powers and becomes a RealityWarper after evolving into a full on TranshumanAbomination, he ''earns'' Miles's (and the rest of the multiverse's) undivided attention as [[TheDreaded the single most dangerous being in the entirety of existence.]]
* EnergyAbsorption: The Spot's portals have a finite power source, so once he burns through that, he is just a normal, weird-looking dude. To regain his powers, he has to absorb dark energy from collider reactions like the one that created him.
* EntitledBastard: Spot expects Miles to immediately view him as his ArchEnemy despite his gross incompetence, and generally seems to expect people to automatically respect him without doing anything to earn it. His MotiveRant implies he feels that him having accidentally helped give Miles his powers means he should be just as adored, and completely ignores his own part in having ruined his own life.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: PlayedForLaughs at multiple points:
** Despite being a thief himself, The Spot doesn't try to steal from people explicitly, instead targeting stuff like [=ATMs=] which he, [[InsaneTrollLogic justifies]] as him stealing from the banks that manage such machines which he considers the "[[MorallyBankruptBanker real criminals]]".
** Repeatedly calls Miles out for [[SeriousBusiness not treating their first fight seriously]] and being plain disrespectful, even texting to his father while in a fight, to which the Spot snidely remarks that "he'll turn off his phone in a theater, but not during their fight".
** He's ''horrified'' by the possibility of being culturally insensitive when Pavitr calls out [[UglyAmericanStereotype his choice of words]] about "[[JourneyToFindOneself finding himself]]" after coming to Mumbattan to steal power from it's Alchemax's supercollider, quickly trying to correct his meaning.
** The one standard he has that's played seriously though is his tendency to avoid harming bystanders (at least intentionally and so long as they aren't a means explicitly to hurt his {{Archenemy}} by his personal attachment to them) seeing how he'd rather just quietly steal ATM rather than get into a confrontation trying to violently rob the clerk of the local bodega and later using his powers to simply portal the Alchemax employees out of the collider control room in Mumbattan to prevent them from interfering rather than trying to harm them. However, after his evolution into a full-fledged CosmicFlaw his complete indifference to the mass destruction he inadvertantly causes implies this standard is [[PragmaticVillainy more a case of not caring to harm others]] rather than actual concern about their wellbeing.
* EvilCounterpart:
** His claim that he's Miles' nemesis holds merit when you realize how similar they are, unfortunately for Miles.
*** Both are very book-smart, especially when it comes to science, and ''will'' figure out how to use that knowledge in-battle.
*** Both got their powers "thanks" to Kingpin's experiments with the multiverse and, as Spot points out, they created one another, as Miles was bitten by a radioactive spider that Ohn and Octavius teleported from another universe, while Spot became...[[BodyHorror that]] after an incident with dark matter when the collider exploded thanks to Miles.
*** Both him and Miles started out as an ineffectual villain and hero respectively, with lots of PowerIncontinence and really no clue on what to do with their new lives as superbeings.
*** However, both then grow across their arcs by both honing their abilities until they become very effective and crafty in using them and by gaining confidence. Though it should be noted that, while it's 100% training on Miles' part, on the Spot's it was training that made him more competent at using his portals but what increased his power wasn't training, but an "absorbing the power from a supercollider" shortcut.
*** They both were dismissed by the Spider-People around them as incompetent, as the Spider-Gang in the first film agreed the insecure, power-incontinent Miles was just not ready to be Spider-Man yet, to his devastation, while Spot is derided by Miles, Gwen, and every other Spider-Person outside of Miguel as a harmless, pathetic "cow-man" they could throw behind bars easy-peasy, to his ''fury''.
*** They both start donning a mostly black costume (or skin in the Spot's case) once they've finally become a real deal.
*** Both of their journeys to self-improvement involved a [[ArcWords leap of faith]]: in the first film, Miles made a literal leap off a building in the famous "What's Up Danger?" sequence, while the Spot had to, at one point, make a figurative, but much more serious leap when, in order to regain holes and travel through dimensions, he created a minicollider in his apartment and touched it, while knowing it could've disintegrated him then and there. One difference among them stands out here, however: if Miles had fumbled his leap, the ensuing fall would've harmed him and him alone; the Spot, meanwhile, casually mentions that if he fumbled his leap he'd have destroyed himself and everything (and everyone) else in the building, but went for it anyway, because hurting Miles was [[EvilIsPetty worth the risk]] to him. This sets a contrast between the responsible hero Miles and the selfish villain Spot.
*** Both operate on a "petty" level in the grand scope of the multiverse, but in different ways: when Miguel asks Miles if he'd rather save one person (his father, Jefferson Davis, who is set to die as a "canon event" for Miles) or an entire universe, Miles wants to TakeAThirdOption and save everyone, but also chooses his father without hesitation, to Miguel's fury; the Spot also prioritizes Miles' loved ones...but [[RevengeByProxy in the worst possible way as, after finally gaining the power of the multiverse, the Spot wants to use that great power for petty spite and to kill all of Miles' loved ones]]. Of course, Miles' "pettiness" makes him more sympathetic, as he's asoccer ball.
kid who, in spite of all the odds against him, refuses to let his family die for the sake of some written-in-stone canon that is a mere ''theory'' of Miguel's. Meanwhile, the Spot's actual pettiness makes the audience lose all sympathy they may have had for him as [[FauxAffablyEvil he shows his true colors as a truly deplorable, vindictive monster]].
*** A more minor similarity: they both piss off Pavitr [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment by calling chai "chai tea"]].
*** On a metatextual level, both he and Miles are motivated by a desire to [[ScrewDestiny break free from their own narrative]]; Miles doesn't want to lose any more loved ones, Spot doesn't want to be an IneffectualSympatheticVillain.
** Spot is also a counterpart to ''Miguel'', to the point of being a {{foil}}.
*** Miguel traveled the multiverse and apparently killed a universe because he wanted a family and took the place of his counterpart, while Spot is a narcissist who wants to be a CardCarryingVillain and is apparently unique in the ''entire'' multiverse.
*** Miguel is driven to extreme lengths out of guilt, while Spot doesn't want to be treated like a joke.
*** Miguel works with a massive team of heroes, while Spot used to be part of Alchemax (evil scientists) and now works alone.
*** Miguel hates Miles as a dangerous "anomaly", while Spot hates Miles because he thinks Miles is responsible for his creation. Both are projecting their own responsibility for what they did onto Miles, but Miguel "knows" his actions hurt countless people, while Spot refuses to admit his fate is his own fault.
*** Spot is a skinny guy in white with random ink-blots and sketch lines. Miguel is muscular, in a blue-black HardLight suit with geometric red light patterns. Miguel can remove his suit at any time, while Spot's "suit" is actually his body.
*** Spot risks the multiverse to be taken seriously, while Miguel tries to ''protect'' what he sees as the proper order of the multiverse.
*** Miguel is extremely competent, but Spot is initially so incompetent he literally and figuratively kicks his own butt. Both rely on absorbing external sources to gain power.
*** Miguel dismisses Miles as an "anomaly", while Spot dismisses all the other Spiders ''but'' Miles.
*BitPartBadGuys: EvilIsPetty: While his reasonings to hate Miles Morales are justified in part due to the [[BodyHorror horrific side effects of his dimensional powers]], the [[DisproportionateRetribution lengths he goes to to get revenge on him]] are insanely petty and frighteningly sadistic in spite of his general comical personality, as he plans to destroy everyone and everything he holds dear for what Miles unknowingly did to him.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: He attempts to coolly introduce himself as a mighty fiend to Miles, which utterly fails due to his AtrociousAlias, the fact Miles had already been watching Spot getting beaten up by the convenience store owner in his bungled robbery, and a loaf of bread immediately falls out of the spot on his torso.
* FatBastard: He's got a noticeable paunch belly despite his otherwise lanky build, and he's a supervillain who becomes a threat to the multiverse, though he incidentally loses the belly after powering himself up.
* FatalFlaw: [[DidntThinkThisThrough Short-sightedness]]. Spot almost never thinks anything he does through. He attempts to set himself up as Miles's nemesis while still struggling to control his powers, barely thinks his robbery through, and never bothers learning to control his abilities for at least six months. The only reason he became the Spot is because he stupidly tried to stuck around during the climatic battle in the Collider room in the first movie trying to smuggle dark matter rather than fleeing, and even when he becomes a threat he only worsens his condition to hurt Miles rather than trying to find a cure somewhere in the multiverse.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's friendly, bumbling, and always polite even to his robbery victims, to the point he comes across as barely even evil at all. As his grudge with Miles becomes increasingly clear, the Spot is revealed to be extremely ruthless and willing to endanger the multiverse for the sake of revenge. By the end of ''Across'', he makes it clear his plan is to massacre New York just to kill Jefferson and make Miles suffer, all while keeping the same amiable demeanour.
* FreakLabAccident: He is turned into a superpowered freak by being exposed to Dark Matter during the explosion of the Super Collider.
* FreudianExcuse: The Spot's life was irreversibly ruined by his mutation, as it caused his friends and family to ostracize him and cost him all his job prospects. Being that his mutation was an indirect result of Miles destroying the Super Collider, he blames Miles for what he turned into. Miles humiliating him during his first outing as a supervillain and refusal to take him seriously ultimately cause him to completely snap, and he decides to take away everyone Miles loves so that Miles will finally understand the level of hatred he holds towards him.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: As it turns out, the Spot is actually one of the background Alchemax scientists (Jonathan Ohnn) who was a part of Wilson Fisk's project to create the Super-Collider in the first film. He was there at the facility when Miles blew up the collider during the final battle, which resulted in him receiving the side effects that turned him into what he is in the present. Because of this, he holds a strong grudge against Miles, whom he blamed for his current predicament, and seeks to become Miles's archnemesis and destroy everything he holds dear. Eventually, his quest to become more powerful threatens the entire multiverse itself.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: After reaching his full potential by absorbing the dark energy in Mumbattan, he seemingly gains the ability to see into the future and, presumably, tap into the Web of Life and Destiny itself. He reveals to Miles vague visions of the future, such as the death of [[HeroKiller several Spider-People by his hands, and the two upcoming canon events: both the death of Inspector Singh and Miles's dad, Captain Morales.]]
-->'''Miles:''' What was that?!\\
'''The Spot:''' [[AC:Our future. I'm going to take everything from you, like you took everything from me.]]
* GiverOfLameNames: His own nom de guerre is the goofy sounding "The Spot", and he can't come up with anything more classy than "dimensional juice" for the stuff he's experimenting with.
-->''"Branding was never my strong suit."''
* GreaterScopeVillain: Through the single act of bringing a radioactive spider from one universe to his own, Johnny single-handedly changed that universe's fate, creating a world where the Sinister Six- and another certain villain - rule New York unopposed with no Spider-Man to protect it. Miguel reveals that this in turn resulted in the death of Earth-1610's Peter Parker, kicking off the plot of ''Into'' and bringing the multiverse to Spider-Man 2099's attention. And ''that'' led to the creation of the Spider-Society when Miguel's attempt to take an alternate version of himself's life for his own made him realize the existence of Canon Events and the dangers of impeding them no matter how awful they are. Add all this together with Johnny being one of the top scientists working on the Collider, and this makes the Spot one of the most important figures in the ''Spider-Verse'' film series.
* GreenEyedMonster: It's very heavily implied that the Spot is jealous of Miles's fame. He's responsible for Miles's creation, and thus views himself as entitled to the same amount of respect.
* HadToBeSharp: Part of what turns him from D-Lister to a cosmic threat is how ''fast'' he learns how to use his powers just to keep up with Miles.
* HeCleansUpNicely: A photo of him in his apartment shows that in the past he had [[SeriouslyScruffy long shaggy hair and a scruffy beard]], but his flashback to when he got his powers shows him much more well-groomed with his hair cut short. His scruffy look is also in a notable amount of his concept art, which also shows him working diligently implying why.
* HeroKiller: The scene {{Futureshadowing}} his intent to Miles shows one such glimpse of Spot hovering over a decimated city with hundreds of Spider People (presumably from the Spider Society) are strewn about, either defeated or flat out dead beneath him before he goes after [[RevengeByProxy Jefferson Morales.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: His first robbery shows that he's not very skilled in controlling where his portals open up at desired locations. Then he figures out how they work and gets a hell of a lot more dangerous.
* HumanoidAbomination: Bordering on {{Transhuman Abomination}}. His accident left him as a completely featureless individual with completely bleached white skin, black wormholes on his body and no face anymore although can still see, hear and speak normally. Fully becomes a TranshumanAbomination after honing his powers further as a CosmicFlaw and becoming a full-on horror for the entire multiverse.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his enmity towards Miles over his mutation, Spot very quickly embraces his powers as a gift when he figures out the sheer scale of them.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: He has a distinct desire to be taken seriously. His hatred towards Miles only grows due to being treated as a VillainOfTheWeek.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: It's implied his grudge against Spider-Man stems less from revenge and more from the Spot wanting to live out his fantasies of being a feared supervillain. He never entertains even trying to go back to his old life, and once he figures out how to control his powers he deliberately worsens his condition so he'll finally be Spider-Man's ArchEnemy.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He's obsessed with being taken seriously as Spider-Man's ArchEnemy, which takes the form of him constantly trying to sell himself as a much bigger deal than he actually is, insisting that he's Miles' personal nemesis with a deep and meaningful connection who's destined to be his greatest enemy, when in reality he's (initially) just arandom petty crook who Miles views as just another "villain of the week". This inflated sense of self-importance is due to him lacking any life or meaning outside of trying to be Spider-Man's nemesis, being mocked and rejected by his colleagues, friends, and even his own ''family'' after being transformed into the Spot.
* InkSuitActor: His face before his transformation is designed after his voice actor, Jason Schwartzman, down to having a mole in the same spot on his face.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: A villain who somehow manages to fit the trope. The Spot is [[PoliticallyCorrectVillain not]] racist, but Pavitr sees him as yet another shallow western tourist on a trip through the "mystical" land of India when the supervillain words his goal of becoming more powerful through Mumbattan's collider as "being on a journey of self-improvement". The Spot later unintentionally presses Pavitr's BerserkButton when lightheartedly expressing his love for [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "chai tea"]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: He engages in this multiple times, such as begging the store owner he's stealing from to not impede his act of theft (since he hasnothing never robbed anyone else before and it would make it a bad experience for him), justifying the theft of an ATM by saying how banks are the real criminals (while he's pushing the entire machine away), and believing that he can fill the metaphorical emotional hole in his heart by acquiring more portals (and thereby allowing him to do hurt is archnemesis Miles Morales).
* ItsAllAboutMe: Everything comes second to Spot's own personal goals and desires. He proves willing to endanger innocent people's lives and destroy entire dimensions just so he can have his revenge on Miles, of which the desire for revenge itself mainly comes from feeling denied the respect he feels entitled to for supposedly being Miles' ArchEnemy.
* IWasQuiteALooker: While explaining his TragicBackstory to the bodega owner, he claims that before his transformation, he was “handsome by scientist standards”... ''which isn't too far off''. {{Flashback}}s have shown that he looked decent during the events of ''Into'', which also suggests that his shaggy look in the photo with Olivia above was taken a period [[SheCleansUpNicely before he cleaned himself up]]. Even then, his shaggier appearance wasn't too bad either, making him come across as an UnkemptBeauty. [[AllForNothing Not that it matters anymore...]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: He starts out as an inept small-time crook who isn't particularly malicious and was pushed into robbery due to being ostracized for his condition. However, his desire for revenge and his obsession with being Miles's ArchEnemy lead to him becoming increasingly ruthless to accomplish both. By the end of the film, he's willing to kill countless innocent people just to make sure Miles suffers.
* JustifiedCriminal: He claims to be one, anyway. During his attempted robbery of a bodega, Spot points out his condition means he can't get a normal job and that's why he's resorted to crime.
* LaughablyEvil: Very much so. He starts out so hilariously pathetic and has many hilarious moments. Even when he starts becoming more competent of a villain after successfully traveling to Earth-50101, he still has moments where he interacts with themain plot heroes in comical ways. This does not take away from the fact that he manages to become a surprisingly effective villain.
* LeanAndMean: He has a bit of a paunch, but his limbs are noticeably noodly, though it more conveys his awkwardness than it does his villainous nature. Him losing the paunch after powering himself up does lead to his overall design looking much more threatening.
* LiteralAssKicking: He accidentally inflicts this upon ''himself'', no less. During his MotiveRant about his DarkAndTroubledPast when Mileseasily defeats on refuses to take him as anything more serious than a VillainOfTheWeek, his way home.
PowerIncontinence brought by his out-of-control emotions causes him to [[EpicFail accidentally open a portal beneath his rush at Miles causing his foot to be conjured up]] ''[[EpicFail at full momentum]]'' [[EpicFail towards his own butt, immediately incapacitating him just before trapping himself in the Spot Dimension.]]
*TheCameo: Only MadeOfIron: The Spot is actually quite sturdy and can shrug off injuries that would have otherwise crippled an ordinary person with ease. This is made evident in his first "fight" with Spider-Man where he lands face first into the pavement and is still perfectly fine afterwards.
* MadScientist: He's a genuinely talented scientist who uses his smarts to empower himself, and beneath his goofy exterior he holds a very violent obsession with revenge against Miles.
* MaskOfSanity: He's clumsy, goofy, and can actually be pretty affable with strangers. However, when it comes to Miles, every interaction belies the genuine seething hatred The Spot has towards him. The mask drops completely after he turns himself into a TranshumanAbomination, as he openly becomes singularly focused on killing everyone Miles cares about.
* MisplacedRetribution: The Spot blaming Miles for detonating the Super-Collider and turning him into a BlessedWithSuck mutant loudly ignores the fact that it was Kingpin and Doctor Octopus who not only made it, but turned it on knowing the dangers it posed to the multiverse; it's roughly akin to blaming a firefighter for accidentally hitting you with a hose while trying to put out a forest fire that burned you. It also ignores that ''he himself'' was a minion knowingly working for these supervillains and the one who decided to stick around and try to carry out a canister of dark matter while the facility was going to pot all around him; [[InsaneTrollLogic which makes this analogous to an arsonist getting caught in the fire that he started and blaming the firefighter for not pulling him out of the fire in time to prevent him from being burned]]. However, considering Kingpin's in prison and Doctor Octopus has vanished, this is likely due to him simply not having anyone else to blame ([[NeverMyFault aside from himself]]).
* MistakenForRacist: PlayedForLaughs and {{Downplayed|Trope}}. When he says he's on a journey of self-improvement, Spider Man-India assumes this is why he went to India, believing he's playing into the MysticalIndia stereotype. This leaves the Spot briefly, yet awkwardly [[NotWhatItLooksLike trying to explain he didn't mean it like that]].
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: The Spot's power is so immensely existential that he threatens the ''entire multiverse'' just by existing in spite of his almost comical, goofy personality. Then he decides to use this power ''intentionally'' to rob Miles of everyone that he loves.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: The Spot appearsin to have been ''so'' affected by getting beaned by a bagel that it's one scene.
* CurbStompBattle:of the main things he calls Miles defeats out on. Likewise, his recollection of getting hit with a bagel has him shouting dramatically, as though he got shot.
* MirrorCharacter: To Miles himself, to the point of being almost ''a self portrait'' of each other; [[ForWantOfANail they both have had a wrench thrown in their lives]] that has afforded them a great amount of power that makes them genuinely unique in the multiverse but in the eyes of others, they are ''not'' treated particularly well; either being considered a VillainOfTheWeek (in Spot's case) or JustAKid (in Miles's) by particularly everyone they run into and don't give them the respect they deserve... which leads to them, through indignation, showing up those who looked down on them and [[UnderestimatingBadassery proving themselves to be far greater than they were initially considered to be]] that has everyone facing them re-evaluate their prior treatment of them.
* MoralMyopia: He wants personal revenge against Miles for accidental collateral damage in Miles' fight with Kingpin in the supercollider in the last movie, but he's perfectly fine with causing a ton of collateral damage in his quest, including tearing the very fabric of the multiverse.
* MotiveRant: Gives one to Miles at the climax of their second confrontation, not only does he reveal his true identity as the [[AscendedExtra scientist he threw a bagel at]] back in Alchemax, who had previously run a test that caused the [[CreateYourOwnHero very same spider that gave Miles his powers]] to arrive to Earth-1610B, but he also reveals that he was caught in the Super-Collider explosion, [[BodyHorror resulting in his body being deformed to such an extent]] that he can hardly be considered human anymore; with his co-workers and even his own family being terrified of him, with the latter not even wanting to look at him. He holds Miles to blame, as he was responsible for the explosion in the first place, and vows his revenge by taking everything away from him, just as he did to him.
-->'''The Spot:''' Because of you, I lost my job, my life, '''[[TheBlank my face!]]''' My family won't even look at me!
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: While he's willing to engage in thievery and ethically dubious science, he refuses to attack random civilians if they don't have any connection to Miles and [[PetTheDog personally evacuates the scientists from Mumbattan's particle collider]]. It's implied this goes out the window once he transforms himself into a living CosmicFlaw.
* NeverMyFault: Even though the accident that mutated him happened as a result of experiments he was actively participating in and, even more directly, of the fragile canister of dark matter he was trying to carry out of the Super-Collider facility in his arms while the Spider-Gang were raiding it, the Spot persistently blames Miles and Miles alone for his predicament.
* NoRespectGuy: After his mutation, the guy couldn't catch a break. He was the object of ridicule by his former coworkers, gets nearly beaten up by a bodega owner he failed to rob, is treated as a joke by Miles, and is labelled a VillainOfTheWeek by the other Spider-People. Then he figures out how to use his powers and proceeds to make himself powerful enough to become a threat to the multiverse.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: His first outing has him failing to rob a bodega and barely able to control his portal powers. Once he figures out how to use his powers effectively, he becomes a multiversal threat.
* OneWingedAngel: After absorbing all of the energy from the Super-Collider in Earth-50101, [[FromBadToWorse he goes from a]][[CosmicFlaw creepy]] {{Humanoid Abomination}} to a full on [[TranshumanAbomination transhuman]] RealityWarper, with his appearance changing from having white skin with black ink blots to doodled black skin with white ink blots. He gains the power to threaten and destroy the entire ''multiverse'' too.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: While robbing a bodega's ATM, once the owner catches on and attacks him with a bat, Spot panickily babbles various reasons that he ought to be allowed to get away with it, including that he's not robbing the store but the banks and because "they're the real criminals!" trying to stop him makes you the bad guy, or declaring that he's "[[JustLikeRobinHood like Robin Hood]] if [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he gave to himself]]!". The owner is unimpressed.
-->'''Owner:''' You're the real criminal! You're ''robbing'' me!
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: He's many things, but racist isn't one of them, as he apologizes to Pavitr after he takes his "journey of self-discovery" comment the wrong way.
* PortalCrossroadWorld: As it turns out, there is one ''inside'' of himself. [[ItMakesSenseInContext After he kicks himself in the butt]], he gets sucked in by one of his own holes, he ends up in a {{Pocket|Dimension}} BlankWhiteVoid EldritchLocation that he describes to be "inside of him", which is full of holes, each leading to different universes. This reveals that these aren't ''just'' traditional intradimensional portals[[note]]Portals that work in only one dimension[[/note]], but multiversal portals.
* PortalCut: The aftermath of charging his powers with a mini-collider are holes of various sizes completely bored through the walls of his apartment. Similar holes appear in a straight line to Mumbattan's supercollider in his wake. He even makes a scissor gesture with his hands, complete with a small "Snip!" appearing onscreen, to create a small portal to sever the web line keeping him from entering the active collider.
* PortableHole: His superpower is the ability to manipulate the holes on his body and place them wherever he wants at any size, even midair, and travel through them to wherever else he wants, however he needs a source for his holes and is unable to conjure them up on the spot. When he accidentally discovered he can travel across dimensions using them but loses all his holes in doing so, he created a mini-collider in his room to regain one before using it to outright travel to the Alchemaxes of the other dimensions to absorb the holes from their industrial-sized colliders.
* PosthumanNudism: The Spot [[NotAMask clarifies to Miles]] that he's not wearing a bodysuit; everything you see is his bare skin. Despite being ashamed of his appearance, he's stopped wearing any clothes after his transformation. Miles is disturbed to learn this, but [[NonhumansLackAttributes no one sees anything they call obscene]], giving the uncomfortable implication that the Spot lost more body parts than the ones on his face...
* PowerEchoes: After absorbing the energy from the Supercollider to reach his maximum potential, the Spot gains an otherworldly reverb to his voice that further implies how just ''[[TranshumanAbomination monstrous]]'' he's become by becoming a full-fledged CosmicFlaw.
* PowerFloats: After he reaches full power, he gains the ability to levitate in midair.
* PowerIncontinence: Extreme anger causes him to expel portals randomly which have the potential of teleporting him somewhere he doesn't want to go or bringing in debris that gets in his way.
* ThePowerOfHate: His hatred for Miles is what motivates him to study and expand his powers to terrifying levels.
* PowersDoTheFighting: His ThinkingUpPortals power does 99% of the fighting for him during his first fewseconds fights with Miles, mainly resulting in a ConfusionFu-based WimpFight between them as he keeps comically redirecting them around the city uncontrollably. Even his few attempts to physically punch Miles through the portals gets easily countered thanks to Miles' SpiderSense and ability to react to the distortions better than Spot himself -- not helped by electrocuting the fact that his transformation doesn't seem to have given him any kind of noticeable SuperStrength, meaning he's still only as strong as a humanoid scientist. This starts to go away as he masters his portal abilities more; by the time he reaches Mumbattan, he's become capable of physically grappling with Miles in addition to freely using the disorientation of his teleportation as an effective weapon, as well as apparently become subtly stronger, able to simultaneously NeckLift both Miles and kicking Hobie at once without visible effort.
* PunchClockVillain: Prior to his mutation, he was just an Alchemax scientist. This meant he assisted Doctor Octopus and the Kingpin in creating the Super Collider and was one of the many scientists who chased after Miles and Peter B. in the first movie, but it was ostensibly just a normal job to him. It definitely doesn't apply anymore, as he's wholeheartedly embraced being a supervillain after his condition got himaway.
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*MysteriousPast: We know PunnyName: Johnathan can be shortened to Johnny, which makes him "Johnny Ohnn, The Spot" - a phrase meaning someone who is readily available to handle a task. [[ToiletHumour Or a brand of portable toilets.]] Additionally, his AtrociousAlias is a ''goldmine'' for punny jokes with multiple [[YouFightLikeACow Spider People]], resulting in a HurricaneOfPuns when Jessica Drew asks them to get the jokes off their chest.
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The victim of this. One would think that The Spot's mutation would make him incredibly beneficial to Alchemax, considering their involvement in inter-dimensional research. However, it instead got him fired and laughed at by his former coworkers. However, [[BlessedWithSuck seeing how even he himself]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway didn't see much worth in his own powers originally]] before finding out [[WeaponizedTeleportation what they are actually capable of doing]], they probably thought his powers would only hinder their research.
* RemovedAchillesHeel: In his normal form, the white parts of him are vulnerable to harm, assuming he isn't able to shift his holes to cover them, allowing his foes to strike back if they can anticipate his attacks or take him off guard. After absorbing enough power, he is effectively made of holes with barely any of himself left visible, making it unclear if it's even possible to harm him directly.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He's capable of travelling to different universes using his portals. Unlike the Spider-People, he doesn't need secondary technology to keep his cells from dying out whenever he isn't in his home universe.
* RevengeByProxy: After being ridiculed nonstop and [[DudeWheresMyRespect given absolutelynothing no respect]] by anyone, especially Miles, for being a "VillainOfTheWeek" and thus denied having any chance of filling the [[{{Pun}} hole]] in his life... the Spot decides to commit to this approach fully to cement himself as Miles's {{Archenemy}} by killing everyone he loves personally.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Similar to the Kingpin in ''Into'', Spot in the comics is an enemy of Peter Parker's Spider-Man, but has rarely encountered Miles Morales, much less become his ArchEnemy.
* SanitySlippage: After Ohnn's transformation which outcasted himself from society, all he wanted to do was to make his world's Spider-Man lose everything and to treat him with respect as a worthy villain. This selfish and insecure attitude only makes him more deadly and unhinged since he began to evolve his powers and learn to better use them. By the end of ''ATSV'', he has become a threat to the Multiverse as a whole, foreshadowing his countless destruction of universes and ultimately his original universe. It's no surprise that Spot likely has no qualms destroying all of existence if it means reaching his goals.
* SarcasmBlind: When Pavitr accuses the Spot of being yet another shallow western tourist with a stereotypical outlook on Indian culture, he starts sarcastically asking Spot if he wants some spices or maybe some naan bread, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "which is like saying 'bread bread', which is like saying 'chai tea'!"]] Without skipping a beat, naïve ol' Spot responds that he loves chai tea.
* SeriousBusiness: It turns out that he was the one that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Miles threw a bagel at]] in the first movie. He apparently took it ''very'' personally as he recaps it to Miles as a part of his MotiveRant and in an angry tone, too.
* ShadowArchetype: He and Miles have a lot in common; both are book-smart, intelligent rookies with a lot of potential and [[NoRespectGuy who aren't given respect by their peers]]. However, where Miles is motivated by selflessness and a desire to help people, the Spot is inherently selfish and is obsessed with gaining infamy and revenge. And where Miles won't let even one person die for the greater good, the Spot is willing to let entire dimensions die for the same of his own personal gain.
* ShoutOut: His OneWingedAngel form's animation style heavily resembles [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann the Anti-Spiral]], and by that point he's become a HumanoidAbomination of universe-threatening power.
* SmallNameBigEgo: A large part of Spot's enmity with Miles isn't just blaming him for his creation, but the fact that he accidentally brought the spider that gave Miles his powers into their dimension. Spot holds himself personally responsible for his creation, and feels personally entitled to being just as respected as a result. However, a FreezeFrameBonus in the same scene shows that the spider was heading towards its native Earth-42 version of Miles before it was teleported away, meaning it was always "destined" to bite a Miles Morales and turn him into Spider-Man. Whilst Spot is correct that his actions have a large hand in it being "this" Miles who became a hero, he acts like the Miles Morales Spider-Man wouldn't exist at all without him, showcasing his petty ego underneath his legitimate grievances with his transformation.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Jonathan Ohnn's screentime in the first film amounts to a cameo--the guy Miles hit with the bagel--but he's responsible for bringing the spider that bit Miles into their universe, setting in motion the latter's entire journey to become Spider-Man. [[AscendedExtra He gets a]] [[BigBad much bigger role]] in the sequels.
* SmarterThanYouLook: From the way he looks and acts, one would not believe that he actually is a scientist as he claims to be. But he's still every bit of the scientist he once was back when he had a face and proves it by how quickly he figures out the nature of his powers and his vast knowledge regarding the workings, construction and operation of the Super-Collider.
* SnowballingThreat: He starts off as an incompetent goofball who Miles and co. dismiss as an insignificant "villain of the week". However, as he gets more accustomed to his powers, his vendetta against Miles grows, and he figures out how to empower himself further, he becomes more and more dangerous until he ends ''Across the Spider-Verse'' as a danger to the multiverse.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Not initially, but as his threat level increases his tone quiets further and further. The Spot's pledge, after he distorts further into a TranshumanAbomination, to take everything Miles holds dear is hardly louder than a whisper.
* SpannerInTheWorks: By teleporting the mutated spider of Earth-42 to Miles' Earth, he unwittingly set in motion the entire plot for the Spider-Verse films, and he also ruined Earth-42 by preventing a Spider-Man from ever existing there.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When fighting in Mumbattan against Miles, Gwen, and Pavitr after his first level-up, in the middle of the CasualDangerDialogue between him and Pavitr, he comments how he likes "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Chai tea]]" not unlike Miles had just ''seconds'' before which presses Pavitr's BerserkButton in equal measure.
* ThatCameOutWrong: One humorous scene has him getting yelled at by two construction workers to "stop talking about [his] holes".
-->'''Worker:''' You're making everyone uncomfortable!
* ThinkingUpPortals: Is covered with portals that he can use to transport himself and use in fights. In the promotional image, he's seen using Miles's kick on him to kick Gwen in the face. As he gets more accustomed to hisorigins or portals, he starts inching into RealityWarper territory with how freely he can manipulate space around him.
* TookALevelInBadass: He starts out as an incompetent joke whose first defeat is the result of him literally kicking himself in the ass. However, from that incident, he figures out how hisreasons powers work, and when he returns in Mumbattan, none of the three (later four) Spider-People pursuing him can even land a meaningful hit on him. Then he merges with Mumbattan's Super Collider and becomes a universe-destabilizing CosmicFlaw.
* TragicVillain: ZigZagged. He was never particularly moral and gladly worked at [[EvilInc Alchemax]], but the BodyHorror he underwent after being caught in the Particle Accelerator's explosion left him a social pariah and ruined his career. Not only that, but Miles - who he [[NeverMyFault wrongfully]] blames forbecoming this - not only dismisses his troubled backstory [[ButForMeItWasTuesday as just another day's work]] but offhandedly calls him a "[[DudeWheresMyRespect villain of the week]]" multiple times during their first confrontation, which deeply hurts the already insecure Spot. However, at the same time, it's clear his attempts to establish himself as Spider-Man's ArchEnemy is motivated by his desire for fame and respect more than anything else, and he proves willing to destroy entire dimensions to live out his petty fantasies of revenge and being a fearsome supervillain.
-->'''The Spot:''' ''(to Miles)'' We're finally living up to our potential: You'll finally have [[{{Archenemy}} a villain]] worth fighting and ''[[SuddenlyShouting I WON'T BE JUST A JOKE TO YOU]]!!''
*TheVoiceless: Doesn't say TranquilFury: After calming down to better use his powers, he still really, really despises Miles.
* TranshumanAbomination: After he finally masters his uncanny powers, he shows signs of abandoning his human nature and becoming a CosmicHorror. Particularly, in Miles' vision, the Spot looks so unnatural and bizarre that he wouldn't be out of place in ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles''.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Aside from [[NoNonsenseNemesis Miguel]], ''everyone'' thinks of the Spot as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who might have a potent power, but is dismissed as a "villain of the week" by pretty much everyone, even the people chasing him down from the Spider-Society, [[{{Archenemy}} especially Miles himself]]. However, by treating him as a second-hand minor threat that can be dealt with at their convenience, the Spot ultimately is able to hone his powers and become a horrific CosmicFlaw in the entirety of the multiverse and threaten the existence of everything by just ''existing''.
* UnknownRival: Miles has zero clue who he is at the start of ''Across the Spider-Verse'' and views him as just another random "villain of the week" to beat up and arrest. Things rapidly escalate as Miles learns just how obsessed Spot truly is with him, and what he plans to do [[TargetedToHurtTheHero to get back at him.]]
* {{Unperson}}: As far as human society sees it, The Spot's original identity as "Jonathan Ohn" simply ceased to exist after his incident with the Super-collider.
* UnreliableNarrator: While explaining his backstory, the Spot frames himself as having been an innocent victim who was unfairly transformed into a TranshumanAbomination and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hit with a bagel]] by Miles unprovoked. The flashback itself shows the truth; Spot had been trying to kill him during the bagel incident, and he was transformed when he [[TooDumbToLive tried to shield a canister of dark matter with his body]] when the collider exploded.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: One would think that someone with The Spot's appearance would stick out more in a crowd or in general, with his bare bones civilian "[[PaperThinDisguise disguise]]" being a simple open coat, hat and sunglasses. He doesn't, in fact people barely even acknowledge his existence with a spare glance, though in fairness it's implied that living in a city where Spider-Man fights various wacky supervillains semi-regularly has desensitized them to such strange appearances.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Horrifyingly averted. Over the course of the movie, the Spot figures out how his powers work and their true scale, going from a pathetic IneffectualSympatheticVillain to a multidimensional threat, and he's directing all that energy into making Miles suffer.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Deconstructed and ultimately averted. Treating someone whose life you indirectly ruined as someone who you're going to beat and move on from immediately is not a healthy idea at all. Miles' flippant attitude towards him in their first fight causes The Spot to go off the deep end and drives him to develop his powers further. The end result is the BigBad of the second and third films in the trilogy.
* VillainTeleportation: His entire modus operandi. His portals allow him to teleport himself and other people and objects through them.
* VillainyFreeVillain: Deconstructed. Spot doesn't have anyintelligible words.
* WolverineClaws:real grand plans of world domination or destruction, and when we first meet him, he's just trying to rob an [=ATM=] to survive. He does have a fixation on becoming a supervillain, but only because he blames Miles for his transformation. Beyond that, he seems to be a pretty non-threatening guy who doesn't want to hurt anyone and just wants people to respect him. However, his misplaced need to get respect leads him to transform himself into an EldritchAbomination that could obliterate entire universes without even trying, ending an incalculable amount of innocent lives. Being a villain means hurting people, not just the hero.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: He gains this when he gets truly pissed off at Miles during the ending of his MotiveRant and starts charging towards him. He permanently gains this after going OneWingedAngel from absorbing all of the energy from the Super-Collider of Mumbattan.
* WakeUpCallBoss: He serves as one for Pavitr, a relatively inexperienced Spider-Man who's coasted through the whole hero gig with ease up to that point. The battle in Mumbattan and Inspector Singh's near death is the first time Spider-Man India's truly been pushed to the edge.
* WalkingWasteland: Upon honing his powers, his portals gain a corrosive effect that can decay structures and cause them to collapse in on themselves over time, as shown with the Mumbattan Alchemax facility crumbling in half after absorbing the power of its own Supercollider.
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Miles - and most Spider-people in general - for their YouFightLikeACow schtick, calling it unnecessarily hurtful to their opponents. It pushes him to go actively JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope just so he'll finally be respected.
* WhosLaughingNow: It wasn't enough that The Spot already blamed Miles for what he turned into. Miles along with the other Spider-People sans Miguel treating him like a joke D-lister proceeded to invoke his wrath so thoroughly that he was pushed to master his powers so that he could destroy the multiverse as payback, starting with everyone Miles hasthree long claws on each hand.ever loved. And ''hoo boy'' does he become capable of doing just that by the end.
* YouCantThwartStageOne: What his arc amounts to in ''Across the Spider-Verse''. Stymied by how Miles keeps treating him as a "villain of the week," the Spot eventually finds out the full potential of his portal powers and decides to power up using another collider to embrace the full potential of his powers. He succeeds halfway through the movie, becoming a godlike TranshumanAbomination, and leaving Miles to spend the back half of the film dealing with his attempt to get back home before the Spot does.
* AdaptationalAbomination: From petty thief in a goofy costume that gets his ass handed to him by Spidey [[PunchClockVillain every Thursday]] to a HumanoidAbomination with a PortalCrossroadWorld inside of him. In his OneWingedAngel form, he fully becomes a TranshumanAbomination and a CosmicFlaw whose very existence threatens the entire multiverse.
* AdaptationalBadass: Usually, the Spot is pretty incompetent, even with his surprisingly powerful ability. Here, he's hyped as Miles's "most formidable foe yet". In fact, the entirety of ''Across The Spider-Verse'' is him averting the whole VillainForgotToLevelGrind ''hard'' and becoming [[TranshumanAbomination the single most dangerous entity in the entire multiverse]] threatening to unmake ''everything'' with his multi-dimensional powers.
* AdaptationalUgliness: He's a lot ''chunkier'' here than he is in the comics, with a flabby body paired with awkward gangly limbs that visually convey his ineffectual nature as a villain. After using Super-Colliders to power himself up his complete lack of texture ([[CosmicFlaw being effectively a human shaped hole in the Multiverse]]), along with becoming somewhat more streamlined, he becomes much more intimidatingly LeanAndMean.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, the Spot is typically a D-lister villain at best who despite [[BewareTheSillyOnes the sheer application of his powers can provide]] is ultimately a doormat who serves other more competent bad guys and ends up becoming a ButtMonkey IneffectualSympatheticVillain more often than not.[[note]]In fact, in his debut issue, he only was an antagonist to take his chances against Spider-Man with his newfound powers over dealing with Wilson Fisk [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness who was keen on killing him for his lack of progress]] and even ''then'' considered the possibility of instead going straight and [[CutLexLuthorACheck making genuine scientific progress]] with his powers, before abandoning any notion of being a villain altogether after taking exactly ''one'' punch from Spider-Man and fleeing for his life into the Spot Dimension [[PutOnABus for a whole decade before his next appearance]].[[/note]] In the films though, while still a goofball of a bad guy [[FromNobodyToNightmare at least initially]], the Spot eventually [[FauxAffablyEvil reveals his true colors and depravity when he makes clear his sheer contempt for Miles and the lengths he'll go to take his revenge on him for turning himself into a hopeless monster]], firmly setting him as Miles's ArchEnemy in the same vein as Green Goblin was for Peter.
* AdaptationalWimp: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Spot's powers are as formidable as ever, but in this incarnation, they're explicitly finite. Spot only has so many portals he can open and needs to absorb dark matter energy to replenish them.
* AdaptationNameChange: The Spot of Earth-1610 in the comics was called [[OnlyOneName Frank, with his surname never being revealed.]] Here, he's called Johnathan Ohnn, like his Earth-616 comic counterpart.
* AffablyEvil: At first, Spot is genuinely friendly and conversational despite his goals and is quite polite with everyone. As he goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, it shifts into being FauxAffablyEvil.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: His mutation cost him his job, the respect of his coworkers, and the acceptance of his family. With nothing left in his life, he decided to devote his entire existence to making Miles suffer, as he blamed him for what he turned into.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing:
* BeTheBall:
* ApologeticAttacker: He sincerely apologizes to the store owner he tries to rob after he accidentally hits him in the face with the baseball bat he was trying to hit The Spot with.
* ArchEnemy: He's basically Miles's Green Goblin, willing to go to any extreme just to make Miles suffer because he blames Miles for what he became. While Miles doesn't take him seriously at first, the events of ''Across the Spider-Verse'' see him grow increasingly aware of how dangerous Spot really is, and Miles acknowledges that he's
* ArcWords: "VillainOfTheWeek". The heroes initially pass him off as some D-list villain due to his incompetence and bizarre appearance. This infuriates Jonathan because his transformation completely ruined his life, yet nobody takes him seriously. This pushes him to hone his abilities and gain more power from other universes, evolving from some silly D-lister to a threat to the entire Multiverse.
* ArtEvolution: Partly as a result of being an AscendedExtra. In ''Into'', while it's harder to see due to him being quite a distance away when being hit by the bagel he sports a ordinary hairstyle and undetailed look. His OnceMoreWithClarity {{flashback}} to this scene in ''Across'' had his closeup design adjusted to sport an undercut hairstyle to match the clean look he had just moments before his FreakLabAccident, as well as exaggerated facial details to express his MinorInjuryOverreaction.
* AscendedExtra:
** The Spot[=/=]Jonathan Ohnn is a minor IneffectualSympatheticVillain in the Spider-Man [[RoguesGallery Rogues' Gallery]], and as a result has only appeared in two previous pieces of Spider-Man media where he was still a minor antagonist (''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan''). This film bumps him to being both the BigBad and Miles' ArchEnemy, which is far above his comic counterpart's level of prominence.
** '''Literally.''' He goes from having, at most, five seconds of screentime in the first movie as the "Bagel!" scientist to being the BigBad in the sequels.
* AtrociousAlias: He introduces himself as The Spot. Cue Miles bursting out laughing.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Spot has a tendency to get distracted a ''lot'' by minor details that gets within his line of sight.
* AxCrazy: He already had signs of instability beneath his goofy and incompetent exterior, particularly his genuine seething hatred for Miles, but what was left of his sanity basically vanishes after he absorbs Mumbattan's Super Collider and becomes a full-blown CosmicFlaw. Afterwards, his only thoughts are about destroying everything Miles has ever loved.
* TheBadGuyWins: By the end of ''Across the Spider-Verse'', he's succeeded in gaining the notoriety he spent the whole movie seeking by upgrading himself into a full-blown CosmicFlaw, an entity Miles has to take seriously.
* BaldOfEvil: Due to the Super Collider mutating his body into something entirely different, he's lost the ability to grow hair and doesn't have a single strand of hair on his head or anywhere else.
* BeingEvilSucks: {{Zigzagged}}. He expresses anger over the loss of his personal relationships as a result of his transformation and how his silly-looking appearance means nobody takes him seriously, but he actually whole-heartedly embraces using his new powers for evil actions ranging from attempting (and failing) to rob an ATM to trying to fight Miles as his ArchEnemy. Part of this is implied to be his [[DrivenByEnvy envy over Miles' transformation]] into a superhero being something he had a hand in and [[EntitledBastard nobody respecting him for it]], desiring the same respect from his own mutation by becoming Miles' recurrent nemesis no matter what lengths he has to go to.
* BerserkButton: Being mocked or disrespected. When recounting the things his transformation has cost him in anger towards Miles, he verbally mentions his inability to see his family anymore, but the visual flashback of his memories shows him being mocked by a circle of his former colleagues, implying that the humiliation and anger he feels about his condition motivates him far more. When Miles utterly fails to recall any part of their prior history and treats him as a "Villain of the Week", he becomes unnervingly angry and charges at him in a feral rage whilst screaming about how he will ''make'' Miles respect him as a threat. Following his humiliating first defeat to Miles, he becomes utterly fixated on becoming stronger and more dangerous with his powers despite the personal risk out of sheer spite towards how he has been "mistreated" by his hated foe, and willingly discards what trace remnants there are of his former humanity just so Miles will take him seriously as his ArchEnemy.
--> '''The Spot:''' ''(at Miles)'' You'll finally have [[ArchEnemy a villain worth fighting]] and ''[[BewareTheSillyOnes I won't be JUST A JOKE TO YOU]]!!''
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's blatantly comical from the moment he appears, being an incompetent "villain of the week" who can't stop [[ThatCameOutWrong blathering about his holes]], quite literally kicking his own ass or being flustered when Miles [[AtrociousAlias laughs at his name]], but [[ThinkingUpPortals his powerset]] scales up the more he's able to charge it, such that [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass despite his buffoonery]], he's able to become a monolithic threat that's said to be Miles's "most formidable foe yet".
* BigBad: The primary threat of ''Across the Spider-Verse''. Initially considered a D-lister, The Spot hones his abilities to become a multiversal threat and his intent to make Miles suffer for his condition drives the plot of the film's first half. Even when Miguel takes over as the HeroAntagonist in the second half, The Spot's impending return to Miles' universe and murder of Jefferson Morales still makes him the ''overall'' threat, and Miles
* BigBadEnsemble: With Miguel O'Hara for ''Across the Spider-Verse''. The Spot aims to destroy everything Miles cares for in retaliation for being turned into what he is now, but Miguel's insistence on ensuring the "canon" event of this conflict--the death of Jefferson Morales--makes him
* BizarreAlienBiology: After his accident, Jonathan Ohn's body underwent several bizarre changes when he became The Spot. He lacks any human sensory organs yet can perfectly hear, see, smell, taste and feel just fine. He lacks a mouth yet can speak fluidly without problem. He can get hurt yet never gets wounded from any damage he can take and the spot in his face serve as both an eye and a mouth at the same time. Can fully touch and pull out dark multi-dimensional matter from his own skin like a band-aid and attach it anywhere he wish. Not to mention surviving getting blasted by collider-beams at multiple occasions and walk out from it with only more dark matter onto him as the only difference. All of this only distancing him from humanity even further, before he intentionally started figure out how his new body functions.
* TheBlank: A large portal blot appears to cover his facial features, but when it's moved there's nothing underneath. Despite this, he can still talk, hear, see, and eat. The black spot on his face can retract sometimes like a pupil which allows him to emote somewhat. If you look closely, you can also see that he's literally a blank character design, as you can clearly see the sketch layer from where the fine details would be added.
* BlessedWithSuck: His opinion of his condition and what it has done to his life professionally and personally is a very bleak one, leaving him with little choice but to turn to a life of crime that he fails abysmally at on his first day due to his PowerIncontinence getting the better of him constantly to his chagrin. However, this opinion turns around once he realizes he's, in fact, CursedWithAwesome when he grasps the full extent of [[RealityWarper his abilities that's possible with his usage of portals]] and, once he masters them, he firmly believes he was ''[[FromNobodyToNightmare destined]]'' for this amount of power all along.
* BodyHorror: He states to Miles plainly that, unfortunately for both of them, the holes on him are actually ''a part'' of his body. [[ApologeticAttacker Miles is quick to give his sympathies]]. Rockets further into this territory after honing his powers and becoming a TranshumanAbomination, beginning to violently glitch in and out of reality and {{Undercrank}}ing rapidly at all times.
* ButtMonkey: First, his life is ruined when he gets mutated into a freak, leaving him shunned by his own family, mocked by people for his appearance, and unable to get any job, forcing him to turn to crime to survive. After that, he constantly gets hurt, mocked, and embarrassed until he gets the idea to use Super-Colliders to make himself more powerful.
* CallBack: Rewatching ''Into'' after ''Across'', one may notice that Miles' graffiti for his ''Great Expectations'' school project looks familiar, as it's a black, featureless human with a white outline over an abstract background of greens and purples...just like the Spot when he first obtains his new [[TranshumanAbomination more powerful form.]]
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: A random extra among the scientists who appears for five seconds in the first movie, he ends up becoming the Spot.
* CardCarryingVillain: Taken to a horrifying degree. After having his whole life destroyed and seeing Miles as the source of his misery, he decided to become a villain so powerful that Miles will have no other choice than to respect him as his ArchEnemy after he takes everything and everyone Miles' has ever loved. In other words, because of Miles' status as TheHero, he decides to be the bad guy in order to make him suffer.
* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that random scientist that Miles chucked a bagel at in the first film? That was this guy. He even brings up this exact moment while explaining his backstory to Miles.
* CompositeCharacter: While he has the characterization and powers of his comics incarnation, resembles one-shot villain The Thousand in his motivations. Both are losers who had a prior grudge against Spider-Man before being transformed into monsters, hold themselves personally responsible for his creation, and feel entitled to the same respect. He also takes after the [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 Earth-120703 version of Electro]], both being ButtMonkey employees of a corrupt company that mutated into humanoid abominations while on the job, obsess over being recognized by Spider-Man and became serious threats once they mastered their abilities. Him being responsible for 1610B's Miles having Spider powers and plotting to murder Jefferson Davis is also taken from the second incarnation of Venom from ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan, Conrad Marcus.
* ConfusionFu: This is one of the main strengths of his portals during combat, as he is able to use them to both rapidly shift himself and his opponent around the environment to keep them disoriented as well as make it hard to hit him. At first, it almost as much of a detriment to himself as it is to Miles due to his lack of control, but when they meet again in Mumbattan, he's gotten a much better handle on them and is able to keep Miles and three other skilled spider-people on the ropes.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To The Kingpin:
** Kingpin is a feared criminal mastermind while The Spot is a nobody who starts the movie unable to rob an ATM.
** Kingpin ends up working with a group of other villains while The Spot acts as an independent antagonist.
** Kingpin is one of Spider-Man's most iconic villains while The Spot is an obscure D-Lister.
** Kingpin is a BadassNormal with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower while The Spot is a RealityWarper who got his powers by accident.
** Kingpin has an extremely bulky frame of pure muscle while The Spot is LeanAndMean.
** While both wish to exploit the multi-verse for selfish reasons, their reasons for doing so are quite different. Kingpin merely wanted his family back and the multiverse was just a mean to that end. And while he was thoroughly indifferent to collateral damage he may cause, it wasn't strictly intentional. The Spot wishes to use the multiverse to get {{Revenge}} on Miles and for his own personal gain.
** While Kingpin was thoroughly indifferent to collateral damage he may cause, it wasn't strictly intentional on his part. The Spot not only intentionally causes massive amounts of damage, he actively intends to use the multiverse to become a greater threat.
* CosmicFlaw: In his fully-powered state, he plainly looks out of place in ''every'' universe he's in, and if his {{Futureshadowing}} towards Miles is any indication, he can effortlessly destroy entire city blocks like a walking black hole.
* CostumeEvolution: Actually, that's not his costume, that's his skin. [[BodyHorror Yeah]]. But nevertheless, the spots in his skin increase both in size and number as he absorbs more dark energy. During the confrontation in Earth-50101B, he absorbs such a large quantity of dark energy that his design barely looks human anymore. He [[ArtShift stops being rendered in 3D to become what appears to be a being made out of said energy. He is more akin to a very rough sketch of a silhouette than anything now.]]
* CreateYourOwnHero: Alongside Olivia Octavius, Jonathan was responsible for building the Supercollider for Wilson Fisk, which makes him responsible not only for the radioactive spider from Earth-42 biting Miles, but responsible for the ''entire'' Spider Society across the multiverse as his actions led to Miguel discovering the anomalous backlashes across all reality and building an elite task force of Spider-people to deal with the consequences of his actions.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: His abilities have a very broad range of applications that could have made him a boon to the scientific community if not society as a whole, but he immediately chose to use them to commit crimes. To be fair, Alchemax never saw his potential post-mutation either and fired him.
* DarkIsEvil: After absorbing the Mumbattan's particle collider to get a massive power boost, he loses his [[TheNondescript featureless white appearance]] as his colors invert to a pitch black void, which matches his slip into becoming a multiversal OmnicidalManiac to get back at Miles.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype:
** The Spot is this to the IneffectualSympatheticVillain. Despite having abilities that are, on paper, ''ridiculously'' powerful--being able to create portals with his body--no one takes The Spot seriously, due to his petty crimes, jokey personality, and [[AtrociousAlias lousy villain name]]. He claims Miles is his nemesis and they're each other's origin stories, but Miles has no idea who he is, and dismissively calls him a "Villain of the Week," a sentiment all the Spider-People share. And this ''pisses him the hell off'', starting him on a quest to change that. Turns out, his gripes with Miles are ''true''; his actions did lead to Miles becoming Spider-Man, and Miles' actions in turn did lead to him becoming a HumanoidAbomination and his life being turned upside down. Understandably, being treated as a joke does ''not'' please him, and the fact that no one takes him seriously enables him to run rampant through the multiverse and figure out the full extent of his powers and become ''much'' stronger than he was before. And now, he's no longer content with killing just Miles; he wants to destroy Miles' life the way Miles (unintentionally and unknowingly) destroyed his, by targeting his loved ones... and possibly destroying his world. Lesson: if you don't take your bad guys seriously, they just might give you a reason to.
** Of BigBadWannabe. Johnny desperately wants to be Spider-Man's archenemy but appears largely incompetent with his powers and unable to handle a straight-forward fight. Unfortunately, it's his drive to be a big threat that means he ''can'' become one, as his determination is combined with his pre-existing skills to take risks with large rewards; he replicates the dangerous dark-matter explosion that initially gave him his powers, gaining a massive increase to his powerset - a powerset he steadily improves with. These factors enable him to absorb an even larger amount of dark matter, and as a result, he becomes '''exactly''' as powerful an enemy he set out to be, and then some.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Proves to have an even worse case of this than Miles, who ironically called him out for using the term "ATM machine" when the ''M'' already stands for ''Machine''. When Pavitr later on accuses him of being the type who would say "naan bread"/"bread-bread" and "chai tea"/"tea-tea"([[HypocriticalHumor which Miles himself did]]), he agrees that ''[[StrangeMindsThinkAlike he does loves chai tea]]'', [[BerserkButton setting the latter off]].
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: After his transformation, Jonathan Ohnn effectively lost his life and everything he knew. At his core, the Spot is a lonely man who wants to belong and finds said belonging in becoming the ArchEnemy of the Spider-Man he helped create. When Miles, and the rest of the Spider Society (sans [[NoNonsenseNemesis Miguel]]) laugh him off as a joke, he lashes out and becomes a CosmicFlaw that threatens existence itself, all to prove his detractors wrong and cement himself as a worth adversary for Miles.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He rarely thinks anything through. His first meeting with Miles goes so poorly for him because he expected himself to be able to go toe to toe with Spider-Man despite having no training whatsoever. Even when he becomes a serious threat, he does so by worsening his condition and planning to massacre New York, something that would destroy any chances of returning to the normal life he claimed to value.
* DimensionalTraveller: His body is covered in interdimensional portals that can teleport him anywhere he needs to be.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's the undisputed main antagonist of the first half of ''Across the Spider-Verse'', but once he absorbs the power of Mumbattan's particle collider he escapes into the multiverse and the rest of the film focuses on Miles' ideological conflict with Miguel O'Hara and the Spider-Society, with the Spot remaining at large by the end. An unusual example, as he's very clearly the bigger threat and his escape is to set him up as the primary antagonist of the sequel.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Is treated as a joke by Miles in the beginning despite the Spot proclaiming how he's Spider-Man's ArchEnemy, which repeatedly gets on his nerves during their fight as he tries to make himself more menacing than he actually is. However, once he hones his powers and becomes a RealityWarper after evolving into a full on TranshumanAbomination, he ''earns'' Miles's (and the rest of the multiverse's) undivided attention as [[TheDreaded the single most dangerous being in the entirety of existence.]]
* EnergyAbsorption: The Spot's portals have a finite power source, so once he burns through that, he is just a normal, weird-looking dude. To regain his powers, he has to absorb dark energy from collider reactions like the one that created him.
* EntitledBastard: Spot expects Miles to immediately view him as his ArchEnemy despite his gross incompetence, and generally seems to expect people to automatically respect him without doing anything to earn it. His MotiveRant implies he feels that him having accidentally helped give Miles his powers means he should be just as adored, and completely ignores his own part in having ruined his own life.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: PlayedForLaughs at multiple points:
** Despite being a thief himself, The Spot doesn't try to steal from people explicitly, instead targeting stuff like [=ATMs=] which he, [[InsaneTrollLogic justifies]] as him stealing from the banks that manage such machines which he considers the "[[MorallyBankruptBanker real criminals]]".
** Repeatedly calls Miles out for [[SeriousBusiness not treating their first fight seriously]] and being plain disrespectful, even texting to his father while in a fight, to which the Spot snidely remarks that "he'll turn off his phone in a theater, but not during their fight".
** He's ''horrified'' by the possibility of being culturally insensitive when Pavitr calls out [[UglyAmericanStereotype his choice of words]] about "[[JourneyToFindOneself finding himself]]" after coming to Mumbattan to steal power from it's Alchemax's supercollider, quickly trying to correct his meaning.
** The one standard he has that's played seriously though is his tendency to avoid harming bystanders (at least intentionally and so long as they aren't a means explicitly to hurt his {{Archenemy}} by his personal attachment to them) seeing how he'd rather just quietly steal ATM rather than get into a confrontation trying to violently rob the clerk of the local bodega and later using his powers to simply portal the Alchemax employees out of the collider control room in Mumbattan to prevent them from interfering rather than trying to harm them. However, after his evolution into a full-fledged CosmicFlaw his complete indifference to the mass destruction he inadvertantly causes implies this standard is [[PragmaticVillainy more a case of not caring to harm others]] rather than actual concern about their wellbeing.
* EvilCounterpart:
** His claim that he's Miles' nemesis holds merit when you realize how similar they are, unfortunately for Miles.
*** Both are very book-smart, especially when it comes to science, and ''will'' figure out how to use that knowledge in-battle.
*** Both got their powers "thanks" to Kingpin's experiments with the multiverse and, as Spot points out, they created one another, as Miles was bitten by a radioactive spider that Ohn and Octavius teleported from another universe, while Spot became...[[BodyHorror that]] after an incident with dark matter when the collider exploded thanks to Miles.
*** Both him and Miles started out as an ineffectual villain and hero respectively, with lots of PowerIncontinence and really no clue on what to do with their new lives as superbeings.
*** However, both then grow across their arcs by both honing their abilities until they become very effective and crafty in using them and by gaining confidence. Though it should be noted that, while it's 100% training on Miles' part, on the Spot's it was training that made him more competent at using his portals but what increased his power wasn't training, but an "absorbing the power from a supercollider" shortcut.
*** They both were dismissed by the Spider-People around them as incompetent, as the Spider-Gang in the first film agreed the insecure, power-incontinent Miles was just not ready to be Spider-Man yet, to his devastation, while Spot is derided by Miles, Gwen, and every other Spider-Person outside of Miguel as a harmless, pathetic "cow-man" they could throw behind bars easy-peasy, to his ''fury''.
*** They both start donning a mostly black costume (or skin in the Spot's case) once they've finally become a real deal.
*** Both of their journeys to self-improvement involved a [[ArcWords leap of faith]]: in the first film, Miles made a literal leap off a building in the famous "What's Up Danger?" sequence, while the Spot had to, at one point, make a figurative, but much more serious leap when, in order to regain holes and travel through dimensions, he created a minicollider in his apartment and touched it, while knowing it could've disintegrated him then and there. One difference among them stands out here, however: if Miles had fumbled his leap, the ensuing fall would've harmed him and him alone; the Spot, meanwhile, casually mentions that if he fumbled his leap he'd have destroyed himself and everything (and everyone) else in the building, but went for it anyway, because hurting Miles was [[EvilIsPetty worth the risk]] to him. This sets a contrast between the responsible hero Miles and the selfish villain Spot.
*** Both operate on a "petty" level in the grand scope of the multiverse, but in different ways: when Miguel asks Miles if he'd rather save one person (his father, Jefferson Davis, who is set to die as a "canon event" for Miles) or an entire universe, Miles wants to TakeAThirdOption and save everyone, but also chooses his father without hesitation, to Miguel's fury; the Spot also prioritizes Miles' loved ones...but [[RevengeByProxy in the worst possible way as, after finally gaining the power of the multiverse, the Spot wants to use that great power for petty spite and to kill all of Miles' loved ones]]. Of course, Miles' "pettiness" makes him more sympathetic, as he's a
*** A more minor similarity: they both piss off Pavitr [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment by calling chai "chai tea"]].
*** On a metatextual level, both he and Miles are motivated by a desire to [[ScrewDestiny break free from their own narrative]]; Miles doesn't want to lose any more loved ones, Spot doesn't want to be an IneffectualSympatheticVillain.
** Spot is also a counterpart to ''Miguel'', to the point of being a {{foil}}.
*** Miguel traveled the multiverse and apparently killed a universe because he wanted a family and took the place of his counterpart, while Spot is a narcissist who wants to be a CardCarryingVillain and is apparently unique in the ''entire'' multiverse.
*** Miguel is driven to extreme lengths out of guilt, while Spot doesn't want to be treated like a joke.
*** Miguel works with a massive team of heroes, while Spot used to be part of Alchemax (evil scientists) and now works alone.
*** Miguel hates Miles as a dangerous "anomaly", while Spot hates Miles because he thinks Miles is responsible for his creation. Both are projecting their own responsibility for what they did onto Miles, but Miguel "knows" his actions hurt countless people, while Spot refuses to admit his fate is his own fault.
*** Spot is a skinny guy in white with random ink-blots and sketch lines. Miguel is muscular, in a blue-black HardLight suit with geometric red light patterns. Miguel can remove his suit at any time, while Spot's "suit" is actually his body.
*** Spot risks the multiverse to be taken seriously, while Miguel tries to ''protect'' what he sees as the proper order of the multiverse.
*** Miguel is extremely competent, but Spot is initially so incompetent he literally and figuratively kicks his own butt. Both rely on absorbing external sources to gain power.
*** Miguel dismisses Miles as an "anomaly", while Spot dismisses all the other Spiders ''but'' Miles.
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: He attempts to coolly introduce himself as a mighty fiend to Miles, which utterly fails due to his AtrociousAlias, the fact Miles had already been watching Spot getting beaten up by the convenience store owner in his bungled robbery, and a loaf of bread immediately falls out of the spot on his torso.
* FatBastard: He's got a noticeable paunch belly despite his otherwise lanky build, and he's a supervillain who becomes a threat to the multiverse, though he incidentally loses the belly after powering himself up.
* FatalFlaw: [[DidntThinkThisThrough Short-sightedness]]. Spot almost never thinks anything he does through. He attempts to set himself up as Miles's nemesis while still struggling to control his powers, barely thinks his robbery through, and never bothers learning to control his abilities for at least six months. The only reason he became the Spot is because he stupidly tried to stuck around during the climatic battle in the Collider room in the first movie trying to smuggle dark matter rather than fleeing, and even when he becomes a threat he only worsens his condition to hurt Miles rather than trying to find a cure somewhere in the multiverse.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's friendly, bumbling, and always polite even to his robbery victims, to the point he comes across as barely even evil at all. As his grudge with Miles becomes increasingly clear, the Spot is revealed to be extremely ruthless and willing to endanger the multiverse for the sake of revenge. By the end of ''Across'', he makes it clear his plan is to massacre New York just to kill Jefferson and make Miles suffer, all while keeping the same amiable demeanour.
* FreakLabAccident: He is turned into a superpowered freak by being exposed to Dark Matter during the explosion of the Super Collider.
* FreudianExcuse: The Spot's life was irreversibly ruined by his mutation, as it caused his friends and family to ostracize him and cost him all his job prospects. Being that his mutation was an indirect result of Miles destroying the Super Collider, he blames Miles for what he turned into. Miles humiliating him during his first outing as a supervillain and refusal to take him seriously ultimately cause him to completely snap, and he decides to take away everyone Miles loves so that Miles will finally understand the level of hatred he holds towards him.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: As it turns out, the Spot is actually one of the background Alchemax scientists (Jonathan Ohnn) who was a part of Wilson Fisk's project to create the Super-Collider in the first film. He was there at the facility when Miles blew up the collider during the final battle, which resulted in him receiving the side effects that turned him into what he is in the present. Because of this, he holds a strong grudge against Miles, whom he blamed for his current predicament, and seeks to become Miles's archnemesis and destroy everything he holds dear. Eventually, his quest to become more powerful threatens the entire multiverse itself.
* {{Futureshadowing}}: After reaching his full potential by absorbing the dark energy in Mumbattan, he seemingly gains the ability to see into the future and, presumably, tap into the Web of Life and Destiny itself. He reveals to Miles vague visions of the future, such as the death of [[HeroKiller several Spider-People by his hands, and the two upcoming canon events: both the death of Inspector Singh and Miles's dad, Captain Morales.]]
-->'''Miles:''' What was that?!\\
'''The Spot:''' [[AC:Our future. I'm going to take everything from you, like you took everything from me.]]
* GiverOfLameNames: His own nom de guerre is the goofy sounding "The Spot", and he can't come up with anything more classy than "dimensional juice" for the stuff he's experimenting with.
-->''"Branding was never my strong suit."''
* GreaterScopeVillain: Through the single act of bringing a radioactive spider from one universe to his own, Johnny single-handedly changed that universe's fate, creating a world where the Sinister Six- and another certain villain - rule New York unopposed with no Spider-Man to protect it. Miguel reveals that this in turn resulted in the death of Earth-1610's Peter Parker, kicking off the plot of ''Into'' and bringing the multiverse to Spider-Man 2099's attention. And ''that'' led to the creation of the Spider-Society when Miguel's attempt to take an alternate version of himself's life for his own made him realize the existence of Canon Events and the dangers of impeding them no matter how awful they are. Add all this together with Johnny being one of the top scientists working on the Collider, and this makes the Spot one of the most important figures in the ''Spider-Verse'' film series.
* GreenEyedMonster: It's very heavily implied that the Spot is jealous of Miles's fame. He's responsible for Miles's creation, and thus views himself as entitled to the same amount of respect.
* HadToBeSharp: Part of what turns him from D-Lister to a cosmic threat is how ''fast'' he learns how to use his powers just to keep up with Miles.
* HeCleansUpNicely: A photo of him in his apartment shows that in the past he had [[SeriouslyScruffy long shaggy hair and a scruffy beard]], but his flashback to when he got his powers shows him much more well-groomed with his hair cut short. His scruffy look is also in a notable amount of his concept art, which also shows him working diligently implying why.
* HeroKiller: The scene {{Futureshadowing}} his intent to Miles shows one such glimpse of Spot hovering over a decimated city with hundreds of Spider People (presumably from the Spider Society) are strewn about, either defeated or flat out dead beneath him before he goes after [[RevengeByProxy Jefferson Morales.]]
* HowDoIShotWeb: His first robbery shows that he's not very skilled in controlling where his portals open up at desired locations. Then he figures out how they work and gets a hell of a lot more dangerous.
* HumanoidAbomination: Bordering on {{Transhuman Abomination}}. His accident left him as a completely featureless individual with completely bleached white skin, black wormholes on his body and no face anymore although can still see, hear and speak normally. Fully becomes a TranshumanAbomination after honing his powers further as a CosmicFlaw and becoming a full-on horror for the entire multiverse.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his enmity towards Miles over his mutation, Spot very quickly embraces his powers as a gift when he figures out the sheer scale of them.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: He has a distinct desire to be taken seriously. His hatred towards Miles only grows due to being treated as a VillainOfTheWeek.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: It's implied his grudge against Spider-Man stems less from revenge and more from the Spot wanting to live out his fantasies of being a feared supervillain. He never entertains even trying to go back to his old life, and once he figures out how to control his powers he deliberately worsens his condition so he'll finally be Spider-Man's ArchEnemy.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: He's obsessed with being taken seriously as Spider-Man's ArchEnemy, which takes the form of him constantly trying to sell himself as a much bigger deal than he actually is, insisting that he's Miles' personal nemesis with a deep and meaningful connection who's destined to be his greatest enemy, when in reality he's (initially) just a
* InkSuitActor: His face before his transformation is designed after his voice actor, Jason Schwartzman, down to having a mole in the same spot on his face.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: A villain who somehow manages to fit the trope. The Spot is [[PoliticallyCorrectVillain not]] racist, but Pavitr sees him as yet another shallow western tourist on a trip through the "mystical" land of India when the supervillain words his goal of becoming more powerful through Mumbattan's collider as "being on a journey of self-improvement". The Spot later unintentionally presses Pavitr's BerserkButton when lightheartedly expressing his love for [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "chai tea"]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: He engages in this multiple times, such as begging the store owner he's stealing from to not impede his act of theft (since he has
* ItsAllAboutMe: Everything comes second to Spot's own personal goals and desires. He proves willing to endanger innocent people's lives and destroy entire dimensions just so he can have his revenge on Miles, of which the desire for revenge itself mainly comes from feeling denied the respect he feels entitled to for supposedly being Miles' ArchEnemy.
* IWasQuiteALooker: While explaining his TragicBackstory to the bodega owner, he claims that before his transformation, he was “handsome by scientist standards”... ''which isn't too far off''. {{Flashback}}s have shown that he looked decent during the events of ''Into'', which also suggests that his shaggy look in the photo with Olivia above was taken a period [[SheCleansUpNicely before he cleaned himself up]]. Even then, his shaggier appearance wasn't too bad either, making him come across as an UnkemptBeauty. [[AllForNothing Not that it matters anymore...]]
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: He starts out as an inept small-time crook who isn't particularly malicious and was pushed into robbery due to being ostracized for his condition. However, his desire for revenge and his obsession with being Miles's ArchEnemy lead to him becoming increasingly ruthless to accomplish both. By the end of the film, he's willing to kill countless innocent people just to make sure Miles suffers.
* JustifiedCriminal: He claims to be one, anyway. During his attempted robbery of a bodega, Spot points out his condition means he can't get a normal job and that's why he's resorted to crime.
* LaughablyEvil: Very much so. He starts out so hilariously pathetic and has many hilarious moments. Even when he starts becoming more competent of a villain after successfully traveling to Earth-50101, he still has moments where he interacts with the
* LeanAndMean: He has a bit of a paunch, but his limbs are noticeably noodly, though it more conveys his awkwardness than it does his villainous nature. Him losing the paunch after powering himself up does lead to his overall design looking much more threatening.
* LiteralAssKicking: He accidentally inflicts this upon ''himself'', no less. During his MotiveRant about his DarkAndTroubledPast when Miles
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* MadScientist: He's a genuinely talented scientist who uses his smarts to empower himself, and beneath his goofy exterior he holds a very violent obsession with revenge against Miles.
* MaskOfSanity: He's clumsy, goofy, and can actually be pretty affable with strangers. However, when it comes to Miles, every interaction belies the genuine seething hatred The Spot has towards him. The mask drops completely after he turns himself into a TranshumanAbomination, as he openly becomes singularly focused on killing everyone Miles cares about.
* MisplacedRetribution: The Spot blaming Miles for detonating the Super-Collider and turning him into a BlessedWithSuck mutant loudly ignores the fact that it was Kingpin and Doctor Octopus who not only made it, but turned it on knowing the dangers it posed to the multiverse; it's roughly akin to blaming a firefighter for accidentally hitting you with a hose while trying to put out a forest fire that burned you. It also ignores that ''he himself'' was a minion knowingly working for these supervillains and the one who decided to stick around and try to carry out a canister of dark matter while the facility was going to pot all around him; [[InsaneTrollLogic which makes this analogous to an arsonist getting caught in the fire that he started and blaming the firefighter for not pulling him out of the fire in time to prevent him from being burned]]. However, considering Kingpin's in prison and Doctor Octopus has vanished, this is likely due to him simply not having anyone else to blame ([[NeverMyFault aside from himself]]).
* MistakenForRacist: PlayedForLaughs and {{Downplayed|Trope}}. When he says he's on a journey of self-improvement, Spider Man-India assumes this is why he went to India, believing he's playing into the MysticalIndia stereotype. This leaves the Spot briefly, yet awkwardly [[NotWhatItLooksLike trying to explain he didn't mean it like that]].
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: The Spot's power is so immensely existential that he threatens the ''entire multiverse'' just by existing in spite of his almost comical, goofy personality. Then he decides to use this power ''intentionally'' to rob Miles of everyone that he loves.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: The Spot appears
* CurbStompBattle:
* MirrorCharacter: To Miles himself, to the point of being almost ''a self portrait'' of each other; [[ForWantOfANail they both have had a wrench thrown in their lives]] that has afforded them a great amount of power that makes them genuinely unique in the multiverse but in the eyes of others, they are ''not'' treated particularly well; either being considered a VillainOfTheWeek (in Spot's case) or JustAKid (in Miles's) by particularly everyone they run into and don't give them the respect they deserve... which leads to them, through indignation, showing up those who looked down on them and [[UnderestimatingBadassery proving themselves to be far greater than they were initially considered to be]] that has everyone facing them re-evaluate their prior treatment of them.
* MoralMyopia: He wants personal revenge against Miles for accidental collateral damage in Miles' fight with Kingpin in the supercollider in the last movie, but he's perfectly fine with causing a ton of collateral damage in his quest, including tearing the very fabric of the multiverse.
* MotiveRant: Gives one to Miles at the climax of their second confrontation, not only does he reveal his true identity as the [[AscendedExtra scientist he threw a bagel at]] back in Alchemax, who had previously run a test that caused the [[CreateYourOwnHero very same spider that gave Miles his powers]] to arrive to Earth-1610B, but he also reveals that he was caught in the Super-Collider explosion, [[BodyHorror resulting in his body being deformed to such an extent]] that he can hardly be considered human anymore; with his co-workers and even his own family being terrified of him, with the latter not even wanting to look at him. He holds Miles to blame, as he was responsible for the explosion in the first place, and vows his revenge by taking everything away from him, just as he did to him.
-->'''The Spot:''' Because of you, I lost my job, my life, '''[[TheBlank my face!]]''' My family won't even look at me!
* NeverHurtAnInnocent: While he's willing to engage in thievery and ethically dubious science, he refuses to attack random civilians if they don't have any connection to Miles and [[PetTheDog personally evacuates the scientists from Mumbattan's particle collider]]. It's implied this goes out the window once he transforms himself into a living CosmicFlaw.
* NeverMyFault: Even though the accident that mutated him happened as a result of experiments he was actively participating in and, even more directly, of the fragile canister of dark matter he was trying to carry out of the Super-Collider facility in his arms while the Spider-Gang were raiding it, the Spot persistently blames Miles and Miles alone for his predicament.
* NoRespectGuy: After his mutation, the guy couldn't catch a break. He was the object of ridicule by his former coworkers, gets nearly beaten up by a bodega owner he failed to rob, is treated as a joke by Miles, and is labelled a VillainOfTheWeek by the other Spider-People. Then he figures out how to use his powers and proceeds to make himself powerful enough to become a threat to the multiverse.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: His first outing has him failing to rob a bodega and barely able to control his portal powers. Once he figures out how to use his powers effectively, he becomes a multiversal threat.
* OneWingedAngel: After absorbing all of the energy from the Super-Collider in Earth-50101, [[FromBadToWorse he goes from a]][[CosmicFlaw creepy]] {{Humanoid Abomination}} to a full on [[TranshumanAbomination transhuman]] RealityWarper, with his appearance changing from having white skin with black ink blots to doodled black skin with white ink blots. He gains the power to threaten and destroy the entire ''multiverse'' too.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: While robbing a bodega's ATM, once the owner catches on and attacks him with a bat, Spot panickily babbles various reasons that he ought to be allowed to get away with it, including that he's not robbing the store but the banks and because "they're the real criminals!" trying to stop him makes you the bad guy, or declaring that he's "[[JustLikeRobinHood like Robin Hood]] if [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he gave to himself]]!". The owner is unimpressed.
-->'''Owner:''' You're the real criminal! You're ''robbing'' me!
* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: He's many things, but racist isn't one of them, as he apologizes to Pavitr after he takes his "journey of self-discovery" comment the wrong way.
* PortalCrossroadWorld: As it turns out, there is one ''inside'' of himself. [[ItMakesSenseInContext After he kicks himself in the butt]], he gets sucked in by one of his own holes, he ends up in a {{Pocket|Dimension}} BlankWhiteVoid EldritchLocation that he describes to be "inside of him", which is full of holes, each leading to different universes. This reveals that these aren't ''just'' traditional intradimensional portals[[note]]Portals that work in only one dimension[[/note]], but multiversal portals.
* PortalCut: The aftermath of charging his powers with a mini-collider are holes of various sizes completely bored through the walls of his apartment. Similar holes appear in a straight line to Mumbattan's supercollider in his wake. He even makes a scissor gesture with his hands, complete with a small "Snip!" appearing onscreen, to create a small portal to sever the web line keeping him from entering the active collider.
* PortableHole: His superpower is the ability to manipulate the holes on his body and place them wherever he wants at any size, even midair, and travel through them to wherever else he wants, however he needs a source for his holes and is unable to conjure them up on the spot. When he accidentally discovered he can travel across dimensions using them but loses all his holes in doing so, he created a mini-collider in his room to regain one before using it to outright travel to the Alchemaxes of the other dimensions to absorb the holes from their industrial-sized colliders.
* PosthumanNudism: The Spot [[NotAMask clarifies to Miles]] that he's not wearing a bodysuit; everything you see is his bare skin. Despite being ashamed of his appearance, he's stopped wearing any clothes after his transformation. Miles is disturbed to learn this, but [[NonhumansLackAttributes no one sees anything they call obscene]], giving the uncomfortable implication that the Spot lost more body parts than the ones on his face...
* PowerEchoes: After absorbing the energy from the Supercollider to reach his maximum potential, the Spot gains an otherworldly reverb to his voice that further implies how just ''[[TranshumanAbomination monstrous]]'' he's become by becoming a full-fledged CosmicFlaw.
* PowerFloats: After he reaches full power, he gains the ability to levitate in midair.
* PowerIncontinence: Extreme anger causes him to expel portals randomly which have the potential of teleporting him somewhere he doesn't want to go or bringing in debris that gets in his way.
* ThePowerOfHate: His hatred for Miles is what motivates him to study and expand his powers to terrifying levels.
* PowersDoTheFighting: His ThinkingUpPortals power does 99% of the fighting for him during his first few
* PunchClockVillain: Prior to his mutation, he was just an Alchemax scientist. This meant he assisted Doctor Octopus and the Kingpin in creating the Super Collider and was one of the many scientists who chased after Miles and Peter B. in the first movie, but it was ostensibly just a normal job to him. It definitely doesn't apply anymore, as he's wholeheartedly embraced being a supervillain after his condition got him
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: The victim of this. One would think that The Spot's mutation would make him incredibly beneficial to Alchemax, considering their involvement in inter-dimensional research. However, it instead got him fired and laughed at by his former coworkers. However, [[BlessedWithSuck seeing how even he himself]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway didn't see much worth in his own powers originally]] before finding out [[WeaponizedTeleportation what they are actually capable of doing]], they probably thought his powers would only hinder their research.
* RemovedAchillesHeel: In his normal form, the white parts of him are vulnerable to harm, assuming he isn't able to shift his holes to cover them, allowing his foes to strike back if they can anticipate his attacks or take him off guard. After absorbing enough power, he is effectively made of holes with barely any of himself left visible, making it unclear if it's even possible to harm him directly.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: He's capable of travelling to different universes using his portals. Unlike the Spider-People, he doesn't need secondary technology to keep his cells from dying out whenever he isn't in his home universe.
* RevengeByProxy: After being ridiculed nonstop and [[DudeWheresMyRespect given absolutely
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Similar to the Kingpin in ''Into'', Spot in the comics is an enemy of Peter Parker's Spider-Man, but has rarely encountered Miles Morales, much less become his ArchEnemy.
* SanitySlippage: After Ohnn's transformation which outcasted himself from society, all he wanted to do was to make his world's Spider-Man lose everything and to treat him with respect as a worthy villain. This selfish and insecure attitude only makes him more deadly and unhinged since he began to evolve his powers and learn to better use them. By the end of ''ATSV'', he has become a threat to the Multiverse as a whole, foreshadowing his countless destruction of universes and ultimately his original universe. It's no surprise that Spot likely has no qualms destroying all of existence if it means reaching his goals.
* SarcasmBlind: When Pavitr accuses the Spot of being yet another shallow western tourist with a stereotypical outlook on Indian culture, he starts sarcastically asking Spot if he wants some spices or maybe some naan bread, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "which is like saying 'bread bread', which is like saying 'chai tea'!"]] Without skipping a beat, naïve ol' Spot responds that he loves chai tea.
* SeriousBusiness: It turns out that he was the one that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Miles threw a bagel at]] in the first movie. He apparently took it ''very'' personally as he recaps it to Miles as a part of his MotiveRant and in an angry tone, too.
* ShadowArchetype: He and Miles have a lot in common; both are book-smart, intelligent rookies with a lot of potential and [[NoRespectGuy who aren't given respect by their peers]]. However, where Miles is motivated by selflessness and a desire to help people, the Spot is inherently selfish and is obsessed with gaining infamy and revenge. And where Miles won't let even one person die for the greater good, the Spot is willing to let entire dimensions die for the same of his own personal gain.
* ShoutOut: His OneWingedAngel form's animation style heavily resembles [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann the Anti-Spiral]], and by that point he's become a HumanoidAbomination of universe-threatening power.
* SmallNameBigEgo: A large part of Spot's enmity with Miles isn't just blaming him for his creation, but the fact that he accidentally brought the spider that gave Miles his powers into their dimension. Spot holds himself personally responsible for his creation, and feels personally entitled to being just as respected as a result. However, a FreezeFrameBonus in the same scene shows that the spider was heading towards its native Earth-42 version of Miles before it was teleported away, meaning it was always "destined" to bite a Miles Morales and turn him into Spider-Man. Whilst Spot is correct that his actions have a large hand in it being "this" Miles who became a hero, he acts like the Miles Morales Spider-Man wouldn't exist at all without him, showcasing his petty ego underneath his legitimate grievances with his transformation.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Jonathan Ohnn's screentime in the first film amounts to a cameo--the guy Miles hit with the bagel--but he's responsible for bringing the spider that bit Miles into their universe, setting in motion the latter's entire journey to become Spider-Man. [[AscendedExtra He gets a]] [[BigBad much bigger role]] in the sequels.
* SmarterThanYouLook: From the way he looks and acts, one would not believe that he actually is a scientist as he claims to be. But he's still every bit of the scientist he once was back when he had a face and proves it by how quickly he figures out the nature of his powers and his vast knowledge regarding the workings, construction and operation of the Super-Collider.
* SnowballingThreat: He starts off as an incompetent goofball who Miles and co. dismiss as an insignificant "villain of the week". However, as he gets more accustomed to his powers, his vendetta against Miles grows, and he figures out how to empower himself further, he becomes more and more dangerous until he ends ''Across the Spider-Verse'' as a danger to the multiverse.
* SoftSpokenSadist: Not initially, but as his threat level increases his tone quiets further and further. The Spot's pledge, after he distorts further into a TranshumanAbomination, to take everything Miles holds dear is hardly louder than a whisper.
* SpannerInTheWorks: By teleporting the mutated spider of Earth-42 to Miles' Earth, he unwittingly set in motion the entire plot for the Spider-Verse films, and he also ruined Earth-42 by preventing a Spider-Man from ever existing there.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When fighting in Mumbattan against Miles, Gwen, and Pavitr after his first level-up, in the middle of the CasualDangerDialogue between him and Pavitr, he comments how he likes "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Chai tea]]" not unlike Miles had just ''seconds'' before which presses Pavitr's BerserkButton in equal measure.
* ThatCameOutWrong: One humorous scene has him getting yelled at by two construction workers to "stop talking about [his] holes".
-->'''Worker:''' You're making everyone uncomfortable!
* ThinkingUpPortals: Is covered with portals that he can use to transport himself and use in fights. In the promotional image, he's seen using Miles's kick on him to kick Gwen in the face. As he gets more accustomed to his
* TookALevelInBadass: He starts out as an incompetent joke whose first defeat is the result of him literally kicking himself in the ass. However, from that incident, he figures out how his
* TragicVillain: ZigZagged. He was never particularly moral and gladly worked at [[EvilInc Alchemax]], but the BodyHorror he underwent after being caught in the Particle Accelerator's explosion left him a social pariah and ruined his career. Not only that, but Miles - who he [[NeverMyFault wrongfully]] blames for
-->'''The Spot:''' ''(to Miles)'' We're finally living up to our potential: You'll finally have [[{{Archenemy}} a villain]] worth fighting and ''[[SuddenlyShouting I WON'T BE JUST A JOKE TO YOU]]!!''
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* TranshumanAbomination: After he finally masters his uncanny powers, he shows signs of abandoning his human nature and becoming a CosmicHorror. Particularly, in Miles' vision, the Spot looks so unnatural and bizarre that he wouldn't be out of place in ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles''.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Aside from [[NoNonsenseNemesis Miguel]], ''everyone'' thinks of the Spot as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who might have a potent power, but is dismissed as a "villain of the week" by pretty much everyone, even the people chasing him down from the Spider-Society, [[{{Archenemy}} especially Miles himself]]. However, by treating him as a second-hand minor threat that can be dealt with at their convenience, the Spot ultimately is able to hone his powers and become a horrific CosmicFlaw in the entirety of the multiverse and threaten the existence of everything by just ''existing''.
* UnknownRival: Miles has zero clue who he is at the start of ''Across the Spider-Verse'' and views him as just another random "villain of the week" to beat up and arrest. Things rapidly escalate as Miles learns just how obsessed Spot truly is with him, and what he plans to do [[TargetedToHurtTheHero to get back at him.]]
* {{Unperson}}: As far as human society sees it, The Spot's original identity as "Jonathan Ohn" simply ceased to exist after his incident with the Super-collider.
* UnreliableNarrator: While explaining his backstory, the Spot frames himself as having been an innocent victim who was unfairly transformed into a TranshumanAbomination and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hit with a bagel]] by Miles unprovoked. The flashback itself shows the truth; Spot had been trying to kill him during the bagel incident, and he was transformed when he [[TooDumbToLive tried to shield a canister of dark matter with his body]] when the collider exploded.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: One would think that someone with The Spot's appearance would stick out more in a crowd or in general, with his bare bones civilian "[[PaperThinDisguise disguise]]" being a simple open coat, hat and sunglasses. He doesn't, in fact people barely even acknowledge his existence with a spare glance, though in fairness it's implied that living in a city where Spider-Man fights various wacky supervillains semi-regularly has desensitized them to such strange appearances.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Horrifyingly averted. Over the course of the movie, the Spot figures out how his powers work and their true scale, going from a pathetic IneffectualSympatheticVillain to a multidimensional threat, and he's directing all that energy into making Miles suffer.
* VillainOfTheWeek: Deconstructed and ultimately averted. Treating someone whose life you indirectly ruined as someone who you're going to beat and move on from immediately is not a healthy idea at all. Miles' flippant attitude towards him in their first fight causes The Spot to go off the deep end and drives him to develop his powers further. The end result is the BigBad of the second and third films in the trilogy.
* VillainTeleportation: His entire modus operandi. His portals allow him to teleport himself and other people and objects through them.
* VillainyFreeVillain: Deconstructed. Spot doesn't have any
* WolverineClaws:
* VoiceOfTheLegion: He gains this when he gets truly pissed off at Miles during the ending of his MotiveRant and starts charging towards him. He permanently gains this after going OneWingedAngel from absorbing all of the energy from the Super-Collider of Mumbattan.
* WakeUpCallBoss: He serves as one for Pavitr, a relatively inexperienced Spider-Man who's coasted through the whole hero gig with ease up to that point. The battle in Mumbattan and Inspector Singh's near death is the first time Spider-Man India's truly been pushed to the edge.
* WalkingWasteland: Upon honing his powers, his portals gain a corrosive effect that can decay structures and cause them to collapse in on themselves over time, as shown with the Mumbattan Alchemax facility crumbling in half after absorbing the power of its own Supercollider.
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Miles - and most Spider-people in general - for their YouFightLikeACow schtick, calling it unnecessarily hurtful to their opponents. It pushes him to go actively JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope just so he'll finally be respected.
* WhosLaughingNow: It wasn't enough that The Spot already blamed Miles for what he turned into. Miles along with the other Spider-People sans Miguel treating him like a joke D-lister proceeded to invoke his wrath so thoroughly that he was pushed to master his powers so that he could destroy the multiverse as payback, starting with everyone Miles has
* YouCantThwartStageOne: What his arc amounts to in ''Across the Spider-Verse''. Stymied by how Miles keeps treating him as a "villain of the week," the Spot eventually finds out the full potential of his portal powers and decides to power up using another collider to embrace the full potential of his powers. He succeeds halfway through the movie, becoming a godlike TranshumanAbomination, and leaving Miles to spend the back half of the film dealing with his attempt to get back home before the Spot does.
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[[folder:Armadillo]]
!!Armadillo
!!!'''Voiced By''': N/A
!!!'''Appearances''': ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse Across the Spider-Verse]]''
A supervillain who attacks a train Miles was riding on.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Armadillo, obviously.
* BeTheBall: He rolls himself up when he's defeated, and Miles kicks him away like he's a soccer ball.
* BitPartBadGuys: He's just a random villain who has nothing to do with the main plot that Miles easily defeats on his way home.
* TheCameo: Only appears in one scene.
* CurbStompBattle: Miles defeats him in a few seconds by electrocuting him and kicking him away.
* MysteriousPast: We know absolutely nothing about his origins or his reasons for becoming a supervillain.
* TheVoiceless: Doesn't say any intelligible words.
* WolverineClaws: He has three long claws on each hand.
[[/folder]]
!!Armadillo
!!!'''Voiced By''': N/A
!!!'''Appearances''': ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse Across the Spider-Verse]]''
A supervillain who attacks a train Miles was riding on.
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* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Armadillo, obviously.
* BeTheBall: He rolls himself up when he's defeated, and Miles kicks him away like he's a soccer ball.
* BitPartBadGuys: He's just a random villain who has nothing to do with the main plot that Miles easily defeats on his way home.
* TheCameo: Only appears in one scene.
* CurbStompBattle: Miles defeats him in a few seconds by electrocuting him and kicking him away.
* MysteriousPast: We know absolutely nothing about his origins or his reasons for becoming a supervillain.
* TheVoiceless: Doesn't say any intelligible words.
* WolverineClaws: He has three long claws on each hand.
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