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Antagonists

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The Kingpin

Wilson Fisk / The Kingpin

"It's not always about the money, Spider-Man."

Voiced By: Liev Schreiber ^{Foreign VAs}Rubén Moya (Latin American Spanish), Erik Range (German), Björn Bengtsson (Swedish), Tesshō Genda (Japanese)

Appearances: Into the Spider-Verse

"The real Spider-Man couldn't even beat me! You're nothing!"

A powerful mob boss who dominates New York City of Miles's universe and the one responsible for opening a gateway to the other dimensions.

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• Action Dad: Father to Richard Fisk and a brutal, powerful juggernaut in hand-to-hand combat.
• Adaptational Badass
  • The Kingpin has been made the outright Big Bad of Spider-Man's Rogues Gallery, where in the comics he tends to share that role with Doc Ock and the Green Goblin — while Ock and Goblin are taking orders from Fisk in this film.
  • Fisk has fought Spider-Man a number of times in the comics and has held his own against him, but that's only because Spidey was holding back in fear of killing him. Here, he personally beats an injured blond Peter to death and overpowers Miles until he uses his Venom Strike.
• Adaptational Sympathy: When there is a Kingpin in a media adaption of the Spider-Man or Daredevil mythos, he's always depicted as this sinister figure out to maintain himself as the necessary evil of the criminal underworld, keeping worse threats from rising by keeping the gangs in line. In this film, he's trying to bring back his wife and son, who died while trying to flee from his criminal lifestyle, and is so heartbroken that he's willing to tear open dimensions to bring them back.
• All for Nothing: Kingpin's plans were never going to work out even if the Supercollider worked as it should and his family did not run away from him. According to how the multiverse works, his family would just painfully disintegrate over several weeks due to being outside of their universe. And even if he somehow figured out how to stop his family from disintegrating, it would probably lead to his universe collapsing the same way Miguel O'Hara's universe did when he tried to replace his dead counterpart and take his place in his family.
• Alternate Self: There's a Kingpin on Earth-138B that Hobie Brown rebels against.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Fisk seems to be this to the original Spider-Man of Miles's universe. They've been fighting for years and Peter was scared enough of him that he used his final moments to warn Miles that he needed to keep his identity secret because the Kingpin had everyone in his pocket. Even other contenders for Spider-Man's archenemy in his Rogues Gallery, like the Green Goblin and Doc Ock, are subservient to Kingpin in this universe.
  • Fisk has surely transferred this enmity over to Miles as he is the one who shut down and destroyed the Super-Collider, preventing him from replacing his wife and son with alternate dimension versions.
• Ax-Crazy: Downplayed, but it's still there. He's just very good at hiding it. The trauma of losing his family has made him rampantly homicidal. The fact that he brutally murdered the original Spider-Man with his bare hands, abruptly murdered one of his own henchmen, and is more than willing to murder Miles Morales for his Irrational Hatred toward Spider-Man certainly shows this.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: He's a powerful fighter dressed in a sharp black suit and tie.
• Badass Normal: He is able to fight Miles with his own great strength.
• Bad Boss: He threatens his employees, no matter how valuable they are to him, as Doc Ock can attest, and murders the Prowler the second he refuses to kill Miles.
• Bald Head of Toughness: A bald-headed crime lord who's freakishly strong, tough, and fast.
• Bald of Evil: As always for Fisk. His Gonk design only exaggerates that shiny head.
• Being Evil Sucks: While trying to kill Spider-Man, his wife and son walk in on them fighting and both flee and are struck by an incoming car during their panicked escape. Later, when fighting Miles's Spider-Man while the Super-Collider is active, they encounter an alternate universe version of his wife and son and they run away from him again.
• Big Applesauce: Unlike most interpretations of the character, Liev Schreiber gives the Kingpin a thick New York mobster accent that makes it sound like he just walked off the set of GoodFellas. This, in a way, returns him to the Lee-Romita era where Lee conceived him as a Sydney Greenstreet (from The Maltese Falcon) type gangster, with a major Setting Update.
• Big Bad: The main antagonist of the first movie. He's behind the Super-Collider that threatens to tear apart the Multiverse, and other villains, such as the Green Goblin, Scorpion, Tombstone, Doc Ock and the Prowler, all show up as his henchmen.
• Brooklyn Rage: He's a violent mob boss with a strong Brooklyn accent.
• Character Tics: He expresses his emotional state by clicking his pen at various speeds. After Peter B. and Miles escape the Alchemax labs, he rapidly clicks and crushes it, showing that he's at his wit's end.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Par for the course with the character. He has no superpowers to speak of but he can go toe-to-toe with the Spider-Men in spite of their super strength. In the climax, he fights Miles one-on-one in the middle of a multiverse-destroying maelstrom and says that even the original Spider-Man could never beat him.
• Composite Character: Of the Ultimate version of Fisk and Green Goblin, given he hails from the same universe as Miles, and takes Ultimate Osborn's role as the one responsible for Peter Parker's death. His motivation of looking for an alternate universe version of his family also evokes 616!Miles Morales' desire to find a still living-Barbara Sanchez.
• Create Your Own Hero: It's implied (and confirmed in the second film) that his Super-Collider experiments were responsible for the spider that bit Miles and gave him his powers. Said experiments are also responsible for Miles meeting the other Spider-People, which ends up biting Kingpin in the rear in the climax.
• Deadpan Snarker: He is introduced sarcastically singing The '60s Spider-Man theme song, and when Spider-Man asks him how his business is going, after the explosion of the super collider weakens him, he replies "Booming!"
• The Don: It's right there in his name.
• The Dreaded: In his final moments, Blond Peter makes it clear to Miles that he is utterly terrified of The Kingpin and his social and political power, warning him about how he would go after Miles's family if he learned his identity.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His deceased wife and son, Vanessa and Richard. His entire motivation for building the Super-Collider is to search The Multiverse for still-living versions of them.
• Evil Is Bigger: He's much larger than any of the heroes, but he towers over Miles, who is still a teenager.
• Evil Wears Black: Foregoes his traditional light-colored wardrobe in favor of all black clothes, making him look more villainous and intimidating.
• Faster Than They Look: You wouldn't expect someone so enormous to be able to move as fast as he does.
• Foil: Is this to the Spider People collectively. Like them he lost people he loved in a way that is his fault on some level, but instead of accepting the loss and moving on, he becomes The Unfettered willing to risk the world's destruction in a desperate attempt to get them back. Also, where the Spiders do their best to prevent the tragedy they experienced from happening to others, Kingpin never bats an eye at killing others and inflicting the same pain on their loved ones.
• Gonk: The Kingpin's character design in the movie is a clear homage to Bill Sienkiewicz's take on the character. Although artistically striking in the comic "Love and War", when rendered in animation it does make for a weird anatomical representation with a square, mountainous body and small head that sits in the middle of his chest, way below his shoulders. It's doubly striking as he is the only character done in this particular art style. Even his own son has perfectly normal proportions.
• Greater-Scope Villain: 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.
• Ground Punch: This is the Kingpin's signature move. He does a two-fisted hammer blow downwards and he executes Peter Parker with this. In the final fight, he does this to generate a shockwave that knocks down Miles and then faceplants Miles with another hammer blow.
• History Repeats: He initially drove away his family by fighting Spider-Man, revealing his true colors. He drives away an alternate version of his family (possibly multiple versions) in the exact same manner during his fight with Miles during the climax.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Fisk towers over his wife just as much as he does everyone else. She was perhaps a quarter of his size.
• It's All About Me: Fisk wants his family back so badly that he is willing to kidnap an alternate version of them, in the process endangering not only the lives of people of New York City, but the entire multi-verse.
• The Juggernaut: He is shown to be this when he enters the fray and fights Miles directly, taking every hit without flinching, and showing a toughness greater than both Tombstone and Scorpion who are dealt with handily by Noir and Spider-Ham.
• Large and in Charge: He's much larger than most of his minions — only the Green Goblin is of similar size.
• Leitmotif: Has a melancholy string melody that plays when he is clicking his pen and flashing back to when Vanessa and Richard flee from him ^note  time code 56:39 to 56:57 . The motif is repeated during the Super-Collider fight when an alternate version of Vanessa and Richard also flee from him ^note time code 1:37:00 to 1:37:19 .
• Lightning Bruiser: The man's a giant compared to everyone else, but he hits hard and fast enough to keep up with any Spider-Man.
• Made of Iron: Fisk is ostensibly a normal human, but he can tank an insane amount of damage without a scratch. Even the explosive destruction of the Super-Collider doesn't kill him.
• Moral Myopia: Has suffered a deep personal loss of loved ones and is willing to do anything to have them restored to his life, but is more than willing to murder innocent people and inflict the same pain of loss on others without a moment's regret.
• Never My Fault: Blames Spider-Man for his family’s deaths when it was the revelation that he was a supervillain that drove his family to flee. Him alienating an alternate version of his family (if not multiple at once) in the same manner during the climax shows that he hasn’t learned a thing.
• No-Neck Chump: Being a Tiny-Headed Behemoth whose head is situated in the middle of his chest, he hasn't a neck to speak of.
• Non-Standard Character Design: His appearance is taken from Bill Sienkiewicz's depiction◊ of the character from Daredevil: Love and War. As such, while everyone else in his universe (including his own son) is more reasonably proportioned, he has a cartoonishly-exaggerated body being massively tall with a hilariously broad, blocky physique and a comparatively tiny head that is lower than his shoulders and has hardly any neck.
• Outliving One's Offspring: His son, Richard, died in a car crash.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: As he fights Miles inside a train that's barreling through the Super-Collider, alternate versions of Vanessa and Richard appear, each being terrified and appalled at him attacking Spider-Man. Fisk tells them to not be afraid and tearfully tells his wife "You know me". As they vanish, Fisk drops Miles and runs towards them, begging them to not leave as the train car moves on.
• Present Absence: Despite his arrest at the end of the first film, the fallout of his and Octavius' actions serves as the driving conflict of the sequel.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The center of Blond Peter's Rogues Gallery. A physically strong and incredibly dangerous foe who other super-powered freaks defer to as the city's reigning crime lord, businessman and political operator.
• Replacement Goldfish: Wants his dead family back so much that he attempts to kidnap an alternate version of them, regardless of what they think.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In the comics, while he's always been a major enemy of Peter Parker, he's rarely come into contact with Miles Morales. The Ultimate Kingpin was also killed off long before Miles was introduced.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He wouldn't be the Kingpin without a snazzy suit.
• Spared by the Adaptation: The Kingpin of the actual Ultimate universe was blasted out of a window by Mysterio in the immediate aftermath of Ultimatum, well before Miles ever replaced Peter. This Kingpin lives to see Miles replace Peter, and is turned over to the police at the end of the movie.
• Stout Strength: While it's ambiguous if it's muscle, fat, or a combination, he's as wide as he is tall (and he's a lot taller than most of the other characters) and he can hit like a freight train.
• Tiny-Headed Behemoth: He's absolutely huge, towering over most humans, but his head is quite small in comparison to his body.
• Tragic Villain: It doesn't make him any less monstrous, but his wife, Vanessa and son, Richard were killed in a car crash after they discovered his true nature as a villain while attempting to kill Spider-Man years ago. He commissioned the construction of the Super-Collider in order to search The Multiverse for another version of his wife and son so that he could have his family back.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Given that Kingpin follows a Non-Standard Character Design with a cartoonishly-exaggerated body, any woman he marries will be this by default, but Vanessa was attractive all on her own.
• Villainous Breakdown: He absolutely loses it in the climax after he sees an alternate dimension version of his family while fighting Miles and they run away from him again.
• Villain with Good Publicity: He is a respected businessman, able to hold a memorial and claim he was a close ally of Spider-Man even though he murdered him. Blond Peter tells Miles that Fisk has connections everywhere and thus Miles cannot reveal who he is to anyone or his family will be in danger.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: All he wants is his wife and son back. Unfortunately, doing so could lead to all of reality in every universe collapsing, including himself and his family's alternate counterparts. Whenever someone tries explaining it to him, he either interrupts them before they can or he ignores them.

The Prowler (Unmarked Spoilers)

Aaron Davis / The Prowler

"You know me, sir. I don't ever quit."

Voiced By: Mahershala Ali ^{Foreign VAs}Daniel del Roble (Latin American Spanish), David Lenneman (Swedish), Tetsu Inada (Japanese), Matti Klemm (German)

Appearances: Venom^note In The Stinger | Into the Spider-Verse | Across the Spider-Verse^note archive footage

"I'm sorry. I wanted you to look up to me. I let you down, man. I let you down."

Kingpin's top enforcer, a deadly supervillain clad in a high-tech suit featuring repulsor boots and strength-enhancing, razor-sharp gauntlets. After being tasked with killing the new Spider-Man, it is revealed that he is Miles's beloved uncle, Aaron Davis.

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• Adaptational Badass: While the comic versions of the Prowler are no pushovers, this one is hands down the deadliest version yet.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Unlike his original counterpart from the Ultimate comics (who is a remorseless criminal who ultimately saw his nephew as someone to exploit and manipulate for his own personal gain upon discovering his secret identity as the new Spider-Man), this Prowler genuinely cared for his nephew, so much so that, upon discovering Miles is the new Spider-Man, was visibly horrified that he nearly killed him on several occasions. Furthermore, while Ultimate Prowler was fatally injured during an argument with Miles and died cursing him, this Prowler was killed for refusing to harm his nephew and spent his final moments telling Miles how proud he is of him.
• Alas, Poor Villain: He's the Kingpin's top enforcer, but when he finds out the boy he's been hunting is his beloved nephew, he spares his life even as Kingpin urges him to "finish it". Immediately afterwards his boss shoots him In the Back; Aaron survives just long enough to tell Miles that he's the best member of their family and encourages him to keep going. His death is deeply mourned by both Miles and Jefferson.
• Animal Motif: Big predatory cats.
  • During their first encounter, his wild assault even has him crashing into a wall, much like an ambush predator who just barely missed its prey would.
  • Many of his attacks are feline-esque swipes with his clawed gauntlets, and his opening attack tends to be a feline like pounce at his target.
  • When Miles managed to escape him the first time, Prowler watches him flee while perched atop a building in a cat-like pose.
  • During Miles visit to his apartment, he is shown wearing a faded t-shirt depicting a panther, and has a large poster of a purple neon tiger hanging over his sofa.
• Badass Biker: He's a lethal assassin who uses a motorcycle to chase his targets on the road.
• Badass Cape: A long purple one.
• Badass Normal: He has no superpowers, but with some MMA training and home-brewed gadgets, he can hold his own against actual superheroes.
• Broad Strokes: The Stinger of Venom showed scenes (Miles being chased by Prowler and meeting Peter B.) in a different order than in the actual Spider-Verse film, but he's meant to be the same character that appeared in the film.
• Broken Pedestal: Learning that his uncle is the Prowler and working for the Kingpin, and as such is an accomplice to the death of Spider-Man, shatters Miles's image of him, while also confirming that his father was right about him. This changes when Aaron finds out about Miles's true identity and outright defies Kingpin's order to kill him and then dies in his arms, restoring him in his nephew's eyes.
• The Cameo: Appears in the post-credits scene of Venom.
• Character Death: He's murdered by Fisk when he refuses to kill Miles.
• Chekhov's Gun: He teaches Miles that placing a hand on someone's shoulder is the best way to disarm someone. Miles uses it to defeat Fisk, who has massive shoulders.
• Co-Dragons: With Tombstone and Doc Ock, he is sent by Kingpin to find and kill the new Spider-Man, and is one of the most dangerous and competent of the crime lord's supervillain employees.
• Composite Character: While his role in the story and identity as Miles's uncle are based on the Ultimate Prowler, his costume, gadgets, engineering skills (per the artbook), and his Heel–Face Turn are all closer to the Hobie Brown version of the character.
• Consummate Professional: Prowler is presented as this throughout the film. He doesn't banter and is almost completely silent in all of his appearances, ambushing his foes and trying to tear them to pieces as quickly as possible. Once he's given a target, he won't quit. Ultimately, it's subverted, as he refuses to kill Miles and instead backs away, which gets Aaron killed by Kingpin.
• Cool Bike: His main mode of transportation.
• Cool Mask: His mask lets him see into multiple spectrums of light as well as thermal imaging, which allows him to track the otherwise invisible Miles. It also modifies his voice to make it virtually unrecognizable.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: In Across the Spider-Verse, he serves as this to the live-action Prowler who was captured by the Spider-Society and the Earth-42 Aaron Davis.
• Death by Adaptation: He is currently alive in the main comics being back from the dead, while here his death actually sticks.
• Death by Origin Story: While the original Spider-Man's death had already set Miles on the path to becoming a hero, Aaron's murder at the hands of the Kingpin is the catalyst for Miles changing into a hero in his own right instead of just copying his universe's Spider-Man. The rest of the Spider-Gang even comfort him by sharing the losses of their own loved ones.
• Determinator: Villainous version. Whenever he picks up Miles's trail, he pursues him relentlessly. So much so that all Miles can do is flee and just barely stay out of his reach.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: After being fatally shot by Kingpin, he dies from his injuries in his nephew's arms.
• The Dreaded: He's shown throughout the movie to be one of Kingpin's most relentless enforcers, and the one that Miles fears above all. Sensing his arrival is enough to make Blond Peter pause to give out a resigned "Oh, Boy". It gets even worse for Miles when he learns that it's his beloved Uncle Aaron under the mask.
• Dynamic Entry: He's introduced in the film by tackling blond Peter from the other side of the Super-Collider.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Venom was released two months before Into the Spider-Verse.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: In addition to being loved by his nephew, Miles, his estranged brother still loves him and breaks down crying when he finds Aaron dead in an alley. During the epilogue, Miles and Jefferson spray paint a memorial dedicated to Aaron at the police station Jefferson works at.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • He and Miles have a very good relationship, with Miles able to tell Aaron things he's uncomfortable talking to his own dad about. When Aaron finds out the person he's sent to kill is his nephew, he refuses even though he knows it'll mean his own death.
  • He and his brother Jefferson were incredibly close as kids before the different paths they took as adults caused them to drift apart. Even after their estrangement, Aaron has a picture of himself and his brother when they were younger as his phone’s wallpaper, he still fondly reflects on making graffiti with Jeff like he now does with Miles, and expresses regret they’ve grown so distant.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He may be unquestioningly willing to kill a child on the orders of the Kingpin, but he draws the line at harming his nephew.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • He's this to the Peter Parkers. Their masks are similar, as are their emblems (the emblem on Prowler's chest resembles the mandibles of a spider), Prowler's purple coloration is a darkened combo of the common Spider-Men's red/blue. Each rely on wrist gadgets and lightning reflexes and all came from humble backgrounds. The fact that Miles was originally destined to follow in his Uncle's footsteps as a super villain before he received the spider bite and the associated role of Spider-Man from it furthers this even more.
    • Like Blond Peter, Miles put him on a pedestal and he genuinely cares about the boy, encouraging him to use his talents for good. Both are also murdered by the Kingpin, put their faith in Miles just before they die, and serve as a motivational force for Miles to become a hero.
    • Like Peter B., he doesn't live up to Miles's image of him as a flawless cool guy, but nonetheless has his good side. Both also teach Miles the techniques he uses to defeat the Kingpin and save the day.
  • He's also this to Uncle Ben, being a Spider's Cool Uncle who's fatally shot, but not before imparting an inspirational message to their respective nephews.
• Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Well, "Evil Uncle Wants Good Nephew" but the context is still played straight as despite his unethical acts, he genuinely wants his nephew Miles to grow up to be a good kid. Even in his final moments, he encourages Miles to never stop being good.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His electronically modified voice sounds downright demonic.
• Evil Uncle: A masked criminal who fights both Spider-Men, including his nephew Miles. Though when he finally realises this, he's horrified at what he came so close to doing and defies Kingpin's orders to kill Miles. This gets him killed.
• Expressive Mask: His mask is expressive, but it's fixed into a scowl for most the film until he realizes that he's been hunting his nephew for days, turning the narrowed slits into wide eyes of horror.
• Foil:
  • To Peter B. Parker, as he and Prowler have similar, yet reversed roles in Miles's life. Miles started by admiring Peter B., then thought less of him, before coming to admire him again, all the while Peter B. (reluctantly) teaching him to become a hero (in his own way). While Miles initially adored his uncle, then feared him once he found out Aaron is the Prowler (the villain actively trying to murder him), then came to respect him again when Prowler sacrificed himself rather than hurt Miles. This enhances Peter B.'s image as a true role model, despite being a "janky, old, hobo".
  • To his brother Jefferson. Jefferson is all about law and order and is an embarrassing father, while Aaron works for the Kingpin and is a cool uncle.
  • To Miles himself. While Miles begins the film running from his concerns, the Prowler runs into fights. Where Miles used his knowledge and abilities to avoid the pressures of his new school, Aaron challenged him to use outside context creative abilities to make his school experience better.
• Foreshadowing: Several clues in the movie hint the reveal that Aaron is the Prowler.
  • He takes Miles down into the subway near the where Kingpin is testing his dimensional portal, and mentions that he worked on a secret project there. He also demonstrates a very unusual amount of dexterity leaping over a grate beforehand, and the Prowler does a similar maneuver when chasing Miles out of the subway. The camera noticeably includes a shot of the "expectations" graffiti art Aaron helped Miles paint as he rushes past it as a hint towards who's pursuing him.
  • When fighting Spider-Man (his universe's Peter Parker), he demonstrates several Muay Thai fighting techniques. In Aaron's apartment, he is shown to be a Muay Thai practitioner, with shirts, posters, and training gear around his apartment.
  • When Miles is using his punching bag, a poster of Aaron wearing purple Muay Thai gear can be seen.
  • A neon-glow poster of a purple tiger in mid pounce hangs over his sofa.
  • He is shown wearing a shirt featuring a panther, over a purple undershirt.
  • He's conspicuously absent after the Prowler appears in the story, leaving a message that he's out of town because of work despite Miles and Jefferson's best attempts to get through to him.
  • When pursuing Miles out of the Subway, the film pointedly includes a P.O.V. Shot from Prowler's perspective that shows his mask has high-tech goggles in it that allow him to keep track of his target even in the darkness of the tunnels, able to make out Miles' silhouette enough to chase him, but not much more. As shown during the fight at Aunt May's house, there's a reason why the film highlighted Aaron couldn't see the unmasked Miles well enough to recognise him.
  • Miles tries to include a cape in his superhero costume when infiltrating the Alchemax lab, on the basis that he thinks it's a cool look. Amongst all of kingpin's forces, Prowler is the only one whose costume includes a dramatic yet apparently unnecessary cape as part of his look, suggesting that Aaron likewise thinks that.
• Gadgeteer Genius: According to the artbook, Aaron put together most of his own equipment, including his motorcycle.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: While it's unclear if he would've stopped working for Fisk had he lived longer, he does prove he still has good in him when he spares his nephew's life... and is promptly shot in the back for his trouble. He dies in Miles's arms, apologizing for not being a better man when he had the chance.
• Hitman with a Heart: He's a ruthless enforcer, but he's a loving uncle off the clock and his loyalty to the Kingpin is overthrown when he discovers his target is his nephew Miles.
• In a Single Bound: His rocket-thruster equipped boots give him enhanced leaping ability.
• In the Back: Is fatally shot in the back by the Kingpin after he refuses to murder Miles.
• Jump Scare: His first on-screen appearance has him pouncing straight at Spider-man from his POV with zero prior warning, appearing to leap straight at the camera, punctuated by his Scare Chord to emphasise how serious and dangerous an opponent he is. He repeats this when looking around for Miles in costume inside his own apartment, swiftly looking behind his hiding place for the intruder, again seen from Miles' perspective, only for his Invisibility to hide him from view.
• Knight of Cerebus: Whenever he appears in the movie as The Prowler, the tone becomes much darker and more foreboding, with the reveal of his secret identity and later death being major turning points.
• Leitmotif: A hellish, animalistic screech is played whenever he's on screen (the screeching was actually created from a modified elephant's roar).
• Last Words: "You're the best of all of us, Miles. You're on your way. Just... just keep going. Just keep going..."
• Lean and Mean: As the Prowler, Aaron is leanly built and taller than most of the cast. He's also a cold-blooded killer who never stops chasing his prey.
• Lightning Bruiser: He is strong enough to clock Peter Parker into a nearby wall and overpower Miles in a struggle, both of whom have Super-Strength; fast enough to go toe to toe with Peter Parker in a fight and keep up with Miles in a chase; and tough enough to take hits from Parker without missing a beat.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When he realizes that working for the Kingpin almost led him to murder his own beloved nephew.
  Aaron: I wanted you to look up to me. I let you down, man. I let you down.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Aaron had never taken Miles to the secret spot near the Super-Collider to spray paint his art, Miles would never have been bitten by the altered spider and become the next Spider-Man.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He spares Spider-Man's life after finding out Spidey is his beloved nephew, so Kingpin kills him for his disobedience.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: In stark contrast to Doc Ock, the Prowler does not trade barbs with the heroes. He attacks quickly and relentlessly, giving almost no time for his targets to react. If he's sent to kill you, he'll do everything in his power to do it.
• Papa Wolf: He cares a lot about Miles, despite only being his uncle, and ultimately takes a bullet for him.
• Parkour: He is shown wall-running and vaulting over rails in his pursuit of Miles.
• Power Fist: His gauntlets have built-in hydraulics that engages when he punches. His gauntlets are also clawed and his knuckles are spiked for extra lethality.
• Predator Pastiche: His main role in the story is as a relentless hunter after Miles, and he has the ability to see in multiple light spectrums. There are even several scenes where the audience sees through his eyes, and it's much the same as how the Predator sees through his mask.
• Professional Killer: Implied to be his usual role when he isn't hunting Spider-Men, as he tells Fisk that he doesn't quit when given a target.
• Punch-Clock Villain: On the job, he's a terrifying, relentless killer, but off the clock, he's a loving uncle and a pretty chill guy overall.
• Purple Is Powerful: He's an incredibly deadly and efficient assassin wearing a purple costume.
• Purple Is the New Black: He has some black on his outfit, but the main color scheme is purple.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": His response to realizing he's about to murder his nephew is to freeze in place and repeatedly mutter "no".
• Rebuilt Pedestal: Miles's image of Aaron is repaired when Aaron outright defies Kingpin's orders to kill him at the cost of his life, and apologizes for his actions as he lay dying in Miles's arms, while encouraging him to keep doing good, calling him "the best of all of us". Later on, during the epilogue, Miles spray paints a memorial dedicated to Aaron at the police station Jefferson works at, with Jefferson's aid.
• Redemption Equals Death: Immediately stops his attempt at killing Miles when he discovers his nephew is underneath the mask. He then defies Kingpin's direct order to finish him off, a defiance which costs him his life. In his dying words, when Miles apologizes to him for his death, Aaron dismisses it, and insists that it's his fault and his responsibility, and he apologizes to Miles for not being as good as he should have been.
• Rocket Boots: The soles of his boots have small rocket engines, allowing him limited flight and small boosts to enhance his ground mobility. He also uses these to boost his pounce attacks.
• Scare Chord: Used a few times to accentuate his lightning-quick moments as well as emphasising how terrifying his presence is, especially in scenes where he's pursuing the untrained Miles who is desperately doing everything he's capable of to keep away from him. It is the modified trumpeting of an african elephant, hinting at his identity underneath the mask, and once that's revealed to Miles, it becomes part of his Leitmotif.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Aaron moonlights as a supervillain for a crime boss while his brother, Jefferson, is a responsible By-the-Book Cop. Though Jefferson doesn't know the exact specifics of his brother's actions, he's suspicious enough of him that the two have become estranged.
• Shared Family Quirks: Very subtly. When suiting up to infiltrate the Alchemax labs, Miles includes a cape in his costume because he thinks it's a cool look, before Peter B vetoes the idea. Aaron's prowler costume notably includes a dramatic and apparently superfluous cape as part of the ensemble, suggesting he shares the sentiment.
• So Proud of You: Aaron's final words to Miles are telling him that [Miles] is the best of both the Davis and the Morales, encouraging Miles to keep going.
• Spikes of Villainy: His collar and cape consist of prominent spikes, and then there's those flashy, claw-like gauntlets of his.
• Starter Villain: For Miles. Every time the Prowler pursues him, Miles is shown to have improved his abilities a little more. This, combined with his dad's inspiration, is what helps him to finally become the new Spider-Man.
• Super-Strength: Implied. While not directly stated, he lands a punch that even sends the superpowered Spider-Man (his universe's Peter Parker) flying across the room, and he was able to overpower Miles during their final confrontation (despite Miles showing that super strength is one of his powers).
• Thicker Than Water: As coldblooded as Aaron is while on the job, he draws the line at hurting his nephew. After Miles reveals that he's the kid that Aaron has been chasing after, Aaron immediately tries to let Miles escape, even as Kingpin is staring him down.
• Tron Lines: Downplayed. His gauntlets and boots glow with a purple neon light, leaving streaks in the air as he strikes and moves. His motorcycle has some subtle ones as well.
• Utility Belt: He is seen wearing one, although he never shows what it contained.
• Villainous BSoD: He's horrified when he finds out that he was unknowingly trying to murder his own nephew.
• Villains Out Shopping: After his identity is revealed, it becomes clear retroactively that the stone-cold killing machine Prowler spends his downtime being his nephew's cool uncle.
• The Voiceless: To hide the reveal of his identity more and emphasising how professional and serious he is whilst on the job, the Prowler never speaks prior to Miles discovering who he is at his apartment. When he does talk through the mask, it's with an electronic filter that is still recognisably Aaron's voice. At the final confrontation at the Parker house, he speaks more openly, though plainly out of frustration with Miles continually evading him and trying to convince him to just give up the USB key to resolve matters quickly.
• Wall Run: Seems to be able to do this when he's chasing Miles on foot.
• Walking Spoiler:invoked His identity is held back for an Internal Reveal more than halfway through the movie. While fans of Miles's comic adventures should be well aware of who he is from past experience, it still constitutes a heavy, heavy spoiler.
• "Well Done, Dad!" Guy: He admits to Miles in his final moments that he wanted Miles to look up to him and remorsefully tells him that he let him down.
• Wipe the Floor with You: While chasing after Miles at the Parker household, he dives and grabs Miles by the scruff of his shirt, dragging him along the shingles until they reach the end of the roof.
• Wolverine Claws: Prowler's primary weapons are his giant, mechanical gloves with razor sharp claws on the fingers.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • He attempts to murder a (so far as he knows) random teenaged witness on the Kingpin's orders.
  • Later he makes several attempts to kill the new Spider-Man while fully aware that he's targeting a child before realizing the young boy is his beloved nephew.
• You Have Failed Me: The Kingpin fatally shoots him in the back the second Aaron refuses to kill his nephew on the boss' orders.

Doctor Octopus (Doc Ock)

Dr. Olivia Octavius / Dr. Octopus

"My friends actually call me Liv. My enemies call me Doc Ock."

Voiced By: Kathryn Hahn ^{Foreign VAs}Kerygma Flores (Latin American Spanish), Emma Peters (Swedish), Akeno Watanabe (Japanese), Christin Marquitan (German)

Appearances: Into the Spider-Verse | Across the Spider-Verse

"You stay in this dimension too long, your body's going to disintegrate. Do you know how painful that would be, Peter Parker? You can't imagine. And I, for one, can't wait to watch."

The chief scientist at Alchemax studying the potential of accessing multiple dimensions among other things, she is employed by the Kingpin to build the dimensional Super-Collider for his plans.

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• Academic Athlete: In addition to being a very intelligent scientist, is shown to keep active, riding her bicycle to and from work, and having picture folders on her desktop for a bike trip and for new bike parts.
• Adaptational Badass: Most incarnations of Doc Ock do not pose any physical threat outside of their mechanical arms, usually staying stock still while their mechanical limbs handle all the movement and fighting. Olivia's more athletic build means she actually mixes in the occasional punch or kick, even catching Gwen off guard during the battle at Aunt May's house when she lunges past the arms only to be knocked away by a surprisingly strong side kick.
• Alliterative Name: Olivia Octavius.
• Alternate Self: Both the alternate universe Peter and Gwen have fought their own versions of Doc Ock before, including Gwen fighting Ock while she was sucked into Miles's dimension. Those versions seem to have had metallic arms and likely were more akin to the more traditional Otto Octavius. Unless she's somehow related, this version seems to be the only Doc Ock of her universe, and uses arms that are based on soft robotics. Given that the opening flashback shows the Spider-Man of her universe fighting against these same types of soft robotic arms, that seems to indicate she is the only Doctor Octopus in the "main" universe.
• Animal Motifs: The Octopus, natch. Once it's revealed that she's an Alternate Universe version of Doctor Octopus, she ties her hair up in a way that noticeably resembles an octopus' mantle, her goggles resemble bulging eyes, and her arms are plastic/rubber instead of metal, making them look and move in a more unpleasantly organic way.
• Badass Bookworm: Easily the single most dangerous member of Kingpin's enforcers, as well as the head of his Super-Collider project.
• Bait the Dog: Her initial appearances have her coming off as a Punch-Clock Villain... a dorky hippie-ish scientist who makes popular science videos while riding her bike to work and seems to be so invested in researching alternate dimensions that she is willing to work with Kingpin if it means getting to see the fruits of her life's work. As Peter B. and Miles sneak into Alchemax she expresses concern to Kingpin about the damage the Super-Collider can do to Brooklyn if activated again. She even geeks out at meeting an alternate Spider-Man and begins to putter around doing various tests, spouting Techno Babble and exposition about the effects of dimension warping. Then she reveals she's Doc Ock, and her true sadistic Mad Scientist personality reveals itself as she eagerly awaits Peter B.'s painful de-atomization. In light of later actions, her earlier concerns about her project's risk were more pragmatism than anything.
• Betrayal by Inaction: Subtly intends to do this to Kingpin. She reassures him he can get his family back, after she's made well aware that people from other dimensions will decay and die painfully. She even subtly hints that he won't be able to keep his family from another dimension when she says he could get multiple.
• Beware the Silly Ones: So here's a quirky lady who looks like a hippie in a lab coat and gets absolutely giddy about the science of parallel dimensions. Surely she's nothing more than a sweet, absent-minded professor?
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Implied. While Fisk funds her work, she's clearly using his interest to further her own and the movie implies she has bigger plans for the multiverse. While she's deferential enough to call him "Mr. Fisk", she's also more than willing to snark to his face, and has no qualms about attacking his personal guard Tombstone.
• Brainy Brunette: And a LOT of both the brainy and the brunette at that.
• Canon Character All Along: At first she seems like a simple scientist working for the Kingpin. Then it turns out she's a gender-flipped Doctor Octopus.
• Canon Foreigner: This version of Doc Ock is unique to the universe of this film. While female incarnations of the character have appeared before, none of them have shared the same name as this one.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Her first appearance is on a school film in Miles's science class. Her arms are also seen during the narration of the Peter Parker of Miles's universe's life.
• Choke Holds: While her arms have many functions, her preferred tactic, which even works on extra-durable foes like Tombstone or people with super-strength like the Spiders, is to wrap and constrict them, and then choke the life out of them.
• Co-Dragons: She's the one who designed the entire Super-Collider project, but is ultimately still subordinate to Kingpin alongside Tombstone and the Prowler—although she can still get away with almost killing the former when he annoys her.
• Combat Metal Arms: Wouldn't be Doc Ock without them. Her versions are inflatable soft robotics, allowing them to move really quickly but also get caught in doors or tied down with webbing. The ends can act like claws for grabbing things or turn into buzzsaws for slicing through objects.
• Composite Character: This Doc Ock has the facial expressions, green-and-purple color scheme, and manic personality of the comic 616's Green Goblin.
• Cute and Psycho: Initially, her love of science makes her come across as a dork. Even after it's revealed that she's nuts, she keeps up her pleasant science-geek demeanor.
• Dark Action Girl: She's more of a lethal fighter than her male counterparts once she turns her arms on; only a surprise attack by Gwen beats her in the first fight with her. Once she recovers, she shows Tombstone she could kill him in seconds, while simultaneously having a conversation with Fisk.
• Dissonant Laughter: During the final battle, Gwen, Miles, and Peter B. hit her with a combination attack square in the face. She's knocked back, but just brushes off her chin, and charges right back at them cackling all the way.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Fisk wants to use the Super-Collider to bring his family back, Olivia just wants to see if it'll work.
• Dressed Like a Dominatrix: Downplayed, but she is as “sadistic, older woman in a tight dark black bodysuit whipping people around” as it can get for the film’s age rating. Her penchant for choking doesnt help.
• Evil Former Friend: Given that she tells Peter that her friends call her Liv, the fact that May later calls her by that would imply they have this relationship.
• Evil Genius: It's her scientific acumen that allows the Kingpin to build the Super-Collider and muck with the Multiverse.
• Evil Is Petty: The first thing she does when she breaks into Aunt May's house is aim straight for Peter B. Parker. When he deflects her arm, she instead tips over the tray of treats that May was holding. May's next words hint at a sour previous interaction between the two of them.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: After Olivia reveals her true identity as Doc Ock, she immediately ties her out-of-control hair in a more contained, practical updo. Not only does it now resemble the mantle of an actual octopus, but it also reflects her change from "Cheerful but spacey scientist" to "horrifyingly powerful supervillain."
• Fantastic Plastic: Her soft-robotic arms are strong enough to lift her, other people and rip full-grown trees in half.
• Faux Affably Evil: She maintains a chipper attitude and treats the Spider-Men like they're old friends she's happy to see even as she's trying to kill them. She says things like "Would you give me that back, young man?" when chasing Miles after he steals her computer or "Nice to see you again, Peter," during the climactic battle.
• Foreshadowing: That she's this universe's Doc Ock.
  • When Miles enters the room during her lecture, her first name is shown. But when she shifts slightly, her last initial of "O" can also be seen. While there's many characters in Marvel with an Alliterative Name, there's only one prominent "Doctor O. O.".
  • Almost immediately when Spider-Man and Miles Morales drop down from their Air Vent Escape at the laboratory, a very obvious mechanical appendage is seen on her workbench.
  • Her entire office (especially the lights) have an octagon shape to them, as do the frames of her glasses. Even her face is an irregular eight-sided figure.
  • Several files and folders on her ridiculously disorganized computer desktop are labeled "Ock Notes" or "HD Ock". Of course, there's so much on the screen at once that this is Freeze-Frame Bonus foreshadowing.
• For Science!: Seems to hold this attitude when she notes she plans to observe Alternate Peter's gradual cellular degeneration - something she guesses will probably be extremely painful - due to being outside his home dimension.
• Gender Flip: Miles's universe's version of the Doc is not the Otto we're used to.
• Granola Girl: Zig-zagged. Her general hippy girl appearance, disarming Bill Nye the Science Guy attitude and apparent flakiness will have you mistaking her for one until it's too late. As a villain, she's brutally efficient, a formidable fighter, and has no qualms about killing someone directly or watching them die. But she really does like cute animals, trees, biking and pool parties.
• Ink-Suit Actor: An enforced case, as the Gender Flip was done specifically to have Kathryn Hahn in the role, so Olivia looks like her.
• Lean and Mean: In deliberate contrast to the short and stocky Otto Octavius most people are familiar with, Olivia is tall and thin, being designed as the direct aesthetic opposite to him in most ways.
• Lightning Bruiser: Replacing the famous mechanical arms with inflated appendages means that this Doctor Octopus can move really fast. Her arms are also powerful enough to cut through trees or throw a bus, and she's tough enough to get back up after taking hits from Peter B., Gwen, and Miles in rapid succession.
• Look Both Ways: Gets struck by a speeding truck in the final battle.
• Made of Iron: Despite just being a normal human, she takes multiple direct hits to the face from the very much superhuman Miles Morales, Peter B. Parker and Gwen Stacy in the final battle and is able to keep on going. It takes a truck ramming into her at full speed to take her out, and in the extended cut it's seen that she survives even that.
• Mad Scientist: When she first meets Alternate Peter, she's enthusiastic at being given the chance to look over someone from another dimension. She only becomes more excited when she realizes he's going to be painfully de-atomized as a result of being outside his home dimension for too long. The entire reason she works for Fisk on the Super-Collider seems to be For Science!.
• Manipulative Bitch: She's fully aware that multiversal crossings are temporary at best, and staying too long dooms one to a painful disintegration. Yet all the same, she fuels Fisk's need to bring his family back knowing they won't live long simply because it furthers her own agenda.
• More Despicable Minion: Whereas the Kingpin is acting out of grief, Liv is invested in the Super Collider project For Science!; and whereas the Kingpin is implied to not be thinking clearly, Liv is completely clear-headed about the threat the Super Collider poses to the multiverse but she remains onboard with risking the destruction of reality anyway. She's also a lot more malicious than the Kingpin, whose viciousness towards the Spiders stems from anger more than anything else.
• Nerd Glasses: Big, octagonal lenses that emphasize her intelligence and allude to her alter ego. She swaps them out for her menacing goggles when entering the fray.
• No Sense of Personal Space: She pokes and prods Peter B.'s body while studying him with little regard for any semblance of privacy.
• Perky Female Minion: In contrast to the more serious enforcers on Kingpin's payroll, she has an enthusiastic, upbeat attitude and enjoys quipping as much as killing.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Just because she wants to see the effects of her Super-Collider, doesn't mean she wants it to destroy the multiverse. Otherwise, how would she catalog its effects?
• Present Absence: Despite her Uncertain Doom in the sequel, the fallout of her and Fisk's actions serves as that film's conflict.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Keen observers might notice that Olivia's glasses are not only a visual trope indicating her intelligence, but are octagonal in shape, as a reference to her alter-ego.
• The Reveal: We don't learn about who the Doc really is until she catches Peter and Miles in her office at Alchemax and she gets the drop on Peter, locking him in a restraint chair, before removing her lab coat to reveal her harness that harbors her mechanic arms.
• Sadist: She seems to really enjoy inflicting pain on others, stating that she can't wait to watch the very slow and painful results of the alternate Peter Parker's atoms disintegrating out of existence if he stays in her dimension, and smirks maliciously and taunts the heroes during every fight scene without fail.
  Doc Ock: Nice to see you again, Peter.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: She barely showed up in the marketing for the film (with only her arms being able to be spotted in one of the last trailers for the film), and she was very often edited out of preview clips for the movie, likely to keep her and her true identity a surprise.
• Tentacled Terror: Like all interpretations of the character, she is a Mad Scientist using the octopus for her moniker, and armed with four robotic arms. Unlike most other Doc Ocks, though, her arms are made of a rubbery substance, making them look much more like actual octopus arms than the metallic arms used by other Doc Ocks.
• Truer to the Text: Despite being a Distaff Counterpart, personality-wise, she is closer to the classic Dr. Octopus of The Amazing Spider-Man and others who followed their direction, than Alfred Molina's influential portrayal of a more sympathetic Ock in Spider-Man 2. As a Mad Scientist in service to a gangster, who is indifferent and uncaring to the human toll and cost of her experiments, she's the classic gangster scientist and megalomaniacal version of Dr. Octopus.
• Uncertain Doom: Liv's final fate in the film is left uncertain. The last we see of her, she was hit by a flying truck and shunted off-screen during the final fight. During the denouement, Kingpin and Tombstone are shown being arrested by the police, but Liv is nowhere to be seen. Whether she died, got stranded in another dimension, or managed to escape is left unknown. The extended cut of the film shows that she survives the truck impact, but she then immediately leaps into the multiverse portal created by the super-collider again leading to an uncertain fate as to whether she died, got stranded in another dimension, or managed to escape. Across the Spider-Verse has her cameo in flashbacks, but also doesn't make it clear if she is around in the present day.
• Villains Out Shopping: The brief look at her disorganized desktop has, among files labeled "Ock Notes" and "Files for Evil", other folders such as "Cat Pics", "Pics from Toronto Trip", "Bike Trip", "Letters for Students" and other indicators of her social life.
• Villain with Good Publicity: She is well-known enough of a quantum physicist that she even presents quirky, fun, Bill Nye the Science Guy-style educational videos on the subject that Miles's school uses in class.
• Weak, but Skilled: In comparison to mainline Doc Ocks, due to her usage of soft robotics, her arms are more fluid, but somewhat vulnerable to being crushed, overpowered, and not quite as directly forceful as most mainline despictions, best shown when a door is slammed on one, leaving it to snap helplessly.
• Wham Line: After strapping Peter B. to a chair and describing in detail the painful effects of his potential eventual atomisation with a creepy sense of anticipation, he becomes understandably very concerned and asks for her name. Cue her giving said name, as well as the Wham Shot of her suit and arms upon dramatically removing her lab coat.
  Peter B.: What did you say your name was?
  Dr. Olivia: Dr. Olivia Octavius.
• Wild Hair: Her hair is a thick, tangled mess of type 3A curls, about three times the size of her head, streaked with purple highlights.
• Would Hurt a Child: Quite willing to target both Miles and Gwen, both teenagers, with the intent to kill.

The Green Goblin

Norman Osborn / The Green Goblin

"Why won't you quit?!"

Voiced By: Jorma Taccone ^{Foreign VAs}Erick Selim (Latin American Spanish), Satoshi Tsuruoka (Japanese), Sven Brieger (German)

Appearances: Into the Spider-Verse | Across the Spider-Verse

A gigantic, demonic-looking version of the Green Goblin who acts as another of Fisk's enforcers.

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• Adaptational Badass: He is significantly bigger than the already large Ultimate incarnation of the Green Goblin, and can fly without the use of a glider. He also uses bombs and equipment just like the 616 Goblin, meaning he has both the hulking strength and the deadly weaponry associated with the two different versions of the Goblin.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics, Green Goblin/Norman is an intelligent, scheming, and manipulative criminal mastermind who often exerted his superiority over other supervillains. This incarnation is shown to be more of a dumb brute who is one of Kingpin's mooks.
• Advertised Extra: He was prominently featured in the trailers and merchandise, despite being killed off in the first few minutes of the film.
• Alliterative Name: Green Goblin.
• The Brute: This version of the Green Goblin is just angry muscle for the Kingpin. When Peter tries to reason with him about the danger posed by the Super-Collider, he snarls, "It's not up to me" indicating that he's just a servant of the Kingpin's.
• Character Death: Caught in the Super-Collider explosion and buried underneath the ensuing rubble.
• Color Character: Green Goblin.
• Composite Character: He has the Ultimate incarnation's hulking and brutish physique, wears the mainstream incarnation's outfit, and wings similar to the 2099 and Broadway incarnations. His role as a Goblin lackey of the Kingpin seems to be drawn from the Jason Macendale and Phil Urich versions of the Hobgoblin.
• Decomposite Character: While he's usually depicted as Spider-Man's Arch-Enemy as well as being one of the overall Big Bads in most of his appearances outside of the comic books, this role is given to the Kingpin in this movie. In fact, Norman serves as muscle for Fisk, a rather unusual role for him to play.
• Demoted to Extra: Whereas both his 616 and Ultimate selves are usually characterized as one of the primary Big Bads of their respective settings, this version of Norman is implied to be nothing more than one of the Kingpin's attack dogs and is killed off rather quickly.
• Dumb Muscle: This version of Goblin doesn't come across as the sharpest tool in the shed. He's a hulking brute, but he's mostly limited to shouts and animalistic growling. Even his attempt to kill Spider-Man is pretty stupid, recklessly using the energies of the Super-Collider while Kingpin screams at him to stop. His attack ends up getting him killed in the resulting explosion.
• First-Name Basis: Peter calls him Norman or Norm during the battle.
• Flight: He's got a set of working wings.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: He dies, no one, not even his employer, cares.
• Hulking Out: Like his Ultimate incarnation.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: As expected for Green Goblin.
• Small Role, Big Impact: While Goblin is nothing more than Dumb Muscle who appears in a single fight, his actions have a tremendous impact on the plot. By forcing Blond Peter into the Super-Collider stream, it leads to an explosion that not only seriously injures him but pins him under debris leaving him an easy target for the Kingpin. It also caused the other Spider-People to be summoned from across the multiverse.
• Spikes of Villainy: He wears spike-covered armbands and has an overall pointed and angular look.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Like his 616 counterpart (and other incarnations) this one uses pumpkin-esque grenades.
• Wolverine Claws: He's got sharp finger- and toenails.

Tombstone

Lonnie Lincoln / Tombstone

Voiced By: Marvin "Krondon" Jones III ^{Foreign VAs}Mauricio Pérez (Latin American Spanish), Peter Kjellin (Swedish), Satoshi Tsuruoka (Japanese), Uwe Jellinek (German)

Appearances: Into the Spider-Verse

"You messed up big time, kid. Very sloppy."

Kingpin's quiet bodyguard.

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• Adaptational Wimp: Tombstone in the comics is an invulnerable and highly feared enforcer with enhanced strength and a sadistic streak. Here, he’s more of a disposable henchman who spends most of his screen-time being smacked around and humiliated.
• Alliterative Name: Lonnie Lincoln.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: Tombstone is almost always by his boss' side, presumably as protection and to watch his back. However, given that his boss is so much bigger and stronger than him, you wonder how necessary his services as a bodyguard are.
• The Brute: He serves as Fisk's bodyguard but not as prominent as Prowler or Doc Ock, and doesn't appear to be much more than hired muscle alongside Scorpion.
• Butt-Monkey: He is never seen gaining an upper hand in any fight. First, Doctor Octopus strangles him, then Spider-Man Noir defeats him by crashing a car into him. Even Aunt May sends him tumbling out of her house with a whack from a baseball bat.
• Co-Dragons: It's implied that he's the Kingpin's right-hand during his normal criminal activities, but Doctor Octopus is the one responsible for overseeing the Super-Collider project his entire plan hinges on while the Prowler is his most active supervillain subordinate.
• The Determinator: Even when Doc Ock is strangling him after he pulls out his guns on her, not once does he put them away until Kingpin orders him to.
• Dual Wielding: Pulls out two guns when Doc Ock strangles him.
• Evil Counterpart: To Noir. Both wield guns, but usually engage to their enemies in a brawling, and both are pale (Noir being in black and white, and Tombstone being albino).
• Mook Lieutenant: He seems to be in charge of Fisk's security guards.
• Nerves of Steel: Even while being strangled by one of Doc Ock's arms, Tombstone doesn't betray any fear even while he's in visible pain, and keeps his guns trained on her until the Kingpin signals him to stand down.
• Oral Fixation: He occasionally keeps a toothpick in his mouth.
• Power Fist: While he has guns, he has shown a preference for brass knuckles.
• The Quiet One: Doesn't have much to say, compared to the other villains. His page quote is his only line. One of the deleted scenes (in which he discovers that the Spider-Gang infiltrated Kingpin's gala) had him speaking more.
• Scary Black Man: With his lack of pigmentation making him look even more unsettling.
• Truer to the Text: Compared to previous adaptations that depicted him as a crime boss himself or a biker gang leader, this version is a top henchman for Kingpin like his original appearances.
• Two First Names: "Lonnie" and "Lincoln" are both applicable as first names.

Scorpion

Mac Gargan / The Scorpion

Voiced By: Joaquín Cosío^{Foreign VAs}Kenta Miyake (Japanese)

Appearances: Into the Spider-Verse

"Bueno, mira estas pequeñas arañas. ^note Well, look at all the little spiders."

Another of Fisk's enforcers, a cyborg with the robotic legs, pincer, and stinger of a scorpion.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: When Spider-Ham hits him with an anvil, he doesn't get mad, but chuckles over the cartoonish aspect of the situation.
• Bald of Evil: He's a bald super villain.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: As always, he possesses a mechanical scorpion tail.
• The Brute: He's the most clear-cut example of the trope in the movie since he's just a powerful thug the Kingpin keeps around to kill for him.
• Composite Character: He's Mexican and a Tattooed Crook like the second Ultimate Comics version, but he has Scorpion gear like the 616 version that are implemented cybernetically like the first Ultimate version.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He tears SP//dr apart and nearly kills Peni in the climax, but the trope gets flipped on him when Spider-Ham starts fighting serious.
• Cyborg: His lower body has been replaced with robotic scorpion legs and his left arm is a pincer.
• Evil Counterpart: To Peni Parker and SP//dr. Both are are bilingual (Peni being half-Japanese and Scorpion being Mexican), and their first names are different from their 616 counterparts (Peter for Peni and MacDonald for Maximus). They also fight with armoured tech with Peni being inside her mech, while Scorpion is a cyborg with scorpion-like gear. Both are Lightning Bruisers and base their tech design upon an animalistic appearance.
• Fantastic Racism: He insultingly calls Spider-Ham a "cartoon".
• Gratuitous Spanish: When he says "Well, look at all these little spiders..." upon entering Aunt May's home. Although he is speaking in Spanish the text box next to him appears in English complete with an asterisk to inform the audience that it's been translated from Spanish.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: His scorpion appendages are a rusty brown instead of the traditional green that the character is associated with, although he does have hints of bright green glowing within him. It does make him look more like an actual scorpion, which are not typically bright green.
• Power Pincers: His left arm is a mechanical scorpion pincer.
• Scorpion People: Instead of wearing a scorpion suit, he has the appearance of a half-human, half-scorpion cyborg.
• Spider Limbs: His legs are robotic and can split into four to crawl like his namesake.
• Spikes of Villainy: Covered in them. They serve to make his armor and his tail's stinger look like a carapace.
• Tattooed Crook: He's covered in tattoos that make him look even more like a scorpion.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He doesn't wear a shirt.
• Would Hurt a Child: And how. His first action after saying "stand little boy" to Miles is to slam his stinger at his head. Miles barely manages to stop it inches from face indicating that Scorpion was going for a killing strike.

The Spot (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Jonathan Ohnn / The Spot

"I made you into a hero... you made me into THIS!"

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"I'm going to take everything from you, like you took everything from me."
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Homeworld: Earth-1610B

Voiced By: Jason Schwartzman ^{Foreign VAs}Kodjo Akolor (Swedish), Norman Matt (German), Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese)

Appearances: Into the Spider-Verse | Across the Spider-Verse

"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."

Formerly Dr. Jonathan Ohnn, a brilliant scientist working at Alchemax alongside Dr. Olivia Octavius, the life of the man who would become the Spot changed dramatically when, one day... he got hit in the head with a bagel chucked by Miles Morales. Then a little later, he was caught in the explosion of the Kingpin's supercollider, fusing his body with a canister's worth of dark matter and turning him into a Humanoid Abomination with the power to control a set of Portable Holes 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 ANYTHING — to see it fulfilled.

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• 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.
• Adaptational Abomination: From petty thief in a goofy costume that gets his ass handed to him by Spidey every Thursday to a Humanoid Abomination with a Portal Crossroad World inside of him. In his One-Winged Angel form, he fully becomes a Transhuman Abomination and a Cosmic Flaw whose very existence threatens the entire multiverse.
• Adaptational Badass: 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 Villain Forgot to Level Grind hard and becoming 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.
• Adaptational Ugliness: 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 (being effectively a human shaped hole in the Multiverse), along with becoming somewhat more streamlined, he becomes much more intimidatingly Lean and Mean.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, the Spot is typically a D-lister villain at best who despite the sheer application of his powers can provide is ultimately a doormat who serves other more competent bad guys and ends up becoming a Butt-Monkey Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain 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 who was keen on killing him for his lack of progress and even then considered the possibility of instead going straight and 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 for a whole decade before his next appearance. In the films though, while still a goofball of a bad guy at least initially, the Spot eventually 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 Arch-Enemy in the same vein as Green Goblin was for Peter.
• Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed. 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.
• Adaptation Name Change: The Spot of Earth-1610 in the comics was called Frank, with his surname never being revealed. Here, he's called Johnathan Ohnn, like his Earth-616 comic counterpart.
• Affably Evil: At first, Spot is genuinely friendly and conversational despite his goals and is quite polite with everyone. As he goes Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, it shifts into being Faux Affably Evil.
• All of the Other Reindeer: 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.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: He 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 "costume".
• Apologetic Attacker: 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.
• Arch-Enemy: 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 his nemesis by the end of the film.
• Arc Words: "Villain of the Week". 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.
• Art Evolution: Partly as a result of being an Ascended Extra. 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 Once More, with Clarity 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 Freak Lab Accident, as well as exaggerated facial details to express his Minor Injury Overreaction.
• Ascended Extra:
  • The Spot/Jonathan Ohnn is a minor Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain in the Spider-Man Rogues' Gallery, and as a result has only appeared in two previous pieces of Spider-Man media where he was still a minor antagonist (Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Marvel's Spider-Man). This film bumps him to being both the Big Bad and Miles' Arch-Enemy, 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 Big Bad in the sequels.
• Atrocious Alias: He introduces himself as The Spot. Cue Miles bursting out laughing.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Spot has a tendency to get distracted a lot by minor details that gets within his line of sight.
• Ax-Crazy: 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 Cosmic Flaw. Afterwards, his only thoughts are about destroying everything Miles has ever loved.
• The Bad Guy Wins: 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 Cosmic Flaw, an entity Miles has to take seriously.
• Bald of Evil: 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.
• Being Evil Sucks: 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 Arch-Enemy. Part of this is implied to be his envy over Miles' transformation into a superhero being something he had a hand in and 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.
• Berserk Button: 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 Arch-Enemy.
  The Spot: (at Miles) You'll finally have a villain worth fighting and I won't be JUST A JOKE TO YOU!!
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's blatantly comical from the moment he appears, being an incompetent "villain of the week" who can't stop blathering about his holes, quite literally kicking his own ass or being flustered when Miles laughs at his name, but his powerset scales up the more he's able to charge it, such that despite his buffoonery, he's able to become a monolithic threat that's said to be Miles's "most formidable foe yet".
• Big Bad: 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 Hero Antagonist 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 is more focused on returning home to stop him.
• Big Bad Ensemble: 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 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.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: 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 any problem. He can get hurt yet never gets wounded from any damage he can take and the spot in his face serves as both an eye and a mouth at the same time. He can fully touch and pull out dark multi-dimensional matter from his own skin like a band-aid and attach it anywhere he wishes. Not to mention surviving getting blasted by collider-beams on multiple occasions and walking out from it with only more dark matter on him as the only difference. All of this only distances him from humanity even further, before he intentionally starts to figure out how his new body functions.
• The Blank: 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.
• Blessed with Suck: 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 Power Incontinence getting the better of him constantly to his chagrin. However, this opinion turns around once he realizes he's, in fact, Cursed with Awesome when he grasps the full extent of his abilities that's possible with his usage of portals and, once he masters them, he firmly believes he was destined for this amount of power all along.
• Body Horror: He states to Miles plainly that, unfortunately for both of them, the holes on him are actually a part of his body. Miles is quick to give his sympathies. Rockets further into this territory after honing his powers and becoming a Transhuman Abomination, beginning to violently glitch in and out of reality and Undercranking rapidly at all times.
• Butt-Monkey: 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.
• Call-Back: 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 more powerful form.
• Canon Character All Along: A random extra among the scientists who appears for five seconds in the first movie, he ends up becoming the Spot.
• Card-Carrying Villain: 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 Arch-Enemy after he takes everything and everyone Miles' has ever loved. In other words, because of Miles' status as The Hero, he decides to be the bad guy in order to make him suffer.
• Chekhov's Gunman: 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.
• Composite Character: 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 Earth-120703 version of Electro, both being Butt-Monkey 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 Ultimate Spider-Man, Conrad Marcus.
• Confusion Fu: 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.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: 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 Badass Normal with a Charles Atlas Superpower while The Spot is a Reality Warper who got his powers by accident.
  • Kingpin has an extremely bulky frame of pure muscle while The Spot is Lean and Mean.
  • 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.
• Cosmic Flaw: 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.
• Costume Evolution: Actually, that's not his costume, that's his skin. 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 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.
• Create Your Own Hero: 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.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: 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.
• Dark Is Evil: After absorbing the Mumbattan's particle collider to get a massive power boost, he loses his featureless white appearance as his colors invert to a pitch black void, which matches his slip into becoming a multiversal Omnicidal Maniac to get back at Miles.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • The Spot is this to the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. 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 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 Humanoid Abomination 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 Big Bad Wannabe. 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.
• Department of Redundancy Department: 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"(which Miles himself did), he agrees that he does loves chai tea, setting the latter off.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: 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 Arch-Enemy of the Spider-Man he helped create. When Miles, and the rest of the Spider Society (sans Miguel) laugh him off as a joke, he lashes out and becomes a Cosmic Flaw that threatens existence itself, all to prove his detractors wrong and cement himself as a worth adversary for Miles.
• Didn't Think This Through: 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.
• Dimensional Traveller: His body is covered in interdimensional portals that can teleport him anywhere he needs to be.
• Disc-One Final Boss: 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.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Is treated as a joke by Miles in the beginning despite the Spot proclaiming how he's Spider-Man's Arch-Enemy, 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 Reality Warper after evolving into a full on Transhuman Abomination, he earns Miles's (and the rest of the multiverse's) undivided attention as the single most dangerous being in the entirety of existence.
• Energy Absorption: 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.
• Entitled Bastard: Spot expects Miles to immediately view him as his Arch-Enemy despite his gross incompetence, and generally seems to expect people to automatically respect him without doing anything to earn it. His Motive Rant 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.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs 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, justifies as him stealing from the banks that manage such machines which he considers the "real criminals".
  • Repeatedly calls Miles out for 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 his choice of words about "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 Cosmic Flaw his complete indifference to the mass destruction he inadvertantly causes implies this standard is more a case of not caring to harm others rather than actual concern about their wellbeing.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • 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...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 Power Incontinence 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. For added measure, the Spot's lank posture and erratic outlines mimic the silhouette in the No Expectations mural that Miles put up.
    • Both of their journeys to self-improvement involved a 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 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 Take a Third Option and save everyone, but also chooses his father without hesitation, to Miguel's fury; the Spot also prioritizes Miles' loved ones...but 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 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 he shows his true colors as a truly deplorable, vindictive monster.
    • A more minor similarity: they both piss off Pavitr by calling chai "chai tea".
    • On a metatextual level, both he and Miles are motivated by a desire to break free from their own narrative; Miles doesn't want to lose any more loved ones, Spot doesn't want to be an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
  • 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 Card-Carrying Villain 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 physicall unimpressive guy in white with random ink-blots and sketch lines. Miguel is muscular, in a blue-black Hard Light 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.
• Evil Is Petty: While his reasonings to hate Miles Morales are justified in part due to the horrific side effects of his dimensional powers, the 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.
• Faceless Eye: The blot that replaced Spot's face expands and contracts depending on his mood. Coupled with his smooth white head, it gives off the impression of an oversized eyeball.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: He attempts to coolly introduce himself as a mighty fiend to Miles, which utterly fails due to his Atrocious Alias, 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.
• Fat Bastard: 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.
• Fatal Flaw: 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.
• Faux Affably Evil: 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.
• Freak Lab Accident: He is turned into a superpowered freak by being exposed to Dark Matter during the explosion of the Super Collider.
• Freudian Excuse: 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.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: 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 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: Our future. I'm going to take everything from you, like you took everything from me.
• Giver of Lame Names: 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."
• Green-Eyed Monster: 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.
• Had to Be Sharp: 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.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: A photo of him in his apartment shows that in the past he had 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.
• Hero Killer: 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 Jefferson Morales.
• How Do I Shot Web?: 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.
• Humanoid Abomination: 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 Transhuman Abomination after honing his powers further as a Cosmic Flaw 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.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: He has a distinct desire to be taken seriously. His hatred towards Miles only grows due to being treated as a Villain of the Week.
• I Just Want to Be Special: 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 Arch-Enemy.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He's obsessed with being taken seriously as Spider-Man's Arch-Enemy, 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 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.
• Ink-Suit Actor: 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.
• Innocently Insensitive: A villain who somehow manages to fit the trope. The Spot is 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 Berserk Button when lightheartedly expressing his love for "chai tea".
• Insane Troll Logic: 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 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 hurt is archnemesis Miles Morales).
• It's All About Me: 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' Arch-Enemy.
• I Was Quite a Looker: While explaining his Tragic Backstory to the bodega owner, he claims that before his transformation, he was “handsome by scientist standards”... which isn't too far off. Flashbacks 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 before he cleaned himself up. Even then, his shaggier appearance wasn't too bad either, making him come across as an Unkempt Beauty. Not that it matters anymore...
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: 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 Arch-Enemy 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.
• Justified Criminal: 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.
• Laughably Evil: 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 heroes in comical ways. This does not take away from the fact that he manages to become a surprisingly effective villain.
• Lean and Mean: 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.
• Literal Ass-Kicking: He accidentally inflicts this upon himself, no less. During his Motive Rant about his Dark and Troubled Past when Miles refuses to take him as anything more serious than a Villain of the Week, his Power Incontinence brought by his out-of-control emotions causes him to accidentally open a portal beneath his rush at Miles causing his foot to be conjured up at full momentum towards his own butt, immediately incapacitating him just before trapping himself in the Spot Dimension.
• Made of Iron: 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.
• Mad Scientist: 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.
• Mask of Sanity: 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 Transhuman Abomination, as he openly becomes singularly focused on killing everyone Miles cares about.
• Misplaced Retribution: The Spot blaming Miles for detonating the Super-Collider and turning him into a Blessed with Suck 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; 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 (aside from himself).
• Mistaken for Racist: Played for Laughs and Downplayed. 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 Mystical India stereotype. This leaves the Spot briefly, yet awkwardly trying to explain he didn't mean it like that.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: 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.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: The Spot appears to have been so affected by getting beaned by a bagel that it's one of the main things he calls Miles out on. Likewise, his recollection of getting hit with a bagel has him shouting dramatically, as though he got shot.
• Mirror Character: To Miles himself, to the point of being almost a self portrait of each other; 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 Villain of the Week (in Spot's case) or Just a Kid (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 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.
• Moral Myopia: 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.
• Motive Rant: Gives one to Miles at the climax of their second confrontation, not only does he reveal his true identity as the scientist he threw a bagel at back in Alchemax, who had previously run a test that caused the 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, 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, my face! My family won't even look at me!
• Never Hurt an Innocent: Downplayed and then ultimately subverted. While he's willing to engage in thievery and ethically dubious science, Spot initially doesn't actively aim to harm random civilians, with his petty crimes trying (and 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 of Mumbattan's 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 Cosmic Flaw, with him actively looking forward to causing widespread destruction and specifically looking to kill Mile's family.
• Never My Fault: 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.
• No-Respect Guy: 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 Villain of the Week 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.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: 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.
• One-Winged Angel: After absorbing all of the energy from the Super-Collider in Earth-50101, he goes from acreepy Humanoid Abomination to a full on transhuman Reality Warper, 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.
• Playing the Victim Card: 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 "like Robin Hood if he gave to himself!". The owner is unimpressed.
  Owner: You're the real criminal! You're robbing me!
• Politically Correct Villain: 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.
• Portal Crossroad World: As it turns out, there is one inside of himself. After he kicks himself in the butt, he gets sucked in by one of his own holes, he ends up in a Pocket Blank White Void Eldritch Location 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, but multiversal portals.
• Portal Cut: 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.
• Portable Hole: 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.
• Posthuman Nudism: The Spot 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 no one sees anything they call obscene, giving the uncomfortable implication that the Spot lost more body parts than the ones on his face...
• Power Echoes: 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 monstrous he's become by becoming a full-fledged Cosmic Flaw.
• Power Floats: After he reaches full power, he gains the ability to levitate in midair.
• Power Incontinence: 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.
• The Power of Hate: His hatred for Miles is what motivates him to study and expand his powers to terrifying levels.
• Powers Do the Fighting: His Thinking Up Portals power does 99% of the fighting for him during his first few fights with Miles, mainly resulting in a Confusion Fu-based Wimp Fight 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' Spider-Sense and ability to react to the distortions better than Spot himself — not helped by the fact that his transformation doesn't seem to have given him any kind of noticeable Super-Strength, 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 Neck Lift both Miles and Hobie at once without visible effort.
• Punch-Clock Villain: 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 stops applying to him once he wholeheartedly embraced being a supervillain after his condition got him fired.
• Punny Name: 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. Or a brand of portable toilets. Additionally, his Atrocious Alias is a goldmine for punny jokes with multiple Spider People, resulting in a Hurricane of Puns when Jessica Drew asks them to get the jokes off their chest.
• Reed Richards Is Useless: 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, seeing how even he himself didn't see much worth in his own powers originally before finding out what they are actually capable of doing, they probably thought his powers would only hinder their research.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: 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.
• Required Secondary Powers: 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.
• Revenge by Proxy: After being ridiculed nonstop and given absolutely no respect by anyone, especially Miles, for being a "Villain of the Week" and thus denied having any chance of filling the 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.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: 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 Arch-Enemy.
• Sanity Slippage: 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.
• Sarcasm-Blind: 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, "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.
• Serious Business: It turns out that he was the one that 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 Motive Rant and in an angry tone, too.
• Shadow Archetype: He and Miles have a lot in common; both are book-smart, intelligent rookies with a lot of potential and 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.
• Shout-Out: His One-Winged Angel form's animation style heavily resembles the Anti-Spiral, and by that point he's become a Humanoid Abomination of universe-threatening power.
• Small Name, Big Ego: 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 Freeze-Frame Bonus 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.
• Small Role, Big Impact: 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. He gets a much bigger role in the sequels.
• Smarter Than You Look: 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.
• Snowballing Threat: 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.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Not initially, but as his threat level increases his tone quiets further and further. The Spot's pledge, after he distorts further into a Transhuman Abomination, to take everything Miles holds dear is hardly louder than a whisper.
• Spanner in the Works: 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.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: When fighting in Mumbattan against Miles, Gwen, and Pavitr after his first level-up, in the middle of the Casual Danger Dialogue between him and Pavitr, he comments how he likes "Chai tea" not unlike Miles had just seconds before which presses Pavitr's Berserk Button in equal measure.
• That Came Out Wrong: One humorous scene has him getting yelled at by two construction workers to "stop talking about [his] holes".
  Worker: You're making everyone uncomfortable!
• Thinking Up Portals: 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 portals, he starts inching into Reality Warper territory with how freely he can manipulate space around him.
• Took a Level in Badass: 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 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 Cosmic Flaw.
• Tragic Villain: Zig-Zagged. He was never particularly moral and gladly worked at Alchemax, but the Body Horror 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 wrongfully blames for this - not only dismisses his troubled backstory as just another day's work but offhandedly calls him a "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 Arch-Enemy 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 a villain worth fighting and I WON'T BE JUST A JOKE TO YOU!!
• Tranquil Fury: After calming down to better use his powers, he still really, really despises Miles.
• Transhuman Abomination: After he finally masters his uncanny powers, he shows signs of abandoning his human nature and becoming a Cosmic Horror. Particularly, in Miles' vision, the Spot looks so unnatural and bizarre that he wouldn't be out of place in The Invisibles.
• Underestimating Badassery: Aside from Miguel, everyone thinks of the Spot as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain 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, 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 Cosmic Flaw in the entirety of the multiverse and threaten the existence of everything by just existing.
• Unknown Rival: 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 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.
• Unreliable Narrator: While explaining his backstory, the Spot frames himself as having been an innocent victim who was unfairly transformed into a Transhuman Abomination and 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 tried to shield a canister of dark matter with his body when the collider exploded.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: 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 "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.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Horrifyingly averted. Over the course of the movie, the Spot figures out how his powers work and their true scale, going from a pathetic Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain to a multidimensional threat, and he's directing all that energy into making Miles suffer.
• Villain of the Week: 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 Big Bad of the second and third films in the trilogy.
• Villain Teleportation: His entire modus operandi. His portals allow him to teleport himself and other people and objects through them.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Deconstructed. Spot doesn't have any 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 Eldritch Abomination 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.
• Voice of the Legion: He gains this when he gets truly pissed off at Miles during the ending of his Motive Rant and starts charging towards him. He permanently gains this after going One-Winged Angel from absorbing all of the energy from the Super-Collider of Mumbattan.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: 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.
• Walking Wasteland: 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.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He calls out Miles - and most Spider-people in general - for their You Fight Like a Cow schtick, calling it unnecessarily hurtful to their opponents. It pushes him to go actively Jumping Off the Slippery Slope just so he'll finally be respected.
• Who's Laughing Now?: 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 ever loved. And hoo boy does he become capable of doing just that by the end.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: 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 Transhuman Abomination, and leaving Miles to spend the back half of the film dealing with his attempt to get back home before the Spot does.

Armadillo

Armadillo

Voiced By: N/A

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

A supervillain who attacks a train Miles was riding on.

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• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Armadillo, obviously.
• Be the Ball: He rolls himself up when he's defeated, and Miles kicks him away like he's a soccer ball.
• Bit Part Bad Guys: He's just a random villain who has nothing to do with the main plot that Miles easily defeats on his way home.
• The Cameo: Only appears in one scene.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Miles defeats him in a few seconds by electrocuting him and kicking him away.
• Mysterious Past: We know absolutely nothing about his origins or his reasons for becoming a supervillain.
• The Voiceless: Doesn't say any intelligible words.
• Wolverine Claws: He has three long claws on each hand.

Earth-8311B

Doctor Crawdaddy

Doctor Crawdaddy

"No one tricks me, not I, the intellectual genius, Dr. Crawdaddy!"

Voiced By: Aaron LaPlante

Appearances: Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham

"So glad you could make it to my pig roast, Spider-Ham! Prepare to be honey-glazed! Do you have any last words?"

A mad scientist and an enemy of Spider-Ham.

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• Affably Evil: Doctor Crawdaddy is surprisingly amicable when he's not trying to kill Spider-Ham.
• Canon Foreigner: Doesn't exist in the original comics.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Why else would he label his hideout an "Evil Villain Lair"?
• Mad Scientist: He has an "Evil Villain Lair" (as labeled outside) and the look of a scientist, and he's introduced shackling Spider-Ham to a table.
• Punny Name: His name is based on a "crawdad", a type of seafood. Ham tries to distract him by suggesting "Dr. Crawfish: Attorney at Craw".

Earth-65B

Vulture

Adrian Toomes / Vulture

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

The Vulture of Gwen Stacy's universe.

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• Alternate Self: Aside from his Renaissance-themed counterpart, there's also the MCU equivalent who got sucked into Sony's Marvel Universe.
• The Ghost: He never physically appears outside of a photo the police have on file.
• Not Me This Time: The police assume the old guy with the mechanical wings terrorizing an art museum is the Vulture. They're half-right.

Earth-50101B

Hobgoblin

Hobgoblin

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

The Hobgoblin of Pavitr Prabhakar's universe.

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• Ambiguously Human: The crags in his chin give him a strong resemblance to a Skrull.
• The Cameo: He's onscreen just long enough for Pavitr to clock him in the jaw.

Earth-42

Warning: Due to the nature of this dimension and its inhabitants, all spoilers are unmarked!

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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• Butterfly of Doom: 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.
• Crapsack World: 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."
• Walking Spoiler: Talking about Earth-42 would spoil the Twist Ending of Across the Spider-Verse.
• While Rome Burns: 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 Crapsack World 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.

The Prowler

Miles G. Morales / The Prowler

Voiced By: Jharrel Jerome

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

"I'm Miles Morales, but you... you can call me the Prowler."

Earth-42's version of the Prowler, who is not Aaron, but in fact Miles who runs a crime organisation with him.

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• Alliterative Name: Miles Morales.
• All There in the Manual: In the artbook from Across the Spider-Verse, he is christened Miles G. Morales, differentiating him from his Earth-1610B counterpart the same way that Earth-616B's Peter B. Parker is differentiated from Earth-1610B's Peter Parker.
• Alternate Self: The first alternate version of Miles introduced in a Spider-Verse film, living in the universe where the spider that bit Miles originated from.
• Ambiguously Evil: He's apparently an established criminal supervillain in his home universe, but not enough of his character and situation is shown to conclusively say whether or not he is genuinely evil at heart. On the one hand, he has apparently pulled up several "jobs" with his Uncle Aaron's guidance, has no problem ambushing Miles with a sneak attack, and is overall callous towards his situation or the fact that an alternative version of his own father will be killed by keeping Miles trapped. However, he apparently genuinely loved his own version of Jefferson, as shown by the "Rest in Power" memorial graffiti, he seems to care about his mother, and it's implied the crimes he's pulling off with Aaron as necessary to keep them financially stable. It's unclear if he's an Anti-Villain or a Justified Criminal, but he was originally supposed to become the heroic figure of Spider-Man for his home universe, so he did have the potential to do good in him before his spider was dimensionally displaced. The artbook names him as a "vigilante" as opposed to a criminal, suggesting that he is closer to an Anti-Hero than the 1610B version of Prowler.
• Badass Cape: Averted. Instead, the tail straps of his backpack create this effect.
• Badass Normal: While he may not have been bitten by the spider and gained superpowers, his uncle's tutelage in the fighting arts and gadgets still makes him a deadly foe for Miles as the Prowler.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: He's The Stoic in contrast to Miles' dynamic personality, and despite not sharing Miles' spider powers, he's clearly someone to be careful of as the Prowler.
• Braids of Action: One of the most visible ways to distinguish Prowler Miles and Spider-Man Miles is that the former wears his hair like this while the latter's hair is an afro. His brief cameo while The Spot is explaining his origin story shows that he had them even before the event where he was supposed to get bitten by the spider.
• Brick Joke: Earlier in the movie, Miles back in Earth-1610B attempts to deflect rumors of Spider-Man being Puerto Rican (after Rio brings it up) by claiming he's Dominican instead. While Earth-42 Miles is still Puerto Rican, he is voiced by Jharrel Jerome, who is of Dominican descent.
• Collapsible Helmet: He wears a mask that can fold into the back of his head if he decides to stop using it.
• Daddy's Little Villain: Or rather, Uncle's Little Villain. It's implied he took up the mantle of The Prowler from his uncle, who is a Retired Badass.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Averted. This Miles was heavily impacted by the loss of his father, but he is apathetic about Earth-1610B's Miles losing his own.
• Dull Surprise: He's remarkably blasé about meeting a version of himself from an alternate dimension, merely asking whether 1610B-Miles' father is still alive and reacting with a simple "huh..." when given an affirmative. It's helps characterize him as cold and unemotional, in contrast to the more empathetic and sensitive Miles the audience is familiar with.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He is briefly seen during the Spot's backstory monologue.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite his cold exterior and lack of compassion, he seems to have remained on friendly terms with his mother, as she still loves him and is mostly unfazed by his appearance in their home. He also seemed to love his late father, as it's implied he and his uncle painted a mural of him in his honor similar to how Earth-1610B Miles and his dad did for their Aaron. Notably, this doesn't extend to alternate versions of his father, as he refuses to set "our" Miles free when he's informed that Jefferson will die otherwise.
• Evil Counterpart: This version of Miles is basically what happens if he never got bitten and his Uncle had too much influence over him - a cold, violent criminal. Ironically, the brief shot of him seen in the Spot's recollection indicates he was originally supposed to be Miles' Good Counterpart instead, studying in a classroom when his spider prepared to bite him, contrasted against 1610B Miles receiving the bite instead whilst he was blowing off his assigned homework to make graffiti art with his Uncle.
• Evil Doppelgänger: Serves as this to our Miles, showing what he could possibly end up as had he not been bitten by the radioactive spider and become Spider-Man.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Like the Prowler from Earth-1610B, his mask electronically modifies his voice to make it sound much deeper, which highlights his villainous role.
• Hero Antagonist: The artbook states he's more of a vigilante rather than a criminal. Meaning he's only trapping Earth-1610B Miles to make sure he isn't a trap.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: He has a different hairdo and voice compared to the protagonist Miles, which helps distinguish them out of costume. He also has a Puerto Rican accent, which is noticeable in how he pronounces "Morales."
• In a Single Bound: He's capable of leaping across buildings thanks to his rocket-thruster-equipped shoes.
• Irony: Of the cosmic variety. The brief shot of him in the Spot's recollection of dimensionally displacing his spider shows it was apparently about to bite him whilst he was studying in a classroom, implying that he was once an aspiring and driven student aiming to better himself. Said spider would then find another version of Miles in the process of blowing off his own homework assignment to make graffito art with his criminal uncle and bite him instead. This negated 1610B Miles' "fated" destiny of eventually becoming a Super Villain in the same vein as his Uncle, and transformed him into the heroic figure of Spider Man instead. Meanwhile, as a result of there being no Spider Man on Earth-42, the studious 42 Miles who was supposed to receive that destiny apparently became pushed into the criminal lifestyle of the Prowler in order to provide for his family as his dimension became a Crapsack World.
• It Began with a Twist of Fate: He was supposed to be the Spider-Man of Earth-42, but the spider that was supposed to bite him was sent to another universe, leading to a sequence of events that resulted in Miles becoming something else entirely.
• Lack of Empathy: Gives Earth-1610B Miles absolutely No Sympathy, dismissing his desperation to return home to save his father with apathy and threatening him for no real reason.
• Legacy Character: It's heavily implied that he inherited the Prowler mantle from his uncle Aaron.
• Leitmotif: His theme if played in reverse is Earth-1610B Miles' theme.
• Missed the Call: He was potentially destined to become the Spider-Man of Earth-42 but the spider that would have bit him got sent to Earth-1610B where it bit our Miles. This left Earth-42 without a Spider-Man and he ended up going down a darker path as the Prowler.
• Mythology Gag: This is not the first time that Miles Morales has faced off against an Evil Counterpart of himself. It is near impossible not to compare him to Ultimatum from the mainstream comics.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Much like his Earth-1610B counterpart's uncle, he doesn't play around as the Prowler and straight up ambushes Miles before he could even register his presence.
• No-Sell: Miles' Spider-Sense utterly fails to warn him of his counterpart's incoming ambush, and when he awakens, he likewise fails to sense him lurking in the rafters above until Aaron draws attention towards him as the new Prowler. It's implied this is because of him technically being Miles, thus rendering him immune to being sensed by him in a capacity not unlike that of Venom, one of Spider-Man's most famous Evil Counterparts.
• No Sympathy: When the Miles of Earth-1610B tells him that their father is about to die unless he saves him, Earth-42 Miles coldly retorts that Jefferson is his dad, not theirs.
• Parkour: Like Earth-1610B's Prowler, he can run and leap across buildings and lower himself down from a support beam to meet Miles face-to-face while making little sounds.
• Perpetual Frowner: Unlike Miles, he doesn't smile at all due to his more tragic and harden personality.
• Power Fist: He wields similar gauntlets as Earth-1610B's Prowler, allowing him to knock out the spider-enhanced, durable Miles in a single blow to the head. He also softly grazes his gauntlet against the side of Miles' head as a means of intimidation.
• Purple Is Powerful: He has a primarily magenta and purple color scheme and he's the only antagonist that Miles can't sense at all, dropping him in two seconds flat.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: He has a magenta and violet color scheme to distinguish him from Earth 1610B's Miles' red and black.
• The Stoic: Emphasized in contrast to Earth-1610B Miles Morales. While that Miles is an extremely facially expressive person, as part of his general personality as a sensitive artist, this Miles never breaks his cold, neutral facial expression and reacts to news that his lost father is alive in another world with a simple grunt. It shows how life as a supercriminal without the positive influence of Jefferson has hardened him.
• Teens Are Monsters: He's a young teenager like the 1610B Miles, but is a ruthless criminal rather than an idealistic superhero.
• Tricked-Out Shoes: His Jordans are modified to have rocket thrusters built in them.
• Wolverine Claws: Prowler's primary weapons are his giant, mechanical gloves with razor-sharp claws on the fingers.

The Prowler's Accomplice

Aaron Davis

Voiced By: Mahershala Ali ^{Foreign VAs}Daniel del Roble (Latin American Spanish), David Lenneman (Swedish), Matti Klemm (German)

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

Earth-42's version of Aaron Davis.

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• Alternate Self: A version of Aaron who isn't currently the Prowler. Across also features a live-action version of Aaron who still is the Prowler and was captured by the Spider-Society.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear whether he retired from being the Prowler and passed on the gauntlet to his nephew, or whether he was never the Prowler and merely supports Miles from behind the scenes.
• Beard of Evil: The major difference in appearance between him and his counterpart in Earth-1610B is that his beard is longer and graying.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Inverted, he's a still living version of Miles' deceased uncle.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Despite realizing that he's in another world, Miles treats him with the same love and affection as his world's Aaron and hugs him as if his world's Aaron had come back to life. Even after this Aaron sets up an ambush to knock Miles out, he still tries to appeal to his good side like he did with his world's Aaron.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite still being a criminal in this universe and maybe being the (former) Prowler he misses his brother and provides for his sister-in-law and Miles.
• Evil Mentor: It's all but stated that he guided his nephew into the life of crime.
• In Spite of a Nail: He's virtually the same as Earth-1610B's Aaron.
• Retired Badass: Is heavily implied to be the original Prowler, much like his counterpart on the main Miles' universe. Despite claiming he's not (Earth-42's) the Prowler, he seems to know how to use the Prowler's gauntlet before tossing it to his nephew.
• Scary Black Man: He's nowhere near as charming as Earth-1610B Aaron.
• Spotting the Thread: Just by looking at the different hairstyle and Miles' tense reaction to his presence, he quickly figures out that the Miles from Earth-1610B is not his nephew.
• Walking Spoiler: Talking about him would spoil the Twist Ending of Across the Spider-Verse.

Other

Vulture

Adriano Tumino / Vulture

Voiced By: Jorma Taccone ^{Foreign VAs}Antonio Di Ponziano (Swedish), Jan-Marten Block (German), Nobuo Tobita (Japanese)

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

"I am the Vulture, the pinnacle of man's genius! What cursed world have you brought me to?"

An alternate version of the bird-themed supervillain from a universe styled after Renaissance-era Italy. He wound up in Gwen’s universe via a temporal anomaly from the wake of the supercollider.

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• Alternate Self: His counterpart on Earth-65B is briefly seen in a photo when the police mistake him for their version. Gwen also remarks that he's not her Vulture when she sees him.
• Clockpunk: His technology has this vibe, with oil lamp grenades and missiles, jointed wooden wings operated by strings, and even a jetpack.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Was originally from a Renaissance world - thus, he has some issues with the modern art at Gwen’s Guggenheim and her modern New York as a whole.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He wields a unique arsenal of custom renaissance tech incorporated into his suit. Even more impressive considering he's fighting modern superhumans with 15th-century weapons.
• The Ghost: His Earth-65B counterpart is mentioned and only seen in a photograph. His whereabouts are unknown.
• Grumpy Old Man: During the few minutes he's onscreen, Vulture shows bitter disdain for modern art and reacts to Gwen's snarkiness with violent rage.
• Hammerspace: Referenced by name when Miguel slices off one of his wings. The Vulture simply pulls a new wing right out of his giant clockpunk jetpack.
• Non-Standard Character Design: He's animated to resemble a Leonardo da Vinci sketch brought to life, including only being coloured in shades of brown. Gwen asks if he's made of parchment.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Vulture is only seen in the Action Prologue, but his rampage in Gwen's universe brings the Spider-Society to her and ends with her having to unmask herself to her father, two events that drive Gwen to join the Spider-Society and kickstart the events of Across the Spider-Verse.
• Spear Carrier: 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 Morbius.
• Starter Villain: He is the first major villain that Gwen, Miguel, and Jessica fight in the second film's Action Prologue.
• Straw Critic: He's a Renaissance-era pencil sketch deposited in the Guggenheim of Gwen's Earth and the cause of his immediate rampage is disproportionate rage at how tacky he finds modern art. Though the breathtaking beauty of the actual cityscape and skyline of Gwen's watercolor world manages to literally stun him.
• Villains Out Shopping: In Gwen's guess of how he ended up being transported to her dimension, he is seen calmly enjoying a cup of coffee in his native universe while still wearing his supervillain suit.
• Walking Armory: His suit’s pretty advanced for something that comes from the Renaissance period.
  • His wings have blades mounted on them, can be repaired mid-flight due to have backup parts stored in Hammerspace.
  • He can protect his upper body and head with a armored exoskeleton when he's about to crash into various objects.
  • He packs an Arm Cannon that can fire crossbow bolts or explosive glaives that can knock down a 21rst century helicopter.
  • He can equip a mask that can act as a Fire-Breathing Weapon, though Gwen notes how its dangerous, considering how he looks like he's made of paper.
  • His right arm can fire out a hook shot that acts as a grapple, but it can also extend into Wolverine Claws.
  • He has dozens of flying lamp-oil bombs modeled after Leonardo da Vinci's aerial screw project stored in his backpack, with turbines on the sides.
  • His flying rig also has an Hail Mary attack where it ejects Greek Fire grenades through some kind of spring catapult.
• The World Is Just Awesome: While trying to escape the museum, he is briefly mesmerized by Earth-65B New York's skyline, leaving him to utter "Che meravigliosa bellezza"^note What a wonderful beauty in stunned amazement.

Captured Anomalies

Various villains from different universes that were captured by the Spider-Society.

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• Ascended Extra: Among the many anomalies are obscure villains from the series, such as Videoman, one of the "video game guys", or Mooseterio, a version of Mysterio from Spider-Ham’s dimension who’s a cartoon moose. Typeface, a lesser-known villain of the week (even moreso than The Spot himself), gets his film debut here as one of the captured anomalies.
  Typeface: Go to helvetica, Spider-Man!
  Miles: Bold.
• The Cameo: A couple of the many prisoners being held are from previous adaptations, such as the Green Goblin from Spider-Man (Atari 2600), who is literally just a bunch of green pixels vaguely resembling a human figure.
• Funny Animal: Mooseterio, Spider-Ham’s version of Mysterio, is an anthropomorphic cartoon moose.
• Gender Flip: There's a Miss-terio, a female version of Mysterio.
• Save the Villain: They're all being prepared for return to their home dimensions, which among other reasons is so they won't die from being away too long. The Spider Society seems to have something of Alien Non-Interference Clause against handling supervillains without their world's Spider, so killing them or keeping them imprisoned long-term is a no-no.
• Toon: Mooseterio is a cartoon animal, just like Spider-Ham.

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