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The Spider-Gang (Gwen Stacy) | Spider-Society (Miguel O'Hara) | Supporting Characters | Antagonists (The Spot)

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The Spider-Gang

"You're like me."

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

A collection of different Spider-People from across the multiverse who find themselves in Miles Morales' universe. After circumstances tie their hands, they eventually find themselves reunited after they ideologically diverge from the Spider-Society, this time with a few new faces.

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In General

• Adaptational Badass:
  • In the comics, the Spider-Sense generally doesn't work on other people with Spider-Sense. In this movie, it not only reacts but actively reverberates with those who also have it upon meeting them, allowing the Spider-Gang to recognize a fellow Spider.
  • Wall Crawl abilities are usually limited to skin contact or through thin clothing; heavier garments can restrict it, and shoes are almost always a no-go. Here, Miles and Peter are both capable of walking up walls in sneakers and Spider-Noir sticks just fine in his boots.
• Alliance of Alternates: All are "Spider-People" in a more general sense, but not all Peter Parkers.
• Alternate Self:
  • Four out of the original six members are versions of Peter Parker, and there are three versions of Peter shown in Into the Spider-Verse who aren't part of the group with only one not being Spider-Man.
  • Across the Spider-Verse features several more variations of Peter Parker from Earth-67, Earth-13122, Earth-26496 and Earth-751263. The film also uses archive footage of their counterparts from Earth-96283 and Earth-120703, while Miguel mentions "the little nerd from Earth-199999".
  • There is also an unseen Spider-Man on Earth-688B, though his identity is unknown.
• Alliterative Name: Among the main six we have one Miles Morales, two Peter Parkers, one Peni Parker, and one Peter Porker. Gwen Stacy is the exception.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: They gain superpowers from being bitten by radioactive spiders (or in Ham's case, being a spider bitten by a radioactive pig), and their abilities mimic those of a spider.
• Badass Crew: Each one, sans Miles, is a seasoned Spider-Man capable of holding their own, and Miles comes into his own by the end of the film.
• Broken Pedestal: A good majority of them were part of the Spider-Society, and the ones shown at first seemed quite jazzed to be part of an organization consisting of superheroes like themselves. Their enthusiasm got dampened when it turned out that their responsibility as multiverse protectors meant they couldn't intervene in preventing tragedy from befalling any other Spider-People even if it meant letting innocent people die, due to Miguel's very strict enforcement of his "Canon Event" theory. When Miguel became unnecessarily hostile towards Miles for wanting to prevent the death of his father, they ended up defecting and formed their own group.
• But Now I Must Go: At the climax of Into, with the Super Collider about to leave them stranded in Miles' dimension and them being in danger of destabilizing due to being in a foreign dimension, Miles himself sends the rest of the Spider-Gang back to their homeworlds in order to fight The Kingpin alone.
• Comes Great Responsibility: They engage in super heroics out of a sense of duty either to uphold the legacies of their predecessors or to use their powers for a good cause (also, it's a Spider-Man movie, so...).
• Deadpan Snarker: The one constant among the Spider-Gang is their ability to quip.
• Determinator: One of the defining traits of the Spider-Gang is, "No matter how many times I get hit, I always get back up."
• Dimensional Traveler: The other members of the Spider-Gang aren't native to Miles's universe.
• Expressive Mask:
  • Blond Peter, Peter B, and Gwen have this going on with their suits, as the eyes on their masks widen or narrow to reflect their emotions.
  • Spider-Ham goes a step further by having his expressions reflect in both his eyes and nostrils.
  • The SP//dr mecha has electronic displays in its dome to show the emotional state of Peni and her spider since they are psychically bonded.
  • Spider-Man Noir's goggles are an exception, they remain a constant size at all times which reflects his stoic desire to shut down his emotions.
    Noir: Can you close off your feelings so you don't get crippled by the moral ambiguity of your violent actions.?
  • Miles's cheap Spider-Man costume does not because his mask has cutouts for the eyes allowing the audience to see his emotions directly. However, once he gets a proper spider costume, his mask becomes just as expressive as everyone else's.
• Five-Token Band: In the first film, the group consists of an Afro-Latino male, two Caucasian males (one of whom is Ambiguously Jewish), one Caucasian female, one Asian female, and a male spider-turned-pig. The group is expanded in the second film, with new additions including an Indian male, an Afro-British male, an Afro-American female, and a Caucasian infant girl.
• Genre Refugee: Miles, Blond Peter, Peter B. and Gwen all belong solely in the superhero comics genre. However, the remaining members of the Spider-Gang are from markedly different genre styles crossed with the superhero comics genre. Across adds Hobie Brown to the latter group.
  • Spider-Man Noir is an escapee from Film Noir.
  • Peni Parker and SP//dr are Animesque and from a Cyberpunk future.
  • Peter Porker a.k.a. Spider-Ham is proudly a Toon.
  • Hobie Brown a.k.a. Spider-Punk is a living animated collage based on the punk rock aesthetics.
• Good Counterpart: Across establishes them as this when compared to the Spider-Society, choosing to Screw Destiny and prevent Canon Events instead of allowing innocents to die.
• Hero of Another Story: Everyone except Miles is already a well-established superhero in their own dimension, which is symbolized by showing their solo comics stacked on a pile.^note In real life, most have their own solo series with unique supporting casts. Peni is the exception, though she has A Day in the Limelight in a few issues of Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon By the end of the movie, Miles also becomes a full-fledged hero on his own, with his own symbolic comic.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Each Spider-Man has had someone precious to them die. Ironically, no version of the Trope Namer gets killed, but Gwen Stacy loses her Peter Parker instead. She also cites this to rebuff one of Miles's romantic advances — saying that a Gwen Stacy hooking up with a Spider-Man never ends well.
• Leitmotif: There is a three-note motif that is present whenever a Spider-Person is talking about or demonstrating their "spider-identity" and plays behind most of Spider-Gang at one time or another. As Blond Peter is the best possible Spider-Man, this motif is playing in the soundtrack almost all the times he is on screen. For example, when Blond Peter does his awesome swing up to the ceiling of the Super-Collider and it can be succinctly heard being played on the French Horn right after Miles says "How does he do that?" ^note  time-code 22:51-22:53 . It is also very prominently heard at the conclusion to Miles's "What's Up Danger" sequence after he leaps from one building and lands on the next just before he pulls up his mask and smiles; musically confirming that he has joined the Spider-Gang. ^note  time-code 1:24:39 to 1:24:42
• More Hero than Thou: When they first learn that someone has to stay behind to close the Super-Collider, they all volunteer to do it, which means staying away from their home dimension forever. Even after they learn it will kill them to stay, Gwen says to Peter B. that she can do it in his stead, but he insists.
• Mythology Gag: A Freeze-Frame Bonus confirms that the designation of their home universes are the same as the comics. For example, Peter comes form E-616 while Gwen comes from E-65.
• Ominous Visual Glitch: Being in a foreign dimension without proper safeguards is hazardous to a persons health in these films, causing their bodies to gradually disintegrate, which is marked by the unfortunate victim periodically suffering random "glitches", painful episodes where their body distorts in a manner resembling a graphical glitch.
• Out of Focus: In Across the Spider-Verse, Peni, Ham, and Noir are all relegated to minor roles: Peni has a speaking line in the middle, Ham has an archived line from Into, and Noir's only appearance is a non-speaking cameo alongside the other two at the end.
• Putting the Band Back Together: After a whole year of not seeing each other, Gwen reunites the Spider-Gang, and even expands it with several new recruits from the Spider-Society, at the end of Across the Spider-Verse in an effort to find Miles and resist against the Spider-Society.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: At the end of Across, Miles is trapped on Earth-42. The other members don’t know where he is, but they do know they'll traverse every dimension to find him. They clearly don’t care that they'll be on Miguel's radar for violating his laws. They’re going to rescue their friend.
• Seen It All: All the members of the Spider-Gang (plus Aunt May) come to terms with the concept of the multiverse pretty quickly and generally adapt to the oddities of their current situation; whether it be the presence of color, the existence of talking animals, or meeting the counterpart of someone they knew who died in their own universe.
• Share Phrase: "You're like me" is the customary response to encountering another Spider-Person.
• Shoo Out the Clowns: While every member of the gang has their quippy side, Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Ham provided a good deal of the comic relief in the first movie. Come Across, and they're nowhere to be seen until the end as part of Gwen's group made to go look for Miles.
• Sidekick Graduations Stick: At the beginning of the movie, Miles is avoiding his spider-powers expecting Peter B to be his mentor and operates as his sidekick for most of the movie. When the Spider-Gang then actually treats him as a sidekick and decides he's not experienced enough to deal with the Super-Collider without getting hurt, he protests but can't demonstrate any control over his invisibility or venom strike and is left behind after being webbed to a chair. His father's heart-felt talk motivates Miles to free himself, get his own web-shooters from Aunt May, and finally take his "leap of faith" by web-swinging freely through the city. He then rejoins the Spider-Gang for the climactic fight, swipes the goober from Peter B and takes control of the Super-Collider. He summons the team and sends them home and shows he's ready to be Spider-Man by personally dropping Peter B into the portal after deciding to take out the Kingpin on his own.
• Spider-Sense: The Spider-People have this ability, not only to sense danger, but it also helped to recognize that the other Spider-People are similar to each other.
• Super-Toughness: Except for Peni, they have superhuman durability that allows them to come out mostly unscathed compared to most other people. Peter B. in his first scene is shown enduring a tremendous amount of abuse while fleeing the police. He's shown covered in bruises, cuts and black eyes, but heals back to normal later that night. Miles survives a several story drop and bounce off of a taxi cab. Spider-Ham is especially durable because of his ability to use Toon Physics.
• Trapped in Another World: All of them except Miles were pulled out of their dimensions by Kingpin's Super-Collider. Unfortunately, just being here is killing them.
• Two Girls to a Team: Of the six members of the Spider-Gang, Gwen and Peni are the only girls. No longer the case by the end of Across the Spider-Verse, as Mayday and Margo join the group alongside Hobie and Pavitr.
• Wall Crawl: Everyone but Peni can naturally crawl on walls. Notably, they can stand and walk perpendicular to whatever surface they cling to, in addition to crawling.
• Willfully Weak: Part of the mantle of being the "friendly neighborhood Spider-Person" is that they primarily act as street level heroes despite technically possessing powers far above that which is typically found there. Meaning that they typically outclass the vast majority of their Rogues Gallery. As the baseline Spider-Person possesses enough Super-Strength catch falling busses, lift locomotives or shatter giant blocks of reinforced concrete, as well as a comparable level of Super-Toughness (along with a mild Healing Factor), enough Super-Speed and Reflexes to dodge bullets, and mild precognition.

Joined in ITSV

Miles Morales

Miles Morales / Spider-Man II

Homeworld: Earth-1610B

Voiced By: Shameik Moore^{Foreign VAs} Emilio Treviño (Latin American Spanish), Marco Eßer (German), Eddie Hultén (Swedish), Kensho Ono (Japanese)

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

"Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah, I'ma do my own thing."

^{Click here to see his first ITSV suit} 

^{Click here to see his second ITSV suit} 

"My name is Miles Morales. I was bitten by a radioactive spider, and for like two days, I've been the one and only Spider-Man."

A Brooklyn teenager who is struggling to live up to the expectations of his family and teachers. After gaining superpowers from a radioactive spider, he finds himself embroiled in a plot by the city's supervillains to activate a dangerous dimensional portal, and is forced to take up the mantle of the late superhero Spider-Man.

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• Adaptational Abomination: Downplayed, as Miles is mostly human and his "abomination" status is more because of the laws of the universe rather than him being an actual monster. In the comics, Miles is the spider-bite-enhanced-human that all spider people (except Spider-Ham nd Spider-Man 2099) are. While the same holds true here, the spider that bit Miles was not from his universe, but from Earth-42, causing Miles to turn into an anomaly; a catch-all term by the Spider-Society for anything that either defies canon events or is in the wrong universe, and whose continued existence threatens the stability of the multiverse.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Downplayed. In the comics, Miles had to deal with the New York citizens initially thinking him being the new Spider-Man was in poor taste, having an Evil Uncle, and a father who hates his superhero identity. In the movie, Miles still has to deal with attending a school where he feels like an outcast and the struggle of becoming the next Spider-Man. However, he's accepted as the new Spider-Man no problem and his Uncle Aaron goes through Adaptational Nice Guy and thus the two have a better relationship, and though Miles witnessed his murder by Kingpin, he retains positive memories of him. Miles and his father are distant in the beginning but at the end, Jefferson says that while he doesn't approve of his actions, he'll set them aside.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the Ultimate comics, Miles Morales starts out as a shy and introverted kid. Here, Miles Morales is a more social and assertive person, and his more withdrawn moments are due to the culture clash at his new school of Visions or the various traumatic events he experiences after getting his powers. His love for hip hop and graffiti cultures is also more emphasized in this version.

• Affirmative-Action Legacy: He is Afro-Latino and his predecessor as Spider-Man was Peter Parker, who was white.
• Alliterative Name: Miles Morales.
• Alternate Self:
  • He eventually meets his Earth-42 counterpart, who is this reality's version of the Prowler.
  • He also has variants on Earth-1048, Earth-13122, and an unseen variant on Earth-19999.
• Badass Adorable: He's a sweet kid who has spider powers just like the web-slinger himself.
• Beta Outfit: Miles's first costume before his iconic black and red suit is a rather embarrassing Halloween costume variant of Peter's that's at least one size too small for him.
• Black and Nerdy: He's an Afro-Latino American young man who attends a school for the gifted and despite his claims that he only got in via a lottery, he is highly intelligent.
• Brainy Brunette: Miles has black hair and, despite what he may say, is shown to be intelligent enough to become a student of a gifted academy.
• Broken Pedestal: By the end of Across, the knowledge that Peter B. and Gwen knew about his status as an anomaly and his father's impending death destroys all of his love for them, making it very clear in his goodbye that he is done with them.
• Butt-Monkey: He's on the receiving end of much of the first film's Cringe Comedy and slapstick, tripping while trying to hop between buildings because of his untied shoelaces and getting dragged along with Peter while escaping the cops. Even after coming into his own as Spider-Man, he gets struck by an oncoming drone while showing off to a crowd in front of Brooklyn Visions.
• Celebrity Superhero: Not quite to the levels of Peter A. Parker, but in-between the first and second film he became a guest-host on Jeopardy and endorsed a brand of baby powder. He had to apologize online for the second one.
• Character Development: Miles starts off as a talented kid with a bright future but is afraid of being put into the spotlight and having a lot of pressure on him. His adventures with the Spider-Heroes and burgeoning spider skills forces the young Miles to confront his own fears and learn to take a "leap of faith".
• Civvie Spandex: He sometimes wears a hoodie and sneakers along with the rest of his outfit.
• Combo Platter Powers: As is usual for the character, alongside possessing the enhanced strength, hearing, and web-slinging powers like most Spider-Men, Miles can also turn invisible and utilize electricity. Across eventually reveals that the spider that gave him his powers came from another world, Earth-42.
• Costume Evolution: He changed his costume in-between the events of Into and Across, donning a cleaner-looking black suit with red racing stripes down the sides and the inner sides of his arms, leading characters to mockingly ask if he's "bleeding from the armpits". Said stripes going down to his palms and fingers also allude to how the energies flow through his arms when using his Shock and Awe abilities, and also foreshadows him eventually learning to use his entire palms to maximise its potential rather than just his fingertips.
• Cowardly Lion: Despite being empowered, Miles finds himself struggling to jump into action and even controlling his abilities. Though even with his fear, he still makes repeated attempts to help out throughout the first two acts. It isn't until the third act that he is finally able to take that leap of faith and gain the confidence and mastery of his powers.
• Cultured Badass: A more modernized and downplayed example. He is an intelligent young man as he attends a school for the gifted and also shows some highbrow interests, as he deeply enjoys creating art as well as showcasing himself as being very polite and well-mannered, if in a somewhat awkward way, yet at the same time, he shows some more common interests, such as hip-hop music.

• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of The Unchosen One. Despite being bitten by a spider like his world's Spider-Man, Miles struggles with feelings of inadequacy because he feels like he didn't really earn the right to become the next Spider-Man, and it takes him most of the first film in order to learn to trust himself and grow more confident about his position as Spider-Man. Across further deconstructs it by revealing that he really was never meant to become Spider-Man; the spider that bit him came from Earth-42, meaning that said Earth lost the chance to gain a Spider-Man and descended into crime and chaos as a result. Not only that, but Miles' unique situation causes him to become a target of the Spider-Society, an alliance of Spider-Men from all over the multiverse, who deem him an anomaly who threatens the stability of the multiverse the longer he exists.
• Defense Mechanism Superpower: Peter B. theorizes that Miles' invisibility works like this, and to his credit, the few times Miles activates the ability is when he's overwhelmed by fear. By the time Across begins, Miles has become good enough with this power that he can trigger it at will.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Frustrated that Peter B. is keeping him out of the action, Miles slams his fist into a boulder, which promptly cracks in two.
  Miles: That's new!
• Electric Black Guy: Miles's Venom Sting is portrayed as working like an electric shock.
• Energy Absorption: In the second film, he's learned to drain energy through direct contact and then release it in a burst to amp up his Venom Sting, though it takes time to build a charge.

• Extremely Protective Child: Miles has a very close bond with his parents, and while they do grow a bit distant during Across, he still loves them to the point he'll rip you a new one if you mess with them. Learning that his father is fated to die as part of a canon event, and that the Spider-Society is willing to let it happen for the sake of the multiverse, Miles decides to make an enemy out of the entire society in order to find a way to save his father.
• Gratuitous Spanish: Being half Puerto Rican, Miles sometimes dips into Spanish while talking to his mother, and early on in Into the Spider-Verse he also speaks Spanish to his friends as he passes by his old school while heading to Brooklyn Visions. He does it while greeting his supporters at the end of the film. He does it again in Across in an attempt to impress Miguel (who also has Latino heritage), but unfortunately that doesn't work.
  Miles: Alright, cool! Spider-Man, a su servicio! ^Translation  Alright, cool! Spider-Man, at your service!
• Hijacked Destiny: In Across the Spider-Verse, it's revealed the spider that bit him actually hailed from Earth-42 and was supposed to bite that universe's Miles Morales before the Kingpin's particle collider yanked it out of Earth-42 and put him in its crosshairs instead, resulting in this Miles unwittingly stealing his counterpart's destiny to become Spider-Man. Furthermore, the Twist Ending implies that this Miles was supposed to inherit his uncle's title as the Prowler.
• His Own Worst Enemy: In Across the Spider-Verse his decision of hiding his identity from his parents has led to a huge breach between them, with him feeling that he could never share his secret because they would never understand and they knowing Miles is hiding something from them, but feel that their son doesn't trust them enough to share his problems. This becomes a literal example at the end of the movie, where he is confronted by an alternate version of himself that became the Prowler.
• How Do I Shot Web?: He spends much of the film struggling to turn his powers on and off, clinging to things when he doesn't want to, turning invisible involuntarily, and never activating his Venom Strike on command. It isn't until the climax that he gets a solid handle on all of them. Even then, he briefly slips off a wall while trying to show off to a crowd of supporters.
• Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Miles' character development arc in the film is the struggle to become his own version of Spider-Man, a destiny he hasn't fully embraced. After his uncle is killed, his mentor, Peter B. revealing he's planning a Heroic Sacrifice to stop Fisk's plans, and having a heart-to-heart with his father that reveals the latter's always been proud of him, Miles finds the inner strength to put aside his doubts and rise to the challenge. After equipping himself properly with a real costume and his own web-shooters, he takes his "leap of faith" and jumps off a skyscraper that forces him to go web-swinging through the city so he can join the Final Battle.
• I Got Bigger: Miles grows taller and more mature looking by Across. This is lampshaded by both Gwen and Peter B.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: When he is accepted into Brooklyn Visions Middle School away from the regular Brooklyn school he attended.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die:
  • Miles has his Uncle Ben moment when his Uncle Aaron is shot by Kingpin.
  • Downplayed with the death of Blond Peter. While Miles was still too new to his powers to realistically be able to help him, Miles is shown being affected by the fact that he feels he let Spider-Man die.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Miles's arc in the first movie involves fighting past this belief that he keeps imposing on himself.
• Innocently Insensitive:
  • He treats The Spot like a Harmless Villain despite not only the villain having the potential to become a multiversal threat, but because he holds a deep grudge against Miles because he blames him for the event that caused him to become The Spot in the first place.
  • He accidentally ends up angering Spider-Man India during his trip to Mumbattan by saying how he likes "chai tea", which the former quickly clarifies is redundant because "chai" already means tea.
• Invisibility: Unlike Peter, Miles has the ability to turn invisible. Peter hypothesizes that it could be a fight-or-flight response, and from the few times he does activate this ability it seems to be out of fear. He later learns how to control it, making extremely effective use of it during the final battle.
• Keeping Secrets Sucks: While this applies to most Spider-People in general, Miles has been hit pretty hard by the fact he needs to keep his superhero identity a secret from his parents. Not only does he become more distant to them as a result of them not having any idea why he suddenly disappears all the time, but Miles ends up shooting himself in the foot by doing things in a way that only makes his parents suspicious as to what he's doing, not to mention how even when they ask him what's going on, he refuses to spill the beans.
• Kid Hero: A teenager who has gained spider powers.
• Legacy Character: His universe's version of Peter Parker died, and Miles was left to fulfill the promise he made to him to stop Fisk and protect the city.
• Leitmotif:
  • His action theme is based upon Blond Peter's action theme but re-orchestrated to begin with a techno, hip-hop, scratch percussion over the rising brass section. It's played when Miles makes his big entrance in the Super-Collider fight, when he makes his own amazing swing up to the roof of the Super-Collider, and plays throughout his own "one last time" recap. This theme does not become Miles's unique motif until after he takes his "leap of faith" and gets his own comic cover.
  • There is a recurring melodic theme that appears whenever Miles is dealing with or reflecting on the great responsibility that comes with being a Spider-Man and his own journey to fulfill that role. The theme is first heard when the seriously injured Blond Peter explains what Miles needs to do to destroy the Super-Collider and asks him to promise that he will do this. note Structurally, it's a three note motif featuring octave jumps that musically reinforces the "leap" of faith he needs to take.
• Like a Son to Me:
  • His relationship with Uncle Aaron has many father-son parallels. Miles is closer to him than his birth father, and, at the end, Aaron admits he wanted Miles to be proud of him.
  • Over the course of the movie, Peter B. clearly grew to love Miles by the end of their adventures, with the former going Papa Wolf numerous times to protect the latter and contemplating having kids right after telling Miles that he loved him.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Across reveals that the spider that bit Miles wasn't actually from his universe, but Earth-42, and thus he was never meant to become the next Spider-Man. As if that wasn't enough, Peter B. and Gwen both knew about this, but kept quiet in order to keep him safe.
• Love at First Sight: He has a very obvious crush on Gwen the moment he sees her.
• Love Hurts: He very clearly ends up feeling some attraction towards Gwen when he first meets her, but because she's not only a Spider-Man, but comes from another dimension (Earth-65B to be exact), the two can't really get together without threatening the stability of her world. Across adds to the hurt by revealing that she not only knew about canon events, and how Miles' father is fated to die, but that the source of his powers was not natural but never told him.
• Magnetic Hero:
  • His first scene shows him being on friendly terms with a number of his former school classmates. By the end of the movie, Miles manages to bring out the softer sides of Peter B. and Gwen, both who were shown to be notably distant. And by the end of the movie, all of New York has accepted him as the new Spider-Man.
  • In Across the Spider-Verse, Miles' actions throughout, including saving Inspector Singh and defying the Spider-Society, inspire several Spider-People to come to his aid in defiance of Miguel O'Hara and canon.
• Man of Kryptonite: Surprisingly Miles turns out to be this to all of Miguel's technology as their fight carries on due to his bio-electricity allowing him to disregard the Hard Light that his advanced Spider Suit is seemingly made out from, and directly harm him in a way that counts.
• Morality Pet: Miles is one to Aaron, and unlike the comics, Aaron doesn't cross the moral line when he learns of Miles' identity.
• Nervous Tics: When nervous or embarrassed, Miles will close his eyes, hunch his shoulders, and turn his head to the right. After doing that, he will nervously open his eyes in the direction of the person he's talking to.

• Nom de Mom: Just like the comics, Miles took his mother's surname.
• Numerological Motif: The number 42 appears near Miles throughout the film. Director Peter Ramsay states it was in honor of famous baseball player, Jackie Robinson.
  Ramsay: Forty-two was Jackie Robinson's jersey number for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a barrier-smashing black superhero in baseball, and [Miles is a] color-smashing black superhero in Spider-Man comics.
• Obfuscating Stupidity:
  • Miles attempts to soundly fail a true/false test (even dating it Decembruary 2) to get himself kicked out of Visions, but went too far by getting every single question wrong which alerts his teacher that something is wrong.
  • When caught by the school security officer, his attempt to "play dumb" doesn't work any better.
    Guard: Hey, I know you snuck out last night, Morales!
    Miles: [thinking] Play dumb. [spoken] Who's Morales? [thinking] Not that dumb!
• Power Incontinence: As Miles has only had his spider powers for two days, he naturally has trouble controlling them, especially his ability to stick to things. It doesn't help that he's got an extra set of abilities to deal with that the other members of the Spider-Gang don't have and thus can't offer advice. This goes away as the film progresses and his confidence increases.
• Puberty Superpower: Parodied. Every time his powers activate out of nowhere during the beginning of his career as Spider-Man, he blames it on puberty.
• Secret Identity Vocal Shift: As Spider-Man, he uses a deeper voice when talking to his father Jefferson so the latter won't figure out his true identity.
• Scholarship Student: Miles only believes he got into his elite school because he randomly won the lottery and not his academic abilities.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: When he and Gwen wind up in Mumbattan and Spider-Man India confuses them for a couple, he's just as quick as Gwen to outright deny it.
• Shipper on Deck: He's ships Peter B. and the MJ of his universe. He notices Peter give a sullen look at a picture of the MJ of Miles's universe, clearly thinking of his own. Miles asks about MJ when Peter B. plans to sacrifice himself. And in their last conversation, Miles gives Peter the push to give his relationship with MJ another chance.
• Shock and Awe: He's able to produce electricity through his hands as he demonstrates when visiting his Blond Peter Parker's grave and accidentally zaps Peter B. when startled by him. The shock was strong enough to fling Peter B. across the graveyard. It later proves crucial in defeating Kingpin during the final fight of the film.
• Signature Move: Laying a hand on a foe's shoulder and blasting them with his Venom Blast, a move derived from the "shoulder touch", a dating tip his uncle Aaron gave him. He used it to defeat the Kingpin in Into, and knocks Miguel off him and off the Space Elevator with it in the climax to Across.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: His costumes reflects his confidence at being Spider-Man at the moment. His cheap Halloween Spider-Man costume is flimsy, ill-fitting and evocative of how inexperienced he is. He ultimately comes to the realization that being himself and being his own Spider-Man is what makes him strong. To that end, his final costume was originally one of Blond Peter's, but spray painted black with a red logo in reference to Miles's interest in graffiti art thus making the idea of Spider-Man his own.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Miles gained most of his physical looks from his father.
• Superior Successor: He has a few more powers than blond Peter Parker. In addition to the "standard" suite of Spider-powers (Wall Crawling, Super-Strength, Super-Reflexes, and Spider-Sense), Miles can turn invisible and discharge electric shocks by touch with enough force to knock the person back dozens of feet.
• Surpassed the Teacher: Miles does gradually level up and surpass Peter B., and defeats the Kingpin on his own, while also saving the day and sending them all back to their dimensions. Peter B. and Gwen watch Miles pull off the amazing swinging maneuver that the competent Blond Peter did in the first act and Gwen remarks that neither had taught him that maneuver.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Miles spends much of the film needing saving or assistance from the other Spiders. His determination to live up to the legacy of the deceased Peter Parker and protect his home and family leads to him taking on Kingpin solo, stopping the Super-Collider and winning, becoming more than a worthy successor as Spider-Man.
  • In Across, not only has he gotten better at being his world's Spider-Man, but he also outsmarts and outruns hundreds of other Spiders during the movie's climactic chase sequence.
• The Unchosen One: In Across, it's revealed that he was never actually meant to become Spider-Man. He's a Cosmic Flaw and a Wild Card according to "Fixed Canon" of the Multiverse. If the existence of his Evil Counterpart in Earth-42 means anything, he was actually meant to become a villain.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Miles being at the spot of the collider event causes the spider from Earth-42 to latch to him and bite him, depriving its original earth from a Spider-Man, causing it to fall into crime and chaos.
• We Used to Be Friends: He loses a lot of trust in Peter B. Parker, Gwen, and presumably Peni when realizing that they not only side against him rescuing his dad from being killed in an upcoming canon event, but they also knew that he is a walking anomaly since he was never meant to be bit by that spider to the point where he refuses to accept help from the former two in escaping from the horde of Spider-People chasing him. Peter B. Parker unwittingly betrays him when Miguel uses the location of his wrist gauntlet to track him, leading Miles to erroneously conclude that was Peter's motives all along.
• You Fight Like a Cow: Deconstructed. Miles, like the rest of the Spider-People, has a tendency to insult his villains of the week. This drives The Spot to the corners of the multiverse becoming more and more of a Transhuman Abomination just so he'll be respected.
• Youthful Freckles: He has light freckles running across his face, highlighting his youth and inexperience in his role as the new Spider-Man.

Peter B. Parker / Spider-Man

For tropes applying to his appearance in Sony's Spider-Man Universe, see here

Peter B. Parker / Spider-Man

"You have money, right? I'm not very liquid
right now..."

Homeworld: Earth-616B

Voiced By: Jake Johnson [[labelnote:Foreign VAs]]Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Latin American Spanish), Jaron Löwenberg (German), Michael Blomqvist (Swedish), Mamoru Miyano (Japanese)

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

"... 'or everyone's going to die.' That is what they ALWAYS say. But there's always a little bit of time before everybody dies, and that's when I do my best work."

A Peter Parker who becomes Miles's mentor upon entering his dimension. In stark contrast to the young, optimistic, and blond-haired Peter Parker that Miles originally met, this older, brown-haired version is an exhausted emotional wreck after screwing up his life in many ways.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: He is this thanks to being a Composite Character. In the Spider-Girl comics, Peter loses his leg and because of that, he retired. Here, he still has his leg.
• Acrofatic: He's got a pretty noticeable gut from binge eating pizza, but he's still just as agile as you'd expect Spider-Man to be.
• Action Dad: After overcoming his fear of having kids in the first film, he now has a daughter named Mayday in Across the Spider-Verse while still being Spider-Man.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Peter B. is shown making financial investments based on stock market advice given on TV channels and a chasing after get-rich-quick schemes, which is a level of gullibility and financial irresponsibility that Peter in the comics didn't show (whose poverty was of the more can't find paid work equal to talents, and can't hold a job variety).
• The Adjectival Superhero: Although the comic book that represents him calls him "The Amazing Spider-Man", Miles, after dealing with his "mentorship" for a while, notes that he is more the "janky, old, broke hobo Spider-Man". Though he does eventually say that Peter B. is amazing.
• Age Lift: Peter in the main comics was 29 at the time of the film's release and while there have been Alternate Universe stories featuring an older version of the character, this is the first time Peter has been shown to be this old outside the comics with his age being presumed to be 37 if he got his powers when he was fifteen like in the comics. Previous adaptations have always portrayed him either as a teenager or in his early twenties when he's in college.
• Allegorical Character: Peter B can be seen as a commentary on how it feels watching Peter's life get destroyed repeatedly as he never gets married to the woman he loves, and keeps dealing with the same problems as an adult that he did in his youth. It stops being as relatable as it did when he was in his teens or twenties, and starts just being depressing.
• Alternate Self: To the Peter Parker of Miles's universe. The primary differences between the two are the difference in age and that Peter B. has different hair and eye color. They also have different voice actors, but if this translates to different voices in-universe is unclear. Otherwise, they do look very similar and have had similar life experiences up to a point.
• Alternative-Self Name-Change: Is called Peter B. Parker in order to differentiate him from his alternative self Peter Parker.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Along with being voiced by a Jewish actor, a blink-and-you-miss-it moment in his backstory shows Peter B. Parker stomping on a wrapped-up wine glass at his wedding, an iconic and uniquely Jewish wedding tradition. When asked about this in an interview, one of the co-directors said, "I happen to have a personal conviction, for many reasons, that Peter B. Parker is likely Jewish... I will say, because this is an alternate universe, we just don't know. It could be that Buddhists step on glass. It could be that M.J. is Jewish and Peter converted..."
• Anti-Mentor: Peter B. only teaches Miles the bare minimum for him to keep up, leaving the rest for him to learn in the field. Peter B. eventually gives up on teaching Miles, deciding to exclude him from the current mission for his own safety, and Miles turns out more successful when not trying to learn from him. However this was the point as he needed Miles to learn that nobody can teach him to be Spider-Man and it takes "a leap of faith" to know if he was ready.
• Anti-Role Model: As compared to Miles's Peter who is an unblemished paragon, Peter B. is an older, jaded sad sack who doesn't see himself as someone who should be emulated too closely. However, this serves to teach Miles that no one can tell him how to be a hero and that he needs to figure most of these things on his own. In one deleted scene, he tells Miles not to be Spider-Man like him, but, "be Spider-Man like you."
• Artistic Age: Even when he's older, Peter is usually drawn relatively young-looking with smoother features, whereas Peter B. is given a bulkier torso, Perma-Stubble, and sharp facial features to emphasize his age in comparison to Miles. Notably, this helps contrast him with the Peter of Miles's universe, who has an identical costume, but otherwise leaner features to emphasize the age difference.
• The Atoner: He joins up with Gwen in forming a separate Spider Group to find Miles and fix their mistakes.
• Audience Surrogate:
  • Peter B. largely embodies the audience who have grown tired about the constant iterations of Spider-Man that rehash the story over and over again, in addition to being tired of watching tragedies befall him day after day. He also grows tired of Miles's enthusiasm about being Spider-Man even if it is all new to him because he's been through it.
  • As some critics pointed out, he's also the audience surrogate as someone who thinks they know all about the setting but then discover that things are a bit different in this reality from the setting that he's familiar with, allowing him to be surprised, most notably when he has no inkling that this universe's Doctor Octopus is actually a young woman until it's almost too late.
• Babies Make Everything Better: While MJ wanting kids and Peter not was The Last Straw that led to their divorce and Peter's downward spiral in Into, his time with Miles (as brief as it was), gave him the hope to give their marriage another shot. By the time Miles meets wit him in Across, Peter's daughter Mayday had turned him into a Doting Parent and he's clearly in a better place than he was. He even tries reasoning with Miles when he becomes a fugitive to the Spider-Society and eventually defects because he wouldn't have Mayday without him.
• Badass and Baby: In Across the Spider-Verse, he carries Mayday around on a baby carrier while web-swinging and wall-crawling as an energetic baby with superhuman abilities would be difficult to take care of in the hands of a normal human like Mary Jane or a babysitter.
• Bad Bedroom, Bad Life: Even for someone who's recently moved in to a new place, Peter's apartment is a mess. He has several beer cans scattered on the floor of his apartment, a pizza on his bathtub, and it's implied that he's too lazy (or too depressed) to actually unbox any of the boxes scattered around his apartment.
• Big Eater: He devours a burger and took Miles's as well.
• Boring, but Practical:
  • This is Peter B.'s case for using public transportation to get to Alchemax, much to Miles' disappointment. Web-swinging there would definitely be more fun, but taking the bus makes the trip easier and doesn't tire them out before the mission even begins.
  • Aside from web-swinging, the only advice Peter B. gives to Miles is to take care of his Spider-Suit; disinfect the mask regularly, and use baby-powder to avoid chafing. Not exactly the city-saving superhero tips that Miles wanted, but it's sound advice nonetheless.
• Broken Ace: He has the abilities, skills, and 22 years of experience as Spider-Man, but after decades of thankless heroism, his aunt dying, and his separation from MJ, (the one good thing he had in his life), he's now overweight, broke, alone, and emotionally crippled.
• Butt-Monkey: More than any of the other Spider-People, Peter B. takes the most injuries, many of them hilarious, and has the most pathetic backstory. His "one more time" recap shows him being clobbered by crooks, a drone, and a city bus.
• Casanova Wannabe: Tries to distract Olivia by "turning on the charm". It doesn't work because she's more enthused about him being living proof of alternate realities. And also she's Doc Ock.
• Character Development:
  • Peter B. starts off very bitter and cynical, wanting to go home immediately, and seems to consider Miles something of an annoyance (to the point of trying to keep him on "lookout duty"). He softens up on Miles after the raid on Alchemax, and starts to put a lot more confidence in Miles, even acting as something of a Parental Substitute.
  • His monologue shows that despite still loving MJ after their divorce, he was afraid to take the chance of reconciling, thinking he would mess it all up again. And this was the main reason he decided to be the one to stay behind to stop the collider, as he thought no one would miss him. However, speaking to the MJ of Miles's universe and getting encouragement of Miles himself, helps Peter to understand that he has to take a "leap of faith" to rebuild his relationship with his MJ. And the epilogue shows him, now all cleaned up, at MJ's house ready to reconcile and restart their love. By the sequel, they've started a family together because Miles gave Peter the confidence to do so.
• Children Raise You: He becomes more mature and responsible after hanging out with Miles and Gwen, and he's much more idealistic and put-together after having his own daughter.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Peter Parker originally started out as this in The Amazing Spider-Man's early issues before Character Development in the same era had him change for the better. Peter B. largely brings those old aspects forward in that he's overly self-centered, self-destructive, jerkier, and doesn't play well with others.
• Clothing Damage: The transportation between dimensions causes him to lose the foot part of his costume below the calves. He wears sweatpants to cover this up until the meeting at Aunt May's.
• Comes Great Responsibility: Peter B., as always, attempted to follow this ideal after his actions allowed for the death of his Uncle Ben, but since then has become rather sick of the saying, angrily telling Miles not to finish the phrase when Miles attempts to use it to gain his help. This seems to stem from the notion that being Spider-Man caused him and Mary Jane to separate and his life to fall apart. Of course, jaded though he may be, he's still Peter Parker and can't bring himself to turn his back on Miles.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: It's noted by comic fans that Peter B. has a passing resemblance to Spider-Man artist Todd Nauck.
• Composite Character: Peter B. has aspects from the comics and earlier live-action adaptations. He shares much of the same history as the version of Spider-Man from the Sam Raimi films, albeit with some liberties taken. His hairstyle is closer to that of Andrew Garfield, longer hair, messier, and framing his face (which is closer to John Romita Sr.'s standard design of Peter) as opposed to Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland, who had flatter and shorter hairstyles (based on Steve Ditko's original design). In terms of personality, his more jerkier and standoffish attitude is closer to his comic book counterpart's very early portrayal in The Amazing Spider-Man era before his Character Development set in, while the depiction of him as drawing on Aunt May as his Living Emotional Crutch, and reluctance to have children with Mary Jane draws from parts of his comic book counterpart during the Post-OMD era. In Across the Spider-Verse, it's revealed that he now has a daughter with MJ named Mayday, just like his MC2 incarnation.
• Cynical Mentor: Despite Miles looking up to him for advice (likely due to his own universe's Peter promising to mentor him), this Peter never properly trains or walks Miles through the really, really dangerous things that Spider-Men go through. Which is the point. He was teaching Miles that no one can really "teach" him to be Spider-Man, rather it's something you figure out on your own.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Bad financial decisions and years of abuse as Spider-Man, was the beginning of a downward spiral culminating in the death of his Aunt May and his divorce from MJ. By the time we meet him, he is an emotionally-compromised and world-weary Spider-Man who is less than enthused about getting involved in Miles's predicament.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Across reveals that he suffered the death of his Captain Stacy, which Miles is shocked to learn.
• Deadpan Snarker: Being Spider-Man, this is a given. Also, given Peter B.'s messed up life, he tends to snark a lot.
• Death Seeker: Hinted at. Though Peter B. wants to go back to his own dimension at first, it becomes clear to him and the Spider-Gang that someone will have to stay behind to turn the Super-Collider off. With Miles out of the picture and knowing that whoever stays behind will die, he volunteers to shut it off; with no loved ones waiting for him at home, he considers himself to be the expendable member of the group. Notably, even when Miles reappears, he still insists on doing it - though that is partly out of fear for Miles.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Kid Hero All Grown-Up. One of the key tenets of Spider-Man is that no matter how many times they are knocked down, they always get back up. As the oldest Spider-Man, one would assume Peter B. Parker has mastered that lesson. However, after a series of injuries, financial misfortunes, and growing marital tension, Peter B is hit hard by two emotional tragedies that knock him to the ground; the death of his Aunt May and his divorce from Mary Jane when she wanted kids. He is unable to get back up from these blows and descends into a jaded mindset, a burnt-out work ethic, and a pizza-fueled potbelly. Peter B. assigned himself the role Spider-Man while he was in high school at the ripe old age of 15, Peter has been doing this job for 22 years and it's clearly taken an effect on his morale and his outlook on life. After the death of Aunt May and separation from Mary Jane, he's just been struggling with loneliness because everyone likely sees him as a commodity and his role as Spider-Man has affected his ability to form close relationships. As a result, Peter B is miserable, lost his passion for the role of a hero, and is completely disillusioned. He even develops a tone of voice that sounds less optimistic about helping others and sounds more resentful about being dragged into another mess that he has to clean up.
• Demoted to Extra: From Deuteragonist in the first movie to supporting character in the second. He still plays an important part in the plot, and gets a fair amount of screen time when he does show up, but he doesn't actually appear in the movie until well past the halfway mark.
• Dented Iron: His years of being Spider-Man have taken a toll on him, his brief backstory snippet mentioning a severe back injury in his later days. In another physical contrast between him and his counterpart from Miles's dimension, the bridge of his nose is noticeably crooked where it appears to have been broken some time before. He doesn't let being out of shape slow him down at all, though.
• Deuteragonist: After Miles, he's the most prominent character in the first movie, having the second biggest character arc in the film.
• Don't Think, Feel: Peter B. tells Miles that no one can tell him when he's ready, nor can he know, he has to take a leap of faith. Though based on his reaction later on, it's not clear if he meant that sincerely.
• Doting Parent: And how! Despite being afraid to have children until the end of the first movie, Across the Spider-Verse shows that Peter very quickly changed his tune upon actually becoming a parent. Nearly every line of his is about his daughter, Mayday. He's constantly wearing a baby carrier over his costume, he shows Miles and Gwen several pictures of her, attempts to do the same with Miguel, has a knitted mask/hood to slip over her face as a disguise, and even made a web-shooter for her in the form of a bracelet (though he does admit that doing so was a bad idea).
• Drowning My Sorrows: During his "one more time flashback" after Aunt May dies and he divorces MJ, Peter B. moves into his own apartment and it becomes apparent that he develops a beer gut and several beer cans can be seen in his apartment.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: As Across The Spider-Verse shows, even after everything this poor man has been through, he still managed to end up getting back with MJ and have a happy family with an adorable, loving baby daughter. It's because of this as to why he's so much more genuinely happy and chipper in Across than in the first film.
• Establishing Character Moment: When doing his introduction, Peter B. is shown that despite still being an experienced hero his personal life is a mess — Failed business, death of his Aunt May, divorced from MJ, and using food for comfort.
• Experienced Protagonist: He's been Spider-Man for twenty-two years, which is over a decade longer than the Peter Parker of Miles's universe. Balancing this out is that he's achieved far less in his time than Miles's Peter has in his short life. He does know a considerable amount of what it takes to be Spider-Man, which he tries to impart on to Miles.
• Formerly Fit: He's not terribly out of shape, but he does have a bit of a gut and its clear he's not in as good a shape as he once was. In his flashbacks, he's shown wallowing in pizza after Aunt May's death and divorcing MJ.
• Friendly Enemy: He and Gwen are this to Miles when he is being chased by the Spider-Society. While he is technically opposed to him returning to his universe to disrupt a Canon Event, he can't bring herself to actually attack him like Miguel and the other members do. Instead opting to drag Miles away from the others with a webline before trying to talk him down.
• Future Loser: His universe is for the most part Miles's universe about a decade in the future, where Peter B. has divorced his wife, grown jaded, and gotten out of shape. He is very conscious of this fact.
• Good Parents: Despite not even wanting kids, initially, Peter B. turns out to be a great dad - being kind, conscientious, patient and considerate towards his infant daughter. He does endanger her by bringing her along on a huge, high-speed chase but for a Spider-Person that's basically just average father-daughter bonding.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He feels this towards the dead Peter of Miles's universe, who he laments is perfect, died a martyr and a hero, is younger and fitter, more accomplished scientifically, beloved by his wife and his aunt, and is likewise Miles's true hero. When he arrives at Peter's Spider-Cave, he compares it bitterly to his shack which is just a shed that stores his stuff.
• Happily Married: Zigzagged. He and MJ start off as a strong, married couple but over time their relationship became testy which was not helped by bad financial investments, Aunt May dying, and a mid-life crisis over his reluctance to have kids. This led to them divorcing. By the end of the film, he's determined to give their relationship another chance and not make the same mistakes he did earlier. When next we see him in Across the Spider-Verse, he has gotten back with Mary Jane, and is clearly extremely happy to have her and their daughter in his life.
• Healing Factor: It's easy to ignore, but his wounds recover in quite a fast pace. After getting his face heavily bruised up from hitting many pavements and walls during his trip to Miles's dimension, his face is completely back to normal in a day or two during MJ's funeral speech about this universe's Peter's death. Also after Miles ragdolls him around New York to evade the cops, his wounds immediately start mending after regaining consciousness. A few seconds later, his wounds are entirely gone after exiting the apartment Miles put him on.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: The ending of the film has him clean himself up and wear a neat suit with flowers in order to reconcile with Mary Jane and start their relationship anew.
• Hero of Another Story: He's essentially an older version of Raimi's Spider-Man, so he has had all those adventures and then some.
• Heroic Sacrifice: During the climax, he chooses to stay behind while the rest of the Spider-Gang goes back to their own dimensions, despite knowing he'll die if he does. Miles stepping up as the new Spider-Man of his world means he doesn't have to.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Peter B.'s long-term career as Spider-Man and a series of bad life choices have led him to separate from MJ, stop taking good care of his health, and becoming more asocial, lapsing back to the friendless, aloof, and moody kid he was in The Amazing Spider-Man.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Across the Spider-Verse confirms that he failed to save the Captain Stacy of his world (though nothing is said about his Gwen Stacy).
• Improbable Aiming Skills: When Miles is trying to get Peter to help he sticks the goober in his mouth, threatening to swallow it. Peter proceeds to use his webshooters to grab the goober out of Miles' mouth mid-sentence.
• Innocent Bigot: Downplayed, but he initially assumes the head scientist of Alchemax to be male; when Miles points out that Olivia is the head scientist, he makes the next step of his plan "re-examine [his] personal biases".
• Jaded Washout: His Glory Days as a young, capable Spider-Man have faded brutally, as has his youthful idealism and trim physique. Lately, it's implied that he's been spending more time eating pizza and brooding over his divorce than catching crooks and protecting innocents. Reluctantly mentoring Miles, and to a lesser extent, Gwen, brings him out of his funk.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's been worn down by a long career as Spider-Man and is feeling the weight of his mistakes, making him sick of the Comes Great Responsibility spiel and initially is not interested in helping Miles or teaching him how to use his powers. Despite this he still can't abandon Miles to his plight, he's the one member of the Spider-Gang who consistently believes in Miles (and tries to get the others to back off from their Drill Sergeant Nasty routine), and when it seems someone from the Spider-Gang will have to stay behind despite an inevitable and painful demise, he is the first to volunteer.
• Knight in Sour Armor: As an older version of Spidey beaten down by poor life choices, he's become far more cynical than the younger version of Peter Parker from Miles's universe. He quickly shuts down Miles when the teen tries to say the Comes Great Responsibility speech, and doesn't want to mentor Miles even though the teen has gained the powers of a Spider-Man. However, he's still willing to brave certain danger, finds himself enjoying his mentorship of Miles during the break-in of the Alchemex lab, and genuinely tries to protect Miles from harm when he tells him he's not ready to carry the mantle.
• The Leader: Of the Spider-Gang, somewhat reluctantly. He falls into it partly by default, because Gwen, Miles, and Peni are too young, Spider-Ham is a bit too strange, and Noir is a bit off, but he is the most experienced and pretty capable once he gets his mojo back, and the others defer to him in the finale without complaint.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: The long-term wear and tear of being Spider-Man along with poor life-choices takes its toll on his marriage to MJ leading to them separating. However, his experiences in Into the Spider-Verse give him the push to reconcile with her, and by the sequel, it seems they are Happily Married once again with a daughter to boot.
• Meaningful Name: This older Peter from another universe introduces himself as "Peter B. Parker". In-Universe, his middle name is Benjamin, after his uncle, but he also serves as the second version of Peter Parker that Miles meets (i.e. "Peter B") after his own universe's Peter Parker (i.e. "Peter A") is killed. He's also less successful and more road-worn than Blond Peter, and so the initial can be also refer to him as the "B-Grade" Peter Parker. Screenwriter Phil Lord subscribes to this latter interpretation, saying "And for me it stood for the B grade or B-List or B-picture. A lesser Peter."
• Mentor Archetype: Serves as one to Miles. Although he is indifferent at first, as the story progresses and their relationship deepens, he begins taking the role more seriously.

• Mundane Utility: He shoots a web towards Aunt May's doorbell while being a few feet away.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: In the film, he introduces himself as "Peter B. Parker". It stands for "Benjamin".
• Nervous Tics: When dealing with a particularly stressful and personal situation, Peter B. will put his hands on his hips and give a low sigh.
• Nice Guy: His initial willingness to keep Miles in the dark about his father's impending death aside, he's significantly more easy-going and friendly overall in Across the Spider-Verse thanks to getting his life back on track.
• Noodle Incident: Peter B. was present to try to help Miguel save the replacement Nueva York dimension, their failure being what pushed Peter into going along with Miguel's enforcement of Canon Events, but when this happened or how they met is not shown.
• Old Superhero: He's possibly tied with Spider-Man Noir as one of the oldest members of the Spider-Gang and his design shows a broken nose and possibly some graying hair from the stress of his work. Peter B. has been Spider-Man for 22 years and took up the role of a hero while he was still in high school.
• Papa Wolf: While he starts off very dismissive of Miles, he grows more attached to him as the film goes on, awakening his protective, paternal side. Indeed, his main motive for benching Miles, then trying to be the one to use the goober even though he'll be signing his own death warrant, is because he can't bear to see him die.
  Peter: Leave the kid alone! [slams the Prowler into a wall]
• Perma-Stubble: It's pretty evident that Peter B. hasn't touched a razor in a while.
• Post-Stress Overeating: After his divorce with Mary Jane, he deals with it by gorging on pizza and neglecting his physical fitness. When you consider how much stress any version of Spider-Man has to live with, combined with how badly his life fell apart, it's impressive that Peter B. only has a bit of a gut.
• Punny Name: Since the first Peter that Miles encounters has been killed (i.e., "Peter A"), Miles is left to learn from this one, "Peter B".
• Rebuilt Pedestal: When Miles first becomes acquainted with him, he is disgusted by a man he dismisses as a "janky old broke hobo Spider-Man". Then the two infiltrate Alchemax, and it quickly becomes apparent that despite the absolute mess that is Peter B. Parker's personal life, he's still a very competent and experienced superhero. His more jaded life also serves to give him a somewhat more grounded perspective and while he isn't the perfect mentor that Miles originally wanted, not being able to really train Miles to be Spider-Man in the conventional sense, he proves to be a source of genuinely good advice when it comes to helping Miles find his own path.
• Rule of Symbolism: The idealised version of Peter Parker is a blond, blue-eyed paragon with magazine cover looks. The worn-down and mistake-prone Peter B has dark hair, greying temples and a crooked nose.
• Seen It All: He's been a superhero for so long that he's come to recognize a lot of the patterns in his escapades. The most notable example is his habit of referring to every doomsday-preventing doohickey he comes across as a "goober" for simplicity's sake.
  Peter B.: [while eavesdropping on Kingpin and Liv discussing the collider.] This is all pretty standard Spider-Man stakes — you get used to this. Watch this: he's gonna say "You've got twenty-four hours".
  Kingpin: You've got twenty-four hours.
  [Peter B. winks at Miles]
• Shadow Archetype: Just like the Kingpin, Peter B. drove his wife away from him, and he has difficulty coming to terms with what he did, and instead spends most of the film fixating on an alternate version of her who when he meets, he tries to beg forgiveness and understanding from, just like Fisk does at the climax. However, thanks to Miles and Gwen, and his own conscience, he manages to get over this, and finally finds the strength and courage to take responsibility for his own actions.
• Sherlock Scan: He immediately gets Liv's password with one glance at the reflection of her finger patterns on the keyboards, even though it was a complex alpha-numeric pattern.
• Shipper on Deck: During the bus ride back from Alchemax, Peter B. silently listens in on Miles and Gwen's conversation and smiles approvingly upon hearing Miles's offering of friendship to Gwen when she's ready for it again. He also comments that their little heart to heart after Miles's rescue of Gwen at the finale is "adorable."
• The Shut-In: Was implied to have become one after his divorce from Mary Jane, with his getting sucked into Miles's universe being the first thing to actually get him out of his apartment.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: The trope is Lampshaded when Peter B. and Miles are fleeing from the Alchemax scientists who are shooting at them. Peter B announces it's time to swing and hastily throws Miles a web-shooter who barely gets it on his wrist before being launched off a ledge into the forest. Miles says he can't do this yet and Peter B even acknowledges they've done no prior training for this maneuver.
  Peter B: Everybody knows that the best way to learn is under intense life-threatening pressure.
• Smarter Than You Look: He comes off as a complete flake, but he's a competent planner, he easily unties himself from Miles's webs while distracting him with a conversation, he figures out Miles's more unusual powers pretty quickly, he effortlessly figures out Liv's complex password just by glancing at the reflection of her finger movements, and his reaction when he has to make another goober is annoyance rather than any real dismay. In short: he might be "the janky, old, broke, hobo Spider-Man" with more issues than you can shake a stick at, but he is still Spider-Man.
• So Proud of You: Said word for word, with a Parental Substitute undertones.
  Peter B.: I love you! I'm so proud of you! [to himself] Do I want kids?
• Stalker without a Crush: He focuses on Mary Jane Parker, Blond Peter's wife. He first gazes at her longingly when she gives the eulogy which he surreptitiously attends, and then gazes at her photograph in Peter's workshop. It's mostly because she's a proxy for his MJ, and it's not until he meets her that he realizes that she's an entirely different person from his wife, even if she's an alternate version to her.
• Stealth Mentor: After he starts taking looking after Miles seriously, he becomes this.
• Still Got It: Despite expectations otherwise, Peter B. showcases during the Alchemax infiltration that he absolutely can still be Spider-Man; his primary failing is that he doesn't want to anymore.
• Super-Toughness: While all of the Spider-Gang are tough, Peter B. takes a brutal amount of abuse during the train sequence. Most notably, he hits a gravestone face-first and then has his face dragged along the pavement for several yards, with the police dispatch announcing Miles' shenanigans believing he must be dead from all the trauma, but heals quickly shortly afterwards. This underscores how powerful Miles' Venom Blast actually is, that it knocked him out cold instantly without him being able to resist at all, and left him unconscious for a lengthy while, whereas it took getting repeatedly slammed into multiple objects to do the same during the train sequence.
• Talking Your Way Out: At Alchemax, he tries to distract a scientist by charming her while Miles gets the necessary information from her computer. What Peter doesn't know is that the scientist is a female counterpart of one of his deadliest foes, Olivia Octavius.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's the second tallest of the Spider-Gang and has the biggest sarcastic streak of them.
• Teen Hater: At one point, he proclaims "Teenagers are just the worst."
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: In Across the Spider-Verse, he's a lot happier and more optimistic as he finally got back together with Mary Jane and they had a daughter named Mayday.
• Took a Level in Idealism: His bond with Miles causes him to slowly lose his cynicism, put his belief and faith in Miles, and finally take the leap of faith to fix his mistakes back in his dimension. As a result, he is much more upbeat in Across the Spider-Verse.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He's a lot less blunt and surly in Across the Spider-Verse as a result of finally getting his life back on track.
• Trailers Always Lie: The trailers paint him as a grizzled and experienced mentor figure for Miles and a potential leader of the Spider-Gang. In the film, he is the most experienced and the other Spiders do sometimes defer to him, but his role as mentor and leader is quickly deflated as Gwen and Miles find him unhelpful and his overall attitude is embittered and cynical.
• Unkempt Beauty: His hair is untidy, and he's got a noticeable stubble, reflecting both how jaded and tired he is as well as him being essentially homeless until he hooks up with Miles. That said, however, he's still got the same handsome facial features his blond counterpart had.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: His troubled life is played for laughs and initially reflects a surly, jerky, and unlikable character. It's subverted as we learn that while most of it is his own fault, he actually acknowledges that he's been scared to try and fix things. His growing genuine mentor relationship with Miles allows the audience to warm up to him, and further serves his own Character Development in becoming less jaded and not pushing others away out of fear of messing things up.
• Wall Crawl: Trope Codifier. He's so experienced that he can even casually and nonchalantly walk on them without falling off as Miles does.
• Weirdness Magnet: While recounting his backstory and how he came to be in Miles' universe, he notes that weird things happen to him a lot, with getting sucked into another dimension being especially weird.
• What Would X Do?: Parodied. One of his thoughts during his and Miles' infiltration at Alchemax is rendered as "What I would do if I were me?", as in what if he was his blonde counterpart.
• When He Smiles: When he's not being overly cynical or brooding, he actually has a really nice, sweet smile. This is especially notable when he returns to his dimension and shows up at MJ's door with flowers.
• Wisdom from the Gutter: Despite not being a good role model as Miles hoped he'd be due to his cynical and depressed attitude and laggard appearance; he gives a lot of useful advice to Miles that actually help him become Spider-Man. His "leap of faith" advice proves to be an instrumental part for Miles to finally step up to his role as the new Spider-Man.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Played with. The only thing that ever-kept Peter B. from returning home was Peter B. When he first lands in Miles' universe he's irritated because it feels like it's another case of "Parker luck" and he just wants to go home as quickly a possible. However, once he learns that Miles has no experience and people's lives are at risk, he just can't ignore that and reluctantly agrees to help and mentor Miles. As the story unfolds, it becomes apparent that the death of his Aunt May and his divorce from MJ have deeply affected Peter B. He has been knocked down hard emotionally and hasn't yet raised the willpower to get back up again. As a result, when Miles seems unready for the task, Peter B. repeatedly volunteers to be one to stay behind knowing it will mean his eventual death. Even after Miles has his "leap of faith" moment and comes into his own, Peter B. still tries to avoid going home by launching himself at Kingpin yelling at Miles to shut the Supercollider. However, Miles is having none of that which leads to a battlefield Epiphany Therapy session where Miles catches Peter B. off-guard with a leg sweep, holds him over the portal, and says "You gotta go home, man". Their exchange leads Peter B. to realize he needs to take his own leap of faith that he can go back and not mess it up again. Having finally gathered the strength to "get back up", Peter B. lets Miles drop him into the portal. The denouement shows him at the door of MJ's house ready to try and reconcile.

Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman

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Spider-Man Noir

Peter Parker / The Spider-Man

"Where I go, the wind follows... and the wind?
It smells like rain."

Homeworld: Earth-90214B

Voiced By: Nicolas Cage ^{Foreign VAs} Salvador Delgado (Latin American Spanish), Martin Keßler (German), Jens Hultén (Swedish), Akio Ōtsuka (Japanese)

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

"In my universe, it's 1933, and I'm a private eye. I like to drink egg creams and I like to fight Nazis. A lot."

A Peter Parker who fights crime and Nazis in New York in 1933. Rather than a bright-eyed student or fledgling photographer, he's a brooding private detective with a whole lotta moxie and no hang-ups about wielding a gun.

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• 24-Hour Armor: Befitting his hard-core, stoic, noir background, he's never seen without his mask outside of his origin story, and even when the others are in a relaxed setting, he's always in full costume.
• '90s Anti-Hero: He would have played it straight if it were not for the light-hearted mood of the film. He wears a dark costume, has an edgy and dramatic attitude, and admits to engaging in violent and morally ambiguous actions. His flashbacks also show him straight-up shooting people (though his targets are kept off-screen).
• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, he's one of the weaker incarnations of Spider-Man, which is part of why he's a Superhero Packing Heat. His powers are also less effective, as he can't wall-crawl and his webs aren't strong enough to swing on. In the movie, his powers and prowess are on par with Peter B. and Gwen, plus he's also an accomplished brawler (his fighting style resembles bare-knuckle boxing).
• Adaptational Comic Relief: His comic book counterpart is a Darker and Edgier version of the Spider-Man mythos set in an actual noir setting while this version of the character is more of an Affectionate Parody on the Noir-genre as a whole and for that plays a lot of the common Noir tropes for laughs as for example his universe being black and white.
• Adaptational Job Change: He's a reporter in the comics, not a private eye.
• Adaptation Deviation:
  • In the comics, the spider that bit him came out of a mystical African idol. In the movie, it's changed to a radioactive spider to conform to the "one last time" narrative convention used to introduce each member of the Spider-Gang.
  • The comic series was presented in full-color. Here, he's the living embodiment of the noir genre by being presented in monochrome only.
• Adaptation Personality Change: The Spider-Man of the Spider-Man Noir comics is a young, righteously angry reporter-turned-vigilante with socialist sympathies who was deeply affected by the brutal death of his uncle and the betrayal and death of his mentor. The movie version is a fairly different character patterned more after the archetypal Noir private-detective who really just shares a time period and most of a costume design with the comics version.
• Age Lift: He confirms that it's 1933 in his universe, with the character's original comic taking place between the end of 1932 and the start of the next year. However his comic counterpart is presumed to be in his mid to late teens at the time, with a later comic set in 1939 having him mention that he went to college during the In-Universe six year gap between comics. This version is voiced by a man in his fifties, the brief scene of him without a mask imply that he's a fully grown adult and he appears to be fairly experienced as a superhero. If he is closer in age to Peter B., it's possible that he's a World War I veteran himself instead of like in the comics where he used his uncle Ben's aviator uniform from the war as part of his costume.
• Alternate Self: A version of Peter Parker who became Spider-Man during The Great Depression. Though this doesn't have as much attention drawn to it as the other two Peters in the film.
• Anti-Hero: Specifically mentions "the moral ambiguity of his violent actions" back in his home universe. We don't see a whole lot of it in this one, here it's mostly limited to being very tall, grim, and serious at all times.
• Antiquated Linguistics: He uses quite a bit of turn-of-the-century slang in his speech.
  Spider-Man Noir: You gonna fight, or you just bumpin' gums, ya hard-boiled turtle-slapper?!
• Badass Longcoat: Wears long dark trenchcoat and wears it really well, even (or especially) in battle.
• Big Brother Instinct: He has shades of this towards Peni:
  • When the fight at Aunt May's house breaks out, the first thing he does is push Peni (currently outside her mecha) to the ground and out of the way of one of Doc Ock's tentacles, shielding her with his own body.
  • He later carries Peni on his shoulders when her robot gets destroyed by Scorpion during the climax.
• The Big Guy: Physically, Noir is the tallest and buffest Spider-Person featured in the film. His fighting style mostly consists of boxing techniques and similar martial art styles atypical to the acrobatic style of most other Spider-Men, which gives his combat a weight that the others don't have.
• Blood Knight: Absolutely loves fighting and battling thugs and gangsters, which is very much a Film Noir and pulp attitude to fighting crime. It's also a trait that comics Spider-Man showed, albeit more in his early issues than later.
  Spider-Man Noir: We don't pick the ballroom, we just dance.
• Boxing Battler: Often adopts a boxing guard and stance to pepper foes with jabs and haymakers (the Unsound Effects of his attacks actually being "jab" and "hook" at one point).
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: Despite his cold, fight-happy tendencies, Noir's actually a pretty sweet guy who doesn't mind being gentle, and at the end of their adventures he tells the Spider-Gang that he loves them as he is about to leave (and take a Rubik's Cube he is fascinated with back with him). When Peni's robot is destroyed during the climax, he gently asks her if she's okay before carrying her off to safety.
• Calling Your Attack: When trying to see if Miles can fight, Noir suddenly shouts, "Surprise attack!" before knocking Miles to the floor. He does it at least twice.
• Cloudcuckoolander: The guy often drifts off on some... tangents which makes him even weirder than Spider-Ham sometimes.
  Spider-Man Noir: Sometimes I let matches burn down to my fingertips just to feel something - anything!
• Coat, Hat, Mask: Befitting of a pulp parody, Noir wears a fedora and black trenchcoat along with his spider mask.
• Cold Ham: He's a very stoic guy, but still has quite a flair for the dramatic.
  Spider-Man Noir: Wherever I go, the wind follows... and the wind? It smells like rain.
• Combat Pragmatist: Being a Film Noir private detective who fights Nazis, his combat style is quite brutal and he's not above fighting dirty. We see examples that Spider-Noir will use all aspects of his environment to give him an advantage whether it be using his fedora to cover his opponent's face so he can get in a solid punch or webbing a car to bring it crashing down on his opponent.
• The Comically Serious: Many of his scenes derive humor from his standard Hard Boiled Detective attitude contrasting with silliness. Like his fascination with a Rubik's Cube.
• Darker and Edgier: Played for Laughs. Literally and figuratively darker than the other members of the Spider-Gang, to the extent his own voice actor called him the edgiest among them, but it's milked for comedy moreso than anything else.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He's monochromatic, large, and the most intimidating-looking of the Spiders, but he's still very much a heroic figure. He can also be quite a gentleman, and also, he likes to fight Nazis. A lot.
• Deadpan Snarker: He is prone to dry, witty remarks, like when he quips "that's a pretty hardcore origin story" in response to Miles's frantic revelation that the Prowler is his uncle and has been trying to kill him.
• Deliberately Monochrome: He's entirely black and white, and his shading ignores coloring from all light sources staying black and white even when in an illuminated room. As shown in the credits, his entire universe is monochrome, and this adventure exposes him to our universe of color, hence his fascination with a Rubik's Cube.
• Demoted to Extra: In Across the Spider-Verse, he only appears in the final scene and doesn't have any lines.
• Dramatic Wind: Parodied. His trenchcoat billows out dramatically even when he's inside with no actual breeze.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: When Miles Morales says he will save the multiverse and send them back home, Spider-Man Noir immediately starts to assess him:
  Spider-Man Noir: Alright little fella, Kingpin's gonna send a lot of mugs after ya. I'm talkin' hard boys, real biscuit boxers. Can you fight them all at once?
• Emotion Suppression: He willingly engages in this so as to keep himself from being "crippled by the moral ambiguity of [his] violent actions." Of course, this is Played for Laughs.
• The Faceless: He never takes his mask off, even in relaxed scenes when there's no trouble about. His face is only visible during a brief shot within the split-screen recap that details his, Peni's, and Spider-Ham's backstories, and he looks like the other two Peter Parkers, just Deliberately Monochrome, wearing glasses, and having dark hair.
• Fedora of Asskicking: He always wears a fedora while kicking ass. He even uses it to blind Tombstone and punch him in the face.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: He drinks egg creams (a chocolate club soda that happens to be popular in some places in New York) as opposed to alcohol per noir tradition.
• Genre Refugee: He's from the Film Noir genre, essentially being a superhero version of Humphrey Bogart.
• Gentle Giant: The largest of the group, dwarfing even Peter B. Parker. He is also surprisingly polite and courteous, as seen when he helps carry Peni after she loses her mech.
• Giving Radio to the Romans: Introduces the Rubik's Cube to his own black-and-white world.
• Good Is Not Soft: Implied. When he and the other Spider-Heroes begin questioning Miles on what kind of Spider-Man he is, he asks "can you close off your feelings so you aren't crippled by the moral ambiguity of your violent actions?"
• Good Old Fisticuffs: He prefers to fight like a street brawler, often adopting a boxer stance and pummelling his enemies with his fists, which fits the rough 1930's noir aesthetic of his home dimension.
• Hard Boiled Detective: Outright states that he's a private eye and has the hard-edged personality to match. In fact, Nicolas himself describes Noir as "hard boiled", modeling his vocal performance on Humphrey Bogart (an actor who also inspired his performance in Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog).
  Spider-Man Noir: In my universe, it's 1933, and I'm a private eye. I like to drink egg-creams, and I like to fight Nazis. A lot.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The tallest of the Spider-Gang, he carries Peni Parker on his shoulder at one point during the climax.
• Innocently Insensitive: When Miles reveals that his uncle is The Prowler and has been trying to kill him, Noir outright approves, noting that it's a pretty hard-core origin story. This earns him an arm-slap from Peni.
• Mysterious Cube of Rubik: Played straight. He comes from a monochrome universe and becomes fascinated by the multi-colored Rubik's Cube.
• Mythology Gag: Though not necessarily to his own comics incarnation. He explicitly brings up the non-alcoholic "egg cream" rather than any ambiguous references to harder drinks. Of course, he is a Peter Parker, who in most incarnations Can't Hold His Liquor.
• Non-Standard Character Design: As well as being all in blacks and grays, Noir is drawn somewhat like an old comic book character, with the Ben-Day dot texture being far more visible on him than on the other characters.
• Old Superhero: His implied Age Lift makes him one and potentially around the same age as Peter B.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: He's pretty creative with these eg. "We don't pick the ballroom. We just dance!"
• Real Men Wear Pink: He likes to drink egg cream, with a straw!
• Scary Shiny Glasses: His mask's lenses are one-way lenses, giving him this look.
• Self-Harm: He reveals in his introduction that he tends to do this.
  "Sometimes I let matches burn down to my fingertips, just to feel something - anything!"
• Sense Freak: Downplayed, but there is no color in his world, and not only is he fascinated by the hues of a Rubik's Cube, he's able to take it home and gain a lot of attention showing it off.
• Spell My Name with a "The": He naturally doesn't go by "Spider-Man Noir" in his home universe, though he does still stand out in that he's referred to in his universe as "The Spider-Man."
• Splash of Color: Inverted as he's the only black-and-white character. Played straight with the Rubik's cube he brings back to his own world.
• Superhero Packing Heat: Flashbacks during his introduction show he's not averse to using firearms, though he never uses one during the film's events.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed as he's not evil, but he stands out amongst the Spider-Gang for being the only Anti-Hero while his teammates are more traditonal superheroes.
• True Companions: Forms a special connection with Miles and his fellow Spider-Verse refugees, particularly with Peni. He's noticably not part of the horde chasing down Miles with Miguel, and when Gwen defies him and sets off to rescue Miles; Noir, Peni, and Ham are among the first to answer the call.
• You Don't Look Like You: In the comics, he typically wears a traditional-looking cloth and leather spider-suit, fashioned from his Uncle Ben's old fighter pilot gear, and slings black organic webbing usually referred to as "silk". While he does occasionally wear a trenchcoat and fedora in the comics, it's never for long and he ditches them when the action starts. Also, the comic version isn't actually monochrome — his world has color like other realities, it just looks darker because so much of the action takes place at night, and his comics lean heavily on the Film Noir art style. The creative team made the artistic choice to make Spider-Man Noir completely monochrome, as a representation of the Film Noir genre.

Peni Parker

Peni Parker & SP//dr

"It's nice to know we're not alone... right?"

^{Click here for her appearance as of Across}  "Miles..."

^{Click here for SP//dr's appearance as of Across} 

Homeworld: Earth-14512B

Voiced By: Kimiko Glenn ^{Foreign VAs} Alejandra Delint (Latin American Spanish), Rubina Nath (German), Jasmine Hansen (Swedish), Rie Takahashi (Japanese)

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

"I have a psychic link with the spider who lives inside my father's robot. And we're best friends forever!"

A young female, Japanese-American Peter Parker in the year 3145. Once an ordinary Japanese-American schoolgirl, she formed a psychic link with a radioactive spider that bit her, teaming up with it to pilot her late father's mighty fighting robot, SP//dr.

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• Action Girl: She's extremely athletic and strong for her size, capable of holding her own even without her mech. This despite not getting the same type of superpowers as the others from her bite.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: She has brown eyes in the movies when her comics counterpart has green eyes.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, SP//dr is large, heavily armoured and can take abuse from beings well above the Scorpion's weight-class. Here SP//dr has a smaller and less durable design, with some kind of glass or plastic screen canopy that the Scorpion is able to smash through with his stinger.
• Adaptation Personality Change: As befitting the fact that she was inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion, she was much more moody and temperamental in the comics, even when she was younger. This version is a Genki Girl. Her first appearance in Across shows how unsettling the implications of the Spider-Society are when she is rendered Truer to the Text and has lost her Genki Girl energy completely upon meeting Miles again, now worn out like a majority of the Spider-People are inside.
• Alternate Self: One of the more extreme examples. She's the child of Ben Parker's brother, but that's where her similarities to Peter Parker end — she's a Japanese-American schoolgirl, and she has a completely different set of powers.
• Animesque: Despite being in a western animated film, her overall design and animation is meant to invoke Eastern animation tropes, such as limited mouth flaps that don't entirely match her dialogue, exaggerated facial expressions to indicate emotion, and a use of speed lines in her action sequences. The shot of her entering SP//dr is also right out of mecha anime and sentai.
• Asian and Nerdy: A girl of Japanese heritage who is also a technology expert. She is also interested in J-Pop and comics.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Of the Spider-Heroes, Peni is the youngest, appearing to being in her early teens, though she still asserts herself as more experienced and hardened than the older Miles. This no longer applies to the group's second incarnation which includes an actual baby in Mayday Parker.
• Badass Adorable: A friendly, animesque schoolgirl with a fondness for candy who's badass enough to pilot a spider robot against evil-doers, and strong enough to smack the Scorpion with one of her robot's severed limbs.
• Badass Normal: She doesn't have any of the standard spider powers besides the Spider-Sense, instead having a psychic link with SP//dr. It doesn't stop her from kicking butt like the other Spider-Heroes though. Even without her mech she's quick to adopt a fighting pose that implies some experience with hand-to-hand combat, and manages to score the final blow on Scorpion by swinging SP//dr's arm like an oversized baseball bat.
• Best Friend: Peni describes SP//dr as hers. Unsurprisingly, his "death" in the climax hits her badly.
• Betrayal by Inaction: Despite telling Miles to obey Miguel's order, Peni neither chases after him nor stays to guard the machine that could take him home. This portends her outright defection to Gwen's group.
• Break the Cutie: Judging by how somber and resigned to fate she is when we see her again in Across, something very traumatic is heavily implied to have happened to her in between movies. If events in her original comics became true, she may be mourning the death of both her father and aunt simultaneously.
• Brainy Brunette: Peni has black hair and is a tech genius.
• Character Check:
  • When interrogating Miles on what kind of Spider-Man he is she asks him if he's ruthless, implying that she's got a mean streak like her comics counterpart.
  • Her brief appearance in Across the Spider-Verse has her acting and dressing more like her comic book self as a member of the Spider-Society.
• Character Exaggeration: In the comics she came from, Peni's universe is clearly inspired by mecha anime with a lot of anime cliches in her story (and outright Shout-Outs to Neon Genesis Evangelion), but she's still a comic-book character like the others (she looks like this◊). In this movie she's effectively a living anime character, much the same way Spider-Ham is a living cartoon character.
• Cheerful Child: As stated above, she is as optimistic and adorable as they come as others would expect from a kid her age.
• Composite Character: Peni Parker mixes both her namesake (an anime-inspired mech pilot) and Penelope Parker (a cartoon/comic strip-inspired happy-go-lucky preteen).
• Cool Shades: SP//dr's "face" is a digital display screen that has "Deal with it" shades when Peni introduces the mech.
• Cute Machines: SP//dr's rounded, bouncy-looking appearance, tendency to display wide circular eyes on his display case and loving bond with his pilot make him almost as adorable as Peni herself.
• Defector from Decadence: She's shown as one of the members of the Spider-Society but later on she joins Gwen's team, presumably after she became disillusioned with Miguel's hostility towards Miles and a desire to atone and reconcile with him.
• Demoted to Extra: She's reduced to a background character with only one line in Across the Spider-Verse.
• Dude, Not Funny!: When Noir snarks that Miles learning that his uncle is the Prowler is "one heck of an origin story", Peni swats him on the arm with a disapproving glare.
• Dying Declaration of Love: After taking heavy damage in the final battle, the SP//dr robot flashes heart symbols and the kanji for "love" to Peni before it shuts down completely. However, after she manages to rebuild SP//dr during the credits the first thing to show up on its screen are said heart symbols indicating that since its "core" survived it was Not Quite Dead.
• Fights Like a Normal: Peni has a Spider-Sense like the others and a Psychic Link to a spider, but fights with her mecha. Though said powers are a big part of how she controls the mech.
• Floating Limbs: SP//dr's limbs aren't physically attached to the chassis but connected by an energy harness.
• Gadgeteer Genius: After the "goober" designed to shut down the Super-Collider is broken, she uses her technical know-how to build a new one. Also, in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, she's shown building a new SP//dr chassis.
• Genki Girl: She is always energetic and happy-go-lucky. She also loves to strike Magical Girl or Idol Singer poses. Completely averted in Across, as she has lost this status as part of being in the Spider-Society.
• Genius Sweet Tooth: She's a Gadgeteer Genius who also seems to have a pretty big Sweet Tooth, which is best shown when she chows down on candy and bubble gum while she fixes the "goober" that's needed to shut down the Super-Collider.
• Genre Motif: Pop, J-pop to be specific, fitting her peppy, Japanese nature. She actually has it playing through SP//dr, but it also pops up as a general motif in her scenes.
• Genre Refugee: She's from a light-hearted Cyberpunk anime.
• A Girl and Her X: A girl and her spider, and by extension, her giant robot. Peni's Spider-Sense gives her a friendship bond with the spider that gave her the fateful bite and this evolved into the behavior of the aforementioned giant robot; Peni is outright devastated when the robot is destroyed.
• Good Is Not Soft: Implied. When she and the other Spider-Heroes begin questioning Miles on what kind of Spider-Man he is, she briefly asks him if he can be ruthless. Also, in Across, she (initially) agrees with Miguel's views regarding The Needs of the Many, and she's in the crowd attempting to talk Miles into letting his father die to avoid risking his universe. However, she doesn't attempt to physically restrain Miles, she doesn't participate in the climactic "spider chase", and in the end she defects from the Spider-Society to join Gwen's group.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Since she's part Japanese, she sometimes speaks Japanese phrases, and Japanese text will sometimes be displayed on SP//dr's monitor.
• Heart Drive: SP//dr contains a spider that controls the mech and is mentally-linked with Peni. After the mech's destruction, the spider survives and Peni manages to recover it. In the epilogue we see the two are in the process of building a new body.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: When Peni briefly appears in Across, she sides with Miguel against Miles, saying he needs to accept his father's death as inevitable. However, once Miles breaks away, Peni decides against stopping him and later joins Gwen's rebellion.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl:
  • A 13-foot anthropomorphic spider-mecha and a schoolgirl who barely comes up to his knee. Outside the robot, she and the spider she has a telepathic bond with are an example of Tiny Guy, Huge Girl. Exaggerated even further come Across when SP//dr is rendered to being Truer to the Text and towers over practically everyone by a good 30-or-so feet while Peni remains as short as ever.
  • With Spider-Man Noir, who carries her protectively on his shoulder after SP//dr is destroyed.
• Kid-Appeal Character: She is young, cute, and optimistic. Her design and characterization also embrace anime tropes that are more familiar to younger audiences, reflecting the growing popularity of anime in the west and the trend of Animesque western cartoons.
• Legacy Character: Her father was the original SP//dr pilot. She took up the mantle after his death.
• Lighter and Softer: The original Earth-14512 Peni from the Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon comics is a reserved yet temperamental teenager, overwhelmed by the responsibility of needing to take up her father's legacy as SP//dr's pilot when she was a child. The SP//dr mech itself is rather humanoid in the comics with a very menacing appearance, including a lot of exposed wires and plating. Their universe was also inspired by the Cyberpunk trappings of more serious, cerebral anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell. This version of the duo makes departures from the comics in terms of personality and appearances to be more friendly to an all-ages audience. Peni is shown to be a young, bubbly Genki Girl striking typical Kawaiiko poses, complete with super stylized and upbeat Kawaisa trappings. SP//dr is much more cartoonish-looking, is more color-consistent with mainstream Peter, and has spider-like appendages. During the Cliffhanger for Across The Spider-Verse, Peni's new SP//dr is more akin to its original Evangelion-esque design, but is still rather cheerfully colored over its original edgier look in the comics.
• Little Miss Badass: A schoolgirl who fights crime by piloting a Mini-Mecha, and can still be dangerous even when outside of it.
• Little Miss Snarker: Despite being the youngest and most upbeat of the Spiders, Peni is still quite smug, and even a little vain, towards the other members of the team.
• Mecha: SP//dr covers a couple of these tropes. Size-wise he's a Mini-Mecha, very tall but not skyscraper-tall. He has two forms — a humanoid one and a more spider-like one, which makes him also an Animal Mecha and a Transforming Mecha. Design-wise there's far more of Spider-Man's traditional look in him, making him look like he walked out of a Super Robot Genre piece.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: She has a new SP//dr in the second film of the trilogy, which has a more Truer to the Text appearance compared to her comic origin.
• Modesty Shorts: She wears them under her uniform, as shown when she and SP//dr do a high kick together.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Peni is based on the Animesque style, with the expressions to match, having larger eyes, more vibrant coloring, and not as much shading.
• Noodle Incident: Her more somber attitude in Across compared to the previous movie indicates that something happened between the two films and that whatever it was, it certainly took a toll on her.
• Not Quite Dead: The spider within SP//dr ended up surviving the mech's destruction and Peni can be seen building it a new chassis during the epilogue.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Her brief appearance in Across the Spider-Verse amongst the Spider-Society, she's much more somber than we've ever seen her before and her SP//dr mecha is more Evangelion-like.
• Odd Name Out: While other Spider-People are referred to as "Spider-Noun", Peni is only known as "SP//dr".
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: When Scorpion critically damages her mech, she delivers a finishing blow to him by swinging one of the mech's severed limbs herself.
• Psychic Link: With her radioactive spider, which helps her pilot the SP//dr mech.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Unlike the other members of the Spider-Gang who wear their own variations of the Spider-Man costume, Peni just wears her school uniform. Then again, her mecha is functionally her costume.
• Shorter Means Smarter: The shortest human in the group, also the team's tech genius.
• Silent Snarker: SP//dr doesn't speak, but its expressions make it clear that Peni's version of the patented Spider-Man sass is mostly filtered through it.
• The Smart Gal: Serves as this for the Spider Gang, being the team's Gadgeteer Genius who relies on a mecha to fight in place of physical powers.
• Spared by the Adaptation: An odd example: usually, the spider dies not long after it bites the person and gives them their powers. Here, the spider is still alive and in fact is Peni's co-pilot in SP//dr.
• Sweet Tooth: Peni is constantly seen chowing down on candy while piloting SP//dr.
• Synchronization: When Scorpion damages SP//dr's limb, Peni can be seen holding her own arm in pain.
• Token Mini-Moe: Even younger than Miles out of all the members of the Spider-Gang.
• Took a Level in Cynic: In Across, Peni is more somber and has lost the enthusiasm and cheer she had in the previous film, and she is in the crowd attempting to talk Miles into letting his father die, so in between films, she apparently came to agree with Miguel's views regarding The Needs of the Many. However, to her credit, she does not actually participate in any attempts to restrain Miles (the force field is Miguel's technology, not hers, and she is not involved in the climactic "Spider chase"). And at the end of the movie, she defects from Miguel and joins Gwen's group.
• Tragic Keepsake: The SP//dr robot was made by her deceased father. It ends up damaged beyond repair by Scorpion in the final battle, forcing her to leave it behind. During the epilogue, she's shown building a new one.
• True Companions: Over the course of Into the Spider-Verse, she develops an incredibly strong bond with the other Spider-People. While she does attempt to convince Miles to abandon his father to die in Across the Spider-Verse, she does not resort to physical force to coerce him and later defects back to his side in the ending.
• Truer to the Text: Her appearance in Across the Spider-Verse errs closer to her comic counterpart's Neon Genesis Evangelion inspiration, including SP//dr being more like an Eva than its initial cuter, more compact design. This gives the strongest visual implication that being railroaded into maintaining the canon as all the Spider-People in the Spider Society do is immensely detrimental to Peni's mental health and well-being with how cheery she was prior.
• Weak, but Skilled: Peni lacks the superior physical abilities present in the other members of the Spider-Gang such as strength, durability, agility, and wall-crawling having only a Psychic Link to the spider in her mech and Spider-Sense. She makes up for it by being a Gadgeteer Genius and having martial arts skill.
• The Worf Effect: In the Spider-Verse comics, Peni is safely inside an armored mech and is therefore the designated punching bag such that even mooks get to trash her. While she continues this trend in the movie as the only member of the Spider-Gang to be in a losing fight, it is downplayed in that it shows she was compromised during the final battle. First, she shielded Spider Noir, who had started glitching and took considerable damage from the gunfire, then she is shown glitching herself right before engaging Scorpion who presses that advantage into a Curb-Stomp Battle. Ultimately, she is given a Curb Stomp Cushion in that she ends up being the one to finish Scorpion using SP//dr's leg as a bat.
• Your Size May Vary: Downplayed. Although it seems unlikely that SP//dr could realistically hide beneath a serving table at Fisk's gala, the animators at least put forth an effort to show the mecha in a collapsed form with the dome holding Peni taking up the majority of the space. It's possible that this involved Hammerspace

Peter Porker / Spider-Ham

Peter Porker / Spider-Ham

"You got a problem with cartoons?"

Homeworld: Earth-8311B

Voiced By: John Mulaney ^{Foreign VAs} Óscar Flores (Latin American Spanish), Daniel Zillmann (German), Björn Gustafsson (Swedish), Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese)

Appearances: Into the Spider-Verse | Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham | Across the Spider-Verse

"I'm a photographer for the Daily Beagle! When I'm not pooching around, I'm working like a dog, trying to sniff out the latest story!"

A Peter Parker from a Looney Tunes-esque World of Funny Animals. He was an average spider living a carefree life until he was bitten by a radioactive pig in a freak atomic hair-dryer incident. Now he spends his days as a photojournalist for the Daily Beagle and his nights as a crimefighter.

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• Alternate Self: A Funny Animal version of Peter Parker.
• Animal Superheroes: A superhero spider-pig.
• Berserk Button: He gets really ticked off when Scorpion calls him a cartoon in a dismissively insulting tone.
  Spider-Ham: You got a problem with cartoons?
• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite his cartoonish appearance and tendency to joke even more than Peter, he's just as powerful as the other members of the Spider-Gang, and has the same heroic spirit. When push comes to shove, he drops the jokes and saves Peni from Scorpion, giving the cyborg a brutal beatdown. And watch carefully when he smashes Aunt May's plate over his head; he's creating a shiv out of a shard.
• Black Comedy Cannibalism: Subverted. His Trademark Favorite Food is hot dogs. While appearing to cross the line on the surface, he was a spider bitten by a radioactive pig, not the other way around.
• Demoted to Extra: In Across the Spider-Verse, he only shows up in the last scene of the film and his only line before then was an echo using audio from the previous film.
• Follow Your Nose: Since he operates on Toon Physics, he apparently has this trope as an actual ability, and he even asks Miles if he can "float in the air at the smell of a delicious pie".
• Forced Transformation: In a Played for Laughs variation of the standard Spider-Man origin, he was a normal spider that was bitten by a radioactive pig yielding the Amazing Spider-Ham.
• Funny Animal: He's an anthropomorphic pig, a facet that deliberately makes him the weirdest incarnation of Spider-Man featured in the film. Gwen actually pops a Fascinating Eyebrow at the sight of him.
• Genre Refugee: He's essentially a superhero from a Looney Tunes cartoon.
• Genre Savvy: Is fully aware that he's a "cartoon animal" and uses the Toon Physics to his advantage in a fight, which makes him dangerous.
• Hero of Another Story: While heavily implied with all the alternate Spiders, there's a subtle hint this isn't Porker's first rodeo.
  Spider-Ham: Do animals talk in this dimension? 'Cause I don't wanna freak him out.
• Hidden Depths: When the Spider-Gang comfort Miles over the loss of his Uncle Aaron he shares "Miles, the hardest thing about this job is... you can't always save everybody", revealing that even he couldn't save those he cares about.
• Hurricane of Puns: His backstory has a good amount of dog puns thrown in to fit him working at the Daily Beagle.
• Hyperspace Mallet: He possesses a large hammer that he can pull out of thin air, befitting his origins as a Looney-Tunes style character. He uses it in the final battle to hit Scorpion over the head and gives it as a memento to Miles before returning to his own universe, saying that it will always fit in his pocket.
• Lethal Joke Character: He's a two-foot tall, literal cartoon pig with a pot belly and over-sized head. He's also just as strong and agile as any other Spider-Man, and he can summon really big weapons out of thin air and whack you on the head with them, so you underestimate him at your own peril.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: A silly character who nonetheless kicks Scorpion's ass in the climax.
• Nonchalant Dodge: He casually moves his head out of the way of the Scorpion's punches, letting them graze past his face without actually hurting him. This guy, despite his silly appearance, is still a Spider.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Aside from being an anthropomorphic pig, he looks much more two-dimensional, with flatter coloring and shading, and bouncier animation.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When the other Spider-People comfort Miles over the loss of his uncle Aaron, Spider-Ham seriously and sadly tells Miles the harsh truth about being a hero in that they can't always save everyone. Notably, in Across, this is the line running in Miles' head as he escapes the Spider-Society.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He's the smallest of the Spider-Gang, but that doesn't make him any less effective in a fight. He can hit especially hard with his Hyperspace Mallet, and is able use it to knock the larger Scorpion to the ground.
• Reality Warper: While in more realistic dimensions like Miles', Spider-Ham retains his ability to operate on Toon Physics giving him access to a Hyperspace Mallet or an Anvil on Head. It would seem that this would give him a dangerous advantage over the people of Miles's dimension, who follow real-world physics. However it also seems that his reality warping is limited by the Rule of Funny with regard to damage. Even with his cybernetic form, the direct hit of the anvil should have crushed Scorpion's head and having spider-strength, Spider-Ham's mallet attack to Scorpion's head should have done more than just knock him to the ground. From what is shown, Spider-Ham's Toon attacks cause more humiliation than damage.
• Sad Clown: Even he has lost someone that he's loved, though he doesn't expand on it. But he keeps moving forward, because it's what he does.
• Shout-Out: Hiroyuki Yoshino's portrayal of the character is reminiscent of Bugs Bunny.
• Talking Animal: And so used to it that he has to ask whether or not other animals talk in whatever dimension he's in.
• Theme Naming: Peter Porker. It's also a Punny Name.
• Token Non-Human: He's a Funny Animal that was born a spider before being mutated into a pig while his teammates are all humans who gained spider themed powers.
• Toon: Although all the characters are animated, Spider-Ham is the one hailing from a classic (American) cartoon universe, as clearly seen with his Non-Standard Character Design and his use of Toon Physics. He is also the only one who is treated as an animated character in-universe.
• Toon Physics: Being a cartoonish-looking Funny Animal, there are several instances where it's shown that he runs on this trope. He can drop anvils on his enemies, pull out a Hyperspace Mallet that will always fit in his pocket, and float when he smells something delicious.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Seems to be hot dogs.
• True Companions: With Miles, or any other member of the Spider-Gang for that matter. In Across, he’s notably not among the hordes of Spiders that Miguel sics on Miles. If the ending is anything to go by, he’s willing to help Gwen look for Miles, not caring that Miguel and the entire Society (minus the other rebels) will be coming after him too.

Joined in ATSV

Mayday Parker

May "Mayday" Parker

Homeworld: Earth-616B

Voiced By: N/A

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

The infant daughter of Peter B. and his Mary Jane, having apparently made their second shot at a romance work.

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• Adaptational Badass: She has inherited Peter's powers while still an infant, while in the comics they didn't appear until she was a teenager.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Capable of deftly and effortlessly using webshooters and surprisingly aware of what’s going in around her despite being around one year old. Both of these traits are used for moments highlighting her cuteness.
• Age Lift: In the original Spider-Girl comic book, Mayday was a teenager when we first met her. In Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, she is depicted as a baby.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Despite Peter B.'s reluctance to have children in the first movie, it turns out that having a daughter was the best thing to ever happen to him, as he's clearly in a much better place mentally in Across the Spider-Verse.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She's a literal baby who is brought along on the adventure likely due to her powers making it impossible for her parents to hire a baby sitter or place her in a daycare. That, or Peter wants her to get an early head-start in her Spider-career.
• Blowing a Raspberry: Does this when Miguel snubs her dad before heading off to Miles' home dimension with Jess and Ben.
• Cheerful Child: She's either laughing or smiling whenever she appears in the film.
• Childish Tooth Gap: She has one between her two front teeth.
• Composite Character: She shares the name with the original Spider-Girl, but her design is more similar to Annie-May Parker, aka Spiderling, who is also redhead while Mayday is usually depicted as a brunette, like her dad. Also like Annie-May, she gains her spider powers from a young age (though she gets them younger than Annie-May does) unlike in the comics, where she doesn't get them until she was a teenager. The fact that she developed her powers as an infant also brings to mind her brother in the comics, Benjy Parker.
• Cuteness Proximity: Peter can't go a second without cooing over her. He also uses her cuteness while talking to Miles.
• Daddy's Girl: It's very clear Mayday adores her father.
• Dead Guy Junior: Since Peter B's Aunt May was briefly mentioned as having passed on during the first movie.
• Follow in My Footsteps: The way Peter raises her has massive shades of this, with him having made web-shooters for her (which she is already quite adept at using) while constantly bringing her along on his adventures with a Spider-Man bonnet to mask her Secret Identity, and even setting milestones for her based on said risky adventures. Although, he does constantly apologize to her and lampshades that this isn't the best form of "parenting".
  Peter: Hey! Miguel! Can you take a photo of this? It's her first chase.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: She's a little baby who has bright blue eyes.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: To an extent as for most of the movie she is babbling about, which is expected considering she's a baby. However, she becomes rather stoic when she alerts her father of Gwen standing outside their house to recruit them to rescue Miles.
• Strong Family Resemblance: While she inherited Peter B.'s powers, she also inherited Mary Jane's looks; her wavy red hair, blue eyes and freckles.
• Super-Strong Child: She's a small baby who already knows some of the basics of web-swinging, which as shown in the comics, needs Super-Strength as a Required Secondary Power to function properly.
• Super-Toughness: It's subtle, but it'd probably have been quite dangerous for Peter B. to carry Mayday during the highspeed web-swinging chase of Across the Spider-Verse if she were a normal infant, given the g-forces, sudden abrupt changes in direction and high altitudes involved. Instead, Mayday's inherited powers mean that she's unbothered by the experience and even found various points of the chase exciting.
• Superpowerful Genetics: She's capable of wall crawling and web-swinging, indicating that she inherited her father's superpowers, though the webbing is due to Peter having built baby sized web shooters for her. It makes holding onto her a little difficult.

Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man India

Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man

"This romantic tension is so palpable. Will they, won't they?"

Homeworld: Earth-50101B

Voiced By: Karan Soni^{Foreign VAs} Arman Cho (Swedish), Setsuji Sato (Japanese), Imtiaz Haque (German)

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

"Being Spider-Man is sooo easy!"

The Peter Parker of Mumbattan, a hodge-podge megalopolis of Mumbai and Manhattan.

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• The Ace: He's a talented Spider-Man who's actually extremely popular with the people of his home dimension, defeats villains and saves lives with ease, is naturally buff and has naturally lustrous hair. This is partially because he hasn't been Spider-Man long enough for it to start wearing him down yet, as Inspector Singh's near death shows he's just as fallible as any other Spider-Person.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade:
  • In the original comics, in addition to the death of Uncle Bhim, he was bullied in school for being a poor village boy and later suffered further when he found out his village was burned and destroyed, whereas here he is a very well adjusted young man and never once mentions his uncle. If his Uncle did die, Pavitr is either handling it well or just doesn't want to tell the visitors about it. His village is also never mentioned, though since Mumbattan is both New York City and Mumbai (Pavitr moved to the latter in the original comics), he may have always been a resident there. He also dresses casually and hence is probably not nicknamed "dhoti boy" the way he was in the comic by Flash Thompson.
  • In the first Spider-Verse comic Pavitr's most prominent scene is him becoming despondent at being surrounded by so many Peter Parkers and thinking he was just a pale imitation of them and therefore expendable. No such thing happens in Across The Spider-Verse, and he's instead a very happy and upbeat member of the Spider-Society.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In the original comics, Pavitr was a homely-looking guy from a rural, impoverished background, not the cool, Mr. Fanservice as portrayed here. His hairstyle was also simpler, short and cropped◊. Here, his hair is naturally stylish to the point that Miles seems mildly envious.
• Adaptational Badass: He's a lot more competent and confident than his comic counterpart.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: An exaggerated one that he's really proud of. In the comics, he has a short and simple haircut but in here he has a long and stylish one.
• Alternate Self: Much like Peni Parker from the previous film, Pavitr is one of the more extreme examples. He's technically a version of Peter Parker with a similar life and background, but born of Indian descent and living in an Americasia version of Manhattan and Mumbai.
• Americasia: Pavitr's home city, Mumbattan is a mash-up of New York's Manhattan and Mumbai, India, with the combined traffic problems of both. This is unlike the comics, where he lived in a village and moved to Mumbai.
• Animal Lover: Part of his daily routine involves feeding stray dogs, showing that despite being a bit overconfident he is still a kind and caring young man.
• Bad Liar: He's shown to not be very good at lying, as he makes a Suspiciously Specific Denial whenever he’s caught interacting with Gayatri Singh (his version of Gwen Stacy), by her father Inspector Singh. Later on, after he rescues a bus full of people that Gayatri was on and expresses his relief that she's safe by running up and hugging her, he clumsily backtracks and calls her a "very nice girl he does not know" in an attempt to hide his true identity.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Implied to be at least part of the reason why he sides with Gwen and other “rebel” spiders, as Miles saved his girlfriend’s father earlier.
• Berserk Button: Don't refer to chai as "chai tea" (and by extension, naan as "naan bread") while around him. Both Miles and the Spot end up on the receiving end of a rant of how much he dislikes Department of Redundancy Department because of this.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Gives a rundown of all the highlights in Mumbattan:
  Pavitr: This is where the traffic is, this is where the traffic is, this is also where the traffic is, there's traffic here too, and this is where the British stole all of our stuff!
• Break the Cutie: Defied. Pavitr is a happy-go-lucky guy, not a care in the world type of Spider-Man who's also very friendly. But the movie eventually makes it clear that this is because he's only been Spider-Man for a few months, and hadn't suffered any of the more shattering Canon Event tragedies that all Spider-People are apparently forced to endure. In this case, a Canon Event in the form of his Love Interest Gayatri's father Inspector Singh dying in the line of duty was meant to happen, which would've likely utterly broken Pavitr and then some. Miles managed to prevent this, allowing Pavitr to avoid the traumas of being a Spider-Person for the moment and continue being happy.
• Clark Kenting: His costume exposes the luscious wavy hair that he is proud of, as well as the blue headband he wears as Pavitr. However, it seems no one in his universe, not even his girlfriend or her father have connected his identities through those features yet.
• Comical Overreacting: He gets angry at Miles saying "chai tea" since chai already means tea. Miles nervously looks around as he's put on blast before conceding that he made a mistake. the Spot just moments later also says he likes "chai tea", eliciting a similar reaction.
• Costume Evolution: A cross-adaptation example. In the original comic books, Pavitr's costume looks like a traditional Spider-Man suit with minor changes◊, but here his suit is more original and culturally relevant.
• Defector from Decadence: Ends up abandoning the Spider-Society — alongside a few other Spiders — by the end of the film, with Pavitr instead joining Miles and Gwen's cause as a member of a newer group of Spider-Men dedicated to protecting the multiverse over protecting the status quo. It’s implied that this is because Miles had saved Inspector Singh, who’s his girlfriend’s father from dying earlier, even though he was supposed to die due to being a canon event.
• Flipping the Bird: He does this with both hands while talking about how the British stole their fun.
• Foreign Fanservice: He's one of the more conventionally attractive Spider-Men, and he's Indian. His introduction even has a Shirtless Scene.
• Genre Blind: Pavitr is still a newbie at being a superhero, considering he doesn't realize that saying "Well, that was another easy adventure for Spider-Man" after nothing happens when the Spot disappears into the Collider is just tempting Fate to go BOOM on you.
• Hypocritical Humor: He keeps calling Miles "The new guy" even though Pavitr is technically the rookie at six months where Miles has been a Spider-Man for more than a year.
• I Owe You My Life: It’s subtle, but after Miles saves Captain Singh from falling debris and preventing Pav from having to make a Saving Choice, he puts his hand to his chest as a gesture of deep gratitude toward Miles. He repays the favor at the end of the hill when he joins Peter B. and Gwen to save and bring back Miles.
• Killer Yo-Yo: Unlike other Spider-Men, Pavitr uses a diabolo with his webs, which he stores on his right wrist as a larger vambrace than the one on his left. This gives his webs a unique travel arc and utility, allowing him to use them like slings, meteor hammers or entangling whips, and even a grappling hook of sorts if he isn't using his webs' natural stickiness to cling onto structures for swinging.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Despite being a member of the Spider-Society, he doesn't seem to know about "canon" events, attempting to save Inspector Singh without hesitation and being just as confused about the distortional damage to Mumbattan as Miles was. This was likely done to prevent any chances of him circumventing his own "canon event" had he known what was going to happen.
• Meaningful Name: "Pavitr" is derived from the Sanskrit "Pavitra", meaning "pure", which reflects both his morality and his lack of experience with the darker side of being Spider-Man.
• Momma's Boy: Even with his busy schedule he makes time to stop for some Chai with his Auntie Maya.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's a really attractive young Indian man with luscious wavy hair and a "naturally buff" body; this is lampshaded by Pavitr himself, since he's very aware of his own good looks and points all of this out when introducing himself to Miles (with his introduction even showing him {{shirtless |scene}}).
• Naïve Newcomer: In comparison to most of the other Spiders since he's only been on the job for six months and hasn't had his obligatory I Let Gwen Stacy Die moment. The fact he considers being Spider-Man a breeze really sells how naive he is. He at least seems to get a little hint of how hard it is to be a Spider-Man when he's forced to choose between saving his girlfriend and other civilians on a bus and his girlfriend's father - the police inspector of Mumbattan - and a young child he's trying to save. Despite trying to convince himself that he can do both at the same time, it's clear that he cannot, and this would have been his "I Let Gwen Stacy Die" moment had it all played out normally. Thankfully, Miles has other ideas.
• Nice Guy: While he tends to be overconfident and a little too proud of his good looks, he's a very friendly and sweet fellow.
• Odd Friendship: He's close friends with Spider-Punk despite their many differences and Pavitr previously mocking how the British stole from India, and how both Miles and the Spot called chai "chai tea" despite that chai meaning tea. It's probably because Hobie is very anti-authoritarian and fights against a totalitarian regime in his version of Britain, meaning they get along because of their mutual dislike of the British government.
• Pet-Peeve Trope: Justifiably not a fan of the Mystical India trope that tourists bring with them, and calls the Spot out on the insinuation.
  The Spot: I'm on a journey of self-improvement!
  Pavitr: And you came to India. That's a western culture cliché! Don't Eat, Pray, Love me, bro!
  The Spot: No no no no, I did not mean it like that!
  Pavitr: Now let me guess, you're gonna ask me about saffron and cardamom and naan bread, which is the same as saying "bread bread" which is the same as saying "chai tea"!
  The Spot: Oh, I love chai tea!
  Pavitr: NO!
• Proud Beauty: Part of his introduction has him talking about his natural physique and stylish hair.
• Sadistic Choice: He is forced to choose between saving a Bus Full of Innocents with Gayatri in it and Inspector Singh and a little girl. Thankfully, Miles was there to help him.
• Shipper on Deck: He immediately catches on that Miles and Gwen have feelings towards each other and tries to support them.
• Smug Super: He's a very sweet and friendly guy, but he's also just a bit too proud of his abilities and looks and considers being Spider-Man to be "easy".
• Stereotypical South Asian English: Downplayed. He speaks fluent English, but would still occasionally fall under this, particularly in the high levels of politeness.
  Pavitr: (To an Alchemax scientist) Would you please deactivate this wonderfully strong barrier?
• Tempting Fate: His entire demeanor about how good and easy his life is as Spider-Man, considering he was about to suffer through a Canon Event that Miles was fortunate to have stopped.
  Pavitr: Well, that was another easy adventure for Spider-Man!
• You Don't Look Like You: His costume has been completely changed to help visually differentiate him from all the other Spider-People. Even out of costume he looks and dresses very differently and looks nothing like his comic book counterpart.

Hobie Brown / Spider-Punk

Hobie Brown / Spider-Punk

"Taking a crap on the establishment. I salute you."

Homeworld: Earth-138B

Voiced by: Daniel Kaluuya^{Foreign VAs} Mikael Regenholz (Swedish), Subaru Kimura (Japanese), Kaze Uzumaki (German)

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

"I'm not a role model, I was briefly a runway model. I hate the A.M., I hate the P.M., I hate labels."

A punk-rock Spider rebel hailing from a universe where Britain is ruled by a totalitarian regime.

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• 10-Minute Retirement: While Miguel is explaining to Miles the nature of Canon Events, there is a display of the iconic panel in The Amazing Spider-Man #50 where Peter quits and tosses his costume in the trash, only with Hobie in Peter's place, implying that Hobie went through this at one point (and that itself is a Canon Event), though he's obviously back in the cowl by present day.
• The Ace: At three years into being a Spider-Man, Hobie is at the top of his game, more experienced at being a hero, and awesomely cool to boot.
• Accent Adaptation: In the Latin American Spanish dub, and just like Miles, he also speaks with a thick Mexican accent. Unlike Miles, however, he speaks using the stereotypical version of the Mexico City accent.
• Adaptational Name Change: In the comics, his codename is Spider-Man, with Spider-Punk only being his editorial name/nickname^note In fact, he hated being called "Spider-Punk". Here, his codename literally appears to be Spider-Punk.
• Adaptational Nationality: In the comics, he's a New Yorker; the Ramones rather than the Sex Pistols. However, the comics' Spider-Punk was originally supposed to be British, specifically a variant of Spider-UK, making it a Development Gag. invoked
• Adaptational Personality Change: Hobie in the comics was an Anti-Hero with a foul mouth, bad temper, and a willingness to kill. This Hobie is more of a Nice Guy in comparison and hasn't been shown breaking the typical Spider-Man Thou Shall Not Kill vow.
• All Issues Are Political Issues: Claims the huge hole created by the destabilization of Pavitr Prabhakar's reality is "a metaphor for capitalism".
• Always Someone Better: He's treated as this in comparison to Miles, being an experienced hero able to break through the force field in seconds using nothing but his guitar where Miles struggled as well as a seasoned member of the Spider-Society with multiple missions under his belt where Miles isn't even invited. Gwen's also been hanging out in his home dimension and finds him "cool", to Miles' envy.
• Beneath Notice: Intentionally exploited by Hobie in playing up his defiant attitude at every turn, he is able to fool everyone including Miguel into thinking he's all bark and no bite... which allows him to fish components and technology off from Miguel's stock to reverse engineer them the moment he's ready to act against the Society as a whole as Hobie firmly disagrees with their philosophy and the lengths they go to enforce it due to it hitting a bit too close to home for his comfort.
• Big Brother Mentor: Appears to have this dynamic with Gwen and Pavitr, and clearly initiates the same bond with Miles.
• Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Subverted. Hobie is a very vocal anarchist who often talks big about tearing down the system, but he understands the value of organization and even some hierarchy — given his involvement in the Spider-Society — and isn't one for just wanton destruction. His beliefs and actions instead line up more with real-life anarchism. Like many anarchists, he's also biding his time and internally sabotaging oppressive authorities from within rather than flashy public action, which is exactly what he does to the Spider-Society.
• British Rockstar: The living embodiment of the British punk scene distilled in a Spider form.
• Cassandra Truth: Doesn't even attempt to hide his contempt for the authoritarian nature of the Spider-Society, but nobody believes him since he comes off as a Commander Contrarian. He uses this to his advantage, since nobody actually expects him to steal and reverse engineer the portal tech.
• Civvie Spandex: Wears a leather jacket overtop his Spider-Man costume.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He comes off as this to many of the other Spider-People, which makes him all the better at Obfuscating Stupidity. When he does talk he tends to be a Motor Mouth who goes on off-topic rants about many different tangents, while also playing up his Commander Contrarian side to its illogical extreme. This combined with his British slang makes him hard to understand or be taken seriously.
• Commander Contrarian: He keeps saying that he won't abide by the Spider-Society's rules, but he's such a show-off about "rebelling" against so many other arbitrary and contradictory things that he comes off as a harmless malcontent whose bark is worse than his bite. In reality, he's been very decisive and systematic in his true rebellion, stealing technology wherever he can and giving secret advice to newbies like Miles to undermine Miguel's control over them all; when he finally quits for good, he makes it clear just where he stands.
  Spot: [admiringly] Y'all make a heck of a team.
  Hobie: I don't believe in teams.
  Miles: Aren't you in a band?!
  Hobie: I don't believe in consistency.
  [...]
  Hobie: I don't believe in comedy! ...Just kidding!
  [...]
  Miles: We'll clear a path; you slow down that building!
  Hobie: ...I'll do it, but not because you told me to.
• Composite Character: With Billy Braddock/Spider-UK, with Hobie acquiring his nationality and dimension traveling watch. This makes some sense as Hobie's design was originally meant for Spider-UK before being made into a different character.
• Compressed Hair: He has very large hair, but it fits without trouble inside his mask.
• Cool Big Bro: Functions as this to Miles and to a lesser extent Gwen and Pavitr, helping them out of jams while casually dropping words of advice to help them be their best selves. And it goes without saying that they all find him cool, even Miles.
• Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Pavitr, Gwen, and with some reluctance Miles all consider Hobie incredibly cool, part of which is from his constant anti-authority attitude.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Not that he isn't a badass due to being Spider-Man, but he presents himself as a goofy contrarian who rebels just for the sake of rebelling. This allows him to fly under the radar and steal enough trans-dimensional tech to build his own watch and also give Miles the nudge to escape the Society.
• Darkest Hour: It's a VERY missable detail, but during Miguel's explanation of canon events, Hobie observes a memory upon the Web of Life and Destiny of himself walking away in the rain from a Spider-Man costume in the trash can, a reinterpretation of the iconic "Spider-Man No More!" panel (also recreated by another Spider-Man variant), strongly implying that Hobie had given up being Spider-Punk at one point in his past for some reason.
• Deadpan Snarker: Extremely deadpan. In fact, he's pretty much a deadpan everything. It just makes him seem cooler.
• Defector from Decadence: Ends up abandoning the Spider-Society — alongside a few other Spiders — by the end of the film, with Hobie instead joining Miles and Gwen's cause as a member of a newer group of Spider-Men dedicated to protecting the multiverse over protecting the status quo.
• Delinquent Hair: Played with; his mask has a mohawk made out of huge spike studs, but his actual hair is a shaggy mane of wick dreadlocks.
• Establishing Character Moment: He very quickly establishes what kind of man he is when he easily busts down a shield that was giving Miles trouble, quickly takes some time to explain to Miles how to take advantage of his powers, and goes on a rant about how he fights fascists and hates authority with a passion.
• Friend to All Children: He provides guidance to Miles and Gwen in their time of need and is also quite nice and gentle to Mayday, showing approval for her "taking a crap on the establishment".
• Fun with Acronyms: The back of his jacket has a logo that reads "FNSM" (Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man).
• Gadgeteer Genius: After nicking the futuristic tech of Nueva York, Hobie makes his own dimensional stablizers, which he gives to Gwen and presumably the other Spiders who aren't a part of the Spider-Society.
• Genre Savvy: In more ways than one. He knows not to tempt fate the way Pavitr did earlier in the movie, and he realized early on that Miguel and the Spider-Society would turn on Miles to prevent him from saving his father, making subtle efforts to build his own time watches and giving Miles early tips on how to adapt his electricity powers against Miguel.
• Guile Hero: He's way more perceptive than he lets on, and realized that the N.G.O. Superpower nature of the Spider-Society is just as ripe for abuse no matter what it says. He was entirely intentionally inserting doubts in Miles and Gwen the whole time so they knew what to do if the Society turned on them.
• Had to Be Sharp: Him being very crafty and roguish makes sense when you consider that he regularly fights an entire fascist regime in his home universe.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite at first appearing to be nothing more than a Lovable Rogue who fights evil with The Power of Rock and hates all forms of authority and conformism, it turns out his Canon Event was losing a police captain he was close to. He's also revealed to be a Stealth Mentor for Miles who's pretending to lack any depths so he can plan against Miguel.
  • Despite not showing any real intellectual prowess, he turns out to have enough scientific know-how to successfully reverse-engineer Miguel's dimensional traveling technology and make his own fully functional version despite its cobbled together appearance.
• Hypocritical Humor: He insists he doesn't believe in teams, despite being on one. He also doesn't believe in consistency. Ultimately subverted, as he's working with Miguel's Spider-Man army for his own reasons and the second their goals diverge he immediately leaves. It's also implied that he's intentionally playing up his anti-authority persona to make Miguel underestimate him.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: He dislikes calling himself a hero, on the basis that people who do that are "self-mythologizing narcissistic autocrats". Which in retrospect is a pretty biting indictment of the Spider-Society and their enforcement of "Canon Events - The Spider-Society are indeed narcissistically convinced they're the center of their respective universes and dismissive of the pain of each other, and the focus on Canon Events is very self-mythologizing.
• In Spite of a Nail: He's experienced at least two Canon Events beyond the standard getting bit by a spider: he gave up being Spider-Man at one point and it's implied that he lost a police captain that he was close to.
• Incoming Ham: The first sign of his presence in Mumbattan is a bellowed "oi, oi!".
• Lampshaded Double Entendre: During his intro:
  Hobie: I was bitten by a— [sotto voce] Wouldn't you like to know? Get what I mean?
• Lovable Rogue: He's a loud and proud anarchist who has no respect for authority and a staunch ally to Miles and his friends.
• Miles Gloriosus: Subverted. Part of the reason the Spider-Society keeps him around despite his anarchist and anti-establishment behavior is that they assume he's all bark and no bite, an assumption that he deliberately plays into. This means he's able to get away with criticizing their adherence to Canon Events and openly stealing their tech to create a homebrew watch, all without anyone giving him a second thought, proving that he does have the ability to back up his talk.
• Mistaken for Romance: In Across, Gwen crashing at Hobie's place due to being exiled from Earth-65 raises a lot of eyebrows from Pavitr and Miles, especially the latter. When Pavitr figures out that Miles and Gwen have feelings for each other, he's quick to ask her if Miles knows about Hobie as though he were her current boyfriend. As the movie progresses, there's some clarification that Hobie was simply helping Gwen out after her tribulations, and Gwen's reverence of him was because he really was just that cool in general. This serves to color Miles' initial perception of Hobie as a potential rival while hiding the fact that Spider-Punk is really a Stealth Mentor.
• Motor Mouth: Not in the sense that he talks all the time but more in the fact that he often talks fast when he does. Combined with his thick accent, tendency to insert asides, and use of regional slang, it can be difficult at times to make out what he's saying, as was the case with Miles when he first met him.
• Non-Standard Character Design: His overall design makes him look as though he's made of newspaper clippings that resemble both something from a punk rock album cover and something from an Underground comic book, which constantly shift both shape and color, like a living animated collage. Gwen's dad even calls him "a real piece of work", which doubles as a pun; "a piece of work" means a difficult or eccentric person, but in this case can also be taken literally as "a piece of (art) work".
• Not So Above It All: For all of his coolness, both in demeanor and appearance, when Pavitr says (due to his relative freshness as a Spider-Man) that "was another easy adventure for Spider-Man" after seemingly witnessing The Spot vanish from existence after absorbing the Collider's energy, Hobie is quick to drop his chill and panic just like Miles and Gwen in an attempt to tell him not to say that due to their much greater experience on the job and know what's about to happen.
• Not a Morning Person: He states that he “hates the AM”. Then again, he also hates the PM...assuming he wasn't actually referring to the Prime Minister.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: While he seems like a loner who doesn't play well with others at all and is more content annoying members than being a genuine part of the Spider-Society, because he actually isn't loyal to them at all, having long deduced for himself the hypocritical logic behind Miguel and the Spider-Society as a means to enforce a different kind of tyranny through paranoid preemptive execution of the "greater good" and thus is the only member across the entire multiverse who sides with Miles from the gate and encourages his escape. He also is cunning enough to have reverse-engineered Miguel's own technology to create transdimensional gateways all on his own while being Beneath Notice, allowing the renegade faction of Spider-People formed by Gwen to traverse the multiverse safely without Miguel noticing their betrayal.
• Odd Friendship: He's close friends with Spider-Man India despite their many differences and Pavitr previously mocking how the British stole from India. It's probably because Hobie is very anti-authoritarian and fights against totalitarian regime in his version of Britain, meaning they're united by their mutual hatred of the British government.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He and Gwen are the ones who captured the live-action Prowler seen amongst the villainous anomalies in the Spider-Society, though the two of them bicker over who pulled the most weight on the mission. They've also completed a couple dozen similar missions capturing various displaced villains, to Miles envy.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During Miguel's exposition on canon events and how each Spider-Man has lost someone close to them, Miles turn to look at Hobie at the mention of at the mention of the "Police Captain" and sees that Hobie looks more somber than usual. Hobie gives a defensive "What of it?" after he notices Miles looking at him, implying that despite his Anarchist politics he managed to have a close relationship of some kind with his respective "Captain Stacy" and tragically lost them back home, and is not amused to be reminded of it again by Miguel.
• Painting the Medium: Hobie is a non-conformist rebel. To reflect this, not only does his color palette and the border around him constantly change from scene to scene, he's also animated on threes rather than other Spider-People's ones or Miles's twos. To further make his movements chaotic, his vest is also animated on threes, but with a slight delay, his shifting outline is animated on twos, and his guitar is also separately animated on fours. And, just to hammer how his anarchic personality, the Spider-Verse Animators "broke these rules when needed."
• The Power of Rock: Wields a bright-red guitar to jam out to.
• Pretty Boy: One of the many, many things that makes Miles jealous is that under his mask, Hobie is all lean and chiseled good looks, accentuated by smoky eyeshadow and a whole lot of piercings. It certainly lends credence to his claim of being a former runway model.
• The Quincy Punk: His general appearance and behavior evoke the British punk movement. He loudly boasts that "no one tells him what to do" and generally makes a nuisance as a Spider-Society operative. Eventually played with: Hobie does have strong political beliefs rather than mindless destruction. His main reason for joining the Society largely appears to be to keep an eye on it while making his own plans and subtle comments to members like Miles to help them determine their own opinions on Miguel's philosophy.
• Refuge in Audacity: Hobie makes absolutely zero attempts to hide his oppositional stance against The Authority and conformity, and should by all rights be exactly the sort of person that Miguel would be wary of. However he's so blatant about his views that nobody really takes his Punk persona seriously, especially since he's still apparently working with the Spider-Society despite constantly criticizing it, taking his words as empty bluster against The Man. As a result none of them even notice him appropriating their dimensional travel tech and quitting the group in favor of helping Gwen start her own team, despite him pilfering the tech by openly ripping bits out of a lab in front of everyone.
• Renaissance Man: He has an impressive list of accomplishments. Besides being an experienced superhero, he's also a rock star, social activist, Gadgeteer Genius, and was even a runway model for a period of time if his account about himself is accurate.
• Revisiting the Roots: As noted by Dan Slott, the original Spider-Punk was supposed to be a variant of Spider-UK until he was turned into his own character in the comics. Fitting that the movie version return Punk to his British roots.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Understands firmly that Miguel and, by extension, the whole Spider-Society has gone too far in his mind by asking Miles to sit there and watch his father (and whole family potentially) die out of a shared fear that saving them will cause only greater disaster by breaking "canon", thus encouraging him to show his true colors and encourage Miles to escape in earnest before telling all of the Spider-People to collectively "screw themselves" with his resignation.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once Miles escape his cage and everyone begins pursuing him, Hobie quietly announces he's quitting the Spider-Society, opens a portal home, steps through, and tosses the portal watch back before it closes.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Is this to Miles from his first mentioning by Gwen as being exceptionally "cool", leading to him developing a bit of envy towards Hobie in every subsequent encounter afterwards up to even be jealous of how handsome he looks underneath his mask. Ironically, Hobie is Miles's one and only whole-hearted supporter in the entire Spider-Society, at least before he begins inspiring others to split off from Miguel's one-tracked philosophy, allowing Miles the chance to escape.
• Smarter Than You Look: Invoked and exploited: Hobie intentionally plays up his anarchist, rebel persona precisely so Miguel won't notice his attempts to undermine him. It turns out he's a Guile Hero with enough technological skill to make his own dimension traveling watches separate from the Spider Society's.
• So Proud of You:
  • Expresses approval towards Mayday for "taking a crap on the establishment".
  • He smirks with pride when Miles bursts out of his cage using his advice, obviously proud of the chaos he'll be causing in the ensuing chase. He was visibly proud of Miles when he helped Pavitr and save his girlfriend's father, not even worrying about the "Out of Canon" warning.
• Spanner in the Works: Due to Hobie's background, he massively disagrees with the status quo that Canon Events provide and sympathizes with Miles's condition enough to subtly encourage him to rely on his feelings when he's captured, which allows him to use his Energy Absorption abilities to escape Miguel's trap. Hobie then quits the Spider-Society immediately after the chaos begins to unfold. He also provides Gwen his own trans-dimensional watch after she's forcibly sent back to her own dimension on lock-and-key so she can help Miles and stop Miguel's plans to keep said status quo intact as well as the Spot's vile machinations to get back Miles.
  Jessica: Hobie, you're not helping.
  Hobie: Good.
• Stealth Mentor: His seemingly flippant advice to Miles and general insubordination to Miguel are gradually revealed to be completely sincere, deliberate attempts to help Miles. Once the Spider-Society's true intentions for Miles become clear, he drops any false loyalty to the Society and demonstrates that he's completely in Miles' corner.
• Super-Strength: Showcases the most notable and impressive example among the Spider-Person's thus far, when he and Gwen manage to temporarily catch and stall half of Mumbattan's Alchemax mid collapse, supporting thousands of tons with just a few weblines braced against their own bodies, and the webbing gave out first before they did.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the Spider-Society, being the only one who is apparently against Miguel's plans and encouraging others to reject his belief that Canon Events should never be broken. While there are other members leaving the Spider-Society as well, this is only after it's shown that Miguel might be going too far while Hobie has already been reverse-engineering his tech from the beginning.
• Tranquil Fury: While he's usually a Boisterous Bruiser, he's much, much quieter once he reaches the Spider-Society's headquarters, and makes several pointed comments to Gwen and Miguel indicating just how unhappy he is with their lack of openness with Miles. His last line before he departs is a cold "Just for the record, I quit."
• The Unreveal: During his initial introduction, while he does remove his mask, it's covered by a Spider-Man sticker and he scoffs at the idea of revealing too much about himself. It isn't until the group reaches Nueva York that he actually shows the viewer his face.
• Vague Age: His age was deliberately left up to interpretation by the directors. Phil Lord places his age at 15, but other crew members have said he is 19-20. Hobie mentions having been active for "three years," and "going to the pub," which points toward him being 18 or older, as that is the drinking age in the U.K. and most Spider-Persons get bit by the bug around the age of 15.

Margo Kess / Spider-Byte

Margo Kess / Spider-Byte

Homeworld: Earth-22191

Voiced by: Amandla Stenberg^{Foreign VAs} Yamineth Dyall (Swedish), Ayahi Takagaki (Japanese)

Appearances: Across the Spider-Verse

A Spider hero who uses a Virtual Reality system to fight cybercrime in the Cyberspace of her universe.

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• Deadpan Snarker: Is quick to snark at Miles when they first meet. To her credit, he made it too easy.
  Miles: I'm Spider-Man.
  Margo: Whoa, no way! All of us are.
• Defector from Decadence: Ends up abandoning the Spider-Society — alongside a few other Spiders — by the end of the film, with Margo instead joining Miles and Gwen's cause as a member of a newer group of Spider-Men dedicated to protecting the multiverse over protecting the status quo.
• Extendable Arms: Rather than use webbing to get around, she just extends her arms to grapple from place to place.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: She's able to manifest a mask that cycles through various vision modes when she realizes someone is sneaking around the Go-Home Machine.
• Hard Light: Her holographic avatar interacts with the world as if it has physical mass, with her operating the Go Home machine by physically entering commands into its console.
• Mission Control: She's a double layer of this. Her Spider-self works the main control center for the Spider-Society's dimension hopping, and even said Spider-self is just a Hard Light avatar she works remotely from her home dimension.
• Mundane Utility: Is shown using her tech to try out different hairstyles and outfits when Miles sneaks back into HQ.
• Named by the Adaptation: Her debut appearance in Spider-Geddon only gave her name as "Margo".
• Parental Issues: There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it segment in her introduction where two people are heard arguing offscreen, presumably her mother and father. She seems to prefer the confines of the Spider-Society over the comforts of her home for this reason.
• Remote Body: Her real body is safe in her home wearing a VR headset while her avatar fights crime across the multiverse.
• Self-Duplication: Her avatar can split and duplicate into multiple independent copies, which she makes use of as she attempts to override the Go-Home machine.
• Ship Tease: Miles' somewhat nervous reaction when he first meets Margo suggests that he's attracted to her. Notably, she is the only Spidey that Miles has a Spider-Sense reverb with during his tour of the Spider-Society HQ. She also enthusiastically shows Miles how the "Go-Home" machine works. Humorously, Gwen seems to be a bit jealous when noticing this before pulling Miles away with her web so they can move on to Miguel's inner sanctum. Later, she defies Miguel by allowing Miles to use the machine after realizing that it was Miles who was in there.
• Token Good Teammate: Along with Hobie Brown, Margo is the only other Spidey in Spider-Society that doesn't actively hinder Miles in his escape. She stays back at the Go Home machine room and doesn't participate in the big chase, and even though she initially tries to reboot the machine when Miles tries to use it to go home, she changes her mind at the last second and allows the machine to send Miles away from Miguel. She later abandons the Spider-Society altogether and becomes one of the new members of Gwen's Spider-Gang.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: To her credit, when Margo allowed the Go-Home machine to send Miles away, she did allow him to escape Miguel and the rest of the Spider-Society. However, instead of sending him to his home universe, she unknowingly allowed it to send him to Earth-42, where he's stuck without a watch to help him leave or stop him from glitching. (The machine is supposed to send you to the universe your DNA originated in, but the spider that bit Miles left enough of its Earth-42 DNA in him to confuse it.) What's more, he's in the clutches of Earth-42's Prowler, his Evil Counterpart. She does appear to start making it right by joining Gwen's Spider-Gang to help find him.

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