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- Gwen, Jess, and Miguel's first fight together against Renaissance Vulture has a fair few awesome moments.
- Just as Gwen seems brought down, another portal opens and Miguel leaps into the fray to aid her.
- This Vulture has a unique set of bombs and Hammerspace to boot, making him a lot more threatening than one would expect despite using only Steampunk-ish tools against his modern-era opponents. Even both Gwen and Miguel isn't enough to stop him and Miguel is forced to call for backup.
- Jess comes out of nowhere on a motorcycle to turn the tide and aid Miguel after he's finally forced to call for backup, making her entrance by ramming into Vulture midair with her cycle before webbing onto him and pulling him back towards her in order to grind the back wheel against his face, Gwen's response is an appropriately enthusiastic "Will you adopt me?"
- The climax of the scene involves Vulture shooting down a police helicopter which crashes into the building, threatening to fall on and crush both innocents and her father caught in the crossfire. As the chopper descends on the panicked civilians Gwen closes her eyes and focuses, her theme music kicking in, before snapping into action, managing to create a web net over the crowd, yanks the pilots out of the still falling chopper (whom Miguel catches and lands safely) and vault off the chopper itself in order to slow it down by pulling on it from above with aid from Miguel and Jess, all in one continuous motion.
- While rushing to catch the helicopter, Jessica is going full-speed on her motorcycle, while Miguel is keeping up alongside her on his own two feet, highlighting just how much of a formidable force he is.
- The three finally sealing away the Vulture leads to Jess convincing the iron-willed Miguel that they should let Gwen into the Spider-Society.
- And to top it off? Gwen, Jess and Miguel inadvertently save a Police Chief close to Spider-Woman from falling debris… a quiet but important bit of foreshadowing.
- Miles' fight with the Spot: The Spot is Unskilled, but Strong with powers he barely understands, but said powers do a lot thanks to his combination of Confusion Fu and the sheer power of being able to make anything into a dimensional hole. Meanwhile, Miles handles him deftly, doesn't even take him seriously, and brings a Spider-Man trope back into the fray: Smack-talking and quipping about his enemies in the middle of battle.
- It's subtle but the fact Miles managed to maintain good grades despite having to balance school, superhero life, and family is impressive for a Spider Hero.
- When Mrs. Chen is confronted by The Spot, she establishes that she's Seen It All once again and that an animated supervillain breaking into her store doesn't disturb her, genuinely weirding out The Spot while barely acknowledging his presence.
- Just from an animation and creativity point of view, the brief part of Miles rapidly changing clothes in the stairway in a way only Spider-Man could change clothes deserves a mention. Even a seemingly unimportant scene like that the animators decided to make as creative and fun to watch as possible.
- Hobie gets a great Establishing Character Moment when he announces his presence with "Oi-oi!" and leaps into shot to smash a forcefield by hitting it with a guitar.
- The Spot manages to essentially win the first act: After powering up from the collider in Mumbattan, he becomes a color-inverted monstrosity who swears to eliminate everything Miles loves, and simply teleports out while leaving the Spider-People to clean up the disaster he left behind. Not bad for someone Miles treats as a joke.
- This is especially impressive considering how much of a Harmless Villain he started off as - originally he was just some barely-threatening random scientist with a face problem due to his mutations. But through cleverness, scientific knowledge, the sheer power of raw spite and iron determination, he ended up becoming a cosmic threat as he harnessed exactly what his powers were capable of. Quite the send-up for a D-lister.
- And on a smaller note, he actually pulled off his very first crime in his introduction, as the next time he shows up in Miles' line of sight, he not only managed to free himself from the web, but also brought the ATM from the bodega with him, which he ultimately manage to crack wide-open before the fight resumed. In short, even if he didn't get to keep any of the loot and how off-rail it initially went, he still managed to get the money out from the machine in the end.
- Even before he absorbs the collider energy, the Spot shows off his much-improved skills in Mumbattan. When Miles tries to punch him, the Spot catches his arm in one of his holes and then throws him back with a blast of dark energy strongly enough to crack a stone wall. Then he casually steps off the roof and uses his portals to move around with enough speed and agility to run circles around three Spider-People at once. When he arrives to Alchemax, he calmly walks in, turns on the forcefield before Miles, Gwen, and Pavitr can stop him, teleports away all the scientists, and activates the super-collider. When Hobie arrives and breaks the forcefield, the Spot once again kicks their asses without breaking a sweat and enters the collider, turning himself into a Transhuman Abomination with enough power to break reality itself.
- A horrifying moment but nonetheless impressive is in the Futureshadowing moment that's a Freeze-Frame Bonus, The Spot is seen *towering* high above legions of fallen Spider People in abundance upon unlocking his powers; showing easily how monolithic of a threat he's become from just being a "villain of the week" with how effortlessly he steamrolled hundreds, if not thousands, of Spider People all going against him like they were paper while on his way to hurt Miles.
- Miles, Gwen, Pavitr, and Hobie teaming up to save people from the wreckage of the Mumbattan Alchemax lab. They manage to save everyone, and Miles manages to save Inspector Singh from being crushed while Pavitr saves his girlfriend in her falling bus, effectively showing that Miguel's beliefs are wrong, and that both events can be averted.
- The first scene with the Spider-Society— while things do twist around, it's amazing to see just how many Spider-People are together in one alliance.
- The sheer amount of easter eggs and visual references the creators managed to weave into the movie is nothing short of spectacular. If you thought the first film did this well, then this movie amplified it tenfold. It even manages to work in some live-action cameos from Peter-2 and Peter-3 both subtly and blatantly, without distracting from the film itself.
- Miguel's furious comment about the troubles other worlds have caused him is quite awesome given the implications. Peter may be forgotten in his world, but the Spider-Society (and possibly the villains they captured) remember him well since his actions threatened the Multiverse itself. He may not get a spot on the team, but he's still part of the Spider-Verse.
- When the rest of the Spider-Society attempts to imprison Miles in a force-field, he has only one defender: Hobie Brown, who silently reminds Miles of how to quickly break the force-field and then smoothly steps out through a portal, remarking with bitter satisfaction that he's out of there before anyone else can do anything about it.Hobie: Just for the record; I quit.
- Hobie's entire character throughout the film building to his defection from the Society becomes this in retrospect. His Commander Contrarian persona is gradually unveiled to be a borderline chessmaster, disguising his deliberate actions as simple reflexive orneriness. He places doubts about the Society into newbies like Miles and Gwen, provides advice and warnings that defectors will desperately need when fighting Miguel, openly steals components to build his own dimension-hopping watch, all to the successful effort of building an opposing faction to Miguel's Spider-Society and delivers a massive middle finger to the philosophy of obeying Canon Events. He owns the name Spider-Punk. As always - don't watch the mouth, watch the hands.Hobie: Listen to me, bruv. The whole point of being Spider-Man is your independence, being your own boss. You don't need all this!
Miles: Then why are you here?
Hobie: Lookin' out for my drummer is all.
Miles: I want to be in a band. I want to see my friends and... I need a watch to do that.
Gwen: Guys, come on.
Hobie: Alright, squashed. (quietly, to Miles) Just don't enlist 'til you know what war you're fighting. - There is also the way as to how Hobie tells Miles to use his hands which gets him out. When the latter was freaking out and being imprisoned, Hobie appeared to be just following the others and using the "calm down" gesture (raising both hands open). He was actually using it to hide himself gesturing to Miles to use his palms, as "calm" and "palm" are similarly pronounced which gives him plausible deniability to the other Spidermen, effectively hiding his true agenda from them.
- Hobie's entire character throughout the film building to his defection from the Society becomes this in retrospect. His Commander Contrarian persona is gradually unveiled to be a borderline chessmaster, disguising his deliberate actions as simple reflexive orneriness. He places doubts about the Society into newbies like Miles and Gwen, provides advice and warnings that defectors will desperately need when fighting Miguel, openly steals components to build his own dimension-hopping watch, all to the successful effort of building an opposing faction to Miguel's Spider-Society and delivers a massive middle finger to the philosophy of obeying Canon Events. He owns the name Spider-Punk. As always - don't watch the mouth, watch the hands.
- The climactic chase between Miles and the Spider-Society is, as to be expected, filled with awesome moments.
- Miles breaks the force-field (as Hobie grins triumphantly) and books it, clinging to the back of another Spider-Man to hide his escape.
- Miles ends up being attacked by a surprisingly skilled Spider-Cat of all things— and then, after getting it off of him, barely dodges a chomp from Spider-Rex, a gargantuan dinosaur.
- The massive chase in which Miles Morales manages to outrun an entire army of Spider-People, with countless beautifully-designed, creative, and often Mythology Gag-ridden Spider-People pursuing him is both a thrilling action scene and absolute fanservice for any longtime Spider-Man fan.
- While also heartbreaking, Miles defiantly snapping Gwen's web line that she used to try and save him after he learned she'd betrayed him. He doesn't need - or want - her to save him, and would rather risk dying than take help from her.
- When Peter B. (unknowingly) leads Miguel to Miles, the younger spider is able to get the drop on Peter, webbing him up so he can't pursue.
- Even after Jessica got a good hit on Miles, he manages to evade her motorcycle, web her up, and leave her behind.
- When Miles manages to board the bullet train, the extreme G-forces prevent him from shooting his webs anymore, and his glitching kicking back in after Miguel tore the day pass off him during the struggle limits his ability to Wall Crawl away from his relentless pursuer, whose Hard Light webbings ignore the physical restriction of the environment to catch up easily. Rather than give up, Miles just takes advantage of his elevated position to re-create his iconic Leap of Faith straight down towards Miguel, kicking him backwards, and tossing a baseball of webbing straight in his face when he tries to restrain him with his electronic webbing, all whilst answering Miguel's ranting of who the hell the "kid" thinks he is.
- Said Leap of Faith also includes the Call-Back that Miles sticks harder when he's scared or stressed - the glass breaks as his feet separate from the train, and it doesn't do this at any other point in the film. Miles' fears are still there, but his conviction overpowers it once again.Miles: My name is Miles Morales. I was bitten by a radioactive spider... and I'm pretty sure you know the rest, jerk!
- Said Leap of Faith also includes the Call-Back that Miles sticks harder when he's scared or stressed - the glass breaks as his feet separate from the train, and it doesn't do this at any other point in the film. Miles' fears are still there, but his conviction overpowers it once again.
- Miles having planned all along for Miguel and the hundreds of Spider-People to chase after him on the train so that their headquarters (and in turn, the Go-Home Machine) would be unguarded. He then uses his powers to both stick his hands onto Miguel's suit so he can't pull away whilst draining the power from it into a Venom Blast that nearly knocks him off the train, including a short but deliciously awesome moment of Miguel, thus far unstoppable in fighting Miles, realising what he's doing yet failing to pull away in time from the younger Spider as he holds him in place to deliver both his attack and his verbal rebuttal straight to his face. Made even better in that even Gwen and Peter B. (who both know and respect Miles) had presumed he was running blindly and had no plan. And that they smile for him, despite having just tried to capture him.
- Miles's response to Miguel's attempt to break his morale right before said Venom Blast.Miles: Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah... I'mma do my own thing. (venom-blasts Miguel) Sorry, man. I'm going home.
- For the only time in the movie, Miguel is forced to look someone in the eyes and helplessly listen to them for once, instead of forcing them into his own philosophy. The creeping realization in his eyes that he's been outmatched by this "kid" is delicious to behold.
- The fact that you can see Miguel trying to pull away from Miles, only for Miles to pull him back down to continue to absorb his energy is a pretty epic turnaround of how Miles had been the one trying to get out of Miguel's grip just moments before.
- Even beforehand, Miles revealing his plan to Miguel.Miles: Yeah, well... I did lure hundreds of Spider-People away from your little clubhouse. [...] And... I'm about to do this.
- Just the pure fact that Miles, a teenager who was told right to his face that he was never meant to be a hero and shouldn't even exist, manages to outsmart an entire society of Spider-People all by himself to the point where even the two he was closest to don't catch on to what he was doing until he spells it out. Then he proceeds to throw Miguel's insufferably smug attitude right back in his face by revealing exactly why he deserves— no, EARNED his worthiness of the name Spider-Man. Hobie would have been proud of Miles, had he stuck around to see it.
- Not only did Miles have to outwit all of Spider-society, he would also have to know how to start the Go-Home-Machine at the end of it all, or else his entire escape would have been for nothing. This part may lend itself partly to Rule of Cool, but Miles did witness Spider-Byte briefly working the controls of the machine, and Word of God is that Miles have an eidetic memory. This would imply that he was able to start it from remembering what Margo had done and then figuring it out from there, and have had the confidence to believe he could pull that off from the very beginning of the chase.
- Miguel proves exactly why he's the leader of the Spider-Society — he's an Implacable Man as he pursues Miles, chasing after him like a feral animal who cannot be slowed, stopped, or calmed. He's absolutely terrifying in action and even manages to pin Miles down while they're on the Space Elevator while giving him "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
- A point must be made for Miguel's sheer durability. Miles' Energy Absorption technique drains his suit to the point it's almost fizzing out of existence and offering him no protection agaisnt the point-blank massive release the teenager hits him with, launching him backwards high enough that he smacks into one of the archways over the high-speed Bullet Train at a velocity that would have certainly broken something in anybody else, pinballing him down the train where he painfully crashes into several fellow spider-people and objects before he halts his descent. Yet he not only never loses consciousness during all that, he's the first to follow Miles off the train once his suit's restored, and follows behind him so closely that he very nearly catches him as he's using the Go Home machine, not once even indicating that he's badly injured or winded from the hit. For contrast, Miles' comparatively weaker Venom Blast used reflexively on Peter B. knocked him out cold for an extended period despite his Super-Toughness, and Kingpin went down in one hit despite his own durability in a fight. Yet Miguel not only took a stronger hit than both of them without getting knocked out, he barely let it slow him down. About the only thing tougher than Miguel's body is his willpower.
- Just the fact that Miles, just only one Spider-Man, managed to outsmart and out-maneuver hundreds of Spider-People who have more experiences than him shows how he's truly one of the best Spider-People in the Spider-Verse.Miles: I saw all these amazing places and met all these amazing people, but they didn't want me. I kept thinking about what you said. And I let them have it, Mom. I beat them all. I know how strong I am now.
- It's brief cameo but Sun-Spider aka Charlotte Webber makes her first ever animated debut and it is glorious. While getting into a friendly banter with Miles about her being a fan of his, she is shown in a spider-themed (and very cool) wheelchair and then uses her crutch web shooters to get the drop on Miles. All the while making a joke.
- This could technically be a villainous sort-of-awesome. Assuming that Miles' actual destiny was to become the Prowler, that means that Miles achieves something that tops any of the victories a villain has ever achieved in their lives, even Green Goblin killing Gwen Stacy. He outsmarts and humiliates an entire multiversal alliance of spider-men and breaks their ideologies, which causes their alliance to fracture and are undergoing a civil war. Even better, a Gwen Stacy is leading this rogue faction.
- According to the script, the reason Miles turns visible again while he's being wrapped in the energy cage that Miguel tries to rip apart is because "He almost wants Miguel to see him. He's not afraid anymore."
- Gwen finally standing up to Miguel for Miles, first openly reaffirming her friendship with the 'original anomaly' she's been forced to shun till now, then questioning whether he knows for certain what happens if Miles breaks the canon, and finally adamantly refusing to help Miguel to hunt Miles down anymore. Even though Miguel towers over her and pushes her to the edge, and she's clearly frightened, she still refuses to back down. As he forcibly exiles her back to her home dimension, she locks eyes with him and indicts the Society: "We are supposed to be the good guys." Miguel can only half-heartedly respond that they are, and it remains to be seen if the rest of the Spider-Society are convinced.Gwen: I'm not coming.
- Gwen is sent back to her universe, with no way of getting to or helping Miles. Then her father hands her a gift someone left for her. Hobie Brown strikes again: he left her a way to leave her universe, in the event that she chose to stand by Miles.
- Not only that, but there is another even more awesome (and heartwarming) moment that comes with it. When Gwen returns to her father, the two reconcile and Captain Stacey announces he quit his job "halfway through her speech", as he only became a cop to serve and provide for his daughter and without her, it seemed meaningless. Gwen then has an epiphany: since her father left his job, he's no longer captain and is therefore unlikely to die... yet her world is not in danger. This revelation proves that Miguel could be wrong that Canon Events are a certainty and cannot be avoided, leading her to join Miles to help save his father.
- The moment Gwen returns to Miles's universe, she effortlessly defeats Scarlet Spider and crushes his watch in cold fury, a visible sign that she is completely and utterly done with the Spider-Society and is going to fight against them with brutal force should they ever dare to get between Miles and his father. It also shows that she's completely broken Miguel's hold over her, and has freed herself from his indoctrination.
- It’s terrifying, but Earth-42 Aaron easily knows something is off with Earth-1610 Miles, so he keeps his cool, leads him to the roof away from Rio, without coming off as the least bit suspicious to Miles. The result is that The Prowler knocks Miles out before he has time to react, even with his spider-sense.
- When Miles ends up in the wrong universe toward the end of the film, he ends up captured by his Uncle Aaron. After giving him a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech that falls flat, telling Aaron he doesn't have to be the Prowler, Aaron reveals... he's not. The Prowler of Earth-42 emerges, and unmasks himself to reveal that he is the Miles Morales of Earth-42.
- The film ends with Gwen creating her own team of Spider-People, which includes not only Peter B. (and Mayday), Pavitr, Margo, Hobie, and Peni, but also the return of Spider-Noir and Spider-Ham, all with the explicit goal of finding Miles, reconciling with him, and helping him stop Spot and save his father, even if it means fighting an army of Spider-People along the way.
- Spider-Noir and Spider-Ham get a special mention. They were not seen throughout the film, but it also means they never went against Miles and it's heavily implied that all Gwen had to do is mention that he needs help and they did not hesitate.
- Miles himself also doesn't give up either despite the peril of his situation at the mercy of his Evil Counterpart and in danger of ceasing to exist for being in the wrong universe too long. Once it's clear that reason isn't going to get him out of the situation, he's preparing to will himself to fight by readying a static charge for a Venom Strike beneath both Prowler!Miles and Earth-42 Aaron's notice with an absolutely determined glare to get back home.
- In an almost blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Miles begins to smile right before it cuts away from him one last time (after he's ripped the rubber glove on his hand and is testing his electricity), showing that he's probably getting ready to venom blast his way out of the ropes.
- It seems like Peter B. really isn't that bad of a mentor.Peter B.: Don't watch the mouth — watch the hands.
