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  • Acting for Two:
    • The various versions of J. Jonah Jameson throughout the multiverse are all voiced by J. K. Simmons.
    • Jorma Taccone reprises the role of the 1967 "Animated Meme" Spider-Man from the previous movie, and also voices Vulture.
    • The end of the film sees Miles stranded in a darker version of his own world. The counterparts of his family are all voiced by the same actors as their main versions, though Miles himself is voiced by a different actor.
  • Actor-Shared Background:
    • In the Japanese dub, Spider-Punk is voiced by Subaru Kimura, who is also a professional singer and musician by his own right. The only difference is that, while the former is a punk rocker, the latter sings rap.
    • Similarly in the Norwegian dub, Spider-Punk is voiced by Fela, a hip hop and rap-artist.
  • Actor-Inspired Element: At the end of Rio's loving speech to Miles at the water tower, he asks her "Bendición, mami", which she follows with "Que Dios te bendiga". This was an addition requested by Rio's voice actress' own mother, who had watched the trailer for the movie that included her speech and called her to say that "Bendición" was missing from the scene, which is a meaningful phrase in Latin-American circles, basically meaning to ask a parent for their blessing to leave and receiving it. Luna Lauren called the directors to ask in doubt if they could add it in the scene somehow, which they immediately agreed to do.
  • Approval of God:
    • Tom Holland has said that he's pleased with the animated movie and mentioned that he's willing to voice an MCU Peter Parker cameo if asked.
    • The creator of The Spectacular Spider-ManGreg Weisman — has given his thumbs up to the inclusion of the show's Spider-Man on the film's poster.
    • Nilah Magruder, who wrote and created Spider-Byte in Vault of Spiders #1, was elated to see the character debut in this film on Twitter. She details her gratitude for having a relatively small contribution in Marvel comics get a major feature animation debut, contrasting her humble decade-long work working for animation.
    • Everybody involved in the film was highly approving of Preston Mutanga's recreation of the trailer in 3D LEGO. So much so that they hired him to animate some shots on Earth-13122, the universe made entirely out of LEGO.
  • Ascended Fanon: The Marvel Database wiki gave the Sony's Spider-Man Universe the unofficial placeholder universe designation of Earth-TRN688.note  In this film, the SSU is given the designation of Earth-688.note 
  • Banned in China: The film was banned in certain Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, due to the "protect trans kids" banner in Gwen's bedroom.
  • Blooper:
    • While Miles is at his dad's party, there are a few instances where the neck part of his Spider-suit appears and disappears between shots.
    • When Gwen is leaning her shoulder on Miles, she's sitting much closer than she did a moment before without the animation to suggest she scooted closer. This might have been a deliberate "cheat" in the composition of the scene.
  • Content Leak: On October 14th, the film's title was accidentally leaked by the LinkedIn page of one of Sony Pictures Imageworks' CFX supervisors. It was quickly corrected on the same day, though it didn't reveal that film would actually be a Movie Multipack (since reformatted into another sequel).
  • Creator Cameo:
    • In a roundabout sense; Miguel's comic book cover seen during his introduction was drawn by Rick Leonardi, the original artist of Spider-Man 2099 (it's even a reprise of the cover of issue 1).
    • Web-Slinger is voiced by Taran Killam. Although Killam did not create the character, he wrote his appearance in Spider-Verse (2019) #4 which established his current characterization.
    • Cheekily, Preston Mutanga managed to sneak a minifig of himself into the LEGO sequence.
  • Development Gag: As mentioned by comic writer Dan Slott, the design that became Spider-Punk was originally intended for Spider-UK but was revamped into a separate character, in the process making him American rather than British. In this film, Spider-Punk is British and takes aspects from Spider-UK's role in the Spider-Verse comic story.
  • Disowned Adaptation: While Greg Weisman did love the film, he did not agree with the portrayal of his version of Spider-Man, believing that supporting Miguel's theory of letting certain people die was out of character for the Peter Parker of his show.
  • DVD Commentary: The Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray release features one by directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson alongside producers and writers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
  • Early Draft Tie-In:
    • Some of The Merch still has the "Part One" in the film's title from back when the film and Beyond the Spider-Verse were planned to be a two-parter, before Sony decided to make them separate films.
    • Funko released a Pop figure of Spider-Byte, but it used an earlier look by character designer Mauro Belfiore that differs from her finalized look.
  • Executive Meddling: A positive example that worked out in the end. Similar to Venom in Spider-Man 3, Avi Arad was the one who requested the film's Big Bad — this time, the Spot. After going over his powerset, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller went with Arad's suggestion. Spot's inclusion as the main antagonist of the film has gained a lot of positive attention and critical reception.
  • Flip-Flop of God: Phil Lord said in direct messages that Hobie is 15 (which would justify the apparent love triangle amongst him, Gwen, and Miles), but other crew members said he was 19-20. This is apparently due to Hobie, in early concept art, being conceptualized as around 19-20.
  • Foiler Footage: For some reason, some promotional material featuring the shot where Miles and a bunch of Spider-People chasing him burst into Therapist Spider-Man's office has Miles without gloves or shoes on. The first teaser trailer also has Miles wearing his mask while being chased through Spider-Society HQ.
  • He Also Did: Aymeric Kevin is a production designer for this film. They've also worked on other bombastic animated projects such as Arcane, Ping Pong: The Animation, Space☆Dandy, and Rayman Legends.
  • Inspiration for the Work: According to one of the production designers for the film, Patrick O'Keefe, the scene where Gwen and Miles hang out and swing around the city drew inspiration from his first date with his wife and the feeling of "falling in love" during it.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: During the theatrical run, two slightly different versions of the movies were playing in theaters, featuring various minor differences in animation, dialogue, music and even credits. One of those has become the "official" version with the home media and digital release while the other now only exists in camrip quality on illegal filesharing sites.
  • Kids' Meal Toy: Burger King sold a set of six papercraft buildings in their kids' meals.
  • Missing Trailer Scene:
    • The teasers showing the scene of Gwen visiting Miles' room had some different versions, such as Miles hiding even more stuff when Gwen arrives, including floating underwear, and becoming even more embarrassed at her seeing his drawings.
    • The trailer released in late 2022 featured a scene of a side view of Miles being chased by multiple Spider-People and sliding under the legs of Captain Spider that doesn't appear in the movie.
    • Very minor, but the trailer that showed Miles being introduced to the Spider society had Gwen smiling and nudging him as she did so. In the film proper, the smile and nudge is gone and Gwen introduces him in a more nervous manner which becomes fitting in the context of the film as Gwen is aware Miles is not really welcome there.
  • Official Fan-Submitted Content: The film includes Sun-Spider from Spider-Verse (Vol. 3) and End of the Spider-Verse. She was created as a Spider-Sona in the wake of the original movie, when Marvel asked fans to submit their original characters to be featured in the comics.
  • The Other Darrin:
    • The LEGO universe is stated to be Earth-13122, which is the same official universe name for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. Neither James Arnold Taylor nor Martin Sherman reprise the role of LEGO Peter Parker, who is instead played by Nic Novicki.
    • In the European French dub, Shirine Boutella replaces Camélia Jordana as Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen.
    • In the European Portuguese dub, Laura Dutra replaces Daniela Melchior as Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen, most likely due to the latter having gained fame as Cleo Cazo/Ratcatcher 2 in The Suicide Squad and afterwards starting a career in the U.S. in the years since Into the Spider-Verse was released.note 
  • Promoted Fanboy: 14-year-old animator Preston Mutanga produced a LEGO version of the film's first full trailer and was subsequently hired to direct the movie's short foray into its own LEGO universe.
  • Reality Subtext: The climatic fight/argument between Miles and Miguel on the side of the speeding bullet train has more than a few likely intentional overlaps with how Miles' character was initially disliked for replacing one of the most beloved superheroes ever, as Miguel sees Miles as a "fake" who stole the destiny of becoming a superhero from Earth-42's native reality, due to being empowered by a dimensionally-displaced spider and depriving that world of its "native" Spider-Man. This makes Miles' Shut Up, Hannibal! comeback even more of a Moment of Awesome, as he affirms that he is Spider-Man and a hero regardless of what his "destiny" was supposed to be.
  • Real-Life Relative: Miles' aunt and Rio's sister briefly shows up at Jeff's party, whose voice is given by Rio's voice actress' twin sister in real life, Lorraine Velez.
  • Refitted for Sequel: The Mythology Gag line "The power of the multiverse, in the palm of my hand..." spoken by Spot in this movie was originally said by Liv Octavius in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse before she jumps into the supercollider, but that scene was cut from the final movie.
  • Release Date Change: Across the Spider-Verse was originally slated to release on April 8, 2022. However, the film was caught in the crossfire of the COVID-19 Pandemic, prompting the shift to October 7 of that same year. Then on April 20, 2022, it was announced that Across was delayed again to June 2, 2023, this time to allow the filmmakers to have more time to work on it. As a result, Beyond the Spider-Verse was delayed to March 29, 2024. The release of Beyond has since been indefinitely postponed due to several factors; the official reason is the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, while the animation staff have also spoken out about poor working conditions on Across and a lack of any of real progress on Beyond making it infeasible to complete by the original scheduled date.
  • Role Reprise: A few voice actors who've voiced Spider-Man in previous media reprise as their versions, such as Yuri Lowenthal as Insomniac Spider-Man and Josh Keaton as Spectacular Spider-Man.
    • In the Brazilian dub, the same was done, as well as bringing back other former Spider-Man voice actors to dub different versions (in a cross with Actor Allusion), such as Mauro Eduardo from Spider-Man: The Animated Series as Cowboy Spider-Man and Manolo Rey from the Spider-Man Trilogy (and other media) as LEGO Spider-Man. In a curious case, Fábio Lucindo from The Spectacular Spider-Man is present in the dub but voices Peter Parker from Spider-Gwen's universe, while Spectacular Spider-Man is voiced by Sérgio Cantú from The Amazing Spider-Man Series (it's possible this was a mistake caused by "Amazing Spider-Man" and "Spectacular Spider-Man" both being localized as "Espetacular Homem-Aranha" in Brazil, leading to the casting director confusing the two).
    • J.K. Simmons reprises his role as multiple variants of J. Jonah Jameson, through both archived footage and new recordings.
    • Donald Glover reprises his role as the MCU's Aaron Davis, and is portrayed in live-action.
    • In the Japanese dub, Manabu Ino reprise his role as Spidey from the Spider-Man Trilogy, through he does with The Spectacular Spider-Man one instead. Likewise, Kazuyuki Okitsu does the same with the Insomniac Spider-Man.
  • Throw It In!:
    • Editor Andy Leviton added Chris Miller's coughing from 22 Jump Street at the very beginning of the movie as well as an onomatopoeia at the corner of the screen to draw attention to it as a joke. For about three years of production, Leviton kept adding it to every iteration of the film to see if anybody would notice and/or eventually tell him to stop, but Chris Miller told him that he and Phil Lord loved it the first time they saw it, resulting in artist Jeffrey Thompson upgrading the cough sound effect to something more visually interesting and keeping it in the final film.
    • Preston Mutanga's LEGO recreation of the theatrical trailer impressed Lord and Miller so much that they hired him five months before release to animate the Earth-13122 scene.
  • Troubled Production: The film’s production was allegedly plagued by poor working conditions for the animators. Vulture reported that approximately 100 staff members quit over the course of production due to the crunch culture. Animated films are known to both take a long time to produce and be subject to extensive reworking, the former is usually done before any animation is started. However, the people Vulture talked to alleged that story and art changes were ordered by Phil Lord after scenes were completed. Although the film was ostensibly delayed out of its original spring 2022 release due to COVID-19, animators who were hired in the first quarter of 2021 allegedly sat around for six months or so with nothing to do while the story was being tweaked. In order to make up for lost time, some animators were working up to 11 hours a day. Allegedly the ending where Gwen gets the gang back together to rescue Miles was changed a mere six weeks before release. While Beyond was also ostensibly delayed due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes, it had been rumored long before the delay was officially announced that one was coming to avoid another situation like this.
  • Uncredited Role: Michelle Ruff confirmed on Facebook months after the fact that she was the voice of Mayday Parker. It was possibly a mix of performances as one of the producers also revealed his own toddler daughter to have voiced Mayday.
  • What Could Have Been: See here.
  • Word of God:
    • The creators have compared the ending of the film to the ending of The Empire Strikes Back.
    • The directors confirmed in an interview that Miguel and many of the characters in the film calling Miles "not a real Spider-Man", constantly forcing him to adhere to canon and limiting the actions that he should be allowed to make, was them commenting on the negative backlash Morales got after becoming Spider-Man; in particular the vocal minority who refuse to see him as worthy of inheriting the mantle and insist on the status quo.
    • Kris Anka, who was the character designer in the film, posted this on Twitter which seemingly confirms that Donald Glover was reprising his role as the MCU Aaron Davis from Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • Word of Saint Paul:
    • While the Love Triangle aspect between Miles, Gwen, and Hobie was ultimately open-ended within the film itself, Daniel Kaluuya does think that "something was happening", noting the whole fact that Gwen is staying at Hobie's place and Hobie is tolerating the Spider-Society for her sake. In the end, Kaluuya thinks whatever's going on is ultimately between only them.
    • Josh Keaton suggested his theory that the death of Captain Stacy, and the loss of another male role model in his life, made Spectacular Spider-Man vulnerable enough so that when Miguel arrived and basically told him that all his tragedies are part of a bigger plan, he willingly went along with his plans for the Spider-Society despite that meaning they should let people die.
    • While he is not involved with the film, The Spectacular Spider-Man creator Greg Weisman suggested the idea that the version of Spectacular Spider-Man who cameos in the film is not the same one from the show, but an Alternate Self from an identical, but different universe to the main Spectacular universe, pointing out that the show's Peter would not be on Miguel's side.
  • Writer Conflicts with Canon: The co-director Kemp Powers said this movie is not connected to the MCU, and that the "don't even get me started on Doctor Strange and that little nerd on Earth 199999" joke is a tongue-in-cheek way of acknowledging the history of the character. In the actual movie however, there are numerous points like Mrs. Chen's cameo (given the MCU Peter appeared in The Stinger of Let There Be Carnage while Eddie Brock himself appeared in The Stinger of Spider-Man: No Way Home), the cameos by Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield (who also appeared in No Way Home) and Donald Glover's cameos (though he could be an Alternate Self of the MCU's version of Aaron Davis), that contradict this statement.

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