96 Fun Facts About Across the Spider-Verse

Who voices Miles Morales in Across the Spider-Verse?

Shameik Moore voices Miles Morales, reprising the role he originated in 2018's Into the Spider-Verse; the sequel redesigns Miles as a taller, older teenager.

Who voices Gwen Stacy in Across the Spider-Verse?

Hailee Steinfeld voices Gwen Stacy. The sequel gives her and Miles the romance that was written for the first film and then cut from it.

In which New York museum does Gwen fight the Vulture as Across the Spider-Verse opens?

The Guggenheim Museum. Miguel and Jess step through portals to help her subdue him there, and that meeting is what brings Gwen into the Spider-Society.

Which actor voices the Spot in Across the Spider-Verse?

Jason Schwartzman voices the Spot, who blames Miles for the collider blast that left him covered in portals and sets out to become his nemesis.

Who voices Miguel O'Hara, the leader of the Spider-Society?

Oscar Isaac first voiced Miguel in a closing gag in Into the Spider-Verse, bickering with the 1967 cartoon Spider-Man. The sequel turns him into the stern leader who hunts Miles.

Which British actor voices Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk?

Daniel Kaluuya prepared by playing fans' Spider-Punk playlists he found on Spotify, because he wanted Hobie's voice to feel like a song.

What does Spider-Punk use as his main weapon?

His guitar: Hobie fights with it in the film as he does in the comics, where he topples President Norman Osborn by bashing him with it during a riot.

Which instrument does Gwen Stacy play in her band in Across the Spider-Verse?

Drums: the film opens with Gwen pounding her kit at a band rehearsal, the noise running under her narration of how she lost her best friend.

In Into the Spider-Verse, what did Miles throw at the scientist who later became the Spot?

A bagel: the sequel reveals that the lab worker Miles hit while fleeing Alchemax was the future Spot, turning a throwaway gag into a grudge.

What promotion is Miles's father Jeff celebrating at the start of Across the Spider-Verse?

Police captain: Jeff's promotion drives the plot, because Miguel's model says a police captain close to Spider-Man must die for a Spider-Person's story to hold together.

In Across the Spider-Verse, whom did Miguel lose when the universe he had moved into unravelled?

His daughter: Miguel took a dead double's place in another world and helped raise the girl, then watched that world unravel, which is why he polices every Spider-Person's story.

In Across the Spider-Verse, what is the name of the Spider-Society's futuristic home city?

Nueva York: its clean, brutalist skyline was designed as a tightly controlled world to mirror Miguel's own rigid personality.

What is the nickname of Pavitr Prabhakar's home city, a blend of two real ones?

Mumbattan fuses Mumbai and Manhattan; the city was invented for the film as Pavitr Prabhakar's home, and its own Alchemax collider is what the Spot raids for power.

Who voices Pavitr Prabhakar, Spider-Man India?

Karan Soni, Dopinder in the Deadpool films, voices the fast-talking Pavitr, in whose city Miles first defies the Spider-Society by saving a man who was meant to die.

What is the name of Peter B. Parker's baby in Across the Spider-Verse?

Mayday: Peter B. brings the infant along to the Spider-Society and tells Miles he hopes she will grow up to be like him.

Who voices Jess Drew, the motorcycle-riding Spider-Woman?

Issa Rae voices Jess Drew, who takes Gwen on as her pupil after their first fight together, when Miguel is reluctant to recruit her.

In Across the Spider-Verse, what is the name of the Spider-Society's AI assistant?

Lyla is Miguel's holographic assistant. Cinemas were sent two cuts of the film, so in some screenings her scene with him ends with a selfie and in others it does not.

On Earth-42, who does Miles find alive that is dead in his own universe?

His uncle Aaron: Earth-42 flips Miles's own losses, with Aaron Davis alive and Jeff dead, and that world's Miles has become the Prowler.

Which actor voices the Earth-42 Miles, the Prowler, in Across the Spider-Verse?

Jharrel Jerome, an Emmy winner for When They See Us, voices the Earth-42 Miles, who became the Prowler because his world never got a Spider-Man.

Which actor makes a live-action cameo as an alternate Aaron Davis / Prowler?

Donald Glover wore a Spider-Man costume in a Community gag that helped inspire Miles Morales's creation, then played Aaron Davis in Spider-Man: Homecoming before this cameo.

What did Gwen's Peter Parker turn into before she accidentally killed him?

The Lizard: Gwen's father has hunted Spider-Woman for Peter's death ever since, unaware that it was an accident or that the mask hides Gwen.

In Across the Spider-Verse, how does Gwen's father avoid his own canon event?

He resigns from the police force: George Stacy quits rather than arrest Gwen, so the death Miguel's rules demand of him never has to happen.

Which style was Gwen's Earth-65 designed to look like?

Impressionistic watercolours: the team built a paint simulator so that Earth-65's backgrounds could shift with Gwen's feelings, like a three-dimensional mood ring.

What does Miguel call Miles when he reveals that Miles was never meant to be Spider-Man?

The original anomaly: the spider that bit Miles was pulled in from another universe, and Miguel blames that slip for leaving a whole world without a Spider-Man.

A 14-year-old fan animated which sequence of Across the Spider-Verse after his trailer remake went viral?

The Lego universe scene: Preston Mutanga had rebuilt the trailer brick by brick at home, and the producers recruited him before they learned he was only 14.

Roughly how many people worked on Across the Spider-Verse, by its producers' count animation's biggest crew?

About 1,000: the writer-producers admitted they had promised Sony a sequel the same size as the first film, then needed the largest crew an animated film had ever had.

Sony Pictures Imageworks animated Across the Spider-Verse from its base in which Canadian city?

Vancouver: Imageworks moved its headquarters there from Culver City, California, in 2014, leaving only a small office behind in Los Angeles.

Who composed the orchestral score for Across the Spider-Verse?

Daniel Pemberton gave each universe its own musical theme and built on the record-scratching sound he had created for Miles in the first film.

Which artist created the soundtrack album for Across the Spider-Verse?

Metro Boomin produced the soundtrack album and also turns up in the film itself, voicing one of the crowd of Spider-People as Metro Spider-Man.

Which record did Across the Spider-Verse set with its 140-minute running time?

Longest American animated film: the sequel packs 240 characters and six universes into 2 hours 20 minutes, passing the 2012 indie Consuming Spirits.

Across the Spider-Verse was first dated for April 2022; what forced its first delay?

The COVID-19 pandemic: with cinemas shut and productions stalled, Sony reshuffled its slate in April 2020 and pushed the sequel back six months; it later slipped again, to June 2023.

Which tag did the title Across the Spider-Verse carry in its first teaser, before Sony dropped it?

Part One: the writers found they had too much story for one film and split it, and in April 2022 the second half was renamed Beyond the Spider-Verse.

Which classic sequel did the directors of Across the Spider-Verse compare its cliffhanger ending to?

The Empire Strikes Back: 'hopefully, this is our Empire,' one director said, and they felt free to stop mid-story because the third film was already guaranteed.

Which film topped the 2023 US box office, two places above Across the Spider-Verse?

Barbie led the year. The Spider-Verse sequel's $381 million at home put it third, and worldwide it overtook the first film's entire run within 12 days.

Which film was Sony Pictures Animation's highest-grossing release until Across the Spider-Verse overtook it?

The Smurfs: the studio's record-holder for twelve years was only half animated, a live-action hybrid that took roughly $560 million in 2011.

Across the Spider-Verse took Sony Pictures Animation's opening-weekend record from which sequel?

Hotel Transylvania 2 had held it since 2015. The Spider-Verse sequel was forecast to open at about $80 million and took $120.7 million, more than double the old record.

At which 2024 awards did Across the Spider-Verse win all seven of its nominations?

The Annie Awards: the sequel took Best Feature and six more there in February 2024, then lost the animated-feature Oscar three weeks later.

Which film beat Across the Spider-Verse to the 2024 Oscar for Best Animated Feature?

The Boy and the Heron: Hayao Miyazaki's film took the award, so the sequel missed the Oscar that Into the Spider-Verse had won five years earlier.

On which streaming service did Across the Spider-Verse debut in the US in October 2023?

Netflix: under Sony's pay-one streaming deal the film arrived on Netflix on October 31, 2023, ahead of a later Disney window.

Which comedian voices Ben Reilly, the Scarlet Spider, in Across the Spider-Verse?

Andy Samberg voices Ben Reilly, the comics' clone of Peter Parker, played here for laughs as an ultra-dramatic brooder.

Yuri Lowenthal reprises which Peter Parker among the Spider-Society?

The Insomniac video-game one: Ganke is seen playing one of the Marvel's Spider-Man games in his dorm early on, and its hero later turns up in person among the Society.

Which Into the Spider-Verse star recorded no new lines for the sequel, Across the Spider-Verse?

Nicolas Cage confirmed in January 2023 that he was not coming back, so his Spider-Man Noir is only glimpsed among Gwen's team in the final scene.

Which MCU film does Miguel mean by 'that little nerd back on Earth-199999'?

Spider-Man: No Way Home: Miguel's line about 'Doctor Strange and the little nerd back on Earth-199999' nods to that 2021 MCU film, whose spell cracked open the multiverse.

Which artist's Balloon Dog sculpture is sliced open during the opening fight of Across the Spider-Verse?

Jeff Koons: the Vulture lops the head off his blue Balloon Dog and a heap of tiny balloon dogs spills out, to an appreciative 'ooh' from the gallery crowd.

Which Spider-Society member in Across the Spider-Verse began as a fan's contest-winning design and uses a wheelchair?

Sun-Spider: Dayn Broder invented her for a Marvel fan contest, and winning it made the character official before the film put her among the Society's ranks.

Which Renaissance artist's notebooks inspired the Vulture's design in Across the Spider-Verse?

Leonardo da Vinci: the Vulture looks like a page of his workbooks come to life, monochrome against Gwen's colours, because he has strayed in from a Renaissance universe.

Which studio's 100th-anniversary logo made its debut on the 2024 IMAX re-release of Across the Spider-Verse?

Columbia Pictures: Sony's film studio marked its centenary in 2024 and used the sequel's January return to IMAX screens to unveil an animated logo tracing its torch lady through eight versions.

Comic artist Rick Leonardi was hired to adapt his own 1992 designs for which Across the Spider-Verse character?

Spider-Man 2099: Leonardi co-created Miguel O'Hara with writer Peter David in 1992, so the film went back to the original artist to rework the suit for animation.

Kemp Powers, one of the three directors of Across the Spider-Verse, had co-directed which Pixar film?

Soul: Powers was hired to help write it and was promoted to co-director, then joined Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K. Thompson to direct the Spider-Verse sequel.

Who voices Miles's father, Jefferson Morales, in Across the Spider-Verse?

Brian Tyree Henry voices Jeff, whose death Miles glimpses in a vision of the Spot's coming attack and then refuses to accept.

Roughly how long after the events of Into the Spider-Verse does Miles's story resume in the sequel?

Just over a year: the story resumes 16 months after the collider's destruction, long enough for Miles to have shot up in height, which the animators built into a taller redesign.

Which producer suggested the Spot as the villain of Across the Spider-Verse, an idea its writers first dismissed?

Avi Arad: the veteran Marvel producer pitched the Spot, whom the writers called 'the dorkiest, dumbest villain' until he pointed out how powerful those portals made him.

Who voices Adriano Tumino, the Renaissance-styled Vulture?

Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island voices this Vulture. In the first film he was the Green Goblin and the 1967 cartoon Spider-Man, so he has now played the hero and two of his enemies.

Which Society member, alias Spider-Byte, operates a virtual avatar remotely from her home reality?

Margo Kess, voiced by Amandla Stenberg, is Spider-Byte. With the whole Society closing in on Miles, she is the one who chooses to help him get away from Miguel.

Who voices the Peter Parker of Gwen's Earth-65, the best friend she lost?

Jack Quaid voices Gwen's best friend Peter, whose death at her hands, an accident, is the reason her father is hunting Spider-Woman.

John Mulaney recorded no new lines for Across the Spider-Verse; which returning hero is voiced only by his old audio?

Spider-Ham: lines Mulaney recorded for the first film are reused, and Peter Porker then reappears without a word among Gwen's team in the final scene.

Which classic Disney scene inspired the way Gwen's world reacts to her emotions with colour?

Cinderella's torn dress: co-director Justin K. Thompson pointed to the 1950 film's scene where the gown is ripped apart and the whole setting seems to react to her distress.

What does Hobie leave with Gwen's father for her in Across the Spider-Verse?

A homemade watch: Hobie's bootleg dimension-hopper lets the exiled Gwen leave her own world again, go looking for Miles and start assembling a rescue team.

A June 2023 report said whose constant revisions drove about 100 artists to quit Across the Spider-Verse?

Phil Lord: four crew members told Vulture the producer kept reworking finished animation over the heads of the three directors, an account that Sony disputed.

Which school does Miles Morales attend in Across the Spider-Verse?

Brooklyn Visions Academy: the sequel picks up his story there with his parents making excuses to a college counsellor while Miles, off fighting crime, runs late yet again.

Who voices Miles's mother, Rio Morales?

Luna Lauren Vélez does double duty: she also voices the other Rio, the one Miles meets on an Earth where he never became Spider-Man.

Who voices Peter B. Parker, the older Spider-Man who mentored Miles?

Jake Johnson's Peter B. was a divorced, burnt-out wreck in the first film. He returns reconciled with Mary Jane and carrying their baby everywhere he goes.

What is the profession of Miles's mother, Rio Morales, in the Spider-Verse films?

Nurse: her voice actor has stressed that, with a nurse and a policeman for parents, Miles comes from a comfortable brownstone home rather than a struggling one.

Who voices Gwen's father, George Stacy, in Across the Spider-Verse?

Shea Whigham voices George Stacy. Denis Leary, who played the role in The Amazing Spider-Man, appears too, in the old film footage that Miguel shows Miles.

Which Pixar filmmaker voices Miles's roommate, Ganke Lee?

Peter Sohn, director of Pixar's Elemental, voices Ganke Lee. He had recorded the part for the first film, only for nearly all of Ganke's scenes to be cut.

Which reggae musician voices Lenny, the Jamaican shop owner, in Across the Spider-Verse?

Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley's son, voices Lenny, the no-nonsense owner of the bodega that the Spot tries to rob at the start of the film.

Which actor voices Glory, one of Gwen's bandmates, in Across the Spider-Verse?

Ayo Edebiri, a star of The Bear, gets only a few lines as Glory, heard in the tense band rehearsal that opens the film.

Who voices J. Jonah Jameson across several Earths in the film?

J. K. Simmons voices J. Jonah Jameson across several worlds, including the Lego one; he first played Jameson in Sam Raimi's 2002 Spider-Man.

Whose archive audio voices a Doctor Octopus hologram in Across the Spider-Verse?

Alfred Molina: no new recording was made, so a 'Hello, Peter' from his live-action Doc Ock plays over a hologram drawn in the comics' green costume.

The Spot blunders into a live-action shop run by Mrs. Chen, a character from which Sony spin-off?

Venom: Peggy Lu reprises her unflappable shopkeeper as the Spot, still learning his powers, leans through a portal into her convenience store.

What is the Spot trying to steal when Miles first fights him?

An ATM: the Spot's first crime is a clumsy bodega robbery, and shots of him running around New York with the machine were among the first the film animated.

In Across the Spider-Verse, the Spot's design starts out looking like what, before firming up as he gains power?

An unfinished sketch: he begins as rough lines with blue construction marks, a look drawn from the gnarled self-portraits of Austrian painter Egon Schiele, and firms up as his confidence grows.

Which neo-futurist illustrator's work shaped the look of the Spider-Society's futuristic city in Across the Spider-Verse?

Syd Mead: the film-makers went back to the concept artist behind Blade Runner and Tron because they wanted his 'manicured, aspirational futurism' for the Society's home.

Across the Spider-Verse reused animation tricks learned on which earlier Sony Pictures Animation film?

The Mitchells vs. the Machines: the producers took the first Spider-Verse film's tools, added what they had learned on that 2021 comedy, and stretched them to cover six art styles.

Which Saturday Night Live alumna voices Miles's school counsellor in Across the Spider-Verse?

Rachel Dratch voices the dry, tactless counsellor to whom Miles's exasperated parents keep making excuses while he is off fighting the Spot.

On Earth-42, what does Miles confess to the woman he thinks is his mother?

That he is Spider-Man: Miles finally tells Rio he is Spider-Man, only to learn she is Earth-42's Rio, whose son is the Prowler.

Which phrase does Pavitr Prabhakar mock Miles for using?

Chai tea: Pavitr mocks Miles for saying 'chai tea', since chai already means tea, so Miles is really saying 'tea tea'.

Which martial art inspires Pavitr Prabhakar's acrobatic fighting style in Across the Spider-Verse?

Kalaripayattu: the animators wanted each of the film's hundreds of Spider-People to move in a way of their own, so for Pavitr they turned to the ancient martial art of Kerala.

In Across the Spider-Verse, who is Pavitr's girlfriend, whose father Miles saves against the Society's rules?

Gayatri Singh: Miles pulls her policeman father clear as the collider comes down, the very rescue Miguel says a Spider-Man must never make.

Shubman Gill, who voiced Pavitr in the Hindi and Punjabi dubs of Across the Spider-Verse, stars in which sport?

Cricket: the India batter said he had grown up watching Spider-Man, and that giving the hero an Indian voice left him feeling 'superhuman'.

In Across the Spider-Verse, what is the civilian name of the Alchemax scientist whose body is covered in portals?

Jonathan Ohnn: an Alchemax scientist caught in the first film's collider explosion, he emerged covered in living portals and renamed himself the Spot.

Which video game added Miles Morales outfits based on Across the Spider-Verse in May 2023?

Fortnite: alongside the outfits, the game brought back its web-shooters, so players could swing across the map the way the film's heroes do.

What colour was the bun on Burger King's Spider-Verse Whopper?

Red: the bun was dyed red and studded with black sesame seeds to echo Spider-Man's costume, and came with a sundae topped with red and black popping candy.

Which Nike sneaker got an Across the Spider-Verse edition in May 2023?

Air Jordan 1 High OG: Miles wore Air Jordan 1s all through the first film, so Nike followed its 'Origin Story' pair with a 'Next Chapter' edition for the sequel.

Which 2023 film was the only one with a bigger US opening weekend when Across the Spider-Verse debuted?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie: its April opening stayed ahead, so when the Spider-Verse sequel arrived the year's two biggest debuts both belonged to animated films.

Which producer of Across the Spider-Verse shrugged off a 2023 report of crew burnout as normal film-making?

Amy Pascal: asked about artists made to redo finished shots five times over, the producer and former Sony chief replied, 'I guess, welcome to making a movie.'

In Across the Spider-Verse, how are Miles and Gwen perched as they gaze over the New York skyline together?

Upside down: hanging from the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower with the skyline inverted before them, Miles hints at his feelings and Gwen warns that Gwen Stacys who fall for Spider-Man come to grief.

Which former live-action Spider-Man called Across the Spider-Verse 'a masterpiece of pure cinema'?

Andrew Garfield said it at a London screening. His own Spider-Man is in the film too, in old footage of him grieving over the dying George Stacy.

On which app did 'canon event', a phrase from Across the Spider-Verse, become a 2023 meme?

TikTok: users recast their own formative embarrassments as canon events, and Collins Dictionary went on to shortlist the phrase for its 2023 word of the year.

Joaquim Dos Santos, a director of Across the Spider-Verse, earlier directed episodes of which animated series?

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Sony signed Dos Santos to direct the sequel in November 2018, weeks before the first Spider-Verse film had even reached cinemas.

A week into its run, Sony re-sent Across the Spider-Verse to cinemas to fix complaints about what?

The sound mix: viewers complained that the opening scene's dialogue was too quiet, so Sony replaced every print while insisting only a handful of theaters had the problem.

Which slogan on a flag in Gwen's bedroom reportedly got Across the Spider-Verse banned in the United Arab Emirates?

Protect Trans Kids: the flag is on screen only briefly, but censors in the United Arab Emirates refused the film a week before its planned release, reportedly over that frame.

Which Sony film took the March 2024 release date vacated by Beyond the Spider-Verse?

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire moved from December 2023 into the March 2024 slot Sony vacated when Beyond the Spider-Verse was pulled during the 2023 actors' strike.

What was the lead single from the soundtrack album of Across the Spider-Verse?

Calling: its first video, a visualizer out with the single two days before the album, was made of animation from the film, and the artists appeared only in a second video that September.

Which Dominic Fike single came out on the US release day of Across the Spider-Verse?

Mona Lisa was meant for the film's soundtrack, yet it was pulled from the deluxe edition and ended up on Fike's own album, Sunburn, instead.

Kimiko Glenn returns in Across the Spider-Verse as which young hero from the first film?

Peni Parker: Kimiko Glenn's hero from the first film is back at the very end, when Gwen gathers the old team to go after Miles.