88 Fun Facts About Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Who voices Miles Morales in Into the Spider-Verse?

Shameik Moore voices Miles in the film. Donald Glover, whose fans once campaigned for him to play Spider-Man, had already voiced the character in the Ultimate Spider-Man TV series.

Who voices Peter B. Parker, Miles's jaded mentor?

Jake Johnson voices Peter B. Parker. The producers pitched the role as The Karate Kid, but with a Mr. Miyagi who doesn't know anything.

Who voices Gwen Stacy?

Hailee Steinfeld voices Gwen Stacy. A planned romance with Miles was dropped so that Gwen would be defined by her own heroism, not as a love interest.

What alias does Gwen use at Miles's school?

Gwanda is what Gwen blurts out when Miles asks her name, catching herself halfway through saying Gwen.

Who voices Miles's uncle Aaron, secretly the Prowler?

Mahershala Ali voices Aaron Davis. As the Prowler he corners the new Spider-Man, but backs away when he sees his nephew's face, and Kingpin shoots him for it.

What is the job of Miles's father, Jefferson Davis?

Police officer Jefferson uses his patrol car's loudspeaker outside Miles's school to make his son say 'I love you' back.

Who voices Miles's father, Jefferson Davis?

Brian Tyree Henry voices Jefferson. He doubted he was old enough to play a teenager's father, but signed on once he learned Miles was Marvel's only Black and Latino Spider-Man.

Who voices Spider-Man Noir?

Nicolas Cage voices Spider-Man Noir. He channelled Humphrey Bogart's noir films and James Cagney's way of talking.

Who voices Spider-Ham?

John Mulaney voices Spider-Ham. The character introduces himself as Peter Porker, a spider who was bitten by a radioactive pig.

Who voices Peni Parker?

Kimiko Glenn voices Peni Parker. The filmmakers judged Peni's first design 'iffy', so the production designer restyled her after Sailor Moon.

Which Asian-American Spider character was considered before settling on Peni Parker?

Silk, the Korean-American hero Cindy Moon, lost out because Peni's abilities made a much greater contrast with everyone else in the film.

Who voices Kingpin in Into the Spider-Verse?

Liev Schreiber voices Kingpin. The crime lord kills his universe's Spider-Man while Miles watches, moments after Miles promises the hero he will destroy the collider.

Why does Kingpin build the collider?

To retrieve his late wife and son, Kingpin reaches into other universes for living copies. Vanessa and Richard died in a car crash as they fled the sight of him fighting Spider-Man.

Who voices Olivia Octavius, this universe's Doctor Octopus?

Kathryn Hahn voices Olivia Octavius. Early drafts had a male, Big Lebowski-type Doc Ock, until Bob Persichetti, whose children are friends with Hahn's, suggested the switch.

What company does Olivia Octavius run?

Alchemax is the lab Miles and Peter B. break into for its data, where the friendly head scientist reveals herself as this universe's Doctor Octopus.

Who voices the blond Peter Parker of Miles's universe, killed by Kingpin?

Chris Pine voices the blond Peter Parker. His casting was a surprise, surfacing only when the official credits came out two weeks before release.

Who voices Aunt May?

Lily Tomlin voices Aunt May. Her May keeps a secret: the garden shed behind her house hides a lift down to her late nephew's Spider-Man lair.

Who voices Mary Jane?

Zoë Kravitz voices Mary Jane. In Miles's universe she is Spider-Man's widow, and her eulogy tells the mourning city that anyone could have been behind the mask.

Who voices Miguel O'Hara in the post-credits scene?

Oscar Isaac voices Miguel O'Hara. The credits hid the cameo by billing him only as 'Interesting Person #1'.

What do Miguel O'Hara and the 1967 Spider-Man argue about?

Who pointed first is the whole row. The post-credits scene drops Miguel into the 1967 cartoon moment behind the two-Spider-Men pointing meme, and a watching policeman asks the very same thing.

What does Stan Lee's character sell Miles?

A Spider-Man costume is what Stan Lee's shopkeeper sells him. Asked whether it can come back if it doesn't fit, he promises that it always fits, eventually, and nods at a no-returns sign.

Which TV show, with Donald Glover in Spider-Man pyjamas, plays on screen in Uncle Aaron's apartment?

Community is the nod. After Glover campaigned to play Spider-Man he wore the pyjamas on the show as an in-joke, and that sight helped inspire the look of Miles Morales in the comics.

Miles's roommate Ganke lost most of his Into the Spider-Verse role because of which similar character?

Ned Leeds in Spider-Man: Homecoming had borrowed so much from Ganke that the directors feared looking like copycats. Ganke was cut back to a silent roommate.

Which New York borough is Miles Morales's home in Into the Spider-Verse?

Brooklyn is home, and Miles even gives it as his answer when Aunt May asks which dimension he comes from. Queens belongs to Peter Parker, whose aunt still lives there.

Whose 2014 comic storyline inspired Into the Spider-Verse's team of Spider-People from other dimensions?

Dan Slott wrote the 2014 Spider-Verse comics, which gave the film its crowd of Spider-People. Brian Michael Bendis, the tempting pick, co-created Miles Morales, whose story the producers made their condition for signing on.

Bob Persichetti joined Into the Spider-Verse after a deal collapsed for a film about which German toy line?

Playmobil was the film he had scripted and pitched to the studio before that deal fell apart. Lego, the tempting guess, was the producers' own earlier hit.

In Into the Spider-Verse, which of Miles's powers makes Peter B. Parker say 'Not in my universe'?

Turning invisible first happens by accident, when a panicking Miles vanishes mid-heist and has to ask whether Spider-Man can do that. Peter puts it down to some kind of fight-or-flight reflex.

A cut Into the Spider-Verse subplot had Miles learn from a commentary by which director, who planned a 1990s Spider-Man film?

James Cameron shared the commentary with Tom Cruise in the dropped storyline. Cameron had been hired in the 1990s to write and direct a Spider-Man film that was never made.

Which earlier screen Spider-Man did the directors consider to voice the older Peter B. Parker?

Tobey Maguire was discussed for the part, but the team feared it would confuse audiences who had not yet been introduced to the idea of a Spider-Verse.

Which classic cartoon sign-off does Spider-Ham use in Into the Spider-Verse, making Peter B. Parker ask whether it's legal?

That's all, folks is Porky Pig's famous farewell, so it suits a cartoon pig heading home through the portal. Peter B. Parker wonders aloud whether he is allowed to say that, legally.

Which Post Malone and Swae Lee hit does Miles sing along to in Into the Spider-Verse?

Sunflower plays in his headphones as he draws at his bedroom desk, and he sings along. Released on the film's soundtrack, the song went on to top the Billboard Hot 100.

What is the real holiday EP that grew out of a throwaway joke in Into the Spider-Verse called?

A Very Spidey Christmas first appears as a gag album put out by the film's famous Spider-Man. A week after the film opened it became a real EP of Christmas songs sung by members of the cast.

Which studio animated Into the Spider-Verse?

Sony Pictures Imageworks animated it in Vancouver. The new look was so slow to animate that the crew kept growing, and at its peak the film had 177 animators at work.

What souvenir does the black-and-white Spider-Man Noir take home to his own universe in Into the Spider-Verse?

A Rubik's Cube is a cruel puzzle for a hero who lives in black and white. As he leaves he admits he doesn't understand the cube thing, but promises that he will.

How long did it take to get the first 10 seconds of Into the Spider-Verse looking right?

About a year went into those 10 seconds, as two animators hunted for a look that matched the producers' vision. The rest of the film's animation was built out from that test.

In Into the Spider-Verse, why was Miles animated at 12 frames per second when swinging beside Peter?

To show his inexperience, Miles holds each pose for two frames while the more skilled Peter B. Parker moves on every frame. The gap closes as Miles grows comfortable with his powers.

Which comic-book printing flaw did Into the Spider-Verse copy on purpose to create depth of field?

Misaligned colours, a common slip in comic printing, stand in for a blurred background. Whatever is in focus has its colours lined up crisply.

Which Miles Morales co-creator's comic art shaped the look of Into the Spider-Verse?

Sara Pichelli drew the first Miles Morales series in 2011, and the producers wanted her flavour on screen. Steve Ditko, the tempting pick, co-created the original Spider-Man with Stan Lee.

Which 2018 film carried an extended Into the Spider-Verse scene after its credits?

Venom closed on a caption reading 'Meanwhile, in another universe', then ran a whole action sequence in which Miles meets Peter B. Parker. That was more than two months before the animated film opened.

Which Nike shoes does Miles wear in Into the Spider-Verse, sold as a tie-in with the film?

Air Jordans like his went on sale as part of a promotional push worth about $115 million, which also put the film on millions of cereal boxes.

What does Peter B. Parker say it takes when Miles asks how he'll know he's ready?

A leap of faith is all it is, Peter says, because Miles will never feel ready. Later Miles answers Peter's own fear with 'You won't', and Peter finishes the line before Miles drops him into the portal home.

Which of Kingpin's villains shoves Spider-Man into the collider's beam early in Into the Spider-Verse?

Green Goblin, one of Kingpin's enforcers, shoves the hero into the beam, and the blast that follows leaves Spider-Man badly wounded. Kingpin then finishes him off while a hidden Miles watches.

What does Peter B. Parker call every override key in Into the Spider-Verse because he can never remember the name?

A goober is his catch-all, because there is always a bypass key, a virus key or a who-cares key. He webs this one straight out of the mouth of Miles, who was threatening to swallow it.

Which famous Spider-Man line does Peter B. Parker refuse to let Miles finish in Into the Spider-Verse?

With great power comes great responsibility is cut off after five words, because the older hero is sick of hearing it. His advice instead is to go back to being a regular kid.

Into the Spider-Verse was the first animated feature Oscar winner from outside Disney and Pixar since which film?

Rango had been the last, seven years earlier. The superhero film ended the run by beating two Disney releases at once, Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet.

Which 2021 animated film, from the same producers, reused tools built for Into the Spider-Verse?

The Mitchells vs. the Machines reused those tools, and built new ones, to make a computer-animated film look hand-painted in watercolour.

In Into the Spider-Verse, what does Peter B. Parker plan to grab from the cafeteria as step six of his lab break-in?

A bagel is step six, right after downloading the important stuff, and he really does stop to select one mid-escape. A scientist is left shouting that he took a bagel.

What is the Spider-Ham cartoon short on the Into the Spider-Verse home release called?

Caught in a Ham pits the cartoon pig against a villain called Doctor Crawdaddy, whose name he mocks, when all he wanted was to eat his hot dog.

At school in Into the Spider-Verse, Miles's uncontrollable sticky hand gets stuck to which part of Gwen Stacy?

Her hair has to be chopped away to free him, which is why Gwen wears a lopsided undercut for the rest of the film.

Comic-book editors say the idea for Miles Morales grew from the historic election of which US president?

Barack Obama was months from winning the White House when Marvel's editors decided it was time to take a fresh look at one of their icons. Miles reached the page three years later.

In Into the Spider-Verse, why does Kingpin fatally shoot his own masked enforcer, the Prowler?

He spares his nephew: Aaron Davis learns the new hero under the mask is Miles, cannot bring himself to finish the job, and dies in the boy's arms.

The producers pictured Peter B. Parker as which beloved 1980s movie mentor, if that mentor knew nothing?

Mr. Miyagi was the model, minus the wisdom: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller liked the idea of a Karate Kid-style teacher with nothing useful to pass on.

Peni Parker was redesigned for Into the Spider-Verse in the style of which hit 1990s Japanese anime?

Sailor Moon was the production designer's fix after the directors found Peni's first design "iffy". The comics' Peni had drawn instead on Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Where is Miles bitten by the spider in Into the Spider-Verse, while painting graffiti with his uncle?

An abandoned metro station hides more than a wall to paint: when Miles goes back there he stumbles on Kingpin's collider running beneath the city.

Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller wrote and directed which 2014 animated hit?

The Lego Movie was the duo's third feature as directors. They agreed to make an animated Spider-Man only on condition that Miles Morales was the hero.

Which 2022 DreamWorks sequel borrowed the mixed 2D and CGI animation style popularised by Into the Spider-Verse?

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was one of several rival-studio films reshaped by the hit, alongside The Bad Guys and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

Which gadgets does Aunt May hand Miles along with his new suit before the final battle of Into the Spider-Verse?

Web-shooters, adapted from the dead Peter's own pair, come with the suit. May has been hiding the stranded Spider-People in his secret base all along.

Where does Miles first come face to face with the older Peter B. Parker in Into the Spider-Verse?

In a cemetery, at the grave of his own world's Spider-Man, Miles meets a living Peter from another dimension just after damaging the drive he was trusted with.

In the comics, Gwen Stacy's Spider-Woman plays which instrument in a rock band with her friends?

Drums are Gwen's instrument in the comics, where her bandmates include her universe's Mary Jane Watson as lead singer.

Through his mother, Rio, Miles Morales has family roots in which Spanish-speaking land in Into the Spider-Verse?

Puerto Rico is his mother's side and African American his father's, a background the producers said helps set Miles apart from every other Spider-Man.

Which Blackway and Black Caviar song plays as Miles dives from a skyscraper in his new suit?

What's Up Danger hands over to the orchestral score midway through the scene, a blend one critic credited with making the moment iconic.

Daniel Kaluuya voices which ally of Miles Morales, real name Hobie Brown, in the 2023 animated follow-up?

Spider-Punk uses his guitar as his main weapon. The comics first gave the name Hobie Brown in 1969 to the original Prowler.

Spider-Man India's home city in the 2023 Spider-Verse sequel blends Manhattan with which Indian metropolis?

Mumbai supplies half of Mumbattan, where Pavitr Prabhakar slings webs straight from his wrist bands.

Into the Spider-Verse is dedicated to Stan Lee and which Spider-Man co-creator, an artist who also died in 2018?

Steve Ditko died that June and Lee in November, weeks before a premiere that paid tribute to both men.

Which English composer wrote the orchestral score for Into the Spider-Verse and returned for its 2023 sequel?

Daniel Pemberton's score was released as its own album three days after the hip-hop soundtrack, and his return for the sequel brought him a run of nominations.

Phil Lord handed Into the Spider-Verse script duties to Rodney Rothman while tied up on which Lucasfilm production?

Solo: A Star Wars Story swallowed so much of Lord's time that Rothman, brought in only to write, ended up as one of the film's three directors.

The director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi compared Into the Spider-Verse's future influence to which 1960s rock band?

The Velvet Underground was the director's shorthand for a work that shapes everything after it: he called the film that band's equivalent among superhero movies.

The directors of which 2022 Disney+ superhero series credited Into the Spider-Verse for its hand-drawn visual effects?

Ms. Marvel directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah carried the comic-page look over into live action, a sign the film's reach went beyond animation.

Which 1988 Japanese cyberpunk film, alongside Hayao Miyazaki's work, shaped the tone and look of Into the Spider-Verse?

Akira and Miyazaki's films fed the tone and visual style, while the printing tricks on screen were lifted from decades of American comics.

Which standard computer-animation effect did Into the Spider-Verse abandon so that it felt more like a comic book?

Motion blur gave way to smears, an old hand-drawn trick that stretches a figure within a single frame to suggest speed.

In which Canadian city did the studio's largest-ever crew of animators produce Into the Spider-Verse?

Vancouver housed a crew that swelled to 177 animators once it became clear a smaller team could not finish the film on time.

Which late rapper was billed as a special guest on the Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack song Scared of the Dark?

XXXTentacion appears posthumously alongside Lil Wayne and Ty Dolla Sign, and the track was later remixed for the album's deluxe edition.

Which rapper wrote and recorded the song Familia, featuring Anuel AA, for the Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack?

Nicki Minaj revealed the track herself a month before release; one critic called it a reggaeton cut Miles would happily play alongside his mother.

How did plans for an animated Spider-Man film from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller first become public in 2014?

A studio email hack exposed two executives discussing how to rejuvenate the franchise with an animated comedy. The film was made official the next April.

A Cliff Robertson recording from 2004's Spider-Man 2 voices which character in an Into the Spider-Verse flashback?

Uncle Ben speaks in archive audio rather than a new performance, a nod to the Sam Raimi trilogy in which Robertson played the part.

Miles Morales debuted in 2011 in which comics imprint, whose villain designs Into the Spider-Verse also borrowed?

Ultimate Marvel ran in its own continuity, so Miles could replace a Peter Parker who had died there without disturbing the mainstream comics.

Which albino henchman serves as Kingpin's silent, heavily armed bodyguard in Into the Spider-Verse?

Tombstone made his cinema debut in the film; in the comics he is a hulking New York crime boss with teeth filed to points.

Which of Kingpin's enforcers in Into the Spider-Verse is reimagined as a Mexican cyborg voiced by Joaquín Cosío?

Scorpion is rebuilt here with scorpion-like prosthetics. Voice actor Joaquín Cosío is best known abroad as the general in the Bond film Quantum of Solace.

What does Olivia Octavius discover will kill Peter B. Parker if he stays in Miles's dimension?

Cellular decay is why every visiting Spider-Person keeps glitching: their bodies are breaking down the longer they spend outside their home universes.

Why did Peter B. Parker's marriage to Mary Jane end in his home dimension in Into the Spider-Verse?

He feared having children, so the couple divorced. Working with Miles changes his mind, and he goes home determined to win her back.

Which comic-art effect, named after a Fantastic Four artist, shows bursts of energy in Into the Spider-Verse?

Kirby Krackle, the fields of black dots that Jack Kirby drew around cosmic blasts, sits among the halftones and hand-inked lines the film borrows from print.

Which word replaces Into in the title of the 2023 sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?

Across the Spider-Verse out-grossed the original and, at 140 minutes, was the longest American animated film released up to that point.

Which 2023 Spider-Verse sequel villain blames Miles for the collider blast that left his body covered in portals?

The Spot was nearly left out: the producers dismissed him as a villain until they talked through what his portals could do.

The 1930s-style voice of Spider-Man Noir was modelled on the films of which star of Hollywood's golden age?

Humphrey Bogart was the main model, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson in the mix. The comics later rewrote Noir to talk like his film self.

Peni Parker was co-created for the comics by Gerard Way, the frontman of which American rock band?

My Chemical Romance was on hiatus when an editor asked Way to invent a custom Spider-hero for the 2014 crossover; Peni and her mech were the result.

Into the Spider-Verse passed which 2015 sequel in January 2019 to become its studio's top earner in North America?

Hotel Transylvania 2 held the studio's domestic record until the newcomer overtook it seven weeks into its run, before inflation is counted.

Uncredited Into the Spider-Verse story contributor Alex Hirsch created which Disney Channel animated series?

Gravity Falls creator Hirsch was announced as a story contributor in February 2017, yet his name is missing from the finished film's credits.

Which future superhero cameos as a boy in Into the Spider-Verse, shown as the adopted child of an alternate Kingpin?

Matt Murdock appears as a boy from Gwen's dimension during the final fight, a twist on the comics, where Kingpin is one of Daredevil's two arch-enemies.