Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse ending explained after it leaves fans with their jaws on the floor after a major cliffhanger!
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Ending Explained
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!
Now that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is out in theaters, we can talk all about that massive cliffhanger ending and what it means for the next film, Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse.
One of the extremely brilliant decisions in this film was to address making things canon. This is a term that fans from all around the world use, and it perfectly ties it into the plot. Spider-Man always has canon events that happen to him — Uncle Ben, for instance, and Captain Stacy for another. This is when Miles realizes that his father must die, and of course he is not only infuriated that his friends did not tell him, he wants to stop it, something they don’t want to let happen.
At the same time, Miguel O’Hara, also known as Spider-Man 2099 who is the basically the leader of the Spider-People (or at least he seems so at Spider HQ), reveals to Miles that he is the original anomaly. As explained earlier in the movie, Miles was bit by a spider from a different Spider-Verse. This caused him to also become Spider-Man, leaving one of the universes without a Spider-Man for protection. That spider was meant to bite someone else.
So when Miles uses the machine to get sent back to his Spider-Verse, it actually sends him to the one without a Spider-Man. Here, he learns that his father died and his uncle lives. The thing is, his uncle isn’t the Prowler in this Spider-Verse, Miles is. The two Miles’ come face to face, and that is the last we see of them… for now.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse ending explained continued…
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All The Spider-People At The End Of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
The final shot of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse shows Gwen with a team of Spider-People to help find and save Miles. She seems to be leading them, and is joined by several who were introduced in this film: Spider-Punk, Pavitr Prabhakar, and Spider-Byte. Miquel O’Hara (Spider-Man 2099) has a team of his own with Ben Reilly (who Gwen threw into a different dimension without his watch) and Jess Drew / Spider-Woman (who seems to be coming around to what Gwen has been saying).
Peter B. Parker is also there, with Mayday safely strapped to his chest, of course, but perhaps the most exciting thing is seeing the return of Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, and Peni Parker from Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Gwen and this team of Spider-People are on the hunt to find which Spider-Verse Miles Morales has ended up in so they can rescue him. After that, they will need to take on The Spot. Question is, will they let him kill Miles’ father or not?
That wraps up the Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse ending explained! See it in theaters now, if you haven’t already.
Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse is set for a 2024 release, so hopefully we won’t have to wait too long to find out how it all concludes!
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About Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse. After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence.
But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most. Anyone can wear the mask – it’s how you wear it that makes you a hero.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is in theaters now.
Tessa Smith is a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-approved Film and TV Critic. She is also a Freelance Writer. Tessa has been in the Entertainment writing business for ten years and is a member of several Critics Associations including the Critics Choice Association and the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association.