Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse poster might have spoiled its biggest surprises
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Potential spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse follow.
A new poster for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been released by Sony Pictures – and it could have ruined the appearances of some pretty popular Spider-People.
A week after the first proper trailer for Across the Spider-Verse arrived on Dec. 13 — which teased many Spider-People themselves — the one sheet, unsurprisingly, puts protagonist Miles Morales front and center.
Interestingly, Miles is upside down, which seems to thematically tease that he’ll be in direct opposition to his fellow webheads in Sony’s animated sequel. The poster also features a number of webslingers who debuted in the first Across the Spider-Verse trailer, including Jessica Drew and the Bombastic Bag Man. Plus, it also features characters we already knew would appear, such as Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Punk, Peter B. Parker, and Spider-Gwen.
More important than all that, though, is the reveal of popular wallcrawlers that didn’t appear in the first trailer for one of the biggest new movies of 2023. last warning: potential cast spoilers for Across the Spider-Verse are coming. Now turn back if you don’t want to know who might show up.
Still with us? Very well. First of all, here’s the official poster for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse:
So, who are the popular Spider-People revealed to appear in Across the Spider-Verse?
First up are Spider-Man India and Ben Reilly, aka the Scarlet Spider. Neither character was visible in the first Across the Spider-Verse trailer and, unless you’ve been keeping up with every aspect of the film’s development, you wouldn’t know they’d be making an appearance either.
Spider-Man India’s appearance was expected by some fans – after all, in the first teaser of the film, which arrived in December 2021, Miles Morales was seen falling through Mumbatten, a major city on Earth-50101, where Spider-Man India comes from coming. But unless you’d been scouring the internet — ahem, the web — for Across the Spider-Verse toy leaks, you wouldn’t have expected Ben Reilly to show up. It’s clear that with this duo at the forefront of this poster, fans suspect they’ll play an integral role in Miles’ next big-screen adventure.
However, that’s not all. The one sheet puts Spider-Byte — aka Earth-22191’s tech-powered heroine — in an intriguing position. She can be seen next to Spider-Punk and right behind Spider-Gwen. Since this duo also plays a big part in Across the Spider-Verse, we suspect Spider-Byte will too. Could her story be reused in a way that shows her helping Spider-Man 2099 create those interdimensional wristbands that allow Spider-People to traverse the Spider-Verse?
A larger version of the new Spider-Man: Across the #SpiderVerse poster reveals even more Spider-People! 🕷️ pic.twitter.com/7g8wbWKbj3December 20, 2022
Oh, do you want more? We’ll give you more. An international poster, which you can see above, shows other popular Spider-People who could have more than just a cameo role in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. On the left, you’ll see Spinneret (Earth-18119’s super-powered Mary Jane Watson) and Spider-Carnage, the latter of which was last seen in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. Look to the right and you’ll be able to spot another favorite animated character in Spectacular Spider-Man, Josh Keaton’s Peter Parker from The CW/Disney XD animated show that ran for two seasons between March 2008 and November 2009.
If you weren’t excited about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, you should be now. Fortunately, the countdown has really begun for the film’s arrival, with Across the Spider-Verse hitting theaters on June 2, 2023.
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