17 "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse" Details That Are So Good Because Of How They Foreshadow "Across The Spider-Verse"
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is finally here, and it's already being hailed as one of the best movies of the year. In fact, it's currently the highest rated movie of all time on Letterboxd, and it's only been out for a few days.
A sequel to Into the Spider-Verse, this movie follows Miles Morales/Spider-Man (Shameik Moore) as he enters a wild adventure through the multiverse where he encounters a team of Spider-People, including Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), who are charged with protecting its very existence.
Like the first movie, Across the Spider-Verse does an impeccable job at telling this story of Miles, diving deeper into the multiverse, and utilizing various animation styles incredibly well.
While Across the Spider-Verse is packed with Easter eggs and details — it will literally take me going frame-by-frame when the movie hits digital for me to catch even half of them, I swear — what's also amazing is how well this movie was foreshadowed in Into the Spider-Verse. So much so that there are a ton of great details in the first movie that are even better after watching the sequel.
So, with that being said, I recently rewatched Into the Spider-Verse, so here are some amazing details, Easter eggs, and more that are SO good because of how they connect to Across the Spider-Verse:
🚨 THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD FOR SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE! 🚨
1.First, right before Miles is bitten, the spider swinging down glitches several times, which is now an obvious sign that this spider is not from Miles' Earth.
Why I never thought of this while watching Into the Spider-Verse the first time, even though it was glitching like Peter B., Gwen, and the others, I have no idea.
2.And you can clearly see a "42" written on the back of the spider that bites Miles. Of course, in Across the Spider-Verse, we learn that the spider that bit Miles was from Earth-42.
The "42" is also a nod to Jackie Robinson's jersey number.
3.When Miles swings and falls from a building in Into the Spider-Verse, you'll see he lands between the numbers 4 and 2. A reference to Miles being bit by a spider from Earth-42.
4.In Into the Spider-Verse, the number 42 also pops up on the price tag for the Spider-Man costume Miles buys from Stan. Again, another nod to Earth-42, which is explored more in Across the Spider-Verse.
5.Also, the lottery ball number that is seen in the beginning of Into the Spider-Verse reads "42," another nod to Earth-42 and its connection to our Miles Morales.
6.When Miles captures Peter B., he ties him to a punching bag, which is exactly how Earth-42 Miles, aka Prowler-Miles, and Uncle Aaron capture our Miles at the end of Across the Spider-Verse.
7.Also, Peter B. escapes Miles' little trap and gives him his first lesson: "Don't watch the mouth, watch the hands." I'm only assuming Miles will use this trick to escape, as we see him using his shock powers on the chains he's tied up with, but Prowler-Miles is too distracted talking to Miles to notice in Across the Spider-Verse.
8.In Across the Spider-Verse, when The Spot is telling Miles about how he became The Spot, he mentions how Miles hit him with a bagel. You can see this exact moment in Into the Spider-Verse when Miles and Peter B. are trying to escape Dr. Olivia Octavius.
Fans have hilariously pointed out how Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Everything Everywhere All at Once both involve bagels being important to the multiverse.
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There's even an Everything Everywhere All at Once Easter egg in Across the Spider-Verse. At one point, you can spot a billboard reading: All Of It Always All Over the Place.
9.At one point in Into the Spider-Verse, we see Miles' spidey-senses tingle when he meets his Earth's Peter Parker, but they are purple and green before they shift to blue and red. The Prowler's signature colors are purple and green, so this foreshadows the twist of Prowler-Miles from Earth-42.
This also signifies our Miles' destiny changing.
10.When Peter Parker is introducing himself in the beginning of Into the Spider-Verse, he says how he has a "so-so popsicle." In Across the Spider-Verse, when Miles is being chased by all of the Spider-People, the popsicle is one of the Spider-Man variants chasing him.
11.When Miles visits Uncle Aaron, you can see Community Season 2, Episode 1 is playing on the TV. In the episode, Donald Glover can be seen dressed as Spider-Man, and it started a fan campaign of people wanting Donald to play Spider-Man. In Across the Spider-Verse, Donald makes a cameo as an alternate version of Aaron/Prowler.
Donald also appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and while it wasn't explicitly stated, he was likely playing Aaron since he mentions his nephew.
12.When Gwen tells her story in Into the Spider-Verse, she mentions how her best friend, Peter Parker, died. Of course, in Across the Spider-Verse, we watch this whole moment play out as the opening of the movie.
13.You can also see Peter shift from Lizard to Peter in Into the Spider-Verse, which again, is explained in more detail when we follow Gwen's life and what led to her joining Miguel and Jessica in Across the Spider-Verse.
14.In Into the Spider-Verse, when we meet Peter B., he mentions how he and MJ broke up because she wanted kids and he wasn't ready. Then, in Across the Spider-Verse, he has a daughter and tells Miles he finally felt ready because of him.
This is also important because Peter B. having a baby wasn't a "canon event," but because Miles became Spider-Man by accident, it changed the course of Peter B.'s life too.
15.When Fisk's super-collider goes off in the beginning of the movie, the black spots are much more obvious now that we know about The Spot and his connection to everything. Even when the other Spider-People come to Miles' Earth, the spots on the portals are so obvious now.
16.While I'm not sure this is on purpose, when Miles paints his mural with Uncle Aaron in Into the Spider-Verse, his silhouette looks a lot like The Spot, with black and white being the main colors. Again, might be reaching here, but it's something I paused at while rewatching.
17.And finally, in the Into the Spider-Verse post-credits scene, we see Miguel make his first multiverse jump to Earth-67, where he clearly is trying to recruit that Earth's Spider-Man to join his Spider-Society. Of course, they instead get into an argument about pointing.
