In the center of “Across the Spider-Verse,” Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac) explains {that a} Spider-Man can solely happen if he loses somebody near him. It is simply via grieving and guilt, it appears, that Spider-Man can graduate to a real superhero. In a multiverse of 1000’s of Spider-People, nonetheless, that will imply 1000’s of Uncle Bens have perished. When taken as an entire, it appears to be like like Spider-Man requires a blood sacrifice to exist. And when a brand new Spider-Man begins to undergo his radioactive-spider origin in a brand new dimension, Spider-Man 2099 is content material to let that dimension’s Uncle Ben die simply so a brand new Spider-Man can come into being. It’s all very tragic and mercenary when one adopts a fatalistic method.
In his rationalization, Spider-Man 2099 reveals the younger Miles that Spider-Man’s widespread theme is the demise of Uncles and opens up a number of historic portals to disclose that each single Spider-Man has skilled such a loss. In two of the portals are, considerably surprisingly, live-action clips from each Sam Raimi’s 2002 movie “Spider-Man” and Marc Webb’s 2012 movie “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield are seen, each enjoying Peter Parker, bawling their respective eyes out over a fallen buddy. That’s two outdated universes which have now been folded into this one. The precedent laid down by 20-year-old and 10-year-old motion pictures are actually a central a part of the “Spider-Verse.”
Other live-action scenes come up, considered one of which denotes that “Venom” can be an integral a part of the “Spider-Verse” lore.