Like a lot of things in Across the Spider-Verse, it’s easier to appreciate Miguel if you know his whole deal from the Marvel comics he first appeared in. (Insulting to all the other Spider-People, really.) Throughout the film, we learn that he’s kind of a vampire (which is never explained), he secretly takes a drug of some kind (also not elaborated on), and most crucially, he’s the one Spider-Man who’s never funny. And likely because Across the Spider-Verse is just the first of a two-part story, the movie doesn’t follow up on the clues it lays down.įor a film that’s so packed with exposition, Across the Spider-Verse’s dodgy characterization of this particular alternate-universe Spider-Man can be frustrating.
Those hints suggest he’s different somehow, maybe even disturbingly so. Unlike the Spot, whose whole deal is thoroughly explained in Across the Spider-Verse, Miguel is largely a mystery in this movie - we get some backstory for him, but it’s mostly vague hints.
As for the jerk, that’s Miguel O’Hara (Oscar Isaac), aka Spider-Man 2099, head of a cross-reality elite task force of parallel-world Spider-Mans. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has one of each.įor the former, there’s the Spot (Jason Schwartzman), one of the odder villains in the Spider-Man canon, a guy who can generate portals at will and cause all sorts of spatial chaos. Sometimes, a movie doesn’t need a villain a jerk will do.
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