Across the spiderverse lives up to the expectation aka is a masterpiece. You've heard it here first

(Across the Spider-Verse spoiler)

Spiderverse thots

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

J.K. Simmons playing J. Jonah Jameson in every timeline has to be one of the funniest running gags ive seen in a movie. anyone can be Spiderman but there can only be one J. Jonah Jameson

they are friends they are friends they are friends

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, Kemp Powers

“Hey, hey. New guy must be in 💕love 💕with you!”

HATE THE AM HATE THE PM

part of what made across the spiderverse so perfect was that it was largely centered on WHO spider-man is, in EVERY universe. not just Miles, or Peter, or Gwen, or Miguel. Spider-Man. it was about the ESSENCE of Spider-man. Spider-Man is love for humanity. Spider-Man is having to sacrifice and lose everything you love for the mask. Spider-Man is rebellion against the powers that be. Spider-Man is about trying to do both, in every universe. about not taking no for an answer or listening when everyone tells you your destiny. refusing to choose between the things and people you love. that’s why Spider-Man is so compelling: they want everything, even though everyone else tells them they can’t have it. that it’s not meant to be. and they just. keep. trying. keep getting back up. they just keep going, man.

We made jokes about how the drop of the trailer for Across for the spiderverse right before No way home was an announcement that this movie would tell us how to make a truly good Multiverse spiderman movie but oh boy it was, it truly was, this movie is a lesson

I've been totally fixated on the fact that gwen stays with hobie when she's not on spider-team missions so here's some fun notes

gwen says that hobie lets her crash in his universe- not "house" or "place" or "apartment", because hobie is homeless

she wears his chucks (how is she fitting into his shoes?) which is funny because hobie's original spider-punk costume included him wearing chucks, but in the movie he only wears boots

in the comics, the gwen stacy of earth-138 was, in hobie's words, "the greatest artist of [their] generation" who died a punk-rock legend, and hobie was/is a big fan of hers. gwen thinks his universe is cool and thinks it's extra cool that she's famous there, so his universe is probably something of a comfort place for her

gwen is apparently in his band (possibly his friend group which he calls the spider-band despite the fact that they're not actually a band and the others are not spideys), though gwen once rejected hobie's proposal of making an album together because his singing voice is awful (still, this was after they saved the world by playing punk rock together)

also, it's interesting to read "coming out as a superhero" as a queer allegory and it works in this situation as it parallels queer kids being kicked out of their homophobic homes and staying with friends in the aftermath

anyways. support the gwen and hobie besties agenda <3

what a year this been, we may all haves ours up and downs but we finally made it, looking forward for next year, see you in 2024.

note: I couldn't fit all animation media in this so sorry if favorite wasn't in here.

You can be cool but you'll never be Hobie Brown in Spider verse cool

Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah, Imma do my own thing.

MILES MORALES Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin Thompson

okay i was rewatching into the spider-verse after watching across the spider-verse and noticed something during the scene where miles meets his universe's peter for the first time.

peter's spider senses are red and blue, the classic spiderman colors

but miles's are purple and green... like another version of miles i can think of 👀