April 04, 2023, 06:03 PM
In case you missed it, the second trailer for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is out.
The upcoming movie is the next chapter of the Oscar-winning animated film starring the Marvel Comics character, Miles Morales.
In the action-packed trailer, Morales teams up with Gwen Stacy once again and more spider-people to go up against a new villain.
But, it seems like the spider-people team has different objectives, and eventually tries to stop Morales instead as he charges towards what he believes is the right thing to do.
Here’s what I got from watching the trailer:
A universe of spider-people
What was cool to me was the characters were adapted from the comics over the years.
Stacy and Peter B. Parker, who were a big part of the first movie, are back again.
Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales.
Parker now has a baby, May Day Parker.
May Day Parker.
This got me feeling pretty content because, in the first movie, Parker had broken up with his wife. But after one and a half hours of kicking butt, he found the courage to reconcile with her and it seemed to have gone well.
And then there’s Spider-Woman (or Jessica Drew) who sped into the frame on a motorcycle and has webs that shoot out from each of her fingers.
Spider-Woman, Jessica Drew.
Unlike the first trailer, she reveals a baby bump. She and her baby have quite a tragic story in the comics, but you can Google that.
Spider-Punk, who can play massive power chord vibrations on his sonic guitar and Spider-India, who has web shoots in the shape of a mandala, were also introduced.
(Left) Spider-India and (Right) Spider-Punk.
As the trailer jumps from scene to scene, most I assume are in different dimensions in the spider-verse, it looks like we may get to see the dimension where Spider-India is from.
Miles Morales possibly in Spider-India’s dimension.
Pretty excited to see how the animators chose to design their worlds from their choice of the colour palette to the varied animations of its landscape and characters.
And of course Spot, the supervillain, who appeared for a second — could it be that he isn’t the main antagonist in the film?
Some other spider-people (if you’re a super fan, you might know them) are Spider-Byte and Cyborg Spider-Woman.
An important member of the gang is Spider-Man 2099, also known as Miguel O'Hara, who appeared in the post-credit scene of the first movie and is voiced by Moon Knight star, Oscar Isaac.
Spider-Man 2099.
O'Hara seems to be the leader. As Stacy said: “The whole thing is his idea”.
Gwen Stacey.
What she seemed to be referring to is “The Lobby”, which appears to be the earth or a space where hundreds of spider-people co-exist.
More of the plot reveal
Not too much of the plot was revealed, but there were a few more pieces of the story.
Miles Morales.
One was how O'Hara has a band on his wrist (he calls it a “goober” at the end of the first movie) and it glows in an orangey-gold colour.
The goober allows him to jump around the multiverse — and maybe a different timeline too.
Well, this information is what I gathered from the first film, so things might have changed since then.
While it doesn’t explain how the spideys co-exist here, my guess is that it is linked to this band because many others are wearing it too.
It seemed to have solved a problem in the first movie where they were all unable to exist outside of their dimension and were glitching.
In one scene, orangey-gold power (or whatever it is) kind of bursts out from O'Hara and spreads across a room like a virus — which made me think it is the reason why they are so stable in this universe.
And that’s all thanks to O'Hara apparently.
Another thing I noticed was despite there being hundreds of spider-people, O'Hara doesn't want Morales to join right from the start — not entirely sure why but we’ll know when the movie’s out.
Later in the trailer, O'Hara, along with the others, chases Morales.
“Miguel (O'Hara), this isn’t what we talked about,” Parker said. Seemingly things didn’t go as planned (duh).
Of course, in the spider-verse fashion, amid tragedy and conflict, the creators managed to incorporate the iconic spider-man pointing meme again.
Easter eggs
Here are some (obvious and not so obvious) Easter Eggs I spotted, as a fan who knows just enough to get by.
Image via Tom Holland/IG.
Its opening hit was a scene from Tobey Maguire’s “Spider-Man”. In the second movie, he said this:
“Sometimes, to do what's right, we have to give up the thing we want the most.”
It then cuts to “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”, where Andrew Garfield said: “Every day I wake up knowing that the more people I try to save, the more enemies I will make.”
I got pretty excited, seeing the quotes were from both of their second movies; and this was the second spider-verse movie.
But, when Tom Holland’s version of the friendly neighbourhood spidey appeared, his quote, “This is my chance to prove myself,” originated from his first movie, “Spider-Man: Homecoming”.
Though, including the clips was greatly appreciated (by me).
The throwback got me wondering if they’ll be in the movie, or just showing how the teenager is again getting into danger while trying to do good.
But, further down the trailer, I found some more clues.
First, O'Hara was angry at Doctor Strange and a “little nerd” on earth 19,999 — a reference to the multiverse crumpling in “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.
Also, did you spot another of spidey’s villains in the trailer? The vulture, the bad guy in Holland’s first movie.
Next, in one scene, Stacy was hugging a Spider-Man who was killed in a battle and she also said: “I can’t lose one more friend.”
This could be a hint that they go into Stacy’s and how she lost her Spider-Man. As you know, in the comics, Stacy first appeared in “The Amazing Spiderman” and on-screen with Garfield.
I have to admit, I don’t have one for Maguire’s version. Maybe I missed it.
There’s one character that seems to be of importance, but I can’t put my finger on it.
Can someone tell me who the heck is that character at the right corner at the 1:04 minute mark?
Watch the full trailer here and catch some local influencers’ reactions to it as well.
This sponsored piece by Sony got the writer hooked into the world of spider-people.
All images via Sony.
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