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WithSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Versenow available for digital release, fans have noticed a few changes compared to the film’s theatrical version. One of those changes happened when the main character, Miles Morales, realized he was in the wrong universe.
A fan pointed out that in theSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Versescene in which Morales realized he was not sent home, the theatrical version shows him monologuing to himself that the machine didn’t send him home with flashbacks that helped him put the pieces together. In the digital release, Miles did not monologue much, and he remembered thatOscar Isaac’s Miguel O’Haratold him the spider that bit him wasn’t from his dimension, which explains why he was sent to Earth 42 instead.
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Twitter userTurn E-42 Marcposted clips of both the theatrical and the digital version ofSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. “WAIT I JUST NOTICED ANOTHER CHANGE IN ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE. (In) the Digital version Miles remembers Miguel saying that the Spider that bit him is not from his dimension but in the Theater version Miles thinks to himself with Textboxes and everything,” reads the caption. The user posted the two clips side by side to illustrate the difference between the two scenes.
With Miles in the wrong universe, not only is the clock ticking on him trying to save his father frombeing killed by The Spot, but it will also be ticking on him getting out of the wrong universe before his atoms glitch to the point where he ultimately dies. Going with the change doesn’t alter the story much. It just changes how the twist is presented. Having Miles monologue with boxes gives theSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Versemore of a comic book feel to it, which they’ve done before. Using Miguel’s speech as a callback is more of a “Show, don’t tell” because it demonstrates to the audience the new predicament that Miles is in as opposed to him telling the audience what happened.
This was not the film’s only twist, but it’s arguably the biggest one that only adds more conflict tothe upcomingSpider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Among the other twists were that Miles inadvertently created The Spot, that the Spider Society was knowingly going to let Officer Morales get killed by The Spot, that Gwen Stacy and Peter B. Parker didn’t come to see Miles because of that, plus his being labeled an anomaly, and that Gwen may have figured out how to prevent Miles' father from dying without blowing a hole in the multiverse.
The real question will be how Miles escapes from Earth-42. While Miles is confident he can escape from Earth-42’s Uncle Aaron and Miles/The Prowler, how he gets out of there is anyone’s guess since he can’t teleport to a different universe.While Gwen Stacy and Co.plan to save him, he doesn’t know that, and there’s no telling if they know exactly where he is.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseis available digitally.
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