Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Has a Really Cheeky Marvel Retcon

Sony is giving the Marvel Cinematic Universe a run for its money, and much like there’s no stopping the ever-expanding multiverse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has weaved a complex web of Spider-People into the lives of Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) and Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld). 

While Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) struggles to find where it fits alongside the MCU, Across the Spider-Verse brings us one step closer to a unified Spider-Family. We’re a far cry from those feuds between Disney and Sony – where it looked like Tom Holland’s wall-crawling hero would be annexed – but that doesn’t mean both sides are quite agreeing on everything.

The MCU in the Spider-Verse

Giving us more realities than Everything Everywhere All at Once, Across the Spider-Verse was a whistle-top tour of the various Earths. Alongside fan-favorites like the LEGO Earth-13122, there’s Gwen’s reality where Peter Parker became the Lizard (Earth-65), Miles’ evil doppelgänger playing Prowler in Earth-42, and more obscure locales like the one with Peter Parkedcar (Earth-53931). There’s also a mention of the MCU continuity, but that’s where things get complicated.