I’m still not over Miles’s heartbroken expression when he said “I wanted to be with you guys so badly”
The way his voice cracked and his body posture was slumped. He turned his face away from Peter because he couldn’t bare to look at him.
Miles chose to pursue a career in physics, even though he loves art because it would bring him closer to seeing the rest of the spiders. Yet he found out that everyone, everyone could’ve seen him.
But they couldn’t bare to look at him, to see him, and god that was heartbreaking. That they were so close to him and yet everytime they chose not to see him, to help the boy, the friend who brought love back into their lives.
And when they did come back to him, they weren’t even there to see him. They all left him alone, while they were with the only other people in the multiverse who could’ve understood eachother.
Remember that moment in ITSV, when Miles first meets his world’s Spider-Man and their spider senses do the thing?
The background behind Peter is as we’d expect; the classic red and blue.
But at first Miles’ background is green and purple, two colors he’s never associated with at all throughout the movie. As the moment goes on, it shifts to match Peter’s.
We are literally watching Miles’ fate change and the anomaly happen.
It’s well established that the spider that bit him was not supposed to even be in that universe, meaning our Miles was supposed to be something else before it happened.
This isn’t true for ITSV, but in every other version of Spider-Man, the main color scheme for the Prowler is green and purple.
Our Miles was supposed to become the next Prowler in his world. And the only reason he’s not, is because of the original Prowler.Miles switched his fate with Earth-42 Miles.
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.
