The Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman sneaks through the window of her apartment building. That's not exactly a surprise: the film is titled 'Across the Spider-Verse' because (as the first teaser showed) that's exactly the journey that Miles Morales will be in for: visiting all kinds of other dimensions (6 different universes 'so far' according to Miller), and the Spider-Man variants that belong to them.Įarth-65. Across the Spider-Verse is apparently going to take the level of background characters involved and expand it exponentially. Looking back from that perspective, Into the Spider-Verse had 40 characters which included all the major supporting or background characters in Brooklyn, NY, Miles Morales' school, Wilson Fisk's Alchemax company, etc. The scale is grand, but the story is personal & centers on Miles and his family, along w/ Gwen and a handful of others'. So what does it mean that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will have '240 characters'? According to a follow-up tweet by Chris Miller: 'To clarify, amidst the universe-hopping there are 240 unique characters that had to be designed and modeled but they're mostly minor or background characters.
