#smatsv spoilers

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

"Wake up, father. I sense a disturbance in the backyard."

But seriously, this little snugbug is what, almost a year old, and she has the early spider-sense awareness down already? She is going to be quite the hero once she gets older, like in the comics.

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

also obsessed with miguel finding out he's happy as a father in another dimension and his first thought was to move there and replace himself.....my guy just hire a surrogate. look into adoption. there are other steps you can take here 😭

[littlebigmouse]

Rotating in my head how both Peter B and Jess Drew seem perfectly tailored to be Miles' and Gwen's mentor figures respectively and are also perfectly set up to fail their students.

Jess is cool and badass and detached just as Gwen is trying to be and that detachment is what puts pressure on Gwen and ultimately leads to Jess abandoning her.

Peter is a seasoned and experienced Spiderman with a happy, healthy and loving family. It's that familial love that's his weakness throughout the entire movie. He causes distractions and deflects because he doesn't want to tell Miles the truth and hurt him so badly that his distractions end up distracting him as well. He's seasoned and experienced, which at this point makes him as jaded and traumatized as Miguel, too habituated to grief, too relieved at his own hard earned happiness that he refuses to rebel in fear of risking the family he has left. Which is if course what ends up hurting Miles the most.

[iamdeltas]

I also really appreciate what they did with Pavitr's Spider-Man India costume. It looks so much cooler in this movie than it does in the comics. (Genuinely, his comics costume is pretty boring.)

[lady-griffin]

Across the Spider-Verse Spoilers Below

 Across the Spider-Verse twists the message of the first movie in such a painful way and I absolutely love it.

Into the Spider-Verse has the message of, you have to accept that you can’t save everyone and that the life of a hero comes with a certain darkness; and despite all that pain, you still have to keep trying if you want to fly.

Across the Spider-Verse twists that message into something much darker and awful aka, you have to let certain people die for the greater good and you have to endure the pain and darkness to be a hero; and if you try to go against any of that then you are dooming everyone else to death, if not a far worse fate.

Great power comes with great responsibility and it’s your responsibility as a hero to let people die.

It’s such a great inverse and twist of the first movie’s message, because when this message is first being said it almost seems close enough to being the same thing, because it’s being said in a less blatant and cruel way.

But it’s not the same, not even close.

It’s the difference between how someone CAN become a stronger person because of the suffering they’ve gone through and the messed-up idea people have that one NEEDS to suffer in order for them to become a stronger person.

The original message is this organic and beautiful life lesson and Miguel twists it to this horrifying, callous, algorithmic approach to life, that Miles rightfully points out.

And I absolutely love it!!!

Across the Spider-Verse is rejecting that message through Miles and Spider-Punk mainly and then later on with Gwen and Peter B. Parker by having all of them (and others) reject this message and approach to being a hero by the end of the movie,

I just really, really love it and I love Miles so goddamn much. 

Best Spider-Person Ever!!!! That’s my beautiful son and I love him so much. 

[mellkellyismyhero]

i LOVE how miles tried to connect with miguel by speaking spanish and calling him tío!! that was so cool!

[avephelis]

okay has ANYONE ELSE watched spiderverse because i SWEAR AT ONE POINT MILES SAID BITCH but i can't fucking. like maybe i misheard/read it but i'm going crazy someone help me.

[ohfugecannada]

[goldengopar]

🩸Miguel O’hara Backstory 🧬

   I LOOOVEE the art style they used for Miguel O’hara backstory. I wish I can find the whole scene in better quality, but this I the best I could find for now. ART GOAL FR!! 

(btw if anyone can find who did these or anyone that has art styles similar to these I’d love to take a look)

[heart-of-the-morningstar]

Oh yeah, Gayatri definitely knows that’s Pavitr, look at her face!

Look me in the eyes and tell me Pav is able to keep a secret identity lmao

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

Can we just gush about Peter B. and how they showed him being around his daughter Mayday and how affectionate he was in the film?

The cute baby-talking, letting her play with his fingers, gently bouncing her in the carrier to soothe her and gently kissing her head, that cute little knit spider hat she has on. Even in the background where he isn't even the focus of the shot, he was always doing something with her.

And of course, they have him show off the baby pictures and want to take pictures of her during "her first chase" cause he is that kind of dad now and it's so great that he has this little spider tot in his life now.

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

also I LOVE that miles insisted on telling his parents gwen’s name is gwanda. for over a year. that truly served no purpose other than him alone finding it funny. didn’t think he’d ever see her again, couldn’t personally heckle her over it, but she did One embarrassing thing in front of him and he refused to let it die. truly bestie behavior. 

[lost-on-t-umblr]

The whole "coming out to your parent/s as a Spider-Person" storyline hit so close to home, as I think it will for many queer people. And the fact that the film came out at the start of Pride month made it even more significant <3

[littlebigmouse]

Gwen must realize the canon can be broken. She already broke it. She saved her father pre-movie One and now he isn't a Captain anymore. No dead Captains for Gwen. She's broken the canon years ago.

Of course Miles can do it too.

[syxnewt]

“Hey anti-establishment spider man would you like to join our establishment”