Furthermore, the visual medium of the film in its animated form plays with the comic book format by mimicking traditional panels and full-page splashes, captions, dialogue/thought bubbles, and sound effects. Each character establishes and maintains the Spider-Man origin story as a universal constant in how they received their powers, but the movie subverts portions of this through miniscule changes that provide “new strategies in character, plot ” (Stork 89).

To use Matthias Stork’s term, the “re-genrification” of these multiple Spider-People creates an interesting and new engagement of not only the Spider-Man character beyond the traditional male figure (with the inclusion of Spider-Gwen, Peni Parker, and Peter Porker), but also by focusing on PoC Miles Morales as protagonist. Into the Spider-verse therefore provides a unique entry point for new and old fans to enjoy by bridging the characters graphic to screen adaptation through nostalgia. What makes the narrative of this origin story different and unique is the tackling of a multiverse where different Spider-Mans (or, as the characters confusingly dub themselves, “Spider-People”) appear in Miles’ universe after Kingpin and Doc Ock use a particle accelerator to reach across different parallel universes. In December 2018, Sony released Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, the animated origin story of Miles Morales and his journey to becoming Spider-Man.

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