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Mythology Gag / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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Due to the movie exploring the multiverse in a more wider aspect than the previous movie, Mythology Gags to several Spider-Man media was bound to follow.

  • One of Miles' toys in his room appears to be a replica of the Spider-Mobile from Amazing Spider-Man #126. Doubling as a Continuity Nod to the first film, since a full-size version of the vehicle was one of the utilities of the deceased Peter Parker within his Spider-Cave.
    • A Peter Parked-Car also shows up as one of the variant Spider-People early in the second act.
  • Gwen now sports pink highlights in her hair, which makes her resemble Gwen Poole, aka The Unbelievable Gwenpool, who was a result of a mash-up between Spider-Gwen and Deadpool. Spider-Gwen was also depicted with pink highlights in the Marvel Rising franchise and Spidey and His Amazing Friends. The former series was a consequence of a design artist accidentally getting Spider-Gwen and Gwenpool mixed up, and the decision seemed to have stuck for adaptations after it.
  • One of Gwen's band posters in her room is named "Ultimate Fallout," which is prominent over her while she speaks with her dad at the start. It also looks patterned after the first issue. Oh, and she's 16 around this time.
  • The incarnation of Jessica Drew featured takes cues from at least three different Spider-Women: her overall costume design, name, and pregnant belly come from Dennis Hopeless' series, and she's a black woman with a prominent afro like The Electric Company (1971)'s Valerie the Librarian, who took up the mantle of Spider-Woman in the tie-in Spidey Super Stories comic series almost a full two years before Jessica did. She also shoots webbing from her fingertips like Ultimate Jessica.
  • The scene where Miles and Gwen swing across the city has them swing through some yellow construction cranes, just like the Spider-Man of Earth-120703 did in his first film.
  • Hobart Brown only helping the Spider Society due to his conscience and being flippant towards Miguel and anyone of authority in the Society, culminating in actively sabotaging Miguel's asshole attempt to ensure Miles doesn't let his father be killed, directly mirrors the fact he only joined the war against Morlun to help and quit the Spider-Army as soon as Morlun's threat was over.
  • The following Spider-People appear:
  • Miguel gets one use of "shocking" as a curse during his battle with Vulture. In the 2099 series, "shock" is an all-purpose swear word.
  • When first introduced to Gwen, Miguel O'Hara references the Marvel Cinematic Universe — notably referring to the MCU as its comics-canon designation rather than as "Earth-616", as the universe is internally referred to in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — and he directly alludes to the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
    Spider-Man 2099: You can never be part of this... And don't even get me started on Doctor Strange and that little nerd back on Earth-199999!
  • A model of the multiverse as portrayed in Loki is shown before switching to the Spider-Verse model.
  • In his two brief appearances, Ganke Lee is shown playing the upcoming (at the time of film release) Marvel's Spider-Man 2. He also tells that Miles that he isn't his "guy in the chair", an allusion to both the MCU's Ned Leeds and Ganke's own PlayStation counterpart.
  • Spider-Punk's real name is Hobie Brown. In the mainstream "Earth-616" universe, Hobie Brown was the name of the original incarnation of the Prowler. This is flipped around when an alternate version of Miles is revealed to be the Prowler of his universe instead of Spider-Man.
  • The Spot has a line about "the power of the multiverse, in the palm of my hand..." which calls to mind one of Doctor Octopus's most famous quotes from Spider-Man 2. It also serves as one to a deleted scene in the first movie, where that version of Doc Ock said the exact same thing.
  • Speaking of Doctor Octopus, during the Spider-Society chase sequence, in the Strength and Conditioning facility Miles dodges and weaves in between holographic targets of various super-villains, one of which is Doctor Octopus who says "Hello, Peter" with Alfred Molina's voice.
  • One "Canon Event" (the death of a police captain close to Spider-Man) is referred to as "Event ASM-90," referring to issue #90 of The Amazing Spider-Man (1963), where George Stacy is crushed by falling debris protecting a small child.
  • Miles being a sponsor for baby powder is a reference to Spider-Men, where Peter from 616 gave Miles in 1610 rapid-fire advice that includes using baby powder in the suit to avoid chafing.
  • In the montage of sketches Miles made for his new costume is a sketch of his original costume with the red webs.
  • Among the Canon Events shown is Uncle Ben's death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Video Game.
  • In the webs of the Canon Events we see Unlimited Eddie Brock, Raimi-Trilogy MJ kissing Spider-Man, Peter removing the black suit in Spider-Man 3, Gwen becoming Gwenom.
  • We see Uncle Ben's death in Unlimited in a hologram.
  • We see a hologram of The Spectacular Spider-Man mourning Captain Stacy.
  • We also see Mangaverse Spider-Man mourning Sensei Ben.
  • Jack Quaid Peter Parker is seen wearing the Polo of the '90s Spider-Man in a scene at the beginning.
  • When the holograms of the Sinister Six pop up in the Strength and Conditioning Facility, the design of Doc Ock appears to be taken from the '90s cartoon.
  • Captured Villains include:
  • The villains that Miles Morales fought as Spider-Man include:
    • Beetle
    • Grizzly
    • Frogman
    • Spider-Slayer
    • Hammerhead
  • As Miles is on the train, it gets stopped by Armadillo, who he fights briefly. Spider-Men II begins (chronologically) with Miles in a fight with Armadillo.
  • When Pavitr introduces himself, we see him fighting Hobgoblin.
  • During the Vulture's attack on the Guggenheim in Earth-65, it's shown that the PDNY are operating off the dossier they've prepared on their dimension's Vulture, which includes a photo of him looking nearly identical to how he appeared◊ in Spider-Gwen. They're also completely unprepared for his arrival, which makes sense as well — Toomes loves being locked away in prison for the influence it gives him over the guards and his fellow prisoners, meaning that he is a very low flight risk.
  • Gwen has a plush penguin toy. This subtly refers to the Spider-Ham comic where, after Spider-Gwen was introduced in the comics, she was given an animal counterpart through “Spider-Guin”. Not only that, but in her own comic, Ham would often appear as an ally and mentor.
  • A dark one occurs during the climactic train sequence when, in an ironic twist on a classic, a version of Gwen manages to save a version of Spider-Man from falling by webbing him, only for them to choose to fall anyway.
  • Possibly coincidental, but the Spot's One-Winged Angel form looks very evocative of the Fury from Captain Britain as a pitch-black, amorphous Humanoid Abomination with a singular "eye" in the middle of his face. The comparison is actually quite apt, as Spot's character arc sees him become a very similar figure to the Fury; a monstrously powerful and inhuman Omnicidal Maniac that is the archenemy to a multiversal alliance of different versions of the same superhero (Spider-Society here, the Captain Britain Corps there).
  • During their first fight, when Miles and Spot wind up back at the Alchemax collider, Spot eventually figures out his holes can be removed from his body and used like projectiles, chucking them at Miles like frizbies. The way Miles acrobatically dodges through the multiple spinning projectiles using some mid-air flips is shot identically to Toby Maguire's Spider-man dodging through the Green Goblin's bladed goblin bombs inside the burning apartment in Spider-Man. It also hints that despite his initial ineffectiveness, Spot is rapidly levelling himself up to prove as much a genuine threat to Miles as Dafoe's goblin was to his Spider-man.
  • Miles' conversation with Web-Slinger is similar to the converstation that Comic Miles had with him in the origianl Spider-Verse event. Notably asking why Widdow wears a mask.
  • Gwen mentions she went on a mission to a "Shakespearean dimension", likely a reference to Earth 3-11, aka Marvel 1602.

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