Spider-Verse (subtitled Spider-Zero for the collected edition) is a 2019 comic book limited series from Marvel Comics.
Following the events of Spider-Geddon, Miles Morales aims to repair the Web of Life and Destiny with the help of other Spiders.
Spider-Verse (2019) contains examples of the following tropes:
- Alternate Self: Spider Ma'am battles a Carnage-hosting counterpart of herself while her husband and nephew fight the "Evil May's" cohorts.
- All for Nothing: During Spider-Geddon, Spider-Norman destroyed the Web of Life and Destiny in anger over being snubbed by SpOck. As it turns out, Annie May's awakening as the Patternmaker ended up rebuilding the Web, so Norman's attack did nothing.
- Blade on a Rope: Issue #4 introduces Garganza, the Earth-31913 version of the Scorpion, who fights with a chain attached to a hook. The hook is coated with venom from a deathstalker scorpion, making even one small cut fatal if not treated immediately.
- Came Back Wrong: Annie May's Web of Life and Destiny is kinda-sorta messed up and growing out of control and with her missing, it's going to get worse.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Takuya Yamashiro is the one who introduces Miles to Spider-Zero. In the final battle, he arrives to help the other Spiders and fight off the Machine BEMs with Leopardon.
- The Chosen One: Spider-Zero recruits Miles for their mission to find Annie May. As she explains, they're the new generation of Spiders for a rebuilt web, so there's no real need to grab Peter.
- Cliffhanger: The second issue ends with the reveal that Spider-Ma'am's Peter is hiding a still-living sample of the Carnage symbiote in his room. The story even ends with, "The End... for now?"
- Continuity Nod: Spider-Ma'am tells Miles that he needs no introduction, as they fought together in the last two Spider-Verse events, referring to the previous Spider-Verse title as well as Spider-Geddon.
- Evil Counterpart: Carnage-May and her murderous Ben and Peter serve as this to Spider-Ma'am's family. Carnage-May is soon joined by an equally evil counterpart of Miles.
- Filler: The second issue doesn't mention what happened in the previous one at all, making it more of a relatively light-hearted story about Spider Ma'am fighting off her Evil Counterpart from another universe with the help of her husband, her nephew, and Miles.
- Happily Married: Ben and May are in love as ever, going so far as to be a Battle Couple with Ben providing May with additional webbing support.
- Recycled Title: The 2019 series is the third Marvel comic to be named simply Spider-Verse, following on from the original 2014 event and the 2015 limited series. The collected edition is retitled Spider-Verse: Spider-Zero to disambiguate it.
- Retronym: The series was originally serialised as simply Spider-Verse, a Recycled Title, but became Spider-Verse: Spider-Zero once it was collected.
