With the brand-new trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse finally out in the world, the hype for Miles Morales’ next plight is starting to ramp up like never before, and if there’s one fandom that’s benefitting the most from this latest tease, it’s… the MCU fandom?
Indeed, the Spider-Verse franchise exploded out of the gate back in 2018 with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and so far boasts the cleanest critical record of Marvel’s biggest franchises. A record that we reckon will continue with Across the Spider-Verse (it also has the fewest movies, admittedly, but we digress).
But, with this new trailer, the Spider-Verse franchise has followed in the footsteps of the Sony Spider-Man Universe by inadvertently connecting itself to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and fans of Kevin Feige’s masterplan are losing their minds.
The international version of the trailer in particular contains direct references to Tobey Maguire’s and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men, alongside the regular trailer’s reference to Tom Holland’s MCU Spider-Man, which antagonist Miguel O’Hara refers to as “the little nerd on Earth-199999”; Earth-199999, of course, being the multiversal designation for the MCU’s canon in relation to Marvel’s wider, multimedia multiverse.
The result was an endorphin-spawning callback to the events of the MCU film Spider-Man: No Way Home, where we last saw the three big cinematic Spideys join forces in what was perhaps the greatest nostalgia trip in recent memory, and fans on Twitter are eating up the references voraciously.
Others are convinced that all signs are pointing to a Tom Holland appearance in Across the Spider-Verse.
We’ve still got one more Spider-Verse movie to go after Across the Spider-Verse, so we doubt we’ll be getting a live-action post-credits scene of Miles Morales popping up in Earth-199999 this time around. But, even if that never happens, the Maguire, Garfield, and Holland references have already more than done their due diligence of capturing the hearts of Spidey fans yet again, and we’re more than satisfied with that.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will release in theaters on June 2.
