Miles Morales
When Spider-Man was folded into the MCU and rebooted for the third time in less than 15 years, many called for Marvel to sidestep Peter Parker and go with Miles Morales, Peter’s replacement as the wallcrawler in the Ultimate universe in the comics. Likely due to Peter Parker’s iconic nature, the studio didn’t choose this route – however, they did drop a few references in Spider-Man: Homecoming that suggest Miles could be on the way in Phase Four.
First of all, Donald Glover – who’d famously been linked with Miles’ character for years – was cast to play Aaron Davis in the movie, the criminal uncle of Miles’ in the comics. He even name-checked his nephew in a deleted scene. Given this, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that Miles could be on his way in the vaguely near future. Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has even made some positive comments on the topic.
Sure, we’re excited to see what Sony have cooked up in their upcoming animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which promises to explore the multiverse of Spider-characters out there. But we’d still like to see Miles appear in live-action soon, too. Not that we necessarily want him to replace Tom Holland’s Peter Parker.
Maybe the pair could operate as partners? After all, both of them are swinging around the comics universe at the moment.
