Spider-Man 2099’s Spider-Verse 2 Story Details Tease Multiverse Leader

The first Spider-Man 2099 story details for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse tease Oscar Isaac’s character as a multiverse leader.

Though seen to be facing off against audiences’ new favorite webslinger, Spider-Man 2099’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse story details tease the character as a multiverse leader. Oscar Isaac’s Miguel O’Hara was previously set up in the post-credits of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, seen traveling to the universe of the 1967 Spider-Man animated series, where he was seen recreating the iconic moment of the two Spider-Men pointing at one another. Miguel was confirmed to be returning with the release of the first Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer showing him fighting against Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales.

In the latest issue of Empire, Phil Lord offered new Spider-Man 2099 story details in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The co-writer teased that the animated sequel will see Isaac’s webslinger serve as a multiverse leader for the team of Spider-people, though he may not be a cordial one. See what Lord shared below:

Miguel O’Hara is the leader of a band of fighters that are trying to clean up the consequences of the collider explosion at the end of the first movie. And as you can imagine, it’s really hard to lead a bunch of people who have never been led [laughs].

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Spider-Verse 2’s Miguel Will Be A Stone-Cold Leader

Lord’s tease that Miguel will be the leader of a multiverse team in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse marks an interesting new direction for the character, but one that ultimately fits a number of plot questions. The post-credits of the previous film did indicate he would be visiting other Spider-People for an unknown reason, which makes his cleaning of the consequences for Kingpin’s near-multiverse breaking a thrilling continuation of the plot threads from the Oscar-winning 2018 movie. It also seemingly goes to explain how Hailee Steinfeld’s Spider-Gwen gets her hands on the multiverse-traveling abilities to reconnect with Miles and invite him on an adventure.

With him now said to be a leader of the multiverse team, it also helps explain Spider-Man 2099’s lack of humor in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Though shown having a few pleasant quips with his A.I. Lyla, voiced by Russian Doll‘s Greta Lee, Isaac teased earlier this year that Miguel would be making no jokes during his time on the screen, saying that while everybody around him “wisecracks“, he will be a “very serious Spider-Man.” Considering he will be working with a number of fresh-faced heroes, as well as those not used to working in a group, it’s understandable he would bring a very stern personality to the group more than the brighter one teased in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

What will be interesting to see is what leads Isaac’s Spider-Man 2099 and Moore’s Miles to trade blows, as teased in the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Considering Miles seems to have a grasp on the multiverse-traveling technology, it seems likely the sequence will come some time after the two have been introduced, potentially disagreeing over the handling of a person to stop Jason Schwartzman’s villainous The Spot. Only time will tell when Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse hits theaters on June 2, 2023.

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