

He'll also be unable to save his dad from being killed in just two days – as Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac) tells Miles during one of their heated discussions, the death of Miles' father is a "canon event", a fixed point in time that can't be changed. As Miles was bitten by an Earth-42-dwelling arachnid, he's sent to that dimension instead of his own, meaning he's trapped in a universe he doesn't recognize (and proving that your fan theories were, in fact, way off base). The Spider Society's teleportation device sends users to the universe where their spider-based DNA originated. It's this superpowered bug that bit Miles in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, thus giving him his powers.īut there's a problem. The reality it traveled from? Yep, Earth-42. During a test, the Super Collider brought a genetically engineered spider into Miles' universe. To explain why Miles (Shameik Moore) doesn't travel back to his own reality – Earth-1610 – after using the Spider Society's Matrix-style teleportation machine, we have to go back to one of our first encounters with The Spot (Jason Schwartzman).Īs Across the Spider-Verse's chief villain reveals, Wilson Fisk's Super Collider – a glorified particle accelerator – was built with the help of The Spot, then just an ordinary scientist called Jonathan Ohnn.
