Across the Spider-Verse’s greatest feat is the way it takes Spider-Man’s fandom to task

A muscular man in a navy full-body suit accented with crimson designs on the shoulder and face. The man is locked in a grappling fight with a teenage boy wearing a similar suit, in black, with no mask.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse deepens the mythos of Miles Morales by turning one of the ugliest parts of Spider-Man’s fandom into a canonical conundrum.