Given the way that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ended, with Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) opening a portal to communicate with Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), we assumed that a lot of the second film was pre-planned, as if the creative voices knew that a sequel was happening. That’s not really the case, however. Yes, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ranks as one of the best Spider-Man movies ever made, but it wasn’t as calculated as you believe. Phil Lord and Chris Miller even told CinemaBlend, during an exclusive interview, that a key element of the ending of Into the Spider-Verse had to be retconned to fit better with what they delivered in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It turns out, a few things that we pick up aren’t intentional… which leads to Lord and Miller shooting down a popular fan theory.
If you have made it this far into the story, you probably know that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse also ends on a cliffhanger. The Miles Morales that we have been following through two movies winds up on Earth 42, an alternate dimension where there is no Spider-Man, and Morales has become The Prowler. Given that reality, fans went back to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and noticed something very clever. In the scene where Miles meets Chris Pine’s Spider-Man for the first time, the color scheme in the background shifts for Miles… and reflects the colors of The Prowler.
