After five bumpy years, Marvel Studios finally has a good grasp on its future again. Just don’t expect those plans to involve Miles Morales, a next-gen, fan-favorite Spider-Man. Thanks to Sony’s animated Spider-Verse movies, Miles is now just as beloved as the Spidey who started it all, Peter Parker, and though they’re separated by a multiverse, audiences would love to see the two heroes team up. There’s precedent for it in comics and video games, but Miles can’t join Peter in the MCU just yet.
Marvel and Sony have ironed out a rapport when it comes to Spider-Man’s rights: Sony’s currently leasing out Peter Parker, now a fixture in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, while retaining exclusive rights to other characters in his world. As a result, Miles has become a definitive Spider-Man for their cinematic universe, at least on the animated front. (Sony’s live-action Spider-Verse is likely kaput after Kraven the Hunter and Venom: The Last Dance, but that’s another story.) With two films of a trilogy in the bag, Sony is now hard at work on a third — and potentially final — adventure for this version of Miles. But Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has proven unwieldy, delayed time and again thanks to one issue or another.
