Ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe was established, Spider-Man has been pulled between two worlds. While he’s featured in his own MCU movies, Sony owns the rights to the character, and has used those rights to revolutionize animated superhero movies with the Spider-Verse trilogy of Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse, and the upcoming Beyond the Spider-Verse.
The streams between these movies don’t usually cross — Spider-Man: No Way Home gave the MCU’s Peter Parker his own Spider-Verse to deal with — but a recent casting announcement revealed that the two separate universes share a key player, even if he’ll look a lot different.
