3:01 "Totems attract other totems." Is this a Jojo reference of "Stand users attract other Stand users."

Don't forget that Spider-Man PS4 was in this event and he even met Spider-Cop

Maybe it goes complex, but i really love Morlun as an unstoppable force enemy to Spiderman. Not only the Rhyno, who is strong, but someone that actively is a threat to Peter and aims to kill him, and cant be stopped for long. He also has some charisma. behind the rough language and savage ways, he is royalty. And nothing stops him, not even the barriers between realities. He would have been amazing for NWH.

Hey comic drake I was wondering if you could do a video on Timely comics heros , like the OG human torch,toro, angel etc. Obviously you don’t have to do it it’s just a suggestion, also keep up the great work, I love your videos!

While it does sound weird, I do kinda like how it's destiny for Peter to be bitten. I'd explain it like this: Peter was a random occurance at 1st but after the great weaver saw enough of his heroism in action, it locked onto him and sought to repeat that across the multiverse. Even without that, I do feel like he was the right choice, and the weaver saw potential in him.

honestly, I would just make it to where the spider totems could literally be anyone. They just need spider powers. I feel like that kinda splits the difference of it could be anyone, but at the same time keeps the interesting parts of the spider totem mythos. would probably just retcon the Ezekial guy to say that was just how he understood it.

Doctor Drake Strange here to teach you about the web of destiny and multiverse! Have you heard the word from our Spider-God!

Spider-geddon wasn't that great, but it was worth the price of admission to see Miles Morales get the Captain Universe powers and use them to wield Sword Vigor (the sword used by Leopardon, the giant robot Spider-Man pilots in the 1970s Japanese Spider-Man show)!

A multiverse of Spider-Men, chosen by the SPIDER GOD

Vampires have cloning tech right? So why don't they just clone spidermen to eat? Oh wait that's already a story.

I literally hate the concept of the totems, Ezekiel, and the Inherenters. But even then I not afraid to enjoy a good multiverse event with my favorite spider people. Doc Ock was so enjoyable in this

The other animal totems thing was mentioned again in Reginald Hudlin's Black Panther run. Yeah during Dark Reign when T'Challa was comatose & Shuri took the mantle a group called the Crocodile Cult summoned Morlun to kill T'Challa. One does wonder if the whole multiversal aspect is also a thing but who knows.

Shouldn't Superior Spiderman be 2 totems at the same time? He is Doc Ock, Octopus totem, inside the body of Peter Parker, Spider totem.

I always assumed Electro was based on the electric eel and he simply didn't like the whole animal connection

7:05 And again, the whole thing got started because a lesser-known villain harvested the Watcher's eye after OG Nick Fury murdered him, and the eyeball exploded.

I personally thought these aspects of Spider lore to be intriguing. It does give some sort of explanation why there will always be a Spider-Man in every universe. I can get fed up with the usual status quo seen in other media and I thought those temporarily changes such as Superior Spider-Man and Parker Industries were pretty interesting. I get that people want Peter to be poor and have a crappy life and undo the great moments in his life which admittedly selfish and a bit toxic nostalgia, but at least writers are trying NEW things with the character that can hopefully stick for a while before reversing to fit the widely perceived status quo that may be liked but ultimately stagnates Peter in a cynical cycle of misery.

Liked and commented on this video to help the algorithm and also just cos I genuinely like it. I already read both comics, but some clarification on the iffy bits was helpful! Thanks Comic Drake!

Straczynski's and Slott's retcons, while entertaining and cool stories, were quite antithetical to the grounded concept Spider-Man always had. The problem is that they forced a rather inconsistent unnecessary mythology surrounding Spider-Man... A mythology that is constantly rewritten to the point that it lost any type of plausibility it may have had. First, they invented that Peter was a chosen one by fate (Shiting a little on how grounded Spider-Man always was) and that there was a lot of Spider-Men out there before Peter forming a spider society; which were eaten by a totemic vampire named Morlun, that aparently was always there and for some reason never came to eat Peter alive, even though it was public knowledge that there had been a Spider-Man in New York for years. Then they invented that the denied potential of Spider-Man's abilities allowed him to revive with a Power Up if he decided to accept it. Then they invented that "Other" was not the arachnid skills that Peter refused to accept at first; but a kind of cosmic entity that revives spider-people randomly. Then they invented a woman who was bitten by the same spider as Peter, who was also possessed by one of these cosmic entities; and apparently according to the exposition she was sooo very important (Although they never showed us that she was special in any way... The Bride had no different abilities compared to any Spider-Totem). Then they invented that Morlun was not only an interdimensional being, but that he had a family too that was never mentioned before. which kidnapped the Master Weaver, another random totem; which was aparently extremely important to the point that Morlun almost shit his pants when he found that he died. They also introduced the Web of life, which cutting a single thread apparently had the potential to erase entire universes. They also introduced that the Inheritors are immortal because they clone each time they die to immediately return to the fight, making all of Peter's fights against Morlun a Plot Hole since Morlun should have immediately returned to continue fighting with Peter every time he "died". Then they invented the Pattern Maker, something that apparently always existed and for some reason was not part of the ritual like the other four super-totems. It also seems that the Inheritors now can't eat the Spider-Totems whose power comes from radiation (Stupid thing considering that all Spider-Men with the exception of the clones, Anya Corazón, both Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man India and Spider-Man 1602 have powers originated from radiation.) Then it seems that the fact that the Master Weaver dies apparently was not for much and has no major consequences. The same for the Web of life, cutting a thread is catastrophic, but blowing the shit out of it does absolutely nothing. As I said, they are entertaining stories... But not at all consistent or in tune (To not say antithetical) with the character and what represents.

The web of life and destiny will definitely be a plot point in a future Spiderverse film

I remember reading the spiderverse stuff because I was like ohhh cool multiverse spiderman this is gonna be cool! And then I read abt the chosen one stuff and mythology shit and I was so turned off by it I'm glad that the spiderverse movie essentially had the exact opposite message where that anybody can be spiderman

I'm not afraid to admit that I love the whole Spider-totems and spider-verse stuff. Only comics (besides Boom Comics power rangers) that I actively sought out to buy on comixology. I also really liked Doc Ock as the superior Spider-man in this, it's cool having him riff off of Peter Parker.

The whole thing reminds me a lot of the extended origin of Batman as shown in "Dark Nights Metal". Not in terms of the story, but the motivation. Here they try to give more meaning and mythology to a rather simple origin. Unfortunately this often seems forced. Especially for longtime readers.

I love how so much of Spiderman is just a mess. Between This, The Clone Saga and One More Day... also what was the one where Peter turned into a spider and gave live birth to himself? Yes... Spiderman attempts to make itself look grounded... but it is just so much bat shit crazy stuff going on... that it is more Spiderman trying to FORCE itself to be grounded as overcompensation

7:11 this panel is gold. Also, Mark my words: the next spiderverse event will be called *Arachinarok*

Drake rocks the “casual sorcerer” look well.

I wonder if this will feature at all in the new Multiverse arc of Phase 4 MCU.

So many animal-themed heroes and villains, and the only totems to be explored are the Spiders and the Gorillas (M’Baku, who was eaten by Morlun in the comics).

I'd love to see a video talking about all of the different spider people. I know most of them don't have much detail but some of them are so wacky I feel like it would be a lot of fun!

It’s crazy how Spider-verse is one of my most hated Spider-Man runs but the ItSP movies are my favorite Spider-Man film adaptations

11:08 omg that's amazing

I honestly don't know which villain faction is worse: The Inheritors, a bunch of poncy energy vampires that don't seem to have any relation to Spider-Man prior to all this totem stuff, or The Poisons, alien parasites that ripped off the Deadpools MO from Return of the Living Deadpool, bonding people with symbiotes in order to convert them into more Poisons. At least a Multiversal Sinister Syndicate or the Doctors Octopi and Electroverse would or do have some connection to Spider-Man.

I really liked the video as usual! Keep up the good work! And I am unbelievably happy that there is a KZfaq video that mentions the Hostess Snack Universe which contains my absolute favourite character of all time, Windsor Glastonbury AKA the Chairman, who is in my profile picture.

Hey Drake, How about you do a list on all the other Spider-Man suits throughout the years. Some are interesting and makes me wonder what ever happened to them.

Keep it up on your work and this channel

Anya Corazon needs more of a spotlight, I know she has mixed reception, but she's one of my favourite mainstream marvel comic characters period

Thanks for the help, I’ve heard about the spider verse four different times but I only got it with your explanation, thanks for braving these “because comics” stories for us!

awesome video as always

Feels kind of like what Turn Off the Dark tried to pull

This was great! Spider-verse (the comic, not the movie. But also absolutely the movie) was one of the reasons I started to collect comic books! I always learn something new watching your videos, Drake! Well researched and super informative! ( ^__^)b

Spider-verse was the.first ever comic I ever read, and I am really proud it was because the multiverse is a really fun part of fiction that I would have had different feelings over if it weren’t for this book. Is it batshit insane? Fuck yes and I love it.

I really love the Superior Octopus Design

ive been waiting so long for this one

Thanks for the explanation

This is basically the council of Reed, the counselor of Rick, and the captain Britain thing which I think is the first time I heard it.

The spiderverse concept is very confusing and it worries me they would do a batman who laughs like history about an evil peter parker,like a green gobblin peter parker.

The comic Morlun was introduced in was one of the first comics I read as a kid, so the whole spider totem thing is something I just accepted

Your hair is giving me great doc strange vibes. Love it!

I don’t care what the comics say, I will always keep to the original Spider-Man origin

Love that opening and great Dr Strange vive you have there

Hey Drake, could you make a video on the top 10 most powerful beings in Marvel and/or DC

I remember you talking about totems before and alluding to how complicated it is and boy you weren't kidding but at least some of these stories are worth checking out if you ask me

I see your rockin the Doctor Comfy look

surprised you didn't mention spiders-man having drones in every universe just to watch

Great Video Drake.

Bruh I'm not gonna lie when I saw Drake the first thing noticed was the hair and even though I've seen a lot of his videos. I was like "damn covid season's been rough out here for ya boy".

I'd love to see you tackle May 'Mayday' Parker on the channel.

Maaaaann ! Chapeau ! Thank you for this amazing explanation (several times I was like "... Wait what ?!"

Drake is lookin like Dr. Strange in his winter outfit

I feel like I'm one of the strange few who likes the mystic spider angle. I think Pete should still be tech based...but the organic webbing and supercharging of his spider connections was beyond cool to me all those years back Edit: I kinda the same way Links spirit is still the same kid who defeated *spoilers* but keeps getting reincarnated and repersonified per universe

First time I hear of Spidergedon even though Spider verse was the first (and so far only) time I say down to read every issue of an event plus supplementary issues and ongoing series that bled into the event.

Love that they gave Spidey his own speed force 😅

Honestly, I really dislike the Inheritors. They're too boring personality wise to really remember anything about them, and at the same time they feel like a bunch of mary sues. The way they make quick work of other Spider-People just feels really unearned, like how Solus kills Captain Universe. To make it even worse, a lot of these Spiders that were killed this cruelly are characters that either existed for a long time and gotten people really attached to them (like Six Armed Spider-Man, which was such a bullcrap way to bring him back), or they were new characters that, much like Spider-Gwen, could've easily gotten at least a mini-series (Aaron Aikman from Edge of Spider-Verse #3 comes to mind, rest in peace).

Real talk thank you for making this video. I love spider-verse!

Could you maybe cover the whole history of Doctor Octopus as Superior Spiderman?

Damn you look like you've seen the multiverse

Love the video

Wait, time out! Is that a hoodie with a cape attached? I want one!

The AI-Verse. Heres a tale of a normal highschool kid that got bit by a radioactive spider. He first went to the hospital for minor bites, and then kept getting worse. He was sent to the emergency room but doctors assumed it was an allergic reaction because he couldn’t tell if he was allergic to spider bites. He was pronounced fine and was sent home with a prescription. He woke up from a nightmare with neck pain and stiffness and checked himself into the hospital where they discovered that he had a massive necrosis and swollen lymph nodes. He was diagnosed with Q Fever, and given a transfusion. A few days later he woke up with a fever that wouldn’t go away and started to feel weak. He was rushed to the emergency room for severe dehydration. He couldn’t stand on his own, and had trouble breathing. He was diagnosed with Pneumonia and admitted to the ICU. By this point his lymph nodes in his neck had swollen so much that they were compressing his airway and blocking the airflow. He was given antibiotics but was unable to take them due to his immobility. He was given a tracheotomy and was taken to the Intensive Care Unit. It was at this point that things began to get really bad. The results came back from the bone marrow transplant and it was positive for the Spider Baby Antibiotic Resistance Virus (SPARV). This means that his body became resistant to antibiotics used for his condition. Every day that goes by his body continues to fight against the antibiotics he was given, and he continues to lose his blood thinning abilities. He can no longer receive more transfusions. Once he hit the maximum level of Tissue Thinning, they told him he didn’t have much time left and needed a new liver and a kidney to survive. After an initial search, they were unable to find a match. They placed him on the national liver transplant list. They also told him that the potential donors’ bodies will begin to reject the donated organs. He is severely malnourished and dehydrated. He has an extremely high infection count due to the combined effects of the surgeries, lack of fluids, bacteria, and fungus. There is no hope for a cure. He will die without a transplant. The only hope is to try a bone marrow transplant. However, because of his past history of rare blood disorders, he has a low likelihood of finding a match. I have done a complete 180 in the space of a week. I was a recovering PTC skeptic, then I became really emotionally attached to this story. Then I saw that it has already raised $30,000 for his family. I felt the urgency to donate, so I have donated and I encourage everyone who reads this to donate as well. _" The Incurable Disease Spiderman "_

You choose to wear a cape and don't call ANY attention to it? Total class, sir!

Drake pulls off the cape look really well. Though strange at first, looks good

Love the outfit!

The cape is approved

Whoa I didn't know Dr. Strange had his own KZfaq channel.

I’m hoping that across the spider verse will have the inheritors as the villains

I feel like more icons get added to the background between videos.

I didn't even knew about that stuff... thank you Dr.Strange for telling us!

I actually want to know more about the Captain Britain Corps from the peek I saw with Spider-Man UK's section

Ah the Spiderverse. The birth of spidersonas which quickly ended.

Yo, the white streaks would actually look sick on you bro

Wild that the vampire babies are just dead now

We need to make capes a viable fashion accessory again.

the reason why morlun family were trying to stop the creation of more spider totens was because of a prophecy that said that the totems would eventually kill them all

IIRC, it is mentioned somewhere that Black Panther is also a totem.

Toei-Verse aka Toei Universe Heroes vs Shimazu Toyohisa's Yokai Army explained

7:12 Wait how is this Spider-Man dead if he's just fine in MVC 2 onwards? Then again this is an arcade machine so maybe he respawned after Morlun killed him? But if he did wouldn't Morlun sense him?

The gibbon is a totem, I have now been convinced.

It's the Spider-Man equivalent of the speed force!

Only peter parker could have a lore this complicated.

I'm surprised you didn't bring up Shattered Dimensions and Web of Time, which were basically prequels to the comic arcs.

Hear me out: Kraven the Hunter as an "Into the Spider-Verse" villain.

Lovin' the Doctor Strange look, man!

my head cannon is that black panter is also a panter totem give us panter-verse

It does me well to see there’s a Cosmic Miles.

In my opinion the best Spider-Man alternate universe is Spider-Man Life Story. I'd love to see you cover it in a video sometime.

Wow, thanks for gatekeeping the Spider-Totems, Gatekeeper... rude

I ❤️ this Spider-Man multiverse

this is going to be more complicated than the spider man 3 sushi

Love your cosplay man

Hey Drake. I'm watching back episodes and wondering if you've thought about doing that episode on captain carrot that you mentioned in your video on black supermen. I'd love to see that(although my dream topic would be Rag Man, he never gets enough love)

Great video, though I have always pretended this was never a part of canon and will continue to do so lol