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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse officially connects this franchise to the MCU...but how deep do these connections go? Migel's mission to protect the web of life and destiny is very similar to Kang's mission to protect the sacred timeline. So is this a coincidence? Or is Spider-Man 2099 going to play a huge roll in Avengers: Secret Wars?
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Written by Colton Ogburn ( / coltonogburn )
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado and Lee Mazzio
#SpiderVerse #MCU #Kang2099
So, let’s talk about how Miguel O’hara’s Spider-Man 2099 could be working for Kang the Conqueror-in tandem with the Time Variance Authority from Loki. Or maybe even the Council of Kang’s that we met in Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania. And then a little later we’re going to talk about how Kang may have killed the single most important character in all of the Spider-Verse and placed Miguel in charge.
So we knew going into Across the Spider-Verse that we’d be hearing some MCU references. [clip, little nerd on earth 199999]
But even I couldn’t have predicted we’d see THE Sacred Timeline from the Loki series and Quantumania. I mean look at this shot, they’re identical. [clip, The Office “they’re the same picture.”]
When Miguel shows Miles the multiverse, he starts by showing him “everything.” This is when we see the Sacred Timeline consisting of everything in existence. But then we go even deeper and see a more specific multiverse, the Spider-Verse. A multiverse consisting solely of universes that have Spider-People.
Now when we first saw the Sacred Timeline in Loki, it looked very different, more like a ring. A circular flow of time that had multiple timelines running parallel to one another but never converging. Timelines that happened again and again and again, the exact same way every single time.
This timeline is overseen by He Who Remains, a variant of Kang the Conqueror. A variant that won the multiversal war, destroyed all his other variants, and brought [clip, revenge of the sith “peace, justice, and security”] to the multiverse. But not without a cost.
He Who Remains utilizes the Time Variance Authority to track down and stop nexus events. Nexus events are essentially events that aren’t supposed to happen. Allowing a Nexus event to go unchecked results in a splintering timeline breaking off from the Sacred Timeline. And when that happens, the multiverse becomes bigger. More and more universes come into existence and more and more universes begin to collide, that’s known as an incursion. [clip, Mr. Fantastic explainer]
Now within the Sacred Timeline there are constants. Story points that are the same in every universe. For example, Loki’s are always destined to be the bad guy. That’s why when Slyvie, a Loki variant. When she showed heroic aspirations as a child, she was departing from her set path, her path of becoming a villain. This resulted in her being arrested by the TVA. [clip]
Now in Across the Spider-Verse we hear something very similar. Just like how Loki’s are destined to be bad and are not allowed to break from that path. Spider-People are destined to suffer great tragedies. There’s the tragedy of losing Uncle Ben, or in Miles’ case, the loss of his uncle Aaron.
These events are known as canon events. Events that keep the spider-verse connected. Events that happen to every spider-person every single time, because they have to, because they’re supposed to.
In Across the Spider-Verse we see a key canon event called ASM90. Named after The Amazing Spider-Man issue 90. The issue in which we first saw Police Captain George Stacy, father of Gwen Stacy, die. That event then continued to happen in every single spider story, the Police Captain dies in Spider-Man’s arms. An event that if disrupted could result in the fabric of reality being torn apart.
When a canon event is disrupted we see the multiversal spider-crew roll in to attempt to stop the universe from collapsing. Just like the TVA steps in to reset timelines when a nexus event occurs. [clip]
Doug: Wait, so if the TVA contains variant timelines and nexus events, then why don’t they show up when a canon event is disrupted?
That is a fantastic question buddy, and there are several possible explanations. So let’s run through them.