Classic red Marvel logo Image via Marvel By Carolyn Jenkins Published Aug 18, 2026, 11:42 PM EDT Rotten Tomatoes | Letterboxd | Metacritic Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and structure. The best teacher is absorbing media and she spends her time reading about different worlds from teen angst to the universe of Stephen King. Sign in to your Collider account Add Us Add on Google Preferred Source Google News Summary Generate a summary of this story Like Like follow Follow followed Followed Listen Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Marvel’s supremacy over cinema has been long-standing, but there is only one film that has elevated the superhero genre above everything else. In 2018, Marvel Studios released Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse . The animated feature was separate from Tom Holland’ s MCU portrayal but didn’t invalidate it. Instead, it was the first cinematic depiction of Miles Morales ( Shameik Moore ), another hero by the name of Spider-Man.
Just like the beloved Peter Parker, Miles also gets bitten by a spider, gaining similar spider-adjacent powers . The film was lauded for its breathtaking animation and for delivering long-awaited characters who appeared in the Into the Spider-Verse comic by Dan Slott . It accepted the challenge with grace and delivered one of the best superhero experiences of all time. This has been proven time and time again as fans flock to the movie's new streaming home on Netflix.
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Eight years before that, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse communicated these same themes with the origin story of Miles…