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After trying to convince multiple friends and family to go see Into the Spiderverse with me, I went by myself and thoroughly enjoyed it. Gorgeous animation, a fabulous cast, excellent dialogue, and a great plot. I’ve loved Miles since his first comic– I got briefly into comics during his introduction, and he and Jaime Reyes are my favorite teen superheroes– and this movie did him justice.

I came out of the movie shipping Aunt May/Doc Ock like burning. I mean you can’t have Doc Ock say “My friends call me Liv, my enemies call me Doc Ock” and then Aunt May sigh and go “Oh, it’s Liv” and not expect my shipper heart to fall for them. Since Aunt May seems like she has a science background as well, anyone written college roommates fic yet?
Gwen was so great. I love how she’s so young too, and still raw from her Peter’s death, and how great she is as Spider-Gwen. Her movements were so fluid and graceful and beautiful.
Sad-sack, semi-suicidal (or at least careless with his own life because he’d rather sacrifice himself to save the other Spider people than go back to his universe where he’s lost pretty much everything) Peter B. Parker was Good.
I loved Miles’ relationship with his parents and Aaron. I figured going in that Aaron was going to be a bad guy because of the original comics, but I still wasn’t expecting him to be Prowler, and oh, my heart when he refused to hurt Miles.
All of the other Spider folks were great too. I loved Noir Spider-man’s obsession with color, Peni’s friendship with her robot and the spider, Spider-Ham just being Spider-Ham and hilarious.
So many moments had me laughing! The Banksy joke, for one, the scene in the diner, but especially the after-credits Spider-man meme joke had me literally in tears.
Peter loves MJ so much. So much. I loved her brief scenes, even if I was also raging at Fisk’s AUDACITY to hold a Spider-man memorial during the last one, like….DUDE. >:( I hope she and Aunt May help Miles out in any sequel.
Everyone loves each other so much! I loved how the themes of the movie including caring about each other.
Of course then my brain went “Wait, Peter and Norman Osborn died on the same night, didn’t they? Oh, what’s going on with Harry….” So now I’m just off in the corner making myself sad imagining Harry getting angry seeing New York forget Peter and replace him with this new guy, like Peter didn’t matter, (and forget Norman too, in the wake of the earthquake and Peter’s death and Fisk’s arrest) and potentially taking up the Green Goblin mantle.