Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Appreciation 2020

[Frontier]

It would've been better just to make him a native of the 616 from the get go and drop the Ultimate Universe connection.

They tried to have their cake and eat it too as far as honoring his connection to the Ultimate Universe while trying to make him feel like a natural part of the 616 universe...but it's had its drawbacks.

Frankly I it 2-3 years before they try the same thing with Gwen.

[Kaitou D. Kid]

It would've been better just to make him a native of the 616 from the get go and drop the Ultimate Universe connection.

They tried to have their cake and eat it too as far as honoring his connection to the Ultimate Universe while trying to make him feel like a natural part of the 616 universe...but it's had its drawbacks.

Frankly I it 2-3 years before they try the same thing with Gwen.

What's weird is that Miles arguably doesn't even need much of an origin. You can for-the-most-part get away with just saying he got bit by a spider and was inspired by Peter to become a Spider-Man. Simply not bringing up Ultimate would have streamlined his origin a lot.

[Nerwrax15]

What's weird is that Miles arguably doesn't even need much of an origin. You can for-the-most-part get away with just saying he got bit by a spider and was inspired by Peter to become a Spider-Man. Simply not bringing up Ultimate would have streamlined his origin a lot.

I mean, it isn't really brought up all that often in actuality, this current storyline not withstanding. We got Spider-Men II, vauge allusions in the solo while Bendis was writing, and the occasionally reference when Miles shows up in someone else's book.

Its not like Miles is constantly being shaken down for his origins by everyone that comes across him. As far as im concerned: Ultimate Universe -> Secret Wars -> wakes up on 616 and carries on. Its not perfect but its simple enough to understand, that cursed annual did nothing but make the whole thing even more complicated.

[Nerwrax15]

I just want to know how Miles went from remembering 1610 in Spider-Men II to whatever this vague thing is now. Was it Ahmed's idea or a higher ups kind of deal because ot doesn't really make much sense.

I think we're just gonna have to accept it as a hard retcon from always knowing to not remembering, or he just "slowly" forgot the memories over time :/

[Nerwrax15]

It would've been better just to make him a native of the 616 from the get go and drop the Ultimate Universe connection.

As someone whose been reading him since his ultimate universe orgin, this would bug me. Might as well be a different character if it isn't the Miles i have been reading.

[Dragonick]

I mean, it isn't really brought up all that often in actuality, this current storyline not withstanding. We got Spider-Men II, vauge allusions in the solo while Bendis was writing, and the occasionally reference when Miles shows up in someone else's book.

Its not like Miles is constantly being shaken down for his origins by everyone that comes across him. As far as im concerned: Ultimate Universe -> Secret Wars -> wakes up on 616 and carries on. Its not perfect but its simple enough to understand, that cursed annual did nothing but make the whole thing even more complicated.

That's how I've always taken, plus it's not like any other characters have really bothered bringing up anything in Secret Wars. People are really placing a lot of importance on something that almost never comes up, and imo isn't even really that important.

I think we're just gonna have to accept it as a hard retcon from always knowing to not remembering, or he just "slowly" forgot the memories over time :/

Well that's disappointing

As someone whose been reading him since his ultimate universe orgin, this would bug me. Might as well be a different character if it isn't the Miles i have been reading.

Plus it also messes with Spider-Verse and the original Spider-Men wile not actually contributing much.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

As someone whose been reading him since his ultimate universe orgin, this would bug me. Might as well be a different character if it isn't the Miles i have been reading.

I don't hate Miles's time in the Ultimate Universe but it wasn't something I need to carry over to the 616. I was cool with them being separate takes on Miles.

[Kaitou D. Kid]

I mean, it isn't really brought up all that often in actuality, this current storyline not withstanding. We got Spider-Men II, vauge allusions in the solo while Bendis was writing, and the occasionally reference when Miles shows up in someone else's book.

Its not like Miles is constantly being shaken down for his origins by everyone that comes across him. As far as im concerned: Ultimate Universe -> Secret Wars -> wakes up on 616 and carries on. Its not perfect but its simple enough to understand, that cursed annual did nothing but make the whole thing even more complicated.

The only potential problem is the fact he was inspired by the death of Ultimate Peter Parker. For the longest time that was kinda his Uncle Ben moment.

Outside of that, I don't think 616 Miles needs much of an origin. And if "a" Spider-Man has to die, 616 can always say it was one of Peter's clones that died.

As someone whose been reading him since his ultimate universe orgin, this would bug me. Might as well be a different character if it isn't the Miles i have been reading.

If you don't mind me asking, do you feel the same way about every version of Peter than the very first one you've been exposed to? If you're a Millenial, you likely didn't get into Spider-Man through the 616 version but through Ultimate, TAS, The Spectacular Spider-Man, or Raimi's. The 616 Peter is a different character from all those versions.

[Frontier]

I think we're just gonna have to accept it as a hard retcon from always knowing to not remembering, or he just "slowly" forgot the memories over time :/

So basically DC Crisis logic.

The only potential problem is the fact he was inspired by the death of Ultimate Peter Parker. For the longest time that was kinda his Uncle Ben moment.

Outside of that, I don't think 616 Miles needs much of an origin. And if "a" Spider-Man has to die, 616 can always say it was one of Peter's clones that died.

I've always been curious about the current timeline with Miles' powers, because it seems like some variant of his origin happened circa Civil War and into Secret Invasion.

[Lukmendes]

So basically DC Crisis logic.

I've always been curious about the current timeline with Miles' powers, because it seems like some variant of his origin happened circa Civil War and into Secret Invasion.

Once upon a time, Marvel didn't have to worry about this "Characters memories were altered because they can't remember some event that fucked the universe" ****... I don't know why they thought it was okay to do that when avoiding it for so long.

And yes, I'm aware how old that makes me sound, but sheesh, some things just shouldn't be done lol.

[Nerwrax15]

If you don't mind me asking, do you feel the same way about every version of Peter than the very first one you've been exposed to? If you're a Millenial, you likely didn't get into Spider-Man through the 616 version but through Ultimate, TAS, The Spectacular Spider-Man, or Raimi's. The 616 Peter is a different character from all those versions.

....No, but we aren't talking about every version of Peter, we are talking about the very first version Miles to ever exist. Period. Why would i even demand any other version of Peter to supersede the original? And even if i wanted a particular cartoon Spider-Man to always be the cartoon Spider-Man always running or Tobey Maguire/Andrew Garfield to continue being THE movie Spider-Man, there are a myriad of reasons why that could never be the case.

But Marvel Comics? Where they can make any number of reasons/excuses why a character should stick around? Them just making a homegrown 616 Miles getting bit by a Spider and becoming Spider-Man would just be them aping off the already pre-existing 1610 Miles to continue what they wanted to do with that character, so why not just bring over the version of the character that people already had investment in? Which is what they did.

[Dragonick]

For anyone interested they've released a ton of concept art for the game on artstation
https://magazine.artstation.com/2020...red-art-blast/

[Huntsman Spider]

For anyone interested they've released a ton of concept art for the game on artstation
https://magazine.artstation.com/2020...red-art-blast/

Thanks! I go to ArtStation a lot. Lots of excellent work there.

[CrimsonEchidna]

For anyone interested they've released a ton of concept art for the game on artstation
https://magazine.artstation.com/2020...red-art-blast/

You know the Prowler!Spider costume for Miles makes me wish that it'll eventually get revealed that the Earth-65 ended up becoming the Prowler. I was hoping that was going to be the reveal when Miles and Gwen were having that crossover because it was coming off the hills of him freaking out over the idea of giving into his anger like his Uncle and Dad had done in the past, but we got Crime Lord!Jefferson Davis instead.

[Agent Z]

Spider-Man's Composer on Crafting Miles Morales' Melodic Identity

https://io9.gizmodo.com/spider-mans-...dic-1845776678