Spider Man: Across The Spider-Verse teases new portal-jumping villain voiced by Jason Schwartzman
The Spot is his name, and "little interdimensional portals" all over his body is his game
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There’s a new villain headed to the Spider-verse in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, and the film’s directors teased that Miles Morales’ new sparring partner will be his “most formidable foe yet.”
As part of a presentation at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson introduced their newest villain, The Spot. Jason Schwartzman will voice the newest foil to Miles’ webbed defender.
“For those who are not hardcore canon nerds, The Spot is one of the deepest cuts in Spider-Man’s rogue gallery,” Powers said, per Variety. “But he has a super-power that really excited our entire team: His entire body is covered in little interdimensional portals that can send him anywhere he wants to go.”
Sharing an illustrated rendition of The Spot’s oozing, skin-tight white super suit, the filmmakers explained that they wanted the villain’s character design to feel unfinished, like a sketch itself. Per Variety, they also shared that they plan for The Spot’s design to evolve and shift over the course of the film as the character’s powers grow stronger.
“We thought it would be really cool if the portals felt like living ink that had spilled or splattered on the comic artist’s drawing,” Powers said just before screening test animation footage for the reportedly mesmerized crowd. “[The Spot’s] very simple power provided endless exciting challenges and permutations for our team.”
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse is one of two planned sequels to 2018's Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, which The A.V. Club previously called “one of the best superhero movies of the modern age.” Across The Spider-Verse is expected to hit theaters next year, while a third film, Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse is slated for a 2024 rollout.
The planned sequels will reportedly take place across six multi-verses and include a whopping 240 characters. The enormous lineup of characters includes returning faces like Gwen Stacy (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld), but will also see the introduction of new characters like Jessica Drew (voiced by Issa Rae) and Spider-Man 2099 (voiced by Oscar Isaac).
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I know it’s not what he means, but the whole tables have turned way he says that amuses me greatly.“Yall non-nerds don’t even know about The Spot. He cuts deep, yall just don’t know.”
How much of a “deep cut” can he be if he was featured on Spider-Man The Animated Series?
Still pretty deep, actually.
Yeah, he was in that one cartoon 30 years ago, so obviously everyone knows him.
I will never get over how that end of the multiverse involves everyone being INCREDIBLY stacked/built.
Yeah, Peter Parker looks like a linebacker. Still my favorite animated Spider-man though.
Is the Spot getting bad-touched in that still?
“Fuckin A man. I got a Spot, man.”
if you asked 10 people on the street of any random city who their favorite Spider-Man villain is I doubt any of them would say him much less know he exists so yes, it’s a deep cut
I remember this episode fondly. I loved the way he fought Spider-man using the portals.
I love that we’re at a point where mainstream audiences are going to be consuming truly dopey comic book characters without them being a deal breaker.
There are so many ridiculous Spider-Man, Flash and Batman villains ready for their moment in the public eye.
When I see a movie featuring Dogwelder, I will know we’ve truly arrived.
Bueno Excellente is the hero we truly deserve!!
Condiment King Trilogy please n thank you!
“It’s gonna be one of those nights…”
I think that may very well be the first time “The Spot” and “formidable” were uttered in the same sentence in all of human history.
There is a pretty great issue of Ultimate spider-man with him in it. Issue #111 i believe
Wish they could have just done a Miles-centric sequel without universe-hopping.
What part of ‘Spider-verse’ did you not understand?
So someone forced them to do it?
The movie’s called “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse”, I too kinda thought the sequel would have a subtitle that wasn’t also Spider-Verse. I’m not necessarily complaining I just wanted to see more of the Ultimate universe in a feature film.
Wait, is this a Wes Anderson film?
The deepest cut.
I have the first appearance of The Spot somewhere in my old Spiderman collection. Just waiting for his popularity to skyrocket! I knew my comic book investment would pay for itself sooner or later lol