After watching Across the Spiderverse in
theaters a few times, my sister and I have naturally started brainstorming ideas for
what’s to come in Beyond the Spiderverse. In this video I would like to share some of our
thoughts, and hear what ideas you have yourself. Also spoiler warning for Across the Spiderverse,
I feel this is self explanatory but if you haven’t seen the film and don’t want spoilers please
click away now. Anyways onto theory number 1. Theory #1 Miguel is wrong This theory is one that I have heard a lot
already, and it seems most people agree with the idea in one way or another. The theory I’m
referring to is that Miguel is wrong about canon events and what actually causes the destruction
of a spider person's universe. The reason this is so widely accepted is due to the multiple
hints towards this being the case shown during the events of Across the Spider Verse.
One of the first hints I noticed was the differences between the destruction of Pav’s world
and the world where Miguel attempted to replace his variant. Pav’s world is shown to be at risk
specifically because of the blackhole-like pit that opens after the destruction of his world's
Alchemax. This pit very closely resembles one of Spot's spots, with Miles even mentioning to
Miguel, “that wasn’t me, that was the Spot”. This is very different to what Miguel
experienced, with his world falling apart due to massive glitching waves that result in
the destruction of that universe and its people. Furthermore Pav’s world is put at risk mere
moments after his canon event is disrupted, whereas Miguel has seemingly spent some period
of time with his variants family as shown by the video he is watching in the Spider Society,
where he is happily playing with his daughter. These inconsistencies lead me to believe that
disrupting canon events isn’t what results in a universe's destruction, or at the very
least they aren’t the only factor involved. I theorized that maybe just like a person's
atoms don’t like being in the wrong dimension, it goes the other way too. A universe doesn’t like
atoms from other dimensions. Maybe what happened to Miguel was a result of him being in that other
universe for too long. This mostly makes sense with the exception of the Spider Society. If this
was true Miguel’s world would have fallen apart long ago due to the presence of hundreds if not
thousands of spider people from other dimensions. Theory #2 Spider-Byte Purposely
sent Miles to the wrong Earth. This theory needs some explanation. Towards the
end of the movie we see Miles sneak back into the Spider Society, after luring the many Spider
people away, in order to use the Go Home Machine. The machine, of course, scans the DNA in Miles
that’s from Earth 42 and sets his destination to the wrong dimension. During this Spider-Byte
catches on to what Miles is doing and initially attempts to stop the machine. However, Miguel
breaks through some glass and very aggressively begins to claw at the dome like cage in order to
reach Miles. After seeing how Miguel is acting, Spider-Byte decides to not shut down
the machine and to let Miles escape. What makes this scene interesting is that multiple
times throughout the movie it is established that all the main members of the Spider Society are
very well aware that Miles is from Earth 1610. It’s a bit strange to think that if Spider-Byte
had a change of heart and wanted to help Miles, that she’d send him to the wrong universe. I
mean she had to have been able to manually set his destination to 1610 right? So why didn’t
she? A plausible explanation is that in the chaos of the moment she didn’t realize the Go
Home Machine had the wrong dimension for Miles. But what I think happened was that she was
aware of Mile’s destination. She sent him through anyway because she knew that
if Miles was sent home to earth 1610, Miguel would be right behind him. Knowing this
she let Miles go through to Earth 42 as a way of getting Miles away from Miguel for the time
being. After Miguel goes to Earth 1610 in pursuit of Miles this is when she seeks out Gwen and joins
her “band”. Gwen is also clearly shown to not know what dimension Mile’s is in, just that he's not in
the right one. This could explain how they could locate Miles in Beyond the Spider Verse, with
Spider-Byte telling her where Miles ended up. Theory #3 Has Miguel visited Earth 42 Before? One of the biggest things that caught my attention
my second time watching was the final scene of the movie. This scene shows Miles tied up to
a punching bag in Uncle Aaron’s apartment, much like Miles did to Peter B. in Into the
Spiderverse. The camera specifically focuses on Miles' hands, which now have rubber gloves
preventing him from using his venom ability. This is intriguing as this universe’s Uncle Aaron
and Miles, who I’ll refer to as Miles G. from now on, should not have any knowledge of Miles
abilities. Meaning they should not know about his ability to produce electricity, which makes
me wonder how they knew to put gloves on him. An explanation for this is that because
there is no Spider-Man on this earth, it began to glitch as now Miles
G’s canon events can’t happen. This results in Spider-Man 2099 going to
Earth 42 in order to prevent its destruction. Perhaps during his time here he encountered
Miles G. and informed him about what happened to the spider from earth 42, and the abilities
it gave 1610 Miles. Why would he do this? I’m honestly not sure, but we know that Miguel is
not great at withholding information as he told Gwen his identity only seconds after claiming it’s
classified. Maybe Miles G. pressured Miguel into revealing who he is, which naturally caused Miles
G. to ask about Spider people and their abilities. Outro If you made it this far in the video, thank
you for watching. This is my first attempt at doing this style of content, and I’d really
appreciate your feedback if you thought I did anything well or if I could do something
better. I’d also love to discuss your own thoughts or theories in the comments. Anyways
I’ll continue to think about more theories or even other topics I could discuss in
this style and upload more videos soon.
