10 Insane Alternate Versions Of Spider-Man You Won't Believe Exist

There's more to the Spider-Verse than you think...

by Ewan Paterson
Spider-Man Spider-Verse
Marvel Comics

Though DC tend to hold the crown for the best use of their many, many alternate universes, when it comes to Marvel, Spider-Man is the only one who can really give them a run for their money.

The wall-crawler has a troff of unique, alternate counterparts that span the entire Marvel multiverse, and with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse set to spotlight these characters on the big screen come December, True Believers are going to have a ball.

So highly regarded are these Spider-Men that two (Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen) have already made the leap to Marvel's main 616 continuity. They're both now stars in their own right, with Miles having even eclipsed Peter in the comics as of late, but they're nowhere near as wild as some of these other alternate Spider-Men.

Some sport six arms, others just the usual two, and some have even opted to shirk their great responsibility altogether. There are so many variants of the identity in the comics that there have even been Spider-villains to compete with the heroes. It's a crazy, multi-dimensional world, and with it being such a crazy, multi-dimensional world, the only surprise should be that there’s scarcely a dull one to be found.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.