Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - 10 Reasons To Be Excited

8. A Different Kind Of Spider-Man Story

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For the past decade or so, fans have become accustomed to a certain kind of Spider-Man story. Peter Parker, everyone's favourite high school hero, juggles the pressures of adolescence with the responsibilities of a superhero. It's a powerful formula, and one that has served the character on the screen as much as off it since the original Lee/Ditko comic of the sixties.

With Miles, you get something that, while familiar, is certainly a little bit different. A high schooler much like Peter was when he had that fateful run in with the radioactive arachnid, Miles is initially reluctant to commit himself to crimefighting, coveting a sense of normality he feels he's yet to have. After seeing Peter die first hand, with the knowledge that he could've saved him (Miles had been bitten by a Spider not dissimilar to the one that bit Peter), the young wall-crawler decides to heed the Uncle Ben mantra and become his own Spider-Man.

We know not yet if the film will follow this storyline, seeing as how it appears to be taking a cross-dimensional focus, instead of one that solely highlights Miles, but you'd expect that to be the case, given how the last time Peter hopped into Miles' original universe, the subject of Peter's death was given a great focus.

Regardless, it'll make a change from seeing the ol' Parker luck on the big-screen again. The world needs Miles, and if Lord and Miller are the ones to bring him to us, then all the better.

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