So Spider-man Across The Spider-verse has some amazing cameos in it.
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There's one in here that completely blew my mind and throughout this video I'm gonna be
going through everyone who cameos in the film and talking about how deeply layered some
of the easter eggs actually are.
This video won't be going through every spider-man who appears in the film and if you wanna watch
that then we've done a full breakdown on it linked here.
Instead this is the big name actors that go beyond just the suits and things from the
comics.
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Now a lot of the big cameos in the film happen during a scene in which the Spot travels across
the multiverse through using the portals on his body.
There's lots of different things here that tie in with the over arching spider-verse
and even things that you think might seem simple are pretty complex.
As we watch him swimming through the black and white void he firstly sticks his head
through a highly old fashioned animated world.
When the plot leaks for the film came out it said that this was a 1930s style reality
but I think its more likely than not just a nod to 1960s comics.
The characters Spider-man debuted in Amazing Fantasy 15 and this was released during 1962.
It had a similar sort of art style to what we see here with the pop art and almost polka
dot like thing they used to do with the colours.
Not called polka dot but you know what I mean.
In the universe the spot pops his head out and this frightens a woman who smacks him
over the head with a bag.
In the background we can see the flat iron and this is where the daily bugle was located
at in the spider-man raimi films.
Now speaking of the Daily Bugle we watch as the Spot travels into another the lego universe
which is where he destroys the Daily Bugle Sign.
I love how this universe is actually smaller than the other ones cos all the things there
are made out of lego.
Anyway though he disappears we end up going back there later on which is when we get a
vocal cameo by JK Simmons as J Jonah Jameson.
I love how he plays him across the entire spider-verse and yeah when you think about
it there's absolutely no one else that could play the media mogul.
J Jonah pops up at several points throughout the movie and you can hear him going off on
one over the radio and tv shows at several points.
Now you might notice in the background in the office that there's a doc ock still at
large newspaper stuck up on the wall.
This is a nod to the newspaper which appeared in Spider-man 2 when Doc Ock was wrecking
up manhattan.
In a really great continuity detail they actually made a lego version of this for the sets which
is so cool to see here.
Now The Spot ends up travelling into the Venom verse and we actually get the designation
of this earth.
In this universe in the comics Spider-man mutated into a monster but for the movies
it's clearly centred around Eddie Brock....well...I say that...but we all know who everything
revolves around here.
That is Mrs. Chen who makes a live action cameo working in her store.
She doesn't seem shocked at all to see the spot dropping in and she's of course seen
Eddie's parasite eat someone so I doubt anything surprises her anymore.
Now the scene I loved the most in the movie was when we see all the prisoners locked up
in the cells.
This had so many different characters and we of course had spider-man from the playstation
4 there.
I was unsure if actor Yuri Lowenthal who voices the character dropped some lines here but
he did appear at the premiere for the film so I'm guessing he is.
I'll have to double check on a second watch and ey, any reason I can get to go back and
watch this I'm down.
Now beside the ps4 version there was a little green man locked up and this was actually
the green goblin from the old Atari 2600.
There's typeface as well which....I'm sure he hits the glass and it says helvetica and
displays it in that font.
There's the rhino and a couple of others but the big one comes with the cell that miles
takes a real pause at.
Here we get a live action prowler who is being played by none other than Donald Glover.
Incase you don't know Glover has a lot of big ties to the franchise that go beyond just
his Homecoming MCU appearance.
All the way back when the Amazing Spider-man reboot was being talked about there were rumours
that they might take things in a different direction and cast a black actor in the role.
Bear in mind that Spider-man 3 released in 2007 and just 5 years later we had a full
on reboot.
There was a lot of talk that they'd need to do something different so it didn't make audiences
feel like we were getting the same sort of thing.
Now according to the rumours Glover was anxious for the role and thus to spark up some interest
for him he wore a spider-man costume on community.
This was during the episode Anthropology 101 and it's an entry that Brian Michael Bendis
just so happened to see.
At the time he was writing the seminal Ultimate Spider-man run which was a reimagining of
the character in which they reworked and modernised a lot of his classic stories.
At this point Michael Bendis was trying to find a way to bring in a new version of Spider-man
and he created Miles after being inspired by Glover in the show.
Now things would build on from this and Glover then ended up voicing the character in the
Ultimate Spider-man cartoon.
There were thoughts that he could eventually play the role but the man had what happens
to us all in that he got too old to play a high schooler.
how do fellow kids
However Marvel wanted to give a little nod to him and he was then cast as Miles uncle
arron in Spider-man Homecoming.
Popping up at several points in the movie he ended up even bringing up his nephew miles
at one point and this of course foreshadowed that he'd play the prowler eventually.
Well it looks like that has come true as we catch him in costume in this scene which is
such a cool easter egg.
Now to go even deeper we've actually had a live action glover pop up in the spider-verse
before.
If we go back to that first film then we could actually catch that Aaron had the community
episode on screen when miles was in his house.
So we had uncle aaron watching a scene that inspired his nephews creation who then went
on to voice him before....before he played Aaron in the MCU.
Lots of different things going on here but I absolutely love that they pulled this altogether
Now some of the voices we hear also have their own cool attachment to them.
At one point we get the spectacular spider-man and his voice is provided by Josh Keaton.
This is the same guy who played him in the animated series and it's so cool that they
actually brought him across here.
Originally it was thought that he was gonna play Spider-man in the animated what if zombies
episode.
This was cos the cast list dropped with his name on it but it turned out that he was actually
voicing Steve Rogers instead.
Hudson Thames did Spider-mans voice but its so cool that Across the Spider-verse paid
tribute to him.
We also have a moment in which A Doc Ock pops up and we get Alfred Molinas voice saying
Hello Peter.
Now with Andrew and Tobey coming back for No Way Home we also were obviously gonna get
them in some form too.
Though we don't see them specifically we do see some archive footage of the pair with
the big moments from their film franchises.
This has andrew watching Captain Stacy dying in the amazing spider-man film and uncle bens
death in the Raimi verse.
Both are major moments for Spider-men and this comes to be the defining part of their
existence.
That's what this movies about and I love how we have this laced throughout every aspect
of the film.
You have the defining moments as part of the plot but also the defining moments in who
appears in the film.
These actors and iterations are people who've helped to establish Spider-man as the major
character that he is in the MCU.
These cameos are his canon events too and it's so cool watching all these actors get
some love in what's my favourite spider-man film of all time.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed the video and if there's any other cameos or people who appeared
in the film then make sure you drop them below.
I have tried pointing out all the vocal and live action ones I could hear but yeah, let
me know if there's any others that I missed.
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