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Why does 42 appear in spider-verse? ›

Co-director of the Spider-Verse films, Peter Ramsay, spoke with Business Insider in 2020, explaining why he chose to use 42 in the films: Forty-two was Jackie Robinson's jersey number for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Across the Spider-Verse takes that relatability further by showing how Black folks look out for each other, protect each other, and defend each other — especially in spaces where so few of us exist. Across the Spider-Verse centers around 15-year-old Miles Morales trying to find community.

Production on Across the Spider-Verse was completed on May 20, 2023, 13 days before the U.S. release date. With a runtime of 140 minutes, it is the longest animated film ever produced by an American studio, surpassing Consuming Spirits (2012).

This radioactive spider, originally native to Earth-42, was originally destined to bite the Miles Morales of its world, transforming him into its Spider-Man.

In the film Avengers: Endgame (2019), Ant-Man's van was being held in a storage area labeled "616". In the film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), Mysterio claims that the main Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity exists on "Earth-616", despite every line the character says comes from a fictional writer named Guterman.

Gwen Stacy—the Spider-Gwen/Ghost-Spider version, at least—was 19 when she was intoduced, and at the end of Spider-Gwen (Vol. 2) she spent a year in prison, making her ~20 to 21 years old currently…

Miles is 13 years old in his first appearance. By the end of the series, he's likely to be around 14-15 years old.

Peter is of slightly above-average height, with a lean but muscular build, weighing 167 lbs. and standing 5'10" in height. He has brown hair and hazel eyes.

Miles Morales is a young man living in New York who was also bitten by a radioactive spider, allowing him to help Peter Parker as a fellow Spider-Man. Despite facing serious tragedies in his life so far, Miles is determined to save others from his fate by fighting crime alongside Peter.

He portrayed the the Earth-1610 variant of Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

What is Earth-42 in Spider-Verse? ›

Earth-42 is a universe where no Spider-People exist and crime plagued New York City. This universe had a quick appearance in the second film, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It will appear once again in the Spider-Verse trilogy's third and final film Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.

Trivia. The Oz Experiment Arachnid No. 42, the spider which bit Miles Morales in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1 had a 42 on it representing its experiment number. On Earth-1610B, the number on the back of the spider that bites Miles Morales represents that it's from Earth-42.

The number 42 appears in key scenes throughout "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," and it's also present in the original comic book. Some fans believed it was a nod to Douglas Adams' book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," but it's not. It's a reference to baseball legend Jackie Robinson's jersey number.

In Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the number from which all meaning ("the meaning of life, the universe, and everything") can be derived. However, its actual significance is open to interpretation.