Oct 4, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 10 segments
Into the Spider-Verse shocked the film and comic book lover communities with its engaging story and characters, incredible art style, and triumphant superhero moments. Can the sequel, Across the…
Andrew CoonsHost
Jeremy CobbHost
This film was directed by Joaquin Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dave Callaham.
Into the Spider-Verse, when it came out, was, I don't think it's wrong to call it revolutionary, both in its animation style and also its storytelling.
We have got a lot of multiverse films lately, including one of our favorites, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
if you could pin the grandfather of the modern multiverse films or the originator of the modern multiverse films on somewhere, I'd put it on Into the Spider-Verse.
Like it may not have been the first, but it was definitely the first to do it right.
Yeah, it was the first movie that seemed to, because if I was going to go back to where I think multiverse stuff really started to first enter the public consciousness, I would actually go back to the classic community episode, season three, Remedial Chaos Theory, which community may not have been the most viewed show when it was on the air, but within a few years of that episode being released, the phrase, the darkest timeline, this is the darkest timeline.
People who I'm pretty sure had never seen the show were talking about the darkest timeline, which is a phrase that, sure, may have originated elsewhere, but I first saw it in the show community.
And that episode, in fact, was voted the number one TV sitcom episode of all time within a few years of first being released.
And then, of course, Dan Harmon, the creator of Community, the showrunner of that season, then solidified that concept with his next show, Rick and Morty, where we start to see the Council of Ricks, all of the interdimensional stuff with all the different Rick and Mortys.
And I totally agree with you with shows like Community and Rick and Morty definitely helped ideas permeate the consciousness.
But when I think of society, culture, really understanding what we're talking about with a multiverse story, I think Into the Spider-Verse solidified what people think that should look like.
and what they're expecting from things, because in a lot of ways, the films we've gotten since then have been attempts to do what Into the Spider-Verse did, whether it's Spider- Far From Home, whether it's Doctor Strange, Multiverse of
Madness...
No
Far From Home
This film was directed by Joaquin Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, written by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dave Callaham.
Into the Spider-Verse, when it came out, was, I don't think it's wrong to call it revolutionary, both in its animation style and also its storytelling.
We have got a lot of multiverse films lately, including one of our favorites, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
if you could pin the grandfather of the modern multiverse films or the originator of the modern multiverse films on somewhere, I'd put it on Into the Spider-Verse.
Like it may not have been the first, but it was definitely the first to do it right.
Yeah, it was the first movie that seemed to, because if I was going to go back to where I think multiverse stuff really started to first enter the public consciousness, I would actually go back to the classic community episode, season three, Remedial Chaos Theory, which community may not have been the most viewed show when it was on the air, but within a few years of that episode being released, the phrase, the darkest timeline, this is the darkest timeline.
People who I'm pretty sure had never seen the show were talking about the darkest timeline, which is a phrase that, sure, may have originated elsewhere, but I first saw it in the show community.
And that episode, in fact, was voted the number one TV sitcom episode of all time within a few years of first being released.
And then, of course, Dan Harmon, the creator of Community, the showrunner of that season, then solidified that concept with his next show, Rick and Morty, where we start to see the Council of Ricks, all of the interdimensional stuff with all the different Rick and Mortys.
And I totally agree with you with shows like Community and Rick and Morty definitely helped ideas permeate the consciousness.
But when I think of society, culture, really understanding what we're talking about with a multiverse story, I think Into the Spider-Verse solidified what people think that should look like.
and what they're expecting from things, because in a lot of ways, the films we've gotten since then have been attempts to do what Into the Spider-Verse did, whether it's Spider- Far From Home, whether it's Doctor Strange, Multiverse of
Madness...
No
Far From Home
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