Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension. Wikipedia ↗

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a 2018 American animated superhero film directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman. The film follows Miles Morales, a Brooklyn teenager of African-American and Puerto Rican descent who gains spider-powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider, just as the villainous Kingpin activates a particle accelerator that opens portals to parallel dimensions. Through these portals arrive Spider-People from alternate universes — including Peter B.

Parker, a middle-aged, out-of-shape Spider-Man, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker, and Spider-Ham — who must work together to stop Kingpin's machine and return to their own dimensions before reality collapses. Into the Spider-Verse revolutionized animation with a visual style that had never been seen before in a major film — the animators developed a technique that combined computer animation with hand-drawn elements, comic book visual language including Ben-Day dots, motion lines, and thought bubbles, and a variable frame rate that gave different characters distinct movement rhythms. The result looked like a living comic book and required Sony Pictures Imageworks to develop entirely new production tools.

The film earned $375 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, breaking Pixar and Disney's near-monopoly on the category. Peter Ramsey became the first African-American to direct a film that won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The character of Miles Morales, originally created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli for Marvel Comics in 2011, became a pop culture icon through the film and demonstrated that audiences were hungry for diverse representation in superhero storytelling.