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Why is the identity of the actor voicing Spider-Man kept secret even in the commentary?
The voice has been altered because, as Will says, the person doing the commentary isn't the actor of Spider Man from the movie, but the actual Spider Man, who was a consultant on the movie, and his ...
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What did Scott Lang mean by "living as a tenant of the state"?
I believe he's referring to his living circumstances in the years before his house arrest: breaking up with his then-wife Maggie ("since being kicked out by Maggie"); followed by, as we see ...
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What is a "hard-boiled turtle-slapper"?
It's supposed to be 1920s-style street-slang-from-another-dimension, but in reality is actually just meaningless nonsense.
It's possible that it wasn't even supposed to end up in the movie. It seems ...
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If Miles doesn’t consider Peter’s actions as hacking, then what does he think Peter is doing to the computer?
Peter's plan was, evidently, to shadow the Head Scientist until he can use her computer to access her files. He refers to this as 'hacking' her computer.
Miles POPS into the multi-panel image of ...
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What did Scott Lang mean by "living as a tenant of the state"?
He seems to be speaking euphemistically about the time he was quartered by the state:
After infiltrating VistaCorp’s headquarters and hacking into the system so he could return the stolen profits, ...
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Why is the identity of the actor voicing Spider-Man kept secret even in the commentary?
If I'm following this correctly, this is commentary on an in-universe movie, inside a deleted scene from the actual movie.
The quote you've included doesn't say that this is the actor playing Spider-...
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If Miles doesn’t consider Peter’s actions as hacking, then what does he think Peter is doing to the computer?
It is a computer nerd joke.
“Hacking” just means using a computer really well to do cool stuff — at least to the people who invented the term. ESR (yes, the Eric S Raymond) has a whole section about ...
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If Miles doesn’t consider Peter’s actions as hacking, then what does he think Peter is doing to the computer?
This is pure semantics, an illustration of Miles' urge to prove himself capable, and another nod to a stereotypical movie device (like how Peter B. refers to the USB flash drive as a "goober"...
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How did the cop infer from Uncle Aaron's statement that Miles has been visiting?
Jeff is already fully aware that his son, Miles has been seeing his brother, Aaron. Jeff's visit seems to have been prompted by an earlier conversation (also included in the Alternate Universe Cut) in ...
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Why does Jeff think that having a story at all seems gross?
Jeff is not happy that the counsellor is suggesting that they 'play the race card' in order to get around Miles' obvious shortcomings (truancy and a relatively poor grade in Spanish), in order to get ...
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Why is Aunt May holding a baseball bat in this scene?
The baseball bat is Chekov's gun. We see her wielding it in an earlier scene, presumably to discourage ardent fans from trying to push into the house (memorabilia-hunting, maybe?).
Then, in another ...
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What "other Peter" is Miles referring to?
Miles is talking about this happening, where Spider-Man is thrown into the collider beam by Green Goblin:
Miles calls him the "other Peter" in this ...
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What's the purpose of scanning the area before opening the portal?
They're checking that nobody else in the vicinity is from another dimension. It's possible that when the portal opened, others came through, either of their own volition or simply because they got ...
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What prompted Jeff to mention Miles' commitment to school?
By being at home on a school night, Miles is implicitly ditching homework, and risking being tired due to lack of sleep the next day. And the school is a big deal for Miles and his family.
Miles lives ...
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What does "already dead" mean?
The police officers inform him that Peter Parker, known as Spider-Man, is dead.
Exactly; in this alternate universe, the original Peter Parker/Spider-Man belonging to it just died (we just witnessed ...
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Do people in the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse series notice that people are drawn in different animation/art styles?
Yes, characters do notice the different art styles.
In the Spider-Verse series, characters are indeed aware of the varying animation and art styles representing different universes. This is explicitly ...
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What "documentary" is Miles referring to?
The documentary that is being shown in the class where he's trying to sneak in because he is late, near the start of the movie.
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How was this character killed in Deadpool and Wolverine?
The Juggernaut that appears in Deadpool and Wolverine is implicitly the same one from X-Men: The Last Stand, as he wears the same costume. (Vinnie Jones was approached to reprise the role but turned ...
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Who might be watching Peter Noir according to his statement about an unexpected audience?
The script indicates that the Spider-crew are perched very high up, watching Kingpin through the skylights of his penthouse apartment.
It's Kingpin, therefore, who wouldn't be expecting an audience ...
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What did Miles’s associate steal from Alchemax?
"your guy" is referring to the Spider-Man/Peter Parker in Miles' universe, and not an associate of Miles.
The Peter Parker (from another universe) talking to Miles is saying he needs to ...
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Has any character or setting introduced in a Marvel Television production gone on to appear in an MCU movie?
Matt Murdock, from Netflix's Daredevil series (2015), made his cinematic debut in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
This marked the first instance of a character introduced in a Marvel Television ...
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Is Ghost's status known by the time of "Avengers: Endgame"?
Ghost / Ava Starr is alive and will return in Thunderbolts* (2025)
Ghost's fate after Avengers: Endgame has been confirmed: she survived and is set to appear in the upcoming MCU film Thunderbolts*.
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Why did Kingpin blame Miles for the loss of his family?
Miles disrupted the dimensional machine that Kingpin was using to pull in copies of his deceased family. As a result, Kingpin now blames him for not having those family members.
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What's the purpose of scanning the area before opening the portal?
I believe the point is that he's trying to make sure that Vulture isn't leaving behind any persons or items that would disrupt this world before he throws him through. Imagine if, say, Vulture had ...
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Is Miguel contradicting himself in this situation?
The script is a little clearer. Miguel doesn't just want the Vulture not to escape, he's positively hunting him. The helicopter is getting in his way just at the moment that he was about to capture ...
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What "documentary" is Miles referring to?
Miles sees her in the documentary at the start of the film. She's talking about a grant from the Fisk Foundation for her work.
Per the screenplay:
INT. VISIONS ACADEMY ...
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What prompted Jeff to mention Miles' commitment to school?
As a side note to this, recidivism to home from college is really bad in early years and can often lead to dropping out (I remember several people from my freshman year who went home every weekend and ...
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What does "these guys" refer to?
He's referring to the scientist types that he hired to help him create his whizzy new superdimensional supercolliding supercollider. You see one of them fleeing when they realise that Kingpin is going ...
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What does "They" in "They're gone" refer to?
Kingpin is trying to replace his dead wife Vanessa and son Richard with copies from somewhere in the multiverse.
Spider-Man is trying to stop the collider from opening the multiverse and causing ...
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How did the Loki Variants know Alioth's name?
In the 2024 MCU film Deadpool & Wolverine, which is largely set in the Void, we encounter several Void inhabitants who are familiar with Alioth, even referring to it by name. One such character, ...
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