The Best Movies and TV Shows Like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Living a double life as Brooklyn’s resident web-slinger, Miles Morales struggles to balance his teenage responsibilities with his superhero duties, all while deeply missing his multiversal friends. His relationship with his parents is strained, especially as his mother Rio and father Jefferson anticipate a promotion for Jefferson. Meanwhile, across the infinite dimensions, Gwen Stacy grapples with her own fractured reality, struggling under the emotional weight of hiding her identity from her captain father, who ultimately tries to arrest her, forcing Gwen to flee her universe alongside a newly introduced elite team of dimensional web-slingers.Gwen secretly visits Miles, sparking a reunion that quickly turns bittersweet. Eager to see her again, Miles stealthily trails Gwen into the vibrant, chaotic multiverse. This pursuit leads him to a staggering, hidden citadel at the center of the dimensional web, commanded by the grim and formidable Miguel O'Hara. Miguel presides over the Spider-Society, an expansive collective of hundreds of Spider-people dedicated to preserving the delicate fabric of reality by protecting what Miguel calls "canon events"—predestined tragedies that must happen to every Spider-hero to cement their heroic destiny.Chaos erupts when Miles discovers a terrifying personal truth: the anomaly spider that bit him actually originated from another dimension, meaning Miles was never supposed to be Spider-Man at all. Worse yet, Miguel reveals that Miles's upcoming canon event involves the tragic death of his father, Jefferson, who is slated to die in days. Refused any help from Miguel and told he must let his father die for the greater cosmic good, Miles rebels, determined to rewrite his own destiny and save his family.A breathtaking, high-stakes chase ensues as hundreds of variant Spider-heroes hunt Miles across the dizzying expanse of the multiverse. Miles uses his unique electrical venom-blast abilities to break free and escape back to his home dimension, believing he has beaten Miguel's system. However, in a shocking twist, Miles discovers he has accidentally been sent back to the wrong universe—the dimension where the original radioactive spider came from. In this alternate reality, Peter Parker is dead, Jefferson is already gone, and an alternate, hardened version of Miles has tragically become the villainous Prowler. Gwen and a reformed band of loyal allies band together to rescue Miles, setting the stage for an explosive, emotional reckoning to save the multiverse.