We recently broke down many of the changes made to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in its Digital release. However, for those of you who have sat down to rewatch the hit animated sequel, there might be something about the big twist ending which now feels a little different.
In the movie, Miles Morales inadvertently finds himself on Earth-42, the reality which the spider bit him originally hailed from. There, his father has died and his uncle isn't Prowler...he is. With Miles face-to-face with his alternate-reality counterpart, we were left with a major cliffhanger that's obviously going to be addressed in the currently undated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
As we first reported on Toonado.com, while the ending itself remains largely the same, Earth-1610's Miles now has fewer lines and the text boxes which popped up on screen to accompany his thoughts are nowhere to be seen.
Instead, we hear Miguel O'Hara's previous comments - "The spider that gave you your powers wasn’t from your dimension" - echo in the wall-crawler's head. That moment helps get across the fact the teenager is stranded in the wrong reality.
Why have these edits been made? Well, the twist is now a little harder to telegraph in those final few minutes, so that's likely the driving force behind the decision. There's also a chance the text boxes were meant as a stylistic decision for Earth-42 which has since been altered as Beyond the Spider-Verse continues taking shape.
"There was an international version that was made almost two months before the movie came out because it had to be translated into different languages and these French censors have to decide what the rating of the movie is in Europe," producer Chris Miller recently said of the changes. "The team at [Sony Pictures] Imageworks still had some shots that they felt they could do better for the finished version."
"So, they cleaned up and tweaked those things." Lord, meanwhile, added: "It was trying to make the best possible version that everyone was going to be the proudest of. I think most of the changes are improvements."
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now available on Digital and hits Blu-ray on September 5.