Sony's SPIDER-MAN Universe Now Has An Official Name From The Studio (And It's Not The Spider-Verse)

Sony's SPIDER-MAN Universe Now Has An Official Name From The Studio (And It's Not The Spider-Verse)

We've been calling Sony's version of the Marvel Universe everything from the Spider-Verse to the SUMC, but this shared world now has an official name courtesy of Sony Pictures. Read on for details...

By JoshWilding - May 01, 2020 03:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man
Source: IGN

With titles like Morbius and Venom: Let There Be Carnage helping create a shared world adjacent to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there's been a lot of discussion about what it should be called. Many fans like calling it the "Spider-Verse" (since it ties into Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), but a semi-official title has thus far been the "SUMC."

That stands for Sony's Universe of Marvel Characters, but IGN recently reached out to the studio and received some clarification: it's actually called Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters.

So, that's the SPUMC (or possibly the SPUOMC?). It's not quite as catchy as the Marvel Cinematic Universe/MCU, but at least this shared world has an official title. DC's movies still don't, with "DC Films" the only semi-official title for a realm fans still refer to as the DC Extended Universe. 

Spider-Man's adventures still take place in the MCU, of course, and the SPUMC is likely to expand over the next few years with more spinoffs, including Kraven the Hunter, and possibly Silver & Black.

Both Morbius and Venom: Let There Be Carnage have been pushed to 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, so it's going to be a while before we get to see how this world continues to expand. At any rate, if you start seeing the word "SPUMC" popping up here on CBM, you now know why!

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tmp3
tmp3 - 5/1/2020, 3:48 AM
SPUMC sounds even worse than SUMC. Good job.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 5/1/2020, 4:41 AM
@tmp3 - Trust Sony to even f*ck up something as simple as the name.
dragon316
dragon316 - 5/1/2020, 11:16 AM
@tmp3 - gotta love text talk I talk text to people I never talk like that I talk in text in full words imagine whole speaking like hi how are you = hhay
BrainySleep
BrainySleep - 5/1/2020, 3:57 AM
Judean People's Front? We're the People's Front Of Judea!
duncboy
duncboy - 5/1/2020, 4:04 AM
This is old news, why reposting now?
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 5/1/2020, 4:07 AM
Sony's Marvel universe is still the best in my opinion
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 5/1/2020, 4:10 AM
YIKES
TheOverseer
TheOverseer - 5/1/2020, 4:15 AM
I don't usually comment but I have to say, just when you think Sony cannot get any more stupid, they prove everyone wrong yet again.
cdpacheco89
cdpacheco89 - 5/1/2020, 4:17 AM
Its officially referred to as the DCEU by the way. It was announced with BVS
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/1/2020, 4:49 AM
@cdpacheco89 - WB officially announced the title "DCEU" the way a fifteen-year-old officially announces their nickname is "Jizzer". And now they're looking through their old yearbooks and cringing.

Sorry, Dave. You may wish we could all forget about the phases you when through, but we never will. You'll always be Jizzer to us.
Repian
Repian - 5/1/2020, 4:21 AM
It would be perfect if "SPUNC" is a universe of the Multiverse and apart from the Spider-Holland universe. SPUNC may have Ben Reilly.
tmp3
tmp3 - 5/1/2020, 4:23 AM
@Repian - Or Andrew Garfield as Parker
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/1/2020, 4:33 AM
@tmp3 - Yes, please.

...possibly even "Yas, please."
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 5/1/2020, 7:30 PM
@Repian - I need some Ben Reilly in my life.
Schme83
Schme83 - 5/1/2020, 4:21 AM
Rolls off the tongue
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 5/1/2020, 4:24 AM
"I trust Sony"

Sony:

Kumkani
Kumkani - 5/1/2020, 4:57 AM
Now everyone is gonna start saying spunk
DoubleD
DoubleD - 5/1/2020, 5:10 AM
Well that sounds STUPID !!!
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 5/1/2020, 5:14 AM
sounds like a load of spunk
TexasAvenger
TexasAvenger - 5/1/2020, 5:21 AM
Pretty appropriate that the worst universe of superhero movies has the worst name too.
tmp3
tmp3 - 5/1/2020, 6:14 AM
@DrRichards - I mean, Wonder Woman was a critically acclaimed block-buster; that already puts it over Venom and Morbius.
TexasAvenger
TexasAvenger - 5/1/2020, 6:25 AM
@DrRichards - "DCEU" indeed stinks but at this point I think a lot of people are just used to it lol.
WeaponXCII
WeaponXCII - 5/1/2020, 5:23 AM
And I thought it couldn’t get any worse....
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/1/2020, 5:36 AM
Someone got PAID to come up with that
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