YouBet said:
So, I've never heard of spiderverse until this thread started mentioning the movie and I saw a commercial. I looked it up on marvel database and I'm still confused by it.
There seems to be hundreds of other Earth's with some form of Spiderman hero on each Earth and someone wants them all dead for some reason.
Were all of these Earth's ever part of any other character's comic or were they all self-contained to a Spiderman comic?
Also, I noticed spiderham and i recognized that for some reason. Looked it up and realized I had read one of those when I was a kid. It was a spoof comic and I guess they have incorporated here which is funny. I used to own the one shot of that. Will see if I still have it in the small collection I've been carrying around since childhood.
Multi-verses are sort of a common thing in Comicbooks. Many writers will have an interesting idea (I know! What if we write about a Medieval team of knights with Avengers!) and then they run with it. Or they'll take a famous story from the comics (Peter Parker failing to save Gwen Stacy) and use the "What if something different occurred" as a writing prompt.
I'm no comic book reader, only occasionally reading one when I hear that an upcoming movie is going to be inspired by the comic book title (Avengers: Age of Ultron, for example) but I know that the multiverse concept is what they use to explain how there can be stories where Batman is a pirate, Batman is in some sort of Dickinson industrial revolution setting and is investigating Jack the Ripper, or is old (Dark Knight Returns) and comes out of retirement. There is even a universe where Bruce Wayne is killed in that fateful night and his
father becomes a gun-toting violent Batman and his Martha Wayne snaps and becomes that universes Joker. Sometimes they create stories where these universes can collide and the heroes can meet their counterparts.
In the case of Marvel, beyond just having one-off stories featuring different versions of their famous characters they created a new line of comics set in a different universe with tweaks of their characters as a way to restart their characters without the baggage of 60 years of history. For example, just look at Spiderman. In the "main" universe Peter Parker is in his 20s or 30s, married, etc. In this new universe, Peter is a teenager again who eventually gets killed in a fight and somehow Miles Morales (the young black kid) eventually becomes the new Spiderman in his place. I don't know enough about the other Spidermen out there (trenchcoat guy, spider girl, pig, etc) to talk about them, but I guess they each exist in their own universe.
