Multiverse

- **Miguel O'Hara and Miles Morales**[src]

The **Multiverse** is the aggregate of all **dimensions** and **parallel realities** in existence. Together, these **universes** are presumed to comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called "**parallel universes**", "**other universes**", "**alternate universes**", and many others definitions.

The **Multiverse** is believed to be explained by the eternal inflation system, however, the exact nature of its existence is largely unknown to its inhabitants. There are numerous alternate **dimensions** or **universes** in this shared **multiverse**, each with their notable differences.

The **Multiverse** is always in fluctuation and every decision, tough or idea a person could make can result in the creation of several **alternate** or **parallel timelines**, some more similar than others. While normally separate from one another, there would be ways to open portals and travel to each one of them.

Even though the multiverse aggregates all alternate dimensions in existence, there is a small portion that is separated from most of the universes called the Web of Life and Destiny, also known as the **Spider-Verse**, which is the collection of every universe where there was, is, or going to be a Spider-Person along with all their lives, from the past, present and future.

## History

### Birth of the Multiverse

*"What is that?"
"This is everything."*
―Miles Morales and Miguel O'Hara[src]

The exact nature of the Multiverse is unknown but it can be assumed that the birth of the multiverse, like most universes, started with the release of the Big Bang or a deity figure. However it began, this gave rise to infinite universes with infinite possibilities through space and time.

Sometime later, the Multiverse developed a type of pocket dimension where it collected all the lives, stories and universes of every Spider-Person within it. This portion of the multiverse would later be nicknamed as the Web of Life and Destiny or more precisely, the Arachno-Humanoid Poly-Multiverse, and later, the Spider-Verse. Within this pocket dimension, concepts like "Canon Events" began forming, where a specific event became a constant and had to occur in each Spider-Person's life in order to bind and link all universes within the Web.

### Humanity's Discovery

*"Our universe is in fact one of many parallel universes happening at the exact same time. Thanks to everyone here at the Fisk Family Foundation for the Sciences, I will prove they exist when I build my supercollider."*
―Olivia Octavius[src]

In one particular universe, Olivia Octavius, secretly known as the supervillain Doctor Octopus, began to investigate multiversal theory as one of the first people to realize its existence. In other universes, other scientists would begin making the same discovery. Olivia would make a documentary video of her theory in which she details what she has discovered about the multiverse and how it works. She would receive funding for her research from Wilson Fisk through Alchemax, who would see the multiverse as a chance to recover his deceased family, and begin creating the Super-Collider while unaware of the catastrophic risks.

In an alternate future, Miguel O'Hara and his artificial intelligence, LYLA, discover the multiverse and begin to monitor it while trying to find a way to get past the barriers that separated their world from other universes.

### Collider Crisis

*"I killed Spider-Man. Why did I just see two more?"
"There’s three actually. No this is good, this is very, very good. It means you get what you want."*
―Kingpin and Doctor Octopus[src]

In the year 2018 of Earth-1610, that world's Peter Parker tried to stop the super-collider from being activated, as it risked creating a black hole that could destroy Brooklyn. However, he would be brutally injured by the collider's rays and eventually killed.

His contact with the collider resulted in Gwen Stacy, Peni Parker, Peter Porker, and two more counterparts of Parker being transported from their universes to the deceased Parker's universe. One of Parker's counterparts quickly realized that he was in another universe, having seen the news of his death. Deciding to visit his grave, Peter met Miles Morales, a boy with powers similar to him who is native to this dimension. Along the way, the duo decide to infiltrate Alchemax to steal information that could help them create a goober that could destroy the machine and return Peter home. On the way, they also meet Gwen Stacy, who was infiltrating the place at the same time and helps them defeat Doc Ock.

Asking for help at Aunt May's house, the trio would meet the rest of the Spider-People who were stranded in this universe and decide to team up to get back home. Miles Morales also wished to help but the others objected due to his lack of experience. Broken and discouraged after the death of his uncle and inability to help his friends, Miles gets some inspiring words from his father, and returns to the group, working together to defeat most of the villains in Fisk Tower. In the end, each Spider-People return to their respective universes with Morales staying to face Kingpin on his own.

### The First Multiversal Jump

*"You could be the first person to make an autonomous multiverse jump, or the last."*
―LYLA to Spider-Man 2099[src]

Back in the futuristic universe known as Earth-928, Miguel O'Hara successfully manages to create a multiversal travel watch with the help of Lyla. Managing to be the first known person to be able to travel safely between realities at will. Using this discovery, he would visit Earth-67, just to end up arguing with its Spider-Man.

#### Spider-Society

Sometime later, Miguel would travel to other universes recruiting other Spider-People to his group to send displaced villains home. The founding members included Jessica Drew from Earth-332, Peter B. Parker from Earth-616, and the Earth-67 version of Spider-Man. Later, Ben Reilly of Earth-94 and Julia Carpenter would join the cause. They based their operations inside a massive building on Miguel's home dimension in Earth-928, with their elite strike force becoming known as the Spider-Society.

#### The Canon Incident

At some point, Miguel O'Hara learned of an Earth where a duplicate of himself, without Spider Powers, was living a happy life with a wife and daughter. While observing said universe, the alternate Miguel was shot and killed trying to stop a robber. Feeling pity on him and his family, Miguel of Earth-928 secretly took his place and lived with his family*.* Unfortunately, Miguel's actions led to the disruption of a Canon Event, which caused a Quantum Hole to form and that universe to begin unraveling. Despite the efforts of Miguel and Peter B. Parker, the universe was destroyed around them, leaving the two of them as the only survivors.

This event would have a profound impact both on Miguel O'Hara and the Spider-Society. Miguel, haunted by his role in the incident, became singularly focused on preventing other disruptions from occurring, despite being further stressed by the decisions he would need to make to uphold the Canon. Now armed with knowledge of how dangerous Anomalies truly were, the Society's operation became dedicated to finding, capturing and sending them all home at any cost. Furthermore, Spider-People who were inherent anomalies (such as Miles Morales of Earth-1610) were barred from being recruited or even visited by members of the Society.

### Spider-Man Multiversal Crisis

*"Don't even get me started, on Doctor Strange and that little nerd back on Earth-199999!"*
―Spider-Man 2099 to Spider-Woman[src]

In another universe's 2024, after his identity as Spider-Man was exposed, this version of Peter Parker asked Stephen Strange to cast a spell that would erase everyone's memory of his identity. Doctor Strange agreed to cast the spell, however thanks to the boy's interruptions, the spell went horribly wrong, managing to cause damage to the Multiverse.

The spell's failure causes everyone who knows Spider-Man's identity in the entire multiverse to come from their native universes into this one, including two alternate versions of himself. Realizing what he has just done, Peter resolves to capture the villains himself to fix his mistake, so that they can be returned to their home universes. However, he will regret it later after realizing that when they return to their universe they will die. Peter's decision to help them avoid their fate before returning them to his universe brought him into conflict with Strange.

After a difficult battle, Peter would win, deciding to help the villains by creating cures for each one of them. However, along the way, one of them would rebel against Peter, managing to convince the rest of the villains to do the same. After a tough battle with the Green Goblin, Peter would lose his beloved Aunt May, developing a grudge against Norman Osborn and seeking to kill the Goblin in revenge.

Sometime afterward, Peter would meet his two displaced counterparts , who help him to get out of that darkness and team up with him to cure and defeat the villains. In the aftermath, Peter would make Strange cast a new spell, making his entire universe to forget about his existence, managing to repair his universe and make all the displaced people return to their respective universes.

### Multiverse Instability

Despite the Society's efforts, the number of anomalies appearing had no end in sight and, in fact, were apparently increasing. Miguel believed that this was due to the Collider Crisis on Earth-1610 and, worse, the Spider-man there who only existed by mistake. The Society was very successful in capturing many Anomalies before they could disrupt a universe's Canon...but they often failed to do so as well. The Society developed measures to slow or suspend the spread of the Quantum Holes, but they were not always "lucky" enough to stop them before the universe was destroyed. With every universe that was destroyed, the multiverse grew more and more unstable.

### The Spider-War

When an Anomaly appeared on Earth-65*,* Miguel O'Hara traveled there to handle it personally, saving that universe's Spider-Woman. After capturing the Vulture, with the help of Jessica Drew, Jess took pity on Gwen Stacy, who was now an outcast in her own reality and hunted by her own father as a criminal. At Jessica's urging, Miguel accepted Gwen into the Society, granting her a watch. After being recruited, Gwen was told the harsh truth about her dear friend Miles Morales and was ordered to never visit him on Earth-1610. Gwen reluctantly agreed and spent several months as a Spider-Society agent, often working alongside Hobart Brown of Earth-138 and occasionally crashing in his dimension as member of his band.

Eventually, a new anomaly appeared which Gwen was sent to investigate and capture. Instead, Gwen took the opportunity to disobey her orders and visit Miles. After spending almost a day together, Gwen abruptly leaves and Miles (feeling left out without knowing why he hasn't been recruited into the Spider-Society) secretly follows her. Miles finds himself on Earth-50101, where he Gwen and two other Spider-men fail to stop the Spot and are forced to save civilians from falling rubble. During the chaos, Miles saves Inspector Singh and accidentally disrupts a Canon Event, causing that universe to begin collapsing.

After the Society appears to deal with the Quantum Hole, Miguel orders Gwen, Miles and Hobie back to HQ. Once there, Miguel explains Canon Events to Miles and Miles realizes that his father qualifies for Event ASM-90, where a police captain Spider-man knows is killed. Miguel and the Society refuse to allow Miles to leave and try to convince him to accept his father's impending death. When Miles refuses, Miguel locks him in an Anomaly Prison. With Hobie's advice, Miles breaks free and runs away, with Miguel ordering all available agents to give chase.

Miguel and the Society chase Miles through Nueva York, and Miguel becomes angry enough to reveal to Miles that he is the "Original Anomaly" supposedly to blame for the current multiversal crisis. Despite this, Miles reveals that he intentionally lured Miguel and the rest of the Society away from their HQ and blasts Miguel with his Venom Blast, taking the opportunity to double back to Spider-Society HQ, sneak past Margo Kess, and activate the machine. Unfortunately, the machine erroneously reads his DNA as originating from Earth-42 and sends Miles there instead.

For her part in this, Gwen is kicked out of the Society while Miguel, Ben and Jess travel to Earth-1610 to search for Miles. Peter B. Parker, Peni Parker, Pavitr Prabhakar, Hobie Brown, and Margo Kess all quit the Society, and Gwen reconciles with her father, learning that he has quit the police force and seemingly averted his Canon Event. Her father gives her a Web-Watch left by Hobie, and Gwen uses this to recruit the other defectors from the Society along with her old friends Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Ham to search for Miles and help him prevent his father's death.

## Known Universes

* **Earth-616** : The prime universe, where there Peter Benjamin Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider in his teens and after losing his Uncle Ben, he decided to become the protector of New York City, known as Spider-Man. This universe is also the home to Peter's wife Mary Jane Watson, their daughter and many others supervillains that Peter Parker has faced during his superhero career. Apart from Spider-Man this universe also serves as the home of other superheroes, such as the Hulk, the Avengers, as well as other supervillains that formed part of their rouge galleries such as H.Y.D.R.A.
* **Earth-1610** : An alternate universe where after the death of that world's Peter Parker, Miles Morales, a teen with powers similar to him, decide to become the new Spider-Man of that world.
* **Earth-65** : An alternate universe in which Gwen Stacy was bitten by the radioactive spider instead of her best friend, Peter Parker.
* **Earth-90214** : An alternate universe with a noir-like environment, set in black and white, where Peter Parker became Spider-Man in the 1930s.
* **Earth-14512** : An alternate universe set in the future, being specifically set in the 32nd century. There, following the death of her father, Peni Parker decides to continue his legacy by piloting his father's robot.
* **Earth-8311** : An alternate universe whose logic, aesthetic and science are based on those of the Looney Tunes-type cartoons. There, a spider named Peter was bitten by a radioactive pig becoming Spider-Ham.
* **Earth-928** : Another alternate universe set in the future, this time in the year 2099. There, Miguel O'Hara became the vigilante known as the Spider-Man of that world he will also create an artefact to travel across the different dimensions.
* **Earth-67** : An alternate universe who appear to be stuck in the 1960s, where Peter Parker became Spider-Man in the year 1967.
* **Earth-50101** : An alternate universe and the home of Pavitr Prabhakar also known as the Spider-Man of India.
* **Earth-404** : An alternate universe and the home of Jessica Drew also known as Spider-Woman.
* **Earth-138** : An alternate universe and the home of Hobie Brown also known as Spider-Man.
* **Earth-1161** :
* **Earth-96283** : An alternate universe and the home of The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
* **Earth-120703** : An alternate universe and the home of The Amazing Spider-Man.
* **Earth-199999** : An alternate universe and the home of Prowler, Doctor Strange and a version of Spider-Man who is a ¨little nerd¨ who both did something that almost destroyed the multiverse.
* **Earth-688** : An alternate universe who serves as the home of Venom and Morbius.
* **Earth-26496** : An alternate universe who serves as the home of the Spectacular Spider-Man.
* **Earth-751263** : An alternate universe who serves as the home of Spider-Man Unlimited.
* **Earth-1048** : An alternate universe who serves as the home of Insomaniac Spider-Man and his pupil, Miles Morales.
* **Earth-1218** : An alternate universe where all the superheroes and supervillains are fictional character created by Marvel Comics. The inhabitants of this universe are able to look other universe trough comics, movies and other fictional media.
* **Earth-13122** : An alternate universe make of Lego bricks and the home of Lego Spider-Man.
* **Earth-53931** : An alternate universe who is inhabits by sentient vehicles and the home of Spider-Mobile.
* **Earth-94** : An alternate universe and the home to Peter Parker and his clone Ben Reilly.
* **Earth-42** : An alternate universe without a Spider-Man who serves as the home of Aaron Davis and the Prowler.
* **Earth-66** : An alternate universe who serves as the home of Spider-Rex.
* **Earth-835** : An alternate universe and the home of Spider-UK.
* **Earth-8107**: An alternate universe and the home of Videoman along with an alternate version Spider-Man and his superhero team.
* **Earth-616A** : An alternate universe also known as The **Prime Marvel Universe**, whose is considered to be the source dimension of the multiverse. Most of the events that happened in this universe are used by the Spider-Society as the main example of the canon events that needs to happen in order to maintain the multiverse in order.
* **Earth-1610A** : An alternate universe also known as The **Ultimate Marvel Universe** who serve as the home of a young version of Peter Parker as well as it clones most notable Ultimate Tarantula and Jessica Drew.
* **Earth-65A**: An alternate universe also known as The **Spider-Gwen's Universe** who serve as the home of an alternate version of Spider-Gwen and her Venom.
* **Earth-8311A**: An alternate universe also known as The **Larval Universe** who serves as the home of Mooseterio and an alternate version of Spider-Ham.
* **Earth-928A**: An alternate universe also known as The **Marvel Universe 2099** who serves as the home of an alternate version of Miguel O'Hara and his Venom.
* **Earth-138A:** An alternate universe also known as The **Spider-Punk's Universe who** serves as the home of an alternate version of Spider-Punk.

## Unnamed Universes

*More information:* **List of Unidentified Universes**

## Inter-Dimensional Travel

*"Hey, are you okay?"
"No, I'm not."
"What's going on with your body?"
 "I don't think my atoms are real jazzed about being in the wrong dimension."*
―Miles and Peter.[src]

Traveling between dimensions is incredibly difficult and very dangerous, there are several ways to travel between realities although most happen unintentionally. The travel between universes can be given through inter-dimensional portals, a kind of black holes that had to open involuntarily after the activation of a machine like the super-collider. Being in a different universe from the one of his origin is very risky because sooner or later you will start to feel the side effects of staying in a foreign universe for a long time, which is that your atoms began to deteriorate very slowly but painfully, causing the person of the other universe to "glitch" painfully. If the person in question stays for a long time in a universe that is not their own, eventually their atoms will disintegrate to the point that the person will die slowly and painfully.

*"You could be the first person to make an autonomous multiverse jump, or the last."*
―LYLA to Spider-Man 2099[src]

In the year 2099 of another universe, Miguel O'Hara (also known as the Spider-Man of that universe) would create a gizmo, a device to be able to travel between universes in command without the risk of suffering any "glitch" side effect.

## Trivia

* The Multiverse it's a central theme in The Spider Verse Saga and it was introduced in the first movie, becoming a used concept since then.
* Despite its in-universe designations, as this film series is an adaptation, officially, the universes form part of the large Multiverse of the comics thanks to that they have been assigned with temporary Earth-Numbers, but after Across the Spider-Verse the official names of the universe are : Miles' E-1610 as Earth-1610B, Peter's E-616 as Earth-616B, Gwen's E-65 as Earth-65B, Peter's E-90214 as Earth 90214B, Peni's E-14512 as Earth-141512B, Peter's E-8311 as Earth-8311B and Miguel O'Hara's E-928 as Earth-928B.
	+ In the comics, Earth-1610 is the "ultimate-universe" — the main setting of most of the ultimate comics, a comic book story lines that present younger and modernized version of the Marvel superheroes.
	+ In the comics, Earth-616 is the "prime-universe" — the main setting of most of its non-alternate universe story lines.
	+ In the comics, Earth-8311 is a universe of anthropomorphic animal super-heroes.
* Some of the universe that appears in the Spider-Verse franchise are Spider-Man adaptations from other media like Earth-67, the universe of the Spider-Man Animated Series from 1967 took place.
	+ The Earth-199999 is the designation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the main setting of most series and movies created by Marvel Studios who shared with Sony the rights of Spider-Man as well as their version of the character.
		- In the films *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness* and *Thor 2: The Dark World* and the series *Loki,* the MCU give itself the in-universe designation of Earth-616 as a reference to the original universe, Earth-616A*.*
* In *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*, Miguel O'Hara uses the same visual presentation of the Multiverse as used in Marvel Cinematic Universe instalments such as *Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big\_Bang
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*: Post-Credit Scene
5. ↑ As depicted in the film *Spider-Man: No Way Home*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse*
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - International Trailer
8. ↑ Earth-1610A on the Marvel wiki
9. ↑ Earth-616A on the Marvel wiki
10. ↑ Earth-8311A on the Marvel wiki