During the climactic battle, Klaw blasted Spider-Man with some sonics. The symbiote pulled away to reveal nothing underneath but Peter Parker’s skeleton. This turned out to be far from a surprise to the heroes as Human Torch saved him and moved on without a second thought. THE ANIMATED SERIES FINALE

Beyond that, Intihar discussed how great it was to also see their relationship blossom and grow and see Miles take the lead at times after Peter had been his mentor for so long. Even though Pete does some crazy things with the symbiote, he never totally crosses the line," Intihar said. "With that in mind, we wanted to show a kind of unfiltered Venom and give players this ultimate power fantasy of what you could do with the symbiote. We wanted the player to go, 'This is how brutal this character could be.' We wanted to show that it's really going to take both Pete and Miles to take him down, because Kraven couldn't do it, all of the hunters couldn't do it, and all the Oscorp people couldn't do it either." While it was a small cameo, the fact that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse included the Venom movies could be foreshadowing a larger tie-in through Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. From the little that is known about Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the threequel is speculated to potentially have more inclusion of live-action characters, hence the "Beyond" in the movie title. This would be the perfect opportunity to have Venom, out of all the Sony's Spider-Man Universe characters, finally take part in the Spider-Verse adventure. Like I mentioned, there was a discussion to a point where it's a concept image of Venomized Sandman. Super cool idea. Maybe one day… I'm probably getting in trouble for saying it, but whatever. It's a really cool image. It's really cool. We were never going to get it done at the quality we wanted to, and it was going to be… it was enough of a challenge to make regular Sandman cool.We all know Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is about the big set pieces and swinging around an open-world NYC and all those wonderfully loud comic book moments, but the thing Intihar and the team at Insomniac are most proud of are the quieter moments. The moments that show us being a hero is more than throwing punches and saving the world. So when the Miles team was working on Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, what I thought they were brilliant at was them not only showing Miles learning the kind of Spider-Man he wanted to be, but also him connecting to his new community in Harlem with those quests. I mean, all those people that show up at the very end are all the quest givers of that area. First off, Intihar explains, moving suits from Spider-Man 1 to Spider-Man 2 isn't as simple as just pushing a button and making them magically appear. "A lot of those are PS4, and then even the ones that showed up in the remaster, they have to be basically PS5-sized or whatever," he says. "They have to be upgraded. So there's a work factor to get it in there."

I don't know if I would say a particular thing," Intihar tells us. "I think some type of natural setting. I do love that. I do love that moment in No Way Home when he's swinging through the forest and eventually, he finds Electro and Sandman." Spider-Man 2 Director Explains Why Those MJ Stealth Scenes Had to Be Included While there have been alternative versions of Peter and Miles throughout the Spider-Verse movies, they have yet to show any Gwen variants, despite her major role in the franchise. However, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse could finally be where they introduce a Gwen variant, and perhaps one that has actually bonded with the Venom Symbiote. In a June 2023 interview with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, they made it clear that they do have plans to include Gwen variants, without giving away any spoilers. We all know and love the opening of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 as our Spider-Men face-off against a massive version of Sandman across NYC. However, our dear friend Flint Marko almost had a much larger role as Insomniac had the idea to make a Venomized version of Sandman. We also talked to Intihar about the divisive Mary Jane missions in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. He began by admiting that he and the team know the MJ missions weren't the most well-received parts of 2018's Marvel Spider-Man. That fact made them consider cutting them for the sequel, but instead of taking the easy way out, they chose another direction. PlayStation fans will never forget that one PlayStation Showcase where Insomniac announced not only Marvel's Spider-Man 2, but also Marvel's Wolverine. As soon as they were both revealed, fans around the world started thinking this could be the start of PlayStation's MCU and that we'd soon see Wolverine and Spider-Man together on PS5.

What's more, he continues, the web wings and capes present in Spider-Man 2 made things wonky with some of the suit designs, and would have required a lot more work to make every single suit function on a basic level with the game's mechanics, look, and feel. And so I think that's kind of like, find the elements of the character and story that people love and bring that to them, but how can you add your own spin? And I think that kind of direction what we've done with the whole franchise from the beginning is like, respect the DNA of the character, but don't be afraid to mix things up from time to time." Was It Always in the Plan to Let Us Play as Venom? Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has officially arrived and tells an epic story starring Peter Parker, Miles Morales, MJ, Kraven the Hunter, Venom and so many more. While swinging around New York City as both Pete and Miles is as fun as it ever was, there is so much more that makes this sequel what it is. In an alternate reality, a version of the Clone Saga storyline happened, only in this one, Peter was more of an asshole to Ben Reilly instead of treating him like a brother. When Peter found out that he was possibly the clone, he got extra pissed about it right around the time when the Carnage symbiote was nearby. He became Spider-Carnage and created a plan to destroy the multiverse.

Intihar initially jokes that Peter was just "a little shy," but then admitted he didn't really know why the team hadn't chosen the Undies look to make it into Spider-Man 2. But he implies that maybe it just wasn't exciting to the teams working on the different suits. We then proceed to ask Intihar what happened to "Underpants Pete," aka the Spider-Man 1 "Undies" suit that had Peter Parker running around in just his boxers.Does that mean we might play as Carnage in a future installment, especially after that tease? Intihar wasn't willing to reveal much, but he did mention that Carnage is on a different level than Venom. Speaking of the Howard mission, that was created by a designed named Brian Matheson for a game jam Insomniac had before a holiday break. He made it in two or three days and, when the team saw it, they knew it needed to be in the game. This was the importance of giving the team the runway to tell their own stories and be creative in different ways than the typical save-the-universe comic book way. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introduced Spider-Man India, voiced by Karan Soni, who became an instant fan-favorite. This is also seen in the Bebop and Hard Bop side-missions, where Miles is working to uncover the truth behind the Cultural Center robbery. This was very meaningful for the team as it was not only a way to expand Miles as a character, but to also honor his culture.

Over the course of the game, you actually see them kind of flip to the point where Miles is the one saying, 'Hey, we're going to do this, we're going to do that,'" Intihar says. "It gets to the point where in the second to last mission in the main story, when Pete has the Anti-Venom suit and Miles shows up with his new suit, is when Miles is the one telling Pete, 'Remember what my dad said and remember what Aunt May said,' to the point where Pete actually says to Miles, 'What's the play coach?' If you remember from the first game, Miles was the one who says to Peter, 'What's the play coach?'

That's something I'm so proud of the team for. That they were able to really make a game that not only is, 'Oh, it's Spider-Man 2, there's two heroes," but it's a story that requires both of them. And we see their relationship, change, evolve, grow, as much as we see any of the other relationships in the game." Spider-Man 2 Senior Creative Director Bryan Intihar Discusses What Happened to the 'Undies' Suit and Other Missing Costumes We knew eventually we wanted to get to a point where Pete and Miles were together as peers, as Spider peers," Intihar said. "But I think if you look at, obviously, when you're working with the symbiote, the theme of addiction is very prevalent. I know people in my life who suffer from a different type of addiction. It doesn't just impact the people, that person impacts the people around them. And that was something we wanted to show. So, it's not only how is it impacting Peter, but also how is it impacting MJ? How is it impacting Harry? How is it impacting Miles? And then the fight with Miles and Pete is when we try to say is like, Miles is there for Peter, right? I think we've always wanted to show our world from all levels," Intihar said. "So, we obviously want to show Pete and Miles in their suit doing super things, but we feel it's just as important to show their lives and have playable experiences outside the suit like with Venom. Because I think if you have relatable human stories and motivations, the moments in the suit matter more.