Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Which of TV’s Spideys Made Cameos?

The following contains spoilers from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, now in theaters.

As Miles Morales found himself entangled in a brand-new web in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, a lot of familiar faces were seen along the way.

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Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, off a screenplay by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham, the follow-up to Into the Spider-Verse saw Brooklyn’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man (voiced Shameik Moore) catapulted across the Multiverse, after unexpectedly reuniting with Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld).

The Across the Spider-Verse voice cast also boasts Oscar Isaac (as Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099), Jason Schwartzman (as The Spot), Brian Tyree Henry and Luna Lauren Velez (as Miles’ parents Jeff and Rio), Jake Johnson (as Peter B. Parker), Issa Rae (as Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman), Karan Soni (as Pavitr Prabhakar/Spider-Man India) and Daniel Kaluuya (as “Hobie” Brown/Spider-Punk).

About two-thirds of the way into the movie, Miles is introduced to the Spider Society, which is based out of Miguel O’Hara’s Earth-928 and charged with protecting the Multiverse. As Miles strolls through this Spider People-populated HQ, the IMAX screen is literally crawling wall-to-wall with cameos — mostly animated webslingers from a variety of media (…and animal kingdoms), but there is also one live-action, captured villain (Donald Glover’s Prowler).

What’s more, when Miguel schools Miles on a major disruption he has caused, vignettes used to drive home the point feature clips of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Mans (whereas Tom Holland’s current iteration is obliquely referenced earlier in the film).

But how are TV’s webslingers from over the years represented? Based on just one Saturday-night viewing of Across the Spider-Verse, here is at least a small — but not necessarily definitive! — sampling of who could be spotted on the cameos-packed screen, plus at least one noteworthy absence….

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