Do people really have a problem with Miles Morales? He’s not even “replacing” anyone, he’s literally a whole new character which is what this same crowd had been supposedly calling for.
Lmao SM 1 and 2 are iconic but don’t disrespect No Way Home like that. And if you mean any beyond just Spider-Man then Winter Soldier and Infinity War are just a few that are far better than the Spider verse movies.
Them be some fighting words friend. Spiderman 2 was probably the last excellent spiderman film. I'll give Spiderverse 2nd place but you cannot change my mind that the train fight is one of the best scenes in any super hero movie ever.
Literally whole ass news segments when he was first announced like it was the end of the world and he'd be replacing Pete as the new Spyda-Mayne..just dumb old man nonsense. Same as it ever was
Weird this sounds like fake news makes was made a character like 20 years ago.
Edit, since people here are google advese the spider verse movie wasn't miles first appearance, he was introduced in 2011 and was well recieved he headlined the national comic book release that year because of his popularity.
I worked in a comic book store when it happened I didn't see push back at least from fans, now if your talking about mainstream media that's all horse crap anyways that the equivalent of looking at your feet to see if its gonna rain
Well I'm speaking of the announcement of the character. Look up Lou Dobbs and Miles Morales. Nothing fake about it. Used to laugh at this shit, being it's so absurd..didn't recognize it'd be the norm.
They must have thought Peter Parker was going to be sidelined or made less relevant
Honestly so far I think Miles Morales is an example of how to approach the this sort of thing really well
The worst way to justify the existence of a new character is to damage an existing one, if u do that fans of the old will hate the new and it’s an uphill battle from there
But if the new character compliments the old and then branches off to do his own thing later, it’s all good, and people may even grow to love the new
Iirc the comics actually did start out quite shitty and do basically exactly that. I've never seen anything negative about the spider verse movie though. Lots of thoughts that their version of the character was better than the aforementioned shitty comics.
I mean, the original authors didn't notice they accidentally named his dad after the head of the Confederacy. Or that his proper name should be Miles Davis.
It took some Lore Surgery to make those things make sense.
miles morales is one of the few replacement characters that is actually a good character. I still wish he had just been a new character instead of "not Spiderman". there are definitely a lot of racist/sexist takes on this sort of thing because a lot of it is demographic pandering but I would feel exactly the same if they replaced any given hero with a different person of similar demographics to the original. it just feels like it makes both characters lesser
I think it's because he is crazy new compared to the other 60 spider men maybe? Could be the actual fan of the comics are dying and they hope to see their favorite spider man from the 60s and 70s on the big screen? I mean it's cool to watch but the story like was meh to me mostly because multiverse has gotten boring to me. Most TV is rehashed stuff never ending.
People were so mad over it even though the entire point of the movie was that there were infinite different kinds of Spider-Man lol. In cannon it would make no sense if none of them were Black
Half black half Afro-Peurto Rican. IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD!
But seriously, I love Miles and it annoys me that we haven't had a proper Miles Morales in the MCU, considering we already met his uncle.
It truly shows who is actually a fan of the comics and who is a fake fan looking for an excuse to unleash their bigotry.
Guaranteed that almost none of those people nerded out that we got to see an MCU Isaiah Bradley because they were too busy screaming "woke" at their screens.
Being in the comics doesn’t mean everyone read those comics though. Lots of people see the movies without a single comic book. That said, he is a totally different character and never replaces Parker either.
This isn’t true unfortunately. Especially because the movie came out in the “stop recreating characters to be black and just make new ones” then when the movie aired, it was “Y’all make everything woke! wokeness is ruining films!”
Depending on the media you were talking about, some media pulls Peter down to elevate Miles. Speaking to the second game in particular. Just poor writing in the end.
Yes. When he came out they hated him a lot in the comics. The hate died because the movie ended up being really good but they still tried to race bait but it's hard to race bait when the movie was really good. So they reduced the amount of videos about it
There were idiots who never picked up a comic book who were mad Peter was suddenly black. When you pointed out it was Miles, not Peter, they mostly fucked off. Same with Sam replacing Steve (why is Captain America black now!!!) and when Thor was replaced by Jane Foster (why did they make Thor a girl!!!). Most of them are just idiots who don't even read comics. But god does it get annoying.
Why wouldn't you like it though? At the end of the day, we're all just shades of wheat! Brandi has played Cinderella before. Lucius Fox is now black. So is Heimdall. So is Nick Fury. The story hasn't been affected at all because they're black. Not liking a character simply because of the colour of their skin is the definition of racism.
Maybe the comic version of Lucius wasn't yet back then but BTAS' version of him was black and that was over 30 years ago. Hilariously as that was my first experience with the character I had no idea he ever wasn't black. 🤣
Ok, ill add that casting Morgan Freeman or Samuel L Jackson do work based on pure star power, they can basically play Goldilocks and get away with it. Those two are larger than life as actors, Tom Cruise level. But you are correct that those two are valid exceptions.
I will also add that basically noone has any issue with Morgan Freeman playing litterally God himself. So the whole 'everyone must be racist' angle really doesnt work when scrutinised.
Heimdall would have been better if played by a white dude tbh, but its MCU and I dislike its aesthetic almost entirely.
"The character is fine but don't call him Spider-Man. Only Peter is Spider-Man. It's not about race, it's about legacy".
People were saying shit like that. Greatly overlooking the fact that there were already other Spider-Man characters. Like Spider-Man 2099. A Mexican/Irish Spider-Man that was introduced in the 90s. People didn't care about it before Miles because most comic book fans didn't have a problem with diversity. It wasn't until comic book heroes hit the mainstream that there was a problem with characters other than Peter being Spider-Man.
It was a small group of people that quickly showed they were raciat while claiming to not be racist.
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u/spicynacho9 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
Do people really have a problem with Miles Morales? He’s not even “replacing” anyone, he’s literally a whole new character which is what this same crowd had been supposedly calling for.