Something I’ve always liked about Spider-Man is that he often seems hopelessly out of his depth, outmatched by villains who aren’t particularly powerful, perhaps, but feel incredibly dangerous. The portals that speckle Spot’s body prove a wonderful opportunity for the animators to stage some great visual gags and ambitious fight scenes, and they certainly capitalize on it the battles between the two are simply extraordinary, shifting from slapstick to body horror, with Miles struggling to adapt to this reality-bending opponent. Spot’s arc mirrors the emotional journey of Miles, who comes to question his own role as Spider-Man both characters experience a kind of imposter syndrome, underestimated by their opponents. Spot’s motives are amusingly petty, driven by insecurity, desperately seeking to strike fear into Spider-Man and become his arch-nemesis. That’s pretty much all there is to Spot, but there’s a great satisfaction in watching the character grow from pathetic thief to godlike supervillain. Spot looks a bit like Rorschach from Alan Moore’s Watchmen, drawn by a five-year-old (I mean that as a compliment) and his scratchy, sketchy lines highlight his neurotic energy, an unstable entity who can break the boundaries of this universe. Spot (Jason Schwartzman) is introduced as a joke, an awkward, bumbling, wannabe criminal who Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) dismisses as a “villain of the week,” just another goon to take down before school.Īfter all, Spot is an amateur with a cliché-ridden origin story, another scientist whose life was (accidentally) ruined by Spider-Man, caught in the fallout of the explosive ending to the first film, imbued with portal powers and becoming disfigured in the process.
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