It packs the sort of emotional payoff all the disconnected Marvel movies can't really provide. How

Discuss: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse post-credits scene, explained Aggressively violent and flippantly meanspirited, it's the exact emotional release we needed.The main series "X-Men" movies have never achieved any sort of greatness, but at least "Dark Phoenix" ends the whole thing with one of the best efforts of the bunch. There have been a number of bad superhero movies, but from the talking gas cloud the filmmakers cast as Galactus to A totally chaotic stir fry of nonsense that tells the story of how Wolverine got his claws.

In his New York Apartment 2099 uses a web-slinging gadget that allows him to hurtle across the universe to Earth-67. For writers and fans, Miles became the answer.Yup: There’s a Marvel Comics inside the Marvel Comics UniverseMiles Morales: Spider-Man is a perfect jumping on point for new readersLee’s brief appearance perfectly encapsulates his legacy, flaws and all‘We were constantly saying, "Let’s push this thing until it breaks’’’Fresh-faced Spider-Man Miles Morales gets one heck of a debutWhere did Spider-Ham, Peni Parker and Spider-Man Noir come from?

It’s a hilarious bit that initially feels like just a fun throwaway gag until you discover that none other than Oscar Isaac is providing the voice for Miguel O’Hara.Given that star power, it’s tough not to assume that Spider-Man 2099 will have a part to play in any potential “Spider-Verse” sequels — one has already been greenlit, actually.

Evangeline Lilly is so good at the Wasp that I'm retroactively irritated that she didn't don the suit in the previous "Ant-Man" movie.If it weren't hamstrung with all the requisite elements of an origin story, "Doctor Strange" might have been the best Marvel movie ever. Right now it’s a movie that seems very much out of place.An improvement on the first film, and an absolute delight from moment to moment -- but it never quite coalesces into a coherent whole because so many subplots distract from the core story and rob it of its emotional impact. The post-credits scene for “Into the Spider-Verse” introduces us to another important Spider-Man from the comics, and also visits a past small screen incarnation of Peter Parker. The Miles Morales-led Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse animated feature-length film is here, starring a large voice cast and combining multiple animation styles to produce a …

Blade, by the way, remains the only black comic book character besides For the sequel, they tapped the "Crank" director duo known as Neveldine/Taylor. It's a classic spy thriller with a superhero twist. Marvel and Sony’s latest cinematic expedition, ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,’ features a heaping helping of comics references. And it feels pretty likely that should “Spider-Verse” get a sequel, that one of these other Spider-Men will be a part of it.That bonus Spider-Man is Miguel O’Hara, better known to fans of his comics as Spider-Man 2099. The pointing scene is from a moment when he pretends to be Spider-Man, and it inspired one of It's not clear why Miguel is traveling through the multiverse, but the casting of a big name like Oscar Isaac suggests it's more than a throwaway joke.Also, the spider that gave Miles Morales his powers suffered from the same temporal distortion as Peter and the other heroes who'd been pulled from other realities. It focuses on an actor impersonating others to throw off police as he commits crimes. This one:You didn’t think a movie about a bunch of alternate universe Spider-People would avoid that joke, did you? This movie knows exactly what it's trying to be, and what it's trying to be is dumb and fun and nothing else. And Decades of big-screen Marvel adaptations demand a long, ranked list. Maybe the bad outweighs the good here, but Emo Peter Parker's dance number remains one of the greatest single moments in any comic book movie, sorry, haters.A notorious flop at the box office and, yeah, it's not exactly "good." I didn't think there was anything wrong with that either, but why don't they let anyone else in the voting booth? And that sequence on the train in the third act is easily the best action sequence of these movies.It’s frustrating that it doesn’t really deal with the immense fallout from “Avengers: Endgame,” but it’s still as visually creative as any movie in the MCU, and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio is an all-timer of a villain.

The multiverse is even bigger than it seems.