Spider-Man: Far From Home just opened a portal to Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Far From Home’s second trailer literally opened up worlds of possibilities for the MCU. Here’s how it relates to Into the Spider-Verse.

Sony and Marvel Studios’ cinematic universes just got a bit bigger, and Spider-Man: Far From Home is now more connected to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse than ever. When Far From Home dropped its second trailer this week, there was one big reveal that no one saw coming: Mysterio is from a completely different dimension.

As explained in the trailer, after Thanos’ snap in Avengers: Infinity War, a hole was ripped in the current dimension. Then, someway, somehow, Mysterio fell through this hole in the fabric of time and space and was brought to their Earth.

The Earth in the MCU has now officially been dubbed Earth-616, the Earth some may recognize as being the main Earth in Marvel’s comics. In a clip (as found by CBR.com) that has now been removed, Mysterio explained to Peter Parker how it all works. Here’s a transcript of what went down:

"Mysterio: You handled yourself well out there today. Saw what you did with the tower. We could use someone like you on my world.Peter: I’m sorry. Your world?Nick Fury: Mr. Beck is from Earth. Just not ours.Mysterio: There are multiple realities, Peter. This is Earth Dimension 616. I’m from Earth-833. We share identical physical constants, level four symmetry.Peter: I’m sorry, you’re saying there’s a multiverse?"

This is a concept that isn’t completely new to the MCU, as CBR mentions, because Doctor Strange alluded to there being multiple universes — the movie just never got a chance to explore that the way Far From Home will be doing.

But, moreover, the concept of multiverses is much more prominent in another Marvel film: Into the Spider-Verse. As a refresher (spoilers to come), Peter Parker does exist in the same dimension as protagonist Miles Morales. But he’s not the Tom Holland Peter Parker as seen in the MCU. It’s a completely different Peter who ends up dying. After an incident caused by Wilson Fisk, a completely different Peter Parker, (Peter B. Parker, to be exact) get whisked away into Morale’s dimension — along with other variations of Spider-heroes like Spider-Gwen and Spider-Ham.

Miles Morales was just as surprised as the MCU’s Peter Parker to find out that there’s a multiverse. At first, given the MCU and Sony have created somewhat separate worlds, it seemed like Into the Spider-Verse existed in its own bubble outside of the MCU. But now that the multiverse theory has expanded into the MCU through Far From Home, it looks like there can be a lot more crossover between the two (or however many there are) worlds. The MCU’s Peter Parker hasn’t even discovered that he’s not the only Spider-Man yet.

This multiverse reasoning, for example, may also explain why Venom also felt like it was in its own bubble. How could we have Venom without even mentioning Spidey once in the whole movie? While it was nice for the movie to feel self-contained, the absence of mentioning anything Spider-Man/superhero-related felt like a huge elephant in the room that needed to be addressed.

But now (unless there was no thought or care put into planning this), it could simply be that Venom took place in a completely separate reality with no Spider-Man at all.

It will be interesting to see how Sony moves forward with its Spider-Verse now that the floodgates have been opened — especially when it comes to bringing Holland’s Peter Parker into the mix. We’d love to see an animated version of him in Into the Spider-Verse 2, or even have Miles Morales cross over into the 3D world.

Whatever happens, the two movies studios built themselves a safety net that allows them to explore different versions of Spider-Man without the confusion of explaining why there are two Peter Parkers. And, really, after going through Spider-Men like Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, it’s a nice idea to think these two still exist in their own dimensions.

Which version of Spider-Man would you like to see on the big screen next? Let us know in the comments.