Spider-Man: Pause 1 Minute 13 In The New Generation, there’s an important Across the Spider-Verse tidbit hidden there

Warning – The article below contains Spider-Man – Spider-Verse spoilers as it goes back to one of his revelations in particular. Please continue if you haven’t seen it yet.

Jim Carrey had “Number 23”, one of the worst movies ever. Spider-Man has 42. Among the animated feature films released in 2018, namely the brilliant New Generation and Across the Spider-Verse, the sequel, which has been in our cinemas for less than a week, is generating a huge wave of enthusiasm. .

An animated film that takes the multiverse concept even further with Miles Morales traveling through several alternate realities. Of note is Earth-42, which is not his as we mistakenly believe when his DNA is scanned during the sequence, but the spider that bit him and gave him the powers we know. And who landed in his world thanks to La Tache, one of the greatest villains in history.

Thus, 42 is of great importance in Miles’ life, and we didn’t have to wait for Spider-Verse to realize it. Because it appeared from the first moments of the new generation. At exactly 1:13, during the opening credits, to Spider-Man, who would then recognize his hand and leave a mark on it.

Then we find him at the lotto ball, the price of a Spider-Man costume, or after falling down next to a superhero. Despite its importance, the number was not chosen at random. Nor does it refer to a specific issue of The Adventures of Spider-Man, as is often the case with comic book adaptations.

“The reference to the number 42 is a tribute to Jackie Robinson, the first African-American Major League Baseball player to wear the number 42 jersey.”

A member of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956 and played by Chadwick Boseman in the movie released a decade earlier, Jackie Robinson was inducted into his sport’s Hall of Fame in 1962, and the number 42 has been retired from baseball teams ever since. Respect his memory and importance. That the trilogy around Miles Morales honors him in this way is full of meaning, as the hero Spider-Man is the first black iteration of Man.

If Peter Parker debuted in 1962, Miles Morales took almost half a century to be born. Marvel has certainly had a Black Spider-Man project since the mid-2000s, but it came to fruition a little later, after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States… and after the frenzy of Donald Glover fans to see the latter suit up in theaters after Tobey Maguire.

Of course that didn’t happen, but the actor and singer is still associated with Spider-Man: as Miles was partly inspired by him, and he appears in Homecoming as Aaron Davis. Who in the Marvel Universe is none other than Miles Morales’ uncle.