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Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

Drawing The Spot every day until Beyond The Spider-Verse releases - Day 1021

I wanted to write something on how the Spider-Verse fandom's aversion to looking at The Spot’s character from a critical lens in comparison to the other characters hurts a lot of fans' understanding of the film overall. He is a critical piece that is missing in a lot of theory and analysis posts, and while you don't necessarily have to like him, excluding him from the narrative causes it to fall apart entirely.

Despite the fact that Spot is arguably the 2nd-3rd most important character to the franchise’s overall message, it isn’t very popular to do in-depth analysis on his character. He was written to be a mirror to Miles thematically, (confirmed information from the art book and interviews); however this is relatively niche knowledge to a lot of fans given the widespread disinterest in earnestly engaging with his character.

Spot is often seen as the most shallow, one-note character in the film, and I think this is a case of fanon overtaking people’s perception of the actual movie. Again, I'm not saying you have to like him by any means, but a lack of awareness of him and his motivations means that a large piece of the story is missing from a lot of people’s interpretations. “He’s overreacting” and “all over a bagel” are common sentiments when it comes to The Spot even though I would argue that Spot is one of, if not the most tragic character in the franchise. Characters like Miguel and Gwen tend to get the “complex character” defense while Spot does not, which is incredibly odd to me given he as well is a very layered character who was in development for a very long time during production.

For example, when the topic of Spot staying in the lab while the 1610 collider exploded comes up, people are more inclined to write him off as “stupid” than to actually consider why he may have done so. If you take into consideration how he’s described as a lonely man who values his work more highly than he does his own life in the art book, it becomes far more likely that he was either trying to minimize the damage from the explosion or save a piece of his life’s work at the cost of his own safety. It’s completely fair to call him a hypocrite for blaming Miles for the situation, however it is a disservice to the character to assume that his decision to stay behind came from any sort of cluelessness or ignorance. Spot is shown to have a lot of self-destructive tendencies, opting to put himself in harm's way and hurt himself twice in the film just to prove that he's worth something. Common sense would lead one to the conclusion that those traits would carry over even before he was transformed. The common perception that Spot is entirely responsible for his own situation also lacks nuance, while Miles is obviously not at fault for what happened to Spot, his family, the system and the people around him 100% failed him and caused him to turn out the way he did.

It just frustrates me how fans realize that his actions seem nonsensical and hypocritical, but don’t bother to consider why that may be. He’s been living through an absurdly bleak situation for over a year, unable to return to a normal life despite trying very hard to do so. While it doesn’t excuse his actions, Spot going off the deep end in the film was his last resort after spending a very long time rotting in a cluttered apartment with nobody there to help. If the Spot was only introduced as a relatively good person just for the sake of shock value when he ended up being the big bad, that would be a case of poor writing. He was introduced that way not only for the twist, but also to show that he is an average person who was pushed to his absolute limit.

Spot’s emotional immaturity comes from a lack of community, both him and Miles being outcasts with opposite arcs. Miles manages to rise above the Spider Society that rejects him due to his mother’s speech and his family’s love that keeps him going. Meanwhile Spot, having nobody, succumbs to the darkness and looks for acceptance in the wrong places because that unconditional love isn’t a luxury he’s ever had. Spot blaming Miles for his situation doesn't come from stupidity, it comes from desperation, having faced a long life of neglect and hitting a dead end with nowhere else to turn.

On another note, I think that Miles’s motivations with The Spot are also often misconstrued. A common take is Miles he wants to get some sort of revenge on Spot, kill him, etc., but taking his words into account when he talks about The Spot I just dont think thats true. Obviously he has every right to be furious with him for recklessly putting so many lives at risk, but with the way that Miles defends Spot to Miguel by saying that “he just wants to be taken seriously”, as well as calling The Spot situation a “success in progress” after Jess’s off-handed comment about it, it’s clear that he’s trying to minimize the damage as much as possible and doesn’t want things to end violently.

Miles’s mistake at the start was the decision to write off The Spot as a nobody, a mistake he clearly regrets given how similar they ended up being. Miles wants to diffuse The Spot situation and get him out of it alive, and I think that if Spot were to die it would take a bit of agency away from Miles in the process. This is the last movie, Miles needs a win in the end to conclude his arc after being told by everybody around him that he didn’t know what he was doing. If Spot is Miles’s nemesis, Miles should get to choose how things end with him.

Spot, in my reading, is not only a metaphor for depression but severely depressed himself. His apartment was deliberately designed to be messy and cluttered with work, as he was constantly drowning in his goals and leaving his personal life neglected. The reference to the film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” above his apartment also leads me to believe that they could’ve taken some slight inspiration from the messaging of that film with his character, given the similarities he shares with it’s main antagonist. The mental health metaphor becomes far more obvious with his line in which he draws a link between his own feeling of emptiness and the black holes that cover his body. As he collects more holes, he becomes less like himself, a hollow shell of who he once was that is far more jaded and nihilistic. As he is drawn towards the collider in Mumbattan, his holes magnetize to his chest, creating a literal hole in his heart. His abyss form twitches and jerks it’s limbs around in brief moments as if it’s physically hurting him, and he put himself in harms way to become The Abyss in the first place. Miles’s mural is about expectations and the silhouette dead center resembles Spot to a haunting degree. The meaning I personally draw from this is that Spot himself was crushed by expectations, tearing himself apart to meet an unattainable goal.

Overall, it saddens me that The Spot is such an overlooked character when it comes to how he’s actually written. Everybody seems to know that he’s a good character, but nobody seems to know why. I hope that this sparked some more interest in him somehow or helped somebody get a better grasp on his character!

I wanted to write something on how the Spider-Verse fandom's aversion to looking at The Spot’s character from a critical lens in comparison to the other characters hurts a lot of fans' understanding of the film overall. He is a critical piece that is missing in a lot of theory and analysis posts, and while you don't necessarily have to like him, excluding him from the narrative causes it to fall apart entirely.

Despite the fact that Spot is arguably the 2nd-3rd most important character to the franchise’s overall message, it isn’t very popular to do in-depth analysis on his character. He was written to be a mirror to Miles thematically, (confirmed information from the art book and interviews); however this is relatively niche knowledge to a lot of fans given the widespread disinterest in earnestly engaging with his character.

Spot is often seen as the most shallow, one-note character in the film, and I think this is a case of fanon overtaking people’s perception of the actual movie. Again, I'm not saying you have to like him by any means, but a lack of awareness of him and his motivations means that a large piece of the story is missing from a lot of people’s interpretations. “He’s overreacting” and “all over a bagel” are common sentiments when it comes to The Spot even though I would argue that Spot is one of, if not the most tragic character in the franchise. Characters like Miguel and Gwen tend to get the “complex character” defense while Spot does not, which is incredibly odd to me given he as well is a very layered character who was in development for a very long time during production.

For example, when the topic of Spot staying in the lab while the 1610 collider exploded comes up, people are more inclined to write him off as “stupid” than to actually consider why he may have done so. If you take into consideration how he’s described as a lonely man who values his work more highly than he does his own life in the art book, it becomes far more likely that he was either trying to minimize the damage from the explosion or save a piece of his life’s work at the cost of his own safety. It’s completely fair to call him a hypocrite for blaming Miles for the situation, however it is a disservice to the character to assume that his decision to stay behind came from any sort of cluelessness or ignorance. Spot is shown to have a lot of self-destructive tendencies, opting to put himself in harm's way and hurt himself twice in the film just to prove that he's worth something. Common sense would lead one to the conclusion that those traits would carry over even before he was transformed. The common perception that Spot is entirely responsible for his own situation also lacks nuance, while Miles is obviously not at fault for what happened to Spot, his family, the system and the people around him 100% failed him and caused him to turn out the way he did.

It just frustrates me how fans realize that his actions seem nonsensical and hypocritical, but don’t bother to consider why that may be. He’s been living through an absurdly bleak situation for over a year, unable to return to a normal life despite trying very hard to do so. While it doesn’t excuse his actions, Spot going off the deep end in the film was his last resort after spending a very long time rotting in a cluttered apartment with nobody there to help. If the Spot was only introduced as a relatively good person just for the sake of shock value when he ended up being the big bad, that would be a case of poor writing. He was introduced that way not only for the twist, but also to show that he is an average person who was pushed to his absolute limit.

Spot’s emotional immaturity comes from a lack of community, both him and Miles being outcasts with opposite arcs. Miles manages to rise above the Spider Society that rejects him due to his mother’s speech and his family’s love that keeps him going. Meanwhile Spot, having nobody, succumbs to the darkness and looks for acceptance in the wrong places because that unconditional love isn’t a luxury he’s ever had. Spot blaming Miles for his situation doesn't come from stupidity, it comes from desperation, having faced a long life of neglect and hitting a dead end with nowhere else to turn.

On another note, I think that Miles’s motivations with The Spot are also often misconstrued. A common take is Miles he wants to get some sort of revenge on Spot, kill him, etc., but taking his words into account when he talks about The Spot I just dont think thats true. Obviously he has every right to be furious with him for recklessly putting so many lives at risk, but with the way that Miles defends Spot to Miguel by saying that “he just wants to be taken seriously”, as well as calling The Spot situation a “success in progress” after Jess’s off-handed comment about it, it’s clear that he’s trying to minimize the damage as much as possible and doesn’t want things to end violently.

Miles’s mistake at the start was the decision to write off The Spot as a nobody, a mistake he clearly regrets given how similar they ended up being. Miles wants to diffuse The Spot situation and get him out of it alive, and I think that if Spot were to die it would take a bit of agency away from Miles in the process. This is the last movie, Miles needs a win in the end to conclude his arc after being told by everybody around him that he didn’t know what he was doing. If Spot is Miles’s nemesis, Miles should get to choose how things end with him.

Spot, in my reading, is not only a metaphor for depression but severely depressed himself. His apartment was deliberately designed to be messy and cluttered with work, as he was constantly drowning in his goals and leaving his personal life neglected. The reference to the film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” above his apartment also leads me to believe that they could’ve taken some slight inspiration from the messaging of that film with his character, given the similarities he shares with it’s main antagonist. The mental health metaphor becomes far more obvious with his line in which he draws a link between his own feeling of emptiness and the black holes that cover his body. As he collects more holes, he becomes less like himself, a hollow shell of who he once was that is far more jaded and nihilistic. As he is drawn towards the collider in Mumbattan, his holes magnetize to his chest, creating a literal hole in his heart. His abyss form twitches and jerks it’s limbs around in brief moments as if it’s physically hurting him, and he put himself in harms way to become The Abyss in the first place. Miles’s mural is about expectations and the silhouette dead center resembles Spot to a haunting degree. The meaning I personally draw from this is that Spot himself was crushed by expectations, tearing himself apart to meet an unattainable goal.

Overall, it saddens me that The Spot is such an overlooked character when it comes to how he’s actually written. Everybody seems to know that he’s a good character, but nobody seems to know why. I hope that this sparked some more interest in him somehow or helped somebody get a better grasp on his character!

I wanted to write something on how the Spider-Verse fandom's aversion to looking at The Spot’s character from a critical lens in comparison to the other characters hurts a lot of fans' understanding of the film overall. He is a critical piece that is missing in a lot of theory and analysis posts, and while you don't necessarily have to like him, excluding him from the narrative causes it to fall apart entirely.

Despite the fact that Spot is arguably the 2nd-3rd most important character to the franchise’s overall message, it isn’t very popular to do in-depth analysis on his character. He was written to be a mirror to Miles thematically, (confirmed information from the art book and interviews); however this is relatively niche knowledge to a lot of fans given the widespread disinterest in earnestly engaging with his character.

Spot is often seen as the most shallow, one-note character in the film, and I think this is a case of fanon overtaking people’s perception of the actual movie. Again, I'm not saying you have to like him by any means, but a lack of awareness of him and his motivations means that a large piece of the story is missing from a lot of people’s interpretations. “He’s overreacting” and “all over a bagel” are common sentiments when it comes to The Spot even though I would argue that Spot is one of, if not the most tragic character in the franchise. Characters like Miguel and Gwen tend to get the “complex character” defense while Spot does not, which is incredibly odd to me given he as well is a very layered character who was in development for a very long time during production.

For example, when the topic of Spot staying in the lab while the 1610 collider exploded comes up, people are more inclined to write him off as “stupid” than to actually consider why he may have done so. If you take into consideration how he’s described as a lonely man who values his work more highly than he does his own life in the art book, it becomes far more likely that he was either trying to minimize the damage from the explosion or save a piece of his life’s work at the cost of his own safety. It’s completely fair to call him a hypocrite for blaming Miles for the situation, however it is a disservice to the character to assume that his decision to stay behind came from any sort of cluelessness or ignorance. Spot is shown to have a lot of self-destructive tendencies, opting to put himself in harm's way and hurt himself twice in the film just to prove that he's worth something. Common sense would lead one to the conclusion that those traits would carry over even before he was transformed. The common perception that Spot is entirely responsible for his own situation also lacks nuance, while Miles is obviously not at fault for what happened to Spot, his family, the system and the people around him 100% failed him and caused him to turn out the way he did.

It just frustrates me how fans realize that his actions seem nonsensical and hypocritical, but don’t bother to consider why that may be. He’s been living through an absurdly bleak situation for over a year, unable to return to a normal life despite trying very hard to do so. While it doesn’t excuse his actions, Spot going off the deep end in the film was his last resort after spending a very long time rotting in a cluttered apartment with nobody there to help. If the Spot was only introduced as a relatively good person just for the sake of shock value when he ended up being the big bad, that would be a case of poor writing. He was introduced that way not only for the twist, but also to show that he is an average person who was pushed to his absolute limit.

Spot’s emotional immaturity comes from a lack of community, both him and Miles being outcasts with opposite arcs. Miles manages to rise above the Spider Society that rejects him due to his mother’s speech and his family’s love that keeps him going. Meanwhile Spot, having nobody, succumbs to the darkness and looks for acceptance in the wrong places because that unconditional love isn’t a luxury he’s ever had. Spot blaming Miles for his situation doesn't come from stupidity, it comes from desperation, having faced a long life of neglect and hitting a dead end with nowhere else to turn.

On another note, I think that Miles’s motivations with The Spot are also often misconstrued. A common take is Miles he wants to get some sort of revenge on Spot, kill him, etc., but taking his words into account when he talks about The Spot I just dont think thats true. Obviously he has every right to be furious with him for recklessly putting so many lives at risk, but with the way that Miles defends Spot to Miguel by saying that “he just wants to be taken seriously”, as well as calling The Spot situation a “success in progress” after Jess’s off-handed comment about it, it’s clear that he’s trying to minimize the damage as much as possible and doesn’t want things to end violently.

Miles’s mistake at the start was the decision to write off The Spot as a nobody, a mistake he clearly regrets given how similar they ended up being. Miles wants to diffuse The Spot situation and get him out of it alive, and I think that if Spot were to die it would take a bit of agency away from Miles in the process. This is the last movie, Miles needs a win in the end to conclude his arc after being told by everybody around him that he didn’t know what he was doing. If Spot is Miles’s nemesis, Miles should get to choose how things end with him.

Spot, in my reading, is not only a metaphor for depression but severely depressed himself. His apartment was deliberately designed to be messy and cluttered with work, as he was constantly drowning in his goals and leaving his personal life neglected. The reference to the film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” above his apartment also leads me to believe that they could’ve taken some slight inspiration from the messaging of that film with his character, given the similarities he shares with it’s main antagonist. The mental health metaphor becomes far more obvious with his line in which he draws a link between his own feeling of emptiness and the black holes that cover his body. As he collects more holes, he becomes less like himself, a hollow shell of who he once was that is far more jaded and nihilistic. As he is drawn towards the collider in Mumbattan, his holes magnetize to his chest, creating a literal hole in his heart. His abyss form twitches and jerks it’s limbs around in brief moments as if it’s physically hurting him, and he put himself in harms way to become The Abyss in the first place. Miles’s mural is about expectations and the silhouette dead center resembles Spot to a haunting degree. The meaning I personally draw from this is that Spot himself was crushed by expectations, tearing himself apart to meet an unattainable goal.

Overall, it saddens me that The Spot is such an overlooked character when it comes to how he’s actually written. Everybody seems to know that he’s a good character, but nobody seems to know why. I hope that this sparked some more interest in him somehow or helped somebody get a better grasp on his character!

I wanted to write something on how the Spider-Verse fandom's aversion to looking at The Spot’s character from a critical lens in comparison to the other characters hurts a lot of fans' understanding of the film overall. He is a critical piece that is missing in a lot of theory and analysis posts, and while you don't necessarily have to like him, excluding him from the narrative causes it to fall apart entirely.

Despite the fact that Spot is arguably the 2nd-3rd most important character to the franchise’s overall message, it isn’t very popular to do in-depth analysis on his character. He was written to be a mirror to Miles thematically, (confirmed information from the art book and interviews); however this is relatively niche knowledge to a lot of fans given the widespread disinterest in earnestly engaging with his character.

Spot is often seen as the most shallow, one-note character in the film, and I think this is a case of fanon overtaking people’s perception of the actual movie. Again, I'm not saying you have to like him by any means, but a lack of awareness of him and his motivations means that a large piece of the story is missing from a lot of people’s interpretations. “He’s overreacting” and “all over a bagel” are common sentiments when it comes to The Spot even though I would argue that Spot is one of, if not the most tragic character in the franchise. Characters like Miguel and Gwen tend to get the “complex character” defense while Spot does not, which is incredibly odd to me given he as well is a very layered character who was in development for a very long time during production.

For example, when the topic of Spot staying in the lab while the 1610 collider exploded comes up, people are more inclined to write him off as “stupid” than to actually consider why he may have done so. If you take into consideration how he’s described as a lonely man who values his work more highly than he does his own life in the art book, it becomes far more likely that he was either trying to minimize the damage from the explosion or save a piece of his life’s work at the cost of his own safety. It’s completely fair to call him a hypocrite for blaming Miles for the situation, however it is a disservice to the character to assume that his decision to stay behind came from any sort of cluelessness or ignorance. Spot is shown to have a lot of self-destructive tendencies, opting to put himself in harm's way and hurt himself twice in the film just to prove that he's worth something. Common sense would lead one to the conclusion that those traits would carry over even before he was transformed. The common perception that Spot is entirely responsible for his own situation also lacks nuance, while Miles is obviously not at fault for what happened to Spot, his family, the system and the people around him 100% failed him and caused him to turn out the way he did.

It just frustrates me how fans realize that his actions seem nonsensical and hypocritical, but don’t bother to consider why that may be. He’s been living through an absurdly bleak situation for over a year, unable to return to a normal life despite trying very hard to do so. While it doesn’t excuse his actions, Spot going off the deep end in the film was his last resort after spending a very long time rotting in a cluttered apartment with nobody there to help. If the Spot was only introduced as a relatively good person just for the sake of shock value when he ended up being the big bad, that would be a case of poor writing. He was introduced that way not only for the twist, but also to show that he is an average person who was pushed to his absolute limit.

Spot’s emotional immaturity comes from a lack of community, both him and Miles being outcasts with opposite arcs. Miles manages to rise above the Spider Society that rejects him due to his mother’s speech and his family’s love that keeps him going. Meanwhile Spot, having nobody, succumbs to the darkness and looks for acceptance in the wrong places because that unconditional love isn’t a luxury he’s ever had. Spot blaming Miles for his situation doesn't come from stupidity, it comes from desperation, having faced a long life of neglect and hitting a dead end with nowhere else to turn.

On another note, I think that Miles’s motivations with The Spot are also often misconstrued. A common take is Miles he wants to get some sort of revenge on Spot, kill him, etc., but taking his words into account when he talks about The Spot I just dont think thats true. Obviously he has every right to be furious with him for recklessly putting so many lives at risk, but with the way that Miles defends Spot to Miguel by saying that “he just wants to be taken seriously”, as well as calling The Spot situation a “success in progress” after Jess’s off-handed comment about it, it’s clear that he’s trying to minimize the damage as much as possible and doesn’t want things to end violently.

Miles’s mistake at the start was the decision to write off The Spot as a nobody, a mistake he clearly regrets given how similar they ended up being. Miles wants to diffuse The Spot situation and get him out of it alive, and I think that if Spot were to die it would take a bit of agency away from Miles in the process. This is the last movie, Miles needs a win in the end to conclude his arc after being told by everybody around him that he didn’t know what he was doing. If Spot is Miles’s nemesis, Miles should get to choose how things end with him.

Spot, in my reading, is not only a metaphor for depression but severely depressed himself. His apartment was deliberately designed to be messy and cluttered with work, as he was constantly drowning in his goals and leaving his personal life neglected. The reference to the film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” above his apartment also leads me to believe that they could’ve taken some slight inspiration from the messaging of that film with his character, given the similarities he shares with it’s main antagonist. The mental health metaphor becomes far more obvious with his line in which he draws a link between his own feeling of emptiness and the black holes that cover his body. As he collects more holes, he becomes less like himself, a hollow shell of who he once was that is far more jaded and nihilistic. As he is drawn towards the collider in Mumbattan, his holes magnetize to his chest, creating a literal hole in his heart. His abyss form twitches and jerks it’s limbs around in brief moments as if it’s physically hurting him, and he put himself in harms way to become The Abyss in the first place. Miles’s mural is about expectations and the silhouette dead center resembles Spot to a haunting degree. The meaning I personally draw from this is that Spot himself was crushed by expectations, tearing himself apart to meet an unattainable goal.

Overall, it saddens me that The Spot is such an overlooked character when it comes to how he’s actually written. Everybody seems to know that he’s a good character, but nobody seems to know why. I hope that this sparked some more interest in him somehow or helped somebody get a better grasp on his character!

I wanted to write something on how the Spider-Verse fandom's aversion to looking at The Spot’s character from a critical lens in comparison to the other characters hurts a lot of fans' understanding of the film overall. He is a critical piece that is missing in a lot of theory and analysis posts, and while you don't necessarily have to like him, excluding him from the narrative causes it to fall apart entirely.

Despite the fact that Spot is arguably the 2nd-3rd most important character to the franchise’s overall message, it isn’t very popular to do in-depth analysis on his character. He was written to be a mirror to Miles thematically, (confirmed information from the art book and interviews); however this is relatively niche knowledge to a lot of fans given the widespread disinterest in earnestly engaging with his character.

Spot is often seen as the most shallow, one-note character in the film, and I think this is a case of fanon overtaking people’s perception of the actual movie. Again, I'm not saying you have to like him by any means, but a lack of awareness of him and his motivations means that a large piece of the story is missing from a lot of people’s interpretations. “He’s overreacting” and “all over a bagel” are common sentiments when it comes to The Spot even though I would argue that Spot is one of, if not the most tragic character in the franchise. Characters like Miguel and Gwen tend to get the “complex character” defense while Spot does not, which is incredibly odd to me given he as well is a very layered character who was in development for a very long time during production.

For example, when the topic of Spot staying in the lab while the 1610 collider exploded comes up, people are more inclined to write him off as “stupid” than to actually consider why he may have done so. If you take into consideration how he’s described as a lonely man who values his work more highly than he does his own life in the art book, it becomes far more likely that he was either trying to minimize the damage from the explosion or save a piece of his life’s work at the cost of his own safety. It’s completely fair to call him a hypocrite for blaming Miles for the situation, however it is a disservice to the character to assume that his decision to stay behind came from any sort of cluelessness or ignorance. Spot is shown to have a lot of self-destructive tendencies, opting to put himself in harm's way and hurt himself twice in the film just to prove that he's worth something. Common sense would lead one to the conclusion that those traits would carry over even before he was transformed. The common perception that Spot is entirely responsible for his own situation also lacks nuance, while Miles is obviously not at fault for what happened to Spot, his family, the system and the people around him 100% failed him and caused him to turn out the way he did.

It just frustrates me how fans realize that his actions seem nonsensical and hypocritical, but don’t bother to consider why that may be. He’s been living through an absurdly bleak situation for over a year, unable to return to a normal life despite trying very hard to do so. While it doesn’t excuse his actions, Spot going off the deep end in the film was his last resort after spending a very long time rotting in a cluttered apartment with nobody there to help. If the Spot was only introduced as a relatively good person just for the sake of shock value when he ended up being the big bad, that would be a case of poor writing. He was introduced that way not only for the twist, but also to show that he is an average person who was pushed to his absolute limit.

Spot’s emotional immaturity comes from a lack of community, both him and Miles being outcasts with opposite arcs. Miles manages to rise above the Spider Society that rejects him due to his mother’s speech and his family’s love that keeps him going. Meanwhile Spot, having nobody, succumbs to the darkness and looks for acceptance in the wrong places because that unconditional love isn’t a luxury he’s ever had. Spot blaming Miles for his situation doesn't come from stupidity, it comes from desperation, having faced a long life of neglect and hitting a dead end with nowhere else to turn.

On another note, I think that Miles’s motivations with The Spot are also often misconstrued. A common take is Miles he wants to get some sort of revenge on Spot, kill him, etc., but taking his words into account when he talks about The Spot I just dont think thats true. Obviously he has every right to be furious with him for recklessly putting so many lives at risk, but with the way that Miles defends Spot to Miguel by saying that “he just wants to be taken seriously”, as well as calling The Spot situation a “success in progress” after Jess’s off-handed comment about it, it’s clear that he’s trying to minimize the damage as much as possible and doesn’t want things to end violently.

Miles’s mistake at the start was the decision to write off The Spot as a nobody, a mistake he clearly regrets given how similar they ended up being. Miles wants to diffuse The Spot situation and get him out of it alive, and I think that if Spot were to die it would take a bit of agency away from Miles in the process. This is the last movie, Miles needs a win in the end to conclude his arc after being told by everybody around him that he didn’t know what he was doing. If Spot is Miles’s nemesis, Miles should get to choose how things end with him.

Spot, in my reading, is not only a metaphor for depression but severely depressed himself. His apartment was deliberately designed to be messy and cluttered with work, as he was constantly drowning in his goals and leaving his personal life neglected. The reference to the film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” above his apartment also leads me to believe that they could’ve taken some slight inspiration from the messaging of that film with his character, given the similarities he shares with it’s main antagonist. The mental health metaphor becomes far more obvious with his line in which he draws a link between his own feeling of emptiness and the black holes that cover his body. As he collects more holes, he becomes less like himself, a hollow shell of who he once was that is far more jaded and nihilistic. As he is drawn towards the collider in Mumbattan, his holes magnetize to his chest, creating a literal hole in his heart. His abyss form twitches and jerks it’s limbs around in brief moments as if it’s physically hurting him, and he put himself in harms way to become The Abyss in the first place. Miles’s mural is about expectations and the silhouette dead center resembles Spot to a haunting degree. The meaning I personally draw from this is that Spot himself was crushed by expectations, tearing himself apart to meet an unattainable goal.

Overall, it saddens me that The Spot is such an overlooked character when it comes to how he’s actually written. Everybody seems to know that he’s a good character, but nobody seems to know why. I hope that this sparked some more interest in him somehow or helped somebody get a better grasp on his character!

I wanted to write something on how the Spider-Verse fandom's aversion to looking at The Spot’s character from a critical lens in comparison to the other characters hurts a lot of fans' understanding of the film overall. He is a critical piece that is missing in a lot of theory and analysis posts, and while you don't necessarily have to like him, excluding him from the narrative causes it to fall apart entirely.

Despite the fact that Spot is arguably the 2nd-3rd most important character to the franchise’s overall message, it isn’t very popular to do in-depth analysis on his character. He was written to be a mirror to Miles thematically, (confirmed information from the art book and interviews); however this is relatively niche knowledge to a lot of fans given the widespread disinterest in earnestly engaging with his character.

Spot is often seen as the most shallow, one-note character in the film, and I think this is a case of fanon overtaking people’s perception of the actual movie. Again, I'm not saying you have to like him by any means, but a lack of awareness of him and his motivations means that a large piece of the story is missing from a lot of people’s interpretations. “He’s overreacting” and “all over a bagel” are common sentiments when it comes to The Spot even though I would argue that Spot is one of, if not the most tragic character in the franchise. Characters like Miguel and Gwen tend to get the “complex character” defense while Spot does not, which is incredibly odd to me given he as well is a very layered character who was in development for a very long time during production.

For example, when the topic of Spot staying in the lab while the 1610 collider exploded comes up, people are more inclined to write him off as “stupid” than to actually consider why he may have done so. If you take into consideration how he’s described as a lonely man who values his work more highly than he does his own life in the art book, it becomes far more likely that he was either trying to minimize the damage from the explosion or save a piece of his life’s work at the cost of his own safety. It’s completely fair to call him a hypocrite for blaming Miles for the situation, however it is a disservice to the character to assume that his decision to stay behind came from any sort of cluelessness or ignorance. Spot is shown to have a lot of self-destructive tendencies, opting to put himself in harm's way and hurt himself twice in the film just to prove that he's worth something. Common sense would lead one to the conclusion that those traits would carry over even before he was transformed. The common perception that Spot is entirely responsible for his own situation also lacks nuance, while Miles is obviously not at fault for what happened to Spot, his family, the system and the people around him 100% failed him and caused him to turn out the way he did.

It just frustrates me how fans realize that his actions seem nonsensical and hypocritical, but don’t bother to consider why that may be. He’s been living through an absurdly bleak situation for over a year, unable to return to a normal life despite trying very hard to do so. While it doesn’t excuse his actions, Spot going off the deep end in the film was his last resort after spending a very long time rotting in a cluttered apartment with nobody there to help. If the Spot was only introduced as a relatively good person just for the sake of shock value when he ended up being the big bad, that would be a case of poor writing. He was introduced that way not only for the twist, but also to show that he is an average person who was pushed to his absolute limit.

Spot’s emotional immaturity comes from a lack of community, both him and Miles being outcasts with opposite arcs. Miles manages to rise above the Spider Society that rejects him due to his mother’s speech and his family’s love that keeps him going. Meanwhile Spot, having nobody, succumbs to the darkness and looks for acceptance in the wrong places because that unconditional love isn’t a luxury he’s ever had. Spot blaming Miles for his situation doesn't come from stupidity, it comes from desperation, having faced a long life of neglect and hitting a dead end with nowhere else to turn.

On another note, I think that Miles’s motivations with The Spot are also often misconstrued. A common take is Miles he wants to get some sort of revenge on Spot, kill him, etc., but taking his words into account when he talks about The Spot I just dont think thats true. Obviously he has every right to be furious with him for recklessly putting so many lives at risk, but with the way that Miles defends Spot to Miguel by saying that “he just wants to be taken seriously”, as well as calling The Spot situation a “success in progress” after Jess’s off-handed comment about it, it’s clear that he’s trying to minimize the damage as much as possible and doesn’t want things to end violently.

Miles’s mistake at the start was the decision to write off The Spot as a nobody, a mistake he clearly regrets given how similar they ended up being. Miles wants to diffuse The Spot situation and get him out of it alive, and I think that if Spot were to die it would take a bit of agency away from Miles in the process. This is the last movie, Miles needs a win in the end to conclude his arc after being told by everybody around him that he didn’t know what he was doing. If Spot is Miles’s nemesis, Miles should get to choose how things end with him.

Spot, in my reading, is not only a metaphor for depression but severely depressed himself. His apartment was deliberately designed to be messy and cluttered with work, as he was constantly drowning in his goals and leaving his personal life neglected. The reference to the film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” above his apartment also leads me to believe that they could’ve taken some slight inspiration from the messaging of that film with his character, given the similarities he shares with it’s main antagonist. The mental health metaphor becomes far more obvious with his line in which he draws a link between his own feeling of emptiness and the black holes that cover his body. As he collects more holes, he becomes less like himself, a hollow shell of who he once was that is far more jaded and nihilistic. As he is drawn towards the collider in Mumbattan, his holes magnetize to his chest, creating a literal hole in his heart. His abyss form twitches and jerks it’s limbs around in brief moments as if it’s physically hurting him, and he put himself in harms way to become The Abyss in the first place. Miles’s mural is about expectations and the silhouette dead center resembles Spot to a haunting degree. The meaning I personally draw from this is that Spot himself was crushed by expectations, tearing himself apart to meet an unattainable goal.

Overall, it saddens me that The Spot is such an overlooked character when it comes to how he’s actually written. Everybody seems to know that he’s a good character, but nobody seems to know why. I hope that this sparked some more interest in him somehow or helped somebody get a better grasp on his character!

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