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"In every other universe..." was a lie

I need people to understand that Gwen’s hesitation under the clocktower probably wasn’t actually about Gwen Stacys in other universes. By that point in the movie, we already know she’s keeping things from Miles and that the society is heavily controlling her travels. Further, the scene in Spot’s apartment with Jessica Drew shows us several things about her motivations, fears, and the reality she has come to accept. Gwen’s greatest fear is being sent back to her universe, where she doesn’t feel welcome and would have to face her dad again. We eventually learn that Miguel has barred Miles from being a part of the Spider Society. She must have had to convince Jess Drew to let her come to Earth 1610 on the Spot mission under the condition she wouldn’t see Miles. I also think it’s pretty clear that if things hadn’t blown up in her face, her plan was to keep finding ways to get to 1610 every once in a while and sneak off to see Miles. The moments of them swinging through Brooklyn and hanging out at the clock tower every time she could find a reason to get to 1610 on Spider Society business was going to be the best she could ever do, but she couldn’t tell Miles why that was the best she could ever do, so she told him about the unfortunate fate of Gwen Stacy and Spiderman to keep the distance as best she could. 

But I think it should be obvious to the audience that her explanation makes no sense to us. The original Gwen Stacy fell for Peter Parker, not Spiderman, so the idea that Gwen and Miles being together would cause a Gwen Stacy specific canon event doesn’t necessarily track. Though, even if we yada yada past that, we start to run into things that really don’t make sense in her explanation. At this point, Gwen knows about canon events and their importance according to Miguel’s theory of the Spiderverse. Gwen and Miles are Spiders from different universes, so in Miguel's theory, it would make no sense that Earth 65's Gwen, who is their Earth's Spider, dying would be a canon event for Spider of Earth 1610. Further, if Gwen truly believed her dying because she would fall for Miles was a canon event, she wouldn’t try to resist, or if she did, there would be even more turmoil displayed by her because she knows if the canon is broken, it can endanger the Spiderverse. Even more ominous, she would also know that she has no agency in the matter. If she attempted to break the canon, not fall for Spiderman, and not die, the Spider Society would attempt to make sure that the canon was not disrupted.

There is no canon event reason for her to try to distance herself romantically from Miles. The only good reason for her to try to distance herself from him is that she’s barred from seeing him, and she knows they can’t ever really be together with the Spider Society controlling her movements. She lies to him because, as she says on the train in Nueva York, she doesn’t know how to tell him why she’s barred from seeing him and why he can’t be a part of the Spider Society.

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Why does nobody talk about the song that's playing when Gwen visits Miles in Across. Miles has become synonymous with Sunflower because of Into, but in Across the song he's listening to when Gwen pops into his universe is symbolic of Gwen and even alludes to the scene going on around him, "In here, paper walls are pushing back on you like Eventually you push through." The song he's listening to isn't Sunflower, it's Hummingbird, as in Gwen is the hummingbird to his sunflower. Why does no one refer to them as Sunflower and Hummingbird? It's right there!