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#cause idk any of the animated sexymen
narniangirl1994 · 1 year
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Since the tumblr sexyman poll from Twitter was almost entirely animated characters, and I haven't seen a poll here yet about the real life dudes Tumblr has been/is obsessed with, I'm genuinely curious what the result will be...
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starleska · 10 months
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I keep this 'The Spot' guy on my feed, and idk who he is.
You got any info on him? And why Tumblr is force-electing him to be the next Tumblr Sexy Man?
well, this is a welcome question!! 💖 i'd be more than happy to clue you in on the greatness that is The Spot 🥰
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so, The Spot (or Dr. Jonathan Ohnn) is a minor villain from the Spider-Man comics, and a significant villain in the animated Sony Spider-Man movies, specifically Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (which just got released!). he's a scientist who was involved in an accident which caused his body to be covered with interdimensional portals, or 'spots'. these spots can be used similarly to how portals work in the game Portal: they can cut across both space and dimensions.
BIG spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse below:
so the thing about The Spot is that he's always been a bit of a joke villain. the Spider-Man canon is littered with strange and unique bad guys who have fun little gimmicks, and The Spot is no exception: so much so that in Across the Spider-Verse, he is introduced as a 'villain of the week', and shown to be awkward and a bit incompetent at the whole bad guy thing. in fact, we learn that in the first movie (Into the Spider-Verse) that our protagonist and Spider-Man, Miles Morales, actually meets Jonathan before his transformation into The Spot. Miles tosses a bagel at the poor guy's head 🙈 you can see how from the very beginning, The Spot is supposed to be a big joke.
however, ATSV plays with this idea. The Spot discovers that he is able to use the spots on his body to travel to other dimensions: specifically dimensions containing the same collider which caused his accident. he uses these dimensions to make himself stronger, but his interfering with these other dimensions starts to make the canon of the Spider-Verse fall apart. a significant plot point across these films is the idea of multiverses, and a seemingly infinite amount of Spider-People with their own dimensions. all of the Spider-People have their own unique traits, yet share similar events which must happen: e.g., the death of a loved one. The Spot's interdimensional travel disrupts this process, and puts the whole multiverse at risk.
pretty much; The Spot goes from being this adorkable, bumbling fella with a deeply tragic backstory, to a terrifying, multiverse-ending threat with incomprehensible powers. he's got all of the traits we Tumblr Sexymen connoisseurs love - his suggestion page for the Sexypedia Wiki has already gotten way over the amount of votes necessary to add him, so i'm sure we'll see him there soon 😉
if you're curious about him, here's a little clip! of course not much of the movie is online yet, but if you have the chance, go watch ATSV in cinemas. it is quite possibly the most gorgeous movie i've ever seen;;;
hope this helps :3c
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