#like ppl have pointed out how scared he looks when miles zaps his suit but honestly he strikes me as a man terrified of what's happening

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i was rewatching across the spiderverse and i noticed that miguel doesn’t seem anywhere near as angry when you actually watch him instead of miles. before the chase, the only angry reaction we get is him throwing the enchilada container at miles and sarcastically saying “how wonderful” in spanish to miles offering him the food. which isn’t great, lbr, but he doesn’t come across as a deeply and chronically angry man.

but even in the chase, he’s largely... pretty normal for most of it? compared to what we’ve seen of him before miles showed up, at least. like even his “you’re both equally terrible, does that settle it?” line to peter and jess is pretty in line with his snark up until this point.

so with that in mind, i find it fascinating that what seems to set him off initially is when miles says “what are those, claws? dude, are you sure you’re even spiderman?”

and that gets miguel throwing that question back with “are you? who do you think you are, really?”. and then he goes into his whole speech about how miles is the original anomaly and it’s all his fault. but even then, he doesn’t actually seem angry. he looks more scared than anything?

and then in the lab, he only seems angry instead of scared/panicked after miles has disappeared. and that lasts about a minute (i may have timed it). even when he’s tearing into the barrier for the teleporter, i don’t think he’s actually murderous - not least because gwen and peter sure as hell would’ve intervened if they thought miles was going to come to physical harm.

i know miguel is unusual compared to the canon events he’s going on about, since he wasn’t bitten by a spider and lacks a dead uncle. since he got cut off by gwen when he tried to give his own story, i wonder if this is some fucked up projecting about his own self-consciousness that he doesn’t fit the canon pattern he keeps seeing, and if he secretly thinks that’s why his adopted dimension was doomed.

either way, i think we’ll get his story in btsv the same way gwen’s was at the start of atsv, probably once the double miles plot has been resolved, since i think that’s a very intentional omission in atsv