Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Best Quotes

Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Oscar Isaac, Daniel Kaluuya, Mahershala Ali, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, Shea Whigham, Greta Lee

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Animated superhero action adventure sequel directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the “Spider-Verse” where Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) goes across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

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Gwen Stacy: Let’s do things differently this time. Like, so differently. His name is Miles Morales. He was bitten by a radioactive spider. And he’s not the only one. He hasn’t always had it easy. And he’s not the only one. And now he’s on his own. And he’s not the only one. You think you know the rest. You don’t. I thought I knew the rest, but I didn’t. I didn’t want to hurt him. But I did. And he’s not the only one.

Gwen Stacy: I always wanted to be in a band. Guess I just never found the right one. In this line of work, you always wind up a solo act.

Adriano Tumino: I am an artist, an engineer.
Gwen Stacy: Oh, great. A Renaissance man. Ooh, let me guess. You were having an espresso in some old-timey Leonardo da Vinci dimension, and suddenly a portal opens up and you wind up here. Am I warm?
Adriano Tumino: Yes, that’s pretty much it.

Gwen Stacy: [to Vulture] I wouldn’t play with fire, dude. You’re kind of made of paper.

Miguel O’Hara: My name is Miguel O’Hara. I lead an elite strike force dedicated to the security of the multiverse.
Gwen Stacy: Actually, forget it. Can you go to any dimension you want with that watch thing?
Miguel O’Hara: It’s much cooler than a watch.
Gwen Stacy: Okay. Sensitive.

'You think you're getting pretty good at being a parent. You think you got it licked. And then they go and grow up.' - Jeff Morales (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) Share on X

Gwen Stacy: We saved the multiverse.
Miguel O’Hara: You left a hole wide enough for guys like him to randomly get shot into the wrong dimension. And now I’m stuck putting everybody back where they belong before all of time and space collapses. And don’t even get me started on Doctor Strang and the little nerd back on Earth-199999.
Gwen Stacy: Who’s Doctor Strange? Sounds like he maybe shouldn’t practice medicine.

Jessica Drew: Spider-Woman.
Gwen Stacy: Me too. Are you…
Jessica Drew: [referring to her pregnancy] Oh, this? We don’t know the sex yet. My husband wants it to be a surprise. He’s really corny, but so hot.
Gwen Stacy: Will you adopt me?
Jessica Drew: What?

Jessica Drew: Do you say anything but no?
Miguel O’Hara: No. Yes.

Miguel O’Hara: I’m a good guy.
Police Pilot: You don’t look like a good guy.
Miguel O’Hara: You’re just going to have to shut up and trust me.

'Who's Doctor Strange? Sounds like he maybe shouldn't practice medicine.' - Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) Share on X

Spot: Sir, please, just let me rob you!
Lenny: I’m going to rob your little spotted face!
Spot: Woh. There’s no reason to bring wood into this. I’ve never robbed anybody in my life. Please don’t make this a bad experience for me.
Lenny: Bad experience? I’m trying to run a business here!
Spot: I’m like Robin Hood, if he gave to himself.

Spot: I’m a scientist. Or I was. I am. Anyway, you’ve heard of Alchemax? I used to work there. I was actually considered handsome by scientist standards. I had a little accident.

Spot: I’m so sorry. First of all, I’m not even robbing you. I mean, this ATM machine doesn’t even belong to you. Right? This belongs to the bank. They’re the real criminals.
Lenny: You’re the real criminal. You’re robbing me!

Miles Morales: Why do people say, “ATM machine?”
Spot: Who said that?
Miles Morales: The M stands for “machines”.
Spot: Spider-Man!

'What did you just say? Chai tea? Chai means “tea”, bro! You're saying “tea tea”! Would I ask you for a “coffee coffee” with room for “cream cream”?' - Pavitr Prabhakar (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) Share on X

Miles Morales: Hey, Lenny, how much do I owe you for this beef patty, man?
Lenny: Spidey, if you catch him, it’s on the house, brother.

Miles Morales: So are you like a cow or a Dalmatian?
Spot: I am The Spot. We meet again, Spider-Man. Oh, that’s funny to you?
Miles Morales: Of course not. No. So is that a costume?
Spot: Unfortunately for both of us, this is skin.
Miles Morales: Oh, dang.

Miles Morales: Okay, let’s do this one last time. My name is Miles Morales. I was bitten by a radioactive spider. And for the last year and four months, I’ve been Brooklyn’s one and only Spider-Man. And things are going great. Catching all sorts of bad guys.

Miles Morales: [to Spot] Can’t you just act like a regular supervillain so I can catch you?

Miles Morales: I guest-hosted “Jeopardy!” Endorsed baby powder. Apologized for endorsing baby powder. My mustache came in. And out.

'I wouldn't call it a mess. More like a success in progress.' - Miles Morales (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) Share on X

Miles Morales: How much longer can I keep lying about who I really am?

Miles Morales: Sometimes I just wish I wasn’t the only one. But I don’t dwell on it.

Spot: [to Miles] You’re looking at your texts? You understand this is the fight of our lives, right?

Spot: [to Miles] You turn off your phone in a movie theater. You don’t turn it off when you’re fighting me?

'Bad things are going to happen. It makes us who we are.' - Peter B. Parker (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) Share on X

Spot: Come back to your nemesis!
Miles Morales: Don’t escape. Your costume’s too tight in the back, by the way.

Miles Morales: There’s a bad guy on the roof of the Petersen building. Can you call the police, tell them to pick him up?
Ganke: I don’t know. Sounds like a slippery slope.
Miles Morales: Just this one time?
Ganke: It starts with one call, then it’s walkie-talkies, synchronized watches. In a month, it’ll be a Spider-Signal. I’m not your “guy in the chair”.
Miles Morales: Are those my Jordans?
Ganke: I can’t help it if we’re the same size.

Ms. Weber: Can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Miles Morales: Unless you bake two cakes.

Ms. Weber: And a B in Spanish.
Rio Morales: [in English and Spanish] What?! Miles, look at me. That’s impossible.
Jeff Morales: Ooh. Okay. Are you trying to kill your mother?

Ms. Weber: Miles has a great story to tell.
Miles Morales: Having a story at all seems gross.

'Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. No. I'm going to do my own thing.' - Miles Morales (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) Share on X

Ms. Weber: [to Rio] Your son. He’s lying. And I think you know it.

Jeff Morales: [to Miles and Spot, who are fighting] My kid goes here, man! I’m on the PTA! You know how many lemon bars I got to bake for that?

Spot: You left in the middle of a fight.
Miles Morales: I did not. It was at the end.
Spot: It was inconsiderate and super rude. And a little cocky.
Jeff Morales: Yeah, you got me agreeing with the bad guy right now.
Miles Morales: “Bad guy”? He’s barely a villain of the week
Spot: What did you call me? You realize I’m right here.

'Parenting stuff is a big-a** mystery.' - George Stacy (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) Share on X

Miles Morales: Hey, don’t try to wow me with big words. I do the crossword every day.

Spot: My spider made you Spider-Man.
Miles Morales: What?
Spot: You ran through the cafeteria. You hit me with a bagel.
Miles Morales: I’ve hit a lot of different villains with a lot of different food.

Spot: You make your flippy, little sassy jokes, and everyone loves them. But no one knows what it feels like to be on the other side of them.
Miles Morales: I’m just trying to lighten the mood.

Spot: [to Miles] I created you. You created me.

Spot: [to Miles] Because of you, I lost my job, my life, my face! My family won’t even look at me. I made you into a hero. You made me into this!

Miles Morales: [referring to Spot] He kicked his own butt.

Jeff Morales: You know we’re supposed to catch the bad guys, right?
Miles Morales: I always do. Usually.

Spot: I think I kicked myself into myself. Well, this is new.

Spot: I think I’m becoming a transdimensional superbeing.
Mrs. Chen: So?
Spot: “So”? I’m literally splitting the fabric of space and time. For you it’s just a Tuesday night. You’re acting like weird stuff like this happens to you all the time.

Spot: My holes aren’t a curse! They’re the answer!
Construction Worker: Can you stop talking about your holes? You’re making everyone uncomfortable over here.

Miles Morales: Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I’m just doing benign, private, unremarkable things when I’m not with you guys?
Jeff Morales: Nope.
Rio Morales: Never.

Miles Morales: So, what are you doing here? I mean, I thought I’d never see you again.
Gwen Stacy: Want to get out of here?
Miles Morales: I’m grounded.
Gwen Stacy: Bummer. Is Spider-Man grounded?

Miles Morales: [to Gwen] Hold on. There’s an elite society with all the best Spider-People in it?

Gwen Stacy: And Miguel. The whole thing was his idea. Right.
Miles Morales: And who’s Miguel?
Gwen Stacy: Oh, he’s like a ninja-vampire Spider-Man, but a good guy.
Miles Morales: A vampire good guy? I’d pay good money to see that.

Gwen Stacy: You and me, it’s…
Miles Morales: We’re the same. In the important ways. You know?
Gwen Stacy: In every other universe, Gwen Stacy falls for Spider-Man. And in every other universe, it doesn’t end well.
Miles Morales: Well, there’s a first time for everything. Right?

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Gwen Stacy: Wow. Feelings make me hungry.
Miles Morales: Oh, yeah. These plátanos are just deep-fried feelings.

Miles Morales: I can hear you being quiet, Mom.
Rio Morales: I hope I didn’t ice your game, man.
Miles Morales: No one my age says those words in that order, Mom.
Rio Morales: It’s just hard to see my little man not be my little boy all the time.

Rio Morales: [to Miles] For years I’ve been taking care of this little boy, right? Making sure he’s loved, that he feels like he belongs wherever he wants to be. He wants to go out into the world and do great big things. And what I worry about most, is they won’t look out for you like us. They won’t root for you like us. So, here’s the deal. Wherever you go from here, you have to promise to take care of that little boy for me. Make sure he never forgets where he came from. And he never doubts that he is loved. And he never lets anyone at those big, fancy places he’s going to be in, tell him that he doesn’t belong there.

Spot: And, Spider-Man, I’ll make you pay for everything you took away from me.

Gwen Stacy: Did you follow me?
Miles Morales: No, I just saw where you went, and went there without you knowing.

Gwen Stacy: Hey, Pav. He’s Miles, and he wasn’t invited.
Pavitr Prabhakar: You weren’t invited, and you came anyway?
Gwen Stacy: Right?
Pavitr Prabhakar: Hey, new guy must be in love with you.

Pavitr Prabhakar: Being Spider-Man is so easy. I wake up, skip the workout because I’m naturally buff, and I don’t want to get too big, you know? Do almost nothing with my amazing hair.
Miles Morales: You don’t use any product at all?
Pavitr Prabhakar: Just coconut oil, prayer, some genetics.

Pavitr Prabhakar: I fight a few bad guys. Feed a few street dogs. Quick break for a cup of chai with my Maya Auntie.
Miles Morales: I love chai tea.
Pavitr Prabhakar: What did you just say? Chai tea? Chai means “tea”, bro! You’re saying “tea tea”! Would I ask you for a “coffee coffee” with room for “cream cream”?

Pavitr Prabhakar: I live in the best possible Spider-Man city. Mumbattan. Quick tour. This is where the traffic is. This is where the traffic is. This is also where the traffic is. There’s traffic here too. And this is where the British stole all of our stuff.

Spot: I’m on a journey of self-improvement.
Pavitr Prabhakar: And you came to India. That’s a Western culture cliché. Don’t “Eat, Pray, Love” me, bro.

Pavitr Prabhakar: Now let me guess, you’re going to ask me about saffron, and cardamom, and naan bread, which is the same as saying “bread bread”, which is the same as saying “chai tea”.
Spot: Oh, I love chai tea.
Pavitr Prabhakar: No!

Spot: You made me feel empty, like I had a hole inside of me.
Miles Morales: We all have holes.
Spot: But now I found out what to fill that hole up with. More holes.
Miles Morales: That doesn’t make any sense.
Spot: It will.

Spot: I’m about to be so much more than a villain of the week.
Miles Morales: I’m sorry I called you that, okay? You’re a great villain.
Spot: Oh, not yet I’m not.

Spot: Look at that, another one. I love how many different variations of you guys there are. I mean…
Hobie Brown: Man-like, Pav. Big stepper! Yeah, mate.
Miles Morales: What’s this dude saying?
Pavitr Prabhakar: It’s English for “We get along great and we’re close friends”.

Hobie Brown: I’m not a role model. I was briefly a runway model. I hate the AM. I hate the PM. I hate labels. I’m not a hero, because calling yourself a hero makes you a self-mythologizing narcissistic autocrat. Come on!
Miles Morales: I thought you hated labels.

Spot: Y’all make a heck of a team.
Hobie Brown: I don’t believe in teams.
Miles Morales: Aren’t you in a band?
Hobie Brown: I don’t believe in consistency.
Miles Morales: This guy is killing me.

Miles Morales: You’re not a joke. Right, gang?
Gwen Stacy: Absolutely.
Pavitr Prabhakar: Completely unamusing.
Hobie Brown: I don’t believe in comedy! Just kidding!
Miles Morales: See? No one here thinks you’re a joke.
Spot: They won’t after this.

Pavitr Prabhakar: Guys, what’s that?
Hobie Brown: It’s a metaphor for capitalism.
Gwen Stacy: It’s a lot worse than that.

Miles Morales: How are you even cooler under your mask?
Hobie Brown: I was this cool the whole time.

Gwen Stacy: Welcome to Spider-Society.
Hobie Brown: It’s a bit much, isn’t it?
Miles Morales: What happened to that small, elite strike team?
Gwen Stacy: A lot of these are part-time.

Jessica Drew: Peter, take a team to the transport deck to help deal with this Spot mess.
Miles Morales: I wouldn’t call it a mess. More like a success in progress.

Web-Slinger: Howdy. Name’s Web-Slinger.
Miles Morales: Why does the horse need a mask?
Web-Slinger: To conceal her face.

Typeface: Go to Helvetica, Spider-Man!
Miles Morales: Bold.

Miles Morales: How many missions have you been on together?
Gwen Stacy: Oh, not that many.
Hobie Brown: Couple dozen.

Miguel O’Hara: My name is Miguel O’Hara. I’m this dimension’s one and only Spider-Man. At least I was. But I’m not like the others. I don’t always like what I have to do. But I know I have to be the one to do it. I’ve given up too much to stop now.

Hobie Brown: It’s propaganda, bruv. To distract you from the truth.
Miles Morales: And what’s that?
Hobie Brown: I ain’t got a Scooby Doo, mate. Because that’s what they want.

Peter B. Parker: Come on, go easy on the kid. He had a terrible teacher. He had no chance.
Miles Morales: Peter!
Gwen Stacy: Peter?
Hobie Brown: Oh, boy. Humbling-Reality Spider-Man has arrived.

Miles Morales: You look solid, you know. You look good.
Peter B. Parker: Define “solid”.

Peter B. Parker: [referring to his baby, Mayday] I knew I was going to regret making her that web shooter. I shouldn’t have done it. That’s an actual mistake.

Miguel O’Hara: I’m trying to hold a serious adult conversation here.
Peter B. Parker: You know, you’re the only Spider-Man who isn’t funny. We’re supposed to be funny.

Miguel O’Hara: The fate of the multiverse is…
Peter B. Parker: You always lose me with that. You say, “The fate of the multiverse,” and my brain dies.

Peter B. Parker: Do you guys smell that? Mayday took a crap. Yep, she’s a Parker. That’s what happens when a Parker eats an avocado, folks.

Hobie Brown: [to Mayday] Taking a crap on the establishment. I salute you.

Miguel O’Hara: This is all of us. All of our lives woven together in a beautiful web of life and destiny.
Miles Morales: The Spider-Verse.
Miguel O’Hara: “Spider-Verse”. Huh, that’s stupid. It’s called the Arachnohumanoid Polymultiverse. Which sounds stupid too, I guess.

Miles Morales: And these nodes where the lines converge?
Miguel O’Hara: They are the canon. Chapters that are a part of every Spider’s story every time. Some good. Some bad. Some very bad.

Miguel O’Hara: It’s what happens when you break the canon.
Miles Morales: How do you know?
Miguel O’Hara: Because I broke it once myself. I found a world where I had a family. Where I was happy. At least a version of me was. And that version of myself was killed. So I replaced him. I thought it was harmless. But I was wrong.

Miles Morales: Okay, what about Uncle Ben? That have been okay if you knew, and you just let it play out?
Peter B. Parker: If not for Uncle Ben, most of us wouldn’t be here, Miles. I mean, all the good we did, it wouldn’t have been done.

Miles Morales: So we’re just supposed to let people die because some algorithm says that that’s supposed to happen? You realize how messed up that sounds, right?
Miguel O’Hara: You have a choice between saving one person, and saving an entire world, every world.
Miles Morales: I can do both! Spider-Man always…
Miguel O’Hara: Not always.

Miguel O’Hara: Miles, we all want to live the life we wish we had. Believe me, I have tried. And the harder I tried, the more damage I did. You can’t have it all, kid. Being Spider-Man is a sacrifice. That’s the job. That’s what you signed up for.

Miles Morales: You were right, Gwen. You should’ve never come to see me.

Miles Morales: You can’t ask me not to save my father.

Miguel O’Hara: All stations! Drop what you’re doing and stop Spider-Man.
Spider-People: [all pointing to each other] You? No, wait. Me. You…

Miles Morales: [as he’s attacked by Spider-Cat] Can this day get any damn weirder?
Miles Morales: [as he sees Spider-Dinosaur] Wow, I guess it can.

Insomniac Spider-Man: And then, I looked at my uncle, and…
Spider-Therapist: Let me guess. He died?

Charlotte Weber: Do you think Spider-People too often use comedy as a crutch? Get it? “Crutch”?

Metro Spider-Man: [to Miles] There’s nowhere to run.
Metro Spider-Man: [as Miles jumps out the window] My bad, everybody. There was somewhere to run.

Peter B. Parker: It is crazy to run.
Miles Morales: Running is the least crazy thing going on.

Peter B. Parker: Would you just give the baby one squeeze, and then we’ll talk? Because I think it’s going to change our vibe.
Miles Morales: No!
Peter B. Parker: It’s very rejuvenating!
Miles Morales: I’m plenty juvenated.
Peter B. Parker: You’ll get more so when you go chest-to-chest with this magical child!

Jessica Drew: If I hadn’t said it before, by the way, you’re a terrible mentor.
Peter B. Parker: He did just beat you, so I’m not a terrible mentor.
Miguel O’Hara: You’re both equally terrible. Does that settle it?

Miguel O’Hara: [to Miles] Everywhere you go, you’re an anomaly! You’re the original anomaly!

Miguel O’Hara: You’re not supposed to be Spider-Man.
Miles Morales: No! You’re lying! I’m Spider-Man!
Miguel O’Hara: You’re a mistake! If you hadn’t been bit, your Peter Parker would have lived. Instead, he died saving you. He would’ve stopped the collider before it ever went off. Spot wouldn’t exist, and none of this would’ve happened. And all this time, I have been the only one holding it all together.

Miguel O’Hara: [to Miles] You don’t belong here. You never did.

Gwen Stacy: Miguel, that’s enough!
Peter B. Parker: This isn’t what we talked about.
Miles Morales: You talked about this? You knew? You all knew?

Miles Morales: I’m not a kid, Gwen!
Miguel O’Hara: That’s exactly what you are. You’re just a kid who has no idea what he’s doing!
Miles Morales: Yeah, well, I did lure hundreds of Spider-People away from your little clubhouse.

Peter B. Parker: I taught him how to do that, so I got to be a pretty good mentor to pull that off.

Peter B. Parker: Well, okay, Miguel, as a father of a daughter, and the son of a mother…
Jessica Drew: Yeah, actually, stop talking.
Peter B. Parker: Okay, duly noted.

Gwen Stacy: We are supposed to be the good guys.
Miguel O’Hara: We are.

Miguel O’Hara: And somebody catch Spot.
Peter B. Parker: Yeah, sorry. I got to get her down for her nap.
Miguel O’Hara: Not you. I’ve had the right amount of you.

Mary Jane: Peter, did you bring our baby to another fight?
Peter B. Parker: No. No. No. You asked me not to. So I didn’t. I wouldn’t.

Peter B. Parker: You think I’ll be any good at this?
Mary Jane: You’re asking that now? There’s no playbook for raising someone like her. Or being someone like you. You just got to make the right adjustments at halftime. That’s a sports metaphor, by the way.
Peter B. Parker: I understand.

George Stacy: Where have you been?
Gwen Stacy: Just been out murdering all my friends.
George Stacy: Oh. Oh, that’s funny. Yeah.

Gwen Stacy: I can do all these things, but I can’t help the people I love the most. And they can only know half of who I am. So I’m completely on my own. And now I don’t even know what the right thing is anymore. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. But I know I can’t lose one more friend.

George Stacy: [to Gwen] My job, being captain, this whole thing doesn’t matter anymore. You’re the best thing I’ve ever done.

Gwen Stacy: I’ll be right back. Promise.
George Stacy: [as Gwen leaves] Parenting stuff is a big-a** mystery.

Miles Morales: You were right. You were right about everything.
Rio Morales: Of course I’m right. I’m always right. What am I right about?
Miles Morales: I saw all these amazing places, and met all these amazing people, but they didn’t want me. I kept thinking about what you said. And I let them have it, Mom. I beat them all. I know how strong I am now. I’m strong because of you. And Dad. And us.

Miles Morales: [to Rio] I know you know I’ve been lying to you. It’s because I thought if you knew, you wouldn’t love me the same. And then I went out there, and now I’m not afraid of anything.

Miles Morales: Mom. I’m Spider-Man.
Rio Morales: Who’s Spider-Man?

Gwen Stacy: [referring to Miles] He’s in the wrong universe.

Miles Morales: There’s no Spider-Man here.

Jeff Morales: I want to talk to your parents.
Gwen Stacy: Right. My dad’s kind of hard to get on the horn.
Jeff Morales: Oh, really? What does he do? Deal drugs?
Gwen Stacy: He’s a cop.
Jeff Morales: Statement withdrawn.

Gwen Stacy: [referring to Miles] I’m going to find him. I don’t know where, exactly. But I know where to start. One thing I learned from Miles, it’s all possible.

Earth-42 Miles Morales: I’m Miles Morales. But you, you can call me the Prowler.
Miles Morales: If I don’t get home, our dad is going to die.
Earth-42 Miles Morales: Your dad.
Miles Morales: Please. You have to let me go.
Earth-42 Miles Morales: Why would I do that?

Gwen Stacy: I never found the right band to join. So I started my own. With a few old friends. You want in?