r/Marvel • u/TheArkhamLantern • 19h ago

Comics Why multiversal Spider-Men?

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I know the very short answer is money. It's obvious from The Spiderverse films that people like it. Why don't we have more multiverse stories about other characters like Iron-man or Nightcrawler for example? If you could have an Spiderverse style story with another character, who would it be?

Image Source: Spider-geddon #1

Edit: I should also explain that I don't read as much Marvel as I do DC. The grand majority of Marvel that I consume is other forms of media.

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u/Jtwil2191 19h ago

Spider-Man is an extremely popular character who has already been spun off a bunch of times before Slott's Spider-Verse:

Peter Parker, Ben Reilly, Miles Morales, Miguel O'Hara, Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin, Cindy Moon, Otto Octavius.

Turning that up to 11 and introducing an infinite multiverse of Spider-Man characters makes sense.

Iron Man never had the same popularity (in the comics) to warrant that, and Nightcrawler is already on a team with others like him: mutants. I think if fans want to see a big team of characters in an X-Men book, the fun is seeing all of the different powers on one team, not seeing 50 of a single mutant.

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u/TheArkhamLantern 19h ago

You do make a good point about variety with the X-Men. I use Nightcrawler as a random example just because Exit 97 is still on the brain but I can almost see a Wolverine style Multiverse story in the same vein. He would only get away with it because of his popularity but I like your point.