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“Every mystery forms a complex web,” monologues Nicolas Cage in the newest Spider-Noir trailer. He’s not kidding. Even with the several teasers and images already released for the Prime Video and MGM+ spinoff of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, questions surround Spider-Noir. We know that Cage plays private investigator Ben Reilly instead of Peter Parker, breaking from both the usual Spidey story and from the 2009 Marvel comic Spider-Man: Noir.
However, Cage’s monologue continues to say, “Pull the right strand, and it’s a straight line to the answer.” The latest trailer for Spider-Noir provides one of the answers. Among the images of this Spidey’s origin, we see him shoot a web from his wrist, no mechanical bracelet needed.
Spider-Man’s web-shooting abilities have existed since the character debuted in 1962’s Amazing Fantasy #15, but not as one of the powers given to Peter Parker after being bitten by a radioactive spider. Rather, teen Peter Parker just keeps materials in his bedroom that allow him to create extremely strong webbing, as well as a contraption to shoot them. That’s always been one of the odder parts of Spider-Man’s origins, but most people just accept it in the same way they accept that a radioactive spider-bite gives people powers instead of cancer.
However, after Sam Raimi and his screenwriters famously streamlined story by giving Peter organic web-shooters in the 2002 movie, the mechanical versions have been strictly optional. They most memorably became part of the mainline Peter Parker’s power set in the 2005 storyline The Other. However, that story was so poorly received for other elements—elements that were adapted in the movie Madame Web and appear to be part of Spider-Man: Brand New Day—that the organic shooters have been dropped.
Before the Raimi film, however, another Spider-Man had organic shooters. Miguel O’Hara, the Spider-Man of the year 2099, counts organic web-shooters among his abilities, alongside his stronger precognition and strangely vampiric qualities. Such has been the case with several other alternate Spideys, including the monstrous clone Kaine Parker, Cindy Moon—who goes by the moniker “Silk” ever since she was bitten by the same spider that transformed Peter—and Spider-Man Noir.
That last point shouldn’t come as a surprise. The original Spider-Man: Noir comics by David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico, and Marko Djurdjević take place during the Great Depression and feature a poor Peter Parker, someone who wouldn’t have the materials to make mechanical web-shooters, even if he had the know-how.
Spider-Noir takes place in the same era, but has a much older Spidey. That’s not the only change from the comics, as demonstrated in the trailer. We see images of a mutant Man-Spider, who bites Ben Reilly and gives him powers. That’s a significant change from the comics, where Peter gets his powers from a spider-idol.
Who is that Man-Spider, and how did he come to be? Well, turns out Spider-Noir still has some mysteries yet to solve.
Spider-Noir streams on Prime Video and MGM+ on May 27, 2026.
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