How Donald Glover Inspired This Superhero's Look

Miles Morales is one of the most beloved Spider-People slinging webs in the Spider-verse, perhaps even more so than Peter Parker. Even Stan Lee gave the character the nod, believing that he was a positive role model for people of color to look up to. Until this point in history, no person of color had ever portrayed the neighborhood web-slinger. Marvel is no stranger to diversity in the Spider-Man world. There are many incarnations of Spider-People. Heck, they even cranked out a whole bunch of clones. So, the idea that there is a universe filled with different Spider-People of various species, genders, and races makes sense. Not all of them are quite like Morales, a cheeky, impossibly good kid. His leading role in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse proves Miles is tough, moral, funny, and easy to root for. But Miles Morales has a particularly interesting real-world origin story.