The Spot

A scientist covered in holes that go somewhere else, introduced robbing a cash machine and losing an argument about it.

Status: Alive
Species: Human
First in print: The Spectacular Spider-Man #98 (1985)
On screen: 2 entries

Who they are

Across the Spider-Verse begins him as a joke — a man who keeps falling through his own hands — and then takes him seriously with unusual patience: every hole is a place he has been, he is the accident that made Miles, and he is teaching himself to aim. Schwartzman plays the humiliation, which is what makes the escalation work.

Connections

Enemy

Miles Morales
Character

Member of

Alchemax
Organisation · until spider man across the spider verse

Appearances

Canonical timeline · 2 entries

Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.

Spider-Verse

A separate universe, in its own order

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 · Supporting
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027 · Major role

Beyond the screen1 from the comics · 1 speculation · click to open

From the comics

On the page he is a punchline

Jonathan Ohnn is a Kingpin lab technician who falls into a portal and comes out covered in doorways, and for forty years he was mostly used as a gag villain Spider-Man beats in three panels. The film is the first version to notice that a man who can put a hole anywhere is horrifying.

The Spectacular Spider-Man #97–98 (1985), Al Milgrom and Herb Trimpe

Where this might be going

Guesses, not canon — reasoning from the comics and from what the films have already set up. None of it has happened on screen.

The film left him mid-sentence

Plausible

Across ends with the Spot still growing, the Society scattered and Miles in the wrong universe, all of it explicitly held over. On the strength of the two films the third is his: the escalation arc is finished and the pay-off is not.

Reasoning from where Across the Spider-Verse ends and what Beyond has been announced as