The Little Nerd On Earth-199999
“Don’t get me started on Doctor Strange and the little nerd back on Earth-199999!” Miguel growls, giving us our first direct and explicit reference to the Spider-Man of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, played by Tom Holland. Miguel is, of course, referring to the fact that Peter and Stephen Strange couldn’t even handle meeting two other Spider-Men without nearly breaking the fabric of the multiverse during the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
The MCU Earth’s designation here as Earth-199999 is a contentious one—this universal hallmarker had been given the movie version of Marvel’s Earth all the way back in 2008’s Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z, but recent movies like Far From Home and No Way Home have attempted to claim that the MCU reality is in fact Earth-616, the prime reality of the Marvel Comics Earth. Miguel and Sony Pictures Animation disagree, clearly.
