18) Miguel O’Hara
Yes, he’s hot. He’s voiced by Oscar Isaac. He’s hot. He’s got cool electro techno web shooters. He’s hot. He occasionally just wants to bite a bad guy with his cool vampire fangs. Did we mention he’s hot?
But Miguel’s role in Across the Spider-Verse is not to be the villain—that’s unequivocally the Spot—but to be the asshole, and wow does he play that role with verve! Even if you put aside his “order at any cost” approach to forging the Spider-Society less into a multiversal super team and more like the worst kind of timeline police, Miguel’s rampant hostility to the existence of Miles as a Spider-Man goes so far it’s bordering on feeling pretty inspired by the same kinds of bigoted fandom discussions that surrounded Miles when he first inherited the Spider-mantle in 2011. And no amount of being hot and voiced by Oscar Isaac is gonna change the fact that that’s pretty yikes, fella. Hopefully he learns to stop being such a shocking jerk in the next movie after, presumably, Miles and his friends punch some sense into him.
