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To be honest, the ending bothered me a little. In my opinion, it's only OK to end on a cliffhanger if the story is tied up enough that you could be satisfied if the next one never came. For example, both Empire Strikes Back and Infinity Wars both end on a cliffhanger (sort of) in that they both end with the protagonist losing; but in Empire Luke and Leia definitively get away and in Infinity Wars the Avengers definitively lose. While both of those endings are the protagonists' low points, the movies could be complete even with no sequelMeanwhile, Across the Spider-Verse's story is still majorly incomplete and if there was no follow up, it would feel like the first half of a movie forever (though an exceptional one). The interesting thing to me, is I think the movie would feel more complete if they cut material out. Since Gwen's arc (not having a support system and not feeling loved by her sole remaining family member) was tied up at the end and Miles had the climactic escape from Nueva York, I think the movie would have felt more tied up if they saved all the Earth-42 scenes (including Prowler!Miles) for the next movie. That way both protagonists has a more finite end point for the movie. That's my opinion, anyway.
just so you know you gotta take those last three :::
and move them to the line below it for the spoiler to work. you can look at the source of another spoiler comment to see how it works in more detail
Sorry. I didn't even realize the spoiler tags did anything (they don't show up on Jerboa). I thought you were just trying to be as obvious as you could there were spoilers, so I tried to copy your formatting, but I didn't do it exactly.
It should be working now (hopefully).
all fixed!
FYI: for some reason the formatting in your comment isn't working
Sorry, the spoiler tags don't show up for me in Jerboa, but I think (hope) I fixed it.
you did yeah, app stuff is wacky so don't worry