Creating over 600 Spider-People couldn’t have made this any easier, not to mention the fact the film boasts at least two different versions in theaters. “’Can he look like a Hanna Barbera cartoon?’ ” That proved to be one wacky idea that did make it into the movie.Īlthough Across the Spider-Verse was praised for its style and animation techniques, it has also come under fire for allegedly harsh working conditions facing its animators. “From the beginning, I was like, ‘Can we have Peter Parkedcar?,' ” said Thompson. Thompson revealed there are around 150 unique Spider-People with specific designs, including the Spider-Cat and the rather awesome Spider-T-Rex. “It’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 630-ish.” “If we take the sequence as a whole, there are over 600 different spiders,” said co-director, Justin K. Essentially, it added hundreds more Spider-People into the mix. Across the Spider-Verse exploded the Spider-Verse that was introduced in the first film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.