Across The Spider-Verse: The Spot Has His Own 'Deadpool' - And He's The Worst

This article contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"

Marvel villain the Spot (Jason Schwartzman) is something of a joke baddie in many of his comic book incarnations, and that's how he starts his path in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," as well. However, this is simply because he's still getting used to his new form and its various abilities. Despite his inherent goofiness, the antagonist is truly determined to destroy Miles Morales' (Shameik Moore) life in retaliation for the incident that turned him into his current form, and once he figures out his multiversal abilities, he sets out to attain as much power as he possibly can to do so. 

Fearsome and visually unique, the Spot is an excellent villain for an animated film as ambitious as "Across the Spider-Verse." What's more, he's not the only person with this type of power set in the Marvel roster. In fact, the comic book version of the Spot has his very own 'Deadpool', who's an absolute piece of work. Just like Deadpool's classic origin story gives him a version of Wolverine's healing factor, the villain known as Coyote was forcibly subjected to an operation that gave him the Spot's powers. Unfortunately for everyone, Coyote turns out to be a far more cruel person than the Spot and uses his powers accordingly. 

With his dark, skull-like appearance, Coyote looks far more sinister than the Spot, and he has the mentality to match his look. Coyote's mysterious creators want him to defeat Daredevil, but the villain puts his teleportation spot powers to even worse use with a number of side hustles that include smuggling and even human trafficking. 

If all of this wasn't enough, Coyote approaches his villain game with a distinctly torturous horror movie twist, as proved by his most famous parlor trick that involves separating people's still-living heads from their bodies with a special "portal hood" — a move that he pulls on Daredevil himself at one point. Still, the Devil of Hell's Kitchen gets away lightly compared to the Spot, whom Coyote subjects to creepy experiments that twist the Spot's body into a Lovecraftian mass of tormented limbs. All in all, Coyote isn't the kind of guy anyone would want to meet in a dark alley ... or, for that matter, anywhere at all.