Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Arachne created blasphemous images of the gods. Furious, Athena destroyed Arachne's work. Devastated, Arachne hanged herself, but Athena took pity on Arachne and transformed her into the world's first spider. Now Arachne is cursed to wander the universe and weave her web for all eternity. After class ends, Peter's ex-best friend Flash Thompson and his gang gleefully torment the straight A student ("Bullying by Numbers"). Peter has a crush on his popular next door neighbor Mary Jane Watson, but they both have unhappy lives: Mary Jane has an abusive father and suffers at home while Peter suffers the torment of
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse interconnectivity of comic-book universes in a way that no other feature film has", calling it the best Spider-Man film since "Spider-Man 2". Justin Chang of the "Los Angeles Times" said that "[w]hat distinguishes "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" in the end is that it takes its mission seriously, even when it's being transparently silly". Tom Holland, who plays Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, praised the film as "one of the coolest films [he has] ever seen", while Holland's MCU co-star Chris Pratt, who worked with producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller in the "The Lego Movie" films, called it an