The bagel effect

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That bagel really hit the spot.

Man. They really turned this man from a background joke to a joke villain, then into a literal eldritch abomination set to obliterate the multiverse. Spot was honestly terrifying.

What makes this even better is the fact that the filmmakers never even planned this. They didn't know the bagel guy would end up being Spot until Avi Arad convinced them to add him. And they ended up tying him perfectly to the first movie and Miles' origin. Filmmaking at its finest.

You know, its pretty genius of the movie to make these moments comedic. The Spot wasn't just talking to Miles. I remember how loud the laughter in the theater was at the bagel bit in the first film. Add the chuckles with his debut, especially with the fight and Miles LITERALLY whipping his phone out and half-assing the fight. The Spot felt like a joke to the entire world. A joke to us as well. No wonder he felt desperate enough to infuse with the Core in Mumbattan. And now hes an unstable anomaly set to rip a dimension to scrap.

it was brilliant making the spot seem as a "joke" villain at first and then shifting him into a deadly threat that even miles and other spider men are worried about. It even fooled a lot of fans thinking he can just be easily moved away.

"You either die as a joke or you live long enough to see yourself become the bagel." ~ The Spot

I love how the bagel had literally nothing to do with the spots backstory, the spot just mentioned it because of how personally he took it

I love how The Spot mentions the bagel in the same breath as him becoming an outcast and not even being loved by his family anymore. Like, they're equally traumatic to him.

The fact that I knew what he was talking about when he said "You hit me with a bagel" just goes to show how memorable the first film was and how great of a sequel Across The Spiderverse is.

Can we talk about how they took a joke villain and turned him into the multiverses most overpowered villains?

Miguel be blaming Miles when Peter B. was obviously the one selecting a bagel 💀

To those complaining about The Spot’s retroactive inclusion in the first film: There’s a reason his opening scenes of the film have him insisting upon himself that he’s important. Spot normally wouldn’t be, he would just be a villain of the week, but his life was important to HIM and it was taken from him. He doesn’t want to be a Villain Of The Week, and he wants revenge on the person who ruined his life. It’s not important that he’s “The Bagel Guy”, he didn’t turn bad because of a bagel. That’s just a fun way to support the point that even heroes actions have consequences, the Collider incidents have an actual impact of the rest of the series (as a good sequel should do). It’s the point the movie makes about how Spider-People undergo “canon events” that, despite doing everything they can, bad things are still bound to happen to them, which ultimately make them better heroes. Miles DID create The Spot, and it turns out that Miles saving one day will eventually lead to the demise of Jefferson Davis. It’s poetic in a way.

The real reason this affected him so much was because it reminded him of the fact that he didn’t have a dad so he didn’t learn how to catch.

There are so many funny moments in this movie but for some reason the bagel always hits the hardest.

I love how bagels have become a key point in multiple multiversal villain storylines. 😂 (SM across the multiverse, everything everywhere all at once)

"he took a bagel!" cracks me up every time. The indignation in her voice is so perfect.

That bagel changed everything...

If I had a nickel for every time a bagel nearly destroyed the multiverse, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but isn't it weird it happened twice?

No matter the time of day, a good bagel always hits the Spot.