Unlike the various Marvel Studios films, Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” doesn’t have any post-credits scenes. That doesn’t mean there weren’t some ideas thrown about for one.
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Speaking with IndieWire recently, producer Phil Lord revealed that everything they considered for a post-credits scene didn’t work as it was “hard to beat where we left off”.
One that did come up served as a follow-up to an earlier never, completed scene in the film involving villain The Spot (Jason Schwartzman) – the all-white baddie with black spots that serve as inter-dimensional portals.
The never completed scene reportedly had Spot hanging out at a Spidey villain bar where he can’t get a drink because no one will notice him. Lord says:
“He finally steals the drink for himself, and he pours it down, and it all leaks out of his holes. He’s the dorkiest villain. A great line that Chris wrote, though: ‘Trying to fill a hole in his heart with more holes. Not a great method.'”
That leads to his place in the film as an inept villain who can’t rob an ATM before, over the course of the film, turning into a serious threat to the entire Spider-Verse.
In the proposed post-credits scene, Spot returns to that aforementioned bar, sits in the most coveted booth and dispatches all the baddies who previously made fun of him.
Alan Hawkins, returning head of character animation on the film, says:
“That was one of my favorite things, seeing this guy get picked on and then come back and, with just a whisper, demolishes every person that comes at him, but you have to have both of those sequences for that to work.”
As a character, Spot used a combination of animation techniques but one thing they stuck with was making sure that even after his transformation post-collider, he “still be the person that he is” and not a mindless creature according to Hawkins.
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is in cinemas now.
