TheMCUis about to pick up momentum, unlike anything we’ve seen since the final build to Infinity War and Endgame, starting with Fantastic Four: First Steps later this week. A lot of characters from the comics who have never appeared in the MCU before will be making their debuts on the road to Doomsday and beyond. However, the man calling all the shots has confirmed Miles Morales won’t be one of them.
Marvel Studios bosssat down with Varietyto discuss all things MCU, with a particular focus on the franchise’s immediate and, in some cases, distant future. Naturally, that included trying to extract information from Feige regarding some of the more notable comic book characters currently waiting to be introduced toDisney’s cinematic multiverse. Unfortunately, Miles isn’t one of them.
Feige gave understandably vague answers when discussing other heroes and villainsMarvelfans are eager to see. That was not the case when he was pressed about Morales. “That is nowhere,” Feige bluntly replied when asked about a potential project with the new Spider-Man as its star. “We’ve been told to stay away.”
Disney has been told to “stay away” from Miles Morales
No more Spider-people in the MCU until Sony’s finished with them
Feige didn’t go into the minutia of why Miles can’t join the MCU yet, nor did he explicitly say who the “we” is that has the power to command Disney to stay away from a character it is almost certainly dying to use, but it appears to be all tied up in the Sony of it all again. The leading reason Miles has shot to mainstream fame, and becometheSpider-Man over Peter Parker for a whole new generation of Marvel fans, is thanks to Sony’s fantastic Spider-Verse movies.
Feige didn’t say it specifically, but that presumably means other Spider-Man characters are off limits until they’re done in the Spider-Verse, too, so no Spider-Gwen or Spider-Man 2099.
There’s still one more of those movies, Beyond the Spider-Verse, to come, the release date of which just got pushed a little further into the distance and won’t be here until at least July 11, 2025. Since Disney won’t be able to even think about using Miles until after that date, that means no new web-slinger in Secret Wars, which will release later that year. Feige confirmed in the same interview that Secret Wars will be a soft reboot for the MCU, with some of its singular timelines getting a reset.
Even though we won’t be getting Miles in the MCU thanks to a Sony Spider-Man deal signed more than 20 years ago, we might see him show up inMarvel Rivals. Even though he hasn’t been a part of the many Rivals leaks, the dev team recently confirmed thatno one from Marvel’s entire history is off limits.
