Miles Morales gets a new suit🐎 at the end of Spider-Man 2, a garishly overdesigned cocktail of ill-fitting colours with an exposed top to let his hair breathe and some equally mismatched sneakers. It doesn’t look good, but unlike the many optional suits you earn throughout the game, it’s canon. This is the new in-universe look for Miles. An original, as he puts it, which isn’t true because it was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:designed by Adidas.
It’s incredibly unpopular, but now that we know it’s thanks to an egregious brand deal with Adidas who are selling it in real life, it’s even worse. When he shows it off to Peter Parker, he proudly proclaims that it’s a “Miles Morales original&rdq💦uo;. That already felt out-of-place since he also made his own suit in the last game - it comes off like Miles stepping away from the Spider-Man identity, feeling uncomfortably Kid Arachnid-coded. It being a brand deal only further cements how hollow that statement is.
Kid Arachnid is the name Miles Morales got in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, for whatever reason. He's Spider-Man. Let him be Spider-Man.
The suit isn’t Miles. It’s not personal to his story and it has no meaning tied to who he is or who he wants to be. All the suit does is turn Miles into a walking advertisement, a big glaring Adidas billboard, made all the more ironic by the fact that, earlier in the game, he s💃ays Spid🍸er-Men don’t do brand deals.
On the one hand, it’s hilarious. Adidas shelled out to get Miles a new suit they could sell in real life, and before anyone even knew it was paid product placement, they were ragging on how bad it is. On the other hand, it’s insulting. Peter’s new suits have had actual narrative importaಌnce, Miles deserves the same.
Taking down Kingpin was the culmination of the first eight 🦹years of Peter’s career, putting to bed his then-biggest enemy. To reflect ♉that, we see the classic suit literally torn apart as he finally sheds the past and steps into the new. Cue his mentor Doctor Octavius, who slyly designs him a fresh suit, with the striking white emblem that makes him instantly recognisable as Insomniac’s Spider-Man. This is a new chapter in his life, with his new relationships bleeding into his world and, by proxy, his costume.
The next canon suit is the Anti-Ock design, which is driven by practicality, but it also holds a mirror to Peter’s mentality in that last act. His world is collapsing around him, the man he worked so hard to better the world with betraying him. So, the colour is stripped from his costume as all that matters in those final moments is getting the job done and putting an end to this ꩲheartbreaking story.
In the second game, he merges with the symbiote and we see him gradually becoming more and more alien-like🙈 in appearance as he loses himself to its grip. Miles saves him, pulling him from the depths and teaching him to finally place his trust in others, which manifests in Anti-Venom.
There isn’t a canon Peter suit without narrative♈ importance. Miles is as much Spider-Man as he is, and he deserves the same care and attention to detail. Instead, we get a brand deal more glaring than Krispy Kreme in Power Rangers that’s thrown in ra꧒ndomly without warning.
There’s no build-up or reasoning as to why Miles would have this new suit, the empty comment undermined by the fact that his standalone game alr✤eady gave him a Miles Morales original. All along, it was just product placement, turning Miles into a commodity.🍌 In a game where he is often sidelined as is, it only adds insult to injury.
