While the debate over the most powerful Spider-Man will rage on forever, Miles Morales was once the universe’s most powerful hero.
Parallel universes are one of the most common tropes in Marvel comics. This is especially true in the Spider-Man universe. The likely infinite amount of Spider-People running around in the various Marvel Universes have most popularly been explored in 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse which was, at least in part, inspired by Dan Slott, Olivier Coipel and Giuseppe Camuncoli’s highly lauded Spider-Verse comic event. While the debate about which Spider-Person is the most powerful will likely rage on forever, the sequel to Spider-Verse, Spider-Geddon by Christos Gage and Jorge Molina’s made Into the Spider-Verse‘s protagonist Miles Morales the most powerful hero in the entire Marvel Universe, even if it was only briefly.
Since his debut in Brian Michael Bendis, Johnathan Hickman, Nick Spencer, Sara Pichelli, Salvador Larroca and Clayton Crain’s Ultimate Comics Fallout #4 Miles Morales has carved himself a well-deserved place outside of Peter Parker’s shadow. In addition to dealing with fundamentally different core issues than Peter, one way he has done this is through the use of a slightly different powerset than the original Spider-Man, placing him among the most powerful of Spider-People.
One of these powers is the venom blast, a charge of energy he can channel into a smaller and more direct hit or a less direct burst with a bigger blast radius. The blast is so powerful that in knocked out the Rhino, the Venom symbiote, Fing Fang Foom, and an entire room of ninjas in one shot. Miles is also no pushover in terms of raw strength, as he has broken Hydra cap’s shield and pummeled him with his bare hands in Nick Spencer, Andrea Sorrentino, Rod Reis and Joshua Cessara’s Secret Empire #7, beat the metal plated Hammerhead bloody in Brian Michael Bendis and Oscar Bazaldua’s Spider-Man #17, and carried Rhino with one hand while swinging in Saladin Ahmed’s Miles Morales: Spider-Man #2.
As previously stated, Miles’s time as Captain Universe came during the Spider-Army’s second battle with Morlun and his family the Inheritors — a group of inter-dimensional vampires who feast on Spider totems — during the Spider-Geddon event. After a bloody start to the event, the Spider army split into two groups sorted by those who wanted to kill the Inheritors and those who did not as it went against their code, with Miles fittingly joining the latter. Eventually, the Inheritors’ father Solus is resurrected, putting the Spider-Army in a much more dire place. This leads to the Spider-Army’s reunification in hopes of wielding the Enigma Force, a sentient cosmic energy that imbues its wielder with the powers of Captain Universe.
Upon its summoning in Spider-Geddon #5 the Enigma force is angry, berating the Spiders for being unworthy and telling them it is not a toy to be used whenever they want. Miles gets angry back, telling the Enigma force that it shouldn’t matter whether they are worthy or not as the universe is in danger, and if it isn’t going to help it should leave. Recognizing Miles’ leadership in a dire situation and his desire to do good, the Enigma force bonds with Miles, giving him the power of Capital Universe. The heroes eventually save the day as they are able to clone the inheritors into new baby bodies, leading the enigma force to leave Miles.
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