🕷️🎥💭 2:57 AM 10/30/2023 headcanons/interpretations
There's something I've been thinking about Across The Spiderverse.
I've been into cartoons that deal with interdimensional settings since I was very small. And long before the MCU. And there should be NO SUCH THING as "canon events". It's not just a meta contrivance for narrative tension. It simply doesn't make sense when you talk about multiple dimensions, parallel universes, multiverses, multiuniverses, alternate timelines, etc.
This idea of "canon events" is just ridiculous to me. Now, I realize that's probably the POINT of Across The Spiderverse. I'm sure that in Beyond The Spiderverse, Miles will prove Miguel wrong about needing to adhere to and maintain "canon events". But I can only think that all the Spiderpeople are just so damaged by their past traumas, that they are too desperate to give meaning to their trauma, as "canon events". Because if they'd just stop to think about it, maybe they'd realize that ANYTHING is ALLOWED to happen in a multiverse.
Any change in choice, will just result in another alternate universe. All parallel universes are concurrently happening simultaneously---That's why they're called "parallel"! Nothing bad is going to happen, just because a universe didn't follow another universe's script or expectations. The whole point of multiple universes, is infinite variation. They are all allowed to exist.
Personally, I think that when universes collapse in Across The Spiderverse, it's more reasonable to suspect the cause to be those anti-glitching bracelets that the Spiderpeople wear. Within the rules established by Into The Spiderverse, a person or object visiting a universe that they are not home to, will "glitch-out" because their molecules/frequencies clash with the molecules/frequencies of the surrounding universe that they are visiting. When the full weight of a universe's surrounding molecules/frequencies bear down upon one visiting person, that person would reasonably be the first to break, not the universe. Therefore, that visiting person "glitches-out". But here we have these anti-glitching bracelets that apparently cancel out the glitches. In order to accomplish that, it sounds like those bracelets would have to emit a frequency that fights against all the surrounding molecules/frequencies. Negation is usually thought of as something that leaves no traces of disturbance, but fighting against a pre-existing natural environment, can also be a constant clash. It can be violent and disruptive. Personally, I think those anti-glitch bracelets achieve their anti-glitching by disrupting the visited universe's frequencies so much, that given time, the visited universe will be the one to break under the weight of strain caused by the anti-glitch bracelets.
Anyway, that's what makes sense to me. It's why it took some time before Miguel's anti-glitch bracelet caused the universe he was visiting long-term, to collapse. In fact, it's probably really dangerous that so many Spiderpeople are now in his home universe, all wearing those anti-glitch bracelets. It might be any minute now, that his home universe will collapse under the strain of all those anti-glitching bracelets, emitting clashing frequencies. I wonder if the fact that most of the Spiderpeople tend to just stay temporarily in Spider Society before being dispatched out to somewhere else, might be the only thing keeping all those bracelets from having destroyed Miguel's home universe already. But I wouldn't give it much time left, regardless.
