Phase Zero
Characters

Spider-Man Noir

1933

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A Spider-Man from a black and white universe in the 1930s, who does not understand colour and is not interested in learning.

A Spider-Man from a monochromatic universe set in the 1930s, voiced by Nicolas Cage, who based the performance on the hard-boiled films of the period. He speaks entirely in the register of a pulp narrator and never breaks it.

He is a one-joke character and the joke is very good: he is rendered in greyscale on a screen full of colour, which means the animation itself is doing the work rather than the dialogue.

Played by
Nicolas Cage
Role
Private investigator, more or less
Affiliation
None
What they can do
The usual, in greyscale.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse2018

    Arrives narrating himself, fights Nazis on principle, and takes a Rubik's Cube home to solve.

Appears in

  1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse2018

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 10, 2026