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There are more Spider-Man movies than you think, and most of them might take place in the same universe.

Mass audiences may see a certain string of high-profile, well-moneyed, live-action Spider-Man films -- that is, the ones released from 2002 until 2022 -- as the only "official" ones, largely because of how much media exposure they got. In that span, there were five separate notable Spider-Man continuities, but those continuities became a little bit chummy as time passed. Eventually, at least three of those continuities would cross over with one another. These kinds of crossovers, however, are easy for Spider-Man fans to accept, as parallel universes have been a common feature in Spider-Man comics going back many decades.

Also, Spider-Man appeared in so many animated shows and movies over the years that it took no major mental calisthenics to imagine each version existing in its own world. Spider-Man gets rebooted all the time,...