Thread:ADour/@comment-25192437-20150124024009/@comment-25192437-20150124052655

ADour wrote: Yes, I'm aware of most of that.

However, I'm not really sure if it's a multiversal entity. It could be like the Phoenix Force, of which there's one for each universe. Specially considering there are other realities where The Other has manifested (Specifically that "What If?" in which he becomes Poison).

This would bring us to kind of a question regarding Spider-Verse, if The Other can manifest in other universes, why in Spider-Verse, Kaine appeared to be the only one.

I posed a question to Marvel regarding Poison, but I haven't heard back and probably never will. As for the Other's status, Old Man Spider says the Other is a unique entity "in this or any other universe" to SpOck, and the prophecy of the Inheritors vs. the Spiders pretty much confirms that it's one-of-a-kind. The fact that the Scion manifested in Benjy Parker of the MC2 universe further suggests they're multiversal entities, not like the Phoenix Force or Enigma Force.

While some dimensions in the Multiverse are completely different (like the Ultimate Universe, the Mangaverse), many of them (the majority of the "What If"s, MC2, Age of Apocalypse, 2099) splintered off of Earth-616 due to a different choice being made or a minor detail being changed, a la the Many Worlds theory of quantum physics.

If that's over analytical, keep in mind that ''What If? The Other was written well before Spider-Verse'' "expanded on" (read: retconned) the nature of Spider Totems.