Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25192437-20150108082038

So... I fired off a set of questions to Marvel, mostly pertaining to Spider-Verse. Thought I'd let everyone here take a look at them since the odds of them getting published is low and I don't know whether they'll be answered regardless.

''1. Back when the Spider-Man Unlimited animated series came out, I remember there was the arguments over whether or not it was a sequel to Spider-Man: The Animated Series. I recall reading that the databooks list them as living in separate universes, but recently I've come across statements that as of Spider-Verse the two are set in the same continuity. I don't recall any real similarities between the shows other than a brief snippet of The Animated Series' theme playing in the first episode of Unlimited and how Peter got the symbiote being more-or-less the same. In fact, Venom's and Carnage's appearances in the two shows are completely different, and how Cletus became Carnage in the two shows are completely different as well. For one, I distinctly recall TAS' Venom and Carnage dying/being lost between dimensions and the Carnage symbiote being passed on the the evil AU Spider-Man who became TAS' Spider-Carnage. So my question is: are the rumours that the two shows are now set in the same universe as of Spider-Verse true, or is it all bunk?

2. This has been a point of confusion for me since the series started, and I'd love to get a conclusive answer regarding this. Like how Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends' universe is designated Earth-8107 in the databooks but listed as Earth-1983 in Spider-Verse, Spider-Man Unlimited's universe is designated Earth-751263 in the databooks but listed as Earth-7831 in Spider-Verse, Spider-Ham's home universe of Larval Earth is given as Earth-8311 in the databooks and Earth-25 in Spider-Verse, and the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon is designated Earth-6799 in the databooks and Earth-67 in Spider-Verse. Are these retcons to the database's universe designations, or are they alternate versions created specifically for Spider-Verse?

3. It was mentioned in Issue 12's Caught in the Web of Spider-Verse that the Earth-616 incarnation of the Venom symbiote and its progeny don't count as Totems. Does this also apply to non-extraterrestrial versions of the symbiote, like the one from the Ultimate animated series, which was created using Spider-Man's blood? Do the Spider-Man from What If? Vol. 2 #144 (essentially the Venom symbiote covering Peter's skeleton) and Poison from What If? Spider-Man: The Other (where Peter violently rejected the Other's offer of resurrection and was assimilated by the Venom symbiote) still count as Totems? Also, why does Poison possess the stingers bestowed to Peter and Kaine by the Other if Peter rejected its offer?

4. Was the Other decapitated by Peter in What If? Spider-Man: The Other the same one that manifested as Ero in Earth-616 and bonded to Peter and later Kaine? Furthermore, is the Cindy Moon of Earth-4 also a vessel of the Bride, and if not why was it so imperative that Earth-4's Ezekiel lock her up in that bunker? For that matter, is Earth-4's Cindy Moon still locked up, and if so why doesn't someone go get her?

5. Are Naamurah, Daarroh, and their ilk Inheritors? If they are, why did they need to possess hosts, and if not... what the heck are they?

6. Are the Great Weaver from J. Michael Straczynski's run and the Master Weaver from Spider-Verse one-and-the-same? What relation do the Gatekeeper (from JMS' run), the giant spider-monster living in the Great Weaver's temple that ate Shathra and killed Earth-616's Ezekiel Sims, and the spider-thing seen by Spider-Man Noir when he first became a Totem have to the Great/Master Weaver?

7. Did Morlun eat Aaron Aikman, or did he escape? Also, what was the designation of Aikman's universe?

8. Are Earth-982's versions of Arana and Tarantula not Spider-Totems, or were they eaten off-panel?

9. Could Solus eat the Phoenix Force?

10. Adriana Soria (aka The Queen) and the Jackal took credit for resurrecting Kaine as the Tarantula in Spider-Island, but in Kaine's Scarlet Spider series Ero/The Other reveals she/it was the one who brought him back from the dead as a giant spider-monster. Does this mean that the Queen was connected to Ero, and if not was she - and for that matter all the people who possess the "Insect Gene" - a Totem? Her venom and the "Spider Virus" (which I'm assuming the Jackal made using her venom) turned Peter (and all of NYC in Spider-Island) into a giant spider and gave him, Kaine, and Anya Corazon enhanced powers and organic spinnerets, so does it amplify a Totem's connection to the Web of Life and does it turn non-Totems into Totems? Also, what would have happened if the Queen hadn't been stopped in Spider-Island?

11. Why do some Spider-Totems (like Peter whenever he becomes Man-Spider, Kaine as the Tarantula and whenever the Other takes over, and Patton Parnell in Edge of Spider-Verse #2) turn into monsters and others don't?'' 