Miles From Home
First Aired: February 28th, 2016
Synopsis: Miles Morales is fighting the Green Goblin when the Goblin disappears, to Miles' confusion. In the regular universe, Spider-Man finds Doctor Octopus and Baron Mordo casting a spell using the Siege Perilous, which summons Miles' version of the Goblin. They reveal to him that they summoned him here to kill Spider-Man, since he's the only Goblin that's successfully done so in all the realities. Spider-Man briefly fights Goblin and is assisted by Doctor Strange, who has appeared since the Goblin being there is somehow disrupting reality. As they keep fighting Spider-Man inexplicably decides that "Goblin's throwing off the balance because I'm not the Spider-Man who counterbalances him," which means that he needs to get Miles. Doctor Strange is able to open a portal to Miles' Earth using the Siege Perilous, and Spider-Man goes through it. He finds Miles there and while Miles wants to stay at home since it's his mum's birthday, he agrees to come to Spider-Man's universe and help.
The Green Goblin is alternating between fighting Doctor Strange and fighting Mordo and Ock, resenting the latter for wanting to control him. He manages to acquire the Siege Perilous and discovers that when he hits things while holding it, it opens portals and destabilises reality. He delights in doing so, and destabilises Mordo in this way, but Miles attacks him. He breaks the Siege Perilous, restabilising reality, although at the cost of trapping him in our Spider-Man's world. Doctor Strange can detect residual energy in Miles and is able to open a window to Miles' Earth, allowing him to explain to his mum that he'll be gone for a while but will return one day. In the aftermath, Spider-Man takes Miles to the Triskelion to meet his allies and join the team. Unbeknownst to them, Doctor Octopus and Miles' Goblin meet up, and Ock says that while it was HYDRA who wanted to control the Goblin, he personally is fine for them to be allies on an equal level, which Goblin seems fine with.
Review: I was kind of hoping that we were past the extremely sketchy logic that this show likes to offer us, but I was a fool to do so. What even is this episode? The answer is, of course, an excuse to have Miles Morales, a popular and enjoyable character, join the regular cast, which I'm fine with (even though it does screw Miles' personal situation over a bit). What I'm not fine with is...basically everything it does in executing this idea.
So, so many things in this episode just have happen without any logical reason to them. Baron Mordo and Ock summon Miles' Goblin since he's the only one that's killed Spider-Man. Great! How do they know that? Why does the Green Goblin destabilise the universe just by being in it? Was Peter's Goblin destabilising the other realities when he travelled to them in The Spider-Verse? How does Miles being here help to restabilise reality, and how does Spider-Man know that Miles will restabilise reality? Does this mean that in Miles' reality, prior to Miles becoming Spider-Man, their reality was unstable?
The Goblin claims, after doing a Siege Perilous-punch, that "I've always wanted to destroy an entire universe!" Why? What does it get you? Strange also makes the claim that "The Goblin cannot be harmed while holding [the Siege Perilous]", which is something that's never come up before for anyone else holding it, solely as a plot element to get Miles trapped here. The whole episode is excessively riddled with dubious logic, and given the standards of logic this show usually presents, for it to be excessive you know that there must be a whole lot of it. I'm glad that we've got Miles as a regular cast member now, but he could have been brought in using far, far better writing.
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