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Marvel Studios is quietly building a second MCU faster than it did its first with Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

You've seen what Sony can do to build a Spider-Verse... now imagine Marvel Studios doing that with all of the Marvel library as its playground.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man still
Image credit: Marvel Animation

With the debut of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on January 29, Marvel Studios is creating their second-ever large-scale universe inside the MCU; the first being, of course the 'Sacred Timeline.' And while Kevin Feige & co. have created other universes before as we've seen in Avengers: Endgame, Loki, and the What If...? series, those were all but mere pitstops to what Marvel Studios is discreetly planning here.

With Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Marvel Studios is creating a full-fledged "sister" universe to the 'Secret Timeline' part of what is called the 'Marvel Animated Multiverse.' Let's call it the MAM for short.

How Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man sets up a new universe inside the MCU

While Peter Parker/Spider-Man is indeed the main character of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, 250+ minute first season sets up the broader MAM more so than the first

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Chris Arrant

Chris Arrant: Chris Arrant is the Popverse's Editor-in-Chief. He has written about pop culture for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel, Newsarama, CBR, and more. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. (He/him)

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