Micah Peters

1 sketch, 17 claims, and 11 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) (guest)

Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden.

Stances

  • Representation here is natural and not preachy
  • Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important
  • Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie
  • Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers

Humor: Rambling, quick, and tangential, mixing nephew anecdotes with comics trivia.

In their words

  • “I loved every 2nd of it.” (0:10:50)
  • “want to see a whole movie with Nicholas Cage doing Rorschach.” (0:33:00)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–17 of 17 claims.

  1. craft (craft): Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse → Pixar movies. It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color.
    “it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Brian Michael Bendis → Miles Morales. Miles comes from Bendis and Pichelli's Ultimate Spider-Man, stepping into the mantle after Peter dies.
    “the character is created by Brian Michael Bendis and um, Sarah Picelli uh, in the ultimate Spider-Man.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:03:41 · Micah Peters (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Aunt May → Madame Web. Aunt May in the film is the Madame Web character from the comics, a precognitive figure outside time.
    “it turns out that, you know, like she's the Madam Webb character.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:05:53 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (verdict): Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse → Aquaman. Coming off Aquaman, the speaker doesn't want to overpraise Spider-Verse because the bar feels lowered.
    “coming off of Aquaman, I'm kind of like, whoa, yeah, you know, the bar's lowering”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:09:00 · Micah Peters (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Steve Ditko and Stan Lee → Spider-Man. Ditko and Lee made Spider-Man a teen hero for younger readers, not yet accepted by the Avengers or Fantastic Four.
    “I mean, like it was Steve, uh, Ditco and Stanley basically making a character that appealed to younger readers.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:09:39 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): Miles Morales → Spider-Man. Spider-Man was created as a relatable everyman who was white, which capped the idea that anyone could be under the mask; Miles fulfills it.
    “like, so that kind of puts a cap on the like, it could be anyone underneath the mask.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:10:07 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Chris Pine's Peter Parker → Ditko-Lee Spider-Man. The perfect Chris Pine Peter defies the confused teenage Ditko-Lee version.
    “he sort of defies that Ditko Lee version of Spider-Man that you're talking about”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:13:02 · Micah Peters (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Peter B. Parker and Miles → Mentor/grizzled-veteran stories. The grizzled, existentially tired mentor befriending a young guy is a story seen a lot.
    “it's something you've seen, the story you've seen a lot, which is like the, the, the, the very grizzled”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:14:37 · Micah Peters (0.75 sure it was them)
  9. theme (theme): Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse → Adulthood between 27 and 37. The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37.
    “You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75 sure it was them)
  10. industry (industry): Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse → Spider-Man reboots (Garfield, Maguire, Holland). The Peter Porker joke only works because so many actors and reboots have played Spider-Man.
    “If Andrew Garfield, Toby McGuire, and, you know, Tom Holland all play the character.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:20:48 · Micah Peters (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. contrast (contrast): Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse → Marvel's character swaps. Marvel's diverse swaps (Hulk, Thor) eventually revert to the white male original, unlike this film's reinvention.
    “but eventually everything returns to the white male character that it was before.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:20:54 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse → Black Panther. Not the same cultural phenomenon as Black Panther, but strong on representation without feeling forced.
    “it's not the same cultural phenomenon that Black Panther was.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:22:34 · Micah Peters (0.85 sure it was them)
  13. career (career): Saladin Ahmed → Black Bolt. Saladin Ahmed wrote the recent Black Bolt run and is doing the Miles Morales comic.
    “Saladin Ahmed, who wrote the most recent run of Black Bolt comics.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:23:04 · Micah Peters (0.85 sure it was them)
  14. career (career): Kid Cudi → Luke Cage. The Tombstone voice was also the villain in Luke Cage.
    “Because Kron Don was also like in, he was the villain in Luke Cage too.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:27:35 · Micah Peters (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. industry (industry): Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse → Black Panther. Spider-Verse winning would matter as much as movies like Black Panther invading the Oscars.
    “it's just as important as movies like Black Panther invading the Oscars.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:30:03 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. craft (craft): Avengers: Infinity War → Comic book crossover events. Infinity War worked because it recreates the feeling of reading a massive comic crossover event.
    “Infinity War was as good as it was because it recreates the feeling of reading like a massive crossover event in a comic book.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:32:09 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  17. what-if (what-if): Spider-Man Noir → To Have and Have Not / Key Largo / The Big Sleep. Wishes for noir classics remade with Spider-Man Noir in the same roles.
    “They should just do like, they should just remake to have and have not or Key Largo or the Big Sleep, just with Spider-Man noir.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:33:04 · Micah Peters (0.70 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–11 of 11 fun items.

  1. fun, about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Micah on Miles's opening: dapping up people in Brooklyn, speaking Spanish, phone-interview voice.
    “dapping up people, and then speaking to people in Spanish, and then, you know, like putting on his, you know, phone interview voice”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:10:33 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Notorious B.I.G.: Hypnotize is in the film with the edgy lyrics left intact.
    “That's in the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:12:31 · Micah Peters (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Peter B. Parker: The perfect Peter has an action figure, talk shows and a Christmas album before things implode.
    “after you've, you know, become an action figure and you've been on talk shows and you have a Christmas album”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:15:27 · Micah Peters (0.65 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Spider-Man Noir: Nicolas Cage as Bogart-voiced Spider-Man, with a Rubik's cube gag.
    “there's a really good gag with a Rubik's cube.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:17:51 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Peter Porker: Origin stories told in unison, ending with the pig sound.
    “at the end of it is you can always hear pig.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:18:11 · Micah Peters (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Spider-Verse: Peter Porker saves the day after a dramatic sequence.
    “And then Peter Porker saves the day and it's funny.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:20:22 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Saladin Ahmed: Seeing his kids' McDonald's toys and a movie hero both look like them.
    “it's really cool that I got to go to McDonald's and get my kids' toys that look like them”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:23:16 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Shameik Moore: Miles as a kid who snuck from the stands onto the field and played better than everyone.
    “he's just kind of, it's almost like he's a kid that was in the stands and snuck onto the field”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:25:34 · Micah Peters (0.75 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Kid Cudi: Rap fact: the Tombstone voice also was the Luke Cage villain.
    “Can I give you a little rap facts as the host of the on shuffle podcast?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:27:21 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Avengers: Infinity War: Asking for 19 films of knowledge for a three-hour movie is ridiculous.
    “Like asking somebody to have 19 films worth of knowledge in order to enjoy a 3 hour movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:32:00 · Micah Peters (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Spider-Man Noir: Wants a whole movie of Nicolas Cage doing Rorschach.
    “want to see a whole movie with Nicholas Cage doing Rorschach.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:33:00 · Micah Peters (0.70 sure it was them)