In Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Diversity Is More Than Skin-Deep
Spider-Man game and Miles Morales’
Spider-Man game take place in very different cities. Both are set in New York City in Manhattan, both allow you to swing your way through the entire island, and aside from a few in-universe exceptions like the Avengers Tower, both are modeled off the real Manhattan. But that’s where the similarities end.
You could say Peter lives in the New York of a young white man and Miles lives in the New York of a Black teenager, but the truth is more complicated than that. Peter lives in an idealized New York, one where New Yorkers are all kind-hearted rough diamonds and good wins and evil loses. It’s the New York from