Spider-Man: Miles Morales Has the Best Post-Credits Scene

This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Fair warning.

Miles lost his dad halfway through the original Spider-Man. While it’s addressed immediately after with Peter trying to get Miles back on his feet, it isn’t until what’s essentially the secret ending of the sequel that Miles is actually able to processes it.

And I’ll be damned if that isn’t a Venom Strike to the heart.

After the climax with The Tinkerer and credits roll Miles is left to clean up any lingering side missions. He eventually gets a call from his mom, Rio, and is prompted to come back home.

Once Miles goes back to his new apartment in Harlem, he’s finally able to rest. He wakes up to a postcard that his mom left him. Rio invites Miles to a scavenger hunt to celebrate his birthday and hints at where the next post card is. Miles suits up and does his Spider-Man thing to the next location.

After some reminiscing, Miles finds the next postcard and attached to it is a flash drive. He plugs it into a his suit and hears his dad’s voice for the first time in over a year. Jefferson Davis tells his son how proud he is of him and that he knows he’s meant for great things. It’s so fucking sweet. But it isn’t until this next part that I lost it.

Miles calls his mom and is overjoyed to hear his dad’s voice again and thanks her for the surprise. Rio tells Miles not to thank her. This was all Jeff’s plan. He set it up before he died. This was his last hurrah.

Cue ugly crying.

As Miles, you swing through Manhattan listening to the final recordings a father left for his son. And that’s it. That’s how the game ends.

The weeks following my dad’s death were some of the hardest I’ve been through. I isolated and processed and drank so much fucking cream soda to get through it. For the most part I was able to come to terms with it

Earlier this week, my mom found his daily planner. She read some stuff that he wrote when we first moved to Michigan and I felt the same way Miles did. Like he was here again.

More importantly, I, like Miles, was able to reflect on how far I’ve come. I didn’t develop into a Super Hero that saved the city from the brink of destruction, but I was able to find my voice and the strength to be me. To embrace all aspects of who I am. Echoing the final text of the game, “Be Greater. Be Yourself”