Skip verdicts
Which Spider-Man movies can you skip?
Short version: the ones without Spider-Man in them. Longer version below — every Spider-Man-adjacent release, judged, with the reason printed next to the ruling.
Sony's corner of the Spider-Man rights produced an entire cinematic universe that exists around the character rather than with him. None of it is homework for the MCU road or for No Way Home — the one connection between the two universes amounts to a single skippable post-credits scene. That is why the whole Sony line ships with the same ruling here: watch it for fun if the trailers work on you, but the checklist will never ask you to.
Inside the animated line, the maths is different. Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse are required viewing on the main roadmap — not for continuity (they run in their own universe) but for the idea that powers the entire modern multiverse cycle. Beyond the Spider-Verse stays unwatched by biology rather than opinion: it opens June 18, 2027, and the moment it does, it joins the roadmap automatically as the finale.
Full criteria live on the methodology page; the main order, with every required entry and its stop points, is on the Spider-Man watch order page.
The verdicts
Coming onto the road: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027) — Dated for June 18, 2027. When it releases, it joins the roadmap automatically as the finale of the animated arc.
- skip Venom (2018) Separate Sony universe. Entertaining mess to some, a hard pass to others — either way, zero homework value.
- skip Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Same universe, same ruling. One skippable post-credits scene gestures at Spider-Man; that is the entire connection.
- skip Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Closes Sony's trilogy. If you watched the first two for fun, finish it — but it is not on this road.
- skip Morbius (2022) Its reputation is earned. Nothing it introduces matters anywhere in Spider-Man cinema.
- skip Madame Web (2024) No continuity weight in any direction. The least 'homework' a superhero film has ever been.
- skip Kraven the Hunter (2024) Sony's universe again. No payoff here, no payoff downstream.
- skip Spider-Man: The New Animated Series / older TV (1994-2003 era) Nostalgia value only. No current continuity touches them.
Last verified: 2026-11-04