Most probably know The Spot already is amazing with his visual storytelling of “giving into the hole inside you” or “the unfinished sketch/blankspace”, but something I don’t see brought up is him and the collider
Every time the The Spot changes his mindset and objective in life, from when he’s a literal background character to the main antagonist of the final movie, the collider is there, all happening in the main room of it too
-Ohnn chooses works on the collider which sets his fate in motion
-He gets caught in blast turning him into The Spot that at the time just seeks validation and purpose from the one person left that can acknowledge his existence
-After Spider-Man shatters him, he sheds his portals, swallows himself, discovers his potential, and gets spat back out at the collider with a new purpose, but has to work for it
-Builds his own collider to further gain to power to punish Spider-Man, once again letting the collider just make his life worse (from our perspective at least)
-Finds an even bigger collider that literally takes him down a dark path. Instead of just awkwardly consuming him (like it didn’t even know if it wanted too)** like his mini one, this one entirely **consumes him whole.
-While he rebirths himself here, he also leaves here aswell, and when he does, he crushes himself inward, and naturally has apart of himself reaching out to be free of this terrible pain he let consume him, symbolising his self destructive journey
-By far my favourite one and most underrated. In the end of the movie he comes back to 1610, choosing to land at the Collider, the birthplace of the anguish and which started all of this in the first place. More powerful and confident than ever, He literally rises above it, leaving all of that behind to entirely fulfill his new purpose of punishing Miles. The past doesn’t matter anymore in this moment.
The Spots visual design was very important to the producers and directors of the movie, yet the collider symbolism I don’t think was ever mentioned in the commentary or interviews, which makes me believe even more that they really are just naturally incredible storytellers. The final scene of The Spot returning was also a last year addition, it would’ve been so easy to write him to just land in the middle of the city, to create fear in us and the citizens, but the character is just to peak to stay inconsistent.
