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“Why is he Miles Morales when that’s his mom’s last name?”

Because the Peter Parker-like alliteration and the non-whitebread “Morales” make it clear from the name alone this wasn’t another Ben Reilly, but growing up Black in NYC in the crack era was a more interesting background for his cop dad.

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