Passes the Bechdel test
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos and Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and Dave Callaham.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
3 / 3
Passes
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Yes
1. At least two women
44 women characters. 16 of them speak. -
Yes
2. Who talk to each other
In 7 scenes out of 52. -
Yes
3. About something besides a man
In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.
The film
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.
- Released
- 02 Jun 2023
- Genres
- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Rated
- PG
- IMDb
- 8.5 / 10
- Metascore
- 86 / 100
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 107 wins & 164 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Miles 387 lines, man
- Gwen 274 lines, woman
- Miguel 115 lines, man
- Rio 100 lines, woman
- Jeff 99 lines, man
- Spot 93 lines, man
- Peter 69 lines, man
- Jess 55 lines
- George 49 lines, man
- Hobie 48 lines, man
Full cast, 110 people
- Shameik Moore as Miles Morales (voice)
- Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy (voice)
- Oscar Isaac as Miguel O'Hara (voice)
- Brian Tyree Henry as Jeff Morales (voice)
- Luna Lauren Vélez as Rio Morales (voice)
- Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker (voice)
- Jason Schwartzman as Spot (voice)
- Issa Rae as Jessica Drew (voice)
- Daniel Kaluuya as Hobie Brown (voice)
- Karan Soni as Pavitr Prabhakar (voice)
- Shea Whigham as George Stacy (voice)
- Greta Lee as LYLA (voice)
- Mahershala Ali as Uncle Aaron (voice)
- Amandla Stenberg as Margo Kess: Spider-Byte (voice)
- Jharrel Jerome as Miles G. Morales (voice)
- Andy Samberg as Ben Reilly (voice)
- Jack Quaid as Peter Parker (voice)
- Rachel Dratch as Ms. Weber (voice)
- Ziggy Marley as Lenny (voice)
- Jorma Taccone as Adriano Tumino / '67 (voice)
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson (voice)
- Donald Glover as Aaron Davis
- Elizabeth Perkins as May / Quippy Spider-Person (voice)
- Kathryn Hahn as Doc Ock (voice)
- Ayo Edebiri as Glory (voice)
- Nicole Delaney as MJ (voice)
- Antonina Lentini as Betty (voice)
- Atsuko Okatsuka as Yuri (voice)
- Peter Sohn as Ganke (voice)
- Melissa Sturm as Mary Jane (voice)
- Lorraine Velez as Maria (voice)
- Nic Novicki as Lego Spider-Man (voice)
- Taran Killam as Web-Slinger (voice)
- Metro Boomin as Metro Spider-Man (voice)
- Josh Keaton as Spectacular Spider-Man (voice)
- Sofia Barclay as Malala Windsor: Spider-UK (voice)
- Danielle Perez as Charlotte Webber: Sun-Spider (voice)
- Yuri Lowenthal as Insomniac Spider-Man (voice)
- Rita Rani Ahuja as Additional Voices (voice)
- Ismail Bashey as Additional Voices (voice)
- Oscar Camacho as Additional Voices (voice)
- Freddy Ferrari as Additional Voices (voice)
- Kerry Gutierrez as Additional Voices (voice)
- Kamal Khan as Additional Voices (voice)
- Angelo Sekou Kouyate as Additional Voices (voice)
- Andrew Leviton as Additional Voices (voice)
- David Michie as Additional Voices (voice)
- Sumit Naig as Additional Voices (voice)
- Juan Pacheco as Additional Voices (voice)
- Chrystee Pharris as Additional Voices (voice)
- Ben Pronsky as Additional Voices (voice)
- Al Rodrigo as Additional Voices (voice)
- Stan Sellers as Additional Voices (voice)
- Warren Sroka as Additional Voices (voice)
- Jasper Johannes Andrews as Additional Voices (voice)
- Gredel Berrios Calladine as Additional Voices (voice)
- Natalia Castellanos as Additional Voices (voice)
- Russell Tyre Francis as Additional Voices (voice)
- Deepti Gupta as Additional Voices (voice)
- Sohm Kapila as Additional Voices (voice)
- Pradnya Kuwadekar as Additional Voices (voice)
- Ashley London as Additional Voices (voice)
- Christopher Miller as Additional Voices (voice)
- Andrea Navedo as Additional Voices (voice)
- Lakshmi Patel as Additional Voices (voice)
- Jacqueline Pinol as Additional Voices (voice)
- Eliyas Qureshi as Additional Voices (voice)
- Lashana Rodriguez as Additional Voices (voice)
- Jaswant Dev Shrestha as Additional Voices (voice)
- Libby Thomas Dickey as Additional Voices (voice)
- Jason Linere-White as Additional Voices (voice)
- Sitara Attaie as Additional Voices (voice)
- Mayuri Bhandari as Additional Voices (voice)
- June Christopher as Additional Voices (voice)
- Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez as Additional Voices (voice)
- Marabina Jaimes as Additional Voices (voice)
- Rez Kempton as Additional Voices (voice)
- Lex Lang as Additional Voices (voice)
- Phil Lord as Additional Voices (voice)
- Richard Miro as Additional Voices (voice)
- Doug Nicholas as Additional Voices (voice)
- Shakira Ja'nai Paye as Additional Voices (voice)
- James Pirri as Additional Voices (voice)
- Marley Ralph as Additional Voices (voice)
- Michelle Ruff as Additional Voices (voice)
- Dennis Singletary as Additional Voices (voice)
- Amanda Troop as Additional Voices (voice)
- Ruth Zalduondo as Additional Voices (voice)
- Kimberly Bailey as Additional Voices (voice)
- Sanjay Chandani as Additional Voices (voice)
- Melanie Duke as Additional Voices (voice)
- Jorge R. Gutierrez as Additional Voices (voice)
- Miguel Jiron as Additional Voices (voice)
- Deepti Kingra-Mickelsen as Additional Voices (voice)
- Luisa Leschin as Additional Voices (voice)
- Caitlin McKenna as Additional Voices (voice)
- Andrew Morgado as Additional Voices (voice)
- Arthur Ortiz as Additional Voices (voice)
- Eliana A. Perez as Additional Voices (voice)
- Juan Pope as Additional Voices (voice)
- Mike Rianda as Additional Voices (voice)
- Erika Scopelli as Additional Voices (voice)
- Narender Sood as Additional Voices (voice)
- Cedric L. Williams as Additional Voices (voice)
- Kimiko Glenn as Peni Parker (voice) (uncredited)
- Peggy Lu as Mrs. Chen (uncredited)
- Cliff Robertson as Uncle Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Denis Leary as George Stacy (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 9% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 52
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 24 | 0 |
| 3 to 4 | 8 | 3 |
| 5 to 6 | 9 | 7 |
| 7 to 8 | 10 | 12 |
| 9 to 10 | 6 | 7 |
| 11 to 12 | 51 | 54 |
| 13 to 14 | 1 | 75 |
| 15 to 16 | 34 | 49 |
| 17 to 18 | 3 | 63 |
| 19 to 20 | 0 | 42 |
| 21 to 22 | 2 | 4 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 12 |
| 25 to 26 | 8 | 3 |
| 27 to 28 | 3 | 3 |
| 29 to 30 | 21 | 48 |
| 31 to 32 | 28 | 29 |
| 33 to 34 | 50 | 41 |
| 35 to 36 | 28 | 10 |
| 37 to 38 | 10 | 51 |
| 39 to 40 | 24 | 79 |
| 41 to 42 | 38 | 174 |
| 43 to 44 | 27 | 105 |
| 45 to 46 | 7 | 5 |
| 47 to 48 | 17 | 27 |
| 49 to 50 | 45 | 53 |
| 51 to 52 | 3 | 13 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: the passing scenes
The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
GLORY: You don't hang out, you don't want to talk -- GWEN: I didn't join a band so I could talk about my feelings -- BETTY: Well I did. GWEN: -- I joined it so I could hit my feelings with sticks!
GLORY: They'd say "I'm great, thanks, how are you?!" GWEN: I'm GREAT! Thanks!!! GWEN: How are you!? GLORY: Fine...?
GWEN: You're right! BETTY: I play drums.
YURI: Yep, we got our sign. GWEN: How's the manhunt for me going?
WEBER: A- in English. RIO: She's a tough grader. WEBER: And a B in Spanish -- RIO: WHAT?!
Exhibit B: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 32 are women's.
457 lines from women, 969 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who's in it
44 women and 61 men in the cast. 16 women and 21 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit D: who gets heard
A woman speaks the first line.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 74 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 29% of the words (3,365), men 71% (8,042). Women have 32% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit E: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
27
Two men
98
Exhibit F: behind the camera
4 of the 16 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Justin K. Thompson (man), Kemp Powers (man), Joaquim Dos Santos (man)
- Written by
- David Callaham (man), Phil Lord (man), Christopher Miller (man)
- Produced by
- Christina Steinberg (woman), Avi Arad (man), Amy Pascal (woman), Phil Lord (man), Christopher Miller (man)
- Edited by
- Michael Andrews (man)
- Music by
- Daniel Pemberton (man)
- Production design by
- Patrick O'Keefe (man)
- Cast by
- Mary Hidalgo (woman), Libby Thomas Dickey (woman)
The crew, department by department
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Visual Effects
25 women, 76 men, 230 not listed
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Sound
6 women, 48 men, 1 non-binary, 3 not listed
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Other crew
12 women, 36 men, 1 non-binary, 1 not listed
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Production
12 women, 19 men, 15 not listed
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Writing
7 women, 10 men, 2 not listed
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Art
2 women, 10 men, 3 not listed
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Editing
5 women, 7 men, 2 not listed
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Lighting
0 women, 4 men, 3 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Non-binary
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit G: how old the stars were
Women: 41 on average. Men: 38 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Hailee Steinfeld 26, Issa Rae 38, Luna Lauren Vélez 58
Men
Shameik Moore 28, Daniel Kaluuya 34, Karan Soni 34, Brian Tyree Henry 41, Jason Schwartzman 42, Oscar Isaac 44, Jake Johnson 45
Exhibit H: the money
It made 6.9 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $100 million
- Box office
- $691 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 52 scenes and 1,564 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
