Ask any Spider-Man fan, big or small, to repeat the most enduring message of the web-slinging Peter Parker, and you’ll likely get a faithful recitation of his Uncle Ben’s advice: “With great power comes great responsibility.” This concept goes hand-in-hand with something the heroic Peter says, with a heavy dose of irony, early in Sony Pictures Animation’s new Into the Spider-Verse: “There’s only one Spider-Man, and you’re looking at him.”

Of course, as this new official photo—which pairs the film’s voice talent with their various on-screen avatars—demonstrates, he’s wrong. Into the Spider-Verse is packed with a number of Spider-People who all share the heroic burden Uncle Ben was so concerned with. In that way, this latest on-screen iteration might be the most faithful adaptation of Stan Lee’s vision for the character, whom he co-created over half a century ago.

Into the Spider-Verse—which exists alongside Tom Holland’s current live-action run as Peter Parker—introduces Shameik Moore as Miles Morales, a Brooklyn-dwelling, bi-racial version of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. But thanks to a rip in the fabric of reality, he’s not alone in facing down a packed roster of Spider villains, including Liev Schreiber’s Kingpin. Morales is also joined by Jake Johnson’s battered Peter Parker, Hailee Steinfeld’s wry Spider-Gwen, John Mulaney’s Looney Tunes-esque Spider-Ham, Nicolas Cage’s dour Spider-Man Noir, and Kimiko Glenn’s chipper Peni Parker, with her robotic sidekick “Sp//dr.”

At an early point on this hero’s journey, Morales listens in awe as Peter Parker’s frequent on-screen love interest, Mary Jane Watson (Zoë Kravitz), offers a different take on Uncle Ben’s advice, one that underlines the shared responsibility of the multi-verse: “We are all Spider-Man, and we are all counting on you.” Later, the movie puts it even more succinctly: “Anyone can wear the mask.”

Audiences may be particularly receptive to this idea in an era where major movie studios are finding great success by finally pushing at the boundaries of what a superhero should look like, through films like Marvel’s Black Panther and Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman. Marvel Comics writer Dan Slott—who has spent the last decade working on various Spider-Man titles, and first launched the concept of the Spider-Verse on the page in 2014—explained to Vanity Fair how Sony’s new animated film delivers on the late Stan Lee’s favorite aspect of the character:

Stan always said that one of the things that was so alluring about Spider-Man for readers was the mask. Anyone could have gotten bitten by the spider, anyone could be under the mask. When you see that character running around you can associate with it. No matter who you are—race, color, creed, gender.

This notion has been bumping around the edges of the Spider-Man legacy for some time, on the pages of the comic book, in animated TV series, and even in a 2016 Campbell’s Soup commercial, which comes with a last-minute twist.

“There’s something universal about the second that mask goes down,” Slott explains. “It’s great to see a Spider-Man movie—possibly one of the greatest movies ever—where you can be Spider-Man. Anyone can be Spider-Man.” Longtime Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal agrees: “What’s beautiful about these parallel universes is that you can tell stories of people with a different perspective.”

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—which was already on track for a solid box-office showing—got a major boost as it beat out a pair of Disney contenders to claim the top animation prize from several critical awards bodies in the last week, including the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the S.F. Film Critics Circle. The movie opens nationwide on December 14.