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For the first time on the big-screen, fan-favorite comic book character Miles Morales is taking on the Spider-Man mantle, and now the first trailer for his film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, shows him in action. In Miles’ universe, more than one person can wear the Spider-Man mask. A quick image in the trailer shows what appears to be original Spider-Man Peter Parker’s grave (in the comics, Miles took up the Spider-Man identity after Peter Parker’s death.

The first look at Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has been unveiled. Christopher Miller and Phil Lord presented the official title and teaser trailer for the film at a live appearance at Comic-Con Experience CCXP17 in São Paulo, Brazil.

Trailer Alert! Get Ready For ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’

The brief teaser trailer opens with a hooded figure moving through a snow-covered New York City, and stops by the grave of Peter Parker. We see a bunch of scenes of this figure clumsily swinging through the buildings of the city, as a tagline tells us that “more than one wears the mask.” Spider-man finally lands on a rooftop and pulls off his mask to reveal an out of breath Miles Morales, who will be voiced by The Get Down’s Shameik Moore.

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Miles Morales is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books by Marvel Comics, as one of the characters who goes by the identity of Spider-Man.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse will hit theaters December 21st, 2018. Watch the trailer right here: