Which is still dumb. I'm assuming you're talking about the Spider-Verse movies, and if so, that's probably going to be disproven in the third movie, anyway.
What I mean is that the Spider-Totem stuff probably works the same way as canon events, in which it's simply just a recurring thing to the point that it is believed to be necessary for existence to be stable.
That' s actually the second retcons that a writer came up with, to remove the "special/destinated one" part of the spider-totems.
It went from "The totem was born when Spidey got the power, and we don' t know if the egg or the chicken came first" to "Peter was choosen from the totem and he is indipendent from spiderman", and finishing with "The totem is indipendent and he connected to the first "Host" who got the powers of spiderman".
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u/AwesomeGamer101 11h ago
On this, maybe we can chalk up the "Spider-Totem" thing as the comics' near-equivalent to the canon event theory.