It has finally arrived, we were looking forward to it and now Spider-Man: No Way Home has finally arrived in cinemas around the world. While TikTok is tinged with illegal videos showing the highlights, it took us a few days to wait until most of the people intending to see it right away had gone, at least once, to the cinema. Of course, all we’re going to say below is spoilers so if you haven’t seen the movie yet, just keep reading if you’re bent on ruining all the twists.
I remember it once again but highlighting it in red, this article will be full of spoilers, succulent details that only those who have seen the film will know, seasoned with a bit of Spider-Man editorial history and with many theories (some more bizarre than others ). Only continue if you are aware of the spoilers.
Now that we’ve got our hands on to stop any intrepid readers who haven’t seen it yet the film, we can begin our journey to discover the secrets of Spider-Man: No Way Home. First, however, we would like to specify that in this article there will also be spoilers related to the fifth episode of Hawkeye.
The premises
Let’s start from the basics: it all begins when Peter Parker, to make the world forget his secret identity, organizes with Dr. Strange a magic capable of erasing this information from the minds of the whole world. The problem arises when however Peter, during the execution of the magical art, adds parameters that lead Strange to fail everything, thus finding himself forced to have to close the result of this “failed experiment” inside a prism to prevent the latter destroy reality. However, the magic has already done damage, since everyone who knows Spider-Man is Peter Parker is catapulted into the MCU universe.
Probably this theory is not totally true, since Electro had never seen or met Peter, but in the end the theory could be a wrong assumption of Strange: on the other hand, a couple of times, while the sky is fractured, we see smoky silhouettes of characters like Kraven and Rhino (not that of Amazing Spider-Man), so the magic probably transported (or was about to) all the characters related to Spider-Man in some way.
While the MCU’s Spider-Man is very different from the comic’s, you’ll notice throughout this article how many dots start to intelligently overlap, but let’s advance in order.
Marvel Knights
Almost at the beginning of Spider-Man: No Way Home we can immediately see how the attorney who advises Peter Parker is none other than Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock: we do not know if it will be the one seen on Netflix, perhaps with the same past, or a character who will never mention those events to rather present a sort of his own origin story. The fact remains that the confirmation seems to be even more evident with the arrival of Vincent D’Onofrio on Hawkeye in the role of Kingpin. This information should make Daredevil’s story on Netflix canon by now. If not, just think of the characters as alternate versions.
With great powers comes great responsibilities
One of the heaviest traumas in the film is undoubtedly Green Goblin’s killing of Aunt May, who nevertheless continued to worry about his nephew during the last moments of his life. The death of Aunt May, indeed, does not appear so unexpected, after all it has already happened in comics and even in the video game: what is surprising is her sentence “From great powers comes great responsibilities”, a phrase always said by Uncle Ben and which instead now acquires a different subject, but with the same meaning. Precisely this phrase, heard by two characters we will talk about shortly, will make it clear that Aunt May may have a value in the future of Spider-Man.
Spider-Men
Yes, there are. Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire return as their Spider-Man, and they do it intelligently and not at all sly. The two characters, symbolic of variations on the timeline of Peter Parker’s story, can boast differences (for better or for worse) from Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, and these are smoothed out during their dialogue on the roof.
However, what amazes in Spider-Man: No Way Home is the relationship that is established between them, something that until now has never had a too evident value: both the Spiderverse of the comics and that of the Sony animation featured a Spider -Man known to meet much less famous ones. Here we have three generations of spiders, all with their phrases, their originalities and even their memes (exploited in an ingenious way).
The Claims Five
Not only Spider-Man: the film also shows us five sinister enemies of Spider-Man, which however in this film are contextualized as damaged. Indeed, each of them has a problem that may have made him an enemy (although it is quite specious as a thing). However, the idea of exploiting the combined ingenuity of the three Peter Parkers is something not seen in the Spider-Man films, as is the challenge with Strange which is reduced to a battle of magic vs science (where obviously science wins, ed. )
Seeing Octopus become good, finding the simpleton Sandman as always and observing the other enemies ready to do anything to keep their powers is something fantastic, which not only creates a dynamic capable of elevating the film to the comparison with Endgame, but it even gives meaning and value to previous films, as if to make what happens in the Raimi trilogy and in Amazing more coherent.
Now we don’t know what happened on their return: The magic made by Strange is to make the MCU world forget the existence of Peter Parker, and this has brought everyone back to their universes. Probably now they will be saved, or will probably find context the choice of some characters, like Octopus himself, to do the right thing at the last second.
Peter Parker No More!
So, after Strange’s magic, what happens to Peter Parker? Simple, it no longer exists. Or rather, there is Spider-Man, everyone knows the masked hero, but no one remembers Peter and his figure anymore. For this MJ does not remember his partner, but the Avengers probably know of a Spider-Man who fought with them, and therefore will remain an Avenger.
In short, now no one knows the identity of Spider-Man, a situation that will allow Peter to build a new life for himself (even if it remains strange that physical objects that attest to his identity disappear) bringing him to a point in his existence very close to the origins of the character known from comics.
The Night MJ Lived
Michelle Jones Watson was saved by Spider-Man: not by Tom Holland, but by Andrew Garfield (complete with a tearful scene). The limelight of this situation, almost to build an antithesis to Gwen Stacy’s death during Amazing Spider-Man, makes everything even more important, giving a really high value to every single dialogue. The relationship between the various characters still remains very faithful to the original characters, and it’s fun to see the interactions between them.
Brand New Day
The comic led Peter Parker to have Mephisto erase from the minds of (almost) everyone his identity, to save Aunt May and not to endanger her loved ones. The ending of Spider-Man: No Way Home comes to more or less the same conclusions; Aunt May is dead, but Peter saved everyone by sacrificing his personal life. This gave the character carte blanche to become (or return) to be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, a status quo that we have always experienced as the character’s origins, but which instead this time presents itself at an advanced point in its history. . In short, it’s as if Homecoming and Far From Home were prequels to the character’s true origin story, which now reaches its zero point.
In fact, now Peter lives alone, he will surely look for a job to pay for college (maybe a photographer for the Bugle?), He has a new costume (which has much more similarities with the original one than the costumes seen in all the other films), with a bright and almost shiny blue, no more Stark technology to help him but only a police station, and the costume was machine sewn (and not by futuristic robots). But what now lies ahead for our webweaver?
Spider-Man, MCU or not?
We like to think that Tom Holland’s Spider-Man will now be forever linked to the MCU, having become a version of three already in existence. The scene after the credits leaves us with a piece of Venom that will probably now look for an Eddie Brock from this universe to reunite (or maybe someone else like Miles Morales or even Flash Thompson), giving us the symbiote that could unearth new stories for Tom Holland’s Peter, sad and angry (but not too angry) over the loss of his aunt.
However, the fact that it has been rumored for some time that Morbius and Venom are part of Garfield’s Amazing universe (just look at the Oscorp logo in the trailer) could push Sony to create its own Spiderverse, with Venom by Tom Hardy, Morbius by Jared Leto and Vulture. by Michael Keaton (which may look the same as the MCU, for all we know), giving us new stories with a Spider-Man played by Andrew Garfield, still in age to be able to bring it to the screen and still much loved by fans.
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