![]() ![]() Doctor Strange reluctantly agrees, seeing no other way out of the pickle he’s gotten them all into. Honestly, the logic is all a bit wobbly, but the emotions work. So Peter comes up with a plan: if everyone forgets who Peter Parker is, full stop, then no one will know he is Spider-Man, and the original spell will be cancelled out. ![]() The result is that everyone across the multiverse who knows the identity of Spider-Man (including a fair few villains) are making their way into our universe, and the ‘verse is ripping at its seams. The Peter Parkers may effectively take out their villains, but not before one of the Green Goblin’s bombs takes out the confinement box holding Strange’s botched spell. ![]() Garfield’s Peter is not going to let the superhero’s girlfriend get fridged… not this time. Garfield’s Parker, watching nearby, gets another chance to save the girl and, this time, is able to. Luckily, he isn’t the only Peter Parker on the scene. Holland’s Peter jumps after MJ, trying to catch her, but is taken out by the Green Goblin before he can stop her descent. In No Way Home, our Peter Parker is almost faced with the same horrific fate when his girlfriend, MJ, falls from the Statue of Liberty during the climactic fight. Peter is there, and tries to save her, but he is a second too late, his web catching her, but not before she hits the ground and dies instantly. In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Peter’s girlfriend, Gwen, dies during a fight, falling to her death from the top of a clock tower (as superheroes’ girlfriends tend to do). One of the most moving parts of the Spider-Man: No Way Home climax came not in our Peter Parker’s character arc, but in Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker journey. Which, sure.Īndrew Garfield’s Peter Parker Saves the Girl Tobey Maguire’s Spidey may get a little stabbed in the process, but no big deal… it’s not like he hasn’t been stabbed before! Thematically, the scene is meant to hammer home our Peter’s rejection of vengeance in favor of a commitment to helping even those who are actively trying to kill him. While, at first, the three Peters struggle to work together to take out the antagonists, they eventually figure it out, swinging around the Statue of Liberty with their high school science lab-made cures in hand to reverse the respective conditions that made each villain villainous. That being said, Peter does effectively “cure” all of the villains Doctor Strange’s botched spell has dragged into the MCU’s reality: the Green Goblin from 2002’s Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus from 2004’s Spider-Man 2, Sandman from 2007’s Spider-Man 3, the Lizard from 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, and Electro from 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I know that many a superhero villain has been created by falling into a vat of proverbial eels, but the idea that evil-doing is a switch that can be turned on and off is thematically shallow and makes for one of the weakest parts of this story. ![]() Honestly, the dumbest part of Spider-Man: No Way Home is the concept that villainy can be cured with a gadget or chemical compound. The movie crams a lot into its two-and-a-half-hour runtime, giving rewarding endings to not one but three Peter Parkers. How does it do it? And what does No Way Home’s ending mean for the future of Spider-Man and the MCU? We break it all down below… The Peters Cure the Spider-Man Villains Spid er-Man: No Way Home, the latest installment in the Marvel pantheon, has hit theaters, complete with an ending that is sure to reverberate across the MCU-if not because Doctor Strange has left cracks in the multiverse than in the space it will leave in the Avengers where Peter Parker once stood. This MCU article contains MAJOR spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home. ![]()
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