

#SPIDER MAN NO WAY HOME MOVIE#
Towards the end of the movie we see Peter reclaiming his life and starting anew he moves into a crummy New York apartment. Let the speculation/interpretation begin!) Most crushingly, Peter visits May’s grave. (Still, MJ seems to recognize something in the young lad. He has a speech written for MJ explaining who he is and how they know each other, and chickens out at the last minute. Peter goes to the donut shop where MJ works and watches as Ned walks past him, totally oblivious. Of course, the final section of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is sort of a bummer. How the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Ending Sets Up a New Beginning for Peter Parker This was his dumb wish in the first place. And then assuming the great responsibility that comes with great power. That leads to an emotional scene of Peter saying goodbye to his best friend and his girlfriend. That means that MJ and Ned and Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) and the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. And it would cause all of that scary purple lightning to go away. It buttons up many issues – it would send the various Spider-Men (and their respective villains) back to their own timelines. He suggests to Doctor Strange (who, by the way, has been imprisoned in some kind of mirror-verse for most of the movie thanks to Peter’s meddling), that they should go back to the original spell that Strange wanted to cast with one alteration: everyone would forget that Peter Parker ever existed. Things are dire.īut Holland’s Peter Parker comes up with a foolproof plan. We were half expecting Loki to pop on through. Jagged cracks of purple-y lightning crisscross the sky, and shadowy figures are making their way through (did we spot a more comics-accurate Rhino?). Doctor Strange can’t keep it together the multiverse is coming through and threatening Holland’s world in a major way. All of the villains are cured and the other Spider-Men get to have their moment in the spotlight (including an especially touching moment when Andrew Garfield’s version rescues Zendaya to make amends for failing to save Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy at the end of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”). Before he casts the spell, though, Peter keeps changing his mind, forcing Strange to contain the spell inside a magical crystal.Įventually there is a very elaborate battle on the Statue of Liberty (just like the climax of “X-Men” in 2000), which is being retrofitted with a giant Captain America shield. In a fit of desperation, Peter visits Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who he knows from the events of “Infinity War” and “Endgame.” He asks Strange to cast a spell – one that will make it so that most of the world has forgotten that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. He’s summarily rejected from MIT and besieged by reporters, citizens who feel that he’s a danger, and the office of Damage Control, now a more militarized, SHIELD-style organization. Simmons), sending his relationship with MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon) into chaos. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is set directly after the events of “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” with Peter Parker outed by J. Of course, to get into all of this we’re going to have to talk about the way the film concludes.
#SPIDER MAN NO WAY HOME SERIES#
Thankfully, there’s much more to “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” including the ending, which changes the character in a fundamental way and sets the series down a potentially very different path. And if that’s all the movie was, chances are that it’d be pretty unsatisfying. And as such some if does play like a kind of greatest hits compendium, where a new version of the character deals with bad guys we’ve already seen. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has, in its various marketing materials, promised a kind of ultimate Spider-Man saga, one in which the latest iteration of Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) would face off against villains from the character’s past (and from other versions of the franchise).
