Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 superhero film directed by Jon Watts. An entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 4, it is the sequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home. Tom Holland plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man, with Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius/Doc Ock, Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange, Zendaya as MJ, Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon/Electro, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May and Benedict Wong as Wong.

' WARNING: As the Immediate Sequel to Far From Home, which was the epilogue of the Infinity Saga, as well as following from both Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy and Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man'' duology, expect Late Arrival Spoilers for all of said works! '''

At the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter learns to his horror that Mysterio has released a doctored video framing him as the perpetrator of the drone attack on London. Now hounded by a world that has turned against him overnight, he seeks Dr Strange's help to make the world forget the connection between "Peter Parker" and "Spider-Man". However, when the spell intended for this purpose goes wrong, Peter ends up having to contend with enemies of Spider-Man from other universes.


 * A God Am I: The Green Goblin tells the other villains that "Gods don't have to choose. We take." One doesn't have to be a literature major to understand what he's implying.
 * Awesomeness By Analysis: When Peter and Dr Strange fight, Peter is able to determine that Dr Strange is turning the Mirror Dimension into an Archimedean spiral and use his math skills to overcome it.
 * Big Bad Ensemble: The Sinister Six.
 * Bittersweet Ending:
 * Canon Welding: The brief appearance of Charlie Cox as Peter's blind lawyer "Mr Murdock" adds further support to the recanonisation of Marvel's Daredevil, mere days after Vincent D'Onoforio's Kingpin appeared in Hawkeye.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: The first fight between Spider-Man and Green Goblin. Green Goblin literally laughs off Peter's attacks, overpowers him, and slams him through multiple floors.
 * Death by Adaptation:
 * Deus Exit Machina:
 * Talos-as-Fury, who could probably have unceremoniously shut down Mysterio's narrative and thus the issues following from it, is conveniently nowhere to be seen.
 * Even if he told Dr Strange to leave him out of it, one would think Wong would intervene after the ball gets dropped badly enough to have multiversal consequences, yet he's never seen again.
 * Hero with Bad Publicity: A lot of people are quick to turn on Peter based on the doctored video that Mysterio sent J Jonah Jameson despite the dubiousness of the source. If this was supposed to be some kind of Take That at people who fall for fake news, it was awfully on the nose.
 * Hope Spot:
 * Internal Reveal: Peter sensibly tells Damage Control first thing that Fury can vouch for him, only to learn what the audience already has known since Far From Home's stinger that (the real) Fury has been in space the whole time.
 * Last Kiss:
 * Late Arrival Spoiler:
 * Even if you've somehow managed to avoid anything from Loki or WandaVision, the trailers for this film will make it known to you that the multiverse is very much real.
 * No attempt is made to hide the fact that the villains die in their original films.
 * Magic Feather: Shortly after his arrival, Norman removes and destroys the Green Goblin mask in an attempt to get rid of the Enemy Within, only to learn the hard way that it doesn't actually need the mask to manifest.
 * Morality Chain: Green Goblin attempts to invoke this.
 * Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers made it seem that Wong warned Dr Strange not to go through with the memory-altering spell. In the actual film, he merely tells Dr Strange to leave him out of it.
 * No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Peter's attempt to save the villains instead of just letting Dr Strange send them back to their deaths causes him a lot of trouble.
 * The Obi-Wan: Doctor Strange takes this role from Talos.
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
 * Murdock clears Peter of all legal charges offscreen.
 * The Lizard has already been caught by Dr Strange by the time Peter first deals with Doc Ock.
 * Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: Both MJ and Aunt May tell Peter not to say anything about the accusations he's facing until he gets a lawyer. A Damage Control agent tries pulling this on MJ to get her to talk, but she calls him out on it.
 * Psycho Electro: Electro.
 * Real After All: In Far From Home, Mysterio fed Peter a lie about the multiverse while crafting his heroic persona. Peter is understandably surprised to learn that the multiverse really does exist.
 * Reality Ensues:
 * Murdock clears Peter of all legal charges, but warns him that the court of public opinion won't necessarily be swayed. Unfortunately, he's proven right.
 * Wong got promoted to Sorcerer Supreme over Dr Strange because, superior talent or no, the former has five years of seniority thanks to the latter getting Snapped.
 * The scene where Peter screws up the spell Dr Strange was casting to make the world forget the "Peter Parker is Spider-Man" thing has such a moment for both parties. Repeatedly distracting a guy with requests for changes in the middle of a delicate procedure is not going to end well. On the other hand, rushing into said delicate procedure without carefully hashing out the parameters and intended result with the client and clarifying potential problems is also not going to end well either.
 * Reverse Mole:
 * Rouge Angles of Satin: The person who throws a brick into the Parkers' apartment has a good throwing arm. His spelling? Not so much.
 * Sacrificial Lion:
 * Sequel Gap: As well as being a sequel to 2019's Far From Home, the film also acts as a sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (a seven year gap), and Spiderman 3 (a fourteen year gap).
 * Truer to the Text:
 * While Electro is still Race Lifted to be played by black Jamie Foxx like in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, unlike that film, Electro now wears yellow and green like in the comics, and the flashing of his lightning over his face has a star shape similar to his classical mask.
 * After the previous two film adaptations used the Common Knowledge version of the Comes Great Responsibility quote, this film is finally the MCU's turn to say it comics-accurate: "With great power, there must also come great responsibility".
 * Flash dyed his hair blonde offscreen at some point between the end of Far From Home and his first onscreen appearance here, now better resembling his comics self.
 * Unperson:
 * We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future: The significant plurality of people who believe Mysterio's lies don't seem to consider the possibility that the video might have been doctored to defame Spidey.
 * We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future: The significant plurality of people who believe Mysterio's lies don't seem to consider the possibility that the video might have been doctored to defame Spidey.