

And yet, the spectacle of the three live-action Spider-Men swinging into action together against all of their supervillains is immensely satisfying, and Spider-Man: No Way Home fantastically delivers as a pure comic book movie. By the end of No Way Home, the MCU's Spider-Man's life is completely shattered as Peter's dearest friends magically forget he exists, his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) is killed, and Holland's Spidey is essentially stripped of all of his MCU advantages so that he's reset to become more like the lonely Spider-Men Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield played. Related: Spider-Man: No Way Home Complete Timeline: Where Every Character Comes Fromįor pure fan service and unforgettable moments that honor the previous Spider-Man movies, No Way Home is a gift. But No Way Home is more of an event than a coherent movie the plot is convoluted, contradictory, and everything frustratingly hinges on Tom Holland's Peter Parker making foolish decisions to enable the film's plot points and cameos to happen. Doctor Strange's (Benedict Cumberbatch) major role also sets up his sequel, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. And No Way Home breaks Spider-Man: Homecoming and Far From Home's pattern as the first Tom Holland Spidey film entirely set in New York City. No Way Home also features supervillains like the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina), and Electro (Jamie Foxx), while Charlie Cox from Netflix's Daredevil cameos as Matt Murdock. A celebration of Sony and Marvel Studios' entire Spider-Man franchise since 2002, No Way Home features an incredible cavalcade of guest stars and cameos from every Spider-Man movie, most importantly, Tobey Magure and Andrew Garfield reprising their roles as Spider-Man and sharing the screen with Tom Holland. Spider-Man: No Way Home is a remarkable achievement because it introduced the Spider-Verse in live-action. With the retirement of MCU's central heroes like Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) after Avengers: Endgame, Holland's Spider-Man has ascended to become one of, if not the new flagship hero of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But audiences were overjoyed to see Spider-Man living in the same world as the Avengers after so many years of being the lone superhero in his universe. Holland's Peter Parker was fully integrated into the MCU from the get-go and Marvel Studios strategically opted not to repeat the Spider-Man tropes already seen in the previous five Spider-Man movies, such as showing the death of Uncle Ben.

The Marvel Studios-produced Spider-Man trilogy wildly and purposefully differs from the three Spider-Man films starring Tobey Maguire and the two Amazing Spider-Man movies starring Andrew Garfield.

So far, Tom Holland has starred as Peter Parker and his wall-crawling alter ego six times in the MCU: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and his trio of films which can be unofficially dubbed the "Home" trilogy.
