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Spider-Man: No Way Home is a sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, the twenty-seventh film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the ninth instalment of Phase Four that deals with the fallout of Far From Home and the reveal of Spider-Man's identity. The film was released on December 17, 2021.
Plot
After Quentin Beck frames Peter Parker for murder and reveals his identity as Spider-Man, Parker, his girlfriend MJ, best friend Ned Leeds, and aunt May are interrogated by the United States Department of Damage Control. Lawyer Matt Murdock gets Parker's charges dropped, but the group grapples with negative publicity. After Parker, MJ, and Ned's MIT applications are rejected, Parker goes to the New York Sanctum to ask Stephen Strange for help. Strange suggests a spell that would make everyone forget Parker is Spider-Man, but it is corrupted when Parker repeatedly requests alterations to let his loved ones retain their memories. Strange contains the spell to stop it and makes Parker leave.
Parker tries to convince an MIT administrator to reconsider MJ and Ned's applications, but is attacked by Otto Octavius. Octavius rips Parker's nanotechnology from his Iron Spider suit which bonds with his mechanical tentacles and allows Parker to disable them. As Norman Osborn arrives and attacks, Strange teleports Parker back to the Sanctum and locks Octavius in a cell next to Curt Connors. Strange explains that before he was able to contain the corrupted spell it summoned some people from other universes who know Spider-Man's identity. He orders Parker, MJ, and Ned to find and capture them; they are able to locate and retrieve Max Dillon and Flint Marko.
Osborn reclaims control of himself from his split Green Goblin personality. He goes to a F.E.A.S.T. building where May comforts him before Parker retrieves him. While discussing their battles with Spider-Man, Osborn, Octavius, and Dillon realize that they were pulled from their universes just before their deaths. Strange prepares to reverse the contained spell and send the villains back to their respective universes, but Parker argues that they should first cure the villains' powers and insanity to prevent their deaths upon their return. Parker steals the spell, traps Strange in the Mirror Dimension, and, with May, takes the villains to Happy Hogan's apartment. He cures Octavius, but Osborn's Goblin persona takes control and convinces the uncured villains to betray Parker. As Dillon, Marko, and Connors escape, the Goblin fatally injures May. Before she dies, May tells Parker that "with great power, there must also come great responsibility".
Ned discovers that he can create portals using Strange's sling ring, which he and MJ use to try to locate Parker. They instead find alternate versions of Parker from the villains' universes who were also summoned by Strange's spell and who are nicknamed "Peter-Two" and "Peter-Three". The group finds this universe's Parker, nicknamed "Peter-One", who is ready to give up and send the villains home. The alternate Parkers share stories of losing loved ones and encourage Peter-One to fight in May's honor, and the three Parkers develop cures for the villains.
The group lure Dillon, Marko, and Connors to the Statue of Liberty. Peter-One and Peter-Two cure Marko and Connors while Octavius arrives to help cure Dillon, and Ned frees Strange from the Mirror Dimension with a portal. The Goblin appears and unleashes the contained spell, which begins pulling more people in from other universes. Strange attempts to hold them off while an enraged Peter-One tries to kill the Goblin. Peter-Two stops him and Peter-Three helps Peter-One inject the Goblin with his cure, restoring Osborn's sanity. Peter-One realizes that the only way to protect the multiverse is to erase himself from everyone's memory and requests that Strange do so, while promising MJ and Ned that he will find them again. The spell is cast and everyone returns to their respective universes. Two weeks later, Parker visits MJ and Ned to reintroduce himself, but decides against it. While mourning at May's grave, he has a conversation with Hogan and is inspired to carry on, making a new suit and resuming his vigilantism.
In a mid-credits scene, the universe-displaced Eddie Brock and his symbiote Venom decide to find Spider-Man, but are suddenly returned to their universe, leaving behind a part of the symbiote.
Cast
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Zendaya Coleman as Michelle Jones-Watson
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
- Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
- Benedict Wong as Wong
- Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus
- Jamie Foxx as Max Dillon/Electro
- Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin
- Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko/Sandman
- Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors/Lizard
- Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Marisa Tomei as May Parker
- Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan
- J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
- Tony Revolori as Flash Thompson
- Angourie Rice as Betty Brant
- Martin Starr as Roger Harrington
- J. B. Smoove as Julius Dell
- Hannibal Buress as Andre Wilson
- Paula Newsome as MIT Assistant Vice Chancellor
- Arian Moayed as P. Cleary
- Mary Rivera as Ned's Lola
- Gary Weeks as Agent Foster
- Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock
- Dean Meminger as Dean Meminger
- Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom
- Pat Kiernan as Pat Kiernan
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Quentin Beck/Mysterio (archive footage)
Continuity and References to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man appears.
- Doctor Strange appears.
- Michelle Jones appears.
- Ned Leeds appears.
- May Parker appears.
- Happy Hogan appears.
- Wong appears.
- J. Jonah Jameson appears.
- Flash Thompson appears.
- Betty Brant appears.
- Jason Ionello appears.
- Norman Osborn appears.
- Otto Octavius appears.
- Flint Marko/Sandman appears.
- Curt Connors/Lizard appears.
- Maxwell Dillon appears.
- Eddie Brock/Venom appears.
- Spider-Man of Earth-96283 appears.
- Spider-Man of Earth-120703 appears.
- Roger Harrington appears.
- Julius Dell appears.
- Andre Wilson appears.
- J. Jonah Jameson appears.
- Foster appears.
- P. Cleary is introduced.
- The United States Department of Damage Control appears.
- Stark Industries appears.
- New York Sanctum Sanctorum appears.
- Multiverse appears.
- An Arc Reactor appears.
- Dum-E appears.
- Rogers: The Musical is advertised.
- Steve Rogers is mentioned.
- Tony Stark is mentioned.
- Hulk is mentioned.
- Nick Fury is mentioned.
- Talos is mentioned.
- Vulture is mentioned.
- Thanos and his 2014 counterpart were mentioned.
- Delmar is mentioned.
- Aleksei Sytsevich is mentioned.
- Mary Jane Watson is mentioned.
- Harry Osborn and his death in Spider-Man 3 are mentioned.
- Penny Marko is mentioned.
- Ben Parker of Earth-96283 is mentioned.
- Ben Parker of Earth-120703 is mentioned.
- Gwen Stacy is mentioned.
- The Avengers are mentioned.
- Titan is mentioned.
- Howard Stark appears in a picture.
- Hank Pym appears in a picture.
- Abraham Erskine appears in a picture.
- Sue Lorman, Brad Davis, Zach Cooper, Zoha Souliotis, Sebastian Fedas, Yasmin Monette, Josh Scarino and Tyler Corbyn appear in a year book.
- Liz Toomes appears on a magazine.
- Daily Bugle appears.
- Peter wears the same I Survived My Trip to NYC T-shirt from Spider-Man: Homecoming.
- Crimson Bands of Cyttorak and Daggers of Daveroth appear.
- E.D.I.T.H. and Stark Industries Combat Drones appear.
- The events from Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home are mentioned.
- The events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame are mentioned.
- Norman says "I'm something of a scientist myself" from Spider-Man.
- Doc Ock's line from Spider-Man 2 is said by both him and Peter-Two.
- Jameson calls Lizard a Dinosaur similar to George Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man.
- Peter's failure to save Gwen from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is mentioned.
- Snap is shown on a poster and is mentioned.
- Blip is mentioned.
- Rotunda of Gateways is mentioned.
- "Night Monkey" is mentioned.
- New Asgard is mentioned.
- Otto Octavius' Fusion Reactor from Spider-Man 2 is mentioned.
- The Venom Symbiote from Peter-Two's universe is mentioned.
- Rhino Armor is mentioned.
- Iron Man Armor is mentioned.
- Oscorp from Peter-Two's universe is mentioned.
- Oscorp from Peter-Three's universe is mentioned.
Taglines
The Multiverse Unleashed.
Production
The film was shot in Atlanta, Georgia and New York City.
Gallery
Promotion, Filming and Concept Art
Videos
External Links
References
| Spider-Man Films | ||
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| Earth-96283 | Released | Spider-Man | Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man 3 |
| Cancelled | Spider-Man 4 | |
| Earth-120703 | Released | The Amazing Spider-Man | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 |
| Cancelled | The Sinister Six | The Amazing Spider-Man 3 | |
| Earth-199999 | Released | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Spider-Man: No Way Home |
| Animated | Released | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse |
| Upcoming | Across the Spider-Verse (Part 1) | Across the Spider-Verse (Part 2) | |
