SPIDERMAN NO WAY HOME BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

Welcome back to New Rockstars. I'm Erik. Voss and this is a breakdown of. Spider-Man: No Way Home, a true. Spider-Verse event that start-to-finish. is a love letter to the web-slingers'. full cinematic history, not only by. bringing back past Peter Parkers, but in even subtler ways, echoing little. moments that prove how, despite all. these guys' different backgrounds, these. dorks were destined to cross paths and. rescue each other. So, I'm going to. break this down scene by scene for. everything you might have missed. And. folks, I think I found more Easter eggs.

in this movie than I have in anything. I've ever broken down on this channel in. five years. Before we begin, you can. celebrate Spider-Man: No Way Home by. checking out our awesome merch at. newrockstarsmerch.com. We have this. amazing new limited edition shirt, one. of my favorite shirts Epic Hero Shop has. ever made, called Strange Entanglement. I can't wait to get mine. It's going to. be my favorite Christmas gift. You can. get yours at newrockstarsmerch.com. And. thank you to BoxLunch for sponsoring. this video. More on them later. Okay, the opening Marvel Studios title card. has been updated slightly so that if you. look closely on the hole of the R,

replacing Rocket, who's in recent MCU. titles, is now Peter Parker. The moment. he came back through that portal to join. Cap in Endgame, this movie will also. make grown men cry, seeing Spider-Man. arrive through portals twice. So, we. open immediately where Far From Home. left off. The audio of the news. broadcast of J. Jonah Jameson's Daily. Bugle revealing Peter Parker's identity. by mysterious doctored footage. Director. Jon Watts recreated that 2019 scene to. near perfect detail before ended by. cutting off Peter's F-bomb.

Which itself was a callback to Aunt. May's final line in Homecoming. But now, a car horn sensors out the. word, and MJ is once again in her Joan. of Arc shirt, but the three extras. behind her are dressed exactly like the. three guys behind MJ in the Far From. Home scene. But the one major difference. is that MJ now wears the broken black. dahlia necklace that Peter bought her in. Venice and gave to her in London. I actually like it better broken. This necklace is the key to Peter and. MJ's relationship because in the final.

scene, despite her memory of Peter being. erased, something compels her to keep. wearing that. Proof that she wasn't just. with Peter because he was Spider-Man and. that she will wait forever for that I. love you because she likes things better. broken. Notice how one of the onlookers. says, He's just a kid. Just like one of the onlookers on the. train says in Spider-Man 2 when that. Peter got unmasked. He's. just a kid. Peter swings MJ through Times Square. where Jameson's inescapable broadcast. includes an image of Peter's face half.

covered as it often is in the Spider-Man. comics and they pass two billboards for. Rogers: The Musical, the Captain America. musical from Hawkeye on Disney Plus. Peter lands MJ on the Queensboro Bridge. where they are spotted by passengers on. the nearby Roosevelt Island Tramway, famous from the 2002 Sam Raimi. Spider-Man film as the setting of the. final battle where Green Goblin made. Peter choose between Mary Jane or save. her the children. And then right after. getting that Toby era reference, we get. an Andrew Garfield era reference when. Peter thwips the manhole cover,

recalling the very last time we saw. Andrew Garfield on screen as Spider-Man. This is in front of Delmar's Deli in. Queens, Peter's favorite spot that. should have been Homecoming and in a. deleted scene in Far From Home, but. notice how it now reads Delmar's three. for this being the third Tom Holland. Spider-Man movie. Back in their. apartment, Aunt May dumps Happy. Aw. But. then they walk in on MJ and Peter. declothed, calling back Aunt May walking. in on Peter and Ned just like this in. Homecoming. But Jon Watts shoots all of. this in a full two-minute long take to. heighten that awkwardness and kudos to. these four actors because the timing is.

so precise. Like when Peter fails to. close the window shade the first time, he then thwips it shut which feels. improvised. Like Tom Holland screwed up. closing it the first time, but then was. just like, "Oh, Peter could thwip it.". And then they added in the VFX of the. webbing after that. Also notice how. Peter wears the same I survived my trip. to NYC shirt that he wore in Homecoming. as he came back home after Mr. Stark. confiscated his suit, it's less baggy on. him now because our little guy is grown. up. The Daily Bugle broadcast hammer. away at Peter. You see a Daily News. front page photoshopping mug shots using.

their yearbook photos and revealing MJ's. name as Michelle Jones-Watson for the. first time adding the Watson like her. counterpart Mary Jane Watson. Time. magazine calls him Iron Man Jr. shows. him crying like a baby. In Touch Weekly. calls him two-faced. And then Peter gets. dusted in green paint while newsreel. footage of Tower Bridge includes the. ticker political turmoil continues in. New Asgard. Huh, so I guess Valkyrie's. rule over that colony in Tonsberg, Norway might be a bit unstable. Something we could see more of in Thor: Love and Thunder. Investigators recover.

the drones from Far From Home linking. them to Stark giving investigators. grounds to arrest Peter. The DODC. returns, Department of Damage Control, who cleaned up Avenger messes in. Homecoming, now led by Agent Cleary. Albert Cleary is the DODC comptroller in. the comics. They take some evidence. photos showing a framed photo of Ned and. MJ from the Homecoming dance. Interesting how Peter is not in that. picture though. Keep that in mind. We. see Peter's Star Wars figurines. There's. a photo taken of the Iron Spider. charging station without the suit in it. though. And you see a lit tangle of. plugs into that one wall outlet. Also,

we see the EDITH glasses that Mysterio. was trying to steal from him and a bunch. of PlayStation games because Sony. During the interrogation, Peter wears. the "Physics are theoretical but the fun. is real" shirt that he wore in. Spider-Man: Homecoming when Tony Stark. dropped him off back in Queens. Agent. Cleary says Fury's been off planet for. the past year. So, Peter thought he was. talking to Fury during Far From Home but. he was actually talking with the Skrull. Talos. Also confirming that the DODC is. more aware of Fury's movements than most. Avengers are. Also, that Agent Cleary. just made my list of Skrull suspicious. ahead of Secret Invasion because how.

else would he know that? Stark. Industries, the company itself, gets. swept up in the investigation. So, uh-oh, I guess Morgan Stark's going to. have to go to public school. The file. photo they use of Happy Hogan was his. look from Iron Man 3 prologue in 1999. when he had long hair and a bolo tie. like Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction. And. blowing our minds in the first 10. minutes. They get legal counsel from. freaking Charlie Cox, Matt Murdock, Daredevil from the Netflix series. A. crossover even crazier than Toby and. Andrew in my book because A, this is. permanent in the MCU and B, it presents.

wilder implications for the MCU. suggesting that much, if not all of what. we saw in the Netflix Marvel shows, could now be MCU canon. And we just saw. Cox's co-star Vincent D'Onofrio. appearing as Kingpin in Hawkeye. And. that finale episode will apparently give. us some clarity on the exact canoness of. all those stories. But to be clear, this. Matt Murdock is the super powered. Daredevil. A brick flies in through the. window and he catches it with lightning. fast reflexes. But I love how Peter's. hand was also ready to catch that brick. too since he has spidey sense. Also fun. fact, Jon Favreau played Foggy Nelson in.

the 2003 Daredevil. Cool. So they have. to move into Happy's condo where he. swiped Tony's dummy robot that we saw in. the first Iron Man film, also recovered. in Iron Man 3, and we saw Happy yelling. at it in Homecoming. Now, first on the. TV there are some people complaining. about the new changes to the Statue of. Liberty, which I agree, why would you. have Cap's shield do it? Also while. they're in the condo, Happy watches. Downton Abbey just as he did in Iron Man. 3 when he was in recovery. And by the. door he has a bunch of spare security. badges hanging. This is after he. lectured everyone in Iron Man 3 that. they have to have their one badge on.

them at all times. As Peter and MJ. FaceTime in MJ's room hangs her sketches. of Peter with a rain cloud over his. head, but also that one of Coach Wilson. from Homecoming. Why are you here? You don't even have. detention. Uh I know. I just like coming here to. sketch people in crisis. [laughter]. It's you. There's also that same photo of her and. Ned from Homecoming again without Peter. in it. And a photo of pigeons in Venice. And on the bed behind her she is reading. Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird. Sings. In this conversation Peter. mentions his spider bite.

Ever since I got bit by that spider, I've only had one week where my life has. felt normal. This is actually only the second time in. the MCU that Peter really referenced. that bite after his chat with Ned in. Homecoming. You got bit by a spider? Killed him by. me? No. Well, it probably wouldn't have. hurt, right? You know what, whatever. Even if it did. hurt, I'd let it bite me. Maybe. How much did it. The spider's dead, Ned. Betty Brant hosts the Midtown Morning. News still, a job that she apparently. also balances with being an intern for. the Daily Bugle on TikTok. And she says, "Go get 'em, tiger." Mary Jane's.

catchphrase are Peter in the comics and. in the past films. Also, you can hear. someone in the crowd yelling, "Do a. flip!" Just like that guy in Homecoming. Do a flip! Who also came back in Shang-Chi. The. protesters' signs include several. pro-Mysterio ones, one calling Peter. "devil in disguise." So, this movie's. premise is loosely based on the. Spider-Man One More Day comic, in which. Peter goes to Doctor Strange in search. of a spell to make everyone forget that. he's Spider-Man, but ends up having to. turn to a little girl who is revealed as. Mephisto to do this instead, and. actually ends with a similar reset as.

this film, in which Peter's identity is. a secret once more, but at the cost of. his relationships with MJ and with his. friend. It was very controversial comic. when it came out, but like many great. MCU movies, it turned a pretty divisive. comic storyline into a really great work. of cinema. In the crowd, there's also an. MJ supporter. This is a cameo by Darnell. Appling, an actor and Zendaya's. real-life assistant. Flash has published. a tell-all book called Flashpoint, which. is probably an ode to the DC Comics. preceding timeline crossover event with. Barry Allen meeting alternate versions. of himself and of Batman, which is being. adapted into another cross-franchise.

event with The Flash in 2022. The. school's mural of great inventors. throughout history that showed Howard. Stark in Homecoming has also now added. the faces of Abraham Erskine, who was. the inventor of Captain America's. super-soldier serum, as well as Hank Pym. in the upper right corner. Coach Wilson, Mr. Dell, and Mr. Harrington greet Peter. with a display case of Peter's academic. decathlon awards and his blazer. There's. also a photo of Peter and MJ in Venice, where it looks like Mr. Harrington might. have pasted himself in from one of his. selfies that he took then. Later on the. rooftop, MJ reads a New York Post that.

is the salacious tabloid that they. actually based the earlier Daily Bugle. designs on, reading "Peter Parker and. his spider minions," showing Peter. puppeting Ned and MJ below reading his. hypnotic spider senses seduce Jones. Watson. Male spiders actually do release. hypnosis like pheromones and ironically. Peter does allow MJ and Ned to be. brainwashed but to forget about him. Peter rolls over to kiss her in the. textbook that he rests his head on was. chemistry. I I see what you did there. Thought we. wouldn't notice but well we did. Also. written in graffiti on the background is. Ditko, a reference to Spider-Man.

co-creator Steve Ditko. Peter gets. rejected from college after college. Dum-E gradually reassembles Peter's. death star until the MIT one comes in. and Dummy just breaks it just like Ned. did. And all three of the friends get. rejected which is a bummer because MIT. is Tony Stark's alma mater where he. handed out scholarships in Civil War and. where future Ironheart Riri Williams. goes to school. The witch string lights. actually have little goatees making them. little Doctor Stranges giving Peter the. idea of what Avenger to return to and we. hear the notes of Doctor Strange's theme. here that leads Peter to 177A Bleecker.

Street the Sanctum Sanctorum. Inside one. of the shoveling apprentices is played. by Emily Fong who worked production on. Infinity War, Endgame, Shang-Chi, and. Black Widow. Wong arrives and explains. how one of the rotunda gateways opened. to Siberia and let a blizzard in. We saw. those gateways in the 2016 film. I will. say the production of this movie went to. an insane amount of effort to freeze. over the Sanctum for just a left the. door open to Siberia gag. I'm wondering. with those flood waters pouring into the. Sanctum in the Multiverse of Madness. teaser this may be a bigger indicator of.

this reality destabilizing. Strange. floats in wearing a Columbia University. hoodie. Columbia is his alma mater. We. see another one of these hoodies. floating by the laundry machines. downstairs. And he's carrying a mug. reading "Oh for sake.". We learn that Wong actually holds the. rank of Sorcerer Supreme since Strange. blipped for 5 years. Since WandaVision. told us that Scarlet Witch's powers. surpass those of the Sorcerer Supreme. that might mean Strange might be even. lower on that sorcerer hierarchy than we. thought and might need her help even. more. Strange says that Peter's request.

to reverse time is selfish plus the time. stone [music] was atomized. But, Peter. says, quote, "It's not about me. I mean, this is really hurting a lot of people.". In doing so, Peter uses the same words. that the Ancient One used in her crucial. lesson to Strange. It's not about you. And so, Strange agrees to help him. Using a spell called the Runes of. Kafkal, not sure the spelling, but. Kafkal isn't from any of the comics that. I know of, but what Wong says the memory. wiping spell travels the dark border. between known and unknown realities, suggesting that to enact the spell, you.

have to kind of bridge with other. realities of the multiverse. And he. leads them through a portal. You can see. that bell tower in the background, that's actually in the Kamar-Taj. courtyard. Strange explains how the. Sanctum is built at an intersection of. cosmic energy currents, that they. weren't the first to seek this out with. walls thousands of years old, and that. they shot an episode of The Equalizer. there in the '80s. The spell goes crazy, and Peter shouts, "Basically, everyone. who knew that I was Spider-Man before. should still know." That is the rule by. which characters get warped into this. reality. Also suggesting that Kirsten. Dunst's Mary Jane, both Harry Osborn,

and several others might have also been. briefly walking around in the MCU. But, also tells us that Venom, through his. multiversal symbiote hive mind, must. have known that Peter is Spider-Man. Though, I didn't know when Electro found. out that Peter was Spider-Man, unless. there's some kind of Spider-Man Mandela. effect that I'm suffering from. It's. possible. As this purple void surrounds. them, Strange sees a glowing silhouette. that looks like the glowing arms of Doc. Ock, him being one of the characters. that are currently spilling into this. reality. So, Strange has to encase this. spell in a prism, similar to how Strange. and What If encased Killmonger, Infinity.

and Zola Ultron in a prism to contain. that reality-rupturing chaos. But, this. prism is a dodecahedron, which is made. up of pentagons with five sides and five. corners, because Peter changed his spell. five times. Strange thought it was six, but if you listen back, Peter changed it. for MJ, for Ned, for Aunt May, for. Happy, and then for everyone who knew. That's five. So, what was the sixth? Well, the sixth may have been a secret. change by Doctor Strange so that he. would still remember Peter, because he. loves him. At least that's my theory. Peter suits up in the Iron Spider armor. using extra wings to glide the bridge.

and inside his heads up display you can. read up in the corner Edith offline. Also the voice has changed to male and. that's because the D.O.D.C. has. confiscated and disabled all the drone. network. It's interesting that they did. not take this Iron Spider suit too, but. again when they raided his place that. suit was not [music] charging in the. port. So I don't know, maybe Peter tried. to flush the nanotech down the toilet. Now on this bridge there are a ton of. license plates and I can tell you folks. I looked at all of them because John. Watts loves to hide Easter eggs in his. license plates. The only ones I could. actually decode to mean anything were a. Nissan with SEYS1DP.

and earlier there was an anagram book on. Peter's shelf. So this plate rearranges. to Spidey's plural which could be a clue. for multiple Spidey's being in this. movie. And of course the MIT woman's car. is 6385M3. or 63 ASM3 for 1963 Amazing Spider-Man. number three, the comic debut of Doctor. Octopus who arrives on scene played once. more by Alfred Molina from the 2004. Spider-Man 2. He looks awesome. Composer. Michael Giacchino samples Danny Elfman's.

Doc Ock theme from that film and as his. claws smash through this bridge note. that the claws light up red which in. that 2004 film was how we knew when the. claws were controlling Otto's brain. So. this must have happened before Peter. converted him at which point the lights. flickered back white. Doc Ock brings up. his machine here, his fusion device that. he was working on in the movie. What have you done with my machine? And he quotes his line from the 2004. film, his whole goal. The power of the sun. in the palm of my hand. Now at one point you'll notice Peter. webs one of the claws to a car door to.

make it harder for Doc Ock to grab. anything else to throw at him. Doc Ock. pries off some of Peter's nanotech which. then absorbs onto his arms. So if you. remember back to the first Raimi film, Norman Osborn was an expert on nanotech. I'm something of a scientist myself. I. read all your research on. nanotechnology, really brilliant. And in the sequel Octavius built his. arms using Oscorp tech. I'd like to thank Harry Osborn and. Oscorp Industries for providing it. And he explained how he controls these. arms using a neural link.

These smart arms are controlled by my. brain through a neural link. Nano wires feed directly into my. cerebellum. And since the Stark nanotech is. controlled neurally as well, that would. allow Doc Ock's tech to be compatible. with it. However, that link goes both. ways, so Peter is able to pair with the. arms and control the arms remotely. And. then Auto snaps at his arms saying, "Listen to me." Calling back what he. said at the end of the 2004 film. Listen to me now. Then Green Goblin swoops in, but Doctor.

Strange portals them back to the crypt. where the Lizard is already contained. Doc Ock asks Strange if this is a. birthday party, just like Tony Stark. referenced Doctor Strange's Jimmy Kimmel. bit when they first met. What is your job exactly besides making. balloon animals? Peter enlists MJ and Ned. Ned asks. Doctor Strange, How did you know you were made of magic. because my my Nana says that we have it. in our family and sometimes I get these. tinglings in my hands. Should talk to your physician. Aha, and later Nana's home has a display. of ancient blades and Ned successfully. operates the sling ring, which surprises. Strange. So yes, it really does seem.

like Ned might have a future as a. sorcerer in the MCU. Then down in the. undercroft, there's all kinds of creepy. goodies. A doll turns its head at them. In the fridge are a bunch of creatures, a floating eyeball in a jar, a claw. creeping out from under foil. MJ finds a. goatee guard that Strange must use to. get his goatee perfectly shaved. And. then MJ goes on TikTok to find people on. homemade gliders replicating Green. Goblin, another with a frost giant. cosplay that reads, "I am the green. elf." And then at the end of this, they're finally able to track down. Electro. Repeater also finds Sandman.

battling Electro with his suit turned. inside out. Sandman helps Peter because. they were on good terms at the end of. the 2007 film, but Electro, Jamie Fox, now has a new body looking a bit cooler. And while Doctor Connors later calls it. out since they didn't know each other. while they worked at Oscorp in the same. continuity, this new body is never. really explained in the movie. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe, Norman Osborn, my favorite actor in this movie, argues. with his Goblin helmet, just as he would. in the 2002 film, but the argument ends. with him shattering the helmet, but even. after it shatters, the Goblin voice.

laughs, meaning breaking that helmet did. not destroy the identity, it just fused. it into Norman's soul. Notice the. framing of this broken mask as Norman. walks away matches the framing of Tobey. Maguire Peter leaving his suit behind in. the garbage can in the 2004 film. both. cases, the characters get dragged back. into the game. Peter returns to the. Feast facility, that's the homeless. center where Peter works in the comics. and in the games. Someone tagged the. sign outside with Mysterio was right in. a green circle over Peter's head, just. like Mysterio's fishbowl helmet. Inside, Norman plays a convincing mentally.

disturbed man saying, "Someone's at my. house. Oscorp doesn't exist. My son." He. trails off, referring to Harry Osborn, of course, but also telling us that. Oscorp, at least any company named that, is not currently in the MCU anywhere. Notice how he wears a green coat over. those purple sweats, Goblin's colors. Meanwhile, Aunt May's costume is worth. looking at. She's wearing a blue jumper. with a red sash. It could be. foreshadowing the bloody wound that. causes her death. Aunt May tells Peter. to help Norman. Peter says, "This isn't.

my problem," which she gets mad at him. over because it recalls Tobey Maguire. Peter's fateful decision not to. intervene, which led to Uncle Ben's. death. I missed the part where that's my. problem. J. Jonah Jameson's upgraded Daily Bugle. show, which is really thanks to his. Spider-Man coverage, now pushes. supplements, which is another jab at. Alex Jones. The Chiron reads, "Why does. Spider-Man hate national monuments?". Recalling the Washington Monument in. Homecoming and Tower Bridge in Far From. Home. Meanwhile, Otto Octavius recalls. the moment he warped, saying he had. Spider-Man by the throat, so this must. have happened right before Toby changed.

him in this moment in the film. These things have turned you into. something you're not. Don't listen to them. It was my dream. Sometimes, to do what's right, we have. to be steady and give up the thing we. want the most, even our dreams. You're right. Meanwhile, Max talks about being. absorbed into the grid, about to turn. into pure energy, recalling The Amazing. Spider-Man 2 when Peter and Gwen. hardwired Electro to that grid and. overloaded his chip. And then Lizard. asks Max if he dies, but he never gets. an answer, and that's because Lizard.

doesn't actually die in the 2012 film. He ends up locked up and approached to. join a future Sinister Six. So, Strange. shows them the box, the Machina. Dicatomas, in Latin roughly the division. machine, which he could use to send them. back to their universes. But Peter and. Strange debate over this. Strange says, [music] "In the grand calculus of the. multiverse, their sacrifice means. infinitely more than their lives." The. subtext, of course, being his guilt for. sacrificing Tony Stark as part of his. complex calculus from seeing 14 million. 605 future outcomes to defeat Thanos. If. you think about it, calculus was also.

the type of arithmetic on He Who. Remains' chalkboard. And I just find it. interesting that Peter overcomes Strange. by doing simpler geometry. It's still. super nerdy, just not overthinking it, doing as much 4D chess as those guys. are. So, Peter snatches the box and. Strange pursues him, trapping him. between portals so that he trips his own. foot. I love it. But then, he brings. Peter back to push his astral soul from. his physical body, similar to how the. Ancient One did to him. However, Peter's. soulless physical body still manages to. evade Strange. Interesting. This must be.

a higher form of the Spidey sense, which. would be a neurological reflex that is. divorced from Peter's conscious mind, but also shows us how this is really. linked to a kind of metaphysical magic. And later in the movie, Andrew Garfield. Peter does say, "Magic's real here, too." So, he might be aware of that link. as well. Strange sends the cloak of. levitation after Peter, giving us that. What If Spider-Man became the Sorcerer. Supreme image from the comics that we. also saw in the zombie episode of What. If. I love this detail. On a nearby. newsstand are People magazines with Liz.

Allan, Peter's crush from Spider-Man. Homecoming, daughter to Adrian Toomes. Vulture, calling Peter a liar. Showing. us that that family, including Vulture, is still somewhere in the multiverse and. could have shown up in Morbius. Don't. know how that's going to make sense. Strange traps Peter in the mirror. dimension. The VFX are incredible. Peter. tumbles past the High Line in New York. City, which Kate Bishop actually just. recommended to Yelena in Hawkeye. He. tumbles through a department store where. you can hear Christmas music playing. Peter tumbles toward the Bethesda. Fountain in Central Park. Actually looks. like the Angel of Water statue might.

have, like the Statue of Liberty, been. swapped out for an Avenger. Strange. traps Peter in an endless loop of. portals, creating the illusion of. infinite Spider-Man as there are. And. then Peter recognizes from the. Archimedean spiral that he can geometry. the out of this and trap Strange in. a web of math. And again, if you want a. way to really celebrate this awesome. magic versus math moment, you got to get. your hands on our exclusive Strange. Entanglement shirt at. newrockstarsmerch.com. Norman offers to. help Peter saying, "You know, I'm. something of a scientist myself." Of. course, this line from the 2002 movie.

You know, I'm something of a scientist. myself. Peter and Ned do their recurring. handshake and it ends with the sling. ring sparking a bit. A little sign that. Ned does have a kind of inner magic to. him. Peter takes them to Happy's condo. The security feed glitches as Electro. passes from his interference. And then. Auto snaps, "I don't need fixing, especially by some teenager using scraps. in a bachelor's drunk drawer." It's not. a drawer full of scraps. It's a. bunch of scraps. On the walls of Happy's room, you can. actually see the name Slott. That's a. reference to long-time Spider-Man writer.

Dan Slott. Peter activates the Stark. Tech Fabricator. We saw this kind of. device used on the Stark jet to design. his new suit in Far From Home. It's. powered by an arc reactor. This is a. familiar design. This is a new element. arc reactor Mark 1 with a triangular. inlay that Tony Stark constructed using. the new element he rediscovered in Iron. Man 2. I love that this is the era of. arc reactor he used because in. Spider-Man Homecoming, they specifically. had the Mark 42 armor that was using. that same generation of arc reactor from. Iron Man 3 on the Stark jet. So, that.

would be the one that Happy still has in. his possession. Meanwhile, Auto and May. share some water in the kitchen. They. did briefly date in the comics. Then. Peter designs a new inhibitor chip for. Doc Ock to replace the one that got. fried in the 2004 film. And he puts in. place these six needles that go into. Auto's skin and fuse with the spinal. cord. I love how they use the same exact. production design from the Raimi films. for all of these pieces of technology. They really clearly did their homework. to look at how all of these things. functioned. At this point, the red. lights on Doc Ock's claws flicker back. to bluish white. And he transfers the.

nanotech back to give him this golden. spider, eight arms just like his own. It's like giving him a badge of honor. there. Auto encourages his buddy Norman. that he's about to rid himself of his. darker half. But Norman, facing away. from him, says, "Just May." [music]. And Dafoe uses his darker Goblin voice. in this moment, meaning it is only. Goblin in his mind right now. And so. Peter's spidey sense kicks in, and he. just kind of wanders around the condo. It's super creepy. And notice [music] as. it begins, the first person to appear in. his periphery is Norman Osborn. And the.

first thing Peter says is, "May?" It's. his instinct telling him that Norman. will post a fatal threat to May. And so. Peter whips Norman to dummy, which as. they came into the condo, you could see. Norman in the background casing. So. Goblin makes his case to the other. villains. "These are not curses. These. are gifts." Recalling the final lines of. the 2002 film, the lesson that Tobey. Maguire Peter learned. This is my gift. My curse. When Peter had to rationalize his powers. as both a gift and a curse. The fight.

breaks out. Peter punches Goblin, and. Goblin just smiles more and more. He is. loving it. The combat is just so brutal. Apparently, Willem Dafoe insisted on. doing as many stunts as he could. himself. And downstairs, Goblin's glider. strikes May. And now that creepy face is. covered in a Hobgoblin style hood, and. he tosses a pumpkin bomb, which Peter. bats away, showing how this Goblin is. just as willing to bomb an Aunt May as. he was in the 2002 film. And as she. dies, May says the immortal words of. Uncle Ben, "With great power there must.

also come great responsibility." Yeah, there was a slight rewording and that's. because she said the original comic. wording of the line that includes, "There must also come" directly from. Stan Lee. Folks, that hit hard. So, to. cheer us up, Ned uses the sling ring to. portal to one of the other Peter Parkers. currently IN THIS UNIVERSE, SPIDER-MAN. ANDREW GARFIELD, a guy no one will ever. believe again in interviews. Notice the. music in this moment is actually. Horner's young Peter theme from The. Amazing Spider-Man film in 2012. And we. just got to pause and appreciate how.

great the Andrew Garfield era of the. Spider-Man suit was. I mean, it's. definitely my favorite aesthetically, great shade of blue, huge eyes, and a. true DIY practicality to it. One thing. that era nailed. But then, Ned portals. again and Tobey Maguire Peter Parker. steps in, his entrance set to Danny. Elfman's Spider-Man theme. And we got to. credit both Maguire and Garfield for so. deftly slipping back into their. mannerisms. Tobey is preemptively polite. and dopey. Andrew is post-mistake. apologetic and super chatty. And I also. like how their first instinct upon.

seeing each other is to thwip attack as. if the last time either of these guys. encountered a doppelganger might have. been a hostile situation. Tobey Peter. says that he'd like to hang out atop the. Chrysler Building as we saw his Peter. perch in the Raimi films. Andrew Peter. says he'd like the Empire State Building. for the view, but they find Peter on the. rooftop of his school in Queens. It's. not about the view, it's about a refuge. from his high school life because he. never moved into the city. Andrew Peter. starts to say he has some understanding. of losing someone, referring to letting. Gwen Stacy die. And he goes on to. describe what happened after Gwen's. death, how he stopped pulling his.

punches and got vengeful and bitter. So, apparently in that Garfield continuity, this Spider-Man might have straight up. killed people, which is an insane. revelation. [music] I'm going to explore. all that in another video. But, Tobey. Peter recounts the vengeance that he. felt that led him to track down Uncle. Ben's murderer and how in Spider-Man 3. that wound was reopened with Flint. Marko, exacerbated by Venom, a critical. lesson that he had to learn. And all. three recognized the words with great. power comes great responsibility, making. that proverb a kind of constant absolute. point among all the Spider-Men. They. return to the high school and work.

together to engineer cures for all of. them. I love how nerdy the second half. of this movie is. Toby Peter tells Ned. that his best friend died in his arms. after trying to kill him, referring to. Harry Osborn in Spider-Man 3. Meanwhile, Toby Peter tells Andrew Peter that he. and Mary Jane eventually made it work. Ned calls her Peter, and all three of. them look up, confusedly pointing at. each other. Of course, the nod to the. meme. Awesome. And Toby Peter shows how his webbing, unlike the others use mechanical web. shooters, comes freakishly out of his. wrists. I love how Andrew plays super. grossed out. And even when Tom Holland. moves the conversation along, he even.

continues staring at Toby's wrist for a. beat before he's like, "Oh, okay. Yeah, what?" And then on to the showdown at. the Statue of Liberty. Toby Peter's back. tenses up, a callback to Peter hurting. his back in the 2004 film, which itself. was an inside joke about how Toby nearly. sit out of the sequel after hurting his. back on Seabiscuit. And then Andrew. cracks it for him, for once cracking. someone's backbone without killing them. Toby talks about how he fought an alien. made out of black goo, of course. referring to Venom, his Eddie Brock. played by Topher Grace, and setting up. Tom Hardy Venom's arrival in the. post-credit scene. And then Tom Holland.

Peter talks about how he fought Thanos, and then Andrew's like, "I'm lame. I. only fought a Russian guy in a. rhinoceros suit." Of course, referring. to Paul Giamatti's Rhino. But I love it. Toby Peter talks him up, saying he's. actually amazing, giving Andrew Garfield. the credit he deserves. Despite his. Amazing Spider-Man era often ranked the. lowest by fans, he's still amazing. And. now he's got his brothers. But I love. how the first time these Peters try to. work together, it totally fails since. they are more used to being solo acts. So, while Andrew and Toby teach Tom how. to mourn and to forgive, Tom teaches. them the one thing his era of Spider-Man.

had that theirs didn't, cooperation with. superheroes more powerful than he is. At. one point, Toby just straight-up. screams, "HOW IS THIS HELPING?" AND. ANDREW Peter asks if the Avengers are a. band, calling back when Bruce Banner. asked if the Avengers broke up like the. Beatles. Avengers broke up. [music]. We're toast. Like a band? Like like the Beatles? But they're able to figure it out in a. little subtle detail here that I loved. During their heroic swing, Tom Holland. Peter whips two his two brothers to. sling them back up with him so that the. three of them can leap together off the.

Statue of Liberty head right at Electro. and Sandman and Lizard. Meanwhile, you. see how Electro's bolts at one point. fire up in a star shape around his head. like Electro's mask in the comics. Toby. Peter manages to revert Thomas Hayden. Church Flint Marko. I love how the. device lights up and spins the same way. the super collider did in Spider-Man 3. Then Lizard jumps into the portal with. Ned and MJ thrashing around that science. lab evoking that school battle in the. 2012 film. But then Doc Ock helps them. fix Electro and they hit Lizard with the. same serum gas that they used as the. reigning antidote at the end of the 2012. movie reverting him to Rhys Ifans Dr.

Connors. And Max Dillon tells Andrew. Garfield Peter that he thought he was. going to be black and that there's got. to be a black Spider-Man somewhere out. there definitely setting up Miles. Morales to step up sometime soon. hopefully since we do know from Aaron. Davis's lines in Homecoming that Miles. Morales does exist in the MCU. I don't want those weapons in this. neighborhood. I got a nephew who live. here. Yeah, sorry Miles. I'm not I'm not. going to make it. Then Green Goblin dives in snarling, "Can the Spider-Man COME OUT TO PLAY?". calling back his creepy line to Tobey.

Maguire Peter over the phone in the 2002. film. [laughter]. Can Spider-Man come out to play? And he bombs the box causing the spell. to spill out around Liberty Island. I. love how the VFX caused that tear to. turn something that should be in the. deep background feel like a canvas that. is way closer to us. And in this chaos, MJ slips and falls from the scaffolding. the framing exactly matching Gwen. Stacy's slow-mo death drop in 2014. scaring the hell out of all of us. Tom. Holland Peter dives after her, but he.

gets swiped by Goblin so it's up to. Andrew Garfield Peter to step up to. catch her redeeming his failure to save. Gwen, but they do it in a really cool. way because notice this time he focuses. more on the leap itself to catch her in. his arms instead of trying to snatch her. with his webbing, all to avoid that. whiplash that actually caused Gwen to. die, proving that this poor guy has been. obsessing over that decision every day. of his life. And that is why he sobs in. relief. Finally, we get another little. sorcerer set up for Ned when the cloak.

of levitation catches him. We actually. get a little leitmotif of Doctor. Strange's theme music there, too. Get. this man a cloak. And then, on the. fallen giant Captain America shield, Tom. Holland Peter and Goblin do get out, and. it is vicious. Peter prepares to kill. Goblin, lifting his glider to bring down. on him the same way Captain America. nearly killed Iron Man in Civil War, using the tool that Peter is now. standing on. This kid is moments away. from going full John Walker, but Tobey. Maguire Peter jumps in, grabs the. glider, even though Tom Holland Peter.

shoves that glider even closer to him. Ultimately, he helps him see the light. and to make a different choice, and so. Tom Holland proves his change by hitting. Norman with the anti-serum and giving. him a second chance. Meanwhile, the sky. opens up to dozens of glowing. silhouettes, presumably other characters. who know Peter Parker as Spider-Man from. other universes. One of them holds a. spear, looks like Kraven the Hunter. Others match the shape of Rhino. There's. another one that kind of looks like. Scorpion. I'm going to go deeper into. these in another video, too. So, Peter. and Doctor Strange realize that the only. way to seal up these cracks is to.

complete the memory wipe spell as it was. intended, meaning everyone will forget. Peter is Spider-Man. Notice how, whereas. the runes before were thinner, more. rushed written, here they are bolder and. more authoritative, like the runes cast. by Scarlet Witch in the WandaVision. final battle. So, Tobey and Andrew make. their final goodbyes, and Tobey says, "It's what we do," recalling how Aunt. May justified why you should help. people. And Peter explains it all to MJ, and he promises he will come find her. Just reminds me a lot of that theme from. Eternal Sunshine, how love is too. powerful of a force to be bound by. memory. And MJ tells Peter that she.

loves him, but she doesn't let him say. it back to her, wagering that the The. time he can say it to her on the other. side, it'll be so pure and real that. that could be the thing that awakens. her. And then so, after the spell is. complete, the world continues to know. that Spider-Man exists, but the name. Peter Parker means nothing to them. This. is crazy because it means that Ned and. MJ still made it into MIT, but with no. physical evidence of Peter Parker's. history with them. So, in addition to. brainwashing everyone's memories, this. spell must also have warped all of. reality to erase documents, any kind of.

digital records, any physical mark that. Peter Parker left on the world. I mean, does the guy have a birth certificate? Social Security card? I would say that. that should have to necessitate a new. history to be conjured to replace the. Peter history that was erased. But, and. I hate to point this out, but if you. think about it, Peter was often absent. from his major events in his life. From. his homecoming dance, from his field. trips, from his school competitions. He. was blipped for 5 years. It's depressing. to realize this, but his erasure is not. that disruptive to his friends' lives. I. mean, essentially this just means MJ and.

Ned spent more of their teenage years. alone, which for MJ, reading a book by. herself is just kind of who she is. Ned. tinkering with his Legos is who he is. I. mean, yeah, it's sadder the more you. think about it, but it's true. That's. why Peter makes the sacrifice because he. knows his loved ones can get by without. him. And so, when he finds them back in. the Peter Pan coffee shop, himself a. kind of Peter Pan stuck watching kids. grow up and move on without him. However, MJ still wears the black dahlia. necklace. So, somewhere deep down, she. still loves him. And the coffee cup she.

gives him reads, "We are happy to serve. you." A cup that he holds on to to. remind himself to serve. we actually saw. the Sanctum apprentice with one of those. coffee cups earlier when she was trying. to fix that same artifact that Thor also. broke in Ragnarok. That cup also showed up on the dashboard. of the tracksuit mafia in Hawkeye. episode 5. And Peter almost says to MJ, "I love you," but he stops himself and. he waits upon seeing the band-aid. because he doesn't want to hurt MJ. anymore. So, to protect her for now, he. walks away. Peter visits May's grave.

You'll notice the flowers over the birth. and death dates. I guess because as Tony. Stark observed when he first met May in. Civil War, we never do quite know how. old May is. Happy shows up, doesn't know. who Peter is, but he compares this. feeling to losing Tony. And Peter sets. up his new apartment. I am praying that. they can find a way to make Mr. Ditkovich his landlord. You'll notice he. has a GED test prep book, and that's. because this guy has no academic record. anymore. Also, we see he sets up his. Palpatine Lego, which was the first we. saw of Ned Leeds back in Homecoming. And. he wears a new suit with brighter blues. and swings out past 30 Rockefeller.

Center, where the upcoming finale of. Hawkeye will be set. I don't think we'll. see Spider-Man swinging in the. background of that, but a guy can dream. Being a stranger to the community Peter. Parker relied on is so painful, but it. does force this kid to mature into the. selfless hero that his forebearers. showed him how to be. At times, the life. of a hero is a lonely one, but all those. people are still there, and they may not. remember, but they still love him. And. one day, he will find his way home. That. is everything I found in this. heart-wrenching and beautiful Spider-Man. film, but there's so much more to say.

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