– If we are allowed to jump all the way to the end of the movie, the apartment Peter moves into in midtown looks an awful lot like the apartment Tobey Maguire ate cake and battled doorknobs in during the last two-thirds of his Spider-Man trilogy. In the Marvel Zombies episode of What If…?, Spider-Man wore the cape prominently enough to get an action figure for it. – Spider-Man briefly gets to wear the Doctor Strange cape. One of these days the MCU will give us some actual Mephisto moments. As the movie is loosely inspired by One More Day, it only makes sense that we get some kind of devil reference. – Protesters use devil imagery over Peter’s face. It’s generally considered canon that Peter got his powers when he was 15 years old. – Peter is now 17 and he and the rest of the Homecomingcrew are all high school seniors now. Jonah Jameson as a “high school delinquent” which, well…there has never been a LESS “delinquent” depiction of Peter Parker in ANY medium than the way the MCU has presented him. Is it our imagination, or do they really up the volume/linger on the tidbit about Spider-Man wanting to be the “new Iron Man,” something which, until this movie at least, did at least seem to be the trajectory they were trying to put Peter on. – The Marvel logo unfurls over the sound of news reports that serve as a quick recap of the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home. Here are the many, many references and easter eggs sprinkled throughout Peter’s crazy, magical adventure into the multiverse, which leaves him with No Way Home. Thanks to an ill-advised team-up with a wizard, heroes and villains from other continuities and past movie franchises show up, including a bizarre cameo from a drunken wild card trying to make sense of this madness. In what we can best describe as the end of the “Son of Stark” era of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, our hero goes big. Spider-Man reaches the end of a trilogy, which in its way now feels like the culmination of a trilogy of Spider-Man sagas. This article contains Spider-Man: No Way Home spoilers as well as potential spoilers for the wider MCU.
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