Amazing Spider-Man Theory: No Way Home Curing Electro Saves Gwen Stacy
Andrew Garfield’s version of Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man movies may have saved Gwen Stacy’s life in a new timeline created in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy’s relationship was a key part of Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man duology, with the two meeting and gradually falling in love as the former took on the role of New York’s superpowered protector. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 adapted, among other stories, the Death of Gwen Stacy story arc from the Spider-Man comics, resulting in a heartbreaking loss that continues to haunt Garfield’s Peter Parker years later when he’s transported to the MCU. Garfield’s Spider-Man, nicknamed “Peter-3,” defeats his enemies (and those of two other Spider-Man variants) by “curing” them of their powers and sending them back home redeemed, but one such resolution could have also saved the life of Gwen Stacy.
After defeating Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Harry Osborn, now the Green Goblin, quickly appears, seeing Spider-Man with Gwen Stacy and realizing that the web-slinger is his former best friend, Peter Parker. During the ensuing fight, Spider-Man tries to save Gwen from falling to her death but fails, an event that breaks his heart. As revealed in No Way Home, Peter tried to move on and continued to help others as Spider-Man, but he became more brutal over time as he was consumed by grief. Peter still likely replays the scenario in his head many times, as he uses a different method to rescue MJ from a similar fate in No Way Home, successfully saving her life.
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