Andrew Garfield Is Wrong: His Spider-Man Is The Best In No Way Home

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Spider-Man: No Way Home was full of crowd-pleasing moments, but one of the biggest surprises was Andrew Garfield stealing the show as the movie's best Spider-Man. In the past, Marvel fans criticized Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man because he was simply too cool as Peter Parker. Spider-Man: No Way Home showed otherwise in the long-conflicted Spidey's return to the big screen.

Gwen Stacy's death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2pushed Peter Parker into complete darkness from the accumulated guilt of Uncle Ben and Gwen's deaths. He temporarily quit as Spider-Man, and when he eventually returned, it was a far more brutal version of himself, revealing that he stopped pulling his punches. Gwen's death destroyed Peter's sense of morality along with whatever teenage innocence was left after Uncle Ben's death. Peter's perception of himself changed too, becoming riddled with self-doubt while seeing himself as a failure. It would be an understatement to say Gwen's death was a tragedy for Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man.

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Once Garfield's Peter Parker was magically summoned into the universe inhabited by Tom Holland's Peter Parker #1 in Spider-Man: No Way Home, it became clear Peter #3 was still not himself. Even at his worst, he provided so much of the movie's comedy with quick-witted quips and an excessive number of self-deprecating jokes, even by MCU standards. Eventually, Tobey Maguire's Peter #2 had a little pep talk with Peter #3 and told him he was wrong about being the worst right before the climactic final battle, culminating in a cheesy "You're amazing" joke. It was really foreshadowing because later, Peter #3 was so amazing he finally took the crown as No Way