Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man Being Peter #3 Is Deeper Than You Realize
Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man is given the nickname of «Peter #3» in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and this actually means quite a lot. No Way Home united Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland's Spideys with its multiversal story of the two original Spider-Men and several of their villains being pulled into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The trio of Spider-Men team up to send the villains home, but in order to do so, the three develop a communication method to work better together.
Holland's Spider-Man designates himself as «Peter #1,» with Maguire being «Peter #2,» and Garfield receiving his aforementioned Peter #3 title, and this works on a few different levels in setting up a kind of character shorthand for each Spider-Man. To begin, Peter #1's numerical title for each Spider-Man is a subtle ranking of the total cinematic appearances each one has made as of No Way Home from most to least, with Holland having played Peter Parker in six movies, Tobey Maguire appearing in four, and Andrew Garfield in three. Andrew Garfield's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man specifically being Peter #3 captures quite a bit about his history in the role.
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In having the fewest number of Spider-Man performances of the three, Garfield's Peter #3 entered No Way Home with not only the least cumulative backstory, but also with the most to prove. This is due to Garfield's last pre-No Way Home appearance being in 2014's The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which concluded his Spider-Man tenure (at the time) on what many felt to be less than a high note. With his return in No Way Home, Peter #3 was given a second chance that, absent the film invoking Marvel's Multiverse, would
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