Maguire & Garfield Universes Don't Have Avengers, But DO Have Other Heroes
Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s iterations of Spider-Man are confused by Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Avengers reference, but that doesn’t mean that the older Spider-Man variants don’t have other Marvel superheroes in their respective realities. No Way Home features the long-awaited return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s web-slingers, where they work alongside Tom Holland’s MCU Spider-Man to repair a damaged multiverse. The two are unfamiliar with The Avengers, but material from their respective franchises includes other heroes, though perhaps not The Avengers as they appeared in the MCU.
In one of the most crowd-pleasing MCU films since Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home unites three generations of cinematic Spider-Man iterations when an awry reality-altering spell brings Maguire and Garfield’s iterations (and some of their respective supervillains) into the MCU. In a film full of humor and fan service, one moment involved the three heroes struggling to work as a team, prompting Tom Holland’s Spider-Man to mention his Avengers membership. Maguire and Garfield’s Spider-Man variants react to the reference with confusion, with Garfield’s version asking if The Avengers is a band.
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Despite both previous versions of Spider-Man being unfamiliar with The Avengers in No Way Home, their respective franchises feature canonical non-movie material that acknowledges the existence of other Marvel superheroes. Through video games, spinoff comics, and novelizations (none of which were contradicted by No Way Home), the Sam Raimi and The Amazing Spider-Man continuities include Marvel superheroes, some of whom are members of The Avengers. What this implies is
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