No Way Home: Garfield’s Funny Avengers Comment Is Secretly A Dig At The MCU

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Andrew Garfield makes a funny remark about the Avengers in Spider-Man: No Way Home which is really a dig at the MCU. The actor revisited his Marvel role after unexpectedly ending his The Amazing Spider-Man film series in the mid-2010s. While the actor doesn't have any personal grievances about what happened, his on-screen persona in Jon Watts' Spider-Man: No Way Home made a subtle but on-point criticism of the Avengers.

Plans for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 were scrapped after the disappointing response toThe Amazing Spider-Man 2. That led to Sony's collaboration with Marvel Studios resulting in Tom Holland's casting as MCU's Spider-Man. Despite the lackluster performance of his films, however, there was a general consensus that Garfield was good in the role. Fans were reminded of that when he reprised the role in Spider-Man: No Way Home where he arguably stole every scene that he was in. One of his most humorous bits included a comment about not knowing about the Avengers and comparing them to a band after Holland's wall-crawler talked about being part of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

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As funny as this comment was, it's actually a subtle criticism at the MCU's Avengers. In Avengers: Infinity War, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) informed Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) that the team «broke up.» Hulk's alter-ego, confused, asked if he meant «like a band? Like The Beatles?» But that shouldn't be the case. The Avengers have a sworn responsibility to protect Earth from threats. They can't just disband if they encounter internal conflicts. Instead, they need to move past it to continue doing their jobs. Garfield's quip about this in Spider-Man: No Way Home