No Way Home's Cut Tobey Maguire & Green Goblin Rematch Is Disappointing
Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin nearly had a rematch in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but the scene was disappointingly cut. The crowd-pleasing third entry in the MCU’s Spider-Man films saw the return of characters from both previous film franchises, including Sam Raimi’s comic-accurate iterations of Spider-Man and his greatest nemesis, the Green Goblin. While Tom Holland’s MCU Spider-Man had brutal battles against Dafoe’s Norman Osborn and Andrew Garfield faced off against both of his foes in one-on-one fights, the film missed an opportunity to have Marvel’s greatest live-action villain face off against his universe’s Spider-Man.
The MCU received its greatest supervillain when Doctor Strange’s botched reality-warping spell brought Norman Osborn and other alternate universe characters into the MCU. Stephen Strange and Spider-Man weren’t quite prepared for the sheer menace of Raimi’s Green Goblin, who murdered Peter Parker’s Aunt May and nearly collapsed the multiverse with a well-placed pumpkin bomb. Thanks to the alternate universe “Peter-2” and “Peter-3,” however, the MCU’s Spider-Man had the help he needed to defeat five supervillains without killing any of them.
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The No Way Home featurette “Three Big Bad” includes behind-the-scenes footage of the film, including one brief moment where the Green Goblin and “Peter-2” (Tobey Maguire’s iteration of Spider-Man) stand atop the Goblin Glider in the middle of a fight. No such scene made it to the film’s theatrical cut, which is disappointing since Andrew Garfield’s “Peter-3” had moments where he clashed with (or spoke to) his universe’s villains, while Holland’s MCU Spider-Man had
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