No Way Home's Deleted Villain Scene Would've Added To A Weird MCU Trend
Among the deleted scenes from Spider-Man: No Way Home, one scene involving the multiversal villains, Peter Parker, and Aunt May in an elevator would have continued a curious MCU trend had stayed in the film. Months after a resounding success at the box office, No Way Home is heading for audiences’ homes with a digital release. As it is common in this situation, scenes that didn't make it to the final cut are being released as bonus features.
No Way Home's deleted elevator scene would take place between Peter's escape from Doctor Strange's Sanctum bringing all the multiversal villains with him and the arrival of the curious group at Happy's apartment. Even though it’s a fun moment that plays with the absurd context of the ocasion, it makes sense that the scene was cut. The arrival of the villains at Happy's apartment was supposed to be a moment of rising tension, something that could have been muddled with a quick, no-dialogue comedy scene.
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Had it been kept in the movie, No Way Home's elevator scene would have joined a surprising number of MCU elevator scenes. The most famous would be the one from Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Steve Rogers boards an elevator packed with Hydra's secret agents whose mission is to prevent Captain America from leaving the facility. Although restricted to the space of an elevator, Captain America and his enemies performed incredible moves and helped to mark Winter Soldier as one of the films with the best hand-to-hand combat in the franchise. The elevator idea would be used again in Avengers: Endgame, in which Steve Rogers once more boards an elevator along with some of the same faces from Hydra — except
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