No Way Home's Original Maguire & Garfield Intro Would've Been Much Worse
Spider-Man: No Way Home brought together all three live-action Spider-Men thanks to the multiverse chaos provoked by Peter Parker and Doctor Strange, and the introduction of the previous two versions of Spider-Man – Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield – was originally much worse and would have deeply affected the movie. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is currently in its highly-anticipated Phase 4, which is exploring new themes and concepts that will mark the course of this new era of content, and the biggest one so far is the multiverse. This was addressed in the TV series Loki, which introduced the concept of variants, but it was explored a bit deeper in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which made past Spider-Man movies and characters MCU canon.
Spider-Man: No Way Home picks up minutes after the ending of Spider-Man: Far From Home, where Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) framed Spider-Man (Tom Holland) for his murder and revealed his identity. In an effort to keep his loved ones safe, Peter asked Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to cast a spell that would make everyone forget he’s Spider-Man, but the spell was botched, and instead, it opened the gates of the multiverse. This allowed villains from past Spider-Man movies to cross over to the MCU (as were the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Lizard, and Electro), and as rumored and speculated, it also brought Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s versions of Peter Parker/Spider-Man to the MCU.
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As Holland’s Peter dealt with the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) and the death of Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), Ned (Jacob Batalon) discovered he could open portals with Strange’s sling ring, which he took when they trapped the
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