Spider-Man (2002) Is A Way Better Entry Point Into The MCU Than Iron Man
thegamer.comI'll kick things off by stating the obvious. If you're one of the 50 people who hasn't seen Spider-Man: No Way Home and you have no how managed to come this far without it being spoiled, then look away now. Oh, one more thing, if you're holding out until it comes to Disney+, I've got some bad news for you: it isn't. Anyway, now that's out of the way, as the seven billion of you still reading this know very well, No Way Home delivered on its secret promise and gave Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield one more chance to swing around in red and blue spandex.
At least, one more chance for now. Their performances were so good, fans are hoping both Spideys return to the big screen as their respective web-slingers again now the multiverse has been busted open. Having Garfield clash with Venom in The Amazing Spider-Man 3 seems like a logical next step, while I'm personally hoping Maguire gets a Logan-style sendoff in the Spider-Man 4 we should have got more than a decade ago. Speaking of Maguire, in particular, now that his Spider-Man has appeared in the MCU, I've been wondering where the Marvel Cinematic Universe now canonically begins.
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Pinpointing the start of the MCU isn't like arguing which was the first Pokemon. It's Iron Man. Released in 2008, the film marked the start of a franchise that is now more than 20 movies and multiple TV shows deep. That is, until Maguire and Garfield showed up. All three of Maguire's Spidey movies hit the big screen before Robert Downey Jr. ever cobbled together his first Iron Man suit in a cave, so if you ask me, the start of the MCU can now be traced all the way back to 2002.
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