What Worked For Spider-Man: No Way Home Won't Work For The Rest Of The MCU
It’s safe to say that the Marvel franchise had a pretty great year, starting with WandaVision and ending with Spider-Man: No Way Home in December. No Way Home was the perfect way to close out the year, making it one of the biggest Marvel projects to date.
As of right now, No Way Home is currently the fourth-biggest movie of all time in the United States, according to box office reports, with the only other Marvel movie topping it being Avengers: Endgame. The return of Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire played a large part in making the film a success, with the help of other actors like Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina.
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Along with a compelling plot and the convergence of the Spider-Verse, the cast and characters were one of the biggest draws of the movie. The fact that Spider-Man has warranted three different reboots is a testament in and of itself as to how popular the web-slinging character is, and Spider-Man is certainly one of the most well-known Marvel heroes ever created.
Each Spider-Man series has its highs and lows, although the overall response from fans has been more positive than negative. Given the success of all three Spider-Man series on their own, bringing all the Peter Parkers together in a single timeline worked well for the MCU, because each actor/character is popular with audiences.
So despite the incredible results this strategy produced in No Way Home, it probably won’t work for any other Marvel movies in the future. For starters, Marvel has a habit of overusing plot points that have worked well for them in the past. The “fake death” plot line, for example, started to become predictable after killing
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