Why Spider-Man's Success Could Be Bad For The MCU
Spider-Man: No Way Home has opened the doors for many new upcoming Spider-Man movies both inside and outside of the MCU, but its success could mean unexpected challenges for the MCU. With the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down theaters for months in 2020, cinemas have had to limp back into something resembling normalcy. 2021 saw numerous movies begin to do strong business in theaters again, such as A Quiet Place 2 and F9, but nothing compared to the historic success ofSpider-Man: No Way Home.
No Way Home opens Marvel's Multiverse with numerous villains from other villains pouring in after a spell gone wrong by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). The spell also brings over two other Spider-Men, played by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, and with Tom Holland's Spidey, the three set about de-powering the villains in order to send everyone home. By the end of No Way Home, Holland's Spider-Man faces a new challenge in a world where the memory of Peter Parker has been wiped out. This sets up the MCU's Spider-Man 4, but that's far from the only Spider-Man project in the works.
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By way of employing the Multiverse as a core concept of its story, No Way Home leaves the door open for both Maguire and Garfield's individual Spider-Man series to also be revived. There's already considerable indication that No Way Home is just the beginning of each suiting up again, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Sony also has numerous other webslinger-related projects in the works, and the quantity of these along with the general adoration of Spider-Man could make the wall-crawler into an actual MCU competitor.
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