- Hello, friends, Spider-Man: Far From Home is in theaters,
giving us our first taste of MCU life post Avengers Endgame.
This week on Heat Vision Breakdown,
we look at all the twists and turns in the new film
and what they mean for the broader Marvel Universe.
Be warned, if you haven't seen Far From Home,
then ghost this video like it's Nick Fury
calling you with a mission because, yes,
this video does contain spoilers.
Alfred, he's our editor, not Batman's butler,
can we get the spoiler siren going please?
(alarms sound)
Thank you.
(electric guitar riffs)
All right, before we go any further,
can we preemptively nominate Ned and Betty
for the MTV Movie Award for Most Adorable Couple?
Is that a category?
You should make it one, MTV, and then give it to them.
Okay, sorry, I should probably talk about Spider Man now.
Following the events of Endgame,
Spider Man is mourning Tony Stark.
Aren't we all.
And like the Hulk in Infinity War,
is a little scared to go out there and be a hero.
It gets worse when Tony grants him access to Edith,
an extremely powerful A.I. that Quentin Beck,
a.k.a. Mysterio,
tricks Peter into handing over.
Why would you ever trust a guy named Quentin?
Mysterio then precedes to beat Spider Man up
for roughly 90 minutes of screen time
until Peter finally wins,
with help from his Peter tingle.
Yeh.
So things are looking great, Peter's dating MJ,
Aunt May is consciously uncoupled with Happy,
and Ned is still his guy in the chair.
Unfortunately for Peter,
but to the delight of audiences,
J.K. Simmons is back as J. Jonah Jameson.
Though this time around,
he's an Alex Jones-esque figure and The Daily Bugle
is a fringe conspiracy theory publication.
More like The Daily Bungle, am I right, guys?
(machine grinding)
- [Cameraman] No.
- Jameson publishes a video Mysterio took before his death,
one that appears to show Spidey giving an order
to use Edith to execute members of the public, that liar.
And the video also reveals something quite shocking,
Mysterio unveiling Spider Man's identity
as high school kid Peter Parker.
(people gasping)
I know, right?
This is quite a game-changer for Spider Man.
The MCU has bucked superhero movie tradition
by doing away with secret identities
what with "I am Iron Man" becoming the most famous line
in the 23 film saga, so far.
But Spidey has always remained anonymous.
Throughout his comic book history,
a number of folks from heroes to villains,
have known Peter's secret,
but he was only unmasked to the public once
in his nearly 60 years of history
in the 2006 to 2007 Civil War storyline.
So what does an unmasked Peter Parker mean for the future?
It's possible that he could deny triple J as fake news,
after all, the Daily Bugle is a conspiracy rag.
In the comics, Matt Murdock was once outed as Daredevil,
and while some members of the public believed the outing,
he maintained he was simply a blind lawyer
and went about his life.
Could Peter continue going to school
and try to live a normal life as rumors swirled about him?
Anytime he went to the bathroom for too long
I imagine people would start to question things.
Another option, perhaps he goes full time
with a new Avengers team.
He could continue his studies,
perhaps under the tutelage of Bruce Banner,
or some other super smart mentor Nick Fury hires for him,
all the while going on big adventures, like Pee Wee.
(energetic xylophone music)
The second post credit scene of Far From Home
was potentially an even bigger move,
one that hints at the overall future of the MCU.
It's revealed that Maria Hill and Nick Fury
were actually Skrulls the entire movie.
(imitates bomb exploding)
With Ben Mendelsohn's Captain Marvel character
calling Fury to tell him that their plans
to give Peter Edith somewhat went awry.
Nice going, Talos, you green idiot.
We cut to Fury who appears to be on a beach
but is actually on a ship full of Skrulls,
apparently overseeing some sort of big operation.
So, what's going on?
Here's a few options.
Perhaps Fury has taken on a roll
revealed in 2014's Original Sin comic book,
in which we found out the one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander
had secretly been Earth's first line of defense,
going about the galaxy looking for threats
that could harm his planet.
Or perhaps Fury is helping prepare for a Kree-Skrull war.
After all, Captain Marvel established
that there are Kree bad guys out there
oppressing poor Skrulls.
Jerks.
Jude Law's Kree solider is still alive,
after all, for all we know,
and he doesn't seem like a guy who takes defeat in stride.
In the comics, the story line
saw the Kree-Skrull Galactic War hit Earth,
with the Avengers caught up in it.
So he might be setting the pieces
for such a confrontation to happen in the film.
Little is known about Marvel's upcoming slate.
There are films like Black Widow, Eternals,
Shang Chi, Black Panther 2, Dr. Strange 2,
and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three all in the works.
But we don't know where this Nick Fury storyline fits in.
Is it part of a build up that will take 10 years?
I mean Sam Jackson would be in his 80s by then.
For the love of Feige,
somebody tell me what's going on here.
(thud)
Hey, Spider Man.
Oh my god, can you tell us what's happening in the MCU?
- No, can you validate my parking, though?
- I don't validate parking.
(beep) So what do you guys think Spider-Man: Far From Home
means for the Marvel Cinematic Universe going forward?
What does it mean that Peter Parker's identity
has been revealed?
Are you a little annoyed that the multi-verse theory
that we've all been talking about
turned out to be complete bull(beep)?
Let us know in the comments, right down there.
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(static buzzing)
(upbeat string instrument)
- [Spider Man] Hey, you forgot to push the button.
- Oh, thanks Spider Man.
- [Spider Man] Of course.
(upbeat string instrument)
(elevator dings)
Going down.
(upbeat string instrument)