Hey everyone, I'm The Canadian Lad and I just watched the official trailer of Spider-Man:
No Way Home at 0.25x speed.
I can't put into words what I was actually feeling while watching the trailer for the
first time!
And I love how Jon Watts the director of the movie has shared the trailer on Instagram
like this along with a caption that says "The way the director intended"
Now I'm gonna be breaking down scene-by-scene so I might spoil a lot of the movie for you,
so if you want a clean experience in the theater, I'd suggest you click away right now.
If not, then let's just jump into it.
So the trailer opens with MJ and Peter talking to each other on a rooftop.
MJ is holding a newspaper and reading a specific article that says "People suggest that one
of Peter Parker's powers includes the male spider's ability of hypnotizing women"
This is sort of foreshadowing what is about to unfold in the trailer.
By the middle of the movie, Peter will essentially make Doctor Strange hypnotize the entire world
into forgetting his alter identity.
Now there are a couple of details I found in this scene.
Notice MJ is using her backpack as her pillow but Peter is only using a book.
This is because Peter lost his backpack in Spider-Man: Far From Home, which actually
keeps happening again and again due to his line of work.
-CUT SCENE- Now the front page of the newspaper not only
talks about Peter Parker and his secret identity of Spider-Man,
but notice it also painted Ned and MJ both as accomplices in Peter's crimes.
Now, MJ and Peter lying around on a roof-top could be another call-back to the original
MJ and Peter from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3.
Umm, one last detail from this scene would be this graffiti on the wall behind Peter
and MJ.
It says Ditko.
Now Steve Ditko co-created both Spider-Man and Doctor Strange and now we're finally getting
a solo movie where these two are together.
But in the hindsight it could be a reference to Mr. Ditkovich.
-CUT SCENE- We then see Spider-Man and MJ flying around
New York.
Now this is after the big Mysterio reveal.
Just like they were swinging around the city before getting the shocking news, now they're
both trying to get somewhere safe!
I kinda feel bad for MJ who said this at the end of Far From Home:
-CUT SCENE- But now is being forced to take a ride again
with Peter in order to escape from the police.
Now notice, MJ was so scared, she was literally blocking Peter's view with her hands.
We get a voice-over from J. Jonah Jameson played by J.K. Simmons says that Spider-Man
is in fact Peter Parker.
MJ and Peter then fly past this picture of Peter which is half him and half Spider-Man.
This could again be directly taken from comics and it matches with the merchandising of the
film as well.
We then see Peter now in a Police station where this could be Matt Murdock aka Daredevil.
He does possess a similar sort of physique and the way Marvel totally avoided showing
us his face, kinda tells us something!
So the plot leaks could turn out to be true and this may as well be Matt himself, who
came here to defend Peter.
We then see Peter handcuffed to a desk which I find pretty funny considering Peter has
enough strength to take down this entire station by himself but he chose to comply with the
law.
And notice he's actually in his sweat pants which tells us the Police didn't give him
any time, they just apprehended him.
Now Peter keeps saying "he did not kill Mysterio" the drones did.
Which is exactly what happened.
But, the police of course still accuses Peter of the murder and says "But the drones are
yours".
Which also makes sense because the drones were essentially his, he was the chosen one
by Tony Stark to take control of the drones.
So inadvertently when a crime is committed through these drones, Peter is gonna be the
prime suspect.
Especially when there's fabricated proof showing that Peter really ordered the kill on Mysterio.
And I love the t-shirt Tom is wearing here that says "Physics is theoretical but the
Fun is real" Just like the theory of the Multiverse in
real life.
It's all theoretical but it surely sounds a lot fun.
Cut to MJ lying in her bed and is on a video call with Peter.
And none of them are using headphones, I mean c'mon you gotta use headphones with your partner,
you know what I mean!
Now we do see a lot of sketches of people just hanging around near MJ's bed.
This is a great continuity detail as we've seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming that MJ used
to make sketches of people during her detention in school.
Precisely, this sketch that she made of Coach Wilson, this sketch is right here on the wall
as well.
Now another awesome continuity detail I found is this picture.
Even though it's not that clear, but we can make out that there are a lot of pigeons in
the picture.
And when did MJ come across a lot of pigeons in one place?
Exactly, when she went on this school trip to Rome and Brad Davis took this picture of
her.
So this exact same photo has now been framed and MJ hanged it on her wall.
She has a lot of books in her room as well as a few just beside her bed.
Which again aligns perfectly with her character.
Now MJ asks Peter "Doesn't a part of you feel relieved about all this?"
So basically she is trying to see the brighter side of this whole fiasco.
However Peter says he lies about his identity to keep everyone around him safe.
And for the record, he never lied to MJ because he wanted to, he lied to her because he had
to.
Now notice Peter is lying on a couch, while MJ is in bed.
This tells me Peter is still on the run during this scene.
He's staying somewhere else for safety, perhaps at a F.E.A.S.T facility.
I'll talk more about it in a minute.
Cut to outside of a courthouse where Peter, Ned, MJ and probably Flash Thompson are being
taken for trial.
Now Flash over here looks a lot different.
Mostly because of his blonde hair, now in the comics his character was actually blonde.
I love how comic-accurate things are getting as we move forward.
Now it's nice to see Flash standing up beside Peter as he has been a die-hard fan of Spider-Man.
So knowing that Peter is in fact Spider-Man, I guess he changed his view about Peter and
decided to amend things with him.
Now with all this media coverage, this is surely a very high profile case which is not
good news for Peter Parker.
Now notice, outside the court, among all these news reporters, one of them is Betty Brant
played by Angourie Rice.
I wasn't sure if this was really her until I saw the next scene where we can clearly
see her name on the TV at the school.
Now that's some promotion, going from beginner level journalism to actual journalism.
Now I have no clue why Peter would go to school so soon after such a big incident
but notice he's wearing the same shirt here that he was wearing while going to the court.
So it could be that Peter came to his school and then was taken to the court.
Cut to the next scene where Peter and Aunt May are watching the Daily Bugle.
Now judging by the looks on their face, someone has clearly walked into their room and they're
not sure what to do about it.
Now I think this could either be Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker.
Given the flash of bright red in the window across the room as it plays out.
Now, I should add there's a similar red flare behind the red table lamp as well, so perhaps
it's merely the lamp being reflected as the camera enters the room and changes perspective.
However, the dimensions and positioning of the two red flashes aren't exactly the same
as the lampshade, as one would expect in a reflection.
Thanks to Ian Hayward for sending me this awesome piece of detail.
But I personally think these red flare are the police waiting outside.
Because if you notice Peter's clothes, he's wearing the same sweats and t-shirt that we've
seen him wear inside the police station.
So this is probably moments before Peter's arrest.
We see both Ned and Aunt May also being questioned by the Police.
Cut to Peter who gets the idea of asking for help from Doctor Strange seeing these wizard
lights from some Halloween decoration.
We get a voice-over from Peter saying "this isn't about me, this is hurting a lot of people".
This one line is enough to tell just how big of a superhero Peter Parker has become.
Doctor Strange had to spend an entire movie learning this lesson.
-CUT SCENE- Which Peter learned already whilst still being
a teenager.
Cut to the Sanctum Sanctorum where Stephen Strange welcomes Peter and asks what is the
matter!
Now of course this whole sanctum is drowned with snow which may have a funny reason behind
it, and that is Bruce Banner making this huge hole in the sanctum during the events of Infinity
War.
With Strange snapped away, there wasn't anybody to repair this hole in the sanctum.
But what bugs me here is that Strange can literally make fire out of nothing through
magic and still he is making someone else shovel the snow.
But that's not the biggest issue here, the problem is Doctor Strange himself.
This version of Strange is really strange and he acts quite sus throughout the entire
first half of the trailer.
We get a funny exchange between Peter and Strange, a nice little call-back to Infinity
War where something similar happened.
Now I don't know why I just find this whole new outfit of Strange very funny.
I mean, you wouldn't wear a jacket like this just before a fight, would you?
So why did he still put on the cape?
Peter then asks Strange if he can go back in time and make everyone forget Spider-Man's
true identity.
Because ever since Mysterio revealed his true identity, his life got screwed up.
So he asks Doctor Strange if he could go back in time and fix it?
Surprisingly Strange does agree to help Peter by wiping everyone's memory.
Then we see Wong for the first time who warns Stephen saying "don't cast that spell, It's
too dangerous" So Strange says he won't but winks at Peter,
implying he will in fact cast the spell and get Peter out of his misery.
I mean, I understand Peter being a kid coming up with such a big request but doesn't it
show Strange's lack of sensibility when he agreed to do it?
There could have been other ways to do it than wiping everyone's memory.
Now after Peter tempers with the spell and unleashes the multiverse, we may have gotten
a clue of what exactly happened.
Notice, there was just one mystical circle around them at the beginning of the spell,
but as the spell starts to go wrong, it multiplies into three.
But then Strange loses control over it completely.
So these 3 mystical loops could be representing each timeline of 3 different Spider-Men.
So when Strange lost control, it started to entangle with each other.
Therefore opening the doors of the Spider-Verse.
Now when the spell goes wrong, we can clearly see glimpses of the color purple.
Which might indicate the spell going wrong may have something to do with Dark Magic as
well, it's not entirely Peter's fault.
Or, this shattered place that we've seen when the spell went wrong could be the Citadel
of Time, meaning the home of Kang the Conqueror.
So maybe Strange's spell didn't work because of the absence of He Who Remains.
The Multiverse already started branching in Loki, not just because of Peter.
Cut to a shelter house where Peter is seemingly wearing the Black and Golden suit.
Now notice Peter actually takes off his mask without worrying about getting caught.
Implying the people over here may know who he is, and that brings me to F.E.A.S.T.
Now for those of you who don't know, FEAST is a non-profit organization that takes care
of New York’s homeless, it was also featured in the 2018 Spider-Man video game.
In the comics, Aunt May works for this organization.
Now also in the MCU, we've seen Aunt May at the beginning of Far From Home doing a lot
of charity work for people who lost their homes due to the blip.
So in both the comics and in the MCU, Aunt May is heavily involved with helping the homeless.
So it makes absolute sense that Peter may have taken shelter here to hide away from
the police.
And that's why he doesn't care about taking off his mask.
Not only that, he was actually chasing someone here in this scene and this guy is essentially
helping Peter by showing him which way to go.
Now this Black and Golden suit was of course shown during the promo materials and this
looks like a suit made to withstand attacks from Electro.
Now notice the golden stripes on this suit aren't that visible, keep it in mind, I'll
talk about it in a minute.
We then see time and space bending and twisting around Spider-Man just like we've seen at
the end of Doctor Strange.
So this is probably Doctor Strange now chasing Spider-Man for some reason inside the mirror
dimension.
I think I may know why Doctor Strange is all of a sudden chasing Peter, but my answer might
spoil the movie for you, so please be advised.
According to a plot-leak, after Strange messed up the spell he was performing for Peter,
he had to imprison villains from other universes until he could send them back to their respective
realities.
Now Strange had a mystical box holding everything together, basically keeping all these villains
from other dimensions in the prison.
But Peter gets brainwashed by Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin as he says to Peter that if they
are sent back to their reality, they will be killed by their version of Peter Parker.
So Peter feels empathetic and steals the box from Strange's vault.
That's why there's a massive chasing sequence in the film between Doctor Strange and Spider-Man.
Strange throws everything at his disposal to stop Peter.
But then he finally catches Peter with the box on his hand, and separates his body from
his astral form.
Peter's astral form of course wears a different outfit than his physical self.
Maintaining the continuity of Endgame where Bruce Banner was wearing different clothes
than Professor Hulk.
Now if you wondering what this box really contains, it is one of the Ghost Boxes that
exists in the Marvel universe.
A Ghost Box opens gates between parallel worlds.
It's basically a way of travelling between the multiverse.
Now notice how angry Doctor Strange seems here, it's because Peter really made him run
for his money during the whole chase.
But then comes one of the big reveals, Electro!
This yellow lightning is basically a direct clue of his involvement.
Now Jamie Foxx is officially returning to reprise his role of Electro and Marvel has
switched his color from Blue to Yellow in order to make it more comic-accurate.
Notice how all these police officers are looking up, this makes it even more certain that Electro
is up there and just beside that we can see a van of the Daily Bugle.
We then see an upgraded version of the Iron Spider-Suit, which looks incredible just to
look at!
Happy is then apprehended who was probably trying to get to Peter or helping Peter to
escape.
Or maybe he's helping Aunt May as we know the two share a romantic relationship and
that would really make sense.
Now Strange mentions how Peter living a double life is basically what causes all these issues.
Had Peter not needed to keep MJ, Ned and Aunt May's memory, he wouldn't have interrupted
this spell.
Meaning the spell would have gone smoothly, therefore the doors of the Multiverse wouldn't
have opened.
But of course the fact that Sylvie killed He Who Remains at the end of Loki, might have
something to do with it.
We are then introduced to two more villains.
The Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and Sandman from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3.
But notice, in this shot, this red flare does look like another Spider-Man.
I mean, there are multiple instances in the trailer that show both Tobey and Andrew are
definitely coming back.
And remember I told you to keep in mind the Golden stripes of Peter's suit?
It wasn't that visible in that scene, however in this scene, the stripes are fairly visible
and they're more white-ish.
Which may indicate that this is Tobey's Spider-Man from Spider-Man 3.
Now, another figure emerges from the smoke and even though it's really tough to see in
such resolution, it does seem like Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin.
We then get the money shot of the trailer, Willem Dafoe's pumpkin bomb making an official
appearance in the MCU.
Now it's only a matter of time until we see Dafoe as the original Green Goblin in the
MCU.
Then we meet this lady.
Now this could be the MCU hinting towards Miles Morales and this could be his mother.
Now notice the suit and shirt Peter is wearing here.
This is the exact same outfit Tobey Maguire had back in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man.
Now if you know about movies, you know that nothing about them are coincidences.
So Marvel deliberately made Tom Holland wear a similar sort of suit as Tobey Maguire.
And then we get the biggest reveal of the trailer, Alfred Molina returning as Doctor
Octopus after 18 years!
The first thing we hear him say is "Hello Peter"
Now notice he's probably not saying this to our Peter.
Because if you compare the backgrounds side-by-side, it doesn't match.
It doesn't look like they're from the same scenes.
This Peter suit-up scene and the Doc Ock scene are taken from 2 different sequences but are
put together for the trailer to throw us off.
In fact if you pay attention, this suit-up scene is more compatible to this scene where
we see the Iron Spider-Suit.
So my bet is this is Doctor Octopus saying "Hello Peter" to Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man,
not Tom's.
Now, if you take a look at the place where the pumpkin bomb goes off and blasts everything,
we can see multiple construction barrels or drums lying around in the road.
The same drums can be spotted again behind Peter when we see him donning the Iron Spider-Suit.
So there you go, Peter suiting up and fighting on top of this bridge is NOT against Doctor
Octopus as we are made to believe.
Instead it is against Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin.
That's the magic of clever editing, it can be deceiving if you don't pay attention.
And that's it, this would be my breakdown of the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer at
0.25x speed.
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