Spider-Man Far From Home, the follow up to Avengers Endgame, has finally been released,
and oh boy, is it one hell of a good time! It's everything we could have hoped to see
from a Spider-Man sequel, and now, Peter Parker is really learning the meaning of great power
means great responsibility. If you've seen the movie, and you have questions about what
it's ending means for the future of the franchise, and the grander implications it may have,
you've come to the right place - here's our break down of the Spider-Man Far From Home
Ending Explained. Also, it's a given, major spoilers in this
video. You've been warned. WHAT HAPPENED?
Let's briefly break down what happened in the movie. Peter and his friends went on a
trip to Europe, which is interrupted by Nick Fury who needs Peter to help out with a threat
called the Elementals - creatures from Earth 833, the home that a new hero called Mysterio,
a dude named Quentin Beck, claims he's from. He says he's followed them here, and they
destroyed his world, and killed his loved ones, and he's here to stop them from becoming
a bigger threat. Spider-Man inherits Tony Stark's glasses and an advanced AR program
that comes with them called Edith, which stands for Even Dead I'm the Hero. Cheeky, and typical
Tony. It's eventually revealed after Peter, feeling guilt ridden and not ready to take
on this new responsibility of stepping in Stark's shoes, gives Mysterio the glasses
and Edith, that Quentin Beck isn't what he seems. He's an illusionist, like in the comics,
but with a twist. He created BARF, the technology we saw Tony exhibiting back in Infinity War.
And he's teamed up with other disgruntled workers who disliked Stark to steal his tech
and change the world in the way they want it to now that the Avengers are gone. Peter
finds out about this with a little help from MJ, and goes after him, with the two duking
it out twice, and Peter eventually saving the day, with Mysterio dying in the process
after trying to shoot Peter in the head. Peter gets the glasses and Edith back, MJ now knows
his identity, they share an adorably awkward kiss, and he returns to New York. While all
of that is really straight forward, there are a few things to explain here. Fury, earlier
on, explains that other heroes are unavailable. Thor is off planet. Doctor Strange is unavailable.
And he grills Peter for even 'evoking' the name Captain Marvel. While we have a good
idea as to what Thor has been up to, having flown off with the Guardians of the Galaxy
at the end of Endgame, it's still puzzling as to what Doctor Strange is up to, and, more
importantly for the future of the Avengers, what Captain Marvel might have her hands full
with. We also know that Peter now has a whole lot of access to technology made by Tony Stark,
and the film, which largely parallel's his coming into massive responsibilities and stepping
up with Tony's own journey in his feature films 10 years ago, will likely result in
Peter filling in Iron Man's role in the upcoming phases of the MCU. Speaking of, let's get
to the real big questions Far From Home threw our way-
POST CREDIT SCENES Perhaps the biggest revelations of the film
came in the form of the post credit scenes, as they usually do in Marvel solo features.
Let's start with the first one. It begins right where the film left off before the first
chunk of credits, with Peter putting MJ down and about to web sling off elsewhere, when
he stops to notice a large screen playing some breaking news. In this breaking news,
we learn that Mysterio is the gift that keeps on giving; after he died, we saw a shot of
William Ginter Riva, the scientist who used to work for Tony Stark and was recruited by
Quentin Beck, downloading data onto a usb key after the villain's defeat. That's likely
where this cut up footage comes from - running with the fake news motif that appears all
throughout Far From Home, we see footage from a drone's perspective of Spider-Man standing
over what appears to be a dying Quentin Beck (the illusion Beck cast of himself on the
ground) and his audio has been manipulated to make him appear as if he was the one orchestrating
all of these attacks, and that he murdered Beck. It only gets more intense from there
- it's revealed that the source of this news break is the Daily Bugle, which is depicted
more so as an Info-Wars style publisher rather than a newspaper. And guess whose back? JK
Simmons as J Jonah Jameson - really the only actor who could play him - denouncing Spider-Man
in a fashion not dissimilar to how the character acted in the recent PS4 spider-man game. The
video ends with Jameson blowing us away, revealing Spider-Man's identity. Yes, he says it - Peter
Parker. The scene cuts on a shocked Spider-Man. What does this mean? Well, for starters, it
looks like the MCU may be leaning into playing with the fake news motifs more, and the way
the public perceive the new Avengers or remaining superheroes may be tainted for a while, making
it hard for a new iteration of Avengers to gain public trust. It also acted as a way
of paralleling Spider-Man's new responsibility with the responsibility that Tony Stark had
fall onto his shoulders with his announcement that he was Iron Man. But there's a big difference
here - Peter is only 16. How he handles this is going to really define the future of the
MCU, especially with Far From Home setting him up to be the new leader of sorts of the
MCU. It also means something else really cool - seeing
J K Simmons return speaks volumes about the MCU being open to returning cast members who
fit the roles of certain characters. Looking at you Ryan Reynolds. Not to say that we should
expect other familiar faces to pop back into the MCU, but it's nice knowing that Marvel
Studios is opening to the idea of having cast members who feel like the perfect choice reprising
roles. I mean, let's be real, could ANYONE ELSE have been a better J Jonah Jameson? No
way, friends, no way. SECOND POST CREDIT SCENE
Let's move onto the second post credit scene now. It opens with Maria Hill and Nic k Fury
driving. Then, to our surprise, we see the two of them turn into two familiar green faces
- Talos and Soren, who then call Fury to give him the lo down on what happened during the
film. We then see Fury in space, using what looks a whole lot like Project TAHITI which
appeared in the Agents of SHIELD television show. Fury gets up from his little vacay illusion
and ventures throughout a massive space ship filled with Skrulls, with the ship being somewhere
in outer space. This raises a lot of questions - for starters, is SHIELD becoming SWORD,
the offshoot of the organization that protects earth from extraterrestrial threats? And what
exactly is Fury doing up there? Secondly, seeing Talos explains an easter egg many had
questions about from Avengers Endgame. At the end of the film when Peter returns to
his highschool, you can spot actor Ben Mendlehson who played Talos in the background, greeting
students. Many believed that this perhaps hinted to the Secret Invasion story line,
a highly theorized story arc in the comics in which the shapeshifting Skrulls replace
heroes on Earth to invade the planet. It seems that the Skrulls really are good guys after
all, and that they're siding with humans and Fury, all thanks to the events of Captain
Marvel where Fury and Carol teamed up to save the race from the Kree's genocide attempts.
So this definitely means we aren't getting Secret Invasion, leaving the narrative arc
of Phase 4 and 5 still a complete mystery. But if this scene tells us anything, we can
expect more threats from outer space, and perhaps, that may mean the next big bad could
be the Kree, or someone of grander proportions Or should we say Galactic proportions? Get
it, Galactus, cause hes like, big and stuff. Regardless, this confirms what Marvel Studios
had already been hinting too; that the cosmic branch of the MCU is something we're only
getting started with, and should expect to see a whole lot more of in the franchise moving
forward. THEORY TIME
So what could this all mean? Well, we know that Peter has now been thrust into a position
that mirrors Stark's after the first Iron Man movie. Now that his identity is out in
the open, it seems he doesn't have much of a choice when it comes to now being a full
time hero. This seems to open the door for the beginning of a new iteration of Avengers,
but whether or not Spidey will be their leader is questionable when you've got someone the
likes of Captain Marvel kicking around the universe. It's very likely that those two
will end up stepping into the roles of Iron Man and Captain America, spearheading the
team. But, let's not forget the events of Spider-Man Homecoming. Remember Adrian Toomes?
Remember how him and Mac gargan are in prison together? Remember how Mac Gargan wants Spidey
dead? Yeah, it wouldn't be too surprising if the third Spider-Man film finally dealt
with a question many of us have been asking - when are we getting the Sinister Six? Could
Spider-Man, now being a hero who has been framed as a villain, be targeted by the uprising
of a group of villains such as this? Alright there we have it friends! What are
your theories concerning the future of the MCU? Did you love spider-Man far from home?
And what do you think will happen to Peter now that his identity has been revealed? Give
us a shout in those comments below! Also, be sure to check out our easter egg video