Alright so Spiderman: No Way Home - The More Fun Stuff Version (aka the extended edition),
yeah that’s a lot of words, is now available on digital.
All you Spidey fans have yet again another excuse to binge this film, with roughly 10
new scenes and whoopin’ 13 minutes of footage.
Now whether or not this extended version is worth it is still up for debate, but the added
post credits scene is the one bit we’re going to be focusing on.
Because it does a WAAAYY better job at illustrating the somewhat ambiguous Dr. Strange spell that
was cast at the end of the film.
So we’re going to be diving into the original and revised spells, how it all actually worked,
and how this potentially affects Peter’s future in a Spider-Man 4 and beyond.
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So in this first part of the video I want to recap the original & revised spells Peter
has Doctor Strange cast for him.
In the undercroft of the Sanctum, Peter originally meets with Dr. Strange and has him cast the
spell stating:
Meaning the entire world, every single person will forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
Which honestly sounds like the best outcome.
No one remembers who spidey is, hell it could be Paul for all we know.
“Ouuhhhh there Governer” But I do understand Peter’s frustrations, with him not being
able to share his secret with his friends and family, which drives to the not 1, not
2, but 4 interruptions of Strange’s spell resulting in it loosely following the parameters
of “everyone that knew Peter Parker was Spider-man before, should still know after”.
Now we know this obviously resulted in other villains and Spider-men who knew this secret,
to get sucked off, haha I mean sucked into the 616 universe.
This is why nostalgia was ham-fisted into the movie, and worked so so well.
Now if we fast forward to the end of the film, with Doctor Strange trying to fix the multiversal
fissures in the sky, preventing all of the other characters from populating our main
MCU universe, Peter has Strange change the spell to:
Like the first spell, every single person on Earth will be affected, but instead of
simply forgetting that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, they will entirely forget who Peter Parker
is.
It’s essentially as though he never existed.
He was never part of people’s lives, never saved the universe in Infinity War and Endgame,
just poof, almost like a Thanos snap, but solely for the Peter Parker persona.
I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to get a driver’s license, obtain a loan,
sign up for a dating site like E-Harmony …. I’m getting off topic, but you catch my drift.
And this is what we all come to understand with the final scenes of No Way Home.
Happy doesn’t know Peter, MJ doesn’t remember him, he is living by himself, essentially
leaning into the Spider-Man persona as his main life, while building everything back
up, starting a new life with friends, family, and loved ones.
I kind of assumed he was a John Doe type character at the end, no paper trail through what, 18
years of his life so far.
However the post-credits scene of the More Fun Stuff version, who titled this, of No
Way Home actually does a great job of showing how this spell actually works, and I’m surprised
it was left out of the theatrical version.
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So the scene first opens on high schoolers at Midtown High looking up at a television
screen reminding them about various things from graduation photo pick up to cafeteria
safety, which is done hilariously bad like some sort of late night infomercial, but then
things shift over to Betty’s Corner with Betty “The Baddie” Brant.
As it’s a bit of a video yearbook, look back at the past couple of years, or rather
the events of Homecoming and Far From Home.
There’s video from the decathlon, prom, europe trip, along with explaining that some
of them disappeared for 5 years and then reappeared, thanks grimace.
But one interesting clip is the group posing on their Europe trip.
The whole group is posing but one person’s face is obstructed by birds flying through
the frame, and this is Peter.
If we go back to Far From Home, his clothing matches this person’s, so essentially Doctor
Strange’s spell straight up Mike Wazoyski’d him from any evidence of his existence.
Which is drastically different from what we thought the spell originally accomplished.
Originally I thought, “poof”, all traces of him are gone, but it appears there is proof
here or there that some person existed with them, examples being this picture and MJ still
wearing the necklace Peter gave to her.
Like people remember a random person being with them, but do not know it was Peter.
Which is honestly a…
Strange….
way about going with things, but I think if he would have been entirely removed from these
situations and events, the timeline would be all whacky-tobaccky and cause much more
of a fiasco, than essentially placing this faceless sim to live out the events, while
Peter does have those memories, sadly no one else does.
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Now what does this mean for Peter’s future?
Well it means he is having to start over.
In the first three films it was him coming into his Spider-Man alter-ego, whereas here
without Aunt May, Happy, the Avengers, MJ or Ned, I think Spider-Man 4 will touch on
him having to build upon his Peter Parker half.
It’s a weird reset button in a spidey-sense, that allows for the character to meet entirely
different allies and villains, splintering the story in one of many different directions,
pulling from the dozens of comic storylines.
I could see Sony and Marvel Studios sticking with the “Home” naming convention, titling
it Spider-Man “Home Again”, “Home Sick”, or Spider-Man.
And him actually leaning into his daily bugle origins that we’re used to.
This reset could also bring in Gwen Stacy as the love interest, Felicia Hardy aka Black
Cat as a fly in his web, Harry Osbourne or the MCU version of Eddie Brock, along with
a whole bevy of spidey’s rogue gallery we have seen in previous installments or new
ones that have yet to get their live-action treatment.
Hell, maybe even a Sinister Six movie.
Ohhh no no no, not this weird set up Morbius Sinister Six, but with the Scorpion man, what
ever happened to this dude?
He was set up for nothing.
Of course this is all speculation and theories, but I do think there are going to be fractures
in the spell Doctor Strange cast.
With this lingering evidence of Peter Parker being present in a couple of pictures, I can
see MJ doing some hardcore investigation because of the pictures and necklace she still has,
and solving who Spider-Man is once again, much like she did in Far From Home.
They left the door open with those two, and it would be odd for them not to somehow tie
her and maybe Ned back into the fold of it all.
Another thing to think about is the ripple effect of the final spell that was cast.
Everyone was flowing into the main 616 universe because they knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man,
but with the final spell essentially erasing Peter Parker from the world, does that then
jump into those other universes, and do the same thing?
In the entire multiverse, no one remembers Peter Parker.
Because if so, that would be an already established way to build out a live action MCU Spider-Verse
story.
Maybe not the most creative way, but it would allow all of the Spider people to sympathize
with one another to help bring things back to normal.
Either way I’d love to hear your thoughts on the Peter Parker spell, and how you think
it will play into the future Spider-Man movies and even the overall MCU in general.
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