Hey everyone, I'm The Canadian Lad and today I'm gonna explain why Spider-Man: No Way Home has the
best ending out of all Spider-Man films. Now, of course this video is gonna have a
lot of spoilers, so I'm gonna assume if you decided to watch this video
then you probably watched the movie as well. This movie literally has it all. Starting with
Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina and so many other
actors coming to reprise their roles, This movie could have failed so easily,
because with such a great cast, comes great anticipation of a compelling story!
And this movie has it, it delivered for the most part.
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Now, lemme give you the basic premise of this film so I can explain the ending better.
It begins with Peter, MJ and Ned dealing with the repercussions
for what Mysterio did in Far From Home. But with the arrival of Charlie Cox as
Matt Murdock in the MCU, he gets Peter out of all the legal mayhem relatively easily.
The plot actually was all over the place in the first half but in the 2nd and 3rd act the movie
picked up it's pace and never slowed down! Seeing Ned and MJ not even getting their
application considered by MIT because of their connection to Spider-Man,
Peter decides to seek Doctor Strange's help and asks him to brainwash the entire world
into forgetting that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. But the spell goes wrong because Peter keeps
making exceptions for his friends and family. But at the end he says "Basically everyone who
knew that I was Spider-Man, should still know" This one change that he made in the spell is
what actually caused the multiverse to crack open. As a result villains from all previous Spider-Man
films start to appear in Tom's universe. But then Tom learns that all these villains
were actually misunderstood before they turned all evil.
Sending these villains back home will get them killed by their universe's Spider-Man.
So Tom decides to fix them before sending them home.
But of course, they're villains, not all of them wanna get fixed
and none of them share the same moral compass. For example, Green Goblin, Electro and Lizard
definitely don't wanna go back to their universes. And then we learn while all the villains got
pulled from other universes, it also pulled everyone who knows Spider-Man's real identity.
As a result, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire both show up in this film.
The 3 nerds then team up together and come up with an Antiserum to cure the villains.
An epic battle takes place on top of the Statue of Liberty and all 3 Spider-Man
manage to cure the villains. But this still doesn't prevent
the multiverse from falling apart. So Peter asks Doctor Strange to cast the
spell again and make everyone forget that he's Spider-Man, including his friends and family.
Peter does take a moment to say good-bye to MJ and Ned and promises them that he will come
back to reintroduce himself to Ned and MJ. But at the end when Peter sees a bandaid
on MJ's face covering a cut she got from the final battle,
he decides his friends are better off no longer being caught up in Spider-Man's drama.
He's now entirely alone in the world, which is a pretty depressing way to end a superhero movie.
So that's the premise. Now lemme explain what it means and what it does
for the future of Tom's Spider-Man in the MCU. He can now either serve alongside the Avengers,
as they would know Spider-Man but won't remember the man under the mask,
or he could go on his own and try to do it all alone.
So Marvel and Sony are actually paving the road for characters like Harry
Osborn and Gwen Stacy to appear in the MCU. Because now Tom's Peter lost his MJ and his
best friend, could be the perfect opportunity to introduce Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy!
But having said that, I actually want Zendaya to continue playing MJ, because she's so good at it.
Especially with Tom Holland, their chemistry just works!
So Peter could either fully devote himself to becoming Spider-Man or he could re-build his
personal life and try to make a family again. So the complaint of Tom's Spider-Man being
too much under the shadow of Tony Stark is now gone forever.
No one will be able to call his character Iron Man Jr in Spider-Man 4.
Because the guy who supplies him with all his fancy suits aka Happy
Hogan now doesn't even recognize him. So even though Tom Holland's Spider-Man
remained a lot different than the original comics, but it seems as though with each installment,
Tom's Spider-Man is becoming more and more like the comics.
Lemme explain what I mean by that. In the comics, classic Peter was
always struggling in his life and paid the bills with photos of Spider-Man.
Classic Peter didn't have the luxury of playing with high-tech tools but Tom's Peter does.
Well, not anymore, because he has totally abandoned it all in order to go solo!
So Spider-Man 4 may follow a lot more of the comics than the previous 3!
Where Tom's Peter will struggle, begin his college life and a chaotic love life.
Now No Way Home is all about giving the previous villains a 2nd chance.
That's why the final battle takes place at the Statue of Liberty, which is now being re-modelled
with Captain America's shield, who became Captain America because he was given multiple chances!
so nothing represents a 2nd chance better than this.
But if you think deeply, the ending of No Way Home also gives a 2nd chance to Tobey Maguire
and Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man. Tobey Maguire back in 2002 couldn't
save Norman Osborn, which caused a rift between him and Harry Osborn and Andrew
Garfield in 2014 couldn't save Gwen Stacy. But in this film, Andrew saves Tom's MJ
and Tobey was able to save Harry's dad from getting impaled by his own glider.
So this film didn't just redeem the villains, it also gave a 2nd chance to the heroes.
Now coming to Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man, the general consensus was that his version
of the character was not up to the mark. It actually had nothing to do with him, he was
given a bad script in a badly written movie. Even though his version had the most
comic-accurate suit but at the end of the day, the story has to be compelling as well.
And look what they have done with him in No Way Home.
Not only did they give him a redemption act, but also wrote an entire scene where the Original
Spider-Man basically approves of Andrew Garfield. Tobey says not once but 3 times that Andrew
Garfield is an AMAZING Spider-man. I mean just think about some Tobey fans
fighting with Andrew Garfield's fans, arguing who is better!
But that won't happen anymore because now they all co-exist within the MCU
and Tobey approves of Andrew Garfield. So this film proves the 3 Spider-Man are not in
a competition with each other, instead they work with each other when circumstances need them to.
Now one big question remains and that is whether Spider-Man: No Way Home has a better ending than
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2! Which is considered to be
the greatest Spider-Man movie ever made! Well, the answer to that is a lil bit complicated.
Because, if you think about it, No Way Home wouldn't have worked if Spider-Man 2 didn't work.
The fact that the fans are so excited to see Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina back on screen,
goes to show that Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 1 and 2 worked amazingly!
And the fact that No Way Home writers didn't make any changes to Green Goblin or Doc Ock's
character, also shows that they didn't wanna change something that was already perfect.
No Way Home didn't rectify any of the mistakes of Spider-Man 1 or 2,
because those movies were already perfect. In fact, No Way Home continued what
Spider-Man 1 and 2 started. So it would be wrong for me to
say No Way Home is better than Spider-Man 2, because these movies play off of each other.
But having said that, I still believe No Way Home has the heaviest ending
out of all Spider-Man films. The fact that at the end Tom's
Peter didn't reveal his true identity to MJ just by seeing a mere bandaid on her face,
shows how much he has evolved. Wanting to tell MJ that he's
Spider-Man and now giving it all up just to keep her safe, it perfectly portrays
the long journey Tom's Peter had. He wanted to be an avenger more
than anything else, wanted more missions and tasks from Tony Stark,
but now he knows the true cost of it all. He now thinks no good deed ever goes unpunished,
in order to do the right thing for the greater good, he will have to suffer bigger consequences,
and it's better if he does it alone without getting anyone else involved.
Yes, he will make mistakes in Spider-Man 4 again, he might still reveal everything to
MJ in the future and that's just who Peter is, he's not perfect.
But if we take Homecoming, Far From Home and No Way Home into account, this has to
be the best ending to a trilogy. Lemme give you one last example.
Look at how Tom's Peter carried on with his life after Aunt May got killed.
He didn't stop being Spider-Man blaming himself for the death of Aunt May.
Instead he learned from Tobey and Andrew that it is in Peter Parker's fate that he
will lose Aunt May or Uncle Ben at some point. But he will have to keep going to fight for
everything they stood for, because with great power comes great responsibility!
And that's it, this would be my breakdown of Spider-Man: No Way Home's ending.
I really believe I needed to make this video. Because seeing Tobey, Andrew and Tom Holland
all sharing the screen playing the same role of Spider-Man,
this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. So I took my time to break down this ending,
because we may never get to see them together again!
So please let me know your thoughts and if you agree with my breakdown.
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Till then, I'll see you lads in the next one. And oh, I'll be breaking down the whole film
in the next video, I have already found a ton of details and I will watch it in 0.25x speed
once the movie is available on Bluray. Because that's what we do!