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Jan 6, 2022 · How Spider-Man: No Way Home Changes the MCU's First Film. With the creation of the multiverse, nothing is out of bounds. Spider-Man: No Way Home proved it with a fundamental shift in the MCU's timeline. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home, now playing in theaters.
- Kai Young
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- Everyone In The World Forgets Peter Parker (2024) Despite curing all the multiversal villains, their existence in the MCU threatened the stability of the multiverse, but Peter Parker realized the only way to protect everyone was for Doctor Strange to complete his original spell.
- Spider-Man Fights Multiversal Villains With His Variants (2024) After Aunt May's death, Tom Holland's Peter Parker was met by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's versions of Spider-Man, also dragged into the MCU proper by Doctor Strange's spell.
- Green Goblin Kills Aunt May (2024) Spider-Man: No Way Home saw Peter Parker trap Doctor Strange in the Mirror Dimension and continue his scheme to cure the multiversal villains of their various inflictions.
- Peter Parker Seeks Doctor Strange's Help (2024) After Parker, MJ, and Ned Leeds were refused enrollment into MIT because of their connections to Spider-Man, Parker sought the help of Doctor Strange to make the world forget his true identity.
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- Peter Parker makes an early appearance in Iron Man 2. Surprisingly, Peter Parker's first appearance in the MCU doesn't come in "Captain America: Civil War."
- Uncle Ben disappears in the MCU. By the time Spider-Man: Homecoming hit theaters, audiences had seen Peter's Uncle Ben die on the big screen twice in two different franchises (three times if we count the new perspective on the murder portrayed in "Spider-Man 3"), so it's no wonder that the filmmakers of "Spider-Man: Homecoming" chose to skip over that particular part of Spider-Man's origin story.
- A Spider-Man shout-out in an Ant-Man movie. In 2015's "Ant-Man," Scott Lang's titular tiny hero runs afoul of Sam Wilson, The Falcon, while sneaking into the Avengers' headquarters.
- Peter Parker enlists in the Civil War. Six months after Peter gets his powers (and, coincidentally, around the time Sony and Marvel would come to a deal about bringing Spider-Man into the MCU), Tony drops by Aunt May's apartment to sample some of her walnut date loaf and meet the mysterious, arachnid-themed superhero who's been showing up on YouTube.
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By Gerald Lynch
published 19 March 2022
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can – in precisely this order
(Image credit: Disney / Marvel / Sony)
Is he a bird? Is he a plane? Is this the wrong catchphrase? Yes it is – he’s a spider, and just like catching the eight-legged arachnids, it’s become tricky to know how to watch the Spider-Man movies in order if you’re looking for a complete run through his cinematic legacy.
Modern Marvel movies, aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe, aka the MCU, are in part so successful and popular because they weave multiple characters together to create a much larger overall story. Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films pour into this mixture and, thanks to the events of No Way Home, have ultimately drawn the Maguire and Garfield Spider-Men into this overarching MCU storyline, too.
So to get the full picture of how Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has grown into the hero we now know and love, you’ve got to watch at least a few more MCU films, too. You could argue you should watch all the MCU Marvel movies in order for the full experience, but we’ll leave that for another day. At the very least, these are the essential MCU films to include if you want the full Tom-Holland-as-Peter-Parker story, and how they also relate to the early Spider-folk.
•Spider-Man (2002)
•Spider-Man 2 (2004)
•Spider-Man 3 (2007)
•The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
OK, now we’re really getting into the nitty gritty of things, and where some comic book nerdery comes into play. Just as Spider-Man has existed in multiple forms on screen, so too has he in the Marvel comics he came from. There’s the ‘Ultimate’ universe Spider-Man, multiple different Earth versions (Earth-9500, Earth-982, etc etc), and the Earth-616 universe where he first appeared from the minds of creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
Earth-616 then is kind of seen as the ‘core’ Spider-Man experience that many of the films ultimately draw their inspiration from. It’s here where the classic arc was born – bitten by the radioactive spider, sees his beloved uncle Ben die, falls for Mary Jane, and so on. Different films take different elements of these early stories, tweaking them as they go along, but you can…roughly… chart a course through each variation of Spider-Man that more or less walks the steps laid out by this original comic incarnation.
For instance, Peter Parker was in love with Gwen Stacey before he fell for MJ, and so Andrew Garfield’s films, by that metric, come first. Both Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man crushes jump straight to Mary Jane – but Tom Holland’s films skip the origin story of spider-bite and uncle death, so Tobey Maguire’s films would come before them. It’s not a perfect science, but it’s an interesting alternative way to watch the films if you want to more closely mirror the comic book arcs. Probably not best suited to a first viewing though, but here we go!
•The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
•The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
•Spider-Man (2002)
And now, the ultimate combination of everything Spider-Man! Some background first – Spider-Man’s place in cinema is a confusing one, largely because of all the deals in place surrounding the character’s appearances on screen. Despite Disney owning Marvel, it’s actually Sony that holds the rights to the Spider-Man character, thanks to an ongoing deal with the Marvel company in its earlier iteration as an independent publisher. It’s why it took so long for Spider-Man to join the MCU, as it took years before an agreement was made to have the character appear in 2016’s Civil War and ongoing adventures thereafter.
What this has also allowed, however, is Sony to spin the character off in other directions not (at least immediately) connected to the MCU. And so you have the superb Into The Spider-Verse animated film (which you should 100% absolutely not miss) and its upcoming sequel, and a whole slew of related villain movies in the works, such as the Venom franchise. Though details aren’t yet clear, there’s a belief that, with Spider-Man’s MCU obligations apparently wrapped up, Sony is now looking to build out its own interconnected Spider-Man universe, pulling all these strands together.
Will it come to fruition? Who knows. But if you absolutely must spend every last drop of web fluid watching Spider-Man related films… this is it.
•Spider-Man (2002)
•Spider-Man 2 (2004)
•Spider-Man 3 (2007)
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