Spider-Man: No Way Home - Enough Is Enough

One of the best movies of 2021 was Spider-Man: No Way Home. Continuing where the character left off in the MCU when the whole world found out Peter Parker was Spider-Man, No Way Home took us through Peter’s world as he dealt with the fallout from that recent discovery.

From IMDb.com

With Spider-Man’s identity now revealed, our friendly neighborhood web-slinger is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life as Peter Parker from the high stakes of being a superhero. When Peter asks for help from Doctor Strange, the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

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If you’re still here, you’ve seen Spider-Man: No Way Home at least once. You know how it ends, as well as the twists and turns along the way. If you’re anything like me, you’re wondering “what the hell”. Now I know Sony and Disney/Marvel have come out and said they’re planning to utilize the character in future stories, but c’mon.

If the rumors are true that they’re working on another three movies of story, do we really have to see just how much we can take from Peter Parker before we get his happy ending? Yes, much like in the comics our heroes have to lose before they can win, but enough is enough. With Tom Holland’s Parker, it’s overkill. Explained here:

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Here’s the problem, eventually they’re going to paint themselves into a corner they can’t get out of. Before everything is all said and done, they’ll need a story so heavily uplifting it will have to balance out all the heartache along the way. They’re building up so much negativity and loss in the character that if they don’t come out and have the perfect answer, fans will feel cheated.

The story up until this point has been fantastic for Peter, but right now the scale is tipped too far and they’ll need a swing-for-the-fences type story of redemption. They’ve written Spider-Man in a way where they’ll need an Endgame-like comeback story to be a hero’s redemption.

Do Sony and Disney have a story to overcome every single heartbreak Peter has had and show why he still believes in being a hero? In No Way Home, we see him almost turn from being one and that’s just not the character. He lost more than just family. Peter Parker is essentially alone in the universe. At this point, what’s left to stop him from becoming the villain?