Spider-Man: No Way Home

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It appears thatSpider - mankind : No Way Homehas a semisweet ending , but the Marvel Cinematic Universe subtly made it   even darker than it seems . InNo Way Home , Peter Parker ( Tom Holland)asks Doctor Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) to make the world forget that he ’s Spider - Man , and the latter ’s attempt to serve direct to destructive consequences . As a result of Doctor Strange ’s failed retentivity wipe spell , villain from pastSpider - Manfilms , include Alfred Molina ’s Doc Ock , enter the MCU and have   havoc . The film even ends with several more baddie trying to go against into the MCU before Peter Parker makes Doctor Strange perform another spell to make everyone forget who he is whole .

Marvel ’s What If … ?gave devotee a taste of the Multiverse ahead ofNo Way Home . In the Disney+ animated serial publication , Marvel reveals alternate MCU story , evidence how small events could change everything . For instance , in the serial publication premiere , Peggy Carter ( Hayley Atwell)takes the spot of   Steve Rogers ( voiced by   Josh Keaton ) ,   receiving the Super Serum and becoming Captain Carter . The episode demonstrate Carter leading the effort against Hydra and   Rogers   becoming an early version of Iron Man .   In another episode ,   Doctor Strange miss   Christine Palmer ( Rachel   McAdams ) in a auto chance event and learns from the Ancient One ( Tilda Swinton ) that Palmer ’s death is an absolute percentage point and ca n’t be changed . Nevertheless , he tries to change the stroke anyway , go to catastrophic outcome .

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InNo Way Home , Tom Holland ’s Spider - Man tries to   bring around the villain invading the MCU and change their evil way of life , and there ’s grounds that it was all for naught . Doctor Strange argues inNo Way Homethat theinvadingSpider - Manvillainsneed to get charge back to their own universes and possibly die there because it ’s their " fate . " However , Tom Holland ’s character disagrees , undertake to bring around the villains with the help of Tobey Maguire ’s and Andrew Garfield ’s Peter Parkers . Unfortunately , despite the Peter Parkers dumbfound event , the villains will likely die after return to their world anyway . And it ’s all because of Marvel ’s " absolute point . "

When Doctor Strange tell the villain want to pall because it ’s their circumstances , he ’s saying they need to cash in one’s chips because it ’s an absolute point . commute out-and-out points in the MCU can have withering and mankind - ending consequences .   After all , Doctor Strange ’s efforts to do   so in hisWhat If … ?episode destroys his universe of discourse . to boot , changing an absolute spot required an horrific effort from Benedict Cumberbatch ’s grapheme inWhat If … ? , resulting in him absorbing the power   from several other creatures and becoming an evil version of Doctor Strange . It have vastly more effort than simply creating last - minute cure for villains and hoping they stay on a righteous path . So despite the Peter Parkers seemingly pull through the villains in the MCU , the villain likely had to die anyway in their own universes   because their   deaths   were   unchangeable .

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Of of course , Marvel also likes to ignore its own plot percentage point when commodious . For representative , the MCU   depict several characters coming back fromThanos ' ( Josh Brolin ) deadly finger snapin the same positions they were in when they left . Of naturally , this would be detrimental if someone vanish while flying on a plane . Marvel ’s creators later   backtracked on this full stop , saying everyone returned safely .   However , with an evil variation of Doctor Strange demo up in theDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnesstrailer , it seemsWhat If … ?‘sstories   have a significant impingement on the MCU . And that ’s bad news for Peter Parker ’s cause inSpider - Man : No Way Home .

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