If Doctor Strange Is Right How Did Other SpiderMan Villains Die

If Doctor Strange Is Right, How Did Other Spider-Man Villains Die?

Contents

The villains in Spider-Man: No Way Home are apparently fated to die, but two of them didn’t in their movies. This raises some serious questions.

You Are Reading :[thien_display_title]

If Doctor Strange Is Right How Did Other SpiderMan Villains Die

The second trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home reveals that its villains are all fated to die fighting a Spider-Man, but that assertion makes the status of two of the villains a bit confusing. Considering the history of the villains of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and The Amazing Spider-Man, it’s not hard to agree with that line of thinking on a surface level. On closer examination, however, it’s clear that there are holes in the trailer’s assertion of what happens to its villains.

In the second trailer for No Way Home, Doctor Strange reveals to Peter that the Spider-Man movie villains they accidentally brought into their world are all fated to die fighting Spider-Man. It’s a declaration that makes sense when one remembers how most of the fights ended in both the original Spider-Man trilogy and The Amazing Spider-Man, and considering that it came from Doctor Strange, it makes sense for the information to be reliable. The trailer even has Otto Octavius say that Peter’s fighting “ghosts”, further emphasizing the idea that all of the villains are supposed to end up dead.

However, if Doctor Strange is right, then it makes the inclusion of two of the Spider-Man villains in the film, Sandman from Spider-Man 3 and the Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man, rather suspect. While many of the villains in previous Spider-Man film franchises died at the end of their movies, Sandman and the Lizard are both very much alive at the end of their movies, and while neither one shows up again, mostly due to both of their franchises getting canceled, there was nothing to imply that they would have died offscreen. It’s not impossible for them to have died, though, and a reveal of them suddenly dying after their stories concluded could serve to make the movie even more tragic than it’s shaping up to be.

Is Doctor Strange Right? Do Spider-Man Villains Die?

If Doctor Strange Is Right How Did Other SpiderMan Villains Die

In regards to Strange saying that the villains are fated to die, it makes sense to come to that conclusion from a meta-perspective. Looking at the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy and The Amazing Spider-Man, it’s very common for their villains to die by the end of their films, the only ones surviving are Sandman from Spider-Man 3, the Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man, the Rhino and the Green Goblin from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Gustav Fiers from both Garfield-led films. While it does show that not every Spider-Man villain dies, the villain’s death is still an all-too-common occurrence, especially with whoever is the main villain of the film, so it would be excusable for a person to just say that they all die at the end. Still, Sandman and the Lizard are among the few who didn’t die, yet they’re being grouped in with villains that did. This in turn raises the possibility that the characters may have actually died off-screen.

See also  Once Upon A Time In Hollywoods Sharon Tate Controversy Explained

How Sandman Could’ve Died

If Doctor Strange Is Right How Did Other SpiderMan Villains Die

Spider-Man 3’s Sandman has a clear narrative arc, concluding with him apologizing to Peter for accidentally killing Uncle Ben, Peter forgiving him after spending an entire film working to control his emotions, and Sandman dissolving into sand, never to be seen again. It’s easy enough to conclude that he’s just exiting the scene, but if the movie wanted to be dark with how it gives Sandman his own death, then it could be that that moment of Sandman dissolving into sand was actually him killing himself; he’s never seen again after that moment, and with the entire city seeing him fight Spider-Man as a giant sand monster, he could have felt as if he no longer had a place in his daughter’s life and decided that taking his own life was the only option for himself.

An alternative, and less dark, explanation for Sandman’s appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home is that the Sandman in No Way Home is from a universe where the events of Spider-Man 3 ended with him dying; the multiverse has long been established as a factor in the film, and it hasn’t been stated that the Sam Raimi villains all come from the same universe, nor has anything of that nature been said about the villains from The Amazing Spider-Man, so Sandman—and, by extension, any of the villains—being from alternate versions of their original films is definitely plausible.

How The Lizard Could’ve Died

If Doctor Strange Is Right How Did Other SpiderMan Villains Die

Explaining how the Lizard could have died is relatively easy, considering what Sony originally wanted to do with The Amazing Spider-Man franchise. The two films set up a plot thread of a mysterious man named Gustav Fiers controlling things from the shadows, including being involved with the deaths of Peter’s parents, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has him working with Harry Osborn to create the Sinister Six, something that would have been expanded on in later films.

See also  Shonen Jumps Ayashimon Is Ripping Off One Punch Man (With a Twist)

While none of that, or anything else planned with the franchise, came to fruition on account of the franchise being canceled in favor of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s take on Spider-Man, it would be easy enough to say that all of those things ended up happening offscreen between The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home, with the Lizard dying because his attachment to Peter meant that he was a liability to Fiers. It would be a simple enough solution, and it could even be used to appease those hoping for an Amazing Spider-Man/Sinister Six spin-off by acknowledging all of the things that were going to happen before the series was canceled.

What If Doctor Strange Is Wrong?

While there are plausible scenarios for explaining how Sandman and the Lizard could have died, there’s another possibility to be considered: that Doctor Strange is wrong about the villains being fated to die. It might be that the film will create scenarios for their offscreen deaths, but it could also be that Strange, either for magical reasons or from simply a bad judgment call, is making a wrong assumption about the villains, hence the statement that contradicts what many audience members would know about Sandman and the Lizard. If that’s the case, then it would even serve to justify Peter’s decision to work against Doctor Strange in Spider-Man: No Way Home to keep the villains from dying, as shown in the trailer.

Expanding on that, the idea may be challenged not just by Sandman and the Lizard, but with all of the villains in Spider-Man: No Way Home. While anyone who’s watched their movies knows that most of them die, if they’re being brought into the MCU either before their deaths or after they already happened, then they don’t have to necessarily still die in the end. All of the attention being given to these characters dying will be used to set up their deaths being reversed and allowing them to have a second chance at a good life. An ending like that would be right in line with Spider-Man’s character, and it would be a great way of honoring the older Spider-Man movies that so many viewers grew up with. Ultimately, time will tell whether Spider-Man: No Way Home follows through on this potential.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/spiderman-villains-die-doctor-strange-right-no-way-home/

Movies -