Marvel Was Scarily Close To Making Andrew Garfields SpiderMan MCU Canon

Marvel Was Scarily Close To Making Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man MCU Canon

Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker almost became canon to the MCU, thanks to an Easter egg in 2012’s The Avengers, but the detail wasn’t in the final cut.

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Marvel Was Scarily Close To Making Andrew Garfields SpiderMan MCU Canon

Due to a planned Easter egg, Andrew Garfield’s iteration of Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man films nearly became canon to the MCU. 2012 saw the exciting conclusion of the MCU’s Phase 1, in which five Marvel solo outings coalesced into the ambitious crossover film, The Avengers. The film was a critical and commercial success, in addition to being a genre-changing event of a movie. That same year, the Spider-Man film franchise was rebooted with The Amazing Spider-Man, replacing Sam Raimi’s direction and Tobey Maguire’s starring role with Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield, respectively. Had the proposed Easter egg made it into the final cut of The Avengers, Andrew’s Spider-Man would have been the MCU’s web-slinger.

To ensure that they’d retain the film rights to Spider-Man, Sony Pictures opted to reboot the franchise rather than wait for the fourth installment of Sam Raimi’s film series. While Raimi’s films took heavy inspiration from the Stan Lee and Steve Ditko comics of the ‘60s, The Amazing Spider-Man had more in common with the modern Ultimate Spider-Man alternate universe stories from the early 2000s. The series only lasted for two films before Sony and Marvel Studios agreed to share the Spider-Man film rights, leading to yet another reboot in the form of Tom Holland’s iteration of Spider-Man.

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A key location in The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel was Oscorp Tower, the looming headquarters of Norman (and later Harry) Osborn’s sordid corporate scheming. According to Avi Arad and Matthew Tolmach, who produced The Amazing Spider-Man, this fictional Midtown Manhattan building was intended to appear in the New York City skyline throughout The Avengers’ action-packed act 3 battle. These plans were, unfortunately, thwarted by the fact that The Avengers’ digital Manhattan skyline was already rendered by the time that the Oscorp Tower model was completed. While legal barriers prevented Spider-Man from appearing in the MCU, this detail would have made Andrew Garfield’s version of Spider-Man canon to the MCU without a direct appearance from the web-slinger.

If the Easter egg remained in the film, perhaps other details in the MCU and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would have been included to reinforce the connection. The Avengers Tower, the refurbished Stark Tower, could have been added to the New York skyline in Garfield’s second outing. News headlines and broadcasts could have referenced events from both franchises as well. Considering the vastness of the MCU and the local, smaller-scale nature of Spider-Man’s movies, the two franchises could have easily been established as connected without Garfield showing up in an MCU.

This would, of course, have changed in the MCU’s Phase 3, when Sony and Marvel Studious worked out a deal to share Spider-Man. Instead of Tom Holland’s new iteration of Peter, Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man would have shown up in Captain America: Civil War, perhaps playing a different role in the film, considering that Andrew’s iteration was far more experienced and protective of his secret identity. Andrew’s third Amazing Spider-Man installment would also have free reign to include cameos from MCU characters and Andrew would appear in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

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Each of the three modern live-action iterations of Spider-Man has deservedly been crowd-pleasing and successful iterations of Marvel’s flagship superhero, though Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield played more comic-accurate versions of the web-slinger (and each nearly became the MCU’s Spider-Man at different points). A common complaint about Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films is their overreliance on Tony Stark and other MCU crossovers, but Tobey and Andrew’s versions were both self-sufficient superheroes who established their identities without heavy-handed crossovers, which some viewers would have preferred. Had the Oscorp Tower Easter egg made it into The Avengers, Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man would have been the MCU’s canonical web-slinger, and the franchise might have been markedly different.

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