SpiderMan No Way Home Brings a New Meaning to the Word ‘Redemption

Spider-Man: No Way Home Brings a New Meaning to the Word ‘Redemption’

Filled with nostalgic references to previous Spider-Man franchises, No Way Home also serves up a healthy dose of redemption.

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SpiderMan No Way Home Brings a New Meaning to the Word ‘Redemption

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home, now in theaters.

The latest installment in the Marvel trilogy starring Tom Holland hit theaters on December 17, and everyone agrees that Spider-Man: No Way Home is possibly the greatest Spider-Man film ever. Filled with nostalgic references to previous Spider-Man franchises, the most recent offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe has swept audiences off their feet and changed the face of the MCU as fans know it.

The plot of No Way Home centers around the idea of redemption. Peter Parker’s identity was revealed to the entire world in Far From Home’s finale, and his newfound infamy has caused many difficulties for him, his friends and his family. Peter turns to former colleague Doctor Stephen Strange, a master of the mystic arts, but no longer Sorcerer Supreme thanks to a technicality from when he was Blipped after the events of Avengers: Infinity War. Peter hopes that Strange’s ability to warp time and reality could help give him and his friends a second chance at getting into college if he could get the world to forget that he was Spider-Man. Strange, despite Wong’s wishes, agrees to help Peter by casting a spell to try and alter reality to amend Peter’s situation.

SpiderMan No Way Home Brings a New Meaning to the Word ‘Redemption

However, while trying to find a loophole that would allow his girlfriend MJ, his best friend Ned and his Aunt May to still know his secret, Peter ends up causing the spell to overload and essentially start to rip apart reality. Luckily, Strange contains the magic before it can cause any serious damage, but one simple sentence Peter utters during the casting changes everything: “Basically everyone who knew I was Spider-Man before should still know!”

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Strange’s spell was meddling with reality itself, so with Peter uttering this specific phrase during the casting of the spell, he didn’t realize it meant anyone that knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man from any universe. This causes villains Doc Oc and Green Goblin from the Sam Raimi Spider-verse to appear in the current Peter Parker’s world. Other villains from The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, Electro and Lizard, also make an appearance, along with Sandman from Spider-Man 3. The arrival of all these villains from previous universes can only mean one thing: their respective Spider-Men aren’t far behind.

SpiderMan No Way Home Brings a New Meaning to the Word ‘Redemption

No Way Home provides a chance for the villains to redeem themselves for once. After learning that the villains’ fate is to die at the hands of Spider-Man in the universes they came from, Peter implores Doctor Strange to help try and cure them of their afflictions before sending them back. Strange knows all too well that you shouldn’t mess with the nature of reality, but Peter is driven by compassion — a running theme throughout his entire trilogy — and fights Doctor Strange to prevent him from sending the villains back to die.

This motif follows Peter’s journey throughout the previous two Spider-Man films, a lesson Aunt May instilled in him: do the right thing. He follows his heart, and a lot of people end up getting hurt. This is when he finally meets the other Peter Parkers (Maguire and Garfield), who console him while sharing their own tales of loss. The parallels between the three truly are incredible to see onscreen, and it’s fascinating to witness Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker step more into the older, more seasoned mentor role of the three.

Along with the villains, each of these Spider-Men has something they need to redeem as well. For Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker, it’s the death of his girlfriend Gwen Stacy. In the finale of No Way Home, Garfield’s Parker has a chance to right his past mistakes by saving MJ (Zendaya) after she falls from the Statue of Liberty. The look of sheer relief on his face after they both landed safely on the ground was enough to reduce anyone to a puddle of tears alongside him.

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Tobey Maguire’s Parker had a few chances for redemption in No Way Home, too, most notably creating a device to cure Sandman’s condition, as well as an anti-serum for Norman Osborn’s psychosis. He also helped save Tom Holland’s Parker from going down a path of no return by killing Norman Osborn in his rage over Aunt May’s death. With Peter 1 (Holland) about to mutilate Osborn in a similar fashion that John Walker killed the flagsmasher vigilante in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Maguire’s Parker literally put himself between the two. The look shared between the two Peter’s was intense and knowing: Maguire knew that this path would only bring Holland’s Parker more pain. It was such a poignant moment for both of them.

No Way Home is a love letter to Spider-Man. The opening minutes feature direct callbacks to the original Spider-Man trilogy, as well as The Amazing Spider-Man franchise (directed by Marc Webb). Die-hard Spidey fans recognized iconic moments within the “Spider-Verse” recreated in No Way Home via clever camera angles and framework, witty lines of dialogue and even obscure Easter eggs hidden in the background of most scenes. Spider-Man: No Way Home succeeded on an epic scale in a way where Eternals fell flat. Yes, there were lots of characters, and a lot of Spider-Man lore incorporated into the film, but this movie has something for new MCU fans and die-hard Spidey lovers. But, more importantly, No Way Home succeeded in redeeming every character, a feat few films can lay claim to.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is in theaters now.

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