SpiderMan No Way Home’s Ending Is Brutal But Peter Parker’s Betrayal Is Worse

Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Ending Is Brutal – But Peter Parker’s Betrayal Is Worse

Peter’s life is transformed after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, but one decision he makes at the end of the film should haunt him forever.

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SpiderMan No Way Home’s Ending Is Brutal But Peter Parker’s Betrayal Is Worse

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

The Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Spider-Man has always treated the character as the tip of a spear that is held aloft by supporting players who contribute to his success. Tony Stark, Aunt May, Happy Hogan, Ned and MJ have all been integral parts of the Spider-Man machine and each piece has supported him in their own way. There has never been a single moment of his journey displayed on-screen that did not include the assistance of one of those characters. The conclusion to the trilogy has reset everything about that dynamic and plays out somewhat like a Spider-Man origin story despite the fact that it’s his third solo film and sixth overall in the MCU.

Peter Parker is now a living ghost after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which has soared at the box office, and must find a way to re-enter society as a consequence of the spell he botched while asking a favor of Doctor Strange in the Sanctum Sanctorum. Bereft of any support, he must carve a place for himself in this new world all alone, but that was his choice, though it was a choice that he didn’t have any right to make.

SpiderMan No Way Home’s Ending Is Brutal But Peter Parker’s Betrayal Is Worse

After curing or neutralizing all of the enemies arrayed against them, the trinity of Spider-Men are victorious and offer their love and appreciation to one another. Doctor Strange tells the Peter of the sacred timeline that the only way to repair the damage to the multiverse is to cast the original spell that would wipe everyone’s memory of Peter Parker away so it would be as if he never existed. Peter tells Strange to go ahead with the spell because they have no choice, and Strange holds the dimensional tears in place, keeping them from ripping so that Peter can say his goodbyes.

He approaches Ned and MJ and tells them the cost that must be paid to save everyone, and MJ is not on board. She demands that they find another way; that they figure out their next move together; that they don’t succumb to this void that would echo throughout all of them if they became strangers to one another. Peter convinces her this is the only way, but she is resolute and agrees to go along with this on the one condition that he find her as soon as the world is saved and the spatial rifts are mended and all multiversal beings have returned to their native planes of existence. Peter agrees, and the spell is cast.

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With a rehearsed speech on his lips and a ruffled paper with its words clutched in his hands, the audience sees Peter quickening his way to MJ’s job to begin the long journey back to each other. However, once he sees her and Ned, he freezes, unable to bring himself to disrupt their peace. Then, he sees her bandaid, a reminder of the scar she received while standing by his side, and he changes his mind. He makes the decision to leave them both in the bliss of their ignorance and prepares for a life of crippling solitude, and it is the greatest betrayal that he could have visited upon the love of his life.

The bond that the three of them shared was always predicated on trust, and unlike previous iterations of Spider-Man, it was also a team dynamic where the actuality of being Spider-Man was more of a collective who offered technical, moral or, much more recently, mystical support. Each of them had their own agency, and Peter unilaterally took that from them. Although he had the best of intentions, he infantilized them by deciding he knew best or that it wasn’t worth the risk. Still, it was a risk they decided upon with open eyes and willing hearts. When Mysterio’s lies jeopardized each of them, they all stood by Peter unwaveringly and proudly, trusting in one another to see things through, even though Peter was the only one with Matt Murdock as his lawyer. Even when Peter went off on his own to convince the MIT representative to reconsider their admissions after the spell debacle, MJ says to him clearly that next time he should just check in with them because this decision he made affects them all, and they should provide input.

This betrayal doesn’t only involve his friends, but Aunt May as well. Part of the parable that Peter is meant to accept and internalize is that one must do what the can to help others if they have the ability to do so, even when they must sacrifice themselves. When the Green Goblin’s glider killed her, it was in part due to the fact that May recommended the course of action that would put Peter, herself and the world in harm’s way. In a paradoxical interpretation of the Uncle Ben dynamic, his attempt to redeem Norman Osborn is what brought about May’s death, but this was a choice she made and would have made again because, for her, the risk was worth it, which enabled her to live the life she felt she was meant to live.

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Peter is more alone now than he has ever been, living in a world where he is unknown to all and must forge connections with literally no one who loves him or even cares about him. It is in this fragile state that he makes this decision and perhaps it is his fear of losing someone again in a permanent way that drives him to come to this heartbreaking conclusion. The Green Goblin in all his cruelty couldn’t have come up with a better fate for Peter if he had scripted it himself. He lost Tony within the last year, then May and now the world, so perhaps it can be chalked up to leaning on a defense mechanism when nothing else seems suitable or accessible, but unfortunately, that doesn’t matter.

He didn’t honor their choices or respect their agency and allowed either his guilt, or fear, or selfish view of self-sacrifice to lead him into betraying the spirit of those that he should have done everything in his power to honor, considering the sacrifice that they themselves made and continue to make on his behalf without even being aware of it. MJ’s mantra throughout No Way Home and her guiding light throughout her character arc was essentially always expecting to be disappointed so that when you are, it won’t be a surprise. At the moment, when she had freed herself of that barrier, that kept her joy caged and her expectations low, she ventured outside of herself to the man she loved and defied what made her comfortable to embrace what frightened her. In deciding to allow her to remain in the dark, the only favor Peter did her proved that she had always been right.

To see Peter betray his promise, Spider-Man: No Way Home is now playing in theaters.

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