Now, we get to watch an older Peter try to navigate his early 20s with new friends and foes.įor many fans, the true Spider-Man is broke and overwhelmed by his obligations. These issues are largely unimportant since the memory-wiping plot functions as a bridge into a new trilogy. Why did everyone need to forget who Peter Parker is rather than just forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man? Why change the parameters of the spell? How does the spell even functionally work when Peter still has an entire semester of high school left? MJ and Ned go to school with him-would everyone just think he’s a new kid who appeared out of nowhere? Did the spell apply to all the Peter Parkers? Did Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker return home to Kirsten Dunst’s MJ only for her to not recognize him? He rents out a midtown apartment, dons a homespun Spider-Man costume and begins a lonely life of fighting crime and trying to make rent.įrankly, I have lingering questions. Peter approaches MJ later to tell her who he is but decides against it so she can go start a new life in Boston as a college student at MIT. Doctor Strange agrees to cast the spell, and Peter says his goodbyes to MJ and Ned. The only solution? Everyone in the universe needs to forget Peter Parker. They then help the young Spidey catch and cure each of the villains.īut even as they send the old baddies back to their worlds, the multiverse continues to fracture. Luckily, Maguire and Garfields’ Peters cross into Holland’s dimension too and counsel Peter on the importance of empathy. But this is a Spider-Man story, not an Avengers story, and unlike his fellow superheroes, Spider-Man is fueled by hope, not vengeance. Peter is racked with guilt and desperate to kill the Green Goblin.
In her dying moments, Aunt May utters the famous words that have yet to have been spoken aloud in this particular iteration of the Spidey story: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
Of course, no good deed goes unpunished, and the Green Goblin escapes and kills Aunt May. (What an admirably empathetic, Gen Z approach to battling bad guys!) It’s Peter’s job to send them back, though once he realizes that all the baddies are fated to die fighting the other Spider-Men, he wonders if there isn’t a kinder, more ethical way to deal with these men, each of whom suffers from some mental or physical ailment. A handful of villains from older Spider-Man franchises-the ones starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield before Tom Holland took over the role-cross over from their worlds to fight Holland’s Peter Parker.
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