As in the comic-book storyline “The Night Gwen Stacy Died” (spoilers!), he spun a web to catch her after she was knocked off a bell tower by one of Spider-Man’s enemies, but the web failed to prevent her from breaking her neck. It’s a lot.Īs Garfield’s Peter explains, his life went off the rails when he failed to save his girlfriend Gwen Stacy’s life. But it’s also a reference to the comic-book Peter’s relationship with MJ, which has been through a lot of changes over the decades: They’ve been married, split up, forced to forget each other by a demon, and she once died when her plane exploded midflight. In the original trilogy, Peter wrestles with whether to tell Mary Jane whether he’s Spider-Man, and once he does, well, there’s no easy way to be married to a superhero. Speaking of which, why does Tobey Maguire’s Peter say things are “complicated” with Mary Jane? There’s no in-universe rationale, but Marvel’s de-aging still looks weird, and anyway, part of the point is for the various Peters to represent different kinds of futures for Tom Holland’s character: Maguire’s, in which he eventually works things out with his version of MJ and settles down, and Garfield’s, in which he’s consumed with rage and guilt over Gwen Stacy’s death and never fully recovers. This is another one of those things where you just have to accept that a wizard did it. After all, at least some of these other people, such as James Franco’s and Dane DeHaan’s takes on the Green Goblin, also figured out that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, and also died in those movies, and also have superpowers, and yet they don’t appear here. Any rigid in-universe explanation for why the spell pulled in some characters but not others seems to fall apart under any scrutiny.
There’s also a fleeting reference to a “Russian guy in a rhino suit,” i.e., Paul Giamatti’s character from ASM 2.Īs for why they’re not in this movie, you know that Simpsons episode where they explain that if anything seems like it doesn’t make sense, “ a wizard did it”? In this case, a wizard literally did it.
There are lots of people missing! Neither the original trilogy’s Harry Osborn, played by James Franco, or ASM’s version, played by Dane DeHaan, were roped in by Doctor Strange’s spell, and Topher Grace’s Eddie Brock/Venom stays out of the loop as well, presumably to leave the ground clear for the midcredits scene.
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