{"id":563689,"date":"2026-05-03T08:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563689\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:18:26","slug":"after-new-spider-man-reveal-im-convinced-marvel-needs-to-undo-no-way-homes-ending-but-it-can-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563689\/","title":{"rendered":"After New Spider-Man Reveal, I’m Convinced Marvel Needs to Undo No Way Home’s Ending (But it Can Work)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s biggest hits, earning widespread critical acclaim and $1.9 billion at the worldwide box office. Much of that success was due to the blasts of nostalgia at the film\u2019s core, but No Way Home was an example of fan service done right. Even as Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield\u2019s Spider-Man entered the picture, the focus remained on Tom Holland\u2019s iteration with a poignant narrative about what \u201cgreat responsibility\u201d truly means. One of the standout moments of Holland\u2019s MCU tenure is his Peter Parker making a selfless sacrifice at the end of No Way Home<\/a>, telling Doctor Strange to cast a spell that will make everyone forget about him. Of course, that meant saying goodbye to his closest friends and loved ones.<\/p>\n

Peter\u2019s decision in No Way Home (particularly, his choice to not reconnect with Ned and MJ) is an incredibly powerful twist. As heartbreaking as it was, it was an important step of Peter\u2019s journey as a hero. This is why some Marvel fans are concerned by the signs indicating this summer\u2019s Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a> will undo the No Way Home ending. That ending feels like something that should remain permanent, but after the latest batch of Brand New Day reveals, I\u2019m convinced Marvel has to undo it \u2014 and there\u2019s a right way to do it.<\/p>\n

Peter Parker Completely Misunderstood Aunt May\u2019s Point in Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/p>\n

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Recently, Marvel shared a few annotated pages of the Brand New Day script<\/a>, giving fans some insight into the creative process. The film begins with Peter reading the letter he wrote (but never read) to MJ at the end of No Way Home. In the voiceover, Peter explains why he\u2019ll never reintroduce himself to her by saying it\u2019s his responsibility \u201cto live alone with the truth.\u201d Interestingly, this page includes a note from director Destin Daniel Cretton that says this is a \u201c[misrepresentation] of what May said to him\u201d in No Way Home. Famously, moments before her death, May said a variation of \u201cwith great power comes great responsibility\u201d to her nephew, giving him a final lesson to carry through in life.<\/p>\n

Obviously, May was referring to Peter\u2019s responsibility to use his gifts and abilities to help others. She was so adamant about curing the villains in No Way Home because she knew Peter had the talent and resources to aid them. Even after the Green Goblin attacked, May didn\u2019t waver in that belief. Somehow, Peter got his aunt\u2019s message twisted, and his takeaway was that it was ultimately his responsibility to cut himself off from society because he is Spider-Man, and it\u2019s his job to just keep people safe so they can enjoy their lives. He convinced himself that he shouldn\u2019t have personal connections.<\/p>\n

That mindset probably stems from whatever lingering guilt Peter feels about causing Doctor Strange\u2019s original spell to go haywire. He was so worried about how that spell would affect Ned, MJ, and May that he indirectly caused a multiversal incident that led to his aunt\u2019s death. If he isn\u2019t close to anyone and no one knows he\u2019s Spider-Man, then something like that can\u2019t happen again. From his point of view, Peter believes he\u2019s keeping his friends safe by isolating himself from them. The issue with this \u2014 which the Brand New Day script makes abundantly clear \u2014 is that it\u2019s an extremely unhealthy way for a person to live.<\/p>\n

In the nine months since the end of No Way Home, Peter has become a superhero hermit. Per the script annotations, he is \u201centirely alone\u201d for the first time in his life, and his only friend is his new AI assistant E.V. When Peter experiences a \u201csmall, sharp headache\u201d (a tease of his mutating DNA), he \u201cshakes it off\u201d and hopes it isn\u2019t anything serious. Cretton\u2019s script notes directly call Peter out for \u201csigns of unhealthy living,\u201d laying the groundwork for the character\u2019s emotional arc in Brand New Day. By making Peter\u2019s lonely existence the main crux of the first few pages of the script, the filmmakers are communicating that the story will partially be about Peter realizing the error of his ways and learning to open himself up to others again.<\/p>\n

How Undoing the No Way Home Ending Can Work<\/p>\n

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It makes a lot of sense for the No Way Home ending to reverberate through Brand New Day. That was a massive development, so it\u2019s a thread that should be continued. However, Holland\u2019s Spider-Man can\u2019t just be a perpetually depressed hermit for the rest of his MCU tenure. It\u2019s a compelling angle for one movie to explore, but beyond that, the premise could wear thin \u2014 especially since other versions of Spider-Man have had support systems. In just the other films, Tobey Maguire\u2019s Peter had Aunt May, Andrew Garfield\u2019s was close with Gwen Stacy, and Miles in the Spider-Verse movies has a bevy of other variants he can lean on. A support system \u2014 even if it\u2019s just one person \u2014 is an integral part of Spider-Man.<\/p>\n

Giving Holland\u2019s Peter a support system at this stage in the MCU necessitates undoing the No Way Home ending. The trick is finding the right approach to pull that off. Reestablishing the status quo of the Peter\/Ned\/MJ trio would feel hollow, undercutting the emotional impact of No Way Home\u2018s devastating conclusion. It would also fly in the face of the Brand New Day title itself. The idea is that this film is the first chapter of a new story for Peter Parker, so hitting the reset button could be interpreted as a cheap move. In order for this to truly be a \u201cbrand new day,\u201d Peter needs to move forward \u2014 and that means moving on from Ned and MJ.<\/p>\n

Considering his history with them, it\u2019s understandable why Peter is so obsessed with reconnecting with Ned and MJ, but there are signs that\u2019s a lost cause. MJ has a new boyfriend<\/a>, indicating she has moved on with her life. Ned likely has made new friends in college. As much as Peter would love to go back to his old life, it\u2019s borderline impossible for him to reform those bonds. Not even Spider-Man can make up years of shared experiences just in conversation. All the time Peter is spending trying to reinsert himself into Ned and MJ\u2019s lives could be used to make new connections and new friends. And this is the smart way to technically undo the No Way Home ending.<\/p>\n

If Brand New Day has new characters assume those support system roles (even if it\u2019s just Peter confiding in Bruce Banner, who seems to take an interest in Peter\u2019s mutating DNA), it would be a way for Marvel to have its cake and eat it too. The larger \u201cPeter Parker No More\u201d sentiment of the No Way Home ending would be cast aside, but the immediate impact of Peter severing his ties to Ned and MJ would remain. That would likely be a satisfying solution for most viewers and give Brand New Day a compelling thematic arc to tap into, mirroring high school students moving on to the \u201cbrand new day\u201d of college. In No Way Home, the \u201cresponsible\u201d thing for Peter to do in that moment was to sacrifice his relationships, but May wasn\u2019t saying he should go through life with no friends. In Brand New Day, he\u2019ll hopefully learn that.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s biggest hits, earning widespread critical acclaim and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,6461,2839,88885,19799,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-movies","tag-regular-feature","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}