Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Peter Parker’s identity is revealed to the world, and his life quickly spirals out of control as he turns to Doctor Strange for help. When a spell meant to fix the problem goes wrong, it opens the door for dangerous villains from other universes to enter his world. Peter must face the consequences of his choices while protecting the people he cares about most. The story pushes him into a struggle that reshapes both his future and the multiverse.
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Intro
After Quentin Beck/Mysterio reveals Peter Parker’s identity as Spider-Man to the world, Peter, MJ, Ned, and Aunt May are dragged into public chaos, arrested and questioned, and their lives are upended by the backlash, legal trouble, and college rejection that follows.
Turning Point 1
Peter asks Doctor Strange to cast a spell that will make everyone forget he is Spider-Man, but Peter repeatedly interrupts the spell to ask for exceptions for MJ, Ned, and Aunt May, causing the magic to malfunction and begin tearing open the multiverse.
Turning Point 2
While trying to fix the damage, Peter goes to a Queensboro Bridge meeting with an MIT administrator, where Otto Octavius attacks him; Peter defeats Otto by using the nanotechnology from his Iron Spider suit to seize control of the tentacles, and then Norman Osborn’s Green Goblin persona enters the conflict, forcing Strange to trap Peter and the others back at the Sanctum Sanctorum.
Turning Point 3
Strange reveals that the corrupted spell has pulled in villains from other universes who know Spider-Man’s identity, including Curt Connors/Lizard, Max Dillon/Electro, Flint Marko/Sandman, and Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, and Peter captures Dillon and Marko before trying to help Strange cure the villains instead of sending them home unchanged.
Turning Point 4
After learning that the villains die in their own universes, Peter brings them to Happy Hogan’s apartment to remove their powers and fix them, but Green Goblin sabotages the plan, turns on Peter and May, and in the ensuing fight May is fatally wounded by a glider attack, dying after telling Peter to live by “with great power, there must also come great responsibility.”
Turning Point 5
Grief-stricken Peter rejects vengeance, but when Ned accidentally opens portals with Strange’s sling ring, two alternate Spider-Men arrive—Peter Parker from another universe and Peter Parker from yet another universe—each of whom shares that they also lost loved ones and helps the grieving Peter refocus on saving everyone instead of giving up.
Turning Point 6
The three Spider-Men combine their efforts in the Statue of Liberty battle: the variants work together to cure Electro, Doctor Octopus, and the Sandman, while the main Peter confronts Norman Osborn again, cures the Green Goblin with an antidote, and stops Strange’s collapsing spell from destroying reality.
Ending
To stabilize the multiverse, Peter asks Strange to make everyone forget Peter Parker entirely, which succeeds and returns the visitors to their own worlds; afterward, Peter lives alone, studies for his GED, visits May’s grave, and quietly reconnects with MJ and Ned only from a distance, choosing not to reintroduce himself so their lives can remain safe.
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