
Alone in the big city, Parker drops out of high school, gets his GED, and becomes the smalltime “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” of Sony’s original envisioning. Both MJ and Ned have no idea who he is, allowing them to go to college and end their three-movie contracts with completed story arcs. The Avengers have forgotten him Nick Fury will no longer come calling his Iron Man tech is gone. The result is basically a soft reboot of the Spidey franchise. Strange wiped Peter Parker from the collective memory of the world. Then, the spell to fix all this went wrong, opening up a multiverse of cameo appearances by villains and superheroes from previous iterations of the franchise from before Sony and the MCU teamed up for the Tom Holland-led trilogy. Jonah Jameson had revealed his true identity, and it not only ruined his life, but also MJ and Ned’s college dreams. No Way Home opened with Peter Parker winding up on Dr. Warning: Spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home follow. But don’t despair! Spider-Man 4 is already in active development as a co-production between Sony and the MCU.

The film marked the end of what fans refer to as the “Home” trilogy (along with Homecoming and Far From Home), and its ending seemed to suggest Spidey’s exit from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spider-Man: No Way Home officially had the most successful opening weekend of any of the standalone Marvel franchise movies, bringing in over $250 million in three days, second only to the two final Avengers films in 20.
