Captain America: Civil War, where he was recruited by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to his side of the battle.
After that, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) starred in his first solo movie, villains from past Spider-Man movies (as well as Spider-Man variants) into the MCU.
Spider-Man: No Way Home ended with Doctor Strange casting a spell that made the world forget Peter Parker, leaving the young man all alone and starting a new life without those closest to him. This is a fresh start for Spider-Man that will finally fix the biggest change the MCU made to the character as it’s finally letting him be a street-level hero, as he should have been from the beginning.
What Spider-Man Being A Street-Level Hero Means For The MCU
During Marvel Studios’ Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Kevin Feige revealed the Feige revealed that the MCU is now divided into different parts, one of those being the “street-level” with Spider-Man and Daredevil (Charlie Cox), as the latter’s inclusion in the MCU had just been announced. This is great news for fans of Spider-Man as it means that the character will go back to its roots as a street-level hero, as the MCU skipped that part of his story and went straight into making Spider-Man an Avenger and an international hero.
The MCU opted not to tell Spider-Man’s origin story and instead introduced the character when he was already fighting crime in Queens, though it didn’t take time to explore that either. Spider-Man was immediately pulled into major action by ing Team Iron Man in Civil War and was later given major threats in Homecoming and Far From Home, not to mention him ing the Avengers in Infinity War and Endgame in order to defeat Thanos. The MCU turned Spider-Man into Iron Man’s mentee and even an Iron Man 2.0, making him dependent on Stark and having him live in his shadow for a long time. With No Way Home leaving him all alone and starting all over again, viewers will finally see Spider-Man as the street-level hero he should have been from the beginning, and this will finally allow him to be himself and stop living in Iron Man’s shadow.
