With Marvel announcing the upcoming Avengers: Secret Wars project, the door is now open for the MCU to pay off one of the biggest things set up by Spider-Man: No Way Home. With the future of the MCU's iteration of the web-slinger uncertain, there are still a number of stories that have yet to be told with the character. In a way, the Spider-Man: Homecoming trilogy was an extended origin story for the young crime fighter, as it explored his transformation into a proper hero.

However, there are still plenty of stories to be told revolving around Spider-Man's adult years, such as the story of the infamous black suit. Spider-Man and the black suit - later revealed to be an alien parasite - have a long and combative relationship. The storyline revolving around its introduction into his life is so popular that it's been featured in nearly every on-screen Spider-Man adaptation since its debut. Most notably, to the chagrin of many, was 2007's Spider-Man 3, which was largely panned. Eventually, Sony attempted something different with 2018's Venom, completely bypassing Spider-Man's role in the backstory of that character. It wouldn't be until 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home that the black suit and Spider-Man would be reunited on the big screen. Except that wasn't exactly what happened. Related: Venom's MCU Future Is Good For Tom Holland (But Bad For Sony) While Venom's presence in Spider-Man: No Way Home was ostensibly a cameo, the MCU is in a position to pay off what that symbiote tease cameo set up by using Avengers: Secret Wars to introduce this Spider-Man to the symbiote properly. It would be a logical play, considering the comic book origins of the black suit. Not only that, but it could be used to further explore Peter's place in the MCU.

How Spider-Man Can Fit Into MCU Phase 6's Avengers Movies

The future of Tom Holland's Spider-Man isn't entirely certain, and introducing him to the black symbiote suit could fix that, building an MCU Phase 6 storyline that would fit into the Avengers movies, but could also be explored further outside of them. The MCU's Spider-Man left off at the end of a transitional period for the character, preparing to move into his adult life, fully prepared to take on whole new challenges on his own. The black suit is a storyline that heavily revolves around Peter grappling with the struggles of his increasingly complicated and stressful adult life, while Spider-Man's battle with Venom represents the consequences of his actions in that period. Having the black suit come in to help him with those woes - only to later exacerbate them - would be an appropriate way to bring Peter back into the MCU fold, perhaps at the peak of his struggles and his feeling overwhelmed, especially now that he's essentially alone. Introducing Peter to the black suit would also be easy and appropriate, considering the upcoming Phase 6 storyline.

Spider-Man's black suit first debuted in the 1984 comic Secret Wars, where he got the alien costume on a patchwork planet called Battle World. The circumstances are almost certain to be remarkably different, but Tom Holland's Spider-Man future in the MCU Phase 6 would work alongside this storyline, depicting a more mature Peter Parker, doing his best to get through adulthood while juggling his secret life as a superhero. After the tease in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the MCU could do worse than whisking Peter away to Battle World, only to come into contact with the symbiote and introduce a black-suited Spider-Man to the MCU in Avengers: Secret Wars.