Spider-Man 4 Will Fix 4 MCU Spidey Problems

After the major events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker is coming back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with another solo movie, and Spider-Man 4 can solve some of Spider-Man’s biggest problems so far. Although the MCU began its run in 2008, it took longer for Spider-Man to arrive in this universe due to problems with the rights to the character, but thanks to a deal between Sony and Marvel, Spider-Man (Tom Holland) finally joined the MCU in 2016 in Captain America: Civil War, where he was recruited by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to join Team Iron Man.

Peter Parker led his first solo movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming, the following year before joining the rest of the MCU’s heroes in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The web-slinger closed the Infinity Saga with Spider-Man: Far From Home, the first MCU movie to take a look at the world post-Endgame and which saw Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) revealing Spider-Man’s identity to the whole world. This led Peter to ask Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for help in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but the spell he cast to make the world forget Peter is Spider-Man was botched and, instead, they opened the gates to the multiverse, allowing villains from past Spider-Man movies to cross over into the MCU, along with two variants of Spider-Man.

At the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the only solution to stop a massive multiverse conflict was casting a spell that made the world forget Peter Parker, leaving the young hero completely alone and starting a new chapter in his life without his friends and loved ones. This brings a bunch of interesting possibilities for Spider-Man’s arc from now on, and this fresh start also allows Spider-Man 4 to fix some important problems the web-slinger has been facing since his introduction to the MCU – and here’s what they are.

Spider-Man 4 Can Fully Move Peter Parker Away From Being Iron Man 2.0

As Peter Parker arrived at the MCU when this universe was already well established, he needed a bit of help to better integrate, so Marvel used Tony Stark for that. Iron Man became Spider-Man’s mentor, being the one who “discovered” him, recruited him first and continued to help him after the Civil War conflict, including making high-tech suits for the young hero. As seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home, Tony Stark’s death was a big punch for Peter, but even with Iron Man now gone, the MCU continued making Spider-Man dependent on Tony Stark, and it became clear that Marvel wanted to turn Spidey into Iron Man 2.0 – which wasn’t entirely illogical as both are geniuses and most of what Spider-Man knows is thanks to Iron Man. However, this has obviously stopped Spider-Man from being his own person, and by leaving him completely alone at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the MCU is helping Spider-Man detach from his past, so Spider-Man 4 can be the one that finally sees the web-slinger move away from Iron Man’s shadow.

Spider-Man 4 Is Making Him A Real Street-Level Hero

Tom Holland as Spider-Man and Charlie Cox as Daredevil in the MCU

While Spider-Man’s run in the MCU has been very well received by the audience, there have also been a couple of complaints about how this universe has portrayed the popular superhero. The MCU opted for skipping his origin story and went straight to Spider-Man already fighting crime on the streets of Queens, after which he fought alongside some of this universe’s biggest heroes and later joined the biggest battle the MCU has seen in Avengers: Endgame. The MCU, then, has skipped a very important part of Spider-Man’s story and development: he as a street-level hero. Kevin Feige has already confirmed that the MCU is now divided into different parts, one of those being the “street-level” with Spider-Man and Daredevil (Charlie Cox), who is officially joining the MCU after his cameo appearance in No Way Home. This will take Peter Parker back to his roots, giving Marvel the chance to explore some of Spider-Man’s most popular and classic comic book storylines and allowing the web-slinger to be a hero on his own.

Spider-Man 4 Should Fix Peter Parker's Fighting Problem

Spider-Man No Way Home Peter changes Homecoming punches

Spider-Man has grown and changed a lot since his first appearance in the MCU, but not all those changes have been good. Spider-Man has gone from not throwing punches (but he did kick his opponents) to engaging in a quite brutal fight with the Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe) in No Way Home that, had he not been stopped by Peter-Two (Tobey Maguire), would have left Peter with blood on his hands. No Way Home even had a moment where Peter-Three (Andrew Garfield) talked about how he stopped pulling his punches after Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) died in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, so after everything that happened with the villains and Peter being left completely alone at the end of the movie, it would make sense for him to go back to that starting point where he didn’t throw punches, no matter how dangerous his enemies were.

Spider-Man 4 Can Fix The MCU & Raimi's Venom Failures

As the MCU expands, and as it explores its multiverse deeper and deeper, it connects more with other Marvel universes, such as Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, where characters like Morbius (Jared Leto) and Venom/Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) live. The mid-credits scene in No Way Home served as a continuation of the one in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, in which Venom and Eddie were transported to the MCU and saw J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) talking about Spider-Man’s recently revealed identity on TV. The scene in No Way Home saw Eddie trying to understand the MCU’s mainstream timeline and its many superheroes before Strange’s spell took him and Venom back to their timeline – however, the symbiote left a piece of itself in the MCU, making it possible for Spider-Man and Venom to finally meet in the near future. Spider-Man 4, then, is not only a chance for Spider-Man and Venom to cross paths but also for the MCU to fix Marvel’s past mistakes with Venom. The symbiote made its big screen debut in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, but it failed to connect with the audience, and while the tease at the end of No Way Home was exciting, it didn’t do much good to Hardy’s Eddie Brock. Spider-Man 4 can make up for Raimi’s past mistakes while Sony continues to do its thing with the “main” Venom and the MCU builds its own story with the symbiote left by Venom and explores its dynamic with the current Spider-Man.