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A new TV Spot for the upcoming multiversal MCU entry, Spider-Man: No Way Home has brought in a very small, yet significant change in a Doctor Strange quote. Though the change is small (yet noticeable), a single word puts an entire scenario in a different perspective. And that change is at the moment in the trailer wherein Doctor Strange asks Holland’s Peter Parker to “Scooby-Do this crap”.
In the official trailer of ‘No Way Home’, we had heard Doctor Strange explaining to Parker and his friends about the new harbingers of trouble and chaos Pete’s recently facing. He says,
“…when you botched that spell where you wanted everyone to forget you’re Spider-Man, we started getting visitors, from every universe…”
The trailer footage clearly implied that Peter Parker has evidently caused this mess that has got an entire universe under intense danger. We further saw Peter stopping Strange from apparently sending these villains back to their world, which will probably lead to unraveling the true story of the film.
However, in a recent notice brought forward by The Direct, the new TV Spot shows Strange changing his words during the same conversation. He iterates,
“…when I shut that spell down, we started getting visitors…”
In this aforementioned change, the entire scenario seems to be something different. It actually raises a big question that – who’s truly responsible for the said, brutal multiversal conflict?
If you recall, Parker first asks Doctor Strange to help him make people forget his identity as Spider-Man. However, upon realizing, that it would mean everyone, even his loved ones forgetting his true identity, he interrupts Strange, which results in the latter losing control of the spell. That opens up doors to the multiverse, which, as Strange says, is something he and other sorcerers know frighteningly little of, causing inter-dimensional problems for the wall-crawler and the sorcerer. The speculation was also based on the trailer’s footage which showed Spidey and Doc fighting over each other, which fans thought was due to Spidey’s child-like, rushed-up decisions he makes.
But now, if it was Strange who willingly shut down that spell, then is it really Parker who caused the trouble in the first place? He surely seems to have escalated the chaos by stopping Strange from sending these villains back to their worlds; however, the spell’s distortion may not be entirely Peter’s fault. The one small change just reverses the entire scene and would give a significant portion of the movie an entirely different take and outlook.
Plus, it’s possible that Strange might’ve shut down the spell after losing control over it. Wong had warned him not to use the spell and explicitly called it dangerous. Also, since Strange himself had little awareness of the multiversal rules, it’s possible he wasn’t entirely capable of sustaining enough energy to complete it successfully. Still, it just became more unclear as to who caused the multiversal guests to arrive and break hell in MCU’s Earth-616 and caused unprecedented events.
Multiverse, in itself, is a complex subject even if we look at it from an audiences’ fictional point of view. Marvel Studios reportedly sat and had a meeting just to discuss the concept and its consequences in its films that all take place in a shared continuity. Moreover, the concept has only been explored at a small level in live-action format, with DC’s Arrowverse as a prominent project involved in it. For Marvel, Spider-Man: No Way Home would be the first true project to dive into it after it was hinted in the Disney+ series, Loki (which confirmed the existence of “multiple worlds”).
The film which is bringing back the iconic villains from previous Spider-Man films is intensely hyped among fans who are speculating the appearance of Tobey Maguire’s and Andrew Garfield’s iteration of Spider-Man. Whatever happens, No Way Home will surely far-stretch the boundaries of MCU and may open space for Spidey’s own mini-universe itself, adjunct with Sony’s Spider-Man Universe.
How things actually pan out for Spidey and Doctor Strange would be unraveled soon when Spider-Man: No Way Home opens in theaters on December 17, 2021.
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