Warning: This article contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Jon Watts has concluded the MCU’s first No Way Home. By far the biggest box office success since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the Tom Holland-starring Spidey threequel provided a true sense of finality on overarching narratives like Peter Parker’s complicated combination of power and responsibility.
But Spidey’s on-screen journey is far from over. No Way Home is a crowd-pleasing finale on par with Daredevil, No Way Home sets up a handful of exciting potential offshoots.
The Amazing Spider-Man 3
While its story remains The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in which he failed to save Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy.
Garfield’s role in No Way Home has reminded audiences that he was a great Peter Parker marred by shaky writing and direction in Garfield’s performance in No Way Home could lead Sony to re-greenlight his unproduced third Amazing Spider-Man movie.
An MCU Venom Movie
Two months after the credits scene of Venom: Let There Be Carnage introduced Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock into the MCU, the credits scene of No Way Home kicked him back out of it – but he left behind some of the Venom symbiote before returning to his own universe.
This scene might be a springboard for Marvel Studios to somehow bring back Hardy or introduce a new Venom altogether in the same universe as Holland’s Spidey.
A Damage Control Series On Disney+
Introduced in the prologue of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The MCU’s Damage Control is burdened with handling complicated cases like the destruction of the Statue of Liberty and the mass brainwashing of Westview and the fallout of the Battle of Earth. A Damage Control series could offer a fresh perspective on all the MCU’s biggest events.
Daredevil Season 4
To the delight of many Marvel fans, Charlie Cox briefly reprises his role as Matt Murdock from Netflix’s Hawkeye, the MCU is finally acknowledging the Netflix shows as canon in Phase Four.
Marvel’s Netflix shows were all abruptly canceled when Disney announced its own streaming service to fill with its own MCU streaming content. Now that Cox’s Daredevil has been integrated into the wider MCU, Daredevil could finally get a fourth season.
Wong’s Adventures As The Sorcerer Supreme
In No Way Home, it’s revealed that Wong earned the title of Sorcerer Supreme on a technicality while Doctor Strange was “blipped.” Wong is shown to be busy in both Shang-Chi and No Way Home, traveling all over the world on magical business, so he could be primed for his own mystical spin-off.
Given the darker tone of the MCU’s next big character death – but hopefully not.
A Multiversal Blade Movie
After the Loki finale created the MCU’s multiverse, No Way Home blew it wide open with the reintroduction of previous on-screen incarnations of Spidey and his villains.
Mahershala Ali’s Blade was introduced in Wesley Snipes’ iconic previous version of Blade to appear alongside Ali.
The Redeemed Villains
At the end of No Way Home, familiar villains like Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock, Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, and Jamie Foxx’s Electro all returned to their universes as entirely changed men, “cured” of their villainous ways.
These redeemed villains could return in a future MCU project. There’s a rumor that the villains are being given their own movie, but at the very least, their lives could be explored in a What If…? episode.
Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 4
After the release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 to continue Tobey Maguire’s Spidey arc. However, Raimi couldn’t do satisfactory work on Sony’s expedited schedule, so the sequel ended up being canceled and retooled as a reboot.
Maguire’s tenure in the role of Spidey was initially left as a standalone trilogy, but his return to the role in No Way Home could lead to Spider-Man 4’s revival. Marvel Studios is renowned for the creative control allowed to its directors and Raimi just helmed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for the MCU.
An MCU Miles Morales Movie
Ever since Donald Glover cameoed as his uncle Aaron Davis in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Marvel fans have been speculating about Miles Morales’ MCU debut. When Electro sees Garfield’s Spider-Man unmasked in No Way Home, he tells him that he always expected New York’s friendly neighborhood webslinger to be Black.
Electro wonders if there’s “a Black Spider-Man” out there fighting crime in a knowing nod to Miles. A live-action Miles Morales movie could be right around the corner.
Tom Holland’s Rumored Second Spider-Man Trilogy
Before the release of No Way Home, rumors began to circulate that Sony and Marvel are developing another Spider-Man trilogy starring Holland’s Spidey. While these rumors are unconfirmed, continuing Holland’s Spidey arc for three more movies as he transitions into adulthood and self-sufficiency is certainly an exciting prospect.
The ending of No Way Home acts as a sort of soft reboot for the franchise. Everybody in the world has forgotten who Peter Parker is, so he can no longer count on the Avengers, and he’s lost Aunt May, MJ and Ned have gone off to college, and Peter has moved into his own apartment.
