Spider-Man
No Way Home
Film · 2021 · 148 minutes · Phase Four
After Mysterio exposes Peter Parker's identity as Spider-Man and frames him for murder, Peter asks Doctor Strange to cast a spell making the world forget he is Spider-Man. The spell goes wrong and tears holes in the multiverse, pulling in villains from other universes who know Peter's secret, including Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Electro. Peter must decide whether to cure the arrivals and send them home or let them meet their canonical fates, ultimately sacrificing every memory of himself to save the multiverse.
Follows on from
- Spider-Man: Far From Homedirect-sequel — Picks up immediately after Mysterio's death broadcast exposes Peter Parker as Spider-Man and frames him for murder, the inciting event of No Way Home's plot.
- Doctor Strangecrossover — Doctor Strange is a central character whose multiverse spell drives the plot, drawing on his established mastery of the mystic arts and the Sanctum.
- Spider-Man 3crossover · optional — Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker is pulled in by the broken spell years after Spider-Man 3, and the villains arrive from the Raimi films carrying those films' unfinished stories; his arc of guilt over Harry and Uncle Ben is resolved here.
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2crossover · optional — Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker arrives still grieving Gwen Stacy's death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2; catching MJ as she falls is the payoff of that loss.
Leads to
- Morbiuscrossover · optional — Post-credits scenes show Adrian Toomes (Vulture) transported from the MCU into the SSU as a side effect of Doctor Strange's multiverse-fracturing spell at the end of No Way Home; he then seeks out Morbius.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnesscrossover — Strange's guilt over the multiverse-destabilizing spell he cast in No Way Home, and its role in destabilizing the multiverse, is a driving element of the plot.
- Venom: The Last Dancecrossover · optional — Opens by picking up directly from No Way Home's post-credits scene, in which Doctor Strange's spell briefly pulled Eddie and Venom into the MCU's main universe (Earth-616) before pulling them back to their own reality (Earth-688) at the start of this film.
- Spider-Man: Brand New Daydirect-sequel — Picks up four years after the spell that made the world forget Peter Parker, with Peter still estranged from MJ and Ned.