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Vol. 169 ... No. 58
'Spider-Man: No Way Home'
closes a trilogy, starts a
multiverse of possibilities.
By Juan Dela Cruz
With the character of Peter
Parker in his last year of high
school and the eyes of the world
on him, it was clear that
"Spider-Man: No Way Home"
(now playing in Philippine
cinemas) would be the final
chapter in Peter Parker's coming
of age story.
"This film is about him becom-
ing the Spider-Man," said Tom
Holland, who reprises his role as
Peter Parker. "It's about him
growing up, stepping up to the
plate, and making his own
decisions as a full-blown
Avenger."
"No Way Home" is indeed the
culmination of the Homecoming
trilogy and the start of a multi-
verse of possibilities. In the first
film, "Homecoming," Peter gains
a mentor in Tony Stark. Peter
desperately wants to join the
Avengers, but Tony Stark advises
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him to focus on being a friendly
neighborhood Spider-Man.
In the second film, "Far From
Home," having lost his mentor
and taken that to heart, he
discovers that being Spider-Man
means when duty comes calling,
he must answer. At the end of
that film, Peter is ready to be his
own man and the hero that
everyone wants him to be —
when suddenly, his identity is
revealed and he is framed for the
crime of murdering Quentin
Beck (aka Mysterio).
With Mysterio having revealed
Spider-Man's secret identity, and
a less-hirsute J. Jonah Jameson
having broadcast that identity to
the world, Peter finds himself at
the center of extreme controver-
sy.
"At a moment when everything
should be going great — he's
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about to be a senior in high something. What I love — and
school, he has a girlfriend, he's this is a constant reminder of
found a harmony between being how young Peter is — is the
Spider-Man and being Peter naïveté of him going to Doctor
Parker — the whole thing is Strange and saying, 'Can you just
upended," said Chris McKenna, make everyone forget who I am,
one of the movie's credited is that something you can do?'
writers. And that's something only a kid
would do."
"Spider-Man's biggest super-
power is Peter Parker, and that's "If you think about what Peter's
because of his humility," shared been through, Strange is closely
Holland. "When that is at stake, tied to a very substantial
his friends and aunt are at stake, moment in his life," said director
and their lives ruined because of Jon Watts. "In Endgame,
him, he knows he has to do Strange's plan to stop Thanos