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Spider-Man: Far From Home

you’re one of those who
haven’t yet watched Avengers:
Endgame, don’t watch this movie.
Or so warns Web and spoiler
slinger Tom Holland, who plays
Peter Parker/Spider-Man in
Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Following the events in Endgame,
Spider-Man: Far From Home
starts off with the grieving Peter
deciding to take a European
getaway with his school
friends and catch up with his
romantic interest, MJ (Zendaya).
Everything seems peachy until
Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson)
crashes his vacay with a new
mission that he can’t back away
from. It involves a bunch of angry
elemental creatures attacking
the continent, and probably the
rest of the world.

Far From Home introduces and
explores the surrogate father-
son/mentor-prodigy dynamic
between Fury and Parker, which
was initially established by Tony
Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) in
the previous Spider-Man and
Avengers installments. It’s a
deeper look into how Parker
survives the rest of the world as
a man on the verge of adulthood,
trying to make it on his own
without a family—a spider without
a web.

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Opens July 5 • Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios

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In lieu of his primary support

system, Peter will be wielding

better, stronger, and more

advanced defenses in the form

of a shiny and upgraded Spider-

Man suit. And aside from Fury,

he’ll be working alongside former

S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill

(Cobie Smulders), friend and

bodyguard ‘Happy’ Hogan (Jon

Favreau), and master trickster,

illusionist, and elemental expert

Quentin Beck/Mysterio (Jake

Gyllenhaal), who claims to

be from Earth-833, a parallel

dimension in the Multiverse.

Like Peter, Mysterio is also far

from home. But is he a fellow

hero or harbinger of disaster?

Since he’s a master of trickery,

there’s a 6954% chance that he’s

a villain in disguise, as how he’s

characterized in the comics. But

that’s already obvious, so the

ongoing fan theory is that he’s

actually a misguided good guy.

Or is he?

Also, if Mysterio comes from

Earth-833, then there must be

another Quentin Beck on our

Earth (aka Earth-616). Master

illusionist + two Earths + two

Quentins = crazy plot twist.

And while we’re on fan theories,

another states that Iron Man

might just make a cameo

appearance in one scene where

Peter slips on a pair of cool

shades, on which you’ll see the

illustrious Stark reflected at

one point.

One Peter Parker, two father

figures, two possible villains,

instant access to the Multiverse

after the Thanos snap—this looks

like the birth of a fresh story arc

after Endgame closed several

chapters. And boy, we’re so ready

for this.

Peter Parker’s

passport lists

August 10th as

his birthday.

It is a reference

to Spider-Man’s

first appearance

in the Marvel

universe, which

was in Amazing

Fantasy #15,

released August

10, 1962.