Spider-Man: Far From Home ended with the MCU's biggest cliffhanger to date, with the wall-crawler's secret identity revealed to the world by Mysterio. The villain took his ultimate revenge on the teenager from beyond the grave, throwing Peter Parker's life into turmoil.
The sequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home, picked up where the previous movie left off, dealing with the aftermath of Spidey's real name being outed to the world.
Talking in the recently released Spider-Man: No Way Home - The Art of the Movie book, writer Chris McKenna shared his take on what proved to be Peter's own twisted version of Tony Stark's "I am Iron Man" moment.
"Peter had his 'I am Iron Man' moment, but he didn’t get to make it, unlike Tony," he says. "[It] was forced on him from the grave. When we ended the last movie, we were like, Wow, we really blew things up...how are the next writers gonna get out of that jam?' And now here we are."
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige adds to that by saying, "We knew coming out of Far From Home that we didn’t want to shy away from the fact that his identity is now revealed. It's out there, and that was certainly always the starting point."
"And with writers Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna, director Jon Watts, and Producer Amy Pascal, we sat and just started brainstorming."
By the time Spider-Man: No Way Home ended, Spider-Man had put the genie back in the bottle, saving the Multiverse, but at the cost of the world remembering who Peter Parker is. However, that means the MCU finally has a comic-accurate version of the hero.
Spidey being a street-level superhero is long-overdue and Watts recently said he views this trilogy as an extended origin story for the character.
Tom Holland is expected to return in Spider-Man 4 and is rumoured to be one of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty's lead characters. All signs also point to Andrew Garfield returning as the Amazing Spider-Man in Avengers: Secret Wars.
Do you think Spider-Man: Far From Home's cliffhanger ranks among the MCU's best?