Spider-Man: Far From Home has a lot to answer for. Obviously, fans go into every MCU movie with a number of burning questions, but this is a special case. The last time we saw Peter Parker, he was uttering his dying breath to Tony Stark as he was cosmically wiped out by Thanos.
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And in the Far From Home trailer, he’s alive and well, traveling around Europe with his friends. So, we’re left with quite a lot of questions that this movie will have to answer for us. So, here are 9 Questions Spider-Man: Far From Home Needs To Answer.
9 When is it set?
Kevin Feige has said that Spider-Man: Far From Home takes place after Avengers: Endgame. However, we’ve been lied to by the Marvel people before. The Russo brothers promised us that the fourth Avengers film would not be called Endgame, and that turned out to be a bald-faced lie.
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But it stands to reason that if they were going to lie, they’d make the lie that the movie was set before Spider-Man was killed by Thanos, not after it, because that spoils Endgame. Or does it? Feige could be lulling us into a false sense of security before killing off Spider-Man for good in Endgame and then revealing Far From Home to be set before Infinity War.
8 Where is Tony Stark?
The last time we saw Peter Parker and Tony Stark together, Peter was vanishing out of thin air and Tony was trying to console him. In the Far From Home trailer, we see Peter alive and well, mingling with all his closest allies, including Aunt May and Happy Hogan – but Tony is nowhere to be seen.
The fact he’s stranded in space at the beginning of Endgame and he’s believed to have been added into scenes he’s not really in for the trailers to mislead fans have a lot of them thinking he won’t survive Endgame. His absence from the Far From Home trailer seems to confirm that, sadly.
7 Why does Spider-Man have so many costumes?
We’ve seen Tom Holland’s Spider-Man change in and out of various costumes. He has the homemade suit he started out with, the better-looking suit Tony Stark gave him, and the Iron Spider costume we saw in Infinity War. As we see in the Far From Home trailer, he now has even more costumes.
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He vows off being Spider-Man for his European vacation, but then we see him with a black suit that seems to have been hashed together. This isn’t the suit consumed by symbiotes we saw in Spider-Man 3 – it seems as though he’s hastily bought some black clothes to conceal his identity. But how does he get his web-shooters and special goggles in that case? And the Iron Spider suit comes back at one point – how does that get to Europe?
6 Can Mysterio really be trusted?
Mysterio’s whole thing is magic and illusion. He likes to pull the rug out from under people, especially Spider-Man, and so it was strange when Marvel announced that he would be an ally of Spider-Man in the upcoming sequel.
It seemed very likely that this was either a straight-up lie or Mysterio was deceiving both Spidey and Nick Fury to get ahead. Maybe the whole thing will be revealed to be a ruse. Either way, the character has been realized brilliantly on the screen – they even found a way to make the fishbowl on his head look both realistic and faithful to the comics.
5 Are Peter and M.J. falling in love?
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter fell for the Vulture’s daughter Liz and was merely friends with Zendaya’s character M.J., but a couple of clips in the Far From Home trailer seem to suggest a romance will develop between them in the sequel. Love is also in the air for another pair of characters from Peter’s high school: Ned and Betty.
They’re seen together, all lovey-dovey, in the trailer, and as far as we knew before, they’d never met. So, Peter and Ned might both have girlfriends at the same time. They can go on double dates together – maybe that’ll be this year’s homecoming dance, the social situation Peter has to abandon in order to battle the villain.
4 How did Nick Fury team up with Mysterio?
While Mysterio is typically a villain of Spider-Man’s in the comics, he’ll be his ally in the movie. At some point, Nick Fury recruits Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio based on his knowledge about the Elementals and gets him to team up with Peter Parker to engage in battle with them.
Far From Home will have to explain how Fury came into contact with Mysterio in the first place (and not to mention how he’s even still alive after being wiped out by Thanos’ finger-snap in Infinity War). Their meeting might be the mysterious opening scene that hooks us in at the beginning of the movie.
3 Who are the Elementals?
In the comic books, the Elementals are a villainous group who can manipulate the basic elements. There’s Hellfire, who can create fire; Hydron, who can control water; Magnum, who can manipulate the earth and the rocks; and Zephyr, the only female member, who can manipulate the air.
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But as we’ve seen time and again, the MCU tends to twist the comic characters to suit their own dynamics and narratives. They just made the Skrulls the good guys in Captain Marvel, so anything can happen. The Elementals will also need to be introduced to the uninitiated and the non-comic book readers.
2 What’s going on with Adrian Toomes?
Spider-Man is one of those superheroes who, like Superman, refuses to kill. In fact, he won’t even let bad people die. No matter how much of an enemy they are to him or how many times they’ve tried to take his life, he simply can’t let them die. At the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spidey let the Vulture live, and he was promptly taken to jail.
The last time we saw him, he was in prison, being offered the chance to have Spider-Man killed in exchange for his alter ego. Even though Toomes knows Peter Parker is Spidey’s true identity, he claims not to know. So, either he wanted to spare Peter’s life or he wanted to save him for himself. Either way, we hope this isn’t forgotten about and Far From Home elaborates on it.
1 How is Spider-Man alive?
The most obvious question is: How the hell is Spider-Man alive? We saw him die. Or, at the very least, we saw him disappear, which is enough to have audiences confused by his European vacation. Marvel and Sony were always going to face an issue with marketing Far From Home, what with it being released right after the second part of a story where the first part saw him and dozens of other superheroes disappear during an event called “the Decimation” and all.
It seems as though they’re just leaping in head-first, all but confirming everyone’s survival after the events of Infinity War. But the mystery is still how. That will need to be explained.
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