“Spider-Man: No Way Home” To Adapt Notorious Comic Plot?

Disney and Marvel had quite the busy day, with several of their upcoming productions getting updates. Arguably the biggest bit of news is that Spider-Man 3 finally got an official title: Spider-Man: No Way Home. This reveal comes after three joke titles were announced earlier this week: Spider-Man: Phone Home, Spider-Man: Home Wrecker and Spider-Man: Home Slice.

No Way Home, though, is now clearly the official title and it’s already set the internet ablaze with speculation as to what it means. Homecoming was both a fourth-wall breaking nod to Marvel’s most famous character “coming home” to the MCU and a reference to a school dance which played a pivotal role in the plot, while Far From Home alluded to the characters physical location, as the events transpired in Europe, but also a commentary on Peter’s state-of-mind, with the world pushing him to become the next Iron Man.

Therefore, it’s likely that No Way Home will likely have some sort of double meaning, with Peter Parker likely forced to make a life-altering decision that he’ll never be able to come back from. Some are even betting that it will be a deal with Mephisto, who’s largely been rumored to be the overarching bad guy of phase 4. Spider-Man does, in fact, have a history with making deals with the devil in the comics. In the storyline Brand New Day, the webslinger makes a deal with mephisto that restores his secret identity, which was public knowledge by that point, but it cost him many of his relationships, notably his marriage Mary Jane Watson.

And while this does seem like a possibility, Brand New Day has become some somewhat notorious amongst comic fans over the years, as the plot is seen as ham-fisted and it undid years worth of story that had legions of fans. However, given the events of Far From Home, it could be that the Marvel is looking to this oft-derided storyline as a way to move things forward in the MCU, while also making up for one of the worst Spidey stories out there.

It’s also being heavily speculated that No Way Home is referencing Spider-Man’s official exit from the MCU. Given the very public disagreement between Sony and Disney after Far From Home, which took months to sort out and had fans very nervous, it’s likely that the two studios are looking for a way to satisfy the people who’ve become enamored of Tom Holland’s MCU version, while also moving the webhead back to Sony on an exclusive basis.

Whatever the case, it’s likely that audiences will start to get more clues as to what’s next as the Jon Watts-direct film is currently scheduled to open on December 17th.