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Frequently asked about Spider-Man: No Way Home

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• Will Spider-Man: No Way Home come to Disney Plus?▾

  Spider-Man: No Way Home is not available on Disney Plus because Sony Pictures owns the theatrical and streaming rights to the live-action Spider-Man films. The 2021 release has streamed on Starz and Netflix at various points under Sony's distribution deals rather than on Disney's own platform.

• Did Michael Jackson almost buy Marvel?▾

  Reports going back to the late 1990s indicate that Michael Jackson tried to acquire Marvel during its bankruptcy era, partly to play Spider-Man himself on screen. The deal never materialized, and Marvel was instead restructured before eventually being bought by Disney in 2009.

• Was Spider-Man: No Way Home a hit or a flop?▾

  The film was a major hit, grossing roughly 1.9 billion dollars worldwide and ranking among the highest-earning releases of the pandemic era. Critical reception was strongly positive, with praise for its multiverse story bringing back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield alongside Tom Holland.

• Why did Doctor Strange's spell go wrong and pull in villains from other universes?▾

  Strange cast a spell to make the world forget Peter Parker is Spider-Man, but Peter kept interrupting mid-cast to add exceptions — for MJ, Ned, Aunt May, and others. Each interruption destabilized the spell and caused it to reach across the multiverse, pulling in people from other realities who already knew a Peter Parker was Spider-Man, which manifested as the arriving villains and alternate Spider-Men.

• Why did Peter choose to cure the villains rather than send them back to their deaths?▾

  Aunt May convinced Peter that with great power comes great responsibility, arguing that sending the villains back knowing they would die — when he had the means to cure them — made him complicit in their deaths. Peter genuinely believed each villain deserved a second chance, and this moral stance is what separated him from a purely pragmatic response. It ultimately cost May her life when Norman Osborn's Green Goblin persona reasserted itself during the attempt.

• How did Aunt May's death change Peter and lead to the final sacrifice?▾

  May's death at the Green Goblin's hands — and her dying words echoing Ben Parker's famous lesson — pushed Peter into a grief-fueled rage where he nearly killed Osborn. Witnessing this, the two alternate Peter Parkers helped him pull back and refocus on completing the cures. The experience crystallized for Peter that he couldn't protect the people he loved in a world that knew his identity, which is why he ultimately asked Strange to cast a new spell making everyone forget Peter Parker exists entirely.

• What exactly does the final spell do, and why can't MJ and Ned remember Peter afterward?▾

  Strange's second spell erased knowledge of Peter Parker's existence from every person in the universe — not just his identity as Spider-Man, but Peter himself. Unlike the original selective spell, this one was total and irreversible within the MCU's rules as shown. MJ and Ned retain no memory of Peter because the spell targeted the concept of Peter Parker in every mind, meaning even those Peter specifically cared about lost all recollection of him.

• Why did the Lizard, Electro, and Sandman appear before they encountered their respective Spider-Men in their own timelines?▾

  Strange's spell pulled them from the moment they would have died in their home universes, meaning some arrived before the events that originally killed them had concluded in their own timelines. The multiverse logic established in the film treats time differently across universes, so the spell's anchor point was their death — not a specific chronological moment — allowing variants to arrive at different stages of their story arcs.