Spider-Man: No Way Home story
Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Synopsis: Peter Parker asks Dr. Stephen Strange to use magic to make his identity as Spider-Man a secret again following its public revelation at the end of Far From Home. When the spell goes wrong, the multiverse is broken open which allows visitors from alternate realities to enter Parker's universe.
23 total · 9 major · 14 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| aunt and nephew | major | Peter interacted with his dear aunt, May, until such point in the story that she died tragically before his very eyes and he was left to deal with that trauma. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Peter and his girlfriend MJ were featured throughout the story. In particular, Peter blamed himself for MJ, Ned and his own MIT applications getting rejected and took it upon himself to make things right. |
| friendship | major | Peter and his best friend Ned were featured throughout the story. In particular, Peter blamed himself for Ned, MJ and his own MIT applications getting rejected and took it upon himself to make things right. |
| human self-sacrifice | major | Peter was faced with this decision in a big way: Should he erase himself from everyone's memories, including those of his lover and best friend, to protect the multiverse from falling into chaos? |
| magic powers | major | Central to the story was Doctor Strange using his magic spell casting abilities to inadvertently bring people from other universes into his own. Later, Ned learned how to wield magic powers that enable him to open portals to other universes. |
| parallel universe | major | The plot turns on versions of Peter's vanquished rivals, and indeed two different versions of Peter himself, inadvertently being drawn into Peter's universe from various alternate realities. |
| romantic love | major | Peter and MJ were mutually besotted. |
| what if I could never go home | major | The people who were drawn into Peter's universe from other universes, including two alternate versions of Peter himself, were faced with the prospect that they might never be able to return to their respective home universes. It is to this which the "No Way Home" fragment of the title presumably refers. |
| what if I met my double | major | A main novelty of the film lies in Peter Parker encountering two distinct parallel universe versions of himself. |
| coping with being famous | minor | Peter, who'd by now been outed as Spider-Man, and MJ awkwardly walked through a crowd of cheering fans. |