[Analysis & Review] Spider-Man: Far From Home [Thoughts & Trivia]
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Overall verdict
That was sooooo much fun!!!!!! My predictions missed the mark, sadly lol Mysterio in particular was the villain after all, but he didn’t end up becoming Peter’s trauma, which was a relief I cried
In the post-credits Spider-Man kills Mysterio for his own selfish ends, and on top of that gets outed as Peter Parker… What on earth happens in the third film!! I’ll get to my predictions in the second half! I think Mysterio was killed off this time purely for the sake of that one last piece of spite~ He was a really strong villain and Jake Gyllenhaal was superb, so personally I want him back I cried
And J. Jonah Jameson (JJJ) shows up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Played by J.K. Simmons, who had the very same role in the old Spider-Man series!!!!
This is insane!!! Honestly the best casting imaginable!!!! And the reason it could happen is, of course, that Sony holds every screen right to Spider-Man. Grateful… Massive expectations for how he ties in during the third film!!!!
The setup for this film’s villains was great too! Same as in Homecoming, they’re all people nursing a grudge against Tony… lol Characters from the past suddenly paying off here — Marvel really never stops surprising me!!
Lovely that things worked out between Peter Parker and MJ too! MJ is adorable. And Betty!! Way, way too cute!! Jealous of Ned! lol But the philosophical way that relationship was handled was funny! Feels like they’ll get back together lol
Some people were gone for five years, so the school years get complicated — that prediction landed. And calling the “spider-sense” the “Peter tingle” made me laugh.
No inheriting Stark Industries in the end. But it did look like he’s free to use the company’s tech as much as he likes lol
And Happy’s face while Peter is happily building his suit! I cried Like he was seeing traces of his dead best friend Tony, with this sense of “Tony made the right call~” coming through — lovely I cried
The multiverse
Never saw it coming that the multiverse itself was all a lie….
Genuinely a shock. Because there were articles off the back of interviews going “the multiverse arrives in the MCU — does that mean Spider-Verse?!” lol
Did Sony know about this…?? If this ends up meaning the multiverse never gets brought into the MCU, that would be a real shame I cried Please, make the multiverse happen! lol
Mysterio
Played by Jake Gyllenhaal!
In the comics he’s a small-time character who abuses the special effects used in films and the like to pull off thefts.
A villain after all!
And the man who developed B.A.R.F. back in Civil War, no less!!
Ahh, not even a sorcerer — exactly the early-comics Mysterio, the one who uses VFX to do his dirty work!!
The fight scenes were so cool! That feeling of not knowing which part is real was like the film Inception!! Really sad that he dies here… Gyllenhaal really is a fine actor. Might buy the figure if one gets released~
Post-credits scene
And then, of all things, in his dying moments Mysterio…
- That Spider-Man caused this whole incident and killed Mysterio in order to prove that he himself is Iron Man’s successor
- That Spider-Man’s real identity is Peter Parker
He left those two things on video, his associates pushed the video to the Daily Bugle, and it went out across the whole of New York.
The Daily Bugle and JJJ
The Daily Bugle is where Peter has his part-time job in the comics. It’s also the company that J. Jonah Jameson (JJJ) belongs to. Here’s JJJ’s comics profile.
Publisher of the New York tabloid the Daily Bugle, and he has it in for Spider-Man.
Perpetually in a foul mood and out for himself, but a lovable heel.
His initials are three J’s, hence the nickname JJJ.
As a journalist he has convictions of his own. He hates Spider-Man so much that he runs unfounded stories, and often ends up having to print an apology once the truth comes out.
That hatred doesn’t stop at attacking him in the paper: he sets villains and heroes on Spider-Man to bring him down, and sometimes attacks him personally with a Spider-Slayer robot or a powered suit.His father, John Jonah Jameson Sr., is a sensible man, the complete opposite of him.
His son, John Jonah Jameson III, is an Air Force colonel who has gained super powers and fought Spider-Man.In 2009’s Amazing Spider-Man #591 he finally became mayor of New York.
He was forced to resign, though, and afterwards was taken on by an internet news company called Fact Channel.https://www33.atwiki.jp/studentx/pages/385.html
Plenty of people must remember him from the old Spider-Man films, right? And, wonderfully, the MCU’s JJJ is played by J.K. Simmons! Honestly the best I cried
The credits scene
The Nick Fury and Maria Hill in this film turn out to be Talos and his wife lol
The real Fury was aboard a Skrull ship, so he must be on some big mission. Anyway, good to see Talos and the others doing well!! So that’s why the Fury in this one was a bit of a doofus!
The next film
Joining up with Eternals?
[MCU Commentary Discussion and Review] “Eternals” [Impressions, Easter Eggs]
I know nothing at all about the Eternals myself, so there’s barely anything I can write, but it seems to be set in space. So maybe it ends up connecting to Fury, Captain Marvel, the Skrulls, the Asgardians and so on?
Mephisto appears
A villain from the Ghost Rider comics. He’s a devil, and he actually has a deep connection to Spider-Man.
That got depicted in a comic called Spider-Man: One More Day. The story goes roughly like this.
- Peter came out in favour of the Superhuman Registration Act during Civil War
- To make that position clear, he publicly revealed that he is Spider-Man
- Because of it, Aunt May is shot by a villain and left in a critical condition
- He begs a whole range of heroes and villains to treat Aunt May, but is turned down
- Walking around heartbroken, Peter meets a red-haired girl
- The girl is the devil Mephisto, who tells Peter that he alone can save Aunt May
- The price Mephisto demands is erasing Peter and MJ’s marriage from existence
- After agonising over it, Peter and MJ take the deal
- Aunt May is saved.
- Just before the world rewrites itself, Mephisto tells them that the red-haired girl was their daughter, due to be born in the future, who can now never exist
That girl turning out to be the daughter who will never be born is devastating… Full details at the URL below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_More_Day_(comics)
This is only my prediction, but I think the MCU Spider-Man films will take One More Day as their basis and have Peter go and beg Mephisto about this identity reveal. The price would be him ever having gone out with MJ, I’d guess.
And Mephisto himself hasn’t entered the MCU yet. So my thinking is that he’ll probably turn up in Doctor Strange 2…
Also, everything in the MCU is connected, so future MCU entries might touch on this Spider-Man identity-reveal business a little.
The Sinister Six….
A six-strong villain team made up of Spider-Man’s enemies, going back to 1964.
It has been put together several times over, with the line-up changing each time.
There are offshoot teams as well, such as the Sinister Seven and the Sinister Twelve.https://www33.atwiki.jp/studentx/pages/409.html
[Prediction #1] The Spider-Man: Homecoming Sequel [Analysis]
When on earth are the Sinister Six going to show up I cried
Or maybe they never will…?? I’d heard a rumour that the actor who plays Vulture would be in this one, but he wasn’t….
For what it’s worth, Scorpion — a Sinister Six member in the comics — was created by JJJ, so maybe, just maybe, in the third MCU Spider-Man film…. I can’t help hoping.
