Spiderman No Way Home Trailer

[Enevhar Aldarion]

But ... wouldn't that require the trailer to be misleading, instead of actively giving away all the main plot points of the movie?

I thought that was against the law, or federal regulations of trailers, or something, which required the studios to release at least three trailers for every movie that given away all major plot twists?

What Marvel does, and I am sure most other studios do too, is the first trailer or two always seem to contain scenes that do not make the final release. Especially movies that get a new cut close to the release date.

 

[embee]

I wasn't sure, so I googled it. Apparently the official title is "Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters (SPUMC)"

That's getting dangerously close to Ren & Stimpy territory.

 

[embee]

Is it too early to predict that the final post-credits stinger will be the NYC skyline showing the Baxter Building?

 

[Rabulias]

Is it too early to predict that the final post-credits stinger will be the NYC skyline showing the Baxter Building?

I think the FF are fully in the Disney/Marvel/Fox film universe (licensing rights-wise, at least), not in the Sony Spiderverse, so I doubt we will see that reveal in this film.

Edit: About the trailer itself: Is that the casket of ancient winters that Peter is holding out on the street? Is that why Strange's sanctum is covered with snow inside?

Edit 2: Having looked closer at it, it is not the casket, but it is some magical-looking thing.

 

[Rune]

What Marvel does, and I am sure most other studios do too, is the first trailer or two always seem to contain scenes that do not make the final release. Especially movies that get a new cut close to the release date.

They’ve also been known to digitally alter the background of a scene or even digitally remove a character. As I recall, they did that with Endgame.

 

[trappedslider]

Interesting that they seem to be pulling from one of the least well-regarded stories of the new millenium for the movie (although minus the actually bad parts).

That was my first thought too

Second thought: Some viewers weren't alive when we got Doc Ock......and now I feel old......

 

[Umbran]

That scene where he is looking at millions of possible outcomes and only one is a good one? Instead of possible futures, now he was looking at all the alternate timelines and looking for one to emulate, so that his timeline would have the good outcome. Does he just know that is what he is doing or does he still think he was just looking at possible futures?

So, we need to make some guesses...

We have the idea that the universe branches into a multiverse. We do NOT have the idea established in canon that this is actual Quantum Mechanical Many-Worlds, in which every possible universe is represented. And cinematically this makes sense. Otherwise the bulk of all the variant universes you'd never notice a difference locally. We get to see only a small local area around Earth. But, most of the universe is nowhere near Earth. So, most of "all possible" changes are far from Earth, and we wouldn't observe them. Statistically, if you crossed over at any time, it'd be to a universe that looked EXACTLY like the one you left. Which makes for crummy stories.

This gives us the possibility that not all choices to guide yourself into the future are choices that create variant timelines. Some choices create a variant, and some do not.

Thus, there's no real way to know if Doctor Strange was looking at possibilities that are "within tolerance" for one timeline, possibilities for variant timelines, or a mixture of both. We might simply rest in the idea that, from Strange's perspective, it was not evident that there's a difference in the two cases. He saw results, not the multiversal cosmological implications of those results.

 

[Umbran]

The idea of Spider-man trying to regain his secret identity is an interesting one in the context of the MCU, which pretty much swore off the whole secret-identity trope from day one with "I am Iron Man", and has largely been all the better for it.

However, note that to accomplish this, they have heroes with very little connection to normal life around them. The Avengers are isolated from the real world, so that their identities are largely irrelevant. And that isolation is also limiting to the stories you can tell.

Then again, Peter's secret identity has always been a lot more fundamental to his stories than to many other Marvel heroes, so it is good that they're actually addressing that in detail, whether or not he actually gets to regain his anonymity in the end.

Peter is actually trying to maintain connections to normal people - his aunt, his normal friends. As a comic, Spider-Man is compelling to many precisely because there is still a real life back there somewhere, and that makes Peter rather more relatable than other heroes.

 

[Rune]

However, note that to accomplish this, they have heroes with very little connection to normal life around them. The Avengers are isolated from the real world, so that their identities are largely irrelevant. And that isolation is also limiting to the stories you can tell.



Peter is actually trying to maintain connections to normal people - his aunt, his normal friends. As a comic, Spider-Man is compelling to many precisely because there is still a real life back there somewhere, and that makes Peter rather more relatable than other heroes.

Hawkeye and Ant-Man do likewise. It is possible, though, that Hawkeye is as consistently undervalued in-universe as he is by fandom.

Ant-Man, on the other hand, has already been shown to be unknown to popular culture in Endgame. (Not to mention that he was gone for 5 years.)

 

[trappedslider]

just to add more to the theorizing Was That Really Doctor Strange in the SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Trailer?