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  • February 18, 2025
Spider-Man 4 plot details revealed (and the Marvel comics it’s based on)

Spider-Man 4 plot details revealed (and the Marvel comics it’s based on)

Peter Parker WHO? After Tom Holland confirmed that the as yet untitled Spider Man 4 shall start shooting in summer 2025 Ahead of its July 2026 release date, producer Amy Pascal has revealed the first plot details of Sony and Marvel Studios’ sequel to the 2021 release Spider-Man: No way home. The final installment of director Jon Watts’ trilogy ended with Peter Parker (Tom Holland) urging Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to cast a spell that would kill everyone – including his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon). make you forget. not only Spider-Man’s secret identity, but also the existence of Peter Parker.

It was the only way to keep the Marvel Cinematic Universe from collapsing under the weight of the multiverse, and now no one in this universe remembers Peter Parker.

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“We have to deal with the fact that he decided to give up being Peter Parker and he started focusing on being Spider-Man because it was too hard to be Peter Parker,” Pascal said. Term‘S Behind the Lens. “So that’s what the movie is about.”

Spider Man 24/7

Pascal’s comments suggest Spider Man 4 is partly inspired by Spider Man 24/7a three-issue storyline from the pages of The great Spider-Man #592-594. These problems occurred during Dark Reignwhen Spider-Man’s nemesis Norman Osborn was installed as director of HAMMER (formerly SHIELD) and founded the Dark Avengers from Avengers Tower (now owned by Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine at Marvel Studios’ Lightning strikes* movie) as the Iron Patriot.

After revealing his secret identity in support of the Iron Man-backed Superhuman Registration Act during the events of Civil warSpider-Man managed put the genie back in the bottle with the help of Doctor Strange and Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four (which wouldn’t be revealed until later in the release). Spider-Man: One moment in timea four-part arc that inspired No way home).

“I want the world to forget that I am Spider-Man,” Peter told the Sorcerer Supreme, who made sure no one – except his former wife, Mary Jane Watson – remembered his secret identity, including his Avengers teammates and his good friends of the Fantastic Four.

Friend or forgotten?

Unlike No way homeHowever, the inhabitants of the Marvel Universe have not forgotten Peter Parker – they only forgot the face under the mask of Spider-Man. While people remembered Spider-Man’s unmasking, their vague memories could only remember the maskless Spider-Man with his face magically obscured.

This caused friction with Peter’s friend Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, who realized that he used to know Spider-Man’s true identity during what was supposed to be a quick trip to the Macroverse dimension with the Fantastic Four.

Spider-Man explained that the mindwipe created a “psychic blind spot” to maintain and protect his secret identity. Only by being unmasked or unmasking oneself in front of someone would that person’s memories come back quickly. While Spider-Man was hesitant to reveal his secret identity even to his most trusted superhero allies to limit the risk, he eventually revealed his face again to the Fantastic Four in Awesome Spider-Man #591.

Swing shift

While they had only been in the Macroverse for a few hours, two months had passed on Earth. Spider-Man returned to find that his biggest hater, J. Jonah Jameson, had been elected mayor of New York City and that his personal life had fallen apart in his absence. While newly elected Mayor Jameson launched an Anti-Spider Squad to hunt and pursue the vigilante wall-crawler 24/7, Spider-Man decided to devote every waking moment to playing superheroes instead of playing Peter Parker. costume for 96 hours straight.

The webhead was on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week as a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, then fended off attacks from the Anti-Spider Squad and a new, acid-spewing Vulture. Ultimately, Spider-Man realized that his 24/7 crusade was a response to Osborn – the Green Goblin – being named the most powerful man in America. Spider-Man then took responsibility for Osborn’s rise to power and vowed to put an end to his Dark Reign.

Marvels Spider Man 4

The Netherlands has teased that Spider Man 4that will be led by Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings And Wonderful man director Destin Daniel Cretton, is “crazy” and “a little bit different than anything we’ve done before,” adding, “I think the fans will really respond to it.”

“We have the best in the business working on whatever the story is. But until we crack it, we have a legacy to protect,” Holland said earlier this year. “The third film was so special in so many ways that we have to make sure we do the right thing.”

He continued: “This is the first time in this process that I have been part of the creative process so early. It’s just a process where I watch and learn. It’s just a really fun stage for me… We want to make sure we don’t overdo the same things.”

The Netherlands is expected to appear first Avengers: Doomsday on May 1, 2026, earlier Spider Man 4 hits theaters on July 24, 2026.