The extended version of Spider-Man: No Way Hometitled by Marvel Like Spider-Man: No Way Home: The More Fun Stuff Version, it opens in several South American countries next Thursday, September 15, which has brought back the debates around one of the best movies of 2021.
The successful film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU, for its acronym in English) marked a before and after with the total opening of the multiverse. The one released last year has a duration of 2 hours and 37 minutes, and being a feature film of that magnitude, it may be normal for some dash hole.
A Reddit user named yorchkeen He emphasized what for him was a void in the drama: Doctor Strange’s Memory Wipe Spell Explainedwith which he made everyone forget who Peter Parker, the beloved Spider-Man, is.
Memory wipe theory
Summarizing a little the original text that you can read completely in the following link of Reddit and translated by cinemascomicsthe netizen asks the readers if they questioned what happened in the universe after the spell, if everyone forgot Spider-Man, if his identity could be revealed again, among other details.
The theory starts like this: “New footage from Spider-Man: No Way Home has recently been revealed. There is a new post-credits scene where we see Peter’s companions talking about his trip to Europe. They show photos of them having fun, hint that Ned and MJ coincidentally started their friendship there, and mention how they almost died.”
“In that scene we can see some photos with Peter, but they don’t show his face (like in a group shot, where a pigeon covers his face, or one where he’s looking back). Then, people started to wonder how the spell works, because it also removed physical material, not just Peter Parker’s memories“, Add.
YorchKeen then cites Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for the scientific rationale, as in that movie “the multiverse is claimed to be limitless (basic quantum physics also confirms this), everything you can imagine, even physically impossible things, happened in some universe”.
The physical justification for the theory
“My physical justification for this (possible) plot hole in Spider-Man: No Way Home is that the people of New York got rid of all the protest material, photos, vandalism, posters, etc… before the spell.. Probably after learning of May’s death on the news. So they did it out of respect.”
“Sounds crazy, but since the multiverse is limitless, is it physically possible to happen and Doctor Strange could have manipulated the odds.”
The user also suggested another possible theory: “Another explanation I thought of (and it can perfectly co-exist with my other theory) is that the spell worked graduallyas if they slowly start to stop caring about Peter Parker, so they might have enough time to delete all the things until they finally forget everything about Peter”.
“This may be possible because in the movie, after the spell, we have a time jump, so it could have been many days, weeks, or months before New Yorkers started treating Peter like a nobody, just like he did. we saw in the movie”, he concludes.