10 Genuine Concerns About Spider-Man: No Way Home

4. The Multiverse Risks Creating A Stakes Problem

In recent years the MCU has made the bold decision to introduce the multiverse, opening up the franchise's storytelling possiblities albeit at considerable risk to the overall stakes.

The problem with a multiverse, inevitably, is that it becomes more difficult to care about characters with the knowledge that there are effectively a limitless number of them existing at any one time, and that if they die they can be easily replaced by another (looking at you, Gamora [Zoe Saldana]).

Sure, what matters most is the "prime" versions of the characters that we know and perhaps even love, but once the box has been opened it can't really be un-opened, and in a franchise where death already meant so little pre-multiverse, it may now be reduced to a mere triviality.

While it seems incredibly unlikely the MCU will ever dare bring Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) back from the grave given the emotional impact of his demise, No Way Home's multiversal shenanigans may ultimately muddy the narrative waters enough that it becomes difficult to care all that much about anything that's happening.

Though comic book fans are very much familiar with this sort of storytelling where nobody ever really dies, in a continugous movie universe general audiences may find it a little tougher to swallow.