Spider-Man: Far From Home - What The Title Means

Is Spidey going somewhere?!

By Simon Gallagher /

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Over the weekend, Sony and Marvel Studios pulled off a bit of a marketing master-stroke in their "spoof" title reveal for Spider-Man 2, giving Tom Holland the opportunity to pretend to leak the title of the forthcoming sequel on Instagram. Naturally, the tongue-in-cheek narrative around that title - Spider-Man: Far From Home - inspired far more reaction than a normal press release, because they gift-wrapped an angle for every media outlet. It was inspired.

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On the back of the title reveal, Kevin Feige has weighed in to reveal that there's more than one meaning to the title - just as there was to Homecoming before it.

"[It's] similar [to Spider-Man: Homecoming]. I won't say what the meanings are, but we enjoy that title because, like Homecoming, it is full of alternate meaning. And we liked continuing the 'Home' thing, with the little Spidey symbol in the 'Home.'"

And when he mentions multi-meanings, he really means it, because Far From Home is a seriously loaded title in the context of what has just happened in the MCU.

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So, what does it all mean?

6. Peter Parker Struggles With His "Time Away"

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Thanks to rumours that Avengers 4 is going to be set years after Infinity War, there's a good chance that Peter Parker (and the other victims of Thanos' snap) will be "dead" for something like half a decade. Given that it's not "real" death, there may be some awareness to their deaths.

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In other words, the heroes may come back fundamentally changed. It's a convention that has been used a significant amount in movies (and books) and the mythology built in Game of Thrones about the trade that happens when someone returns is an intriguing one to consider here.

In essence, Peter's distance from home could refer to when he was "away" and the struggles he will face to find his place once more.

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