10 Genuine Concerns About Spider-Man: No Way Home
5. Another Spider-Man Movie With Too Many Villains
The irony of No Way Home being an apparently all-encompassing Spider-Man movie is that it may well end up succumbing to the same fatal flaw that ruined the finales of both prior Spidey franchises.
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 was widely criticised for its excess of villains, and similarly, Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suffered from stuffing its narrative with at least one antagonist too many.
And with No Way Home now confirmed to feature Doc Ock (Alfred Molina), Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), Sandman (Thomas Hayden Church), Electro (Jamie Foxx), and The Lizard (Rhys Ifans), it's certainly risking the same issue.
When you consider the possibility that we could also see surprise appearances from Vulture (Michael Keaton), a miraculously still-alive Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), and perhaps even The Amazing Spider-Man's Rhino (Paul Giamatti), the potential for an overcrowded canvas speaks for itself.
This is without even getting into the fact the film also has to deal with three Spider-Men, at which point there may not even be much time to deal with the villains in a substantial or satisfying way.
The villains may end up taking a major backseat to the heroes, and through their sheer number be presented in frustratingly little depth.