10 Genuine Concerns About Spider-Man: No Way Home

Though Holland's Peter will almost certainly survive No Way Home, the odds on his fellow Spider-Men making it out alive are much more dire.

Many recent "legacy sequels" have made the cynical decision to bring back beloved, classic characters only to kill them off in an attempt to elevate the current hero - looking at you, Terminator: Dark Fate - and it's entirely possible No Way Home does the very same.

Having either Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man die to save the world would make for a potentially devastating climax, but it'd also be blanketed by a layer of calculation, that the old was being put out to pasture to prop up the new.

This isn't to say that they shouldn't die, but that it needs to make absolute sense for the story and the character, rather than simply serve as a cheap, lazy attempt at an emotional finale.

The most subversive thing the film could actually do is have all three Spider-Men survive, because killing Maguire's Spider-Man off in particular feels like such an obvious, predictable way to give No Way Home its Tony Stark-in-Endgame moment.

This is without even getting into the possibility that the film could kill Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) in an attempt to give Peter his own unique twist on Uncle Ben's death, which naturally has the potential to leave a very sour taste in fans' mouths.