10 Moments That Literally Stopped Action Movies

Knowing precisely what the audience sitting down to take in the third MCU spider-flick were hoping for heading into 2021's No Way Home, Jon Watts and the gang went out of their way to web their largely non-stop slice of Marvel action to a stop just long enough to give the three titular Web-slingers some time to compare notes.

As the three Peter Parkers prepare to execute their grand plan to topple the various villains from the multiverse, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland's friendly neighbourhood heroes discuss the origins of certain antagonists, familiar back pain, how they all produce their signature web, web block, and fighting aliens both on Earth and in space.

And along with being a rather touching display of brotherly bonding between the three lads who likely understand one another more than anyone else they'd ever met, this two-minute calm before the storm to come also acts as a wonderful nostalgia-filled recap for the folks watching on.

Also, without this particular pause in the amazing action, we wouldn't have learned that Maguire's Parker only fired web out of his wrists... and definitely not anywhere else.

What a gift.