Alice Oseman’s 2018 YA novel I Was Born For This is finally being published in the US and Canada.
Award-winning UK based author, illustrator, and screenwriter Alice Oseman has written four contemporary young adult novels: Solitaire, Radio Science, I Was Born for This, and Loveless. You may also recognize her as the creator of the LGBTQ+ YA romance webtoon turned graphic novel series Heatstopper, which will be coming to Netflix as a series sometime this year.
US and Canadian fans of the author have been able to get their hands on all of these works except for I Was Born For This; however, this year Scholastic’s “I Read YA” imprint is changing that. On October 18, 2022 they will be releasing a version for the US and Canada complete with brand new cover art.
So I have a little bit of news… I WAS BORN FOR THIS – my 2018 YA novel about boyband fame, real-person fandom, and parasocial relationships – is being published in the US/Canada by @ireadya!!! Out October 18th 2022! pic.twitter.com/ZJ1Hb44TxG
In Oseman’s own words, I Was Born For This is a story about “boyband fame, real-person fandom, and parasocial relationships.” Told from the perspective of Angel Rahimi, superfan of teenage pop-rock trio The Ark, and Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, frontman of the The Ark, I Was Born For This looks at the strange world that emerges when fandom meets reality.
If you’re in the US or Canada be sure to pre-order the book today, and keep an eye out here for more updates on Heartstopper as it comes out.
Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and all of your favorite Looney Tunes are back for season 4 of Looney Tunes Cartoons. Ahead of the show’s season premiere. HBO Max has released the official season 4 trailer for Looney Tunes Cartoons.
In the newest batch of episodes, fans are sent on a wild ride of whacky adventures as Elmer Fudd tries to arrest Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird takes a trip to the Grand Canyon, and Daffy plays one too many pranks on his pal Porky. Plus many more antics that will keep you at the seat of your pants.
From Warner Bros. Animation, Looney Tunes Cartoons stars the voice cast of Eric Bauza (Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Tweety/Marvin the Martian), Bob Bergen (Porky Pig), Jeff Bergman (Elmer Fudd/Sylvester), Fred Tatasciore (Yosemite Sam) and Candi Milo (Granny), and Michael Ruocco (Beaky Buzzard). The new season premieres on Thursday, January 20, exclusively on HBO Max.
Disney’s Encanto has one of the simplest stories of any Disney movie. There’s no villain; there’s no quest. It has magic, yes, but it’s magical realism, and the magic and characters’ powers aren’t actually that relevant to the heart of the story. So, how could I sit here and try to compare Encanto to Star Wars?
Star Wars, the epic saga, where world-building, plot, and magic (the Force) are the center of the films. It’s the ultimate hero’s journey, with often more emphasis on story than character dimension, especially in the sequel trilogy. So what connects them? It’s their protagonists and their motivations. On the surface, Mirabel and Rey are completely different. Mirabel is part of a magical family with no magical powers of her own. Rey, a lonely orphan, has no family of her own, but comes to find she suddenly has “magical” Force powers. What connects them is their longing.
Mirabel is the only member of “La Familia Madrigal” with no gift. Her mother can heal others through food, her sisters have super strength and can grow beautiful flowers, and her extended family has a myriad of other gifts that generally help the family. But not Mirabel, and no one knows why. Shortly into the movie, she sings a classic musical “I want” song, “Waiting on a Miracle,” showcasing her driving force to be good enough for her family, especially her Abuela. Her parents try to assure her that she has nothing to prove and that they’re proud of her regardless, but Abuela, the matriarch, doesn’t seem to share the sentiment.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …
And then there’s Rey, who’s entirely alone. Abandoned on Jakku, she fantasizes about taking to the stars but ultimately has continued to wait her whole life on Jakku for her parents to return. She quickly gets caught up with the events of the story, but even so, wants to return to Jakku so she can continue to wait. Later in The Force Awakens at Takodana Castle, she has a Force vision where she sees a flashback of her parents leaving her, and Maz Kanata tells her, “The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.” This convinces her to continue on and stop trying to go back, but doesn’t stop her from looking for answers in The Last Jedi.
Rey enters the Ahch-To mirror cave, in search of answers despite Luke’s warnings of its ties to the dark side. She asks the cave, or the Force, to show her who her parents really are, but all she’s shown is her own reflection. After one of their many Force-Zoom calls, Kylo Ren tells her that he was shown who her parents are, but mostly just to bait her. In the end, he tells her what she feared she already knew, that her parents were nobodies who sold her for drinking money. “You have no place in this story. You come from nothing. You’re nothing,” Kylo tells her.
And that’s what spoke to me about Rey. In Star Wars, an epic tale of the Skywalker dynasty, with a few Kenobis and Palpatines thrown in, Rey cements her place in the story on her own. Her importance, powers, and purpose aren’t about where she comes from, but who she is. At least, that seemed to be where they were going …
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Meanwhile, with Mirabel …
Shortly into Encanto, the casita begins to crack, and the magic, the encanto, begins to fail. Without a better explanation, all eyes turn to Mirabel as the outlier of the Madrigals. With all eyes on her, she takes it upon herself to find the true cause and along the way realizes maybe she’s not the only one who feels trapped by impossible expectations. Her sister, Isabella, feels the need to be perfect all the time and feels pressured into an engagement she doesn’t want, telling Mirabel, “I never wanted to marry him! I was doing it for the family!” Meanwhile, her other sister Luisa sings a song literally called “Surface Pressure” about the physical and emotional burdens being the backbone of the family brings. Now realizing it’s not just her, Mirabel calls Abuela out on the fact it’s her and her expectations that can never be met that are hurting the family, the casita, and the encanto.
(Spoiler alert!) Casita breaks and implodes, and the candle, the encanto, dies. It’s only then that Abuela comes to Mirabel and confides in her of her story and her pain, and only then do they both truly understand what the encanto is and who it is for. The two come back to the rubble that was Casita and reunite with the rest of the Madrigals. They sing a finale in which Abuela drives the point home pretty clearly, singing, “The miracle is not some magic that you’ve got, the miracle is you — not some gift, just you. The miracle is you.” The town comes together to help them rebuild Casita, and they give Mirabel the final piece to put in place — a doorknob. As she approaches the door, just like she did that ill-fated night as a child, her family praises her, and her Tio Bruno says, “You’re the real gift, kid. Let us in.” Mirabel’s importance and purpose don’t have to come from powers, they’re there because of who she is as a Madrigal and who she is as Mirabel.
And then came Palpatine.
I was really hoping going into The Rise of Skywalker that J.J. Abrams would let Rey stay “Rey Nobody.” In hindsight, that was probably foolish — Abrams set up the question, and damned if he wasn’t going to answer it himself.
Aside from the baffling story and plot details of how Rey got to be Palpatine’s granddaughter, it took away all of her development and everything that made her a special and compelling hero to root for. She was the “in,” for audiences, the proof, just like the stable boy in that final scene in The Last Jedi, that the Force doesn’t care who you’re related to or where you’re from, just who you are. Instead, Rey really only mattered because she was secretly a Palpatine, a legacy, a part of the dynastic saga.
Had they chosen to keep Rey a nobody, it would have left audiences with the message that they too can be the main character – that they can have a place in the story. It would have made Kylo’s words in The Last Jedi meaningful. And, if/when Rey chose to identify herself as “Rey Skywalker” in the final scene, it would have been because she chose who her family was, not because she was choosing who her family wasn’t.
What makes a protagonist — a hero — great, is relatability. We all want to be that hero. Mirabel is a hero because of who she is, and Rey could have been too. Luckily, Lucasfilm still has plenty of upcoming Star Wars films in television shows in development, which leaves the door wide open to craft more stories for strong, compelling female characters. Mirabel marks another successful chapter in a new book of powerful Disney heroines. She joins the ranks of Elsa, Moana, Raya – powerful women with important messages about being true to yourself and the power we all have inside. May Mirabel be a blueprint, not just for new Disney animated movies, but characters written across genres and studios.
Andrew Burnap will join Rachel Zegler as the male lead in Disney’s reimagining of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Burnap will not be playing the Prince or the Huntsman of previous adaptations. Instead, he will play a new male character who will also sing.
Burnap is best known for his stage work, winning a Tony Award for The Inheritance. He will also appear in the upcoming Under the Banner of Heaven alongside Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones and WeCrashed. Snow White will also star Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen and is set to begin shooting this spring.
After a long and eager wait, Netlix has finally revealed four key cast members for the second season of the hit fantasy series Shadow and Bone.
Based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels, Shadow and Bone finds us in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive.
New cast members for season 2 will include Lewis Tan as Tolya Yul-Bataar, Anna Leong Brophy as Tamar Kir-Bataar, Jack Wolfe as Wylan Hendriks, and finally, a role that has kept Shadow and Bone fans on the edge of their seats waiting … Patrick Gibson as Nikolai Lantsov.
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The cast of the series shared a video to announce the news and also to confirm that season 2 has officially begun production in Budapest! Minimal information is known about the second season at this time, and a release date has not yet been confirmed.
Shadow and Bone stars Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, Amita Suman, Kit Young, Sujaya Dasgupta, Danielle Galligan, Daisy Head, Calahan Skogman and more.
Season 1 of Shadow and Bone is now streaming on Netflix. Stay tuned for more news on the series!
As fans of The CW prepare for the final episodes of their favorite shows in the coming weeks, Roswell, New Mexico is gearing up for its return to the small screen. The official Twitter for the Roswell, New Mexico writers room shared the title for season 4’s premiere episode, “Steal My Sunshine.”
The post also reveals the episode is written by Chris Hollier and directed by Lance Anderson.
This announcement means the episode title reveals will begin slowly trickling out once again. There is no news yet on when “Steal My Sunshine” will air and mark the return of the beloved series to our screens, but follow us for the latest on Roswell, New Mexico including episodic photos, recaps, and more!
Billboard has confirmed that Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, and Kanye West will headline Coachella 2022! The festival had been postponed several times due to COVID-19, with varying headliners due to the date changes and other commitments. Swedish House Mafia will also be performing.
Coachella 2022 will run April 15-17 and April 22-24 at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, CA. For more information on tickets and travel, you can head to Coachella’s official website.
In a surprising turn of events, fans of Eddie Brock and his ravenous symbiote pal Venom will have another chance to catch the sequel film Venom: Let There Be Carnage in theaters this month!
After countless release date swaps due to the pandemic, Venom: Let There Be Carnage hit theaters last year on October 1. Today, Sony Pictures announced that the film will be returning to select theaters this Friday, January 14.
For those that would prefer to watch from home, the film is also available on DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, and digital.
Tom Hardy returns as the lethal protector Venom in Venom: Let There Be Carnage. In search of his next big story, journalist Eddie Brock lands an exclusive interview with convicted murderer and death row inmate Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson), who discovers Eddie’s secret and becomes the host for Carnage, a menacing and terrifying symbiote. Now, Eddie and Venom must get past their contentious relationship to defeat him.
The film also stars Michelle Williams as Anne, Reid Scott as Dr. Dan, and the introduction of Naomie Harris as Shriek. Andy Serkis directs, with a story by Hardy and Kelly Marcel and a screenplay by Marcel.
In case you missed it, check out our spoiler-free review here.
Naomi has finally arrived! In the pilot episode, Naomi begins to feel the aftereffects of a strange event involving who may or may not be Superman. She sets out to find answers but only digs up more questions. Read on to find out what happens in the premiere of Naomi.
Meet Naomi McDuffie
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Naomi attends a party where we see she’s quite well-liked by her peers. She also runs the #3 Superman site in the world. She talks a guy named Nathan, who reminds Naomi that Superman isn’t real. Naomi is unbothered by this, though. She then goes to talk with her friend Annabelle.
The next morning, Naomi greets her parents (her dad is in the military), and it seems she has a pretty good home life. She heads to school via skateboard, and two people seem especially intrigued by her. When she arrives at school, she meets up with a kid named Anthony in the hallway. He reveals he wasn’t at the party because Nathan gave him the wrong address. Naomi thinks it must’ve been an accident and says she’ll see him in debate club later.
During debate, Naomi gets a text from Annabelle telling her about an event involving Superman is happening in the square. Naomi rushes out but soon begins to feel lightheaded. She passes out just as a blur shoots across the sky.
Looking for Answers
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Naomi awakes to find the square in chaos. She finds Annabelle and asks about a buzzing that only Naomi heard. Then Naomi does some recon, asking various people what happened. She learns that Superman was fighting another person in a scene that looked like it belonged in movie. The consensus is that the entire event was an elaborate stunt. Naomi and Annabelle continue the search for answers at the comic book store, hoping that Lourdes will know something as she’s so enmeshed with comics. Lourdes says the same of Naomi because of her Superman knowledge. Before Naomi leaves, she tells Lourdes to text with any Superman news… or even just because. (And yeah, Annabelle, we picked up on that vibe, too.)
At home, Naomi’s dad says the military had nothing to do with the stunt while her mom does a temp check. They sit down for dinner where the conversation turns to Naomi’s dating life, where we learn she used to date Nathan, Anthony, and everyone knows Lourdes has a crush on her. Her dad also begins to get a bit sentimental. Naomi sees texts from Lourdes saying the website is blowing up and does Naomi know anything else. She doesn’t, so she heads back to the square to investigate and notices a security camera is broken. As she walks past an alley, a noise grabs her attention, though she doesn’t spot anyone. When she walks past, a lurker appears in the shadows.
It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It Might’ve Been Superman
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Naomi continues to ask various people for information, and in a voiceover, she reveals the main lead is that all the security cameras along Main Street were disabled. She tells as much to Annabelle, who notices Naomi is a bit off and thinks it’s about the site. Naomi tells her it’s because comics used to bring her comfort, but ever since the event, she feels off and doesn’t know why.
Later, she and Nathan put together footage of the event. While they wait for it to process, Naomi shares that despite the breakup, she still feels the same about Nathan and thinks it’s weird about what happened with Anthony. Nathan admits he doesn’t like Anthony, probably because Naomi does. Once the footage is ready, they watch it, and it definitely looks like Superman. After a few moments, they rewatch it slower. Naomi notices Dee and points out that it looks like he knows the guy posing as Superman.
So, they go pay Dee a visit at his tattoo parlor. They make some small talk that leads to Dee revealing he knows Naomi’s adoption date thanks to social media (seems sus, but okay). Naomi mentions the event and Dee maybe knowing the Superman guy. Dee tries to avoid answering, but Naomi keeps pushing. She wants answers. Eventually Dee claims ownership of the whole event before sending Naomi and Nathan on their way.
Debate Is All the Buzz
It’s the day of Naomi’s debate event. Her parents give her the keys to drive but are surprised she doesn’t react with excited screaming. She tells them about Dee knowing her adoption date that no one else could know, going into why she wears glasses when they don’t always help (they’re for a condition she has). Naomi thinks maybe Dee knew her birth parents. He can’t, though, because they died in a crash.
The debate begins and the topic is essentially nature versus nurture. Naomi leans towards the nurture side, explaining how everyone must make choices. As the moderator poses the first question, Naomi answers first. However, she notices people walk in and begins to hear the buzzing again before passing out. When she’s conscious, her mom says it was probably just a panic attack. She and Annabelle begin to talk about Naomi driving, but Naomi tunes her out while she watches a group. She discovers she can read a small note one of the group is holding without her glasses. On it, she reads that evidence of Superman lies in the Red River Forest.
Into the Woods
Naomi’s next stop is the forest where she takes photos of marks left behind by Superman. She finds a disk with strange writing on it when Annabelle calls, but service is spotty at best. After she hangs up, Zumbado arrives. Both want to know what the other is doing in the forest. Zumbado knows that Naomi is there for her website and wonders what her attachment is to Superman. She tells him it’s because they’re both adopted, but Zumbado doesn’t buy it. He wants the disk. He thinks Naomi was looking for it and that’s why she was investigating Main Street. This prompts Naomi to realize Zumbado was following her and he’s probably the one who disabled the cameras. He demands the disk again as leaves begin swirling. Naomi runs. He goes to find her, explaining powers, learning to control them, and how he used to be ashamed of his. When he finds her, she yells for him to get back, and some sort of spark throws her backwards. But it wasn’t Zumbado who did it.
Later, Naomi has told Annabelle everything and she believes Naomi. However, she isn’t sure how Zumbado fits into everything. Naomi says they need to get the disk back. Naturally, a little breaking and entering is involved.
The Right Question
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Naomi and Annabelle meet with a few other kids and break into Zumbado’s dealership. As they search, Naomi finds a newspaper whose headline focuses on a mysterious glowing object that appeared over Port Oswego on her adoption day. Lourdes, Anthony, and Nathan find a large safe and show Naomi. Before she can find a way to open it, Annabelle radios them that Zumbado is back. They all leave just in time.
Naomi goes to see Dee again. He admits he wasn’t behind the stunt but would rather not continue talking. Eventually, Naomi persuades him. He tells her he’s not the one with answers, but he’ll try his best. Naomi gives him the bullet points of what happened, including the buzzing. This catches Dee’s attention but doesn’t seem to mean too much. Soon, he gets cryptic, saying how everything going on wasn’t supposed to unfold like this. Since it is, he decides to show her that he has wings. The lights go haywire before shorting out completely. Naomi wants to know who Dee is, but he emphasizes that’s not the question she needs to ask. After more pushing, Naomi realizes the question: “Who am I?”
Naomi airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on The CW, available the next day on The CW app and cwtv.com. Keep up with our weekly recaps and other coverage here.
These six words are words that every iteration of Spider-Man must learn at some point during his time as a superhero. From Tobey Maguire in the early 2000s, to Andrew Garfield in the early 2010s and to our current Spider-Man Tom Holland, there are a plethora of life lessons to learn. Unfortunately, when you have the powers Peter Parker has your life lessons are a lot harder to learn, and generally involve losing the people around you who you love.
Spider-Man: No Way Home has been an immediate and smashing success across international box offices. The blockbuster which stars all three actors who have played Spider-Man in recent years – Holland, Garfield, and Maguire – has earned more than $1.5 billion at the global box office to become the eighth highest-grossing film of all time.
The movie did a phenomenal job not only wrapping up Holland’s MCU trilogy, but also gave satisfying scenes to both Maguire and Garfield’s Peters that succeed in wrapping up their respective story arcs. Below, we’ll explore how Spider-Man: No Way Home wrapped up three generations of Spider-Men.
Peter 1/Tom Holland’s Spider-Man
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The most important thing Spider-Man: No Way Home succeeds in, in my opinion, is taking Peter 1 (Holland) out from under the mantle of Tony Stark. There is, of course, references to Stark throughout the movie – Happy Hogan is present, after all, and as a result Peter 1 uses a portable Stark lab to begin the process of curing the multiversal villains that have come through. However, this is the first movie in the MCU Spidey trilogy where the villains have nothing to do with Tony Stark. In Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home both Adrian Toomes and Quinten Beck attribute their rise to villainy due to Tony Stark. In addition, by the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home nobody knows who Peter Parker is or that he is Spider-Man, which means the depth of his relationship with Stark is likely also forgotten.
Leaving Tony Stark in the past and moving forward as his own individual will give Peter 1 more room to spread his own metaphorical wings and become the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man that audiences have been waiting to see from him. Rather than the majority of his focus being on helping the Avengers, Peter 1 now has the opportunity to help where he wants to help most: his home, New York City. As Spider-Man: No Way Home concluded Peter 1’s time in high school, we will also hopefully see his time as a broke college student living in a small and tarnished NYC apartment in a future trilogy. Unfortunately for Peter, he will have to do this alone as his beloved MJ and best friend Ned no longer know who he is, and the rest of his family is seemingly gone (with the exception of Uncle Ben, who we have yet to meet in the MCU or receive confirmation that he is dead).
The MCU Spider-Man trilogy took Peter Parker from a young boy with selfish desires dreaming of being an Avenger no matter what it takes, to a teenager handling the responsibilities that come along with being a hero and how that impacts his personal life, to a young man realizing the costs of doing the right thing for the greater good and the selflessness that is required when you’re a hero.
Peter 2/Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man
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One of the most fulfilling scenes from Spider-Man: No Way Home was the laboratory scene where the Peter Parkers worked on cures for the multiversal villains who are really making Peter 1’s life a lot worse, if that was even possible. Not only did we get a subtle nod to the infamous meme, we also got a beautiful scene in which Maguire’s Peter (Peter 2) has an emotional conversation with Garfield’s Peter (Peter 3) about not giving up on love. In the conversation, Peter 2 reveals that he and his MJ were able to ultimately fix their relationship after putting work into it and that the two of them have a happy family together.
Spider-Man: No Way Home also pushes Peter 2 into an older, mentor-like position with the other Peters, particularly Peter 1. Peter 2 is ultimately who prevents Peter 1 from killing Norman Osborn/Green Goblin out of revenge for his recently murdered Aunt May. In Maguire’s trilogy, Peter 2 kills Norman with his own glider, which leads to his best and only true friend turning against him and seeking revenge for his father. Clearly still riddled with guilt from this, Peter 2 will not allow Peter 1 to kill the Green Goblin, kneeling before him and stopping the glider before it can impale Norman. Peter 1, who has already killed one person in Spider-Man: Far From Home through no real fault of his own, is saved from a life of guilt and not being able to hold back his anger thanks to the quick-thinking of Peter 2.
Additionally, Peter 2 is able to get some closure with Norman and Otto Octavius at the end of the movie. He is able to save Norman from dying and ensure he gets the cure that keeps the Goblin personality away, which he completes despite the fact Norman stabs him. Otto and Peter 2 also have a heartfelt moment where Otto, free of the mind control of his mechanical arms, finally recognizes Peter 2 and in an emotional moment tells him “Peter my boy … you’re all grown up.”
Peter 3/Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man
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In one of the most emotionally stirring moments of the movie, Garfield’s Amazing Spider-Man receives the opportunity to right one of his wrongs and do for Zendaya’s MJ what he couldn’t do for Emma Stone’s Gwen. As MJ plummets off of construction equipment at the Statue of Liberty, Holland’s Spider-Man is pushed out of the way by Green Goblin’s glider. Things look bad for MJ, until the Peter 3 catches her mid-air, using his webs to lower the both of them to safety. He wasn’t the only one crying, certainly … it sounded to me like everyone around me was reduced to tears by seeing Peter 3 get his moment.
Not only does Peter 3 receive the opportunity to save another Spider-Man’s love when he couldn’t save his own, he is also given the chance to save Dr. Kurt Conners and Max Dillon, both of which he was unable to do in his own movies. All he ever wanted was to help the pair who found themselves horribly mutated, and at the end of the movie thankfully both of the protagonists have been cured of their ailments. Max and Peter also share a conversation, where Peter once again assures Max that he isn’t a nobody.
In his original movie, The Amazing Spider-Man, we see that Peter 3 clearly has issues with being bullied (by a much more traditional jock-like Flash). In addition to the bullying, it is also clear that Peter 3 has difficulty creating and maintaining meaningful relationships – the only friendship we see outside of Gwen Stacy is Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, though clearly neither of these end in an ideal fashion for Peter 3. Peter 3 has an interesting backstory as well, with his parents opting to leave him with Aunt May and Uncle Ben as a child for his protection, which obviously left Peter 3 with some abandonment issues and an overall negative outlook on family life.
Spider-Man: No Way Home seeks to remedy this crushing loneliness Peter 3 has endured throughout his life by giving him two brother-like figures, the other versions of himself. Peter 3 is caring and emotional toward the other Peters, particularly Peter 1. Peter 3 spends the duration of his time in the movie helping Peter 1, cracking Peter 2’s back (swinging-related back pains are a real issue for Spider-Men, apparently), and ultimately telling the other Spider-Men he loves them (which was a line improvised by the wonderfully talented Garfield). Overall, Peter 3 received the chance to save another Peter’s love, to save the antagonists from his movies that he couldn’t in the past, and to not feel so alone in the big multiverse.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is coming to digital soon, and you can find our other coverage for the movie here.
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