People don't clap in UK theaters, it's a US thing. In that final shot as he’s swinging through the city with his new duds I could hear Tony’s voice echoing from that first film: “if you’re nothing without this suit, then you shouldn’t have it.” He’s been through so much, but it’s shaped him and matured him into the person we’ve always known and loved, ready to kick ass and lend a helping hand as your friendly neighborhood Spider-man. However, it felt like this all needed to happen in a way so he could finally be ready and set off on his own. It broke my heart to see him lose Aunt May and connection to his friends, MJ, even the other Avengers. On the other hand, I kept thinking about Tom finally having his origin story come full circle (somewhat akin to the running theme from Into the Spider-verse, like we were watching his comic book moment happen in real time). You could tell he was hurting the whole time, and yet this was a healing process for him. Andrew in particular absolutely crushed it, from his vulnerability and relief upon saving MJ to the love and validation he received from the older, wiser Tobey on positive self-talk. Loved how they didn’t just throw Andrew and Tobey in there as a gimmick or brief cameo, but allowed them to dive further into the progression of their characters and get closure after so many years. What a great film on so many levels! Can’t tell you how much this took me back to being a kid again all those years ago watching Spider-man on the big screen for the very first time. The memory spell was to repair the dimension, not to convince the villains to go away. They were only brought through because they knew Peter was Spider-Man, and it just so happened that most of them were in New York and it was in their characters to want to kill Spider-Man, whose face was all over the news, making him relatively easy to find. Remember that some of the ones that came through helped him, and some of them never even interacted with them. I'll also add that the people coming through don't need their memories wiped, as they weren't specifically coming for Peter. And performing a memory spell across the multiverse is way beyond his pay grade at this point. I doubt Strange has the ability to do that anyway, seeing as he couldn't hold back the villains from entering his universe. I also questioned this when the visual for the second spell seemed to be spreading in a circle around the world, not in a sphere through the universe. In short, the spell is local, and Strange did specify that the first one applied to "the entire world," which would seem to imply that the rest of the universe would be unaffected. It only affected other universes in that it undid the tears that caused them to slip through, although it's implied that the ones who did come through were changed by the experience. Strange said he couldn't change that, but Peter told him to make a new one that would break down the premise of the first spell, rendering it inert and repairing the damage. I think what it was doing was overwriting the spell that would make everyone forget that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. I discussed this in another thread, so I'll quote my opinion from that:
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