With Great Storytelling Comes Great Responsibility – Spider-Man: Far From Home SPOILERIFIC Trailer

SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS: ENDGAME

Even the trailer says there are spoilers.

This trailer contains spoilers. If you haven’t seen Endgame, don’t read further.

But if you have seen Endgame (and read my take), then keep reading!

It’s time for your favorite friendly neighborhood superhuman to tie up all the loose ends of the MCU and sling us into the next phase of the franchise.

New Spidey Trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9L1jCKGnE

This trailer pulls no punches as soon as it gets going: letting us see Peter’s sorrow over Tony’s death (A death that sticks in the MCU? Say it IS so!), as well as the fall-out from that grief, the continued theme of what responsibility, if any, Peter bears now in the loss of Iron Man, and most importantly…

…it solves my lingering question from Endgame:

If reality would only be restored if Cap put back all the stones in place, and if the past is immutable, but Cap somehow manage to mutate it to live out his life with his One True Love…

THIS ISN’T OUR REALITY.

Now, I understand that in the Marvel Comic Universe, every time that there’s a different choice made, there’s a splintering to a parallel universe where that choice is made. Essentially, everything proliferates multiverses. (DC limits the number of multiverses created, so that choosing different socks in the morning doesn’t create a new galaxy. Marvel Comics, apparently, don’t.)

BUT(!) the plot of Spider-Man: Far From Home seems to deal head-on not only with the loss of our former heroes, but also the fall-out created by playing with the timeline. We’re into multiverses, friends!

What does this to do to Endgame?

Well, at least for me, it answers my lingering plot hole questions by assuring me the MCU has a modicum of a plan. And second, it actually makes me want to go back and see Endgame, knowing that there will be actual consequences in future movies from the events of the latest Avengers.

One of my major complains about so many franchises on the big or small screen is that the creators are afraid to commit to any real consequences for their characters. Everything is operated on the Brady Bunch theme of returning to status quo. But these movies aren’t sitcoms. And we’re drawn into characters if what happens to those characters: the good, the bad, the painful, the baffling – have consequences that stick.

I think, more than anything, that was part of my frustration with Endgame. I knew it was going to reverse the Snap. Of course it was. But that felt like cheating. Infinity War left me with gravitas. I had to grapple with what the loss of these people meant. With Endgame, I worried that we were simply back to fun and games by the end. So, it thrills me to see that, no: the MCU is doing the grown-up thing and saying: