A fight in Spider-Man: No Way Home was teased 18 years before the film's release. No way home multiversal premise sees not just five classics Spider-Man film villains brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also their respective Spider-Man variants. No way home brought together three generations of cinematic iterations of Spider-Man, but the fusion of Sam Raimi, Marc Webb and MCU Spider-Man The franchises have also led to fascinating interactions between Spider-Man variants and supervillains from other realities. One of these conflicts has an interesting story in Sam Raimi Spider-Man universe.
In the third act of No way homeall three iterations of Spider-Man fight together to defeat and depower Sandman, The Lizard, and Electro. At the beginning of this sequence, Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man is shown fighting The Amazing Spider-Man the lizard of the universe, with the web-slinger more than holding his own against the antagonist. Fascinatingly, there have been two previous instances of Maguire's Spider-Man fighting the Lizard in some way, with the first being a spinoff that is only tied to Raimi's first film, while the second is set in ancillary material connected to the MCU. timeline and No way home.
Spider-Man's first lizard fight isn't exactly canon
2003 Spider-Man: the new animated series was originally intended to be the canonical follow-up to the 2002 album Spider-Man. The series takes place a year after Sam Raimi's first film and makes direct reference to it in its 13 episodes. Despite that, the series has many irreconcilable continuity conflicts with Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3making it part of a branching timelinesimilar to the MC2 comics that overlap with Marvel's 616 universe until the end of The Clone Saga. One of the many continuity problems Spider-Man: the new animated series concerns Curt Connors and his transformation into the Lizard.
In the show's third episode – “Law of the Jungle” – Doctor Curt Connors lost his arm while working for Oscorp Technologies, leading him to experiment with regenerative serums to regrow the limb, resulting in his accidental transformation into the Lizard. As The Lizard, Connors seeks revenge against Oscorp (including Harry Osborn) and his eventual battle with Spider-Man ends in Connors' death. This, of course, means that The new animated series is not part of the same continuity as the rest of the Raimi trilogy.
Spider-Man fought the lizard off-screen in Spider-Man 3
Just like the new adaptations, Raimi Spider-Man The video game adaptations of the trilogy are canonical parts of the franchise, with the games adapting the films' respective plots but also adding new characters and stories to Raimi's main continuity. Thanks to video games, novelizations, and spin-off comics, Raimi Spider-Man universe has much more Spider-Man villains – and other Marvel superheroes – than the films suggest. THE Spider-Man 3 in the video game specifically, Dr. Curt Connors becomes the Lizard, fights Spider-Man on several occasions and is cured of his transformation during the events of the film.
From the general features of the Spider-Man 3 The game's extra stories do not contradict the film, they can be accepted as canonicalbut the undone Spider-Man 4 could have contradicted the game, perhaps making the Lizard storyline non-canon. Spider-Man 4 would have featured several supervillains, including The Vulture, Black Cat, and The Lizard. The film would likely have had a different version of Connors' transformation into the Lizard and conflicts with Spider-Man, and the Spider-Man 3 game's version of the same events would likely not have been referenced.
Spider-Man's previous fight with the lizard makes the path home more meaningful
Viewers who wanted to see The Lizard in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 undoubtedly encountered Maguire's battle with the Incredible lizard of the universe to be cathartic, but the Spider-Man 3 game makes your fight even more meaningful. The Raimi universe's Spider-Man is the most experienced of the three Spider-Man variants in No way homemaking his relative indifference during battle appropriate. The fact that Maguire's Spider-Man already fought his universe's version of the Lizard – and cured him – more than a decade earlier Spider-Man: No Way Home makes his composure and the film's struggle all the more meaningful.
For the first time in Spider-Man's cinematic history, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and can no longer separate his normal life from the trials and tribulations of being a superhero. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) turns to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) for help when his identity becomes an issue for those he loves. Unfortunately, when the spell goes wrong, Spider-Man will now have to face villains like Doctor Octopus (Alfred Molina) and Electro (Jamie Foxx), while Peter finally comes to the conclusion that he can't escape being Spider-Man. . Supported by his close friends and help from an unexpected place (or multiverse), Spider-Man will face some of the most legendary enemies in his history.
-
- Release date
-
February 14, 2025
-
Rays*
-
- Release date
-
July 25, 2025
-
- Release date
-
July 24, 2026