SPIDER-MAN: 6 Most Exciting Possibilities For Tom Holland's Peter Parker And His Expanded MCU Role

Following reports that Tom Holland's Spider-Man will play a larger role in the MCU moving forward, we're exploring the most exciting possibilities for Peter Parker in the Multiverse Saga and beyond...

By JoshWilding - Sep 30, 2024 01:09 PM EST

Filed Under: Spider-Man

Much has been said about Spider-Man's role in the MCU as we head deeper into the Multiverse Saga and, if recent rumours are to be believed, Tom Holland will be a huge part of this franchise for a very long time.

Spider-Man remains Marvel's crown jewel and while Sony Pictures owns the rights to the hero, we're not exactly shocked that Disney is pulling out all the stops to keep the wall-crawler front and centre. Spider-Man 4 is on the horizon as are Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars, and the Mutant Saga.

In this feature, we're exploring some of the most exciting possibilities for Peter Parker in the MCU; starting with his role alongside Earth's Mightiest Heroes and delving into possible suits, storylines, and the Doom of it all, Spidey's future looks bright.

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6. Leading The Avengers

Peter Parker found a new sense of responsibility in Spider-Man: No Way Home and, after his experiences alongside Earth's Mightiest Heroes, successfully led his fellow Spider-Men into battle.

The wall-crawler assembling team in a world without The Avengers feels like a positive next step for the character, particularly now he's older and coming into his own as a superhero (and, crucially, he's also no longer under Iron Man's shadow).

Whether it's a younger team made up of names like Ms. Marvel and Hawkeye or we see him bring some fan-favourites back into the fold for the fight of a lifetime, we can't wait to see his dynamic with the team...especially now they no longer know who's beneath the mask!

Thinking about it, perhaps he's more likely to fight The Avengers.

5. The Black Suit

Regardless of whether Tom Hardy's Venom ends up factoring into Spider-Man 4, we can surely all agree it's time for Peter Parker to don the alien suit.

Given what he's been through, the web-slinger should absolutely head down a darker path and the Symbiote whispering in his ear is the way to go. Even if this suit only makes it into Avengers: Secret Wars - something we're sure the Russo Brothers are keen on - the ramifications that has for the future are massive.

For starters, Marvel Studios can introduce its own Venom and perhaps even keep Peter in the suit heading into Spider-Man 5 for a proper adaptation of this time in his life (which, let's face it, Spider-Man 3 whizzed through in a mostly unsatisfying manner).

If done right, this will be...wait for it...spectacular.

4. A Street-Level Adventure

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Right now, it seems the door has closed on Spider-Man 4 being a street-level story revolving around Peter Parker and Daredevil taking down New York City's Mayor, Wilson Fisk (a.k.a. the Kingpin of Crime).

We're here to tell you that's not the worst thing in the world. In fact, it might be for the best.

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 needs to come out before this team-up happens and there's no way for that to become a reality before July 2026. So, just hold off and tell this story post-Avengers: Secret Wars. The Kingpin can still be a problem and, by then, Spidey may have gotten the Multiverse out of his system.

There's room to tell a street-level story with Spider-Man in the MCU, but patience is likely to be key. The fact Tom Holland is sticking around also makes us hopeful that he'll eventually meet the Fantastic Four!

3. A Multiversal Superhero

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Spider-Man: Homecoming told a "Friendly Neighborhood" story but Peter Parker has since grown well beyond Queens. He's fought monsters (well, projections) overseas, travelled into outer space alongside The Avengers, and headed into the Multiverse of Madness.

Between Spider-Man: No Way Home and the Spider-Verse franchise, Sony Pictures knows there's a huge appeal to seeing the wall-crawler in that realm.

As a result, it could be that moving forward, Tom Holland's Spidey does embark primarily on Multiverse-related adventures. It's worked well for the character on the page and, if it results in him sharing the screen with Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Gwen, and Miles Morales, should we really complain?

This runs the risk of being a Spider-Verse retread but, if it happens, in Kevin Feige we trust...

2. The Anchor Being

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If the rumours and theories are true, Spider-Man is the MCU's "Anchor Being." We know from Deadpool & Wolverine that, when one of those dies, it's bad news for a universe so...is it bad news for Peter Parker?

Not necessarily. Instead, it makes him perhaps the most important character in the next Avengers movies and suggests one - if not both - of those will be built around Spider-Man. No fan of the character can complain about that!

Peter's previous run-in with the Multiverse and his Variants is bound to come into play and the fact a spell was cast that made the world forget him is another plot point we'll surely see revisited.

Crucially, if an Incursion is about to befall Earth-616, Spider-Man's new status quo puts him on a collision course with...

1. Doom

Spider-Man and Doctor Doom have crossed paths many times over the years, but to say they have a storied history is untrue. However, the MCU looks set to change that by giving Victor Von Doom the face of Peter Parker's beloved mentor, Tony Stark.

We're still not 100% sold on that but it's bound to come into play here; Robert Downey Jr. is playing Victor rather than an evil Iron Man but there must be a connection between the two and Marvel Studios can exploit that to tell a great story.

What happens when your father figure returns from the dead as a maniacal villain hellbent on ruling the Multiverse? Will he have his own history with Peter or is Spider-Man going to be who he has to kill to destroy Earth-616?

We have many questions and while we'd have been happier exploring the relationship between Reed Richards and Doom, this is something new and there's always room for that in a future story. Plus, Spidey battling Doom sounds like fun to us.

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27 Comments

grif - 9/30/2024, 1:16 PM

they should just make a spiderverse type live action movie. not something i want. but it would probably make about 2.5 billion dollars

mountainman - 9/30/2024, 1:44 PM

The anchor being concept is so dumb. #4 is the most exciting thing in this list. #5 could be if they do it right.

EducatedDefense - 9/30/2024, 2:37 PM

@mountainman - agreed. There are too many improvised “rules” to the multiverse, and that one might be the worst because of all the holes you poke into the concept. Fixed moments or events aren’t great either, but I can roll with it. The anchor being thing is utterly ridiculous. They really need to get it together.

mountainman - 9/30/2024, 3:14 PM

@EducatedDefense - It seems like a move only made to set up these “important” characters for the team they want to build in Secret Wars but makes absolutely no sense.

TheVisionary25 - 9/30/2024, 1:45 PM

I do t think he should be the leader of the Avengers or a different team though I don’t necessarily mind him on one either (even though I prefer Spidey solo)

Anyway if I had my way, this would be a street level story…

Start 4 with Peter being Spidey 24-7 pretty much since he has no life now with increasing feelings of loneliness and anger due to his current situation but he’s still worried about letting others close to him after what happened last time so he avoids making connections but slowly begins to do with new characters throughout the movie.

You could have Mac Gargan escape Prison and go to Mexico , get the Venom Symbiote and have him come back to the city to get revenge on Spider Man.

In the final battle , he fights Gargan who perhaps dies or gets captured during which the Symbiote latches into Peter due to his negative emotions still being fairly strong.

We then go to 5 in which Peter now has the Symbiote and is behaving badly leading to the infamous removal church scene and then in 6 we get maybe this universes Green Goblin with the Harry & Norman story being built in the background of the previous 2.

TheNewYorker - 9/30/2024, 1:47 PM

Forget Tom Hardy's comically tragic Venom and go that route.

JFerguson - 9/30/2024, 1:51 PM

Mr negative, spot, and then Morlun if they want to do a multiverse trilogy. Asking Sony for a street level story is a mute point by now

RitoRevolto - 9/30/2024, 1:55 PM

I still don't like the concept of an "anchor being," but making a Sony-owned character that of the main timeline is......a choice.

ObserverIO - 9/30/2024, 2:52 PM

@RitoRevolto - It should be Stark, obvs. Everything started with Iron Man and lets face it, everything ended with Endgame.

bkmeijer1 - 9/30/2024, 4:54 PM

@ObserverIO - that makes so much more sense than Spider-Man. Makes an anchor being feel way more important too

harryba11zack - 9/30/2024, 2:08 PM

not news, put this bullshit in a fan fiction header

TitusAshview - 9/30/2024, 4:05 PM

@harryba11zack - He has confessed that he posts bullshit, hate/click and lies so that people go to his articles and he gets paid. He doesn't care for the material. Users only do this to have interaction on comment sections.

Tell you what, the shit would fall out of Josh's pants if a strong user who carries these sections made a subreddit (invite only to those who are worthy i.e. no Josh) and spent their time in happy discussions there freely instead of funding a rumour hack that has his own agenda in his pocket; money. He does not care about anyone. He blocks users, taunts, users and, honest truth, said to me that a flight to Florida was funded by 'Loser Hate Clicks'.

There seems a good community on here, but you're paying a hack by clicking on his articles just to have interaction and friendship.. Could easily be done on a subreddit. Think about it...

KennKathleen - 9/30/2024, 9:57 PM

@harryba11zack - we have two options:

Check back to this site for article updates... see nothing.

Check back here for article updates.... talk 💩 when it's a Wilding wishlist.

dragon316 - 9/30/2024, 2:09 PM

Doubt it but make Spider-Man with no avengers cameos in it it’s Spider-Man movie not Spider-Man and his amazing avengers tired of variants time travels it’s all marvel does in books with dead characters time travel , variants, clones what they did with Xavier and some other members of X-men in comics

Izaizaiza - 9/30/2024, 2:10 PM

We need a good street level adventure. I'm at the point where the words "anchor being" "multiverse" and "variant" cause a knee jerk "[frick] it. Not interested" response in me

SonOfAGif - 9/30/2024, 2:12 PM

It would be such an interesting parallel to see Dark Peter battle Dr. Doom.

McMurdo - 9/30/2024, 2:15 PM

Boring on more boring

ModHaterSLADE - 9/30/2024, 2:33 PM

Spidey works best at Street Level, if anything they should find a way to connect him to Daredevil as Kingpin being his next big challenge to conquer establishing himself as guardian of NYC.

HashTagSwagg - 9/30/2024, 2:45 PM

Try reporting news, not your pathetic BS wish list.

Waifuslayer2 - 9/30/2024, 3:21 PM

So you want a grounded street level Spider-Man, who hops between mutiverses and forms a group of Super Avengers?

Maybe we should win stuff by watching.

99OPTIMISTPRIME - 9/30/2024, 3:31 PM

Oh yeah I forgot about that. The whole mentor and mentee dynamic between Tony & Peter, that nobody liked.🤣 I guess them facing off, could be interesting.

bkmeijer1 - 9/30/2024, 4:59 PM

I'd be laughing if Doom says "I hate you 3000", but that won't happen probably. Still, those interactions could be interesting.

As for the rest, I hope it'll be as follows:
2026: SM4 is street-level with Daredevil vs. Kingpin & Scorpion
2027: Secret Wars sees Spider-Man acquire the symbiote
2028: SM5 is Spider-Verse set on Battleworld with Maguire, Garfield & Hardy
2030: SM6 is Peter and Miles vs. Sinister Six (Ock, Vulture, Shocker, Mysterio, Scorpion, Hobgoblin)

Timerider - 9/30/2024, 6:27 PM

@bkmeijer1 - hate to tell you this, but Tom won’t be doing these movies 6 years from now. He’s planning on shooting spider-man 4, his one cameo, and one or both Avengers films simultaneously. He wants to do other things besides Spider-man. Will he come back? I don’t know, will Doom kill him, maybe, nobody will see it coming. It’s that shock factor that we’re not prepared for, we’ll see what happens.

bkmeijer1 - 10/1/2024, 2:11 AM

@Timerider - yeah, I did read he didn't wanna do this well into his 30s. Kinda why I think they'll introduce Miles in 5 or 6.

That said, I'm sure Feige and a big bag of money can convince him otherwise. This is the same Tom Holland that went to Iger to keep Spidey in the MCU after all.

Spike101 - 9/30/2024, 7:54 PM

The way they are heading sounds awful to me. Spider-Man is hand really always has been a street level hero. A team up with Daredevil or even the Human Torch would have been amazing and just what fans would have wanted.

HOTSHOT - 10/1/2024, 2:20 AM

If Peter has more crossovers, I'd like to see him play the mentor role to other street level heroes. No Way Home already showed that he can lead a team well. So they could expand on that.

But yeah I'd prefer a street-level story like Homecoming but with the tone of the second half of No Way Home from now on.

S8R8M - 10/1/2024, 5:05 AM

All I want is Parker to see Stark. Cry with happiness, hug Stark and then feel a shock of a blade go into his kidney. Then I want Stark to smile and say, 'I am Doom'.
Then bring in Miles Morales.

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