Film guide · 2021

Spider-Man: No Way Home: The Full Story, Scene by Scene

The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.

Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.

Part 1: The day he was exposed

Chaos

Right after Mysterio's video revealed Peter as Spider-Man, Peter flees through the city with MJ while reporters and helicopters swarm his home.

Questioned

Peter, May, Ned and MJ are questioned by authorities. A lawyer gets the charges dropped, but public opinion is harsh.

College rejections

Peter, MJ and Ned are all rejected by the college they wanted, because of the Spider-Man controversy.

Part 2: The spell goes wrong

Asking Strange

Peter visits Doctor Strange and asks for a spell to make everyone forget he's Spider-Man.

Changing the terms

Mid-spell, Peter keeps asking for exceptions: MJ, then Ned, then May. The spell goes haywire, and Strange shuts it down.

Mechanical arms on the highway

Heading to plead with the college, Peter is attacked on a highway by a man with mechanical arms, who says Peter isn't the Peter Parker he knows.

Part 3: Villains from other worlds

Strange explains

Strange explains that the spell drew in people from across the multiverse who know Spider-Man's identity, and asks Peter to round them up.

The villains gather

Electro, Sandman, the Lizard and Norman Osborn appear. Strange locks them in cells beneath the Sanctum.

Sending them back

Strange plans to send them home, but many of them are fated to die fighting Spider-Man there.

Part 4: Choosing to save them

May's words

May tells Peter that helping people is who he is. He decides to cure the villains before sending them back.

Fighting Strange

Strange objects, and they battle in the Mirror Dimension. Peter outsmarts him, traps him and takes the box holding the spell.

At Happy's place

At Happy's condo, Peter successfully fixes the device controlling Octavius's mind.

The Green Goblin

But Norman's monstrous other self, the Green Goblin, takes over and helps the others break free.

May's end

In the fight, the Green Goblin mortally wounds May. She tells Peter that with great power comes great responsibility, and dies.

Part 5: Three Peters

Ned's magic

Ned uses Strange's sling ring to look for Peter, and two Peter Parkers from other worlds step through.

Words from the elders

The two other Peters share their own losses and help this Peter through his grief.

The cures

The three Peters work together to make cures for each villain.

Part 6: The battle at the Statue of Liberty

Luring them in

The Peters lure the villains to the Statue of Liberty construction site and cure them one by one.

A rescue

One of the other Peters catches the falling MJ, echoing someone he once failed to save.

Facing the Goblin

Consumed by rage, Peter nearly kills the Goblin, but another Peter stops him. They cure Norman instead.

Strange's final spell

As the multiverse starts to crack, Peter asks Strange to make everyone forget Peter Parker entirely. He promises MJ and Ned he'll find them.

Peter alone

Days later, Peter visits MJ at her coffee shop but can't bring himself to tell her. He moves into a small apartment alone and keeps protecting the city in a homemade suit.

Part 7: The credit scenes

Mid-credits

A man from another world chats with a bartender, then vanishes in a flash, leaving a bit of black goo behind.

After the credits

A preview of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness plays.