Warning: This post contains SPOILERS for Deadpool & Wolverine
Summary
BothDeadpool & WolverineandSpider-Man: No Way Homesubtly set up at least oneMCUspin-off each. The Multiverse Saga has allowed famous live-action iterations of Marvel characters to return on the big screen.Spider-Man: No Way Homebrought all three major Spider-Men and five of their enemies together, andDeadpool & Wolverinenot only brought back the titular heroes but also several characters from different Marvel movies in the form ofDeadpool & Wolverine’s many cameos.
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man saved all five multiversal villains and motivated the other two Spider-Men to keep fighting inSpider-Man: No Way Home. Meanwhile, Deadpool and Wolverine defeated Cassandra Nova, thwarted Paradox’s plans with the Time Ripper, and found Wolverine a new home on Earth-10005 inDeadpool & Wolverine’s ending.Spider-Man: No Way HomeandDeadpool & Wolverine’s easter eggs and referencesdid a lot of worldbuilding for all universes involved, and a few lines of dialog teased off-screen stories that may or may not be revisited in the future.
Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man And Hugh Jackman’s New Wolverine Have Exciting Unseen Backstories
Garfield’s Spider-Man And Jackman’s Wolverine Blurred The Line Between Hero And Villain Before Their MCU Return
InSpider-Man: No Way Home, Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man comforted Tom Holland’s Peter Parker over Aunt May’s death by recounting how he stopped pulling his punches after Gwen Stacy’s death.The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s final scenes showed a mournful but equally heroic Spider-Man fighting Rhino, but it seems like Spidey went down a dark path afterward anyway.Spider-Man’s brutal battles betweenThe Amazing Spider-Man 2’s ending andSpider-Man: No Way Homeprovide enough material for at least one movie, which could serve as the third installment inthe currently unfinishedThe Amazing Spider-Mantrilogy.
Like Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine lived through a dark period of extreme violence that warrants its own MCU spin-off.
Likewise,Deadpool & Wolverineintroduced a new Wolverine variant who’s known for"letting down his entire world". Wolverine admitted to Deadpool and Cassandra Nova that he failed to defend the X-Men when humans launched an attack on mutants, and that he started killing people in revenge. Wolverine also confessed that he didn’t limit himself to killing bad people. Like Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine lived through a dark period of extreme violence that warrants its own MCU spin-off.
How Likely Marvel Is To Make A Garfield Spider-Man And A MCU Wolverine Spinoff
An Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man Or Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine MCU Spin-Off Would Be A Hit With Audiences
As evidenced bySpider-Man: No Way Home’s $1.9 billion worldwide box office andDeadpool & Wolverine’s record-breaking $444 million opening weekend, superhero portrayals like Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine are beloved by die-hard fans and general audiences alike. Spin-offs centered around these characters have the potential to be massive box office hits regardless of how they’d fit within the MCU’s continuity.If these hypothetical spin-offs covered the time between Spider-Man and Wolverine’s last pre-MCU appearances and their MCU introduction, they could easily find themselves a spot among the most successful MCU movies.
Unfortunately, it’s very unlikely that the MCU will ever give Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man and Hugh Jackman’s new Wolverine variant their own standalone movies. Marvel Studios is focusing on big-scale multiversal events such asAvengers: DoomsdayandAvengers: Secret Wars, and the rest of Marvel’s slate is already occupied by projects in various stages of development, includingBlade,The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Spider-Man 4,Wonder Man, andNova. By the time a spot opens for a brand-new project, the Multiverse Saga may already have concluded, and alternate-universe variants may not fit the franchise anymore.
Marvel Studios would also need to work closely with Sony to produce a newThe Amazing Spider-Manmovie that connects withSpider-Man: No Way Home. Sony, meanwhile, has its own plans for future Marvel movies and shows.
What Villains Garfield’s Spider-Man And Jackman’s Wolverine May Have Faced Before Their MCU Return
Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man And Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Likely Took Their Rage Out On Less Powerful Enemies
WhileThe Amazing Spider-Man 3starring Andrew Garfield’s Spidey andaDeadpool & Wolverinesequelcentered exclusively on Wolverine are unlikely, their respective stints as violent anti-heroes are undeniably part of their story now. Which enemies Spider-Man faced after Rhino is unknown, but he probably didn’t fight Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, or Venom as he would have recognized the villains that were transported to Earth-616 and the Venom variant Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man mentioned. Instead,Garfield’s Spider-Man might have fought less powerful villains he could beat to a pulp, like Shocker, Scorpion, Vermin, and Tarantula, to name a few.
Wolverine’s backstory inDeadpool & Wolverinesuggests that humans exterminated mutants, leading Wolverine to unleash his rage on non-mutant villains. The most logical options for Wolverine’s targets are the X-Men’s lifelong anti-mutant enemies, such as politicians Henry Gyrich and Cameron Hodge, Sentinels creator Bolivar Trask, Hellfire Club member Donald Pierce, and the AI villains Bastion and Nimrod. Collateral damage could have included other heroes who supported or ignored the humans' attack on the X-Men, including the Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, the Starjammers, the Defenders, the Illuminati, or the Avengers themselves.
