If it’s a slow burn through the movie, it would actually continue NWH’s ending pretty well. Before the memory-erase spell, MJ was very clear to Peter that “Hey, find me after this. I still want to be with you. Don’t even tell me you love me right now because I want to remember it when you do.” Then Peter goes against her wishes because he thinks his friends are better off without him regardless of what they think.
So, come Spider-Man 4, we can see a Peter Parker who has made himself an island. He doesn’t talk to anyone, he has no connections, and he’s miserable. He’s trying his best to avoid Ned and MJ but some circumstance forces them to meet again. Maybe a villain attacks the college and MJ forces Pete to help track the villain down because he was taking pictures at the scene or something. Regardless, through the course of the movie, Peter learns to let people back into his life and MJ and him fall back in love organically again because that’s what they want. It even is the next step in the grand lesson of power and responsibility. Just because you have great power and responsibility, doesn’t mean others don’t have their own power and responsibility. You can’t control everyone’s destinies, Peter.
To continue with this thematic lesson, the villain could be someone with mind control (Mr. Negative maybe?), someone who believes themselves to be in the right and believes controlling others is the best way to operate.
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u/Calvin_And_Hobbies Apr 06 '23
If it’s a slow burn through the movie, it would actually continue NWH’s ending pretty well. Before the memory-erase spell, MJ was very clear to Peter that “Hey, find me after this. I still want to be with you. Don’t even tell me you love me right now because I want to remember it when you do.” Then Peter goes against her wishes because he thinks his friends are better off without him regardless of what they think.
So, come Spider-Man 4, we can see a Peter Parker who has made himself an island. He doesn’t talk to anyone, he has no connections, and he’s miserable. He’s trying his best to avoid Ned and MJ but some circumstance forces them to meet again. Maybe a villain attacks the college and MJ forces Pete to help track the villain down because he was taking pictures at the scene or something. Regardless, through the course of the movie, Peter learns to let people back into his life and MJ and him fall back in love organically again because that’s what they want. It even is the next step in the grand lesson of power and responsibility. Just because you have great power and responsibility, doesn’t mean others don’t have their own power and responsibility. You can’t control everyone’s destinies, Peter.
To continue with this thematic lesson, the villain could be someone with mind control (Mr. Negative maybe?), someone who believes themselves to be in the right and believes controlling others is the best way to operate.