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Spider-Man: Far From Home Trailer Breakdown – Meet Mr. Beck

The friendly neighborhood just got a whole lot bigger.
Spider-Man Far From Home
Marvel Studios
By  · Published on May 6th, 2019

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Cut to a Sand-Man tearing up a village. Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Fury go at it with a pair of pistols, but their effect is minimal. The idea is that Beck, a.k.a. Mysterio, is not the only biological anomaly that passed through the dimensional tear.

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“You’re saying that there is a multiverse?” Uh, yup. Despite Bruce Banner’s promises to The Ancient One, the events of Endgame created multiple timelines/realities, or maybe they exposed the ones that have always existed. Captain America stealing the life that Natasha and Tony always told him to get certainly obliterated Peggy’s first family, or maybe it only birthed an alternate series of events. Time travel. Multiverses. Science, man. Whatever the case, we cannot trust anything that comes out of Beck’s mouth. He’s Mysterio. One of the original big bads from the Amazing Spider-Man comic run.

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This Molten Man burning his way through Europe is as likely to be a product of Mysterio as it is the first, second, or third Snap. Part of Beck’s comic book origins revolves around delight in crafting illusions. A few years back, when Miles Morales first met our Peter Parker during Brian Michael BendisSpider-Men miniseries, it was revealed that Mysterio had found a way to penetrate the multiverse and manipulate it for financial gain. A variation of that plot is most likely happening here.

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That being said, this Molten-Man is causing some very real damage. He’s more than an illusion.

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Parker doesn’t want this job, but Thor is off-world, and Captain Marvel is unavailable. What about Black Panther? Or Doctor Strange? Or Banner Hulk? Nick Fury knows what he’s doing. Peter Parker is terrified of filling the shoes of Tony Stark, but he can’t fail the man who sacrificed everything so the world would keep spinning. Fury can manipulate this teenager in a way that he couldn’t possibly do with the other remaining Avengers. Fury is training this kid to be the weapon he needs, and this method tracks with how Fury brought the Avengers together in the first place.

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Parker claims that he’s only a “friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” and Fury fires back with “Bitch, please. You’ve been to space!” As Parker said to Stark in Infinity War, he can’t be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man if there is no neighborhood. Whether he wants it or not, Parker’s territory has expanded into a global market. This is a painful, but necessary transition while Earth’s Mightiest Heroes recover.


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Brad Gullickson is a Weekly Columnist for Film School Rejects and Senior Curator for One Perfect Shot. When not rambling about movies here, he's rambling about comics as the co-host of Comic Book Couples Counseling. Hunt him down on Twitter: @MouthDork. (He/Him)