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In Spider-Man: No Way Home, many bashed Tom Holland’s Peter Parker for botching the movie’s game-changing spell, but someone else is to blame.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home, now playing in theaters.
In Spider-Man: No Way Home, many have been bashing Tom Holland’s Peter Parker as the reason the mind-wipe spell went awry in the opening act. He came to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to ask him to make the world forget he was Spidey, but as the sorcerer began the spell, Peter began changing the parameters, and it backfired. However, after reconciling how Strange failed to lay down keynotes, it’s clear he’s the one truly responsible for botching it and tearing a rift open in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Peter messed up because he shouldn’t have stopped and restarted the spell, first asking for MJ, then Aunt May and then Ned to remember his secret identity. One has to think he’d have wanted his loved ones as exceptions from the start, but being that he was so nervous, clumsy and panicking from the public hunting him, it’s not surprising he kept bumbling and adjusting things.
Still, this is all the more reason for Strange to have put down the ground rules immediately, clarifying what could and could not be done. He did so when it came to the Time Stone in the Avengers‘ movies, so there’s no reason for him to be winging it here as it clearly took away from his concentration.
Strange came off amateur and experimental, yet he used the brainwashing spell on Wong and others after a “full moon party” at Kamar-Taj. Thus, he knew how it worked, so boundaries should have been put in place to let Peter know what he was able to do. By not setting these things up and giving into Pete’s whims and fancies, he’s as much as a child as he considered Peter to be.
From the time Pete first broke the spell and started adding new constraints, Strange should have asked him who else needed an exemption as it was clear Spidey had a few in his inner circle that he wanted safe. The mage could even have adjusted his spell in one-shot rather than let Spidey free-style and mess things up repeatedly.
After all, he was supposed to be a custodian of magic, knowing right from wrong. It’s what Wong, the new Sorcerer Supreme, warned him of when he left, hoping Strange would be firm, not lackadaisical. Instead, he was too incompetent with the rules and vague on everything magical to the point audiences still have questions on the final spell that mind-wiped the multiverse.
This didn’t shape him as a capable Master of the Mystical Arts at all, especially as he ought to have known he couldn’t trust Peter to honor the sanctity of the spell as the kid was way too emotional. As such, the teen did what any teen in that flustered state would have done, while Strange failed miserably by unleashing this loaded supernatural gun in a careless manner.
Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: No Way Home is now playing in theaters.
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