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Spider-Man: No Way Home writers Erik Sommers and Chris McKenna discuss how the season finale of Loki inadvertently benefited their own story.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home, now in theaters.
While both Spider-Man: No Way Home and Disney+ series Loki involved a multiverse thrown into flux, neither Marvel project was made in conjunction with one another.
“We were already down this road when that Loki finale happened,” writer Erik Sommers told The Wrap. According to Sommers, he and co-writer Chris McKenna initially drafted No Way Home‘s dimensional conflict so that it would tie into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Having Loki unleash the multiverse, thanks to the actions of Loki’s female counterpart Sylvie, might have been a major coincidence, but as Sommers put it, “We all felt like, this really helps. This is great, because it shows that there is trouble in the multiverse.”
McKenna also stated that they’re not certain whether the season finale of Loki and Doctor Strange’s spell in No Way Home align at the exact same moment. “There is, I’m sure, the Marvel talking points to that,” he said. “But we were aware of a lot of the different things that were going on, and could we draw on those, how it would be affected by this thing, but ultimately we had our own giant story bear to wrestle with.”
Marvel’s Phase 4 projects have centered on the multiverse as a major plot point following the Infinity Saga’s conclusion, particularly in its Disney+ series. This included Marvel’s What If…?, which followed alternate versions of the MCU ranging from a world where Peggy Carter became a super-soldier to one where a zombie outbreak destroyed Earth. On top of that, in-universe advertising in WandaVision teased the concept of Nexus Events, which was later introduced in Loki.
The final episode of Loki Season 1, however, saw Loki and Sylvie confront the Time Variance Authority’s founder, He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors), who revealed that he built the organization and Sacred Timeline to imprison his multiversal selves –all Variants of the villain Kang the Conqueror — and, by killing him, they would free those counterparts. Sylvie, however, chose to kill He Who Remains, setting up the fallout of Loki‘s confirmed second season.
Spider-Man: No Way Home, by comparison, saw Peter Parker fight alternate Spider-Man villains from past franchises after a memory-wiping spell performed by Doctor Strange went wrong. Though Peter successfully defeats those villains with the help of each universe’s Spider-Man, played again by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, the unstable spell nearly brings in other villains from across the multiverse. As a result, he convinces Strange to cast the spell properly, in turn making everyone — Strange included — forget about Peter Parker.
The trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which appeared as a post-credit scene for No Way Home, implied that this decision will have major ramifications, with Strange seeking out Wanda Maximoff for help with the multiverse. The trailer also features the appearances of a grotesque, seemingly malevolent version of Strange who bears a strong resemblance to his alternate counterpart from What If…?.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently playing in theaters. Loki is available to watch on Disney+.
Source: The Wrap
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