Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man episodes 9 & 10Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manseason 1 has reached its final episodes. The last two episodes of the new MCU show help bring the entire season full circle in some very surprising ways. However, the finale also teases an exciting future not only for the titular Webslinger, but for many of his friends and foes as well.
In the previous batch ofYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manepisodes (6,7,8), Peter Parker faced Mac Gargan’s Scorpion who nearly killed him, shaking Spider-Man’s confidence to his very core. While Norman Osborn wanted the Wallcrawler to stop holding back and demand respect with his great power, Parker ultimately decided that he would determine what was best for Spider-Man, a decision symbolically proven with Peter finally getting his classic red and blue suit. With that in mind, here’s ourrecap and ending breakdown forYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manepisodes 9 & 10.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Major Time Loop Explained
Which Came First, The Spider or Spider-Man?
With this Spider-Man existing in an alternate MCU timeline, it looks as thoughYour Friendly NeighborhoodSpider-Manis taking full advantage of that extra freedom when it comes to Peter Parker’s origins and where his powers came from. In the premiere episode, the spider that bit Spider-Man came from a portal during Doctor Strange’s battle with an alien symbiote monster that saw Midtown High receiving quite a bit of damage. This battle resulted in a new path for Peter Parker where he had new friends, a new school, and even a new mentor with Norman Osborn instead of Tony Stark.
However, it’s now been revealed that Strange, the symbiote, and the spider all came from the future thanks toYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manepisode 10. Likewise, the spider in question had been tested on using Spider-Man’s own blood thanks toNorman Osborn’s secret experiments to try and replicate the Websligner’s powersin other specimens.As such, the end result is a mind-bending paradox where the spider that gave Spider-Man his powers in this alt-MCU timeline was only special because of Spider-Man’s blood from the future (so which came first?)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 1 Final Big Twist Explained
Richard Parker Is Alive
The other major shock is that Peter Parker’s father Richard is still alive, albeit incarcerated in prison. Additionally, it’s unknown if Peter knows about his father or if Aunt May has been keeping his existence a secret. Either way, this will likely prove to be a pretty big plot point inYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-ManSeason 2 and beyond.
In Sony’sAmazing Spider-Manmovies starring Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker, Richard Parker worked for Oscorp, and his death was faked. While he would have revealed his existence to his son at the end ofAmazing Spider-Man 2, this sequence was ultimately cut but was likely going to play a big role in thecanceledAmazing Spider-Man 3had Sony not pivoted to working with Marvel Studios and bribing a new Webslinger played by Tom Holand into the MCU. That being said, the Richard Parker introduced inYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’sfinale will likely have different origins.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s Finale Has Several Big Teases For The Future
What’s Next For Spider-Man’s Friends and Foes?
Spider-Man has certainly become a full-fledged hero by the end ofYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.To that end,it’s pretty cool to see Uatu the Watcher secretly observing Peter Parker, a visual confirmation that Spider-Man has reached a major milestone by the season’s end, becoming the superhero he’s meant to be going forward. Likewise, Harry Osborn forming the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, first seen at Disneyland’s Avengers Campus, is also quite exciting, providing Peter with a new company to work with beyond Oscorp in future seasons.
It’s also cool to see Jean confirmed to be Finesse with the reveals that she was working undercover for Daredevil, as well as Nico’s magical secrets being teased. Likewise, it looks as though Lonnie’s future as the comics' Tombstone is all but certain following his exposure to Diox-3, and Norman finding a piece of symbiote goo while Otto Octavius plans his revenge as Doc Ock should be exciting villain arcs.As such, it’s very clear thatYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manseason 1 is only just the beginning.
All episodes ofYour Friendly Neighborhood Spider-ManSeason 1 are now streaming on Disney+.
