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Spider-Man: No Way Home  gave Tom Holland's Peter Parker his first real opportunity to break out of Tony Stark's shadow. The "Iron Boy Jr." debate can be polarizing, but there's no denying Iron Man's influence on Spider-Man's journey from  Captain America: Civil War  up to  Spider-Man: Far From Home . Not only is Tony directly responsible for bringing Peter into the fold, but his unintentional mentorship has subconsciously guided the young hero from evolving out of his underoos. Even after he dies in Avengers: Endgame ,  Spider-Man: Far From Home  further emphasizes Tony's effect on Peter. It's literally in the MacGuffin's name:  "E.D.I.T.H. - Even Dead, I'm The Hero." ADVERTISEMENT While  No Way Home  barely referenced the Marvel Cinematic Universe's late genius billionaire playboy philanthropist, events from the movie did hint at a new way Tony Stark could have impacted Peter Parker's life...

Spider-Man: No Way Home was Marvel's last release of 2021 and it capped off a stacked year of projects with a bang. Tom Holland's third solo  Spider-Man film certainly had a lot going on with characters from both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the wider Sony Spider-Man franchise coming together on-screen for the first time.  No Way Home pulled off something that many thought would be impossible as it opened the Multiverse and brought in dozens of legacy Spider-Man characters, including two extra Spider-Men with appearances by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's Peter Parkers. Plenty of planning went into the duo's involvement with scenes even being rewritten late into the process after both actors had signed on. ADVERTISEMENT Another advantage that Holland's Spider-Man films have is their place within the MCU, which allows other Marvel characters to cross over seamlessly. It also allows the films to build up the wider world of...