What Will Marvel's Spider-Man 4 Be About? Theories
What Will the Next Spider-Man Movie Be About? These 5 Theories Are Convincing
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There's a brief scene in No Way Home where Ned asks Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker about his history and if he has a best friend. That Peter replies with a brief explanation of how he did have a best friend (Harry Osborn), but he turned evil and eventually died in Peter's arms. Ned later promises his baffled bestie Peter that he will never turn evil.
The thing is, in the comics, that's exactly what happens. Ned Leeds was originally a colleague of Peter's at the Daily Bugle, not his best friend. During one arc, Ned gets brainwashed by a villain called the Hobgoblin, is forced into acting as a sort of stand-in for the real villain, and is then murdered and framed to uphold the real Hobgoblin's trickery. We've grown to love the MCU's version of Ned, so we hope his line in No Way Home was just a wink at his comics history. But knowing Marvel, anything is possible, and Spider-Man 4 might see Peter, like his predecessors, having to battle his best friend.