Spider-Man: No Coming Home was the trip of a lifetime. The Phase 4 MCU movie not only broke multiple records, but fulfilled the dreams of millions of fans by bringing back Tobey Maguire as well as Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man alongside resident MCU web-slinger Tom Holland. The movie never had a moment of slowing down or a break, as one accident after another kept the hero on his toes until the climactic battle. But in the quiet of the sequel, what happens to the only two people he’d made into his family, aside from Aunt May?
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What happens to Ned after Spider-Man: No Coming Home?
Jacob Batalon aka Ned Leeds has been a constant in the MCU since the Back home days. Being Peter Parker’s best friend, he was also the first civilian to know Spider-Man’s true identity, albeit accidentally. After that moment of initial comedic teenage excitement passed, Ned proved to be a capable ally with his skills as the “guy behind the computer”. However, after the events of Spider-Man: No Coming Home, no one on Earth but Doctor Strange remembers that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. And it erases every moment that MJ and Ned spent in Peter’s company.
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With a completely clean slate, the mainstream Marvel Universe now has free rein to explore whatever arc they want when it comes to Ned Leeds. If Ned Leeds’ comic origin story is to be followed, then Spider-Man’s fourth installment may well establish Ned as our forgotten Avenger’s next formidable adversary. Moreover, seeing how Ned indicated his magical ancestry in Spider-Man: No Coming Home and can easily create and manipulate portals with a sling ring, perhaps Marvel is gearing up to offer a more involved role for Ned rather than confining him to contributing beyond the battlefield.
Jacob Batalon Teases Ned Leeds’ Future Hobgoblin Arc
Jacob Batalon, in a recent interview, revealed his experience playing much darker roles than he’s usually assigned in movies like the MCU Spider-Man franchise and Reginald the Vampire. Batalon claimed,
“You know, I would love to. I feel like an actor [when I was in drama school] I really leaned into really dark dramatic things as opposed to comedy and things like that, but I found, you know, playing Ned and Reginald, it kind of gave me that light where I I didn’t see things so negatively and I didn’t think so deeply or so gloomily about things.
I’m looking forward to doing a lot of other things, which you know, people might not see me doing right now. But yeah, those things are in the works for sure.
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If this is a taste of what’s to come regarding Spiderman 4, then audiences would surely love the angst of Peter Parker fighting his best friend. Several MCU theories have already teased Batalon’s villainous role in the future as the Hobgoblin. In the comics, Ned Leeds is a colleague of Peter Parker at the Daily Bugle and finds himself brainwashed by the real Hobgoblin who uses Ned as a scapegoat. Considering how Peter is now going it alone and will most likely apply for that fatal Daily Bugle job, he might after all run into Ned at the office, who might follow his comic arc to meet his fatal death as a submissive villain. brainwashed.
However, it’s also worth noting that Marvel has a penchant for straying from the source material and delivering something completely original and culminating in its own right. If that happens to be the case with the next Spider-Man movie (which is currently in development), then the theories abound online.
Source: Dark House
