#No Way Home TV Spots Show Doctor Strange Deploying Magic Runes

The premise of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is that Peter Parker approaches Doctor Strange to beg for a spell that will make the world forget he’s Spider-Man. Doctor Strange agrees to this, because he’s never really been one for respecting the boundaries of magic. Thanks to Peter’s interference, the spell goes wrong, cracking open the multiverse and spilling villains from previous iterations of the “Spider-Man” movie franchise into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

There’s clearly a lot going on in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The confirmed villains include Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, Alfred Molina’s Otto Octavius, and Jamie Foxx’s Electro. Lizard and Sandman will also appear, though it’s unknown whether their actors from the previous movies (Rhys Ifans and Thomas Haden Church, respectively) are actually playing them, or if they’re purely CGI creations. So far? It’s looking like they’re CGI only, with Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and Electro playing the most prominent villain roles.

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The Marvel multiverse has taken a real beating this year. First Wanda did a bit of reality-bending in “WandaVision.” Then Loki ruined the TVA’s nice, neat, organized single timeline by cracking it open into many diverging timelines in “Loki.” And now Doctor Strange is going to take his own turn at splintering the barriers between universes in “No Way Home.” Basically, the entire MCU had a massive raging house party and a hungover Doctor Strange is going to have to clean it up before his parents get home in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”

Fortunately, he won’t be alone. Elizabeth Olsen is set to return as Wanda, who has now fully come into her own as the frighteningly powerful Scarlet Witch, in “Multiverse of Madness,” and it’s very likely that “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is going to set up that movie’s story. Who knows, perhaps we’ll even get a cameo from Wanda, Agatha, or both. If “No Way Home” already has a billion characters in it (and it’s certainly looking that way), a couple more won’t hurt.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” releases December 17, 2021, exclusively in theaters.