And then there were three
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We received just a glimpse of Peter's excitement earlier in the movie to not have to carry the load alone, when MJ tells him to just let them know next time so they can come up with a plan together (instead of going to Strange first to brainwash the world). Even though he felt like he was supposed to carry the burden of being Spider-Man on his own, it's always nice when you can get a little assistance
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So after the infamous line heard 'round the multiverse, Holland Peter was now on board with his counterparts. His entire energy changed in the next scene, their first scene in creating their collective plan for administering the anti-serum to the remaining villains
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"So are you going to go into battle dressed as a cool youth pastor, or do you have your suit?"
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Ned: "Peter"
(All 3): "Yeah?"
Ned: "Oh Peter, Peter"
(All 3): "Yeah we're all Peter dude"
Ned: "Peter Parker?"
(All 3): "Same again. We're all called Peter Parker"
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Once the plan is developed to "cure that ass", Holland Parker calls Jameson's Daily Bugle open line with a message to the villains to basically meet him at the (MCU) Statue of Liberty
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While waiting for the villains to show up to the trap, the movie took what I thought was an excellent time to provide us with short banter between the Spidey trio. The scene was fun to watch, and it seemed like a lot of it was ad-libbed. If it wasn't, it was at least performed like it was intended to be made up chatter between the three
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Electro shows up first. This starts a high-flying act of battle as he tries to get the relic from Holland Parker, as Parker dives from the top of the statue. Ned has already opened a portal as he told Holland Peter he could do. Peter tosses the relic to MJ standing next to Ned, and all Ned has to do is close the portal. He can't
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The Lizard shows up next. He grabs on to Maguire Parker's leg while he swung. Electro fights his old friend Garfield Parker in the meantime
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During both of their respective fights, each Parker tells Holland Parker they need the cure for their particular foe. As Holland tries to satisfy both of their needs, he's grabbed by who shows up next....Sandman
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Nothing is going according to plan, so the three Peter's have a pow wow. First they can't get their names together. Then they realize they suck at working as a team. Maguire Peter and Garfield Peter state they haven't been on a team. Holland Peter takes this time to brag about being an Avenger, to absolutely hilarious results:
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"I don't want to brag but I will. I was in the Avengers"
"The Avengers?"
"Yeah"
"That's great"
"Thank you"
"What is that?"
"What, you don't have the Avengers?"
"Is that a band, are you in a band?"
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Eventually they figure out to just focus, "trust your tingle" and coordinate their attacks. They decide to go after one target at a time
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They go after Sandman first. But Lizard grabs Garfield Peter, who tosses the anti-serum to Holland Peter. After a couple of elaborate Spider-Man moves, they toss the cure to Maguire Peter who administers the cure to Sandman, changing him back to a human
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They then turn their attention to Electro, who quite frankly kicks their ass
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Garfield Parker had webbed up Lizard to toss the cure, and at this point the Lizard got out of the webs. He just so happened to be standing near where MJ and Ned are, with Ned still trying to close the damn portal
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The Lizard of course makes a bee line to the portal, which Holland Parker notices. The Lizard gets into the portal while MJ and Ned run. Holland Parker fights Lizard while instructing Ned and MJ to run, with MJ still holding the relic. Ned and MJ run through the portal onto the runway of the Statue of Liberty. Lizard tries his best to get the relic, while Holland tries his best to stop him
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Meanwhile, Electro has Garfield Parker by the short and curlys. He sends A LOT of electricity through Garfield's body, causing him to drop the anti-serum. Maguire Parker picks it up, but just as he does both he and Garfield are caught around the neck by the latest villain to join the party; Doc Ock
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I can't speak for everyone else, but I actually did forget temporarily he was already cured. He tells Electro, "leave them, they're mine"
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But Electro tells him he doesn't need his help. I think he too temporarily forgot that Ock was cured

That's likely what Ock was counting on. It doesn't take long for one of Ock's long tentacles to find their way around the neck of Electro. Ock then grabs the anti-serum Maguire dropped and gives it to Electro, reducing him back to just plain old fucking Max
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We then go back to Ned and MJ, still running from Lizard. While running, Ned manages to open a portal filled with water that knocks Lizard back long enough to create some space. MJ grabs the anti-serum and, upon his call, tosses it to Holland who catches it and releases it in Lizard's mouth, causing him to turn into plain old Dr Connors
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MJ and Ned decide they need to get rid of the relic. Ned opens another portal and for some reason they celebrate. He never had a problem opening a portal. It's closing one that's the fucking problem. Anyway, this particular portal happened to contain another deeply annoyed person; Dr Strange
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Strange arrives just in time to see Dr Connors return to normal and that Peter's plan is working. It was also just in time to be impressed that Ned opened a portal
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At this point, with all of these villains and even Strange showing up, I was either too engrossed in the movie, too high, or a combination of both to realize that we're still missing one
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And the movie also decided to take this time to create some subtle reunions. First, Max and Garfield Parker peacefully reunite for the first time since The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Then Dr Octavius and Maguire Parker peacefully reunite for the first time since Spider-Man 2
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As Strange confronts Holland and meets Garfield and Maguire, we're snapped back into reality with the appearance of the final remaining uncured villain
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"Can the Spider-Man come out to play?!"
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Goblin grabs the relic, as Ock grabs his hoverboard with one of his tentacles. Strange uses a lasso to grab the relic from Goblin, but wasn't aware that in the short time he had it, Goblin had put one of his bombs in the middle of it. It explodes and the Cap shield being held by the statue in the MCU SOL comes crashing down. This knocks MJ off sending her flying straight down toward her death
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Holland Parker rushes to save her, but his effort is intercepted by Goblin. Garfield Parker then jumps in and does save her, in an emotional moment for him since he wasn't able to do the same for his own MJ

Ned was also tossed when the shield came crashing, and he's still dangling. Strange tries to create and contain a spell to end this but it doesn't work. It seems to backfire and created what looked like an absolute problem from the moment we saw it. We didn't know what the hell it meant, but we knew it could not be good!
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But the good thing is that during this, Strange's cloak was able to save Ned. The shield finishes crashing through the statue and lands in the water. We then more clearly see what started with Strange's attempt to end this. There were a lot of purple cracks in what looked like a timeline. As I said, this could not be good
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Strange tries his best to close up the cracks, while Holland Parker is still fucking with Goblin. Holland takes one of Goblin's own bombs and inserts it in the hoverboard, crashing it with Goblin on top of it, sending them both airborne
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Peter calls up to MJ and Ned to make sure they are okay. When MJ confirms they are, Parker turns his attention to his aunt's killer
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They battle. Hard. Maguire and Garfield take note at how hard Holland is beating him. They recognize that rage. It was the very thing they wanted to avoid in him. Ned and MJ watch on in horror as well. They were present when he admitted he wanted to tear Goblin apart. They knew what they were witnessing
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Holland picks up a large piece of what looked liked part of Goblin's damaged Hoverboard. Whatever it was, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what Peter wanted to do to his aunt's killer. As he carries it over to Goblin, rage in his eyes, he raises it and goes to deliver the final blow. Out of nowhere, Maguire steps in and intercepts the blow. Suddenly, Maguire is basically in an advanced arm wrestling match with Holland
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The best part of this scene to me was Maguire's reaction. He didn't say a word, but his face said so much. When Holland pushed harder, Maguire told him 'no' without ever even changing his expression. It was a very big brotherly moment. And every bit of it felt like it was for Holland Peter's own good, and not like Maguire trying to be a bully. His look was more like "I'm going to stop you from doing something you'll regret that you can't take back"
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Holland relents, probably realizing Maguire was right. But no sooner than Holland drops the "weapon", Goblin's ole bitch ass stabs Maguire in the back
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Of course the fact that it was in the back was a dick move. But then the next part confuses the shit out of me. Not because I don't understand what happened. But because I find myself agreeing with the same asshole that just did the dick move that I DID NOT agree with. I can't figure out if I like this dude or wish that Maguire Peter hadn't stepped in
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'Cuz Goblin then points out that May was there because of Holland, which is true. He said that he may have struck the blow, but it was Holland Parker that killed her. Also true. But Garfield had heard enough and tosses the cure to Holland who immediately stabs Osborn in the neck. Maguire smiles, still laying on his back. I honestly thought Goblin killed him when I first watched it
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Goblin disappears and Norman returns to his normal self. He looks over and sees Maguire laying on his back and asked what he had done (as Goblin)
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Garfield and Holland rush over to Maguire, who tells them he's fine as he's been stabbed before. He then notices the cracks that Strange had been trying to fix and wonders aloud if he's dying. But this is a HUGE moment in not only the story, but clearly in the MCU altogether
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"Are there, people, in the sky?"
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Holland rushes to Strange to see what's going on. Strange (his voice clearly shaken) tells him "they're starting to come through and I can't stop them"
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Peter reasons there must be something they can do. He asks if he can just cast the spell again, but the original way before he screwed it up (FURTHER proving the stupidity of this plot from the beginning)

Strange tells him, "It's too late for that, they're here. They're here because of you"
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So in response, Peter comes up with one final solution
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"What if everyone forgot who I was"
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Since everyone is coming through the timeline for him, cast a new spell to make the entire world forget about Peter Parker altogether. I'm not sure what this means for the Garfield and Maguire Parkers. Since this same spell is the one that sends them all home, doesn't that mean they should be forgotten as well?

Strange is reluctant for a surprising reason. He reveals his true feelings in that he had grown quite fond of the kid. He didn't want to forget him
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"Yeah it would work....but you got to understand that would mean that everyone who knows and loves you, we.....we'd have no memory of you. It'd be as if you never existed"
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Peter understands and gives his final stamp of approval. Strange gives him a moment to quickly say his good-byes. At this point I thought to myself 'wow, they're really going to do this....interesting'
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He first goes to his fellow Spidey's. He thanks them, he hugs them, and Maguire coolly states "this is what we do". He did not tell them about the whole forget about PP thing, so I'm still confused on if that applies to them or not. Oh yeah, this shit is a big deal until I get my goddamn answer
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Then Holland Peter has to have that heart-breaking conversation with his lady love and bff. That part was tough to watch. I wondered though, did he really need to tell them? I guess it doesn't matter, but then again after seeing how this movie ends maybe it does
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Strange finalizes the spell and we watch the other Peter's and all of the villains that entertained us so greatly in the movie, just....vanish
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Peter is then later walking down the street practicing what he's going to say to MJ. She and Ned are in the shop where MJ works, the same location where they earlier found out they didn't get into MIT

He sees MJ and Ned, who indeed do not recall who is he. As he begins to explain, he chickens out and orders a coffee instead. Peter and the audience then finds out that the Peter-less lives of MJ and Ned have led them to MIT
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After a short exchange with MJ, Peter realizes that not only are their lives more successful without him in it, MJ's pessimism was also gone. Add to that one final comment about the scar on her head that he took to be a metaphor for the way she felt about her memory of him, and he decides to not reveal who is his to them after all, letting them get on with their better lives
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"It doesn't really hurt anymore"
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Peter visits the grave of his aunt. To his surprise, Happy stands beside him. He notices the irony of the moment. Until Happy opens his mouth
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"How'd you know her?"
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Although he doesn't mention him by name, Happy tells Peter that he lost Stark a while back (also had to be ironic as fuck for Peter), and likens the way he feels about May to that experience. Wondering if all that they stood for was gone too. Peter assures him it's not before they part ways
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Peter rents an apartment, and I don't know where the fuck he came up with a deposit. We see he resume his Spider-Man duties from that apartment, but that kind of work don't pay the bills. We see that he's also studying to get his GED. And he kept the coffee cup that MJ gave him
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He has somehow gotten his hands on a high-tech police scanner (okay seriously, somebody audit Peter's ass to see how he's getting his hands on this shit). Writer's Update: Hey dumb ass, you just said Peter visited his aunt's GRAVE! Obviously you know she had life insurance and you know she had a policy for her nephew as his guardian, smh. He exits the window when he hears of a disturbance, and he seems happily able to do his Spider-Man duties without having the weight of fear that people he really cared for would get hurt
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But one thing that I didn't notice on first view, was how this film ended all existing connections with Spider-Man (owned by Sony) from the MCU. Stark had already died in Endgame. Then May died. Now Happy, MJ, Ned, and anyone in Civil War, Homecoming, or Far From Home have forgotten who he is. No one in the MCU knows who he is anymore....interesting
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Yes, I picked this movie apart because that's what the fuck I do. I have also said repeatedly that it was entertaining. Ya know, once you turn your brain off and just enjoy it for what it is. I mean, it's hard for me to do that, but you just do the fuck you. And I'll do the same on my end. The film was bold and when your ambitions are as bold as they were here, it's going to be hard to get there without some snafu's. So I forgive them for their short comings. It was a super entertaining film I could watch again and again, like many Marvel movies; flaws and all. But y'all need to knock that greatest Marvel movie ever shit off tho