#No Way Home Trailers Misled Us

First of all, Dr. Strange didn’t say “Scooby Doo this crap,” as shown in the trailers. Instead, he says “Scooby Doo this s***.” This isn’t actually a big deal (trailers often censor or tone down language in order to get a green band from the MPAA), but it’s worth mentioning because I’m just happy whenever the powers that be let our favorite heroes utter curse words. They’ve been through a lot. It’s just realistic.

More importantly, we were led to be believe that Dr. Strange would be featured much more heavily in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” than he actually was. While Strange definitely played a major role, in that his desire to help Peter ease his troubles is the catalyst for the ensuing madness, we don’t actually see much of him beyond that because he spends the majority of the film trapped in the Mirror Dimension. He reappears at the end of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” to do his part in setting things aright the best way that he can, which fits in nicely with the themes of personal accountability and making amends that color the film. I was personally hoping that he’d have more a physical presence, as the trailers suggested, but it ultimately worked out.