Every Spider-Man movie, ranked before ‘No Way Home’ hits theaters

The only ranking of Spider-Man you’ll ever need.

The latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe drops Thursday as they wrap Tom Holland’s seemingly first trilogy as the iconic Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home. When we last saw the webbed wonder, reporter J. Jonah Jameson outed Spider-Man’s identity, causing all sorts of problems.

Early returns have praised the flick, but you can rest assured that this is a spoiler-free zone for the new release. If you haven’t seen any of the other Spider-Man entries — and you don’t want them spoiled — bookmark this tab and take care of that before reading on.

Before Peter, MJ, Ned, and Doctor Strange are back on the big screen, I’m going to rank the previous seven installments of live-action Spider-Man  (meaning this list does not include the nearly flawless animated Into the Spiderverse) based on personal preference. Let’s get to it!

Spider-Man 3 seems to have three different titles. Why?

What. Is. Happening?!

WARNING: This article includes rumors about the Spider-Man 3 movie. It also discusses plot points from Spider-Man: Into the Multiverse and Avengers: Endgame. If you aren’t interested in seeing that information, hit the exit button.

The Spider-Man 3 movie is going all in on playing with the number three. Not only is the movie rumored to include three different Spider-Men (Tom Holland, Tobey MaGuire and Andrew Garfield) but the film’s top three stars (Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon) announced three different titles for the film.

I’ll let you soak that in for a second.

Yes, the movie has three different titles: Spider-Man: Phone Home (announced by Holland), Spider-Man: Home-Wrecker (announced by Batalon) and Spider-Man: Home Slice (announced by Zendaya). That’s pretty wild and, of course, unprecedented. Surely, Marvel will settle on one title. (And it may not even be any one of these.)

It’s hard to know, exactly, what Marvel is doing here. It’s a marketing ploy, for sure. (I’m writing about it, after all.) But it also seems to be a nod to the multiverse.

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So…. let’s discuss.