By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada
The first burst into frame in the teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, super-fans knew the third film from director Jon Watts promised something different.
Not just the emergence of a new villain, but rather the kind of corporate crossover never seen before.
The tentacle was connected to Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus, a villain from 2004's Spider-Man 2 starring Tobey Maguire. The teaser trailer also featured a green pumpkin bomb suggesting the return of the Green Goblin, from the original Spider-Man film of 2002.
No Way Home begins by building on the shocking events that capped off the previous film Spider-Man: Far From Home. Defeated and disgraced, the villain Mysterio, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, broadcast Spider-Man's secret identity to the world — putting Peter Parker's friends Ned, MJ and Aunt May in danger.