Mysterio explains the Multiverse to Peter Parker in Far From Home clip

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Yesterday a new trailer dropped for SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, and now a week after AVENGERS: ENDGAME hit theaters it teases a huge change in the MCU with the inclusion of Multiverses. This raises all sorts of questions as to how alternate earths will factor into the main MCU timeline we’ve grown to know over the last decade. At the very least it will take some explaining to do, and in a new clip from FAR FROM HOME, Jake Gyllenhaal’s Quentin Beck/Mysterio tries to break it down for our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Tom Holland).

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Gyllenhaal was on ELLEN yesterday talking about his entry into the MCU, and it was there he debuted a clip from the movie. While Marvel has not posted it online themselves, some quick Twitter user made sure to post it online. In it, we get an extended look at the underground scene from the last trailer, where Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) introduces Parker to Beck, and it's then Beck explains how he’s from “Earth-833”, which has “identical physical constants” with our planet, “Earth-616”.

There’s a lot to be taken from that, especially considering some fans have noted this earth of the MCU is, in fact, Earth-1999999. Now, maybe it just gets a new numerical classification come FAR FROM HOME, or it’s representative of the idea Mysterio can’t be trusted. A famous trickster in the comics who uses special visual effects to make it look like he has powers, in the movie he’s made to seem a hero. Perhaps this is him taking advantage of the fallout of ENDGAME, and is posing as some sort of alternate dimension figure who made it into our world and is just here to help fight the new Elementals.

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Check out the clip for yourself!

Director Jon Watts spoke with Fandango and confirmed the existence of multiverses in FAR FROM HOME, saying Peter Parker is one of the few people dealing with them directly.

Well, I mean, yeah. We had to look at it in terms of the scope of what happened at the end of Endgame. Seeing all the crazy things that they did and all the questions that raises. So we're definitely trying to answer one of the big ones — alternate timelines. So many possibilities opened up at the end of Endgame, and Peter Parker is one of the few people on the ground dealing with them.

Right now there's so much out there pertaining to timelines and multiverse thanks to the events in ENDGAME that it's making my brain all fuzzy. The fact that FFH will dive into it a bit is exciting and leaves the door open for all sorts of new, branched stories in the MCU, which should keep things fresh going into this new saga. But why FFH marks the end of Phase 3 and not the start of Phase 4 is also a bit of a mystery and all the mental gymnastics we're doing to theorize it all will be less strenuous when the movie comes out…hopefully.

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME hits theaters July 2.