SPIDER-MAN 4 (2026)
ETERNAL NIGHTFALL JUST HIT MCU HARDER THAN A SYMBIOTE SMACKDOWN—SPIDER-MAN 4 (2026) is the web-slinging apocalypse we’ve been craving, plunging Tom Holland’s Peter Parker into his darkest hour yet! If No Way Home broke our hearts, this one shatters them into symbiote shards and glues ’em back with pure, pulse-pounding heroism.
Knull, the god of gooey nightmares (Andy Serkis voicing that eldritch horror? Chef’s kiss), yanks Earth off its solar leash, blanketing the Big Apple in endless midnight where shadows bite back. Peter’s forced into a devil’s bargain with Tom Hardy’s grizzled Eddie Brock—Venom’s anti-hero swagger clashing with Spidey’s quippy soul in a buddy-cop bromance from hell. But wait, the symbiote plague hits peak chaos: Daredevil’s horns twist into tendrils mid-vigilante flip, Kingpin balloons into a blubbery behemoth of black ooze, and half of NYC’s turning into writhing puppets. It’s possession pandemonium on a scale that makes Venom 3 look like a teaser trailer.
Zendaya’s MJ? Oh, she levels UP—unleashing latent reality-warping mojo from the Web of Life, origami-folding skyscrapers like they’re paper lanterns and bending boroughs to her will. Talk about girl power glow-up! Jacob Batalon’s Ned goes full multiverse maestro, ripping portals to crumbling cosmos and summoning an army of alternate Aunt Mays (Marisa Tomei multiverse? Yes please)—grannies with attitude, dishing wisdom and whoop-ass side by side. The finale? A symbiote-sheathed Avengers Tower and Brooklyn Bridge become living labyrinths of ebony webs, crawling with cosmic carnage. Venom’s gut-wrenching sacrifice clears the shot for Peter’s arrow-straight strike at Knull’s core—tears, tentacles, and triumph that’ll have you ugly-crying into your popcorn.
Holland swings with haunted heart, Hardy growls redemption, Zendaya owns the mystic, and Batalon portals the pandemonium. It’s emotional evisceration wrapped in spectacle so spectacular, you’ll forget to breathe. The darkest Spidey ever? Abso-freakin-lutely. Most emotional? Soul-crush supreme. Most spectacular? Web-head’s Endgame.
Verdict: 9.7/10 – Swing into theaters July 2026; your friendly neighborhood heart needs this. Who’s teaming up with Venom first?
