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[Spider-Man] About “No Way Home”

Warning: My question does contain major NWH spoilers. If you click on the blocked text despite not having seen the movie yet, that’s not my problem.

>!In the movie, each of the villains are taken right before their deaths. So, Pete’s plan was to cure them, or rather deprive them of their powers, so that they…don’t die. Thing is, is that the “cure” wouldn’t solve anything. Green Goblin, for example, died because he was impaled with a glider. Not because of his mental illness. So sending them back, even while cured, would do nothing. What am I missing?!<

>!Also, does this mean their deaths aren’t canon anymore? I just need somebody to lay this out for me. I throughly enjoyed the movie, but this is a bit of a mindfuck!<
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>Green Goblin, for example, died because he was impaled with a glider. Not because of his mental illness. 

Well Norman impaled himself on his glider because of his mental illness. A reformed Norman wouldn't kill himself in an attempt to kill Spider-Man. He would surrender rather than die at his own hands.

It's before their deaths, but not *immediately* before. Doc Ock for example, doesn't get pulled while he's submurged in the river, he's pulled while he's fighting Spider-Man at the docks before he reforms.

Electro was pulled while shocking Spider-Man, but without his electrical powers, he would stop shocking Spider-Man and his energy couldn't be used against him.


>Also, does this mean their deaths aren’t canon anymore?

No. Everyone is taken from different moments in time, so you end up with split timelines. Tobey, Andrew and Sandman come from after the events of their movies, so for them nothing changes.

For Electro, Lizard, Ock and Green Goblin, their timeline does change.