Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 follows the trend of recent Marvel movies with multiple credits scenes and threads that connect to what’s coming next. So what, exactly, does that extended ending mean?
By the time Spider-Man 2 is over, most players wish it wasn’t. The game is exceptional in most ways a game should be, but there’s also reason to be way more excited for the future as the ending sets up multiple storylines for sequels and potential DLC.
Spoilers are ahead, obviously. So if you haven’t finished the game, close the tab and do so now, or risk having many amazing moments ruined for you that you could be experiencing yourself.
Here’s all we have to share on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s ending, explained.
Spider-Man 2: All ending scenes and what they mean
A father’s love is strong
After the epic final battle between the Spider-Men and Venom, Harry begs for Peter to end it, knowing full well what that means. With the symbiote fully bonded to Harry, Peter must “kill the host” to sever the ties. This means saying goodbye to his best friend.
Peter uses his Anti-Venom powers to destroy the symbiote, and Harry along with it. The symbiote’s corruption of NYC quickly ends, but Harry is expiring too. In a last-ditch effort, Miles uses his bioelectric powers to try and revive Harry. It works, but Harry is left in a coma with little brain activity.
The Spider-Men carry Harry outside, where Norman Osborn is arriving in his helicopter. He sees his lifeless son, and immediately blames the Spider-Men.
“What have you done?” Norman asks. “What have you done to him?!”
Later in the hospital, Harry lies in a bed with Norman, Peter, and Mary Jane attending. Norman picks up Harry’s cane and begins destroying the room, showing off that textbook Osborn anger. And this is where it gets interesting.
Norman gets on the phone and orders the person on the other phone to do something drastic.
“Get the G-SERUM ready ASAP,” he says, breathless, as he looks down at his son.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the G-SERUM means one thing: Norman Osborn is probably going to become the Green Goblin in Spider-Man 3. And with the serum being framed as a cure for Harry, the odds of him being revived and becoming his own goblin are good as well.
A spider vacation
In the final scenes before the credits, it’s revealed that Mary Jane has migrated to one of modern day’s most lucrative forms of journalism: podcasting. But Peter’s making changes, too.
He brings MJ out to the garage where he has set up the basis of the Emily-May Foundation, the company started by Harry that the two were supposed to work at before the symbiote wrought its havoc.
Peter’s new dedication to EMF means something major: He’ll be taking a step back from his Spider-Man duties. That’s made evident by the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man app buzzing, only to be ignored by Peter.
When Miles arrives outside, Peter breaks the news to him, as awkwardly as only Peter Parker can. But Miles already knows.
“I got this,” Miles says. “All of it. Go be Peter Parker for a while.” In one of many emotional scenes in the game, Peter says he’ll be there for Miles “always,” and Miles fist-bumps him, calling him “big bro.” Who’s cutting onions?
Thus begins the passing of the torch from one Spider-Man to the other. Miles Morales is Spider-Man, just as Peter Parker was, is, and will be. For now. It seems like Insomniac Games is setting the stage for a world where Peter no longer has to be Spider-Man, or simply no longer exists.
The final chapter
In the mid-credits scene, Norman Osborn walks into the Raft and finds his old partner, Otto Octavius. Imprisoned since the events of the first game, the man known as Dr. Octopus is writing something.
Norman, who Otto despises, asks him for a favor. Otto takes way too much pleasure at the news of Harry’s death. “Good,” he remarks, “We all have to experience loss. Even you, Norman.”
Norman asks what Otto is writing. And with a not-so-subtle hint towards the franchise’s future, Otto reveals where we’re headed next: “The final chapter.”
This all but confirms a third Spider-Man game. It’s likely many years away, with Insomniac moving into full production on its Marvel’s Wolverine game, but the inevitable showdown of both Spider-Men with Dr. Octopus, Green Goblin, and whatever other villain still has it out for them is coming.
But it appears the Spider-Men may also have some help on the way…
Webbed reinforcements
The final scene of the game, the big MCU-level post-credits stinger, is one that will likely confuse many.
After teasing it throughout the game, we finally get to meet the man that Rio Morales has been dating in her attempts to move on from losing her husband and Miles’ father, Jefferson Davis, in the first game of the series.
The man announces himself as Albert, but subtitles reveal his full name: Albert Moon. He says hello and introduces himself, and his daughter, Cindy. The screen goes black, and many dedicated Spider-Fans shout “yes!” in anticipation, while others are left confused.
Cindy Moon is another spider-hero from Marvel Comics. In the comics, the Korean-American girl gets bit by the same radioactive spider that gave Peter his powers, and becomes the superhero known as Silk.
Silk’s involvement in the future would open the door for more team-ups, more adventures, and even more Spider-Verse heroes. It’s even possible she gets her own Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales-like spin-off game where she becomes the hero before the events of Spider-Man 3.
