{"id":45953,"date":"2024-02-15T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1992710"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T11:58:56","slug":"madame-web-ending-explained-is-spider-man-in-the-new-sony-film","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/madame-web-ending-explained-is-spider-man-in-the-new-sony-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Web ending explained: Is Spider-Man in the new Sony film?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest in Sony’s Spider-Man universe has swung into cinemas \u2013\u00a0but how did it all end? <\/p>

By Chezelle Bingham\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 15 February 2024 at 11:50 AM<\/p>

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Madame Web, the latest in Sony\u2019s ever-growing Spider-Man universe, has finally arrived in cinemas (and on Valentine\u2019s Day, interestingly enough).<\/p>\n

Starring Dakota Johnson<\/a> in the titular role, Madame Web<\/a> follows Cassandra \u2018Cassie\u2019 Webb, a paramedic who, after a near death experience, discovers that she has psychic abilities.<\/p>\n

The superhero flick also boasts other iconic talent in the form of Euphoria<\/a>\u2018s Sydney Sweeney, American Horror Story<\/a>\u2018s Emma Roberts and The Good Place\u2019s Adam Scott, and also sets up the possibility of an exciting future for Sony\u2019s Spider-Man universe.<\/p>\n

If you chose to take all the negative reviews<\/a> with a pinch of salt and are desperate to unpack the ending of Madame Web, read on for our full breakdown. But be warned, for there are major spoilers ahead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Madame Web ending explained<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb in Madame Web.<\/span><\/figcaption> Sony Pictures Entertainment<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

After saving the lives of teenage trio Julia (Sydney Sweeney), Anya (Isabela Merced) and Mattie (Celeste O\u2019Connor) multiple times from the future-obsessed Ezekiel (Tahar Rahim), Cassie travels to the Peruvian rainforest where she was born, in an attempt to find out the truth about her mother and her relationship with the antagonist.<\/p>\n

There, she learns that the reason her mother went exploring in the rainforest despite being heavily pregnant was because she discovered that the unborn Cassie had a disease that she believed a miraculous Peruvian spider could cure. When the spider bit Cassie\u2019s mother (shown in a scene at the beginning of the movie), it cured the unborn Cassie of her disease.<\/p>\n

Cassie also learns the truth about her mother\u2019s death \u2013 that Ezekiel, her mother\u2019s Amazon guide, betrayed and murdered her, wanting the spider\u2019s abilities for himself.<\/p>\n

With the help of one of the Las Ara\u00f1as elders, Cassie then discovers the full potential of her psychic powers. \u201cWhen you take on the responsibility, great power will come,\u201d the elder tells her. (Sound familiar?)<\/p>\n

Upon returning to New York, Cassie finds that Julia, Anya and Mattie are missing, having been discovered by Ezekiel while trying to rush Ben Parker\u2019s (Adam Scott) heavily pregnant sister Mary (Emma Roberts) to the hospital (to give birth to the beloved Peter Parker, no less).<\/p>\n

Using her powers, Cassie tracks them down to the middle of the city, where the team manage to momentarily fight him off (using an ambulance, of all things) and flee to the abandoned warehouse shown earlier in the film.<\/p>\n

Cassie and the girls quickly forge a plan of action before Ezekiel catches up to them, and soon, the five are battling it out on the rooftop. Ezekiel quickly disarms the three unpowered teens, leaving only Cassie to save the day.<\/p>

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\u201cYou can\u2019t save them all,\u201d Ezekiel says \u2013 but Cassie knows better. Finally unlocking her full potential, Cassie splits her mind into four, first saving Julia, Anya and Mattie, then using her clairvoyance to place Ezekiel in the position she knows will get rid of him for good.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls were never your future, I was,\u201d says Cassie just before Ezekiel falls to his presumed death. But in a moment unpredicted by our protagonist, she falls too \u2013 right into the water below her.<\/p>\n

As she sinks, some debris hits her in the eyes and for a moment, all is silent.<\/p>\n

But, of course, Cassie\u2019s time is not over. Just as she saved the girls, the girls save her \u2013 Julia, Anya and Mattie drag Cassie out of the water and perform CPR on her, exactly as she taught them earlier on in the movie, and Cassie eventually opens her now obviously changed blue eyes.<\/p>\n

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Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson), Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced), and Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney) in Madame Web.<\/span><\/figcaption> Sony Pictures.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Fast forward to the hospital. Mary has given birth to a healthy baby boy (or should we say spiderling?) and Cassie is alive, though as a result of her injuries, is now blind. Julia, Anya and Mattie keep her company, and it seems as though Cassie has finally found the family she was so desperately lacking in the form of three chaotic teenage girls.<\/p>\n

Some time later, Cassie uses a wheelchair and wears sunglasses (clear references to the comic book version of her character). She appears relatively unbothered by her new condition as she jokes around with Julia, Anya and Mattie and smiles over New York City, knowing far more than she is letting on.<\/p>\n

The final scene of the film alludes to a prophetic future for our web-slinging quartet, and though we don\u2019t find out exactly how Julia, Anya and Mattie become Spider-Women, and there are currently no plans for a sequel, the door is certainly left open for their futures.<\/p>\n

Does Madame Web have a post-credits scene?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney) in Madame Web.<\/span><\/figcaption> Jessica Kourkounis\/ Sony Pictures<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Diehard superhero fans may be disappointed to learn that Madame Web does not have a mid-credits or post-credits scene<\/strong>. Instead, the film ends on a prophetic note for our four heroes that, hopefully, sets up the future for Sony\u2019s Spider-Man universe.<\/p>\n

On the reason why there is no post-credits scene in Madame Web<\/a>, director SJ Clarkson explained: \u201cMy father always used to say, \u2018If you have to say something, stand up, speak up and then shut up.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when I got to the end credits, I felt that we\u2019d said everything we needed to say in the film. It\u2019s up to whatever is next to take on the [baton].\u201d<\/p>\n

Is Spider-Man in Madame Web?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Spider-Man does technically<\/em> appear in Madame Web \u2013 but not in the way you might think.<\/p>\n

Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, is born at the end of Madame Web to Emma Roberts\u2019s character Mary Parker, the sister of Ben Parker (aka Uncle Ben).<\/p>\n

Though Peter\u2019s name is never actually mentioned, we can safely assume that the character will eventually become our favourite web-slinging hero, though we can\u2019t be sure which cinematic version of him he\u2019ll grow up to be.<\/p>\n