Question: Are the Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies now part of the MCU?
gobylo
18th Dec 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Answer: I almost think the best way to refer to them would be to call them "MCU-Adjacent." Both answers nail it - they're not part of the MCU universe itself, but are canonical to it and co-exist alongside it thanks to the establishment of the multiverse. And considering the "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" trailer teases Patrick Stewart as (presumably) Professor X, I think we could probably also apply this to pretty much any other Marvel adaptation ever made that was not made by Marvel Studios itself. It all co-exists and is all canonical to each other through the use of multiverses/alternate timelines/alternate dimensions.
Answer: No. It's explained that they are from another universe, and were sent back to their universes at the end of the film.
Answer: No, they are part of the multiverse. The MCU is just one of those universes within the multiverse.
lionhead