Surely, you’re aware by now that Sony went and dropped the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer, which has opened up all sorts of possibilities, including a few certainties: (1) Peter Parker is a Public Enemy Number One following the Spider-Man: Far From Home post-credits scene, in which J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) exposed his identity and fingered him as the killer of Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal); (2) Doctor Strange starts f*cking around with the multiverse in order to make everyone forget that Peter is Spider-Man; and (3) Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) is back to cause more villainous fallout.
We don’t yet know whether we’ll see former Spideys Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield in this film. Their presence has been denied, but speculation runs rampant, and let’s face it: everyone wants to see a certain meme come to live-action life onscreen. In the meantime, a little trailer moment (around the 0:30 mark) has fans intrigued, to say the very least. That would be the moment screenshotted above, where a hard-hitting attorney slams paperwork down in Peter Parker’s face.
Rude, I know, but who is this guy? Clearly, the Powers That Be want us to be curious about this man’s identity, since they didn’t show his face, and speculation is currently running rampant that it could be Charlie Cox’s MCU character (previously seen on Netflix’s now-defunct round of Marvel shows). That would be Matt Murdock/Daredevil, the Ivy League-educated lawyer who ended up practicing in New York City while being sweet on Hell’s Kitchen. The character’s “limbo” waiting period has come to an end, so he should fair game for Sony, should they want to use him in No Way Home, possibly to throw the book at Peter Parker or to continue doing the defense-attorney thing.
Fans are now in an intense debate regarding whether this could be Murdock’s arms, waist, and, you know, booty.
PLEASE BE CHARLIE COX, MATT MURDOCK pic.twitter.com/LGybLAsZcb
— Plathanos
#HIVESZN (@SavinTheBees) August 24, 2021
Me reading comments about the white shirt guy being Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in the #SpiderManNoWayHome trailer pic.twitter.com/Z4fsIyvIzC
— Lucy
(@LucyIskarlata) August 24, 2021
Charlie Cox ‘s Matt Matthew Murdock Daredevil in the new #SpiderManNoWayHomeTrailer ?!? pic.twitter.com/yEPuYrXbVo
— Tomer (@tfspikes) August 24, 2021
CHARLIE COX????? pic.twitter.com/PgtXEvAvFS
— matt murdock pr manager (@Iadyhepburn) August 24, 2021
Manifesting Charlie Cox back as Matt Murdock until December 17 pic.twitter.com/jCtVr9U5eT
— Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) August 24, 2021
WHERE IS CHARLIE COX AS MATT MURDOCK
BRING BACK COX
I DEMAND COX
GIMME COX
— Plathanos
matt murdock stans explaining how the no way home trailer confirmed charlie cox as matt pic.twitter.com/RLh7F3PN4I
— dante | mobius enjoyer (@mandolovebot) August 24, 2021
are those charlie cox’s arms #SpiderManNoWayHomeTrailer pic.twitter.com/sCqtzF0Q8U
— kel ! ETERNALS BREAKDOWN (@ambicthous) August 24, 2021
No, we trying to figure out if that’s Charlie Cox’s ass https://t.co/hF0TGRNYSy
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(@hiddIesconda) August 24, 2021
trying to work out if these are charlie cox’s wide ass hairy forearms
pic.twitter.com/DTdPm2RtyC
— lucy (@CRLPLTR) August 24, 2021
So, is this screenshot negative evidence or confirmation of Murdock? Also, what of Charlie Cox’s infamous hip-to-waist ratio?
I don’t think it’s Matt. Shows the same guy walking in the room without a walking stick. Matt still has to pretend he’s blind I don’t think he’d walk in like he’s not. Not saying that I think he won’t show up in the movie
pic.twitter.com/3NhphqsEnW
— Ben (@Spider_Ben_) August 24, 2021
This is not Charlie Cox’s waist, speaking as someone who gazed wistfully at Charlie Cox’s waist for three seasons of Daredevil. pic.twitter.com/8BQ1P5LGIP
— Tom and Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo) August 24, 2021
Charlie Cox’s waist gave me all the feelz. https://t.co/qIhzkqTDxn
— Kim Powers (@KimPowersABC) August 24, 2021
Hopefully, we won’t have to wait until the film’s release date (December 17) to find out the answer to this pressing mystery.