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To start: welcome to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, J. Jonah Jameson. (A welcome return to J.K. Simmons, too.) It\u2019s a shame that you had to spoil everything by outing Peter Parker as Spider-Man in your first appearance. Yes, the final moments of Far From Home revealed that the MCU’s version of JJJ is an Alex Jones-esque conspiracy theorist, who has gotten a hold of a doctored footage from Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), who makes it appear as though Spidey ordered a drone attack on London. He also revealed that Spider-Man was a high school kid named Peter Parker.<br.
\nIn the MCU \u2014 and in the comics \u2014 Peter guards his secret identity more closely than any other hero. But in the comic books, Peter Parker was responsible for outing himself as Spider-Man as part of the 2006 Civil War miniseries; he does so at the urging of Tony Stark, in an attempt to renew public trust in superheroes after an accident left hundreds dead and injured. He unmasked on live television, announcing, \u201cMy name is Peter Parker, and I\u2019ve been Spider-Man since I was 15 years old.\u201d<br.
\nThe impact of the decision was far-reaching; Parker found himself and his family targets of everything from criminals out for revenge \u2014 Aunt May was shot by a would-be assassin hired by the Kingpin \u2014 to lawsuits from the Daily Bugle, understandably upset that Parker had been selling the paper photos of Spider-Man for years without ever sharing that he was basically making money from glorified selfies. All of this drove Spider-Man close to breaking point, and he found himself crossing the line on a number of different levels, breaking the law and assaulting criminals and cops alike in the name of keeping his family safe.<br.
\nSalvation was at hand from an unlikely source, however; a deal with a demon magically reset the status quo, not only restoring Aunt May\u2019s health, but also making the world forget all about Spider-Man\u2019s identity being revealed. As arguably one of the most \u2014 if not the most \u2014 controversial Spider-Man comic book storylines ever, it\u2019s safe to say that fans shouldn\u2019t expect a variation on this conclusion to show up in the MCU anytime soon\u2026.<br.
\nThe post-credits scenes revealed another surprise: Nick Fury wasn\u2019t Nick Fury at all \u2014 because the real Nick Fury is out in space, for reasons yet to be revealed just yet. For the entire film, Nick Fury was being impersonated by Talos, the shapeshifting Skrull played by Ben Mendelsohn in Captain Marvel. Fury apparently had asked Talos to do this while Fury himself was off planet with a ship full of Skrulls.<br.
\nJust as in the MCU, the comic book Nick Fury had a secret life out there in outer space. As revealed in the 2014 comic book series Original Sin, the comic book character people knew as Nick Fury was just one of a number of robot duplicates \u2014 technically \u201cLife Model Decoys,\u201d which could fool almost any detection process, but let\u2019s stick with robot duplicates for now \u2014 with the real Fury having lived in space for years as the unofficial Defender of the Earth, protecting the planet unknown to almost everyone from all number of alien threats.<br.
\nOf course, there are other reasons Nick might be in space. That he\u2019s teamed up with the Skulls again, following the events of Captain Marvel suggests that it\u2019s possible that Earth is under threat from the Kree for the first time in two decades; could Nick be masterminding a concerted response to a potential Kree invasion, as Marvel Studios prepares to make the Kree\/Skrull War into a big deal on the big screen? Stranger things have happened…. Although, in comic book lore, Fury is more known for fighting the Skrulls than he is for helping them; he was, after all, one of the primary forces pushing back against the Skull invasion in 2008\u2019s Secret Invasion comic book series.<br.<\/p>\n