The Craziest Spider-Man: Far From Home Fan Theories

It's been a solid year for Homeland's Numan Acar, who not only will be featured in Disney's live-action Aladdin remake, but is also playing the cryptic role of "Dmitri" in Far from Home. While the specific details of Acar's role are still being kept under wraps, fans of Marvel comic books were quick to point out that his character shares a name with a notorious Spider-Man foe: Dmitri Smerdyakov, a.k.a. the Chameleon.

In a recent interview with Comicbook, director Jon Watts was asked point-blank whether or not Acar's Dmitri was in fact the Chameleon, and his answer was purposefully unclear. "Well, Dmitri in the film works for Nick Fury and I think anyone who works for Nick Fury, they certainly have a mysterious past... We're not specifically saying that he's... but we're not not saying."

Given that Spider-Man: Homecoming included the Vulture, the Shocker, the Tinkerer and even a brief glimpse of Scorpion, it's not hard to imagine that Far from Home will also feature multiple villains from Spidey's notorious rogues' gallery. Acar's Chameleon, along with Gylenhaal's Mysterio and Michael Mando's Scorpion, could potentially be dangerous additions to the MCU's Sinister Six, should they choose to go that route. Regardless, if Dmitri is in fact the Chameleon, it will add an engaging element of mystery to the sequel, leaving audiences guessing who's really who.

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, it was revealed that Tony Stark had sold Avengers Tower and was in the process of completely moving all of the team's various super-props to their upstate facility. Unsurprisingly, a sale of that magnitude made fans perk up their ears, prompting discussions about the potential purchaser of the New York high rise. In the MCU, very little happens by coincidence, so there is certainly some merit to the notion that the next owner will be somebody (or somebodies) immediately recognizable.

With Disney's multi-billion dollar acquisition of 21st Century Fox finally completed, one of the most logical predictions is that Avengers Tower will become the Baxter Building, home to the Fantastic Four (whose rights were also returned to Disney/Marvel in the deal). In the trailer for Far from Home, eagle-eyed viewers noticed that Spidey swings past what appears to be the old Stark Tower, only now it's under construction. If this theory is indeed true, it would pave the way for the likes of Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Thing, and the Human Torch to finally make their long-awaited return to the MCU and suit up alongside the remaining heroes. Although this would certainly be a satisfying reveal, who's to say the new owner has to be one of the good guys?

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, perhaps the biggest twist occurred when Michael Keaton's Vulture was revealed to be the father of Liz, Peter's crush and date. Watching Vulture piece together that Peter was actually Spider-Man while simultaneously chauffeuring him and his daughter to a school dance made for an intensely entertaining scene that was arguably one of the film's most memorable highlights. What if Far from Home replicates the same formula, only with a slight change?

One of the wildest fan theories concerning Far from Home is that it will be revealed that Zendaya's MJ, Peter's new love interest, is actually the daughter of one Nicholas J. Fury, former director of SHIELD and general all-around badass. According to MovieWeb, there's actually a decent amount of pre-existing evidence that lends legitimacy to this idea. For starters, Fury mentioned that he had a wife in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, although there's a chance it was a lie for the sake of espionage. Also, MJ's personality does admittedly share similarities with Fury's, including how sneaky she is and her distrust of government. Could the real reason Fury is in Europe with Peter be that he's keeping tabs on his daughter?

In Homecoming, Donald Glover plays the minor role of Aaron Davis, who in the comics is super villain Prowler. Davis is also the uncle of Miles Morales, who took up the mantle of Spider-Man in the Ultimate comics before ending up in Marvel's main continuity (it's complicated). While interrogating Davis for information about Vulture in Homecoming, Peter inadvertently uncovers an Easter egg for fans when Davis mentions that he has a nephew in the neighborhood. Now that the existence of Miles in the MCU has been confirmed, fans have been speculating that he will at least make a cameo in Far from Home.

This theory certainly holds weight given the widespread success of Sony's 2018 Oscar-winning animated masterpiece, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, in which Miles is the main character. In 2017, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige confirmed that Miles exists in the MCU, so there's presumably a good chance he's introduced in the near future. Seeing Parker and Morales team up to take on a potential Sinister Six would make for must-see entertainment.

If the X-Men do in fact exist in an alternate universe, there's a good chance that the Fantastic Four could too. In the early '90s, a nearly-bankrupt Marvel sold off the rights to several of their most popular assets in an attempt to stay in business. One of those assets was Marvel's "first family," the Fantastic Four, who became the property of 20th Century Fox (along with the X-Men). Now that Disney has bought back the rights from Fox, the stage is set for Mr. Fantastic and company to reclaim their rightful seats at the MCU table.

Fans are theorizing that Far from Home is the perfect movie to re-introduce the Fantastic Four to the big screen given Spider-Man's special relationship with the team in the comics. During a team re-branding in 2011, Spidey even joined the team for a brief stint, rocking a sweet new white suit. If the FF were ever to appear in the MCU, it's hard to imagine a more suitable film to do it in than Far from Home.

Near the end of Avengers: Endgame, eagle-eyed fans spotted what appeared to be the human form of Ben Mendelsohn's shape-shifting Skrull, Talos, welcoming students back to Peter and Ned's school. If the Captain Marvel frenemy was indeed back on Earth hiding in plain sight, what does that mean for the future of the MCU? Has the Secret Invasion already begun?

Although Captain Marvel painted the Skrulls as a harmless, victimized alien race, it was also hinted that there could potentially be plenty of less peaceful factions throughout the galaxy. One trendy fan theory predicts that a Skrull will be revealed in Far from Home, possibly even someone in Peter's circle of friends (cough, cough... Ned). It is still unknown who the overarching big bad will be for the MCU's Phase 4, so if they're going to try and make Secret Invasion a reality, it makes sense to start planting seeds as early as possible. Who knows — maybe Mysterio won't be the only one creating headaches for Spidey in Europe.