Look, it was obvious from the jump that Madame Web was going to bomb at the box office. But the real question that’s been eating at me is: what did Sony actually think was going to happen with this movie?

Zero post-credit scenes. Zero connections to anything else in the Spider-Man universe. They just dropped a completely standalone film with no plans for the future. And I’m sitting here like… why?

I talked about this same issue in an earlier video when I was breaking down the Echo and Agatha shows coming to Disney+. I asked: what if Echo turned out to be the greatest thing Disney+ has ever made? 50 million new subscribers, billions of views, the show is everywhere. Would they suddenly scrap all their plans and build the entire future around Echo? Would she be leading the Avengers? Probably not — because the show was built as a one-and-done. Same with Agatha. It’s a prequel. Cool. But then what? Are we ever seeing Agatha again in a meaningful way? Is her story getting resolved? Or is this just another expensive side project that goes nowhere?

That’s exactly what they did with Madame Web.

In the ’90s cartoon, Madame Web was tied directly into Spider-Man’s world. She was part of his storyline, helping him, guiding him — she actually mattered. In this movie? Nothing. She’s not in Tom Holland’s universe. She’s not in Andrew Garfield’s. She’s not in Tobey Maguire’s. Sony made a full theatrical movie about a major Spider-Man character… and then just left her floating in her own little bubble.

You can’t do that with franchises this big.

Look at what DC is doing right now. The Batman comes out, it’s a hit, and boom — they immediately greenlight The Penguin series. That show is clearly setting up bigger things, and we all know Robert Pattinson’s Batman is coming back to collide with Colin Farrell’s Penguin eventually. That’s how you do spin-offs. You plant seeds. You build toward something.

Madame Web? No seeds. No post-credits stinger like Ant-Man and the Wasp that basically saved the entire movie by teasing Endgame. This film was 100% disposable. You walk out and there’s literally nothing you can point to and say, “Okay, it was bad… but at least it set up X.” It didn’t flesh out the Sony Spider-Man Universe. It didn’t lead into Venom. It didn’t lead into anything. So what was the point?

That’s what I want to know from you guys in the comments:

•  What do you think the best-case scenario for this movie actually was?

•  If Sony had to make a Madame Web movie, which Spider-Man universe should she have been tied to — Tobey, Andrew, or Tom Holland’s?

•  And most importantly… why do studios keep wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on these half-baked, standalone “event” movies that go absolutely nowhere?

Because until they figure this out, we’re just gonna keep getting more Morbius-level disasters.

Let me know what you think down below. Smash that like button if you’re tired of these pointless cash-grabs too, and I’ll see you in the next one.