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Additionally, the Sam Raimi Spider-Man continuity goes beyond its three classic films. Each film featured a video game tie-in that added additional characters and story arcs for Peter Parker. A comic-accurate version of The Vulture is already part of the Raimi continuity thanks to the games, though Spider-Man 4 would have presumably rendered him non-canonical, had it been made according to its early scripts.
The tie-in material doesn’t provide a significant obstacle to new Sam Raimi Spider-Man films, but by not making a Spider-Man 4 with its proposed version of The Vulture, the continuity remains untarnished.
Given that Tobey Maguire and his version of Spider-Man are over a decade older in No Way Home than they were in Spider-Man 3, a hypothetical fourth film shouldn’t revive its original proposed story beats, especially considering Sam Raimi’s dissatisfaction with the scripts. At Tobey Maguire’s request, details on Spider-Man’s escapades following Spider-Man 3 are vague, with the only detail being that Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are still in a relationship, having worked through their difficulties shown in the original three films.
With this in mind, a better idea for a fourth Raimi Spider-Man film would be to begin adapting content from Marvel’s MC2 comic continuity, keeping Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson as the protagonists, but beginning to set up Mayday Parker as Peter’s successor. By using new story beats and a different villain, Spider-Man 4 would avoid being negatively compared to Spider-Man: Homecoming.
