Prime Video and MGM+’s Spider-Noir just executed one of the cleanest franchise resets we’ve seen in the streaming era. Most superhero shows use their finale to escalate the VFX budget and blow up the city. Spider-Noir used its finale to systematically strip the board of superpowered assets and return to its core detective mechanics. I tracked the structural narrative choices across the finale, and the pattern is deliberate. The Spider-Noir ending operates on three distinct la