WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home, in theaters now.
In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland's Peter Parker found his back up against the wall early on when Alfred Molina's Otto Octavius came over from Sam Raimi's universe. This Otto wasn't friends with Spidey, as he never achieved redemption, thus, he wanted the web-head dead. However, as Peter put up a fight on a New York freeway, he remixed The Matrix's riskiest move to save his life from this bloodthirsty villain's rampage.
In the finale of The Matrix Revolutions, Neo let Agent Smith rewrite him because as Smith possessed and used this body to produce another Smith, he didn't realize he was giving Machine City access to his code once more. Smith was no longer free, as the machines were plugged into Neo before the hero came back into the digital construct, all as part of a deal Neo made for humanity to be free to choose between the two worlds.
Machine City got locked into Smith's algorithm and basically deleted the rogue program, regaining control of the digital world in quite a gamble, as it was uncertain if Smith could have been properly overwritten. It was successful and resulted in Neo's death, but the truce was honored until The Matrix Resurrections.
In No Way Home, Peter used a similar trick; although, he didn't really strategize it -- it was improvised, showing the Marvel Cinematic Universe's wall-crawler could think on the fly. It occurred when Otto pinned him under a bridge in the first act, unmasking him only to realize this wasn't Tobey Maguire's Peter.
He was confused, but he enjoyed the power gained when Peter's nanobots crawled onto Otto's arms, assimilating into his A.I. They upgraded Otto, but while he got stronger for a bit, Peter sensed this could be the villain's downfall. He adapted by tapping into his heads-up display in order to control the nanobots again.
He came off like Machine City here because Peter's nanobots, as they were interlocked into Otto's system, hacked Doc Ock's arms and allowed Peter to control them. They inadvertently acted like a Trojan horse, giving Peter the opening the machines used on Smith and allowing Spidey to then take the arms and restrain Ock.
Had he not done this, the villain would have smashed his head in. It was also in Otto's benefit because had Peter not gained control, and they would have wound up fighting violently, and he might have died, as was his destiny originally. Instead, this delay in battle allowed Doctor Strange to teleport the scientist to his mystical prison where they'd all plot a way to reset the fraying realms.
To see Pete use The Matrix's Hail Mary move, Spider-Man: No Way Home is in theaters now.
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