Spider-Noir Ending Unmasked: Is Megawatt Really Dead and How It Supercharges Season 2

Prime Video just dropped all eight episodes of its moody Spider- Noir series, and yes, it really is a smoke-stained 1930s detective story that happens to wear spider webs. Think trench coats, hard shadows, and a hero with more guilt than sleep. The wild swing here: Nicolas Cage is playing Ben Reilly — not Peter — a jaded private eye who moonlights as a masked vigilante called the Spider. It launched strong with a 90% debut score, and the finale practically begs the question: is this a one-and-done, or are we coming back for another case?

Does the ending set up Season 2?

Short answer: the show ties a bow on the main plot but pointedly leaves the desk lamp on. Amazon has not announced a renewal yet, but calling this run Season 1 is not exactly subtle. The big arcs close out cleanly, and the last scene all but winks at more to come.

• Silvermane falls, which shakes up the city’s criminal food chain in a big way.
• Flint Marko gets cured and actually finds redemption — not a sentence I expected to type.
• Robbie Robertson moves up to run the Harlem Herald, planting a flag for a better press future.
• Ben Reilly stops fighting himself and accepts both jobs: the dogged detective and the Spider.
• Final beat: Ben, Janet, and their crew move into a new office. The phone rings, Janet picks up, and we never hear what’s on the other end. Classic case-of-the-week tease.
• Also important: Ben chooses to keep his powers instead of taking an antidote. That decision alone screams ongoing story.

So... is Megawatt actually dead?

Yep. Megawatt — real name Dirk Leydon — does not walk this one off. In the climax, Ben webs him straight into the path of an oncoming subway train, and that is that. Before he goes, Megawatt manages to electrify Cat Hardy, which is the last straw that pushes Flint Marko into his final, do-the-right-thing stand. Taking Megawatt off the board also blows a hole in Silvermane’s roster of enhanced muscle.

Not that Silvermane gets to savor the fallout. He doesn’t survive the finale either — Cat Hardy kills him, ending his hold on the underworld and closing the book on this season’s biggest crime boss.

Where this leaves Spider-Noir

The season wraps with real closure but a deliberate open door: a rebalanced city, a PI agency ready for business, and a hero who decides he’s not done being the Spider. No renewal yet, but the show clearly laid the tracks for Season 2. And for a series that started as a black-and-white fever dream with a death in the rearview, it’s surprisingly satisfying to see it land the plane — and keep the engine running.