It's Time To Talk About The Electro Plot Hole In Spider-Man: No Way Home

As noted previously, the reason why so many Spider-Man rogues from across time and space converged on the MCU Earth had to do with Doctor Strange's botched spell. As he tried to magically force the world to forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, the wall-crawler in question kept talking and breaking his focus. Seems like Tom Holland has trouble keeping quiet in any reality. As a result, Strange's cast went haywire, and before he could contain it, a few sinister bad guys slipped through the cracks. According to the former Sorcerer Supreme, the flub brought over people who knew that Peter Parker and Spider-Man were one and the same. That goes a long way toward explaining the rogues' gallery that our Spidey trifecta had to face off against, but there is one outlier here.

This concept makes sense for all of the villains except Electro. Fans of the Garfield-starring "The Amazing Spider-Man" flicks will likely recall that Foxx's electrified baddy never actually learned his Spidey's secret identity during his sole previous appearance in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2." Perhaps this little detail simply slipped through the cracks — there is a lot of continuity to wrangle, after all — but Electro's ignorance of Spider-Man's identity actually made it into the script. The villain addresses it explicitly in "No Way Home" when he mentions that he always thought Spider-Man was Black. 

So, what's really going on here?