SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY - Official Trailer | Exclusively In Cinemas 31 July

GreyLord · 2026-03-19T05:15:55+0000

Tonguez said:
Poor Ursula, she had so much potential! Peter has no idea what he missed

but really akward relationships and unhealthy choices seems to be Peter Parkers whole shtick

It wasn't for the first 46 years of publication (or if you follow Stan Lee's version, the first 58 years).

It did get Gwen Stacy dead, but that was otherwise a decent relationship. Then with Mary Jane, he got married to her (and never got separated from her with Stan Lee's strips except for a dream sequence) until some idiot/jerk at Marvel decided that...yes...Peter must suffer and be single to appeal to comic book readers. I stopped buying the mainstream Spiderman comics soon after that. I have bought almost all of them that revert to him being married in some way or another (including the most recent run of ultimate).

Artamo · 2026-03-19T12:30:30+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Peter, moving across the hall from them is not healthy.

All the pontificating about spider life cycles makes me think of Morlun. Not my favorite Spider-villain, by any means, but I guess it beats seeing the Green Goblin again.

I was having the same thought about Morlun but I also somehow had it in my head that I had read they were going with Mister Negative. I think I’d prefer the latter but maybe they pull in aspects of both of those characters together.

Ryujin · 2026-03-19T12:47:20+0000

Artamo said:
I was having the same thought about Morlun but I also somehow had it in my head that I had read they were going with Mister Negative. I think I’d prefer the latter but maybe they pull in aspects of both of those characters together.

Tombstone is going to be in it though if they're making that obvious, then he's not the big-bad. Marvel doesn't play that way.

Umbran · 2026-03-19T14:27:22+0000

Ryujin said:
And not the first time he's become a man-spider. It's generally a good story, like "I, Monster."

I don't know if that's where they are going with this.

I am reminded of Straczinski's run on Amazing Spider-Man in the early 2000s, and the "The Other" storyline, in which Peter undergoes changes and a sort of rebirth, coming out with some enhanced powers (which later authors then promptly ignored). IIRC, that storyline includes a couple of different scenes with voiceovers that are similar to that nonsense "three stage lifecycle" stuff - one with a teacher talking about spiders to a class, and one of the Other.

A little odd to go into that line without Morlun around, and they've introduced the Spider-Verse stuff differently in the animated movies, and no sign of Ezekiel to go into the totemic theme, but slavish adherence to canon isn't something the MCU does.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-19T15:13:27+0000

Ryujin said:
Tombstone is going to be in it though if they're making that obvious, then he's not the big-bad. Marvel doesn't play that way.

I love Tombstone, but I'd rather they not go too crazy on the number of villains appearing. Give us someone in the cold open to fight, maybe a few in montage sequences, but the actual plot shouldn't be a clown car full of them.

Corinnguard · 2026-03-19T15:42:02+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I love Tombstone, but I'd rather they not go too crazy on the number of villains appearing. Give us someone in the cold open to fight, maybe a few in montage sequences, but the actual plot shouldn't be a clown car full of them.

They could do a version of the Sinister Six here if they wanted to.

trappedslider · 2026-03-19T16:30:57+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I love Tombstone,

same but only if it comes with pepperoni

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-19T17:09:56+0000

Corinnguard said:
They could do a version of the Sinister Six here if they wanted to.

Let's work up to this, rather than overstuffing these movies. Spider-Man 3 had many problems, including too many villains, and I gather Amazing Spider-Man 2 had the same issue.

Tonguez · 2026-03-19T17:39:10+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Let's work up to this, rather than overstuffing these movies. Spider-Man 3 had many problems, including too many villains, and I gather Amazing Spider-Man 2 had the same issue.

Looks like theyre already setting it up anyway - Scorpion, Boomerang, Tarantula and Tombstone?.
Banner, Punisher and the Hand. Plus Sadie Sinks 'unknown psychic'

Stalker0 · 2026-03-19T17:46:48+0000

Tonguez said:
but really akward relationships and unhealthy choices seems to be Peter Parkers whole shtick

Yeah. You would think order number 1 would be to go around to the old avengers and be like "hey guys, I am spiderman, you all forgot me because of a magic spell from Dr Strange....blah blah blah". Reconnect with the gang. He doesn't know all of the new people going around but he definately knows several of them (Hulk, Falcon, Ant Man, Dr Strange).

But likely the highlight will be, Peter is incredibly depressed. He lost his aunt, basically lost all of his friends. He's likely become incredibly withdrawn.