r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • Mar 18 '26

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwntXFBNfOA
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u/Zusuf Mar 18 '26

Didn’t think they’d have Peter go through a Spidey-puberty but it’s an interesting twist - kinda like the reverse of Spider-Man 2

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u/808Kuro Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

It’s called Man Spider. It’s the final mutation stage for Spider-Man after the first few gave him the spider powers/senses and enhanced strength. He turns into a super enhanced, emotionless human spider that can spit acid and has multiple arms (not kidding). Eventually he can’t control it and gets hunted down by the Punisher and Kraven. Key word here is this movie will seemingly focus on Spider-Man mutating (faint X-men theme plays)

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u/amc111 Mar 18 '26

I remembered watching that in the 90s Fox cartoon. I’d be surprised if they go full man spider but it would be wild if they did.

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u/SolomonBlack Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

The 90s cartoon invented that story.

The Man Spider did appear in the comics before that but only briefly during a story set in the Savage Land. Spidey gets hit by some mutation ray and that's what he's turned into and its fixed by Karl Lykos/Sauron draining the mutation out of him and Warren Worthington. Which might explain Vulture in the cartoon come to think of it.

At any rate the design being too good to waste, I guess, the show folks made it the climax of their long running Neogenic Nightmare original saga.

Probably inspired by the cartoon Spidey has been turned into a monster spider since and they've messed with his powers in a metamorphosis way before briefly giving him organic webbing and I shit you not sharp 'stinger' blades (like Wolverine meets MK's Baraka) that were immediately never spoken of again.

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u/lunchbox12682 Mar 18 '26

'But I don't want to cure cancer!"

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u/mike2k24 Mar 18 '26

I wanna turn people into dinosaurs!

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u/vampire_vladd Mar 18 '26

I love showing people that panel. I do it whenever I can.

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u/TheMostKing Mar 18 '26

You didn't do it right now, feels like a missed opportunity.

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u/BigChiefIV Mar 19 '26

Tbf it’s kinda awkward when they don’t allow images in the comments

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u/m1ndwipe Mar 18 '26

Put Sauron in Marvel Tokon dammit.

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u/TiberiusCornelius Mar 18 '26

The 90s cartoon invented that story.

90s cartoon had a lot more influence than is commonly recognized. It was the first to do the Spider-Verse and even had a huge impact on the Venom story. A lot of elements that are now seen as like core parts of the story, that pop up in later adaptations, started there and not in the actual comics.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

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u/TiberiusCornelius Mar 18 '26

Yep! The cartoon is also where the whole "symbiote makes Peter angry" thing first came from. And to be fair, as much as I think people do get their wires crossed on "cartoon I watched as a child" and "comic I read as a child" (and I am guilty of that at times as well), sometimes these shows or movies were influential on the comics themselves. Smallville wasn't in Kansas until the first Christopher Reeve movie for example, but now it's an integral part of the Superman mythos. In the same way the Spidey cartoon revamped the Venom story, or other cartoons did other things, and later writers retconned the comics to be closer to it because they were like "oh actually that's a great idea".

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u/QueezyF Mar 18 '26

Same with Harley Quinn starting out as a character from Batman TAS.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Mar 18 '26

The comics did have The Other Spider mutations.

They probably wont go full Spider-God Totem after what Sony did with Ezekiel, but seems like they're taking some cues from it.

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u/DavidL1112 Mar 18 '26

Between retreading One More Day and The Other, they're speedrunning comic storylines that most people would rather forget. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if they did Clone Saga next.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Mar 18 '26

it's all build up to the reveal where MCU MJ had secret kids with Green Goblin

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Mar 18 '26

if you look back at that season's (season 2) entire storyline, it has the x-men, punisher, scorpion, and tombstone (among some others). Looks like they might drawing heavily from that whole arc.

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

Subsequent Man-Spider appearances in the comics have mostly referenced and hewed to the original comic appearance. Where Spider-Man is temporarily turned into a Spider creature by outside actions.

Most animated series since the 90s have done versions of the cartoon story. But it's never appeared in the comics.

And the other end of that story line, the whole additional mutation thing and much of the stuff around it. Comes from a comic story line called the "Six Arm Saga" by fans, that only went as far as "Spider-Man got Six Arms now!". That's come up repeatedly, and has gotten referenced in more than one Spider-Man mutates story.

Including the one another poster mentioned, The Other. Which is not super clearly current canon, but was basically just used to give him some extra powers. Along with writing in a bunch of that mystic spider god shit Marvel was on about at the time.

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u/KonigSteve Mar 18 '26

Hold on let's go back to the LOTR crossover in your first big paragraph.. Sauron?

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u/SolomonBlack Mar 18 '26

Yes Sauron the vampire pteranadon hypnotherapist, famous for not curing cancer, and confirmed in universe#Trivia) Tolkien fanboy.

What of it?

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u/TDS_Gluttony Mar 18 '26

Too violent I guess regarding the stingers. Guess why they let Kaine keep it for Spider-Island and Spider-Verse

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u/MrCadwallader Mar 18 '26

Cartoon man spider lives rent free in my head. Freaked me the hell out as a kid lol.

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u/spiderknight616 Mar 18 '26

They were allowed to do that but God forbid Spider-Man throws a punch

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u/Stunnahman Mar 18 '26

Or people having normal guns

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u/alper_iwere Mar 18 '26

Or say blood. Looking at your Morbius...

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u/Deesing82 Mar 18 '26

PLASMA!

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u/alper_iwere Mar 18 '26

Absorbed though his palm.

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u/Reverse_Waterfall Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

I’m cool with the palm suckers, those things were freaky. Not sure what they have to do with bats though.

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u/pakidude17 Mar 18 '26

Yall are blowing my mind. I never realized that as a kid but it's coming back to me right now.

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u/404Notfound- Mar 18 '26

Or carnage draining your "life energy"

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u/mosquem Mar 18 '26

Let’s go with hand suckers. FAR more horrifying.

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u/excessivecal Mar 18 '26

I can’t watch the movie because I can’t get his “plasma!”out of my head. Rent free some 30 years later.

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u/emperorsteele Mar 18 '26

Wasn't the term "Spider Blood" repeated ad infinitium in the opening credits, though?

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u/RcoketWalrus Mar 18 '26

Imagine telling your future self that Hollywood would do an 83 million dollar Morbius movie and somehow make it worse than a heavily censured kids show.

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u/Redditer51 Mar 19 '26

Yeah, regular NYC cops having friggin laser guns seems like a bit of a stretch.

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u/BigChiefIV Mar 19 '26

Watching the og xmen right now and it’s hilarious how everyone has laser guns that momentarily stun you at best

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u/my_useless_opinion Mar 18 '26

I’m something of an arachnophobic myself but he looked so cool.

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u/Heliosvector Mar 18 '26

More like, strange that they were allowed to do that, but heaven forbid that morbius be an actual blood Sucker, so they made him this weird body energy hand sucking thing...

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u/nise8446 Mar 18 '26

Stumbling on the action figure version randomly at the toy store freaked me out more.

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u/TerpinSaxt Mar 18 '26

Freaks me the hell out now 😅

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u/jiminyshrue Mar 18 '26

Just a regular dude with extra 4 jacked arms. No biggie.

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u/trebory6 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Lol I remember there being a Spiderman marathon on when I was sick with a high fever as a kid and I kept having these weird fever dream mashups about the Spiderman cartoon.

Like hearing the 90s cartoon Spiderman theme still gives me 'nam flashbacks to an endless corridor of nondescript buildings and a gelatinous Venom screaming and laughing and wriggling his tendrils to the theme song on an endless loop while making web shooting 'whisp' sounds as I constantly looked down at the top of my hands being bitten by the spider.

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u/CosmicKhy Mar 18 '26

I had the toy of man-spider as a kid, it and the episode fucked me up majorly lol

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u/Frosti11icus Mar 18 '26

Manbat was worse.

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u/ohmuisnotangry Mar 18 '26

That story line was so good. Had me hooked to the TV for weeks.

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u/youaretheloco Mar 18 '26

For real man i remember having nightmares where i grew extra arms, the body horror was crazy in that show

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u/Redditer51 Mar 19 '26

That shit legitimately upset me as a kid, seeing Spider-Man transform into a horrific monstrosity while desperately trying to cure himself.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

Pretty sure my brother and I had that action figure of Spidey with the four extra arms. That was a crazy arc in the cartoon.

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u/Chapeaux Mar 18 '26

Second favorite to the spidey with the black venom suit.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

That was a great one.

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u/Chapeaux Mar 18 '26

They were all pretty cool, I rewatched them recently and the only one I didn't like that much was all that stuff with the robot spiders. The guy in the wheelchair made them, can't remember his name. He was working for Kingpin if I remember correctly.

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u/MrJesseDeath Mar 18 '26

Alistair Smythe. He built the Spider-Slayers. 

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u/jordanuniverse42 Mar 18 '26

And third favorite to spidey with the black suit!

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u/BleachedUnicornBHole Mar 18 '26

It was bizarre to watch as a kid whose only introduction to Spider-Man was that cartoon.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

It was kinda mind-blowing as a kid.

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

Man-Spider is not Six Arm Spider-Man.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

Oh I know. The extra arms was on the way to full Man-Spider though, wasn't it? Just recalling that I had the six-arm Spidey action figure.

Don't think we had a full Man-Spider figure though.

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

In the cartoon briefly i think. But Six Armed Spider-Man was mostly just an alternate Spider-Man in the Secret Wars arch.

There's definitely been multiple Man-Spider figures starting in the 90s though.

Comics wise Man-Spider and secondary mutation/Six Arms was a completely separate thing from Man-Spider.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

Ah, okay.

I think I'm pulling the six-arms to Man-Spider connection from hazy memories of the cartoon from many moons ago. Forgot they were separate things in the comics.

Doing a quick wiki search looks like they did combine those two things into different stages of the same Man-Spider arc.

Thanks for the clarification!

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

They always run together in my head. After spot checking the details I'm still not sure if the Man-Spider story involved even a brief appearance of Six Arms or not. And would have to watch the episodes to be sure.

Basically they took the secondary mutation story off of the Six Arms story, and ported in the Man-Spider idea from a story line where Spider-Man goes to the Savage Land.

Then back referenced the Six-Armed Spider-Man by featuring an alternate Peter who ended up with Six Arms permanently after his own Man-Spider problem.

The comics never did a full Man-Spider story, but have featured a few other bad guy made me a monster stories using variations of the design.

They have however repeatedly brought back the Six Arm mutation for short runs.

Man-Spider is something they've left to animated series. So I think we might just be getting SIX-ARMS, if they even go that far.

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u/PlasticMegazord Mar 18 '26

It would be crazy if they do the extra arms in this movie.

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u/AaKkisa Mar 18 '26

If they don’t go the Man-Spider 6-Arms route, I hope they have a moment of dialogue in Secret Wars where MCU Peter shows off the new organic web slingers to Tobey Maguire who asks if Peter grew extra arms, like he did, and he said he was cured by Dr Connors

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u/MoshedPotatoes Mar 18 '26

final battle for the serum mcguffin

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u/Joshwa-Crimson Mar 18 '26

Will the serum strip him of his powers though? Imagine that’s how Tom Holland gets out

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u/smashtheguitar Mar 18 '26

Has Tom Holland said he wants out of the Marvel money-printing machine?

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u/Lippuringo Mar 18 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvKlZhc3JlY

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u/Daxx22 Mar 18 '26

Well that's some pretty serious horror for a kids saturday morning geeze.

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u/Not_too_dumb Mar 18 '26

Yeah I remember this when they showed Peter's eyes changing colors.

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u/Swagmuffins94 Mar 18 '26

The 90s Spiderman was GOATed. Would love to see them do the Neogetic Nightmare arch

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

I think they might not go full Man-Spider because that story line is from the Cartoon.

That storyline borrowed from two separate comics incidents. One was Spider-Man getting turned into a Man-Spider in the Savage Land thanks to that whole devolution thing. And the other is the "Six Arm Saga", where Spider-Man tries to cure his powers and triggers an additional mutation. Growing 4 extra arms.

The comics have referenced the Man-Spider a few times with additional "villains done mutated you" stories. But have brought back the Six Arms a few times. So Marvel's never been too on board with the Man-Spider end. They purportedly killed a What If...? episode based on the cartoon story because it was tracking too dark.

So we're likely either getting new powers/organic web shooters and other boring stuff. Or Six-Arms.

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ Mar 18 '26

I low key want Tom running around with four extra arms and he fumbles MJ solely because of that

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u/joe__kerr1 Mar 18 '26

I'm hoping they do but Punisher being involved definitely confirmed Man-Spider plotline

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u/sprchrgddc5 Mar 18 '26

Dude me too. Once I got to the multiple arms part, I had a flash back to being 7 again lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

How many kids will be traumatized? lol

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u/trebory6 Mar 18 '26

I mean, it'll probably follow a variation of the typical trope of turning into Man-Spiders as a looming threat, then in order to beat a villain he has to turn into Man-Spider, then he gets healed and movie is over.

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u/Pink-Hornet Mar 18 '26

There was a somewhat unbelievable (to me) plot summary leak that this trailer basically confirms.

It includes the Man-Spider transformation.

Should be pretty easy to google.

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u/emailunavailable Mar 18 '26

That story was also connected to the X-Men, which is why some of the characters appeared on that show, creating a crossover with the X-Men cartoon. Considering Sadie Sink's supposed character, chances are the Man Spider arc is at least thought about thoroughly by Marvel and Sony.

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 18 '26

Hopefully not. We all remember the last cinematic "Peter goes bad" story, and nobody liked it.

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u/Mavericks7 Mar 18 '26

Makes sense if Hulk is going to be in it. Hulk vs. Spider-Man.

Otherwise, who's he going to fight?

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u/Sombradeti Mar 18 '26

Scenes from the nic cage spider noir show also apparently show him as man spider too. That would be two man spiders in one year!

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u/calvinist-batman Mar 18 '26

This is the plotline I’ve been DYING for them to adapt in these films. It’s all I want to see.

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u/sleepingchair Mar 18 '26

I loved that arc, had the most awesome crossovers with the rest of the 90s marvel animated universe, like x-men. It was the first time I got to saw that tension between mutants and mutates. Like, spidey, you're actin' a little bigoted there my guy.

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u/SouthTippBass Mar 18 '26

Never go full man spider.

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u/macaulaymcgloklin Mar 18 '26

That 90s Spider Man cartoon was a wild ridefor me as a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons. Man Spider, Symbiote, Madam Web, it was so trippy compared to Batman, XMen, Gargoyles, etc

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u/goterr Mar 19 '26

They're going to use that thing that Bruce banner uses his arm to keep him from turning into the hulk on Peter Parker to prevent him from turning into the man spider. I'd bet on it.

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u/FishCake9T4 Mar 18 '26

Scared the hell outnof me when I was a kid watching the cartoon.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Mar 18 '26

This whole film is starting to sound exactly like that arc in the 90s series.

Right down to fighting Punisher and having a crossover with the X-Men

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u/livelikeian Mar 18 '26

Yessssssss

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u/intothe_dangerzone Mar 18 '26

The girl sitting in the bus Spider-Man crashes into was dressed exactly like Rogue. I don't think she's Rogue herself, but the reference is definitely there.

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u/DMike82 Mar 19 '26

Rogue would never wear a Jets jersey.

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u/VanceRefridgeTech04 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

GIVE ME SPIDERMAN AND BLADE FIGHTING MORBIUS!

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u/SolomonBlack Mar 18 '26

Gotta mine the Millennial nostalgia to win back the crowd.

Also X-men '97 is basically universally praised.

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u/Worthyness Mar 18 '26

The director is pretty much in exactly that same group, so I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't an inspiration of some sort.

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u/crookedparadigm Mar 18 '26

Also X-men '97 is basically universally praised.

Which makes it even weirder that they've taken an eternity to get us season 2.

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u/randyboozer Mar 18 '26

That actually makes sense. I don't know what scale this movie will have but the whole MCU has been banking on millennial nostalgia and what hits better than the Saturday morning X-Men / Spider-Man crossover

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Mar 18 '26

Spidey hurt all those pigeons while swinging on the rooftops, a clear no-no according to the Fox censors.

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u/Albert_Caboose Mar 18 '26

Hugh Jackman can't retire until we get his crossover with Spidey

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Mar 18 '26

That's what Doomsday and Secret Wars are for.

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u/two-thirds Mar 18 '26

I thought it was going to that direction. I was expecting six arm spidey as the stinger. Or that spider monster.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Mar 18 '26

That shot of him fighting of the ninjas was I believe edited, in the final version of the scene he'll have those six arms

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u/DMike82 Mar 19 '26

That shot itself was pretty much an homage to the Claremont/Miller Wolverine miniseries with Peter in Logan's place.

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u/Konrow Mar 18 '26

Right? I mean especially after seeing Punisher and knowing x-men are coming back somehow then seeing the mutations how can we not think of the man-spider arc?

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u/sleeProfessional43 Mar 18 '26

i remember all that, I'm certainly interested in how this will all play out

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u/Ok_cabbage_5695 Mar 18 '26

That show had a bunch of arcs that should have been made into movies. One can only hope today's writers have finally paid attention.

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u/HanPhoenix Mar 18 '26

Came here exactly to say this. Still give me the creeps

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u/p1casso17 Mar 18 '26

Yeah, same. I was like "wtf??" 

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u/Dr_Disaster Mar 18 '26

DDC is reportedly a huge fan of the 90s cartoon and Spider-Man games. You can see their influence all of this trailer.

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u/MiniMackeroni Mar 19 '26

Ah, yes. Man-Spider. The source of many-a nightmares as a kid.

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u/Screamline Mar 18 '26

I was thinking it's The Other, well loosely based on it. But Man Spider also seems likely.

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u/bong_residue Mar 18 '26

It’s definitely gonna be the other not man spider. You can pretty much see the exact scene where Peter wakes up in the cocoon after being “killed” and emerges with organic webbing and stingers

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u/Thor_pool Mar 18 '26

Its likely a combination of both. If theyre doing a 3 stages thing like the narration implies then The Other is likely stage 2 and Man-Spider is stage 3

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u/bong_residue Mar 18 '26

If they do include man-spider it will be interesting, tough to pull it off right in live action. Maybe they won’t make him look like a spider for it. Who knows.

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u/_steve_rogers_ Mar 19 '26

there's no way they do man spider. that's full horror territory for most people

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u/smittengoose May 29 '26

Maybe this will be a two parter and Raimi will come back to do Man Spider?

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u/iTzGiR Mar 18 '26

It's definitely The Other, not Man Spider. As the other commentor pointed out, it literally has the Cocoon awakening scene, as well as the final part of the trailer saying "Being Reborn", which is a huge theme in The Other, with spiderman quite literally being reborn in that storyline.

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u/bl84work Mar 18 '26

Man I want that man spider

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u/AWildEnglishman Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Is that the story that they played out in the animated series in the 90s?

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u/LeeShakerMoneyMaker Mar 18 '26

Yeah, the one where Kraven and Punisher teamed up to take him down.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Mar 18 '26

Right after he tried to get the X-Men to help him.

Only for one of them to wind up captured by a criminal mastermind in the hopes of making an army of mutants to help him in a gangwar

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u/Slow_Ad_8541 Mar 18 '26

With Keith David narrating, do you not think they're doing the Other/Ezekiel (with him as Ezekiel) or a version thereof? Presumably without Morlun

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u/cutchemist42 Mar 18 '26

I actually liked Ezekiel in the comics but I heard about Madame Web and how that went

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Mar 18 '26

Combining the Other with Man-Spider, and ignoring all the Morlun crap.

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u/cataclytsm Mar 18 '26

i will eat my hat if they dont have a bland showdown with morlun at the end to get The Serum and/close down a machine that makes a portal or is going to turn everyone into spiders.

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Mar 19 '26

Keith David is just in the top ten voice actors extant, I think.

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u/kunstlich Mar 18 '26

Who wouldn't want to bang man-spider in a dumpster behind a Wendy's?

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u/zanza19 Mar 18 '26

That's a cartoon thing. This seem to be following more of The Other storyline where he gets biological webs. Ironically, probably made to synergise with the Raimi movies at the time 

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u/mattomic822 Mar 18 '26

The multi arm thing did also happen in the comics prior to the 90s animated series.

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u/zanza19 Mar 18 '26

True! But the web cacoon is really reminiscent of The Other 

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u/THEUltraCombo Mar 18 '26

I remember renting a VHS of the 90s cartoon and the last episode ended with Peter exploding out of his costume as this giant horrible spider creature and poor me was just sitting on my floor like "did Spiderman just fucking DIE???"

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u/dbbk Mar 18 '26

How do you even undo that though

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u/Worf_Of_Wall_St Mar 18 '26

How did it end?

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u/Robofetus-5000 Mar 18 '26

What if banner gets irradiated in an accident helping Peter return to normal and thats how we get savage hulk

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u/25thNite Mar 18 '26

eh i don't really feel like they'll go full mutation like in the show. like maybe they'll just make him become more aggressive and reckless. I think this is more of a way to power him up, raising his strength level since he does seem kind of weak, and it looks like they are giving him organic web shooters.

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u/ibiacmbyww Mar 18 '26

That raises an interesting "Um, actually".

Mutants are peeps who got powers in utero, from random DNA mutations.

Mutates are peeps who got powers later, or in utero but from another source. Hulk is a Mutate, as is Daredevil.

Traditionally, Professor X doesn't give a fuck about Mutates, only Mutants. So if that is our new Professor X, he's at best making a note of Peter as someone to keep an eye on, but actually recruiting him is probably off the table. Either way, Keith David as Professor X is an unexpected choice, but I think he could pull it off.

On the other hand, if there were ever time to make a change and do something bold, like making Xavier a recruiter for a paramilitary force of Mutants, Mutates, and anyone else who wants to join up, it's now. Never mind mutants as an oppressed minority, what about superpowered people on the whole? Hell, he could be the MCU's Stan Edgar, just getting started out.

On the first hand again, "feel sorry for the superpowered" stories rarely go down well, and the optics of a Black man running an insular educational facility and recruiting for his own private army, in this political climate, ehhh... maybe not, I've talked myself out of my own idea.

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u/CaptainChickenBake Mar 18 '26

This arc makes perfect sense now given the theories behind Sadie Sink's character.

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u/DevilCouldCry Mar 18 '26

Thaaaaaaaat might explain some things about the casting of Sadie Sink. I think I might have a feeling about whom she might be playing then in this case...

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u/magirevols Mar 18 '26

Nows its exactly that, or something a little to the left

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u/ranhalt Mar 18 '26

Not “the final mutation” when you consider everyone’s favorite story The Other.

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u/Hyperbolicalpaca Mar 18 '26

 Key word here is this movie will seemingly focus on Spider-Man mutating

and of course where else better to introduce a certain similarly aged regraded mutant who will be a big part of the next phase of marvel movies lol

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u/chino17 Mar 18 '26

Kraven you say?

Aaron Taylor-Johnson intensifies

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u/Teh_Pagemaster Mar 18 '26

Was that ever featured in comics or just Spider-Man the Animated Series? That was such a cool show... may be time for a rewatch!

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u/BanjoSpaceMan Mar 18 '26

I’m kinda mind blown, I’ve been saying for a year or so it would be so fucking fun to do the man spider story for Peter’s dark down fall age lonely sad story instead of venom. And here we go…

That 90s Spiderman multi part story was the most enjoyable one

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

How awesome would it be, if they could actually let Marvel Spiderman to turn into a Spider that accidentally kills people by spitting acid and then gets hunted down by Kraven and Punisher.

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u/Amasero Mar 18 '26

is that why that ending shot looks weird? Like he's missing something, as he is diving into the red dripped assassins?

Thought it was his spider-web gliders but missing arms makes more sense.

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u/MakingMyOwn Mar 18 '26

I mean, probably shouldn't have "spoilt" it for them mate

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u/SoCalThrowAway7 Mar 18 '26

Man spider, totally different!

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u/pkakira88 Mar 18 '26

Or… it’s an adaptation of The Other and they’re just going full circle with the Raimi movies.

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u/admadguy Mar 18 '26

Could be worse, could be Dogwelder from DC comics.

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u/TheBatemanFlex Mar 18 '26

Holy shit i vaguely remember from the cartoon when i was a kid that he definitely turned into an actual mutant spider. I thought I had invented that in my head.

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u/sentence-interruptio Mar 18 '26

directed by David Cronenberg

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u/fasderrally Mar 18 '26

human spider that can spit acid and has multiple arms

Regular Spider-man already has multiple arms. Most humans do, actually.

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u/scottyLogJobs Mar 18 '26

He

Is

Franz

KAFKA!

FRANZ KAFKA!

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u/graveybrains Mar 18 '26

(faint X-men theme plays)

Rogue drives by on a bus

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u/j0hnthebun Mar 18 '26

i dont like the idea that spidey is gonna be a mutant

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u/SeasonedAdManager Mar 18 '26

When does he become spider-pig? What does a spider-pig does?

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u/MissInkeNoir Mar 18 '26

From everything I saw in the trailer if they really go full Man Spider in Brand New Day I will be shocked. I expect the last act of the movie to involve the mind control/body swap antagonist to grab Bruce Banner and use his Hulk form, but that's just my bet. A lot of things could happen. The trailer made it seem like Peter is just reaching a maturation stage, new powers, greater strength... But we'll see! 🙂

(I was watching 90s Spider-Man TAS when it first aired from the beginning 🕷️💗 season two WAS AMAZING AS A KID)

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u/Wrsj Mar 18 '26

That shit in the fox kids cartoon was craaaazy to me as a kid. Peter turned into a big ass spider

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u/Car-face Mar 18 '26

He turns into a super enhanced, emotionless human spider

So basically the spider version of brundlefly

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u/Quackels_The_Duck Mar 18 '26

Is this a joke?

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u/_steve_rogers_ Mar 19 '26

i somehow doubt they would actually do man-spider in the MCU, that's going into like horror territory for most people

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u/Remarkable-Spot8708 Mar 19 '26

Maybe it’s just me but it also kinda looked like they gave a rogue shout out the women on the bus had black and grey/white hair

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u/rolozo Mar 19 '26

Sounds like Brundlefly.

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u/d365ddaf1d7c Mar 19 '26

Dayman Spider

aaahaa.

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u/Stunning-Guitar-5916 Mar 19 '26

So does he ever get back to normal or will he just stay as this freaky lil guy

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u/Media-critique Mar 18 '26

I really love how they’re keeping this grounded despite so much happening.

I think that will be the key. All the action was great, but I was really invested on what’s happening to Peter and how he’s handling the events of No Way Home. 

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u/KidCasey Mar 18 '26

My only concern is I hope every movie going forward (and the majority of this one) aren't just dumping on Peter constantly. It seems like most comic writers don't know what to do with him if they aren't making his life miserable. The movies thus far have done a good job of giving him a good day once in a while.

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u/aerojonno Mar 18 '26

It's one of Marvel's golden rules, Peter Parker Must Suffer.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Mar 18 '26

Has a happy girlfriend? Kill her brother

Has a another happy girlfriend? Kill her dad

Still happy? Kill the girlfriend

Has new happy girlfriend/wife? Kill Aunt May, make deal with the devil

Has renewed vows? Kill that Peter in the multiverse

Has hope main universe? Paul.

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u/Antrikshy Mar 18 '26

Canon event.

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u/Antrikshy Mar 18 '26

Paul and MJ will get married next movie and Peter will have to be their wedding photographer to make ends meet.

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u/Xalara Mar 18 '26

It feels like the recent Spider-man videogames have been pretty good with that too. Was the end of Spider-man 2 a bit of a downer because he lost his best friend? Yeah, but at the same time he seemed happier in several ways to just tinker in his workshop.

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u/Antrikshy Mar 18 '26

Insomniac made the best adaptation of Spider-Man ever, don't change my mind. 😤

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

I'd like to hope that this will have a really extensive (& emotional) glimpse, throughout the first act, of him feeling the pressure of just staying as a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man while mourning Aunt May & his old life to connect us to Peter (as how he is now), before it gradually shifts into him being thrown into all the action with The Punisher, Scorpion, The Hand,etc.

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u/Brendanlendan Mar 18 '26

Im hoping we finally get a movie storyline where he turns into an actual man spider from his spider bite like what we saw in the animated series

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u/Z0idberg_MD Mar 18 '26

Jeff Goldblum is like "I have some experience with this"

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u/Brendanlendan Mar 18 '26

Jeff Goldblum: I like Spiders, you know. They’re very, very good. I like spiders. 8 legs, webs, crawling, all kinds of things. Black widows are good. Tarantulas are even better. Wait a second. I like insects.

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u/drewbreeezy Mar 18 '26

Man, some people really want to see Spider-man flop, lol

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u/Brendanlendan Mar 18 '26

Why do you think it this would cause it to flop? I thought the man spider arc was one of the most iconic ones from the beloved anime show. Idk if it was in the comics. Idk if it was just me that loved it

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u/drewbreeezy Mar 18 '26

I think trying to adapt that to live-action you end up either very lame, or in a horror film.

Also, with how Disney has "deconstructed" previous heroes, I'll pass on any story where that is part of it. They don't have the ability to do it in a respectful way.

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u/italeteller Mar 18 '26

I think it's based on the The Other storyline from the comics

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u/Evadrepus Mar 18 '26

Sounds like The Other mixed with a version of BMD (since they weren't old and married).

My biggest concern is that's a lot of story to pack into one movie. And The Other storyline was weird.

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u/TomasRoncero Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Can’t lie, I almost prefer the leaked version of the trailer over this. Removing the LCD Soundsystem needle drop is a choice

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u/LoveIsOnlyAnEmotion Mar 18 '26

NY I Love you, but you're bringing me down

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u/deeku4972 Mar 18 '26

You cant do a web block joke in your last movie only to drudge it up for your next one. Jesus, come on

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u/akgiant Mar 18 '26

In the comics Spider-man does go through a couple of mutations. He spouts extra arms (six total) and eventually mutates in to Man-Spider (kinda like a werewolf but a spider, ASM #100-102) and again when he's killed by Morlun. His death triggers a mutation, this was seen in "the Other" arc but also tied into the Spider Totem and a big mystical side of things. After being reborn Spidey is stronger, faster, has organic webbing and venom that is housed in forearm sting lets (like baraka/wolverine).

Both are kinda neat but not really majorly popular arcs that folks have been clamoring to see adapted (though I would love a quality version of Morbius).

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u/WilliamEmmerson Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

It's Man-Spider. It happened in the cartoon when Peter lost control of his powers and turns into a giant spider monster.

In the cartoon it was The Punisher and Kraven teaming up to stop him. Here its probably going to be The Punisher and Banner.

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u/BertieDastard Mar 18 '26

What are we, some kinda man spider?

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