{"id":521880,"date":"2026-03-08T05:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521880\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T05:11:10","slug":"brand-new-day-is-officially-continuing-the-one-mcu-tradition-marvel-needs-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521880\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand New Day is Officially Continuing the One MCU Tradition Marvel Needs to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"

As is true with all comic book media adaptations, every new live-action iteration of Spider-Man<\/a> has come with strengths and weaknesses in terms of how Peter Parker was depicted, as well as what his growth as a character has looked like. For instance, Tobey Maguire\u2019s Peter doesn\u2019t necessarily have a character arc throughout Sam Raimi\u2019s Spider-Man trilogy<\/a>, and is instead static beyond temporarily losing his powers and bonding with the alien symbiote.<\/p>\n

However, Tom Holland\u2019s Peter<\/a> was too enthralled about Tony Stark to question his motives in Captain America: Civil War, and his Home trilogy essentially scrubbed his character development blackboard in each installment. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is reaping what the Home trilogy had sown in this regard, and what\u2019s left of Peter is literally nothing.<\/p>\n

The MCU\u2019s Spider-Man is a Hollow Husk<\/p>\n

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The blame for the MCU\u2019s Peter and Tony problem<\/a> doesn\u2019t land wholly on Peter, and yet he\u2019s receiving no brownie points for spending nearly all of Spider-Man: Homecoming guided by AI before the high-tech costume is confiscated from him. He is then suddenly smitten by Michelle in Spider-Man: Far From Home with Liz Allan whisked out of the picture, and all he wants to do is be Peter after spending the entirety of Spider-Man: Homecoming wanting nothing more than to be Spider-Man and accepted as an Avenger.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the MCU\u2019s Spider-Man only technically became the \u2018friendly neighborhood Spider-Man\u2019 by the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/a>, left completely to his own devices and emboldened by his aunt\u2019s \u201cwith great power, there must also come great responsibility\u201d message. This has basically retconned the trilogy preceding it, as Peter has been living for the past four years as a ghost when he\u2019s not in his new red, webs, and blue costume.<\/p>\n

Peter Parker isn\u2019t Even a Character Anymore<\/p>\n

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Character development for Andrew Garfield\u2019s Peter<\/a> is rushed in The Amazing Spider-Man as he abruptly jumps from pursuing his uncle\u2019s killer to pursuing Dr. Curtis Connors\u2019 Lizard, and his arc throughout The Amazing Spider-Man 2 sees him stringing Gwen Stacy along and messing with her heart\/head when he selfishly decides he wants to be with her again. Still, flaws and all, at least he was a character.<\/p>\n

Tom Holland\u2019s Peter retains his memories of his life, but it will have been four years since the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home made him a blank canvas, and Peter will be a whole new character again after already being stunted by a five-year blip between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame when we catch up with him in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spider-Man may be thriving, but the movie will hopefully lay brickwork for Peter to be an interesting character again, too.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJuly 31, 2026<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDestin Daniel Cretton<\/p>\n

Producers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAmy Pascal, Kevin Feige<\/a>, Rachel O’Connor, Avi Arad, Louis D’Esposito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As is true with all comic book media adaptations, every new live-action iteration of Spider-Man has come with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-521880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}