{"id":509575,"date":"2026-06-20T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/509575\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:22:21","slug":"spider-man-brand-new-days-growing-x-men-focus-could-be-a-problem-for-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/509575\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u2019s Growing X-Men Focus Could Be a Problem for MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> has an X-Men<\/a> problem. With Marvel<\/a> keen on introducing mutants in projects like Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a> ahead of their solo movie, the studio runs the risk of the X-Men pulling focus from the main hero, in this case, Tom Holland\u2019s friendly neighborhood web-slinger.<\/p>\n

The closed captions for the new Brand New Day trailer confirmed what has long been rumored<\/a>: Tramell Tillman<\/a> is playing Bill Metzger, a prominent anti-mutant activist in the comics who, in the MCU, will be the Director of the Department of Damage Control.<\/p>\n

Why Bill Metzger and Jean Grey are raising questions about Spider-Man 4\u2019s priorities<\/p>\n

With Sadie Sink all but confirmed to be playing Jean Grey<\/a>, that now makes two X-Men characters set to appear in the fourth Spider-Man<\/a> movie. While I prefer my Spider-Man movies to feature as few non-Spidey characters as possible, part of Marvel Studios\u2019 deal with Sony<\/a> involves them beefing up the supporting ensemble with established MCU heroes. For Brand New Day, that\u2019s Mark Ruffalo\u2019s Hulk and Jon Bernthal\u2019s Punisher.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Jean Grey and Bill Metzger\u2019s inclusion that I\u2019m starting to have an issue with in Brand New Day. If Marvel just had Metzger appear to tease a future role in the X-Men movie, that would be one thing. Hawkeye had a glorified cameo in Thor solely so audiences knew who he was before Avengers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the fact that the trailers have been teasing a conflict between Metzger and \u201ca threat we can\u2019t control,\u201d believed to be Sink\u2019s mysterious character (a.k.a. Jean Grey), that has me worried that Brand New Day will feel more like a backdoor pilot to the MCU X-Men reboot than a proper Spider-Man sequel.<\/p>\n

After making fans wait five years for a new Spider-Man movie, we want the focus to be on the superhero in question. Teasing the mutants is fine, but making a major X-Men hero a substantial part of Brand New Day is a bad decision.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear Marvel wants the X-Men to be a major part of the MCU moving forward, and I don\u2019t blame them, but I want to see it done right. That doesn\u2019t mean Cyclops popping up in Doctor Strange 3. Fingers crossed that Brand New Day is the first and last time we see the X-Men steal the focus from another hero\u2019s movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marvel Cinematic Universe has an X-Men problem. With Marvel keen on introducing mutants in projects like Spider-Man:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[217607,8145,93,61,60,119963,2701,2702,270,58072],"class_list":["post-509575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bill-metzger","tag-brand-new-day","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jean-grey","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-movies","tag-sadie-sink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}