{"id":283717,"date":"2025-11-26T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283717\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:18:09","slug":"spider-man-brand-new-day-can-finally-set-up-the-hulk-movie-every-fan-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283717\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Brand New Day Can Finally Set Up The Hulk Movie Every Fan Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel and Sony\u2019s Spider-Man films are different to anything else in the MCU<\/a>. The partnership between the two studios has led to some of the best movies in the MCU so far, both critically acclaimed and blockbuster hits \u2013 even at a time when the shared universe as a whole has struggled. Part of their magic, of course, lies in the fact these films carefully position Spider-Man alongside other high-profile Marvel heroes. Iron Man, Nick Fury, and Doctor Strange have all played prominent roles in the Spider-Man movies.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, will be no exception, and this time Mark Ruffalo will be joining Tom Holland as Spider-Man teams up (or fights) the Hulk. The two characters have a great history in the comics, with Spider-Man stumbling on the Hulk during a battle with the Sinister Six, and once managing to calm the Hulk down with \u2013 of all things \u2013 a knock knock joke. We don\u2019t know much about the Hulk\u2019s role in Brand New Day, but it may well be an opportunity for Marvel to finally set up the Hulk story everyone wants.<\/p>\n

Marvel Has Failed Badly With the Hulk<\/p>\n

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The MCU has struggled to make the most of the Hulk. The character\u2019s overarching narrative has been oddly disjointed, not helped by a (needed) recast after The Incredible Hulk<\/a>. Ruffalo considered Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame to be a loose trilogy in terms of the Hulk\u2019s arc, but it was one in which a lot of major developments actually happened off-screen. Thor: Ragnarok riffed on the popular \u201cPlanet Hulk\u201d story, but relegated it to second place behind Thor\u2019s battle against Hela. There\u2019s a sense in which we haven\u2019t seen the real Hulk since Avengers: Infinity War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were out-of-universe reasons for this disjointed Hulk story, of course. The distribution rights for the Hulk sat with Universal; Marvel initially worked with Universal on The Incredible Hulk, but that partnership hit problems when Marvel was bought by Disney<\/a> in 2009. The MCU now had access to Disney\u2019s own distribution network, and Disney was naturally unwilling to let Marvel make a movie that would be distributed by a competitor. The Hulk wound up in limbo, making cameos but unable to star in another film.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Is a Chance To Fix the Hulk\u2019s Problems<\/p>\n

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The Hulk is best known as \u201can enormous green rage monster\u201d (to quote Tony Stark), but that character hasn\u2019t really been seen since Avengers: Age of Ultron. Taika Waititi had no interest in him in Thor: Ragnarok (as he explained in an interview with The Empire Film Podcast<\/a>, he couldn\u2019t see how anybody could have anything in common with \u201cthis bipolar, angry green beast\u201d). The Russo brothers built on this in their Avengers movies, even turning him into \u201cSmart Hulk\u201d in Avengers: Endgame. But this means the best Hulk stories have never been told.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, \u201cWorld War Hulk<\/a>,\u201d a 2007 comic book summer event generally considered one of the best Hulk stories of all time. This saw a wrathful Hulk turn against all the heroes of Earth, proving just how powerful and dangerous the Hulk really was. It\u2019s not exactly deep in characterization, but that\u2019s not the point; the Hulk considers himself \u201cthe strongest one there is,\u201d and this was the ultimate versus match to prove whether he\u2019s right. It\u2019s just unfortunate that Thor was dead at the time, only coming back too late to have his own Hulk fight.<\/p>\n

In the comics, \u201cPlanet Hulk\u201d \u2013 the story that influenced Thor: Ragnarok \u2013 was the precursor to \u201cWorld War Hulk.\u201d Thor: Ragnarok took the Hulk in the wrong direction, moving away from this story, but it\u2019s one that everyone familiar with the comics is eager to see. For it to happen, though, there needs to be a film that features the Hulk prominently first; one where he isn\u2019t part of the ensemble cast, but is at least something of a co-star, so his status quo can be changed radically. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the best chance Marvel has to go for it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Time for an Iconic Superhero Versus Match<\/p>\n

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All this means Spider-Man: Brand New Day is Marvel\u2019s best chance for a classic fight we\u2019ve seen in the comics many times. There\u2019s always been an entertaining dynamic between Spider-Man and the Hulk, because the wall-crawler sometimes lapses into overconfidence, but soon learns this particular David cannot take down the Goliath that is the Hulk. At the same time, though, Peter Parker\u2019s compassion and empathy means he also cares about the man behind the monster. In Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3, he\u2019d rather flunk a test to join the Avengers than risk turning Bruce Banner in.<\/p>\n

The catch, though, is that this dynamic only works if the MCU reverts to the classic Hulk. Otherwise, Brand New Day just becomes more of the same; the Hulk as a character totally different to the one everybody really cares about, robbing the interactions of their power. And if Marvel do this right, finally bringing back the classic Hulk, then the idea of a \u201cWorld War Hulk\u201d movie is suddenly a possibility once again. We can only hope this is an opportunity Marvel take.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel and Sony\u2019s Spider-Man films are different to anything else in the MCU. The partnership between the two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,6461,2839,88885,19799,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-283717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-movies","tag-regular-feature","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}