{"id":614017,"date":"2026-05-31T17:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614017\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:41:22","slug":"spider-man-brand-new-days-romantic-triangle-can-fix-a-hated-comic-storyline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/614017\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Romantic Triangle Can Fix a Hated Comic Storyline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although not a one-to-one adaptation, Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/a> borrowed several elements from the 2007 Marvel Comics<\/a> storyline One More Day. In both stories, Peter seeks help from a magic-user in the hopes that it will improve the lives of his loved ones, even if it means that he loses his connection to them. Almost two decades later, One More Day remains one of Marvel\u2019s most hated storylines. Now the newest Spider-Man<\/a> movie Brand New Day might be adapting one of that\u2019s story\u2019s follow-ups, a tale somehow even more hated than One More Day.<\/p>\n

After having Doctor Strange<\/a> wipe away all memories of his existence, Peter has to face the fact that not only has MJ moved on, but that she doesn\u2019t even know he she is. \u201cAs someone who cares about the characters and cares about these films, it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh my God, it\u2019s so heartbreaking,’\u201d MJ\u2019s actor Zendaya<\/a> told Empire<\/a>. \u201cYou just feel so bad because you want them to be happy, and you know ultimately they would be happier together.\u201d Fans are sure to agree if Brand New Day brings in the most hated character in recent Marvel comics, a man so devious, so terrifying, he can only be called \u201cPaul.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those who have not visited a Spider-Man-themed Reddit in the past two years, Paul is \u201cPaul Rabin,\u201d first introduced in 2022\u2019s Amazing Spider-Man #1, by Zeb Wells and John Romita Jr. That issue begins after a time jump and establishes that things have gone very bad for Peter in the months past: the Fantastic Four<\/a> is mad at him, his regular pals are mad at him, even Aunt May is mad at him. But worst of all, Mary Jane is married and has two kids. And to top it all off, her husband is some dork with hipster glasses, an insufficient beard, and sometimes a ponytail, and also his name is Paul!<\/p>\n

Needless to say, readers did not like Paul. Part of it, yes, is Paul\u2019s fault. Not because of anything he\u2019s done really, but because of what he doesn\u2019t do. And what he doesn\u2019t do is anything interesting. Paul\u2019s a walking stuffed shirt, a guy who exists to be a complication in Peter\u2019s life. And not even multiversal shenanigans that revealed his father was a magical warlord called the Emissary or that he and MJ\u2019s kids never existed could make him interesting. So when Paul got stabbed to death by the oh-so-edgy serial killer Torment in last month\u2019s Venom #256, by Al Ewing and Carlos G\u00f3mez, the internet threw a party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although not a one-to-one adaptation, Spider-Man: No Way Home borrowed several elements from the 2007 Marvel Comics storyline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-614017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614017","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=614017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}