{"id":680504,"date":"2026-07-08T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:18:11","slug":"marvels-most-important-superhero-breaks-free-from-disney-now-streaming-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680504\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s Most Important Superhero Breaks Free From Disney+ Now Streaming On Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Jonathan Klotz<\/a>
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There\u2019s a few things in life you can always count: Death, taxes, Firefly appearing on every list of best one-season sci-fi shows, and Spider-Man is Marvel\u2019s most popular superhero. Every single Spider-Man movie has been a success and now Tom Holland\u2019s first standalone in the webs is one of Netflix\u2019s most popular movies. Spider-Man: Homecoming, thanks to the unique licensing deal Marvel has with Sony, isn\u2019t trapped on Disney+ anymore.<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Homecoming Did Everything Right<\/p>\n

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Spider-Man: Homecoming is the first solo Spider-Man film in the MCU following his brief introduction in Captain America: Civil War. At the time, it was the most anticipated movie in the MCU<\/a>. What no one saw coming was how Tom Holland would take the role already made famous by Tobey Maguire<\/a> and Andrew Garfield, and make it his own. He did so well, that for the second time, all hopes for the future of the MCU rest on his next movie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day.<\/p>\n

If Spider-Man: Homecoming wasn\u2019t as fun as it was, the MCU would have crashed and burned years ago. Taking a little bit from Miles Morales<\/a> by turning Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) into Ganke, removing Uncle Ben completely, and replacing Mary Jane Watson the fashion model with MJ (Zendaya) the socially conscious hipster, Disney created a Spider-Man for a new generation. It\u2019s hard to remember now how controversial these changes were, and even now classic comic book fans are still waiting for Ned to turn into Hobgoblin (which was only ever sort of true, it was a brainwashing technique used by Kingsley, the real Hobgoblin, because comics!).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Part of what makes Spider-Man so popular is his rogue\u2019s gallery. Michael Keaton\u2019s updated version of Vulture as a tech scavenger\/thief was an improvement over the original Adrian Toomes and whatever it was the \u201cBrand New Day\u201d era mob enforcer Vulture was supposed to be. Taking a former Batman and making him a bird-based Marvel<\/a> villain was, as it turns out, inspired casting. Against all odds, Keaton\u2019s most threatening moment comes when he\u2019s out of costume, behind the wheel of a reliable, practical car.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spider-Man Saves The MCU<\/p>\n

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Spider-Man: Homecoming wasn\u2019t an outlier, it was the first sign of how reliable Tom Holland\u2019s Peter Parker was going to be in terms of box office, and quality. Three movies in, and not one of them is less than amazing. Spectacular even. Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a> is about to hit theaters and so far, all signs point to it being the most successful Marvel movie since Deadpool & Wolverine. Once again, the fate of the MCU rests on Spider-Man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ever since Avengers<\/a>: Endgame Disney has struggled to reach their previous heights. The \u201cMultiverse Saga\u201d was a complete dud except for No Way Home and Deadpool & Wolverine, with even Multiverse of Madness and Fantastic Four<\/a> falling flat on their faces. The younger audience is bored of superhero movies, which is why Tom Holland is Disney\u2019s secret weapon.<\/p>\n

Tom Holland Is The Most Important Marvel Star<\/p>\n

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As with every Peter and Mary Jane before them, Tom Holland<\/a> and Zendaya started dating, but unlike the rest, the pair have been together over a decade and recently tied the knot. It\u2019s impossible to overstate how popular they are among Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Tom\u2019s \u201cUmbrella\u201d performance from Celebrity Lip-Sync Battle has been a social media viral hit for nine years, longer than anyone else has played Spider-Man and Zendaya has been fashion icon for even longer. If anyone can get the young\u2019uns back into theaters for a Marvel movie, it\u2019s those two.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it all started with Spider-Man: Homecoming. 9 years later, it\u2019s still one of the best super hero movies of all time, and now that it\u2019s on Netflix<\/a>, the largest streaming service on the planet, it will still, somehow, find a new audience. There is no Marvel without Spider-Man, and without Tom Holland, we might not have a MCU right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jonathan Klotz | Updated 1 minute ago There\u2019s a few things in life you can always count:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6460,96,949,5396,95898,6462,2839,392,22502,19799,96367,3842,5454,56,54,55,24489],"class_list":["post-680504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-marvel","tag-michael-keaton","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-spider-man","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-spider-man-homecoming","tag-streaming","tag-tom-holland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-zendaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680504","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=680504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}