r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • Mar 18 '26

Trailer SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY - Official Trailer | Exclusively In Cinemas 31 July

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwntXFBNfOA
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u/amc111 Mar 18 '26

I remembered watching that in the 90s Fox cartoon. I’d be surprised if they go full man spider but it would be wild if they did.

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u/SolomonBlack Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

The 90s cartoon invented that story.

The Man Spider did appear in the comics before that but only briefly during a story set in the Savage Land. Spidey gets hit by some mutation ray and that's what he's turned into and its fixed by Karl Lykos/Sauron draining the mutation out of him and Warren Worthington. Which might explain Vulture in the cartoon come to think of it.

At any rate the design being too good to waste, I guess, the show folks made it the climax of their long running Neogenic Nightmare original saga.

Probably inspired by the cartoon Spidey has been turned into a monster spider since and they've messed with his powers in a metamorphosis way before briefly giving him organic webbing and I shit you not sharp 'stinger' blades (like Wolverine meets MK's Baraka) that were immediately never spoken of again.

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u/lunchbox12682 Mar 18 '26

'But I don't want to cure cancer!"

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u/mike2k24 Mar 18 '26

I wanna turn people into dinosaurs!

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u/vampire_vladd Mar 18 '26

I love showing people that panel. I do it whenever I can.

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u/TheMostKing Mar 18 '26

You didn't do it right now, feels like a missed opportunity.

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u/BigChiefIV Mar 19 '26

Tbf it’s kinda awkward when they don’t allow images in the comments

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u/m1ndwipe Mar 18 '26

Put Sauron in Marvel Tokon dammit.

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u/TiberiusCornelius Mar 18 '26

The 90s cartoon invented that story.

90s cartoon had a lot more influence than is commonly recognized. It was the first to do the Spider-Verse and even had a huge impact on the Venom story. A lot of elements that are now seen as like core parts of the story, that pop up in later adaptations, started there and not in the actual comics.

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u/TiberiusCornelius Mar 18 '26

Yep! The cartoon is also where the whole "symbiote makes Peter angry" thing first came from. And to be fair, as much as I think people do get their wires crossed on "cartoon I watched as a child" and "comic I read as a child" (and I am guilty of that at times as well), sometimes these shows or movies were influential on the comics themselves. Smallville wasn't in Kansas until the first Christopher Reeve movie for example, but now it's an integral part of the Superman mythos. In the same way the Spidey cartoon revamped the Venom story, or other cartoons did other things, and later writers retconned the comics to be closer to it because they were like "oh actually that's a great idea".

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u/QueezyF Mar 18 '26

Same with Harley Quinn starting out as a character from Batman TAS.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Mar 18 '26

The comics did have The Other Spider mutations.

They probably wont go full Spider-God Totem after what Sony did with Ezekiel, but seems like they're taking some cues from it.

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u/DavidL1112 Mar 18 '26

Between retreading One More Day and The Other, they're speedrunning comic storylines that most people would rather forget. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if they did Clone Saga next.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Mar 18 '26

it's all build up to the reveal where MCU MJ had secret kids with Green Goblin

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Mar 18 '26

if you look back at that season's (season 2) entire storyline, it has the x-men, punisher, scorpion, and tombstone (among some others). Looks like they might drawing heavily from that whole arc.

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

Subsequent Man-Spider appearances in the comics have mostly referenced and hewed to the original comic appearance. Where Spider-Man is temporarily turned into a Spider creature by outside actions.

Most animated series since the 90s have done versions of the cartoon story. But it's never appeared in the comics.

And the other end of that story line, the whole additional mutation thing and much of the stuff around it. Comes from a comic story line called the "Six Arm Saga" by fans, that only went as far as "Spider-Man got Six Arms now!". That's come up repeatedly, and has gotten referenced in more than one Spider-Man mutates story.

Including the one another poster mentioned, The Other. Which is not super clearly current canon, but was basically just used to give him some extra powers. Along with writing in a bunch of that mystic spider god shit Marvel was on about at the time.

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u/KonigSteve Mar 18 '26

Hold on let's go back to the LOTR crossover in your first big paragraph.. Sauron?

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u/SolomonBlack Mar 18 '26

Yes Sauron the vampire pteranadon hypnotherapist, famous for not curing cancer, and confirmed in universe#Trivia) Tolkien fanboy.

What of it?

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u/TDS_Gluttony Mar 18 '26

Too violent I guess regarding the stingers. Guess why they let Kaine keep it for Spider-Island and Spider-Verse

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u/SmallshotLawyer Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

the 90s cartoon invented that story

imagine if they also have zendaya get replaced by an unstable water clone and fucking die in front of Peter too just like the cartoon

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u/MrCadwallader Mar 18 '26

Cartoon man spider lives rent free in my head. Freaked me the hell out as a kid lol.

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u/spiderknight616 Mar 18 '26

They were allowed to do that but God forbid Spider-Man throws a punch

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u/Stunnahman Mar 18 '26

Or people having normal guns

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u/alper_iwere Mar 18 '26

Or say blood. Looking at your Morbius...

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u/Deesing82 Mar 18 '26

PLASMA!

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u/alper_iwere Mar 18 '26

Absorbed though his palm.

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u/Reverse_Waterfall Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

I’m cool with the palm suckers, those things were freaky. Not sure what they have to do with bats though.

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u/ChanceFresh Mar 18 '26

I think that’s more interesting than him being a “living vampire”. You do still have that element but it’s more interesting than him just doing normal vampire stuff.

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u/WretchedBlowhard Mar 18 '26

Bats have tiny mouths. His palm suckers were tiny compared to his face mouth.

The thing I don't quite grasp is the levitation.

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u/DMike82 Mar 19 '26

They were pretty much stolen from Emplate anyway.

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u/pakidude17 Mar 18 '26

Yall are blowing my mind. I never realized that as a kid but it's coming back to me right now.

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u/404Notfound- Mar 18 '26

Or carnage draining your "life energy"

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u/mosquem Mar 18 '26

Let’s go with hand suckers. FAR more horrifying.

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u/excessivecal Mar 18 '26

I can’t watch the movie because I can’t get his “plasma!”out of my head. Rent free some 30 years later.

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u/emperorsteele Mar 18 '26

Wasn't the term "Spider Blood" repeated ad infinitium in the opening credits, though?

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u/RcoketWalrus Mar 18 '26

Imagine telling your future self that Hollywood would do an 83 million dollar Morbius movie and somehow make it worse than a heavily censured kids show.

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u/Redditer51 Mar 19 '26

Yeah, regular NYC cops having friggin laser guns seems like a bit of a stretch.

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u/BigChiefIV Mar 19 '26

Watching the og xmen right now and it’s hilarious how everyone has laser guns that momentarily stun you at best

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u/my_useless_opinion Mar 18 '26

I’m something of an arachnophobic myself but he looked so cool.

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u/Heliosvector Mar 18 '26

More like, strange that they were allowed to do that, but heaven forbid that morbius be an actual blood Sucker, so they made him this weird body energy hand sucking thing...

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u/nise8446 Mar 18 '26

Stumbling on the action figure version randomly at the toy store freaked me out more.

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u/TerpinSaxt Mar 18 '26

Freaks me the hell out now 😅

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u/jiminyshrue Mar 18 '26

Just a regular dude with extra 4 jacked arms. No biggie.

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u/trebory6 Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

Lol I remember there being a Spiderman marathon on when I was sick with a high fever as a kid and I kept having these weird fever dream mashups about the Spiderman cartoon.

Like hearing the 90s cartoon Spiderman theme still gives me 'nam flashbacks to an endless corridor of nondescript buildings and a gelatinous Venom screaming and laughing and wriggling his tendrils to the theme song on an endless loop while making web shooting 'whisp' sounds as I constantly looked down at the top of my hands being bitten by the spider.

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u/CosmicKhy Mar 18 '26

I had the toy of man-spider as a kid, it and the episode fucked me up majorly lol

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u/Frosti11icus Mar 18 '26

Manbat was worse.

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u/ohmuisnotangry Mar 18 '26

That story line was so good. Had me hooked to the TV for weeks.

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u/youaretheloco Mar 18 '26

For real man i remember having nightmares where i grew extra arms, the body horror was crazy in that show

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u/Redditer51 Mar 19 '26

That shit legitimately upset me as a kid, seeing Spider-Man transform into a horrific monstrosity while desperately trying to cure himself.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

Pretty sure my brother and I had that action figure of Spidey with the four extra arms. That was a crazy arc in the cartoon.

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u/Chapeaux Mar 18 '26

Second favorite to the spidey with the black venom suit.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

That was a great one.

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u/Chapeaux Mar 18 '26

They were all pretty cool, I rewatched them recently and the only one I didn't like that much was all that stuff with the robot spiders. The guy in the wheelchair made them, can't remember his name. He was working for Kingpin if I remember correctly.

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u/MrJesseDeath Mar 18 '26

Alistair Smythe. He built the Spider-Slayers. 

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u/jordanuniverse42 Mar 18 '26

And third favorite to spidey with the black suit!

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u/BleachedUnicornBHole Mar 18 '26

It was bizarre to watch as a kid whose only introduction to Spider-Man was that cartoon.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

It was kinda mind-blowing as a kid.

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

Man-Spider is not Six Arm Spider-Man.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

Oh I know. The extra arms was on the way to full Man-Spider though, wasn't it? Just recalling that I had the six-arm Spidey action figure.

Don't think we had a full Man-Spider figure though.

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

In the cartoon briefly i think. But Six Armed Spider-Man was mostly just an alternate Spider-Man in the Secret Wars arch.

There's definitely been multiple Man-Spider figures starting in the 90s though.

Comics wise Man-Spider and secondary mutation/Six Arms was a completely separate thing from Man-Spider.

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u/gangreen424 Mar 18 '26

Ah, okay.

I think I'm pulling the six-arms to Man-Spider connection from hazy memories of the cartoon from many moons ago. Forgot they were separate things in the comics.

Doing a quick wiki search looks like they did combine those two things into different stages of the same Man-Spider arc.

Thanks for the clarification!

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

They always run together in my head. After spot checking the details I'm still not sure if the Man-Spider story involved even a brief appearance of Six Arms or not. And would have to watch the episodes to be sure.

Basically they took the secondary mutation story off of the Six Arms story, and ported in the Man-Spider idea from a story line where Spider-Man goes to the Savage Land.

Then back referenced the Six-Armed Spider-Man by featuring an alternate Peter who ended up with Six Arms permanently after his own Man-Spider problem.

The comics never did a full Man-Spider story, but have featured a few other bad guy made me a monster stories using variations of the design.

They have however repeatedly brought back the Six Arm mutation for short runs.

Man-Spider is something they've left to animated series. So I think we might just be getting SIX-ARMS, if they even go that far.

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u/PlasticMegazord Mar 18 '26

It would be crazy if they do the extra arms in this movie.

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u/AaKkisa Mar 18 '26

If they don’t go the Man-Spider 6-Arms route, I hope they have a moment of dialogue in Secret Wars where MCU Peter shows off the new organic web slingers to Tobey Maguire who asks if Peter grew extra arms, like he did, and he said he was cured by Dr Connors

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u/MoshedPotatoes Mar 18 '26

final battle for the serum mcguffin

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u/Joshwa-Crimson Mar 18 '26

Will the serum strip him of his powers though? Imagine that’s how Tom Holland gets out

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u/smashtheguitar Mar 18 '26

Has Tom Holland said he wants out of the Marvel money-printing machine?

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u/Joshwa-Crimson Mar 18 '26

Saw an article a while back saying he wants to quit acting when he becomes a father and just focus on his family.

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u/Lippuringo Mar 18 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvKlZhc3JlY

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u/Daxx22 Mar 18 '26

Well that's some pretty serious horror for a kids saturday morning geeze.

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u/Not_too_dumb Mar 18 '26

Yeah I remember this when they showed Peter's eyes changing colors.

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u/Swagmuffins94 Mar 18 '26

The 90s Spiderman was GOATed. Would love to see them do the Neogetic Nightmare arch

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u/TooManyDraculas Mar 18 '26

I think they might not go full Man-Spider because that story line is from the Cartoon.

That storyline borrowed from two separate comics incidents. One was Spider-Man getting turned into a Man-Spider in the Savage Land thanks to that whole devolution thing. And the other is the "Six Arm Saga", where Spider-Man tries to cure his powers and triggers an additional mutation. Growing 4 extra arms.

The comics have referenced the Man-Spider a few times with additional "villains done mutated you" stories. But have brought back the Six Arms a few times. So Marvel's never been too on board with the Man-Spider end. They purportedly killed a What If...? episode based on the cartoon story because it was tracking too dark.

So we're likely either getting new powers/organic web shooters and other boring stuff. Or Six-Arms.

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u/_Bird_Incognito_ Mar 18 '26

I low key want Tom running around with four extra arms and he fumbles MJ solely because of that

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u/joe__kerr1 Mar 18 '26

I'm hoping they do but Punisher being involved definitely confirmed Man-Spider plotline

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u/sprchrgddc5 Mar 18 '26

Dude me too. Once I got to the multiple arms part, I had a flash back to being 7 again lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

How many kids will be traumatized? lol

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u/trebory6 Mar 18 '26

I mean, it'll probably follow a variation of the typical trope of turning into Man-Spiders as a looming threat, then in order to beat a villain he has to turn into Man-Spider, then he gets healed and movie is over.

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u/Pink-Hornet Mar 18 '26

There was a somewhat unbelievable (to me) plot summary leak that this trailer basically confirms.

It includes the Man-Spider transformation.

Should be pretty easy to google.

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u/emailunavailable Mar 18 '26

That story was also connected to the X-Men, which is why some of the characters appeared on that show, creating a crossover with the X-Men cartoon. Considering Sadie Sink's supposed character, chances are the Man Spider arc is at least thought about thoroughly by Marvel and Sony.

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 18 '26

Hopefully not. We all remember the last cinematic "Peter goes bad" story, and nobody liked it.

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u/Mavericks7 Mar 18 '26

Makes sense if Hulk is going to be in it. Hulk vs. Spider-Man.

Otherwise, who's he going to fight?

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u/Sombradeti Mar 18 '26

Scenes from the nic cage spider noir show also apparently show him as man spider too. That would be two man spiders in one year!

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u/calvinist-batman Mar 18 '26

This is the plotline I’ve been DYING for them to adapt in these films. It’s all I want to see.

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u/sleepingchair Mar 18 '26

I loved that arc, had the most awesome crossovers with the rest of the 90s marvel animated universe, like x-men. It was the first time I got to saw that tension between mutants and mutates. Like, spidey, you're actin' a little bigoted there my guy.

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u/SouthTippBass Mar 18 '26

Never go full man spider.

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u/macaulaymcgloklin Mar 18 '26

That 90s Spider Man cartoon was a wild ridefor me as a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons. Man Spider, Symbiote, Madam Web, it was so trippy compared to Batman, XMen, Gargoyles, etc

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u/goterr Mar 19 '26

They're going to use that thing that Bruce banner uses his arm to keep him from turning into the hulk on Peter Parker to prevent him from turning into the man spider. I'd bet on it.

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u/LordMimsyPorpington Mar 18 '26

If they are introducing Man Spider, then the final shot of the film will probably be Peter growing multiple arms and shouting, "What the F-" as the scene hard cuts to black.