This has meant we’ve gotten some Spider-Man movie moments unlike anything that’s ever come before on-screen, but also that at least one major moment in the hero’s life has gone entirely unadapted in this specific universe. Given the areas of Spider-Man’s life that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is teed up to focus on, though, it seems this could well change very soon.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day makes the matter of the spider that bit Peter Parker and gave him his powers all the more central to its story by showing that the young hero is continuing to mutate years down the line from the original event that changed his body’s genetic makeup.
It’s clear this is a central part of the film’s story, with Peter going to Bruce Banner to try and understand his changing state, and with the Brand New Day trailer also showing Peter having to break free from an organic web cocoon his body appears to have trapped him in during part of his mutation.
With all this in mind, it seems like this is perhaps the only real chance the MCU will get to show Peter being bitten by the spider that started it all, and providing a look at the origin story that was carefully skipped over in the MCU timeline.
Since Peter will need to explain the nature of his mutation to Banner, the franchise has the perfect opportunity to touch on this point in time. This is a prime chance to provide a small contextual flashback during this type of scene that allows the franchise to fill in what a crucial point in Holland’s Spider-Man’s history looks like, without having to bore audiences by delving fully into a sequence they’ve seen on-screen more than once thanks to Marvel’s movie roster.
Adding a short flashback scene into Spider-Man: Brand New Day could also tie effectively into the movie’s theme of new beginnings, by showing literally just how far Peter Parker has come since the very first days of his origin story. This context would serve the added benefit of helping make the mutation Peter experiences throughout the film all the more daunting, by reminding audiences of just how potentially fraught these later changes may indeed be.
Similarly, with so much of the story appearing to be Peter trying to wrangle with the lingering after effects of his early days as a superhero – including the aftermath of Spider-Man: No Way Home, and how it subsequently changed his life for good – it would make thematic sense for the story to touch upon this past, and provide audiences with a first-hand experience of moments like this that Parker may now have an odd sense of nostalgia for.
With the franchise now building towards a new future for Spider-Man and his place in the MCU, it seems Spider-Man: Brand New Day may be the last salient place for the franchise to show this crucial moment in Peter’s story – and potentially the last film that has a perfect excuse to do so, given the inherent nature of its plot. That said, how the franchise will choose to navigate these matters will likely only become clear when Spider-Man: Brand New Day releases in July 2026.