No more synthetic webs for Peter.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer reveals Punisher, Hulk, Scorpion, and mutating Peter Parker

No more synthetic webs for Peter.

By Nick Romano

Nick Romano

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March 18, 2026 7:53 a.m. ET

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Tom Holland's Spider-Man in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'. Credit:

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Tom Holland's Peter Parker and the Marvel Cinematic Universe are going through some...changes.

This week's *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* trailer reveals a major new story point for our friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, plus first looks at familiar characters coming into his orbit.

Jon Bernthal's Frank Castle/Punisher arrives on the scene after his role in *Daredevil: Born Again* season 1. He's followed close behind by Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner/Hulk, who's now a college professor. Then there's Scorpion himself. Michael Mando makes a comeback as the Spidey villain after he made a brief cameo in the *Spider-Man: Homecoming* post-credits scene.

But the biggest new development is that Peter Parker is mutating. That's right, no more synthetic webs for him. His DNA is evolving, making Holland's character more like the Spider-Man of the Tobey Maguire era, where the webs actually come out of him.

There's lots more to be gleaned from the trailer, including a first glimpse at the main villain. We don't see a face, but we get the sense that there's some kind of mind control. This adversary, whoever it is, can seemingly possess the mind of a victim and telepathically hop from person to person.

Jon Bernthal as Punisher in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'.

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This will add more fuel to the fire of speculation around Sadie Sink's role. People have long guessed that the noticeably red-haired *Stranger Things* star could be playing telekinetic and telepathic mutant Jean Grey, since Marvel is charting a new path for the X-Men on screen. However, the actress once told **, "That was happening before I even knew that I would be working on this project. I was like, ‘Wait! What are people talking about?’”

Numerous other theories abound, including one suggesting she could be playing Punisher sidekick Rachel Cole-Alves. Jon Bernthal, after all, reprises his part of Frank Castle in *Spider-Man: Brand New Day*. “A lot of people forget that hair color can change, but, yeah, I understand all of the theories,” Sink said at the time of the EW interview.

Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'.

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In anticipation of the trailer release, Sony partnered with a slew of fans and influencers to release snippets of the full preview across social media through a series of posts. "We are doing something that has never been done before," Holland said in a video kicking off the viral marketing stunt.

*Spider-Man: Brand New Day* picks up four years after the events of 2021's *Spider-Man: No Way Home*, which ended with the world forgetting about the existence of Tom Holland's Peter Parker, courtesy of a Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) spell. It was either that or let the multiverse collapse on itself.

Peter is now operating anonymously again as everyone's favorite neighborhood wall-crawler, but a series of unusual crimes pulls him into a larger mystery.

Michael Mando as Scorpion in 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'.

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Spidey regulars like Zendaya and Jacob Batalon are back for this next outing, while rapper Marvin "Krondon" Jones will also play comic book villain Tombstone, a role in the 2018 animated film *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*.

Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed *Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings*, is back at the helm for this Marvel movie.

The film is set to hit theaters on July 31.

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