Spider Man Brand New Day (2026)

After Dr. Stephen Strange's magic spell makes the world forget that Peter Parker exists, he chooses to protect his girlfriend Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson and best friend Ned Leeds by not reintroducing himself to them. Over the next four years, Parker anonymously protects New York City as its celebrated hero Spider-Man. He defeats major criminals including a group of ninjas called the Hand, earning the trust of New York City Police Department (NYPD) detective Jean DeWolff. Parker regularly visits the grave of his aunt May.

Parker stops Frank Castle from causing collateral damage in pursuit of a tank that crashes into a Department of Damage Control (DODC) prison. The driver is possessed by a telepath who body hops from person to person, but is unable to enter Parker's mind. The telepath helps Mac Gargan escape. Yelena Belova informs Parker that multiple DODC facilities have been attacked by someone searching for "V-Max". Parker visits DODC director Bill Metzger, who is using the Hand for security and claims ignorance regarding "V-Max".

Ned and MJ move back to New York after graduating from MIT. Parker encounters them and sees MJ kiss her new boyfriend. Returning home in distress, he wakes up the next day with heightened senses and the ability to shoot spider webs from his wrists. When the telepath attacks another DODC facility with a possessed Gargan, Parker loses control of his new abilities and brutally beats Gargan, inadvertently injuring a police officer; DeWolff reprimands him. Learning from Bruce Banner, who has an inhibitor device that uses siRNA to suppress his super-powered alter ego the Hulk, Parker builds his own inhibitor. While he tests it, the telepath finds his apartment and learns about MJ from an unsent reintroduction letter he wrote to her. Parker races to get MJ to safety, but the telepath possesses her and almost kills her. He rescues MJ and identifies the telepath as Jean Grey.

Parker takes MJ to Castle's hideout for protection, where she helps complete his inhibitor and a universal inhibitor. Jean attacks the DODC's headquarters with a possessed Banner in his Smart Hulk form. Parker and Castle try to stop them, but Jean possesses Castle and uses him to breach the vault with Metzger and the DODC agents after losing control of Banner to his alter ego the Hulk. Parker stops the Hulk and puts the universal inhibitor on Jean, freeing Castle. He hears Jean mention "Sara", and Metzger claims she learned this name while possessing him. Parker returns to MJ, who has found the letter. He apologizes for not telling her and declares his love, but MJ does not remember him or reciprocate his feelings. Despite this, she invites him to her and Ned's apartment, where a masked Parker bonds with them both. MJ says she does not remember anything from being possessed by Jean, and Parker realizes that Metzger lied to him. He contacts Yelena, who learns from redacted DODC files that Sara is Jean's sister, another telepath who was kidnapped by the DODC.

Metzger experiments on Jean at a DODC facility on Roosevelt Island. She realizes that "V-Max" is the weathered label on the air vent in her cell, the last thing Sara saw before she died. Enraged, Jean creates a psionic field that extends a mile from the facility, freezing everyone within it except for Parker, who infiltrates the building. Jean rebuffs his apologies and attacks him using the Hand. Parker removes his inhibitor and learns to control his new abilities, defeating the Hand and stopping Jean from killing Metzger. He lets her enter his mind, where she experiences a memory of May expressing her love for him. Parker and Jean acknowledge each other's losses, and he offers to be there for her. Parker senses Castle shooting at Jean from a distance and shields her, sustaining a near-fatal injury. Jean drops the psionic field.

Parker wakes up in a hospital with a remorseful Castle, who explains that Jean used her powers to keep him alive. Jean leaves the city, Metzger disappears, and the DODC comes under investigation. At May's grave, Parker promises to stop trying to do everything alone, and later agrees to let DeWolff handle a robbery while he continues to recover. Seeing Ned again, Parker reintroduces himself with their old handshake.