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Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Biggest Unanswered Questions
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is
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action-packed, emotionally satisfying,
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and riddled with questions that don't
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have any easy answers. Let's try to
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unravel some of the movies more tangled
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webs. [music] Spoilers start now. Brand
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New Day is built on the whole idea of
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the world, forgetting who Peter Parker
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is in No Way [music] Home. He's
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completely on his own with no friends,
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no Aunt May, and no one at Stark
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Industries who could help him out. But
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despite all that, he doesn't seem to
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have a problem with [music] getting
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money. His apartment's a piece of crap,
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sure, so he probably [music] has cheap
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rent, but it's rent all the same. How
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was he affording this place, plus food,
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plus all of the supplies he needs to
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maintain his Spidey suit and [music] all
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of his other gadgets? He has a 3D
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printer by his desk that's seemingly
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working non-stop. And those things don't
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run [music] cheap. He's paying his phone
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bill, and those things don't run cheap.
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Does he even have a job?
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>> He's been dedicating 100% of his life to
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cleaning up the streets of New York.
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>> Yeah, guess not. Maybe Aunt May left him
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an inheritance, even though we're not
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sure how Peter could collect any money
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after the world forgets about him. Tony
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Stark could have made sure he was taken
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care of, too. But nothing like that has
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ever been confirmed. To be fair, Peter
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Barker has always been portrayed as poor
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working class, but still able to fix his
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suit and build gadgets with ease. But
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Brand New Day adds an extra confusing
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layer with the fact that there's no
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record [music] of Peter Parker in this
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new status quo. How can he get anything
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done when he's a literal nobody?
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There's a throwaway line in Brand New
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Day that has some major implications
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that [music] get completely tossed
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aside. After Gan Gray infiltrates one of
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damage controls buildings, she's able to
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abscond with Scorpion. Spidey and his
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NYPD liaison, Gene DeWolf, figure that
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Scorpion [music] will factor into the
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next phase of her plan. So, Peter
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informs Gene that he'll hack into all
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the security cameras around New York to
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search for [music] Scorpion's face. That
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way, they'll know immediately when he
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surfaces. Gene tells Peter that hacking
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into security [music] cameras is
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illegal, but she doesn't do anything
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about it, and Peter doesn't have any
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moral quandries over invading privacy
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for the sake of capturing one villain.
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The thing is that Gene and us as the
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audience know that Spider-Man is a
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[music] good guy. We know he's not going
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to infringe on New Yorker's civil
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liberties. But it's still a massive
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invasion of privacy that no one seems
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all that concerned about. After all, if
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broke old pizza can hack [music] into
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every camera, what's stopping someone
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more nefarious from doing the same
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thing? What would stop him from abusing
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that power in the name of good? Probably
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nothing. But NYPD's finest don't seem
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particularly worried, [music] and
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neither does the movie. It's not like
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this is the Dark Knight.
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Forget superpowered villains. One of the
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greatest antagonistic forces in the MCU
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is a government agency. The Department
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of Damage Control has done a lot of
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shady things over the years. Their
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agents raided a high school in an
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attempt to [music] bring in some
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teenagers in Mis Marvel. And in
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Wonderman, it's revealed that damage
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control has prisoner quotas in order to
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justify its exorbitant budget. [music]
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And the department is indirectly
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responsible for creating the villain
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vulture after they superseded his
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contracts to clean up the mess after the
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battle of New York, sending him down a
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path of villain.
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>> If you have a grievance, you may take it
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up with my superiors.
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>> Your superiors? Who the hell are they?
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>> Damage control is ineffective [music] at
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best, at curtailing superpowered
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threats. At worst, they just make
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situations worse. So, you really have to
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wonder how the government is still
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allowing them [music] to operate without
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much oversight. Even if you're willing
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to overlook that because let's face it,
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governments do shady things all the
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time, there's still the matter of why
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Peter would willingly work for them. In
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case you forgot, Damage Control tried to
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arrest Peter after his secret identity
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was revealed to the world. Surely, their
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other exploits, like targeting a high
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schooler who wasn't hurting anyone,
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would [music] be public knowledge. Peter
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may want to protect damage control from
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Gan Gray because it's the right thing to
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do. But it's odd he gets super chummy
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with director Bill Meza. He should at
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least be a little suspicious. It doesn't
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take long for Gan Gray to figure out
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Spider-Man's secret identity and learn
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his connection to MJ, even if she
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doesn't remember him. Jean's MTU powers,
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at least at first, involve the ability
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to telepathically [music] control
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people, and she can avoid detection by
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leaping to different people in quick
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succession. His analytics determine that
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Gene [music] can only telepathically hop
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33 ft from one person to the next. So,
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when he traps her in a helicopter, he
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figures she's too high up to get into
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[music] anyone new. Peter goes to MJ and
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assumes everything will be all right. He
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even momentarily [music] assumes she
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remembers who he is after seeing his
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face. But then he realizes that MJ was
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[music] really Gene all along. She had
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somehow gotten to MJ first and was just
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pretending to be her. But how exactly
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did she get to MJ's apartment first?
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Later, Peter sees [music] Gene getting
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driven around by someone under her
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mind's control. So, it's clear she's not
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just tucked away in a hideout somewhere.
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Perhaps after Peter webbed up the
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helicopter, she got driven closer to
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MJ's apartment. But [music] Peter made
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such a big deal out of the 33 ft rule
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that it feels like a bit of a copout to
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just say that Jean somehow beat him to
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MJ when she should have been stuck. The
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Hulk fight is an indisputable high point
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in Brand New Day, but the way it ends
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doesn't make a lot of sense. Once
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Bruce's inhibitor is broken, he
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completely loses control and morphs into
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Savage Hulk. Even though he's not under
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Jean's control any longer, he's still
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really angry. No better for me, Hulk.
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>> And then something strange happens.
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Peter reveals to Hulk that he was the
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student getting information from Bruce
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back at the college. Something clicks
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inside Hulk and he seems to recognize
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that Peter has good intentions. So Hulk
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willingly lets go of the building and
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crashes into the street below. It's a
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nice moment, but how is Peter of all
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people able to break through to the
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Hulk? It took a significant connection
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in the past to do that. [music]
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In fact, only Black Widow's bond seemed
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to ever be strong enough. Even Thor
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couldn't manage it, and they were
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friends from work. I won't hurt you
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anymore. No one will,
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but Bruce barely knows Peter. Eh, it's
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all a bit too tidy. The final scene of
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day sees Peter
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running into Ned. The two previously
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hung out at Ned's [music] apartment, but
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that was while Peter was wearing
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Spider-Man's mask. Peter approaches Ned
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and introduces himself, and he leans in
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to do the duo's signature handshake. The
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amazing part is that Ned knows exactly
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what to do for the handshake, [music]
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and it ends with Ned looking up at Peter
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like he remembers who he was. It's a
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moment of hope because it shows that
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Peter can unlock old memories inside his
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friends in spite of Doctor Strange
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spell. But that directly goes against
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what was established [music] previously
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when Gan Gray was in control of MJ's
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mind. She mentions how she looked all
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through her memories and there was zero
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trace of Peter. Even after reading
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Peter's letter, MJ confirms [music] that
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she has no memory of him. So, what does
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Peter have to do to make MJ get that
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same Peter tingle? [music] We'll have to
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wait until Spider-Man 5 to see what that
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could be. Here's a fun and answered
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question for a different movie posed
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within this movie. When Peter pays a
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visit to Bruce Banner, he's giving a
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lecture and one student [music] asks him
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something that's been on the minds of
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MCU fans off and on for about 80 years.
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If Thanos was so worried about
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overpopulation, [music]
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why didn't he use a gauntlet to just
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double the universe's resources instead
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of wiping out half of all life? He could
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just snap his fingers and make enough
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spaghetti for everyone, and there'll be
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no more suffering. Instead, for some
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reason, he's fully logged into the idea
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of balancing the universe through pain
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and loss.
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>> It's a paradise
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[music]
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>> because you murdered half the planet.
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>> Bruce doesn't have the answer to the
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student's question because the only real
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answer is that Thanos was insane.
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[music] They didn't call him the mad
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titan because he was so good at giving
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hugs. That and he wouldn't be much of a
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villain if he just tried to feed
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everyone, would he?
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>> I suggest you don't worry about this
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sort of thing. and just enjoy yourself.
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That goes for you all, too.
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>> Yes.
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>> To the untrained eye, Spider-Man: Brand
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New Day's postredit scene may not seem
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like much, but for those that know, it
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might just reveal where the MCU [music]
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story is heading after Avengers
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Doomsday. In all fairness, calling the
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next Avengers movie after that Secret
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Wars does that, [music] too. Brand New
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Day introduces Ned's Spidey Tracker app,
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which keeps tabs on Spider-Man's
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sightings throughout New York and the
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world at large. By the postredit scene,
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it seems to have gotten an upgrade. It
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not only follows Spider-Man out of New
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York, but way beyond that into deep
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space. The screen then goes black and
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we're told Spider-Man will return,
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though not which movie where that will
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happen. We don't know the exact details,
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but all signs point to the plot of
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Doomsday involving incursions, the
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phenomenon of universes colliding into
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one another, leading to their
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destruction. In the comics, incursions
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destroy the Marvel universe, leading to
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2015's Secret Wars, in which Dr. Doom
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constructs his own world, Battle [music]
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World, from the remnants of various
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realities. In that story, Battle World
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is a whole different universe. In the
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original Secret Wars from 1984, the
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battle world is in deep space. In both
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stories, all the toys in the Marvel toy
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box get smashed together in [music]
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fights. This is all to say that Secret
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Wars could easily include Spider-Man,
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even if he doesn't make a surprise
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appearance in Doomsday, [music]
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and maybe the app is showing him on
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Battle World. Over the past several
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years, Marvel has been slowly but surely
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rolling out the mutant [music] concept.
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In alternate universe, Professor X was
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in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of
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Madness. Beasts showed up at the end of
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the Marvels. [music]
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And of course, all those mutants from
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other universes in Deadpool and
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Wolverine. Camala Khan is technically a
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mutant, too. Sades thinks Gan Gray is
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something different, though. She's
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really kicking open the door to the MCU,
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having its own distinct set of X-Men.
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But that raises the question, where are
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the rest of them? The most likely
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explanation is that the other mutants
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are simply in hiding.
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>> They can't just dust off one of the
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famous X-Men. How about that pots with
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the giant pigeon wings?
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>> A new version of Charles Xavier could
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already [music] have a school in the
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MCU, but he's just keeping it under the
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radar. Still, it's a bit odd that no
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other mutants have made their presence
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[music] known. Gan Gray freezes a whole
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bunch of New Yorkers once their
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telepathic abilities strengthen. That's
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sure to get some attention. We can't
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help but wonder if there are similar
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stories of, say, a young boy destroying
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his school with blasts from his eyes.
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It's pretty much confirmed that the MCU
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will undergo a soft reboot of sorts
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following Avengers Secret [music] Wars.
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It's likely that reality shifts will
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result in some recasting and reworking,
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[music] like maybe bringing the
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Fantastic 4 into the main 616 universe.
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This reset is also sure to introduce new
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mutants who weren't there before, giving
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Gan Gray some friends to hang out with
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at Xavier's school.
