SPIDER-MAN Recap Before ‘Brand New Day’

Before Spider-Man brand new day swings into theaters, here's a recap of everything you need to know. Spider-Man was introduced to the MCU in Captain America: Civil War. At the time, audiences were fresh off Andrew Garfield's reboot, so this time we skipped the origins. By now, Peter was already bit by a spider and Uncle Ben is out of the picture. Peter is already functioning in Queens with a homemade costume as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. He moves up in the world of superheroes when Stark recruits him for a battle against Captain America, part of a conflict over the Sokovia Accords. World governments have grown concerned over collateral damage caused by the Avengers over the years. Those Accords would change them from a private organization to one that answers to the UN. Stark supports it, Rogers does not. That leads to Civil War with some heroes on either side of the conflict. Stark gives Peter a high-tech suit and battle ensues. As the Civil War escalates, Stark brings Peter home and tells him he can keep the new suit and promises to be in touch when Spider-Man is needed again. Finally, he leaves him with a few words of advice. >> Don't do anything I would do, and definitely don't do anything I wouldn't do. There's a There's a little gray area in there, and that's where you operate. >> Well, does that mean that I'm an Avenger? >> No. >> After all the excitement, it's back to normal life. Peter's best friend Ned, his crush Liz, and his other friend who might kind of like Peter but won't admit it yet, Michelle. Normal life is okay and all, but Peter misses feeling important and is eager for his next Spider mission, another chance to prove to Stark he's ready for the Avengers. He gets a chance when he notices alien weapons on the streets of New York. Four years ago, the Avengers stopped an alien invasion, but a lot of their tech stayed behind. Adrian Toomes and his salvage company were hired to clean up the mess, but they were fired when Stark partnered with the federal government to form the Department of Damage Control, and they handled the clean up instead. Rather than deprive his employees of sorely needed paychecks, Toomes entered a new business, hoarding the alien equipment to build high-tech weapons and sell them on the black market. Peter tries to stop Toomes, difficult considering he's used some of that tech to build himself a vulture-like suit. Though Peter gets some help when he accidentally reveals his identity to Ned, and he becomes Spider-Man's guy in the chair. The one who helps with intel and strategy without actually putting himself in harm's way. When Peter nearly gets himself killed fighting the Vulture, Stark admonishes him, tells him to stand down, and Peter doesn't. He and Ned nearly blow up the Washington Monument on an academic decathlon trip when Ned brings an alien battery through an x-ray machine, which becomes a chance for Spider-Man to save the day, including Liz. Worse than that, Peter finds out Toomes' next weapons deal will be on the Staten Island Ferry. Peter's meddling leads to a fight, which leads to the ferry nearly torn in half. Peter almost gets himself torn in half holding it together until Iron Man steps in. Personally, this time Peter went too far. Stark knew about the weapons deal. This whole thing was a sting operation with the FBI, and Peter ruined it. Stark told him to stand down, and he didn't listen. Clearly, he can't handle the responsibility. Stark demands back the suit. No more Spider-Man. Now, he's just Peter Parker. On the bright side, that means he can stop disappointing his friends, stop disappearing to play hero. It means he can ask Liz to the homecoming dance. The night of the dance, he arrives at Liz's house and meets her dad, Adrian Toomes. The villain quickly recognizes Peter's voice. Turns out Spider-Man is just a kid, someone Adrian can intimidate. He tells Peter to stay out of his business or die along with everyone he loves. So, it's back to disappointing his friends. Peter ditches Liz and the dance to play hero again with Ned as his guy in the chair. They quickly figure out Toomes' next move. Stark's once driver, then head of security, now head of asset management, Happy Hogan, is overseeing a shipment tonight of weapons and tech from Stark Tower to the new Avengers facility upstate. That is Vulture's target. Peter tries to stop him and ends up buried under rubble. Except, even if Stark took away the suit, Peter realizes he is still Spider-Man. He lifts that rubble and stops the Vulture after all. Once Vulture is arrested, Liz's mom decides to move with her to Oregon, meaning that the decathlon team needs a new captain, Michelle. Though, she reminds them her preferred name, MJ. Happy takes Peter upstate where Tony welcomes him to the Avengers. Except, Peter isn't sure he's ready for that. For now, he'll stay the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Though, Tony does give him his suit back. Also, he accidentally reveals his secret identity to Aunt May. >> What the >> Two years later, the mad Titan Thanos attempts to retrieve all six Infinity Stones so he can snap his fingers to extinguish half of all life in the universe. His insane answer to the fears of overpopulation and limited resources. Peter joins Stark in a galaxy-hopping adventure to stop the villain, and they fail. Thanos gets the stones and snaps his fingers. Half of all life vanishes, including Peter's. >> I don't want to go. I don't want to go, sir. Please. Please, I don't want to go. Stark. After that, Thanos atomizes the stones so his work cannot be undone. And for that, Thor beheads him. It would seem now all hope is lost, except time travel. Five years after the snap, the Avengers hatch an insane plan to save the world, a time heist. They cannot change the past, but they can visit it in an alternate timeline. They can borrow stones from that alternate timeline and use them in their own reality to bring back all those who were lost in the snap. It works. Everyone comes back, including Spider-Man. Except a problem, Thanos from that alternate timeline comes to this one to finish the work of his dead predecessor. The heroes band together to stop him, but only do so with great sacrifice. They already lost Natasha Romanoff to get the soul stone. Now, they lose Tony Stark, too. Humans cannot handle the power of the stones. That's why Hulk wielded them to reverse the snap. But in this final battle, it's Stark who gets a hold of them. And with no time to waste, he snaps. He erases Thanos and his army at the cost of his own life. Peter goes to the funeral and he mourns. But at least his best friend is there for him when he returns home. Eight months later, Peter still grieves, but tries his best to move forward. His class trip to Europe should help. It's an important one. That's when Peter plans on confessing his newfound crush to MJ. He suspects she feels the same way about him. He often catches her looking at him. But Peter is still Spider-Man and duty often calls at the worst possible times. The trip is interrupted by a giant water monster. Thankfully, another hero is there to save the day. Someone the kids nickname Mysterio. Nick Fury fills Peter in. Mysterio is actually a man named Quentin Beck from another world in the multiverse. His Earth was destroyed by elemental beings like that water monster. Now he's here to save this world. Fury also gives Peter a gift that was left to him by Tony, a special pair of sunglasses providing Peter with access to the entire Stark global security network. Something that comes in handy when Brad takes an embarrassing photo of Peter. Peter asks the glasses AI EITH to delete that photo, but accidentally orders a drone strike on Brad and nearly gets him killed. When Fury admonishes him for that, Peter gets the idea that maybe he isn't responsible enough for that kind of power. When the fire elemental attacks and Mysterio stops it, Peter gets the idea that maybe Quentin Beck is responsible enough for that kind of power. So he transfers ownership of EITH to him, which turns out to be a grave error. Beck is not actually a hero from another world. In truth, he's a master illusionist with an axe to grind against Tony Stark who fired him for being unstable. The elemental attacks were all realistic holograms using Beck's technology. And now, with Stark's global system of drones, he can make the holograms more real and dangerous. His plan, stage another major elemental attack, then save the day as Mysterio to look like a hero and win the world's accolades. Though Peter is blissfully unaware of all that and returns to the hotel to enjoy his night. First, he prepares to confess his feelings for MJ. Except first, she confesses that she knows he's Spider-Man. Wait, is that why she's always looking at him? Guess she doesn't like him after all. Also, during the fire elemental attack, she found this weird device which turns out to be a holographic projector. That's when Peter realizes Mysterio is a bad guy and the elementals were all fake. When Beck realizes one of his projectors is missing, he worries the truth will get out. Anyone who knows must be eliminated. So, he uses those holograms to make Spider-Man believe he's talking to Fury. Fake Fury asks who else knows about the holograms and Spider-Man admits that his friends do, MJ and Ned. Another grave mistake he realizes too late. Spider-Man just gave his enemy a hit list. Peter freaks out until Happy gives him a talk about how Stark second-guessed everything he ever did, except one thing, his belief in Peter Parker. Mysterio begins the attack to make himself look like a hero. Holograms make it look real. Stark attack drones make it dangerous. But, this time Peter sees through the hallucinations by listening to his Peter tingle or spider-sense. He's able to stop it all, but in the chaos and Beck's blind obsession, he shoots too many bullets in close quarters and gets himself killed by a stray bullet. Afterward, Peter and MJ find each other and finally confess their true feelings for each other and they officially start dating. A happy ending, except Mysterio had a contingency planned, a message left behind in case he dies, a video edited so it looks like Spider-Man killed Mysterio and a tip for J. Jonah Jameson at dailybugle.net revealing Spider-Man's true identity. Jameson puts it out there for the world to know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. >> What the f- >> The revelation upends Peter's life. The FBI suspects him of murder, but worse than that, his friends pay the price. Happy is wanted for holding on to some Stark tech after much of it was confiscated due to the involvement of Stark drones in Mysterio's attack. MJ and Ned are rejected from every college they applied to, thanks to their association with a vigilante, and Peter has a crazy idea. He asks Doctor Strange if he can use the time stone to change the past, make it so his identity was never revealed. No, he can't do that, but he could cast a spell to make the world forget who he is. But, as Strange casts that spell, Peter realizes he doesn't want everyone to forget, certainly not MJ or Ned or Aunt May. Making too many modifications mid-casting causes the spell to grow unstable. Thankfully, Strange is able to contain it. Except, apparently not fast enough. Before they shut it down, the unstable spell opened some rifts to other worlds. Where they hoped to erase anyone's knowledge that Peter is Spider-Man, the spell instead brought from other worlds anyone who knew Peter is Spider-Man. That includes Doctor Otto Octavius, Norman Osborn or the Green Goblin, Flint Marko or Sandman, Doctor Connors aka the Lizard, and Max Dillon aka Electro. Also Venom. They quickly capture the villains and prepare to send them home until they realize that would mean condemning some to death. Otto and Norman both died in the worlds they came from. Apparently, the spell pulled them here just before that happened. So, should they be sent back to their deaths or should this be a second chance, an opportunity to reform? May convinces Peter the right thing to do is help them. Strange disagrees. They cannot meddle with time in the multiverse like that. So, Peter steals the doctor's magic ring, traps him in the mirror dimension, then gets to work helping the villains. First, Peter works with Norman, a good man when his Goblin side isn't awake, and they build a device to put Auto back in control instead of his arms. Before they can help Electro, that Goblin side wakes up, and the Goblin hurts Aunt May. Bad enough, she only lives long enough to tell Peter one more thing, that Peter did the right thing trying to help these people. Peter has a gift, he has power, and with great power, there must also come great responsibility. She dies as cops surround the place. Happy parks between them and Peter. He gives himself up for arrest and tells Peter to run. Once Peter takes a bullet in the arm, he listens. But, where does he run to? Ned and MJ can't get a hold of him, so they get a crazy idea, Doctor Strange's ring, the one Peter stole. Ned tries using it to open a portal to Peter, and it works, but it brings them a different Peter Parker. Like the villains, he was brought to this world from another one, so they try again and find yet another older Peter Parker. These Peters from other worlds suggest that their Peter might be doing what they've often done when they need a time out. Both Peters have a place they go to get away from everything. MJ realizes that for her Peter, that'd be the school rooftop. They find him there, and the other Peters offer their experience. Both have suffered losses and become rageful or sought revenge, but it never helped. When this world's Peter tells them what May said about power and responsibility, it resonates. The older Peter assures him that his Aunt May did not die for nothing, having taught him this powerful lesson. With their help, Peter does not give in to rage. Instead, they work on cures for all these villains, something to turn Sandman back into Flint Marko, Lizard into Dr. Curt Connors, Electro into Max Dillon, and the Green Goblin back into Norman Osborn. And it works. The villains are all cured. Except some bad news. Before they cured the Goblin, he destroyed the box holding the unstable spell. Now, it's wreaking havoc. Tears are opening in the fabric of reality. Soon every being in the multiverse who knows Peter's identity will pour in. Dr. Strange has returned from the mirror dimension, but even he cannot stop them. Peter has an idea. They're coming because of him, because he is Peter Parker. What if Strange cast a spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker? And that works, too. The visitors return home, and the day is saved. Except now, Peter is entirely and utterly alone. Ned and MJ no longer remember Spider-Man's identity, and they've never met or heard of a Peter Parker. But that's okay. Peter still knows the truth, that he is still the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. But a brand new day is just around the corner, and now you're ready for it. Well, technically a couple more things. When Venom gets sent back to his Earth, he leaves a little piece of himself behind. So now there's some symbiote in the MCU. Also, the spell kind of glitches and sent Adrian Toomes, aka the Vulture, to Venom's world, and he proposes an alliance with Morbius. But uh let's just say Dr. Strange cast a spell, and would you look at that? Sony and Marvel forgot all about these loose ends. Okay, now you're ready for Brand New Day.