{"id":2126155,"date":"2026-09-03T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2126155"},"modified":"2026-09-03T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:36:54","slug":"spider-man-star-andrew-garfield-hasnt-yet-congratulated-tom-holland-on-brand-new-days-success-admits-he-hasnt-seen-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2126155","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man Star Andrew Garfield Hasn&#8217;t Yet Congratulated Tom Holland on Brand New Day&#8217;s Success, Admits He Hasn&#8217;t Seen It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-cy=\"article-content\" class=\"jsx-2154984108 article-content page-0\">\n<section data-cy=\"article-subtitle\" class=\"article jsx-3932497636 article-section jsx-862658659 news\" data-autopogo=\"true\">\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Andrew Garfield has admitted he&#8217;s yet to congratulate Tom Holland on the incredible success of <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/spider-man-brand-new-day\">Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, and still hasn&#8217;t seen the movie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/columns\/andrew-garfield-hasnt-seen-spider-man-brand-new-day-not-in-avengers-doomsday-1236849940\/\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a> whether he had checked in with his fellow Spider-bro following Brand New Day&#8217;s astonishing $2.3 billion box office bonanza, Garfield said he had not, and added that he didn&#8217;t want his praise to be &#8220;disingenuous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be disingenuous,&#8221; Garfield said. &#8220;A movie making money and people going to see it is an incredible thing, but I will reach out to him once I&#8217;ve seen the movie, which I&#8217;m very excited to see. And his other film, The Odyssey, I haven&#8217;t managed to see either yet. I will send him a message when I see the work he has done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Hopefully the two blockbusters meet Garfield&#8217;s expectations whenever he does get around to watching them. <\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"><\/button><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Spider-Man: Brand New Day &#8211; Our Biggest Burning Questions<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Let\u2019s lay out some of the biggest burning questions we have after Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as well as some of the smallest, and see how well we can do in also answering them!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nSpoilers follow!\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-list\" class=\"scrollbar jsx-2072772685 jsx-4243969252 images-list\"><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Where Is Jean Grey Going?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nAfter the confrontation at the Damage Control facility, Jean Grey is (somehow) not arrested for Thought Crimes perpetrated on the city of New York, but rather is headed out of town on a bus. Where\u2019s she going? Well, the reported answer is Avengers: Secret Wars, which likely takes place on a patchwork planet called Battleworld (more on that later). So in terms of her bus ride, at least immediately, she\u2019s not going anywhere.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nHowever, it\u2019s hard to see a bus heading out of New York City and into woodsy, possibly upstate Fall foliage and not think she\u2019s headed to Westchester, home of Xavier\u2019s School for Gifted Youngsters. To be clear, we don\u2019t know whether there is an Xavier\u2019s school in the MCU, or if it\u2019s in Westchester, or if when director Jake Schreier\u2019s in-development X-Men movie picks up Jean will still be on the bus, or somewhere else entirely. But in the lore of the Marvel Comics, Jean is Professor X\u2019s first student\u2026 So wherever the MCU lands with Marvel\u2019s Merry Mutants, the implication at the end of the movie is clear: Jean is headed towards her destiny with the X-Men. Whenever and wherever that may be.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\n(Photo Credit: Sony\/Alberto E. Rodriguez, 2026)\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-412047461 overlay progressive-image jsx-2338608387 expand\" data-cy=\"slideshow-image-overlay\">\n<div data-cy=\"element-caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490\">View 13 Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Did Spider-Man Accidentally Create Mutant Inhibitors?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nWhile we\u2019re talking X-Men, there\u2019s a very big plot point that could potentially be used in the upcoming X-Men reboot movie from Brand New Day: Mutant Inhibitors. Spider-Man spends most of the movie wrestling with his surging arachnid DNA, and how to suppress it. Thanks to some coaching by Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), aka the Hulk, he hits on the idea of an inhibitor chip, which he successfully uses on himself \u2013 as well as to suppress Jean\u2019s telepathic powers entirely.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nHowever, both Bruce and MJ (Zendaya) warn him that this technology is extremely dangerous, and potentially suppressing something that needs to be expressed. MJ is more concerned about Peter; but Bruce\u2019s warning is about the ramifications of unleashing technology that can suppress any powers in a world already on edge about the idea of super-powered individuals.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nWhile there have been plenty of riffs about this type of technology throughout the decades, it\u2019s impossible to hear this in a movie that brings mutants into the MCU (ignoring the events of Ms. Marvel and The Marvels, as well as Avengers: Doomsday for the moment) without thinking Spider-Man\u2019s tech, which ends up in the hands of Damage Control, could be used on the burgeoning mutant menace.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nNormally in the Marvel Comics it takes the form of Inhibitor Collars, placed around a mutant\u2019s neck. Here, it\u2019s a chip, though Damage Control needs to keep it connected to a power source to keep it going. Point being, there\u2019s probably some refinement there before it pops up in an X-Men movie\u2026 But yes, very likely Peter Parker is responsible for something that will become a bane to mutant-kind.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;What Happened to William Metzger?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nRiffing off the previous point, the actual bad guy of the movie, William Metzger (Tramell Tillman) is in the wind at the end of the movie. While Bill Metzger was a minor antagonist in the comics, it\u2019s pretty clear here that his philosophy of preventing damage through Damage Control by rounding up super-powered beings can be extended very specifically to mutants in an X-Men movie, or movies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nThere are plenty of characters who fit this bill in X-Men comics, TV shows, and movies; from William Stryker and Henry Gyrich to Graydon Creed and beyond. So Metzger is far from out of place in a (potential) franchise that features mutant haters who either want to use, abuse, or eliminate the X-gene entirely. Whether we\u2019ll see him as the main villain of an X-Men movie or merely another threat in the background is, of course, TBD. But Jean and her future teammates are likely far from done with Metzger yet.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Where Is Spider-Man in the End-Credits Scene, and Does It Make Any Sense?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nWhile there\u2019s no mid-credits scene, there is a Spider-Man: Brand New Day post-credits scene and it\u2019s, uh, a potentially confusing one. In it, we get an animated shot of Ned\u2019s (Jacob Batalon) Spidey-Tracker app, which is searching for Spider-Man\u2019s location. We hear the app say \u201clocation unknown\u201d a few times as it zooms out, then moves away from Earth, and says, \u201clocation found\u201d with a little Spider-Man avatar floating in space. This is followed by the white on black words \u201cSpider-Man Will Return,\u201d though it does not add \u201cin Avengers: Doomsday\u201d or \u201cAt a Russian Bathhouse.\u201d&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nThe basic interpretation here is that Spider-Man is off-planet, in space. The longer interpretation, or the smallest leap is that this is showing Spider-Man during the events of Secret Wars on Battleworld. The part of this that is potentially confusing, if correct, is that the assumption is we\u2019re following the rough plot of writer Jonathan Hickman\u2019s 2015 Secret Wars comic book, which finds the multiverse destroyed and the remains coalesced into one patchwork planet called Battleworld, ruled by Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nIf this is setting up that Spider-Man (Holland, to be clear, not one of the other Peters) is on Battleworld, then how is the Spidey-Tracker still active on Earth, assuming Earth was destroyed? Or perhaps this is merely Spider-Man being taken off Earth in a Life Raft, a vehicle meant to survive the multiversal collapse which eventually lands on Battleworld, moments before Earth is destroyed. Or maybe this is just a fun animated sequence that indicates Spider-Man will be in space next time we see him, and don\u2019t worry about it too much? Either way, we\u2019ll likely know when Spider-Man returns \u2013 probably in 2027, though TBA.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Why Wasn&apos;t The Punisher Arrested in the Hospital? (Or When Driving His Punisher-mobile Around?)&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nUnlike Spider-Man, who is beloved by all of New York, The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) is a murderous vigilante on the run. So why wasn\u2019t he arrested while hanging out in the hospital with Peter \u2013 who, we should mention, he also shot? This is, in general, an ongoing question with the character, who isn\u2019t saving people so much as murdering criminals. And as far as we\u2019ve seen in Daredevil: Born Again and The Punisher: One Last Kill, there\u2019s nothing that has particularly cleared his name in any way.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nPerhaps one could venture that when Wilson Fisk (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio) murdered all those people in the Born Again Season 2 finale and was exiled from New York, those who were in his semi-legal Red Hook prison were cleared of all crimes. But The Punisher has definitely killed more people after that happened. And while one could accept his secret ship-base is a good hideout, or when he\u2019s in the middle of a pitched tank battle driving his Punisher-mobile \u2013 which really should be a car in the shape of a skull, let\u2019s be honest \u2013 he can evade the cops\u2026 Uh, but what about when he\u2019s sitting in a hospital for a few days? It\u2019s not like he wears a mask (other than when he wears Spider-Man\u2019s mask), so anyone would recognize Frank Castle pretty much the second he stumbled through the doors.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nThe short answer here is also \u201cdon\u2019t worry about it\u201d with a side of maybe they gave him a pass because he was helping Spider-Man (did we mention he was the one who shot him?). But yeah, it strains logic a little bit that one of the biggest mass murderers in New York City history gets to hang out wherever he wants with no repercussions.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Meanwhile, Holland is having arguably the biggest year of his career so far, with Brand New Day breaking franchise records and now the highest-grossing film of the year so far. And, of course, it comes just after his role in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s widely-praised The Odyssey, which itself has passed the $1.5 billion box office mark.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Garfield will soon be back on the big screen himself in The Uprising, a film about the 1381 Peasant&#8217;s Revolt in England (which, amusingly, also stars Tom Hollander). With just a week from launch, <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/andrew-garfield-the-uprising-robin-hood\">there&#8217;s been notable confusion over whether the movie is a Robin Hood origin tale or not<\/a>, with U.S. and U.K. distribution companies seemingly at odds with each other on how to market the movie.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">During the same interview, Garfield was asked the inevitable question of whether he would appear alongside the many dozens of other Marvel actors in Avengers: Doomsday. There have been strong rumors that Tobey Maguire&#8217;s Spider-Man may put in another appearance, and the end of Doomsday appeared to suggest another Spider-Man could appear in an intergalactic (or multiversal) setting. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;No, no, I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m not,&#8221; was Garfield&#8217;s response. &#8220;You&#8217;ll find out, I suppose, one way or the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"accent-divider\" class=\"jsx-3449795453 divider jsx-2786329600\"><\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Image credit: Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Tom Phillips is IGN&#8217;s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tomphillipseg.bsky.social\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@tomphillipseg.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"jsx-2511205168 preferred-source\"><strong class=\"jsx-2511205168\">Get IGN&#8217;s Biggest Stories FIRST. Set Us as Your Source.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.ign.com\" class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--secondary jsx-3027214138 icon-button contained centered large\" title=\"Add Source\" aria-label=\"Add Source\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ign-icon icon-google jsx-2750866048 jsx-3701596282\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-cy=\"icon-google\" alt=\"Google\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/Google.9e99a9d7.svg?cors=0\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 large\">Add Source<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-1475529924\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2155806329 adunit-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jsx-2155806329 bobble bobble-1 pogocnt pg-article\">\n<div data-mix-name=\"secondaryMedrec\" data-pos=\"1\" data-pogo-hide=\"1\" class=\"jsx-343126785 pogo-slot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Andrew Garfield has admitted he&#8217;s yet to congratulate Tom Holland on the incredible success of <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/spider-man-brand-new-day\">Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, and still hasn&#8217;t seen the movie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/columns\/andrew-garfield-hasnt-seen-spider-man-brand-new-day-not-in-avengers-doomsday-1236849940\/\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a> whether he had checked in with his fellow Spider-bro following Brand New Day&#8217;s astonishing $2.3 billion box office bonanza, Garfield said he had not, and added that he didn&#8217;t want his praise to be &#8220;disingenuous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be disingenuous,&#8221; Garfield said. &#8220;A movie making money and people going to see it is an incredible thing, but I will reach out to him once I&#8217;ve seen the movie, which I&#8217;m very excited to see. And his other film, The Odyssey, I haven&#8217;t managed to see either yet. I will send him a message when I see the work he has done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Hopefully the two blockbusters meet Garfield&#8217;s expectations whenever he does get around to watching them. <\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"><\/button><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Spider-Man: Brand New Day &#8211; Our Biggest Burning Questions<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Let\u2019s lay out some of the biggest burning questions we have after Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as well as some of the smallest, and see how well we can do in also answering them!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nSpoilers follow!\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-list\" class=\"scrollbar jsx-2072772685 jsx-4243969252 images-list\"><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Where Is Jean Grey Going?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nAfter the confrontation at the Damage Control facility, Jean Grey is (somehow) not arrested for Thought Crimes perpetrated on the city of New York, but rather is headed out of town on a bus. Where\u2019s she going? Well, the reported answer is Avengers: Secret Wars, which likely takes place on a patchwork planet called Battleworld (more on that later). So in terms of her bus ride, at least immediately, she\u2019s not going anywhere.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nHowever, it\u2019s hard to see a bus heading out of New York City and into woodsy, possibly upstate Fall foliage and not think she\u2019s headed to Westchester, home of Xavier\u2019s School for Gifted Youngsters. To be clear, we don\u2019t know whether there is an Xavier\u2019s school in the MCU, or if it\u2019s in Westchester, or if when director Jake Schreier\u2019s in-development X-Men movie picks up Jean will still be on the bus, or somewhere else entirely. But in the lore of the Marvel Comics, Jean is Professor X\u2019s first student\u2026 So wherever the MCU lands with Marvel\u2019s Merry Mutants, the implication at the end of the movie is clear: Jean is headed towards her destiny with the X-Men. Whenever and wherever that may be.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\n(Photo Credit: Sony\/Alberto E. Rodriguez, 2026)\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-412047461 overlay progressive-image jsx-2338608387 expand\" data-cy=\"slideshow-image-overlay\">\n<div data-cy=\"element-caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490\">View 13 Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Did Spider-Man Accidentally Create Mutant Inhibitors?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nWhile we\u2019re talking X-Men, there\u2019s a very big plot point that could potentially be used in the upcoming X-Men reboot movie from Brand New Day: Mutant Inhibitors. Spider-Man spends most of the movie wrestling with his surging arachnid DNA, and how to suppress it. Thanks to some coaching by Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), aka the Hulk, he hits on the idea of an inhibitor chip, which he successfully uses on himself \u2013 as well as to suppress Jean\u2019s telepathic powers entirely.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nHowever, both Bruce and MJ (Zendaya) warn him that this technology is extremely dangerous, and potentially suppressing something that needs to be expressed. MJ is more concerned about Peter; but Bruce\u2019s warning is about the ramifications of unleashing technology that can suppress any powers in a world already on edge about the idea of super-powered individuals.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nWhile there have been plenty of riffs about this type of technology throughout the decades, it\u2019s impossible to hear this in a movie that brings mutants into the MCU (ignoring the events of Ms. Marvel and The Marvels, as well as Avengers: Doomsday for the moment) without thinking Spider-Man\u2019s tech, which ends up in the hands of Damage Control, could be used on the burgeoning mutant menace.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nNormally in the Marvel Comics it takes the form of Inhibitor Collars, placed around a mutant\u2019s neck. Here, it\u2019s a chip, though Damage Control needs to keep it connected to a power source to keep it going. Point being, there\u2019s probably some refinement there before it pops up in an X-Men movie\u2026 But yes, very likely Peter Parker is responsible for something that will become a bane to mutant-kind.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;What Happened to William Metzger?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nRiffing off the previous point, the actual bad guy of the movie, William Metzger (Tramell Tillman) is in the wind at the end of the movie. While Bill Metzger was a minor antagonist in the comics, it\u2019s pretty clear here that his philosophy of preventing damage through Damage Control by rounding up super-powered beings can be extended very specifically to mutants in an X-Men movie, or movies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nThere are plenty of characters who fit this bill in X-Men comics, TV shows, and movies; from William Stryker and Henry Gyrich to Graydon Creed and beyond. So Metzger is far from out of place in a (potential) franchise that features mutant haters who either want to use, abuse, or eliminate the X-gene entirely. Whether we\u2019ll see him as the main villain of an X-Men movie or merely another threat in the background is, of course, TBD. But Jean and her future teammates are likely far from done with Metzger yet.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Where Is Spider-Man in the End-Credits Scene, and Does It Make Any Sense?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nWhile there\u2019s no mid-credits scene, there is a Spider-Man: Brand New Day post-credits scene and it\u2019s, uh, a potentially confusing one. In it, we get an animated shot of Ned\u2019s (Jacob Batalon) Spidey-Tracker app, which is searching for Spider-Man\u2019s location. We hear the app say \u201clocation unknown\u201d a few times as it zooms out, then moves away from Earth, and says, \u201clocation found\u201d with a little Spider-Man avatar floating in space. This is followed by the white on black words \u201cSpider-Man Will Return,\u201d though it does not add \u201cin Avengers: Doomsday\u201d or \u201cAt a Russian Bathhouse.\u201d&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nThe basic interpretation here is that Spider-Man is off-planet, in space. The longer interpretation, or the smallest leap is that this is showing Spider-Man during the events of Secret Wars on Battleworld. The part of this that is potentially confusing, if correct, is that the assumption is we\u2019re following the rough plot of writer Jonathan Hickman\u2019s 2015 Secret Wars comic book, which finds the multiverse destroyed and the remains coalesced into one patchwork planet called Battleworld, ruled by Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nIf this is setting up that Spider-Man (Holland, to be clear, not one of the other Peters) is on Battleworld, then how is the Spidey-Tracker still active on Earth, assuming Earth was destroyed? Or perhaps this is merely Spider-Man being taken off Earth in a Life Raft, a vehicle meant to survive the multiversal collapse which eventually lands on Battleworld, moments before Earth is destroyed. Or maybe this is just a fun animated sequence that indicates Spider-Man will be in space next time we see him, and don\u2019t worry about it too much? Either way, we\u2019ll likely know when Spider-Man returns \u2013 probably in 2027, though TBA.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&lt;b&gt;Why Wasn&apos;t The Punisher Arrested in the Hospital? (Or When Driving His Punisher-mobile Around?)&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nUnlike Spider-Man, who is beloved by all of New York, The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) is a murderous vigilante on the run. So why wasn\u2019t he arrested while hanging out in the hospital with Peter \u2013 who, we should mention, he also shot? This is, in general, an ongoing question with the character, who isn\u2019t saving people so much as murdering criminals. And as far as we\u2019ve seen in Daredevil: Born Again and The Punisher: One Last Kill, there\u2019s nothing that has particularly cleared his name in any way.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nPerhaps one could venture that when Wilson Fisk (Vincent D\u2019Onofrio) murdered all those people in the Born Again Season 2 finale and was exiled from New York, those who were in his semi-legal Red Hook prison were cleared of all crimes. But The Punisher has definitely killed more people after that happened. And while one could accept his secret ship-base is a good hideout, or when he\u2019s in the middle of a pitched tank battle driving his Punisher-mobile \u2013 which really should be a car in the shape of a skull, let\u2019s be honest \u2013 he can evade the cops\u2026 Uh, but what about when he\u2019s sitting in a hospital for a few days? It\u2019s not like he wears a mask (other than when he wears Spider-Man\u2019s mask), so anyone would recognize Frank Castle pretty much the second he stumbled through the doors.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n\nThe short answer here is also \u201cdon\u2019t worry about it\u201d with a side of maybe they gave him a pass because he was helping Spider-Man (did we mention he was the one who shot him?). But yeah, it strains logic a little bit that one of the biggest mass murderers in New York City history gets to hang out wherever he wants with no repercussions.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Meanwhile, Holland is having arguably the biggest year of his career so far, with Brand New Day breaking franchise records and now the highest-grossing film of the year so far. And, of course, it comes just after his role in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s widely-praised The Odyssey, which itself has passed the $1.5 billion box office mark.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Garfield will soon be back on the big screen himself in The Uprising, a film about the 1381 Peasant&#8217;s Revolt in England (which, amusingly, also stars Tom Hollander). With just a week from launch, <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/andrew-garfield-the-uprising-robin-hood\">there&#8217;s been notable confusion over whether the movie is a Robin Hood origin tale or not<\/a>, with U.S. and U.K. distribution companies seemingly at odds with each other on how to market the movie.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">During the same interview, Garfield was asked the inevitable question of whether he would appear alongside the many dozens of other Marvel actors in Avengers: Doomsday. There have been strong rumors that Tobey Maguire&#8217;s Spider-Man may put in another appearance, and the end of Doomsday appeared to suggest another Spider-Man could appear in an intergalactic (or multiversal) setting. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;No, no, I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m not. I&#8217;m not,&#8221; was Garfield&#8217;s response. &#8220;You&#8217;ll find out, I suppose, one way or the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"accent-divider\" class=\"jsx-3449795453 divider jsx-2786329600\"><\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Image credit: Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Tom Phillips is IGN&#8217;s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/tomphillipseg.bsky.social\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@tomphillipseg.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Garfield has admitted he&#8217;s yet to congratulate Tom Holland on the incredible success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and still hasn&#8217;t seen the movie. Asked by Variety whether he had checked in with his fellow Spider-bro following Brand New Day&#8217;s astonishing $2.3 billion box office bonanza, Garfield said he had not, and added that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,243],"class_list":["post-2126155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-ign-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2126155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}