In addition to Scorpion, Spider-Man briefly faced off against four other members of his Marvel Comics rogues' gallery in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Early on, the new movie featured a sequence that shed some insight into what Peter has been up to since the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Apparently, he's been doing more than just rounding up petty thugs; he's also been engaging in fights with other super-powered foes.
It was via this scene that Marvel set up the conflict that Spider-Man would later have with Scorpion in the film. Notably, though, it also introduced a few other villains into the MCU. The webslinger was shown battling the five characters individually, with only two of the group actually getting any speaking lines in the movie.
But unlike Scorpion, four of the characters never re-entered the story or became relevant to the plot, in spite of the fact that all of them are established Marvel Comics characters with decades of history in the source material. So while each of them are indeed storied Spider-Man villains, Brand New Day revealed very little in respect to their backstories, what motivates them, and what they can do. The comic books, on the other hand, help answer the questions the movie didn't.
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Tombstone
Played by Marvin Jones III, the super-strong albino gangster seen dangling Spider-Man off the edge of a building curiously received his live-action debut just months ahead of the movie's release. Lonnie Lincoln a.k.a Tombstone is a Marvel Comics crime boss and one of the minions of Silvermane in Prime Video's alternate universe Spider-Man TV series, Spider-Noir. But though that version of the character ended his story turning over a new leaf, traditional depictions of Tombstone have few - if any - redeeming qualities.
Marvin Jones III previously voiced the Tombstone character in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Introduced in 1988's Web of Spider-Man #36, Tombstone is a longtime fixture of Marvel Comics' criminal underworld and a B-list Spider-Man villain. Boasting superhuman strength and durability, Lonnie Lincoln is capable of threatening Spider-Man both physically and through the power he commands as a high-level gangster.
Many of his battles with Spider-Man are rooted in his origin story and ties to Jonah J. Jameson's right-hand man, Robbie Robertson. Lonnie blames Robbie for exposing one of the criminal acts he committed in his youth, and that grudge has forced Spider-Man to defend Robbie from him on numerous occasions. Robbie has no MCU counterpart as of yet, so any adaptation of this story is unlikely to happen for Jones' take on Tombstone, unless Robbie is replaced with a different character.
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Boomerang
The boomerang-wielding villain clad in black and white can be recognized as Boomerang a.k.a Fred Myers. The character first came onto the scene in Tales to Astonish #81 in 1966, where he was introduced as a mercenary whose kidnapping of Betty Ross put him in the crosshairs of the Hulk. It was explained here that Boomerang was a talented Australian athlete who turned to crime after squandering his career in professional baseball. He found that he could use his precise throwing skills for other things - specifically, hurling boomerangs.
Dressed in an orange and purple costume, Boomerang was regularly utilized as a villain of the Hulk, regardless of the massive gap in their power levels. Boomerang is highly skilled and has access to boomerangs of many different types, but possesses no actual super powers, making him very similar to Hawkeye in a sense.
The status quo for Boomerang started to shift in 1979 when he was pitted against Spider-Man for the first time in Marvel Team-Up #67. After that, he was transitioned into being a regular opponent of Spider-Man's. Following this reinvention, Fred Myers served as a prominent member of an entire team of Spider-Man villains, known as the Sinister Syndicate.
Most recently, Marvel Comics has tried its hand at bringing out the lighter side of the Boomerang character, making him a roommate to Peter Parker and somewhat of an anti-hero.
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Ramrod
Arguably the least famous Marvel villain featured in Spider-Man: Brand New Day is Ramrod, the villain spotted ramming his metal head through a wall during a fight with Spider-Man. Ramrod (whose real name is unknown, even to this day) has very few appearances in Marvel Comics, and has actually only had a few fights with Spider-Man.
Ramrod made his debut in 1971 in the pages of Daredevil #103. He was an ordinary man working at an oil ring before being transformed into a cyborg via technology from Titan (the homeworld of Thanos). A battle with Ramrod served as the basis of a short-lived partnership (and romance) between Daredevil and Drax the Destroyer's daughter, Moondragon.
Ramrod appeared sporadically in other titles over the years, but only had one other role as the headlining villain of a story, which is when Spider-Man worked to prevent Ramrod from poisoning the patrons of a bar in The Amazing Spider-Man #221. Spider-Man's battle with Ramrod in the film was clearly meant to be a tribute to the cover of that 1981 comic.
Spider-Man didn't battle Ramrod again until the 2008 event, "Brand New Day." His part in the story, albeit a brief role, gives additional significance to the decision to feature Ramrod specifically in the movie's opening act.
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Tarantula
Another villain featured in Spider-Man: Brand New Day was a masked character donning a red and black outfit and spiked boots. His outfit identifies him as Tarantula, a C-list supervillain who's been at odds with Spider-Man since the 1970s He debuted in 1974's The Amazing Spider-Man #134 as Anton Rodriguez, a mercenary from Delvadia, a fictional South American dictatorship. Before coming to the United States, Tarantula served as Delvadia's chosen champion, making him the country's evil answer to Captain America.
After leaving his life as an agent of the Delvadian government behind, Tarantula made a name for himself as a costumed mercenary, using his spectacular martial arts skills, spiked weapons, and poisons to do various, illegal jobs for Marvel's criminal underground. Naturally, his antics allowed him to develop a recurring role in Spider-Man comics. It's not hard to imagine the MCU interpretation of Tarantula sharing this backstory in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Release Date
July 31, 2026
Runtime
145 Minutes
Producers
Amy Pascal, Kevin Feige, Rachel O'Connor, Avi Arad
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Spider-Man / Peter Parker
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