Spider-Man: Brand New Day Post Credits Scene, Explained - Who's Coming to the MCU?
There’s only one thing better than Spider-Man movies — and that’s Spider-Man movie post-credit scenes.
It wouldn’t be an MCU movie without one, and if I say so myself, Spider-Man: Brand New Day's post-credit scene is particularly Marvel-ous. The fourth Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland at the helm, this time around, Peter Parker is living a reclusive life as New York’s friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man as he grapples with the consequences of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
To recap, at the end of No Way Home, he saves the multiverse with an unimaginable sacrifice: everybody on Earth forgetting who he is, including girlfriend MJ and best friend Ned Leeds. A few years later, he comes face to face with a new dangerous threat while also going through some kind of funky spider puberty.
Needless to say, a lot happens in the film, and the surprise after the credits roll is just one more way to get hyped for future MCU projects. So, here’s exactly what went down after the end of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Please beware of mild spoilers ahead.
What Happens In the Spider-Man: Brand New Day Post-Credits Scene?
In Brand New Day, we’re introduced to the Spidey Tracker, an app made by Ned. While Ned can’t remember Peter Parker, he does remember Spider-Man saving him and his friends numerous times in high school. This led him to become ever so slightly obsessed with the web-slinger. He channelled his fixation into making an app which, as the name implies, logs sightings of the hero.
This context is important because, in the post-credits scene, we see the Spidey Tracker app logging a new sighting of the hero… all the way in space. While it’s pretty obvious why Spidey might end up in space, the real question is this: what implications will it have for the character, and the Spider-Man franchise as a whole going forward?
Why This Might Lead To Venom’s Return
Presumably, Spidey being in space is designed to be a reference to how he ends up off-planet in Avengers: Doomsday and/or Avengers: Secret Wars. It’s a fun, low-stakes way of referencing the upcoming film without spoiling too much — but what if there are more spoilers than you think?
For one, it could be a further reference to Venom becoming part of the MCU Spidey saga. In the original Secret Wars comic book run in 1984, Peter bonds with the symbiote for the first time. After using unknown technology to fix his spider-suit, he ends up releasing the symbiote, which in turn bonds with him and turns his iconic suit black. For a while, Peter was unaware of the implications and continued to use the suit. Later, the symbiote was removed by Reed Richards.
Given that a fragment of the symbiote was already released in Earth 616 after the end of No Way Home, one could argue whether bonding with the symbiote in space is necessary, but it could be a way to keep things comic-accurate. Plus, the symbiote on Earth could end up finding a different host, like Scorpion, Flash Thompson or that universe’s Eddie Brock. All three of them have been hosts in the comics, after all.
Could It Bridge The Spider-Verse Gap?
Another, more remote possibility is that Spidey’s time off-planet is actually a reference to the MCU linking to the Spider-Verse.
Because of all of the hubbub with Sony, this is probably a little less likely, but it’s at least plausible that one of Spider-Verse villain Spot’s portals opens up on a different planet within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of the other dimension-hopping Spideys may find themselves in this universe, or perhaps Sony would go straight for the big guns and have Miles Morales himself make an appearance in the MCU, either as part of Doomsday or Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Again, it would actually make a lot of sense if Miles were to make his 616 debut as part of the Secret Wars storyline: In the newer 2015 Secret Wars comic book arc, Miles arrives as a refugee from the Ultimate Universe, and integrates into 616 from that point onwards with his mother and uncle Aaron, who is restored to life.
The Spidey Tracker uses fan sightings of Spider-Man, so if civilians see Miles, Gwen or Spider-Punk swooping in, they would presumably also submit that to the app. So, who's to say that the Spider-Man in space is the MCU's Peter Parker?
