With a brand-new Spider-Man movie must come brand-new villains. While previous adaptations pit the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler against such classic comic book Spider-foes as the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, the Vulture, and Mysterio, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is taking an even bigger swing by having Tom Holland’s Peter Parker face off with a gauntlet of B-list supervillains. Besides the returning Mac Gargan (Michael Mando) — suiting up as the pincered Scorpion nearly a decade after we last saw him in the post-credits stinger in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming — the Sony-Marvel franchise’s fourth installment expands Spider-Man’s rogues gallery with the likes of the spike-toed Tarantula, Aussie assassin Boomerang, marble-skinned mobster Tombstone (Marvin "Krondon" Jones III), and … Hand ninjas?

Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is going through changes in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Set four years after the events of 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home, in which Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) cast a multiverse-saving spell to make everyone forget Peter Parker, including girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon), the new movie finds Peter living alone and shouldering his responsibilities as a full-time friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Per the official synopsis, Peter has "devoted himself entirely to protecting his city," facing costumed foes Tarantula and Boomerang before tangling with major threats like Scorpion (Michael Mando), Tombstone (Marvin "Krondon" Jones III), and the red ninjas of the Hand. Add the presence ofJon Bernthal's Punisher and a rampaging Avenger in Mark Ruffalo's Hulk, and the resulting pressure on Spider-Man "sparks a surprising physical evolution that threatens his existence."