The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day assures us that Peter Parker is finally a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. No more going to space with the Avengers, no more alternate realities, no more trips to Europe. Now that everyone’s forgotten who Peter Parker used to be, Spidey copes with his loneliness by crawling walls in New York City. Then again, New York City isn’t exactly the loneliest place in the world, especially in the Marvel Universe. Superheroes are bound to run into one another in the Big Apple.
More specifically, the Brand New Day trailer has a lot of stuff from the Netflix Daredevil show and from the Disney+ continuation, Daredevil: Born Again. Although Ol’ Hornhead doesn’t appear in the trailer, we do see Spidey getting the key to the city from Sheila Rivera (Zabryna Guevara), chief of staff to Mayor Wilson Fisk, and he teams up with the Punisher Frank Castle, as played by Jon Bernthal since season two of the Netflix show. Most surprisingly, the trailer shows Spider-Man fighting a band of ninjas dressed in red, which viewers of Daredevil season two and of The Defenders recognize as members of the Hand Clan.
Does this mean that Spider-Man and Daredevil will team up in Brand New Day? Peter had already met Matt Murdock in No Way Home, and got a look at his amazing reflexes. More importantly, Daredevil and Spidey have been linked since Marvel Comics promoted Daredevil #1 back in 1964 by slapping Spider-Man on the cover. As both street level heroes, the two have crossed paths and worked together time and again. When Matt Murdock gets a little too committed to his causes, as is his wont, and, oh, sets himself up as the new Kingpin or makes a deal with the Devil, Peter is usually there to beat talk some sense into DD.
Moreover, the two share some villains, including one big one hinted at in the trailer. Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, first appeared in 1967’s Amazing Spider-Man #50, and still is a Spider-Man villain as much as he is an antagonist of Daredevil or the Punisher. Vincent D’Onofrio‘s take on Fisk as a wounded baby in a giant man’s body seems particularly well-suited to face off with Tom Holland‘s more boyish Spidey, and it’s bound to happen eventually.
