At the end of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) cast a spell that ensured no one would remember Peter Parker or that he is the MCU’s friendly neighborhood webslinger, but in Sony’s upcoming fourquel, Brand New Day, there is someone who remembers Spidey’s secret identity.
Brand New Day star Tom Holland, who is reprising the role of Spider-Man once more this summer, recently teased to IGN that the real villain of the movie is “still very much a secret” and “unlike anything we’ve seen in one of these movies before”, while also confirming that “one person” remembers Peter Parker after the events of No Way Home, stopping short of naming the character in question. Still, we have a few ideas.
Our first guess is the Hulk, and with good reason. Though Hulk seems to be in smash mode when it comes to Spidey in the latest Brand New Day trailer, and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) clearly doesn’t recall ever meeting Peter, his Jade Giant counterpart has a history of remembering secret identities.
In Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee’s Sentry comic book series for Marvel, Bob Reynolds (portrayed by Lewis Pullman in the Thunderbolts movie) begins to remember the Void after wiping everyone’s memory and tries to warn everyone that the Void is coming. However, no one remembers who he is, except one hero: Hulk. Having been hidden inside Banner during the memory wipe, Hulk’s memories remained intact. Could this be the case with Peter’s identity as well? After all, we do see Banner wearing a gamma inhibitor device that completely suppresses his Hulk transformation—for a while, at least.