Spider-Man: Brand New Day gives Tom Holland’s Peter Parker a new set of abilities and uses them to echo Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man film. The callbacks matter because they connect Holland’s long-running portrayal to an earlier screen version while framing his power upgrade as a fresh period of adjustment.

After stress and loneliness trigger a “rebirth”, Spider-Man gains heightened senses, blackened eyes during combat and organic webbing, which he initially struggles to control. His rooftop mishaps and voice commands such as “Go web” directly resemble Tobey Maguire’s early attempts at web-swinging; the upgrade also supports a storyline involving Sadie Sink’s Jean Grey and a fight with the Hand.