Brand New Day Connects Spider-Man To Marvel's Most Infamous Anti-Mutant Device
Contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day"
As Looper's recap for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" will tell you, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) heads into the movie with a whole lot of baggage. The ending of "Spider-Man: No Way Home" caused the world to forget who Peter is while still remembering Spider-Man, and during the four-year time skip confirmed in the "Brand New Day" synopsis, Peter has embraced his new reality. Unfortunately, no Spider-Man is an island, and the stress of this isolation gets to him so much that it triggers a whole new stage in his spider-themed DNA mutation — which, in turn, leads to the creation of inhibitor technology that may very well have serious repercussions for the MCU.
Ever the understudy of the late, great Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Peter deals with his DNA situation by coming up with wildly irresponsible technology. After trial, error, and an assist from love interest and fresh MIT graduate MJ (Zendaya), he creates a power suppressor chip that can rein in his mutating spider DNA. Soon, he comes up with a universal version to take down the telepathic threat of Jean Grey (Sadie Sink).
In the process, however, the tech ends up in the hands of the highly unreliable Damage Control head Bill Metzger (Tramell Tillman). Metzger — whose comics counterpart is a noted anti-mutant figure — is still on the loose when the credits roll, and has knowledge of how the chip works. Put all this together, and every sign points toward an unfortunate fact: it seems like the chip is the precursor of the MCU version of Marvel's infamous mutant inhibitor collar, which can suppress mutant abilities and allow the powers that be to safely imprison and experiment on individuals with the X-Gene.
Mutant power inhibitor collars have been around before, and they could do damage in the MCU
We already know how terrifying the inhibitor collars can be for mutants, courtesy of "Deadpool 2." In that movie, the collars play a major part during the prison arc, where they're used to suppress the powers of the mutant prisoners — much to the chagrin of Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) himself, who relies on his mutant healing factor to keep his cancer at bay.
Since "Deadpool 2" is not an MCU film and the tech hasn't existed in this universe prior to "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," it sure looks like Peter Parker might go down in history as the inventor of the mutant inhibitor technology that Bill Metzger or one of his accomplices use to create the collars — a legacy that may be hard to avoid, given that future X-Man Jean knows full well the tech was invented by Peter. It's not exactly the biggest plot point in "Brand New Day," but it might become the movie's lasting legacy in the MCU at large.
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