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Heidi Venable

Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Ending Explained: What's Going On With Doctor Strange's Spell?

Tom Holland is shown in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Spoiler alert! Major spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, so proceed with caution if you haven’t made it to the theater yet!

As with any upcoming Marvel movie, the lead-up to Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s release on the 2026 movie calendar was full of rumors, theories and big questions. Now we finally have some answers about what happened to Tom Holland’s Peter Parker after Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) cast a spell to make everyone forget he’d ever existed. Brand New Day balanced the emotional story of Peter’s isolation with his battles against a new threat (props if you avoided the Sadie Sink spoilers), and the ending hinted at a possible crack in Strange’s spell.

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