Spider-Man: Brand New Day Toy Leak Reveals Hulk Plotline

Hulk's instrumentality successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day mightiness beryllium an unfastened secret, but a caller artifact leak has spilled caller item connected however Bruce Banner volition abruptly suffer control.

Mark Ruffalo's instrumentality arsenic Banner has of people been shown successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day's record-breaking archetypal trailer, though Marvel has not officially confirmed the instrumentality of his aggravated greenish change ego arsenic good — contempt different artifact leaks confirming his inclusion.

Now, however, a caller Bandai SH Figuarts enactment fig (via France-Figures) has been spotted showing Hulk's Spider-Man: Brand New Day guise — with a spoilery merchandise statement that explains precisely wherefore Banner has gone greenish erstwhile more.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day's Hulk figurine. Image credit: Bandai/Marvel.

Warning! Spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day follow:

"In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Bruce Banner uses an inhibitor that keeps him successful quality signifier since the events of Endgame," the enactment figure's statement reads. "But this constraint has its limits: the movie marks the instrumentality of the Hulk successful his feral form, a departure from the Smart Hulk of erstwhile films."

It's worthy breaking that down successful a spot much detail, to explicate however this each fits with what we've seen successful the MCU already.

Endgame saw an injured Banner successful Smart Hulk signifier during its finale, witnessing an aged Steve Rogers walk connected his Captain America shield. However, Banner past appears successful quality signifier astatine the extremity of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, chatting via hologram alongside different Avengers. Here we tin spot he's wearing an inhibitor instrumentality connected his limb that blocks his Hulk broadside from re-emerging.

Hulk returns again successful She-Hulk: Attorney astatine Law, aft Banner's inhibitor is breached successful the series' opening episode. Banner than spends the remainder of the bid arsenic Smart Hulk (including successful the finale erstwhile helium unveils his long-lost lad Skaar — who the MCU is yet to admit again).

By the events of Brand New Day, Banner has intelligibly rebuilt his inhibitor. But the proposition present is that erstwhile it goes incorrect this time, helium doesn't conscionable morph into Smart Hulk, but a wilder and much savage mentation of his change ego.

"Banner and Peter Parker, some grappling with an uncontrollable transformation, find themselves successful a communicative parallel astatine the bosom of the film," the toy's statement concludes. This is besides interesting, arsenic it is different hint astatine a caller translation we're owed to spot successful Peter Parker (with fans wondering whether he'll morph into the many-limbed Man-Spider, oregon whether the Venom symbiote seen successful No Way Home's post-credits country volition someway beryllium involved).

"Four years person passed since the events of No Way Home, and Peter is present an big surviving wholly alone, having voluntarily erased himself from the lives and memories of those helium loves," reads an authoritative Brand New Day blurb released by Marvel. "Crime-fighting successful a New York that nary longer knows his name, he's devoted himself wholly to protecting his metropolis — a full-time Spider-Man — but arsenic the demands connected him intensify, the unit sparks a astonishing carnal improvement that threatens his existence, adjacent arsenic a unusual caller signifier of crimes gives emergence to 1 of the astir almighty threats helium has ever faced."

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is owed to motorboat connected July 31, and acceptable to prima Holland, Zendaya arsenic MJ, Sadie Sink (in an undisclosed relation that fans are present definite they've identified), Jacob Batalon arsenic Ned, Jon Bernthal arsenic Frank Castle/The Punisher, Tramell Tillman arsenic Department of Damage Control brag Bill Metzger, Michael Mando arsenic Scorpion, and Mark Ruffalo arsenic Bruce Banner — and arsenic Hulk.

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