Tom Holland’s new suit for Spider-Man: Brand New Day proves exactly how the MCU wronged its first Young Avenger. Spider-Man: Brand New Day details are coming thick and fast since the movie entered production at the beginning of August 2025. One source for these details is the numerous Spider-Man 4 set pH๏τos from the movie’s current production center in Glasgow.
These pH๏τos coincided with reports about Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s cast, which confirmed that Michael Mando and Mark Ruffalo will reprise their roles as Scorpion and Hulk, respectively, in the upcoming movie. Beyond all of this, though, perhaps the biggest reveal linked to the film was the first look at Tom Holland’s suit in Spider-Man 4.
The suit was highly anticipated, especially after the ending of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Following the initial official reveal by Sony Pictures, several on-set images have revealed better looks at the costume Holland’s Spider-Man will wear in the movie. This has caused a lot of discussion, with the suit proving how the MCU has failed another big character.
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 4 Suit Is Almost Identical To The Final No Way Home Costume
To add context to the argument surrounding an MCY Young Avenger, it is worth talking about how the suit in Spider-Man: Brand New Day is almost identical to the suit the character was last seen wearing. In the final moments of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker was shown having created a new Spider-Man suit.
The suit was immediately beloved by audiences, featuring bright, vibrant blue and red colors. The Spider-Man symbol on the front and back was also much closer to those sported by Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s iterations of the hero. Overall, the suit was regarded as one of the best live-action Spider-Man costumes in history.
Going into Spider-Man: Brand New Day, many were naturally hoping that this costume would appear in a full movie. Moreover, the suit was entirely CGI in Spider-Man: No Way Home, meaning the opportunity to create it for real was possible in a sequel. Thankfully, Spider-Man 4 has proven that this was always the plan for director Destin Daniel Cretton.
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day costume is almost identical to the final swing suit in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The colors and Spider-Man symbols are the same, with the only real difference being the raised webbing patterns. Besides this, the suits are nearly identical, much to the excitement of audiences.
The MCU Has A Tendency To Change Superhero Suits For No Real Reason
Admittedly, the similarities between the suits in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Spider-Man: Brand New Day are somewhat uncommon for the MCU. Usually, MCU superheroes receive new outfits for little to no reason. Throughout the Infinity Saga, characters like Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and Ant-Man received new superhero costumes from project to project.
Only a few of these were tied to the stories in which they were featured, be it Captain America’s stealth suit in Captain America: The Winter Soldier or Iron Man’s Mark 42 armor in Iron Man 3. Aside from these instances, MCU superheroes rarely receive any real reasoning for changing their costumes.
This is what makes the lack of changes between Spider-Man: No Way Home and Spider-Man: Brand New Day all the more rare. Spider-Man’s MCU timeline proves this, too. The Stark suit from Captain America: Civil War continued into Spider-Man: Homecoming, but the latter featured Peter’s homemade suit in its finale.
Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: Far From Home then featured the Iron Spider armor. In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the character created a red and black suit that became his regular outfit. After also donning the black Night Monkey suit.
Spider-Man: No Way Home included several more outfits, from the red and black costume with a gold spider on the front to the inside-out black suit and, finally, the suit that is now part of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Evidently, maintaining simply one costume for MCU characters, including Spider-Man, is a rare occurrence.
The MCU’s Suit Changes Were Especially Bad For Marvel’s First Young Avenger
Although most MCU suit changes tend to be well-received, one specifically was not. This concerns the MCU’s first Young Avenger, Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel. Ms. Marvel’s first MCU costume was introduced in the final few episodes of her TV show and is often considered one of the best in the entire franchise. In terms of sheer comic accuracy and practicality, the costume was perfect.
As a result of this, Marvel Studios’ regular costume changes proved especially damning to Ms. Marvel. Her next appearance in The Marvels saw Kamala receive a new outfit, this time with much brighter colors and a more “alien” look, given that it was given to her by some of Captain Marvel’s off-planet allies.
On the whole, the new suit was considered a downgrade from the original costume unveiled in Ms. Marvel. The reasoning for the change was likely the same as other MCU suit changes: merchandising. In this case, though, the newer costume was widely disliked in comparison to Ms. Marvel’s more grounded original.
The Reaction To Spider-Man 4’s Suit Underlines Ms. Marvel’s Suit Issues
The reaction to Tom Holland’s new costume in Spider-Man: Brand New Day further reinforces how Marvel wronged Kamala Khan. Audiences are loving just how much the suit in the new movie looks like the one from the ending of Spider-Man: No Way Home, thus praising Marvel Studios for listening to the fans.
The lack of changes proves that the MCU is capable of bringing back a hero with the same costume as before, making the slight against Ms. Marvel all the worse. The fantastic original costume from Ms. Marvel could have been used in The Marvels, too, yet was removed for an inferior costume. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has underlined this mistake by bringing back an excellent former suit.
