Every Villain Confirmed in Spider-Man: Brand New Day So Far, Ranked by Threat Level

Spider-Man: Brand New Day finds Peter Parker, per Kevin Feige’s own description, living a life alone in “a rather sad, small apartment, listening to the police scanner” (via Empire). It is a story about a guy who has completely erased himself from every record book there is (though one mysterious person still knows who Spider-Man is), and Tom Holland‘s superhero now determines his value solely on how many strangers he saves. No wonder, therefore, that this movie requires strangers to save them from.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton and company have assembled a rogues’ gallery that ranges from mythic to municipal, ninjas to cyborgs. In the MCU, we have seen Peter Parker fighting many iconic Spider-Man villains already. But Brand New Day is absolutely packed with baddies. It is worth sorting out just how much weight each of these threats is actually meant to carry. Here are all the villains confirmed in the movie so far, ranked from least to most dangerous to Spidey. Confirmed, we repeat. So, we have not included Sadie Sink’s mysterious character. Also, no Hulk since almost certainly, he will ally himself with Spidey after fighting for a bit.

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Title	Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Director	Destin Daniel Cretton
Main Cast	Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Mark Ruffalo, Sadie Sink, Liza Colón-Zayas, Jacob Batalon, Zendaya, Michael Mando, Marvin “Krondon” Jones III
Premise	Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker lives anonymously in New York and embraces life as a street-level hero while facing a dangerous new roster of villains, including Scorpion, Tombstone, The Hand, and others.
Release Date	July 31, 2026

6 Boomerang

Frederick Myers throws sharpened boomerangs for a living. This is the type of gimmick that can only be conceived during the time when comics don’t give a damn about logic, and hence the reason why he is in this list. Not to pose a threat but be a punchline. 

In the movie, he is perhaps a part of the movie’s opening montage that shows Peter Parker, now anonymous, doing superheroics and fighting supervillains. And Boomerang, like many other supervillains in the movie, belong to that montage. He is ranked last in this list because he is more a throwaway joke than an actual threat to Spidey.

5 Tarantula

The character’s film incarnation draws on a comics history in which, according to coverage of the character, Tarantula was introduced in 1974 as a South American state-sponsored superhero of an oppressive regime who later became a hired assassin, which gives him, on paper, more ideological menace than his montage placement in the trailer suggests he’ll be allowed to exercise. 

He appears in a slow-motion beat fighting Spider-Man aboard a ship in one of the trailers. Likely, the whole of his function is to be a body for Peter to test his fraying physiology against before the real business of the film begins. That’s not a knock on the film so much as an observation about what fifteen years of house style does to a rogues’ gallery: everything gets sanded down into content. Tarantula is sort of pathetic, but still a bigger threat than Boomerang.

4 Ramrod

Ramrod is an obscure cyborg villain. He was originally a former construction worker transformed into a cybernetic enforcer after a workplace accident, first introduced as a Daredevil villain before later crossing paths with Spider-Man. A TV spot shows Spider-Man sending the metal-armed brute crashing headfirst into a brick wall in a shot that lasts barely a second. Ramrod is stronger than Boomerang or Tarantula by simple virtue of his cyborg strength and hits harder, but he is still functionally furniture. 

3 Tombstone

Tombstone is the first name on this list that is not a decoration. Lonnie Lincoln returns to the screen with the distinction of being played by the same actor across two entirely separate corners of Sony’s Spider-Man multiverse, as Marvin “Krondon” Jones III, who previously voiced the character in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, has been confirmed to portray Tombstone again in Brand New Day, even as a different variant of the character loosely connected through the multiverse.

Whatever else this film gets wrong about street-level crime as a genre (and the MCU has historically gotten quite a lot wrong about it, treating “street level” as a costume rather than a set of stakes), Tombstone represents an attempt to root Spider-Man’s New York in something more sociologically coherent than a montage of cosplay. 

A crime lord with albinism and superhuman strength who never raises his voice because he commands fear with it is a new kind of villain altogether, closer to Fisk than anyone else, and his inclusion in the movie at least makes clear that Brand New Day at least acknowledges that some of the criminals in the city established themselves the good old fashioned way, with fear and patience rather than through an accidental science experiment. He is ranked below because he is not as hard-hitting as the top 2.

2 Scorpion

Nine years is a long time to wait for a Chekhov’s tattoo to go off. Mac Gargan, played by Michael Mando (known for playing Nacho Varga in Better Call Saul and Vaas in the video game Far Cry 3) has spent all this time on the sidelines of the franchise, ever since the post-credits scene from Homecoming, an MCU character that serves solely as an ominous reminder of the fate of a man when his desperation and vanity get the best of him and make him misuse power he does not deserve. 

Scorpion has been considered one of the most underestimated yet most powerful Spider-Man villains for many years, with the fans of the series speculating about whether J. Jonah Jameson will once again be responsible for the creation of this villain. He is not ranked first only because he takes on Spidey alone.

1 The Hand

There is no contest here, and there shouldn’t be. Everything below this entry on the list is an individual man with a grievance or a gimmick. The Hand is an idea, ancient, undead, self-replicating, and institutionally embedded in a New York that Daredevil has already taught us cannot be cleaned up by a single vigilante no matter how good his aim. The trailer confirms Spider-Man will face the group at least twice, once in a prison sequence and again across the city’s rooftops.

What The Hand offers that no other confirmed villain here can is scale without a face: a horde that keeps coming back because it was never really alive to begin with, an apt shadow to throw across a hero who has already died and been erased once this franchise and who now, per the film’s marketing, appears to be dying again, from the inside, as his own body turns against him. A boy who has given up his name to protect people who no longer remember him, fighting an army of men who gave up their names centuries ago to serve something that isn’t quite alive either. Yes, in case you are wondering, they are sort of Marvel’s answer to DC’s League of Assassins.

Which Spider-Man: Brand New Day villain are you most excited to see, and do you agree with our threat ranking? Let us know in the comments.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters in the US on July 31.