Every villain in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Brand New Day brings Spider-Man back to street level. Peter Parker has spent four years as a Spider-Man nobody remembers, and the film shows it with a montage of the crooks he has taken down since No Way Home. Here is every villain in the film, roughly in the order you meet them, with the comic each one comes from and how Tom Holland's Spider-Man does against the ones this site rates.

• Tombstone. Marvin Jones III plays Lonnie Lincoln, the albino gangster with rock-hard skin who first appeared in Web of Spider-Man #36 (1988) as an enforcer for the Kingpin. Jones also voices Tombstone in the animated Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2027). Holland's Spider-Man wins 79%.
• Boomerang. Aidan Kennedy plays Fred Myers, and also plays a member of the Hand. In the comics, Myers is a pitcher banned from baseball for taking bribes who turned his arm into a weapon; he debuted in Tales to Astonish #81 (1966), fighting the Hulk. Holland's Spider-Man wins 95%.
• Tarantula. The performer has not been publicly identified. In the comics, Anton Miguel Rodriguez is a mercenary with poisoned spikes in his boots and gloves, first seen in Amazing Spider-Man #134 (1974). Holland's Spider-Man wins 79%.
• Ramrod. Billy Clements plays this lesser-known comics villain. He is not rated on this site.

Michael Mando returns as Mac Gargan, the criminal Spider-Man first met in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Early in Brand New Day, a mysterious telepath helps him break out of a Damage Control prison, and later uses him as a weapon against Spider-Man. That fight is where Peter's changing powers first get away from him: he beats Gargan far harder than he means to.

In the comics, Gargan is a private investigator who first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #19 (1964), hired by J. Jonah Jameson to find out how Peter Parker gets his photos. Jameson then paid for the experiment that turned him into the Scorpion, with a mechanical tail and great strength, in Amazing Spider-Man #20 (1965). Holland's Spider-Man wins 70% of their fights on this site; the classic comics Spider-Man wins 70%.

The Hand is a clan of ninja, and in Brand New Day the Department of Damage Control has hired them as security, led by Snow (Xiaoshuang Fan). They are the muscle in the film's biggest fights. In the comics, the Hand first appeared in Daredevil #174 (1981), by Frank Miller, and they have been Daredevil's enemies ever since. The Hand is not rated on this site, but Daredevil is.

Jon Bernthal brings his Frank Castle to the big screen for the first time. He meets Spider-Man the hard way: Peter has to stop him causing chaos as he chases a tank through the city, and the chase ends with the tank crashing into a Damage Control prison. Castle becomes an uneasy ally, and his houseboat becomes a hideout, but he is still a man who settles things with a rifle.

Fittingly, the Punisher was introduced in the comics as a Spider-Man villain, hired to kill him in Amazing Spider-Man #129 (1974). Holland's Spider-Man wins 79% of their fights on this site.

Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner is a friend, not a villain: he helps Peter build an inhibitor to control his changing powers. But the telepath possesses Banner, takes off his inhibitor and lets the Hulk loose, and Peter has to calm him down. In the comics, Spider-Man and the Hulk first fought in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (1964). Holland's Spider-Man wins 4%, and the classic Spider-Man 4%.

The telepath is Jean Grey (Sadie Sink), a teenager searching for answers about her sister, Sara, who died in Damage Control's custody. She possesses Scorpion, MJ, Banner and Castle, and she nearly kills MJ, but by the end the film treats her as a grieving kid more than a villain. Peter stops her from killing the man responsible, and she saves his life. She is not rated on this site.

The real villain is Bill Metzger (Tramell Tillman), the director of Damage Control, who was experimenting on kidnapped telepaths, lied about it, and kept the Hand on his payroll. At the end of the film he disappears, and Damage Control is put under investigation. He is not rated on this site, and the film leaves him at large.

Each percentage is that Spider-Man's chance of winning a one-on-one fight under this site's rules: both fighters at their peak, no preparation and no help. Want to send them all at once? Try the street gang in our Sinister Six calculator.