Spider-Man's world
Peter Parker
Spider-Man
Alive, erased from everyone's memory. Not on the Doomsday cast list
- Appearances
- 7
Along the chronological spine
Where the guide talks about them (20)
This matters enormously because of two things: the Fox X-Men films (a separate film universe, now folded in as another reality) and the Sony Spider-Man films (same). What used to be a legal-rights problem became a plot device.
Why these matter now: Daredevil: Born Again is a direct continuation, its second season crosses over with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock is confirmed for Avengers: Doomsday.
Team Stark: Stark, Rhodes (paralysed in the fight), Vision, Romanoff (who defects mid-battle), T'Challa, and a recruited 15-year-old Peter Parker. Team Rogers: Rogers, Barnes, Wilson, Wanda, Barton, Lang. The losers are imprisoned in the Raft; Rogers breaks them out. Barnes goes into voluntary cryosleep in Wakanda while T'Challa's scientists work on undoing his conditioning.
Peter Parker, fifteen, in Queens, mentored remotely and badly by Tony Stark via Happy Hogan. He's desperate to be an Avenger.
Thanos snaps his fingers. Half of all life in the universe disintegrates. Among the dead: Bucky, Wanda, T'Challa, Groot, Drax, Mantis, Quill, Strange, Sam Wilson, Peter Parker, Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne, Hope van Dyne, Nick Fury, Maria Hill.
How does the time travel actually work? It isn't conventional time travel. The Quantum Realm sits outside linear time, so you can enter at one point and exit at another. Stark solves the navigation problem overnight — an inverted Möbius strip — after seeing an old photo of himself and Peter Parker.
Peter exposes him. Beck dies, but with a contingency: a doctored video is released posthumously by J. Jonah Jameson that outs Peter as Spider-Man and frames him for Beck's murder.
Peter's exposure destroys his life and, by association, MJ's and Ned's — all three are rejected from MIT. He asks Doctor Strange to make the world forget he's Spider-Man.
How does he "keep amending" the spell? Mid-cast, Peter starts adding exceptions out loud: not MJ, not Ned, not Aunt May, wait, not Happy. Each amendment destabilises the runes. Strange eventually contains it, but by then the spell has already started reaching into other universes for anyone who knows that Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
That's the precise mechanism, and it answers the obvious question: yes, the villains knew their own Peter's identity, and yes, he was Spider-Man in their universes. Green Goblin, Doc Ock, and Sandman come from Tobey Maguire's universe; Electro and Lizard from Andrew Garfield's. Electro's line about expecting Spider-Man to be Black under the mask lands because he never actually saw his Peter's face.
Ned borrows Strange's sling ring and, trying to find their Peter, says "I wish Peter Parker were here" — and gets one. Then another. Neither is theirs. He retrieves Tobey Maguire's and Andrew Garfield's Peters essentially by amateur luck;
The multiverse is tearing. The only fix is Strange casting the original spell at full strength: everyone in every universe forgets Peter Parker existed. MJ and Ned included. Peter chooses it, visits them once, and doesn't tell them.
Peter Parker in a world that doesn't remember him, working street-level, watching MJ and Ned live lives he's no longer in. The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and Hulk appear. Yelena Belova appears twice, as leader of the New Avengers, dismissing Peter's problems as "small potatoes."
One post-credits scene, no mid-credits: Ned's Spider-Man tracking app pinpoints Spider-Man somewhere in deep space, followed by "Spider-Man Will Return" with no film named.
| Character | Premiered | Appeared in | Status now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Wilson / Captain America | The Winter Soldier (2014) | Winter Soldier, Ultron, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame, FATWS, Brave New World | Alive — Captain America, rebuilding his own Avengers. D |
| Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier | The First Avenger (2011) | First Avenger, Winter Soldier, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame, FATWS, Thunderbolts | Alive — congressman and New Avenger. Conditioning removed. D |
| James Rhodes / War Machine | Iron Man (2008) | IM 1–3, Ultron, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame, Secret Invasion | Alive — though he was replaced by a Skrull for an unspecified period |
| Vision | Age of Ultron (2015) | Ultron, Civil War, Infinity War, WandaVision | Dead. His rebuilt body, White Vision, is active and the subject of VisionQuest |
| Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch | Winter Soldier (2014, post-credits) | Ultron, Civil War, Infinity War, Endgame, WandaVision, Multiverse of Madness | Presumed dead under Mount Wundagore. No body shown. Not in Doomsday |
| Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver | Winter Soldier (2014, post-credits) | Age of Ultron | Dead, 2015. The WandaVision Pietro is a fake — Ralph Bohner, an impostor Agatha cast as a joke |
| Peggy Carter | The First Avenger (2011) | First Avenger, Agent Carter, Winter Soldier, Endgame | Dead of old age. Founded S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| Sharon Carter | The Winter Soldier (2014) | Winter Soldier, Civil War, FATWS | Alive — secretly the Power Broker, and reinstated at the CIA with full access |
| Helmut Zemo | Civil War (2016) | Civil War, FATWS | Alive, imprisoned on the Raft |
| Isaiah Bradley | FATWS (2021) | FATWS, Brave New World | Alive and freed after decades of wrongful imprisonment |
| Joaquín Torres / Falcon | FATWS (2021) | FATWS, Brave New World | Alive — the new Falcon, on Sam's team. D |
| Pepper Potts | Iron Man (2008) | IM 1–3, Homecoming, Infinity War, Endgame | Alive, raising Morgan Stark |
| Happy Hogan | Iron Man (2008) | IM 1–3, Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home | Alive — and no longer remembers Peter Parker |
| Character | Premiered | Appeared in | Status now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Parker / Spider-Man | Civil War (2016) | Civil War, Homecoming, Infinity War, Endgame, Far From Home, No Way Home, Brand New Day | Alive, erased from everyone's memory. Not on the Doomsday cast list |
| MJ and Ned Leeds | Homecoming (2017) | Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home, Brand New Day | Alive — with no memory that Peter exists |
| Aunt May | Homecoming (2017) | Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home | Dead, killed by the Green Goblin |
| Adrian Toomes / Vulture | Homecoming (2017) | Homecoming, Morbius (Sony) | Alive, imprisoned |
The reporting consensus is that Spider-Man's absence is deliberate, and that Brand New Day's post-credits — the tracker pinpointing him in deep space — sets up Secret Wars (2027) rather than Doomsday.
Tier 1 — the load-bearing fifteen (~33 hours) The Avengers (FILM) → Age of Ultron (FILM) → Civil War (FILM) → Black Widow (FILM) → Infinity War (FILM) → Endgame (FILM) → Loki S1 (SERIES) → Wakanda Forever (FILM) → Quantumania (FILM) → Loki S2 (SERIES) → Deadpool & Wolverine (FILM) → Brave New World (FILM) → Thunderbolts* (FILM) → Fantastic Four: First Steps (FILM) → Spider-Man: Brand New Day (FILM)
Phase Three (2016–2019): Civil War · Doctor Strange · Guardians Vol. 2 · Spider-Man: Homecoming · Thor: Ragnarok · Black Panther · Infinity War · Ant-Man and the Wasp · Captain Marvel · Endgame · Far From Home
Phase Six (2025–2027): FILMS — The Fantastic Four: First Steps · Spider-Man: Brand New Day · Avengers: Doomsday (18 Dec 2026) · Avengers: Secret Wars (17 Dec 2027) SERIES — Ironheart · Wonder Man · Daredevil: Born Again S2 · [The Punisher: One Last Kill](/title/the-punisher-one-last-kill/) (special) · VisionQuest