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While the MCU Spider-Man movies starring Tom Holland have been a hit with fans around the world, there is a key difference between Holland's Spidey and the version of the character embodied by Tobey Maguire in the Raimi Spider-Man movies: the MCU's Spider-Man isn't exactly broke. Starting with Captain America: Civil War, the MCU's Peter Parker had access to advanced tech from Tony Stark. And while he was able to defeat the Vulture with nothing more than a simple sweatsuit costume, the majority of this Peter Parker's superhero career has been spent in some sweet threads manufactured by Stark Industries. 

But now, with Aunt May dead and his existing social network destroyed, Holland's Spider-Man is living in a harsh reality in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day film. And this is by design. While Peter Parker hasn't had all the hallmarks of your typical Spider-Man comic book story in the previous MCU movies, Brand New Day is meant to correct this course. 

“It is the first Spider-Man film that we’ve made in the MCU that is focused on the classic elements of Spider-Man. He’s doing the Spidey thing of living in a rather sad, small apartment, listening to the police scanner and going out and using his great power responsibly," Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said in an interview with Empire. 

I just hope we see Peter Parker raging out when he realizes he doesn't have enough quarters for the washing machines in his apartment building, if he even has a laundry room in his building. That's a core experience for anyone in New York below a certain tax bracket. We're all here to watch Spider-Man struggle, so let's see him struggle. 

Marvel's most reliable superhero has proven he can do a whole lot more than just 'whatever a spider can.' Swing into Spidey's history with Popverse's...

• Best Spider-Man comic books 
• The best Spider-Mans (or is it Spider-Men?)
• Spider-Man movie watch order
• Spider-Man's actors, ranked
• The best Spider-Man suits
• and the Spider-verse explained!

Just watch out for that radioactive blood.