New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- Brand New Day. Tom Holland's Peter Parker is in New York. The tracker is following someone else. The name every Marvel fan is landing on is Tobey Maguire.

this is setup for Maguire's Peter Parker, who survived the collapse of his universe in No Way Home and has apparently been operating somewhere in the MCU's timeline.

Two elements inside Brand New Day make the theory harder to dismiss as wishful thinking. First, Holland's Peter develops organic web-shooters during the film - a power he previously lacked - and explicitly acknowledges that "Peter Two had organic webbing and he was pretty cool." That line is a direct callback to Maguire's Sam Raimi-era Spider-Man, and it arrives late enough in the film that it reads a...