Shadowing Practice: SPIDER-MAN BRAND NEW DAY Deleted Scenes & Easter Eggs You Missed! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There's a tank in the new Spider -Man movie with a devil horn painted on it.
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No explanation, no dialogue about it just Spider -Man circling it on his personal villain board with a giant question mark next to it.
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And for weeks, fans online tore that image apart looking for hidden meaning, deep comic lore, secret Marvel foreshadowing.
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Turns out, it means literally nothing.
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It's a joke.
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Marvel straight up trolled their own fanbase.
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And honestly, that tells you everything about how much is actually hiding inside this movie's deleted scenes and background details.
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Because here's the thing about Spider -Man Brand New Day.
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What actually made it into theaters is only part of the story.
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Behind the scenes, there's an entire second layer of villains, Easter eggs, and direct setup for Avengers Doomsday that never made the final cut,
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and once you see what got left on the cutting room floor, you're going to look at this movie completely differently.
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So let's start with where we actually find Peter Parker at the beginning of all this.
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Because it's a lot more depressing than people realize after the ending of no way home
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when the entire world forgot peter parker ever existed peter didn't just lose his friends he lost his whole life
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and the deleted scenes lean hard into just how isolating
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that actually is he moves into a new apartment
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and on paper sure it's technically his own place more independence
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and all that but
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if you actually look at it it's smaller more run down
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more depressing than where he used to live it's not an upgrade it's downgrade dressed up as one.
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And here's the detail that really gets you.
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Since he no longer has Ned, MJ or Happy Hogan in his corner, Peter builds himself an AI companion named Evie.
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Think about that for a second.
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A teenage superhero so completely alone
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that he has to code himself a friend just to have someone to talk to during patrols.
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Meanwhile, the city is loving Spider -Man more than ever, praising him for cleaning up crime across new york but
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that praise comes at a cost
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because peter is spending every waking hour being spider man
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and barely any time being peter parker he's disappearing into the mask
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and nobody around him even notices that's the emotional foundation these deleted scenes were building
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and it's honestly some of the most mature character work spider -man's had in years
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but that's just the opening the real goldmine is what one of the film's lead art directors just revealed.
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Because Spider -Man apparently has this in -universe villain tracker board, this evidence wall he's built to keep tabs on pretz across the city,
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and someone just released high -resolution images of it.
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And once fans started zooming in, they realized this board is basically a treasure map of confirmed MCU canon that never got explained on screen.
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Let's start with the name everyone's been waiting years to hear confirmed.
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Black Cat, pinned right in the center of that board, is a newspaper clipping about a string of high -profile art gallery thefts across Manhattan,
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sitting right next to a detailed sketch of a braided bullwhip, which if you know your comics, is Felicia Hardy's signature weapon.
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She never physically appears in the movie, not one scene, but this single easter egg confirms she's already active in this universe, already operating right under Peter's knows.
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And there's actual history here that makes this hit different.
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Sony spent years trying to get Felicia Hardy onto the big screen.
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There was an entire planned spinoff called Silver in Black, pairing her up with Silver Sable, with Gina Prince -Bythewood attached to Direct.
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That project went through rewrite after rewrite, before eventually getting scrapped entirely.
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So seeing her quietly folded into Peter's world here isn't just a fun nod for comic fans.
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It's Marvel finally officially anchoring her into the MCU timeline, keeping that door wide open for a real introduction down the line.
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The board also drops a pin on a law firm, Murdoch and McDuffie, and if you've been keeping up with Daredevil born again, you already know this is a direct connection.
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After Nelson, Murdoch, and Paige fell apart following Foggy's apparent death, Matt Murdoch partnered up with Krista McDuffie.
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But here's the twist explaining why Daredevil himself never shows up to help Peter.
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Brand New Day is set after Season 2 of Born Again but before Season 3, and at this exact point in the timeline,
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Matt's actually incarcerated somewhere else entirely.
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Which is why it's Frank Castle, the Punisher, who ends up being the Netflix -era presence in this story instead.
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Okay, but here's the part of the board that's going to matter the most going forward, because it directly sets up Avengers Doomsday,
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and it involves Doctor Strange going somewhere fans really weren't expecting.
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There's a marker on the board pointing straight at the Sanctum Sanctorum, and it turns out Stephen Strange has been missing this entire time.
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Last anyone saw him, he portaled into the dark dimension with Clea, trying to stop a multiversal incursion before it spiraled out of control.
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According to production reports, Doomsday is apparently pulling from a well -known storyline in the comics, one where Strange shows up masked,
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working alongside Doctor Doom, either manipulated or genuinely convinced
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that teaming up with doom is the only way left to save the multiverse from total collapse
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and if you think about it
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that actually treks perfectly with everything multiverse of madness already established about this version of strange
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he's repeatedly been framed as one of the most dangerous people across the entire multiverse not
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because he's evil but
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because every single time he tries to fix something he ends up triggering some catastrophic side effect nobody saw coming.
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So watching him potentially align with Doom, even under manipulation, isn't some random left turn.
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It's basically the natural endpoint of everything his character has been building toward.
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There's more buried on this board too.
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The old Stark Tower is now labeled in -universe as the new Avengers facility.
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And there's a subplot involving Yelena Belova, oddly enough placed at a Russian bathhouse instead of the actual Avengers building,
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hinting these events sit somewhere between Thunderbolts and the start of Doomsday.
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But maybe the single biggest reveal buried in these production files is this.
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Early sequence outlines confirm that Avengers Doomsday opens with the Fantastic Four's ship arriving at the new Avengers facility,
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and on board they're carrying Thor and an unexpectedly returned Steve Rogers, full beard and all, leaving every hero standing there completely stunned.
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If you caught our breakdown on the endgame encore footage, you already know exactly why Bearded Steve is such a massive deal.
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This is the same thread, it's all connecting.
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Now not everything got cut for plot reasons, some of it got cut purely for time.
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And honestly, some of it sounds like it would've ruled.
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Director Destin Daniel Cretton had an entire sequence planned at a place called The Bar With No Name,
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this legendary comic book hangout spot where low -level supervillains go to drink and complain about superheroes ruining their day.
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It was filmed or at least prepped, but ultimately cut to keep the pacing tight.
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The good news, Cretton has openly said he wants to bring that exact sequence back for Spider -Man 5.
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And that villain board doesn't stop there.
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There's a nod to Romita's bar, a quiet tribute to legendary Spider -Man artist John Romita Sr. There's a Daily Bugle pin,
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even though Jameson's actual screen time got trimmed way down
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so the story could stay focused on the city's newfound love for Spider -Man.
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There are references to Feast Shelters, Aunt May's community outreach project,
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clearly inspired by the environmental storytelling from Insomniac's Spider -Man game on PlayStation.
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But honestly, the deepest cut here is the sheer number of obscure comic villains this board just quietly canonized into the MCU.
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We're talking Black Fox, the elderly master thief who mentored Black Cat herself.
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The Enforcers, classic street -level muscle, tarantula, tied to a fictional dictatorial republic called Delvedia.
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Dr. Jonas Harrow, the disgraced surgeon responsible for creating villains like Hammerhead through cybernetic augmentation.
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Even Hammerhead himself shows up, confirmed canon with that signature adamantian skull plate.
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There's the human fly, hypno -hustler, screwball, an entire all -female mercenary group called the Femme Fatales, And even the hand, apparently operating secretly,
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under the cover of Damage Control, that's an absurd amount of lore, quietly stitched into the background of a single film.
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And then there's the question fans have been asking since No Way Home ended.
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What happened to the leftover Venom symbiote?
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Turns out, it was actually built and prepped for filming, the prop existed, but Marvel made the call to hold it back entirely, saving it instead for Secret Wars,
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which honestly, if you think about it for two seconds, makes total sense.
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In the original 1984 Secret Wars comic event,
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that's literally where Peter Parker first gets his iconic black suit out in space during a multiversal war.
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Marvel isn't skipping that story.
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They're just waiting for the exact right moment to tell it properly, instead of rushing it.
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So when you step back and look at everything hiding underneath Brand New Day, from Peter's quiet isolation to Black Cat operating in the shadows,
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to Doctor Strange potentially working alongside the man who might become the MCU's greatest villain.
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This movie was never just a standalone Spider -Man story.
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It was laying track for everything coming next, one background detail at a time, which honestly makes you wonder how much more is sitting in vaults right now,
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waiting for the right movie to unlock it.
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So tell me, Out of everything on that board, which cut villain do you wish had actually made it into the final movie?
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Drop your pick in the comments, because judging by how deep this rabbit hole goes, we're clearly just getting started.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 108 sentences and 1676 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:52. The speaker talks at a natural 170 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| spider noun | /ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ | Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey. |
| villain noun | /ˈvɪl.ən/ | A vile, wicked person. |
| comic noun | /ˈkɑmɪk/ | A comedian. |
| confirm verb | /kənˈfɝm/ | To strengthen; to make firm or resolute. |
| parker noun | /ˈpɑɹkɚ/ | A parkkeeper. |
| sequence noun | /ˈsiː.kwəns/ | A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series. |
| delete verb | /dɪˈliːt/ | To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. |
| quietly adverb | /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/ | Producing little or no noise. |
| doom noun | /duːm/ | Destiny, especially terrible. |
| alongside | /əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/ | Side by side with. |
| potentially adverb | /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/ | In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way. |
| mask noun | /mæsk/ | A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection. |
| praise verb | /pɹeɪz/ | To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. |
| involve verb | /ɪnˈvɑlv/ | To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include. |
| signature noun | /ˈsɪɡ.nə.t͡ʃə/ | A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| turn out verb | To end up; to result. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. |
| clean up verb | To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. |
| dress up verb | To put on special or fancy clothes. |
| fall apart verb | To disintegrate, to break into pieces. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| going forward adverb | In the immediate future and beyond. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | everyone's been waiting · you've been keeping · has been missing |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is set · been framed · is now labeled |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 13 contractions and reduced forms, such as isn't, they're, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, theft /θɛft/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thief /ˈθiːf/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
- Long words — get the stress right: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, legendary /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like spider, villain, comic.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.