Spider-Man: Brand New Day - Subversion and Consent

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*Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) spoilers contained herein.

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I Anticipate Subversion by Marvel, Though I Own My Outcomes

According to the American Psychological Association (APA), anticipation is defined as “looking forward to a future event or state, sometimes with an affective component (e.g., pleasure, anxiety),” as expectation is defined by the APA as “a state of tense, emotional anticipation.”

Although I first began appreciating Marvel Comics when in my adolescence, I’ve watched as Marvel Studios has subverted anticipations and expectations of its fan base since my early adulthood. In particular, the Marvel Cinematic Universe appears to be dedicated to this objective.

For context, one source states, “Subversion is a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to sabotage the established social order and its structures of power, authority, tradition, hierarchy, and social norms.”

For instance, in Logan (2017), my favorite Marvel superhero, Wolverine, dies while ostensibly passing the proverbial claws to superheroine X-23. Similarly, in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023), superhero Ant-Man is essentially upstaged by superheroine the Wasp.

Similar forms of subversion are featured in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), and other Marvel films, whereby male leads of an intellectual property are replaced or upstaged by females.

This matter regards subversion. Whereas Marvel fan X may expect to see his favorite male lead achieve success in a film, Marvel film creators Y apparently seek to subvert such expectations. Then, when Marvel fan X accurately identifies the subversive act, he’s maligned as a bigot.

When practicing Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I use personal responsibility and accountability (collectively “ownership”). For improved understanding, responsibility is defined as the quality or state of being responsible, such as a moral, legal, or mental accountability.

Here, “responsible” is defined as liable to be called to account as the primary cause, motive, or agent, and being able to answer for one’s conduct and obligations—something, such as the demands of conscience or custom, that obligates one to a course of action.

Also, “accountable” is defined as subject to giving an account—a statement explaining one’s conduct. Accountability is defined as the quality or state of being accountable, especially regarding an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.

When providing psychoeducational lessons on REBT, a psychotherapeutic modality which arguably requires that one preferably should take personal ownership in order to reduce self-distress or self-disturbance, I lean heavily on both responsibility and accountability.

This is because I maintain that people have personal agency (a person’s ability to control one’s own reactions to activating events which are beyond one’s own dominion, especially when one’s response is limited by someone or something else). This is a matter of self-empowerment.

Unlike the disempowering experience of being duped over and over again by creators of Marvel content, I no longer maintain unhelpful expectations about films which are seemingly subversive on purpose. Therefore, I helpfully anticipate subversion by Marvel. It’s pretty much the norm.

Also, I practice personal ownership regarding my outcomes. Therefore, when a new Marvel film is announced—one that actually interests me, unlike The Marvels (2023), which I didn’t watch—I anticipate subversion by Marvel, though I own my outcomes. Thus, I remain unbothered.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Consent, and REBT

Case in point, as a fan of Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man, I’ve seen most of the films depicting the web-slinger in action. This now includes the newly released film Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). I anticipated subversion by Marvel, though I own my outcomes.

I suspected that superheroines Spider-Girl or Spider-Woman would replace Spider-Man, though I was pleasantly surprised that this didn’t occur. Nevertheless, not allowing for a subversion-free viewing experience, Marvel intertwined feminine superiority elements into the film, per usual.

For instance, The Hand was led by a woman, Spider-Man’s ex-girlfriend Michelle “MJ” Jones-Watson appears to be smarter than Peter Parker in one scene, and Jean DeWolff, a female detective, is portrayed in a nurturing role to Spider-Man in the absence of Peter’s late Aunt May.

Still, just as superhero Doctor Strange was upstaged by the far more powerful superheroine America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man was no match for the virtually undefeatable Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Perhaps only Captain Marvel, as she’s depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, could defeat Jean. However, she fortunately wasn’t present in the latest Spider-Man flick. Yet, I digress. At this point in the blogpost, it may be useful to define another term. According to one source:

Consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. It is a term of common speech, with specific definitions used in such fields as law, medicine, research, and sexual consent. Consent, as understood in specific contexts, may differ from its everyday meaning. For example, a person with a mental disorder, a low mental age, or under the legal age of sexual consent may willingly engage in a sexual act that still cannot meet the legal threshold for consent as defined by applicable law.

United Nations agencies and initiatives in sex education programs believe that teaching the topic of consent as part of comprehensive sexuality education is beneficial. Types of consent include implied consent, express consent, informed consent, and unanimous consent.

As an example, the APA defines consent as “voluntary assent or approval given by an individual: specifically, permission granted by an individual for medical or psychological treatment, participation in research, or both. Individuals should be fully informed about the treatment or study and its risks and potential benefits.”

When providing professional services for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), I won’t begin meeting with clients until I receive both written and verbal responses for consent. This is to fulfill moral, ethical, and legal obligations associated with care.

Now, in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Jean Grey and her late sister Sara Grey non-consensually enter the minds of unsuspecting victims and take control of their bodies. In one scene that depicts sexual assault, Jean controls MJ by having her kiss Spider-Man. Here, an REBT lesson arises.

REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate that when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. This is known as distress or disturbance.

Noteworthy, with virtually any undesirable Action that occurs, it’s your unfavorable Beliefs which cause unpleasant distress or disturbance (Consequence). Given this framing of self-distress and self-disturbance, it’s worth noting that one REBT source states (page 71):

REBT conceptualizes [distress] as healthy even though it is intense. Other approaches to therapy have as their goal the reduction of the intensity of negative emotions. They take this position because they do not keenly differentiate between healthy negative emotions (distress) and unhealthy negative emotions (disturbance).

Now, REBT keenly distinguishes between healthy distress and unhealthy disturbance. Healthy distress stems from your rational beliefs about a negative activating event [Action], whilst disturbance stems from your irrational beliefs about the same event.

Complete elimination of distress is highly unlikely in an impermanent and uncertain world wherein people conceptually suffer, struggle, and battle with, or merely experience hardship. Still, individuals often make matters worse for themselves by disturbing about such instances.

In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to distress or disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive scripts, think of the acronym GLAD.

Worth noting, the two forms of should, must, and ought demands with which people most often distress or disturb are associated with use of absolutistic and conditional beliefs. Generally speaking, these scripts serve as inflexible commands used toward oneself, others, and life.

An absolute must narrative is, “You absolutely must do as I say!” A conditional should narrative is, “Either you should do as I say, or you should be punished!” Noteworthy, in REBT literature, demandingness of this sort is said to function as a primary appraisal mechanism of self-upset.

Global evaluations (i.e., self-downing, other-downing, and life-downing), low frustration tolerance (also known as frustration intolerance), and awfulizing (e.g., terrible, horrible, etc.) function as secondary appraisal mechanisms. Together, GLAD will make you sad or mad, etc.

While still functioning as prescriptive rather than descriptive, flexible use of recommendatory, preferential, ideal, empirical, moral and ethical, and legal ought beliefs won’t inevitably cause disturbance, as they may align with distress. Rigidity versus flexibility makes a difference.

Additionally, from a psychological standpoint, people distress or disturb themselves using a Belief-Consequence (B-C) connection. Of course, this isn’t to suggest that in the context of the naturalistic or physical world there is no Action-Consequence (A-C) connection.

From an A-C view, Jean Grey controls MJ’s mind and body (Action), thus she forces an instance of sexual assault when having MJ kiss Spider-Man (Consequence). If imaginary viewer X watched the kiss and became angry, then the B-C connection would account for this reaction.

Viewer X watches a sexual assault kiss (Action), Believes, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day is worthless [G], and I can’t abide it [L], because it’s terrible to romanticize sexual assault [A], as it shouldn’t be treated so flippantly [D],” and then makes oneself angry (Consequence).

Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.

Suppose that viewer X used the Effective new belief, “Although I’d prefer not to watch films in which sexual assault is romanticized, I’m not entitled to my preferences. Therefore, I reasonably choose to be grateful that a female was represented in the film as being as fallible as males are.”

With this accommodating perspective, viewer X may then be annoyed by one’s own view regarding how Jean made MJ kiss Spider-Man (Consequence). While both anger and annoyance are negative emotional outcomes, the former (in the case) is unhealthy, as the latter is healthy.

Now, it’s also worth noting that REBT uses unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve self-induced suffering. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other-acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life-acceptance (ULA).

With my approach to REBT, I incorporate author Stephen Covey’s concepts regarding the circles of control, influence, and concern, as well as an area of no concern. UA maps onto the circle of control (USA), circle of influence (UOA), and circle of concern and area of no concern (ULA).

The circle of control encompasses only oneself, the circle of influence encapsulates elements which may be subject to one’s sway, the circle of concern engrosses most matters one can imagine, and the area of no concern relates to all content which isn’t yet imagined.

Regarding MJ’s circle of control and USA, upon discovering that she was ostensibly possessed by Jean Grey and was thereafter forced to kiss Spider-Man, MJ could admit that while she didn’t have control in that situation, she could control how she responded to the act of sexual assault.

Concerning MJ’s circle of influence and UOA, rather than experiencing negative and unhealthy anger toward Jean Grey for having possessed her, MJ could instead admit that Jean is a fallible human being, and therefore instead endure negative and healthy annoyance at Jean’s actions.

Relating to MJ’s circle of concern and ULA, past injustice can’t be undone. Having been mentally penetrated by Jean Grey and then physically assaulted under sexual conditions of a non-consensual kiss, MJ could concede that while injustice occurred, there’s no way to un-ring a bell.

As for the area of no concern, an imaginary realm which is oft-depicted by Marvel, in the form of a multiverse—arguably constituting the practice of lazy writing, there’s no convincing evidence that such a realm actually exists. It may therefore be dismissed for the absurdity it is.

Conclusion

I recently watched Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Before doing so, I anticipated subversion by Marvel, though I personally own my outcomes and remain aware of how females are often presented as superior to males within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. How annoying!

While I was unsurprised that Jean Grey upstaged Spider-Man in the film, I was surprised to witness the female character being depicted as an aggressor of sexual assault. Specifically, she possessed MJ and non-consensually had Peter Parker’s ex-girlfriend kiss Spider-Man.

Herein, I’ve demonstrated use of the ABC model and UA—tools of REBT which allow people to choose negative and healthy reactions over negative and unhealthy outcomes. Now, if you don’t appreciate my perspective on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, then you can now use these tools.

Additionally, if you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help you understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

As a psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues ranging from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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