Is MJ Dating Boomerang? Fans Are Analyzing a New Spider-Man: Brand New Day Poster — and There's Evidence From the Comics to Back This Up

A new poster for Spider-Man: Brand New Day has prompted fan speculation that Peter Parker's ex-girlfriend MJ is now dating another super-powered character: Boomerang. The poster, which is available for sale via AllPosters, features official artwork of Boomerang — a villain from Spider-Man's rogues gallery that we know will appear in the upcoming film. Marvel has not officially stated who is playing either character, and his role in the film has not been detailed. The movie is already stuffed with other antagonists (Tombstone, Scorpion, The Hand, and potentially both The Hulk and whoever Sadie Sink is playing), so it makes sense that this smaller villain is not the film's current marketing focus. Still, though, fans think there's more going on than meets the eye. We know for certain that MJ has moved on from Peter Parker (who she can no longer remember) and is now dating an unnamed character played by Eman Esfandi, best known as Jedi hero Ezra Bridger in Disney+ series Ahsoka. The film's record-breaking first trailer showed Esfandi's character getting close to Zendaya's MJ at a party, much to the dismay of Tom Holland's Peter. Now, fans believe that Esfandi's partially obscured face