Spider-Man: Brand New Day Writers Insist That, 'Technically,' Jean Grey Didn't Kill Anyone — or So We Should Believe

Spider-Man: Brand New Day screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers person stated that Jean Grey did not really termination anyone during the movie — "technically," astatine least.

Since the film's launch, fans person been debating the last enactment redemption of Sadie Sink's mutant, who is yet revealed to beryllium searching for her sister. It's a tragic story, and 1 that's meant to permission audiences empathizing with the X-Men character. But... what astir each those radical she killed portion terrorizing New York?

Well, according to the film's screenwriters, Jean Grey did not really termination anyone portion terrorizing New York. Not the feline she made locomotion successful beforehand of a bus, oregon the feline near stuck connected a crane, and decidedly not anyone successful the gathering that she blew up.

"I deliberation technically, she's not liable for immoderate deaths," Erik Sommers told The Hollywood Reporter. "But you travel distant with the impression, certainly, that she's caused a batch of demolition [and] mayhem."

While you don't really spot anyone Jean Grey controls definitively dice connected screen, fans person surely noted the level of unit connected show from a quality who yet is meant to beryllium sympathetic.

"I audibly gasped erstwhile that mediocre antheral was made to measurement into oncoming traffic," 1 instrumentality wrote successful a lengthy reddit thread discussing Jean Grey's convulsive tendencies. "I looked astir the cinema to spot if anyone saw what I conscionable saw, but to my astonishment the country conscionable went connected and it was not addressed astatine immoderate different point. Did helium die? Did helium survive? That felt truly acheronian and unnecessary particularly without immoderate solution oregon closure."

But Sommers has argued that Jean Grey needed to person that level of menace attached to her quality successful bid to "feel formidable," and beryllium a believable capable villain that could transportation the movie and marque the Department of Damage Control — astatine slightest initially — look justified successful their actions.

"Even if you're going to person a villain who truly is redeemed astatine the extremity oregon goes done a transformation, you person to commencement them disconnected successful a spot wherever they consciousness formidable," Sommers continued. "If it doesn't consciousness similar this is going to beryllium idiosyncratic who is simply a situation to our hero, physically, emotionally, mentally, past you don't truly bargain it."

"What we were truly excited astir was this villain got to beryllium a enigma for truthful agelong successful the movie," Sommers' chap co-writer Chris McKenna added. "We were successful Peter's shoes. We were not putting the assemblage up of him, truthful helium was reacting to everything, and we were with him reacting."

Other fans person dismissed the hand-wringing implicit Jean Grey's (definitely not) murderous tendencies arsenic simply by-the-by, considering the antics of different Marvel heroes successful the movie specified arsenic Yelena and Frank.

"Peter's champion person successful this movie is an insane psychopath who casually kills people," countered different fan. "Peter's interaction successful the New Avengers is simply a trained assassin. Peter spent the full past movie trying to redeem murderous criminals from themselves conscionable due to the fact that helium thought that if they were going to die, astatine slightest they could dice arsenic bully guys." Point taken.

Of course, Sadie Sink has a large aboriginal up of her successful the MCU, with an X-Men movie reboot present successful pre-production and an anticipation among Marvel fans that we'll spot her again adjacent sooner, apt successful 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars. Maybe Jean Grey volition person calmed down a spot by then?

Image credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social