Note: Slight spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day .
A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science. A trick used to turn off fictional superpowers in the movie is based on actual genetic therapies for rare diseases.
In Spider-Man: Brand New Day , Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) has disturbing symptoms as the DNA he got from a spider bite manifests itself in new ways. He’d like to get rid of some of his powers while keeping others. He visits Bruce Banner (a scientist played by Mark Ruffalo) to discuss a device Banner has created to keep his own alter-ego, the Hulk, from emerging. It’s a superpower inhibitor.
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