From Tobey Maguire's famously lone-wolf wall-crawler to Andrew Garfield's crime-fighter and scientific dream team with Gwen Stacy, every live-action Peter Parker has had someone in his corner. Yet Tom Holland's version took things a step further, complete with Ned Leeds as his self-appointed 'guy in the chair,' hacking systems, tracking threats, and even opening portals. By the time all three Spider-Men teamed up in Spider-Man: No Way Home, they were practically serving as one another's sidekicks.

Speaking of No Way Home, Peter Parker has lost not only his best friend and sidekick, but also everyone who once knew him. With Tom Holland suggesting that the newly isolated web-slinger could use a dog by his side, fans have begun wondering if that would be comically accurate.

While Tom Holland revealed to Empire Magazine that he pushed for Peter Parker to finally get a dog in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, sadly, the idea never made it past the drawing board. Ironically, Marvel Comics beat him to it years ago. The catch, however, is that Peter Parker's brief experience as a dog owner ended about as happily as most things do in his life: not very.

The closest the Earth-616 wall-crawler ever came to having a canine companion was a stray dog he named Sandwich. During a patrol, Spider-Man spotted the hungry animal digging through a dumpster and quickly won its trust with a discarded sandwich. Naturally, Peter Parker became attached almost immediately and decided the dog deserved a proper home.

That plan lasted roughly as long as one of Peter Parker's paychecks. The friendly neighborhood hero secretly brought Sandwich back to Aunt May's house, hoping to keep the dog. Aunt May, armed with considerably more common sense than her nephew, pointed out that they could barely afford their current situation. Before long, animal control arrived, and Sandwich was gone, leaving Peter Parker with yet another heartbreak to add to the collection.

Curiously, Spider-Man's most famous canine connection belongs to Aunt May rather than Peter Parker himself. In Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, her fluffy Lhasa Apso, Ms. Lion, regularly found herself tangled up in superhero adventures alongside Spider-Man, Iceman, and Firestar. The little dog became such a fan favorite that Marvel eventually promoted her to the Pet Avengers, which is a far more impressive résumé than most human heroes manage.

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Since Brand New Day explores how young people are not meant to face life's challenges alone, Peter Parker was always bound to find a companion. It just was not the one fans were expecting.

Tom Holland may not have gotten his wish for a pet dog, but Peter Parker is not completely alone in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Instead, the web-slinger builds an AI assistant named E.V., a homemade successor to the Stark technology he lost after No Way Home. Unlike F.R.I.D.A.Y., however, this digital companion is assembled with limited resources, plenty of ingenuity, and a healthy dose of loneliness.

That loneliness is precisely what makes E.V. so important. Director Destin Daniel Cretton revealed that the AI is essentially the closest thing Peter Parker has to a friend, a surprisingly heartbreaking role for a computer program. While helping manage his homemade gadgets, print web-shooter components, and keep his operation running, E.V. also fills the silence left behind by Ned Leeds and MJ, becoming an unlikely digital roommate for Marvel's most isolated hero.

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