Meet Elvis Carlos, the 7-Year-Old Who Stole Spider-Man’s Closing Scene
Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers from Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
A 7-year-old in a Spider-Man costume just became the most talked-about person in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Elvis Carlos, credited as “Web Kid” in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, appears in the film’s closing scene outside a New York City hospital. The city is waiting for word on whether Peter Parker will survive a near-fatal gunshot. Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) is working to sneak him out through a massive crowd of supporters. And then Peter locks eyes with this kid, a little boy in a full Spidey costume, sitting on top of his dad’s shoulders, who throws the Spider-Man hand gesture at him and does the sound effects too. Peter returns it.
And the internet has not been the same since.
Meet Elvis Carlos, the 7-Year-Old Who Stole Spider-Man’s Closing Scene
Elvis Carlos is 7 years old, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day was his first movie. The man holding him up on his shoulders in that crowd scene is his real father, Ken Carlos. His mother, who goes by Siân on Instagram, shared photos and videos of the experience after the film opened in theaters.
“Forever grateful for this,” she wrote. “BIG thank you to Destin Daniel Cretton, Tom Holland, and the entire production team who made the whole family feel so special on set. And of course a HUGE thank you to Stage Space Agency.”
Stage Space Agency, Elvis’s talent agency, also shared footage of his screen test on Instagram. “From self-tape to the silver screen,” the post read. “So proud of Elvis. He is living the dream.”
He is, objectively, living the dream. At the bottom of the cast list in the end-credits scroll of one of the biggest films of 2026, is the name “Web Kid.” That is Elvis Carlos.
Why the Web Kid Scene Has Marvel Fans Convinced They Already Met Miles Morales
The moment lands as a perfect closing image on its own. But our community has a theory, and it is a very good one.
The inclusion of Elvis Carlos in the credits and that specific ending scene has sparked widespread speculation that Marvel has already quietly introduced Miles Morales to the MCU. Miles Morales is the Afro-Latino teenager from Brooklyn who, in the comics, is destined to become Spider-Man himself. The fan theory picks up more weight when you notice that Ned’s Spider-Man-tracking wall inside the film includes a newspaper clipping referencing a Latino parkour prodigy in Brooklyn, which is exactly where Miles is from in the source material, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is not shutting the door. “You can’t think about the future of Spider-Man and not think about Miles, for sure,” he told Entertainment Weekly. “Mainly, I’m thinking about enjoying Beyond the Spider-Verse and Amy’s next movie. After that, it’ll be very interesting to see where Spider-Man should go.”
That is not a no.
A Family Milestone, and Possibly Something Much Bigger
Spider-Man: Brand New Day broke the record for the highest opening weekend domestically and surpassed a billion dollars after just six days in theaters, according to Entertainment Weekly. Tom Holland’s fourth standalone outing as Peter Parker, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, features Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, and Naomi Watts voicing Peter’s AI helper E.V.
But the moment audiences keep returning to is a kid in a Spidey costume, a hand gesture, and the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man who answered it back.
For Siân, Ken, and Elvis Carlos, this is a family milestone. For the rest of us, watching a little kid in a superhero costume exchange the web-slinger’s signature with Peter Parker, it might also be something more: the first time we met the next one.