Spider-Man: Homecoming is the Spidey reboot fans have been waiting for and it's positively
crawling with easter eggs and connections to the web-slinger's previous appearances
on the big and small screen, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, plus references from over fifty
years of Spider-Man history in the comics.
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, it's Jan here, and there are so many easter eggs in Tom Holland's
first Spider-Man solo movie that, in this video, I'm going to focus on the toughest-to-spot
and best easter eggs and references you might have missed.
I've also got some very cool Funko Pops plus a pack of Spider-Man: Homecoming merchandise
to give away.
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comment below about your favourites easter eggs or any others you spotted!
Just before I start, quick warning there are spoilers ahead for the movie, so take care
if you haven't seen it yet.
Homecoming director Jon Watts has said he took a lot of inspiration from the original
Spider-Man comics and there's one iconic issue, Amazing Spider-Man #33, that features prominently
in the movie.
At one point in the film, Vulture uses his suit to collapse a warehouse, trapping Spider-Man
under a ton of rubble and girders.
The way Spider-Man gets out from under the rubble, motivated by a reflection of himself
and the voice of Tony Stark, is similar to how Peter visualises Uncle Ben in the comic
and uses it as a source of inner strength to help him lift the rubble off himself.
And eagle-eyed fans might also remember there was an homage to this same iconic comic book
issue in Captain America: Civil War when Spider-Man was weighed down by an airport walkway that
Captain America smashed on to him.
Michael Keaton may not have read any Spider-Man comics before bringing to life the classic
villain, Vulture, but the movie still has a very cool easter egg to his comic book character.
On the Staten Island Ferry, there's a car with the license plate SM2-0563, in other
words Amazing Spider-Man issue 2, published May 1963, a comic which featured the first
appearances of both Vulture and the Tinkerer, who's the character who makes Vulture's tech
in the new movie.
The Staten Island ferry event also tips its hat to the fact that, in the comics, the birthplace
of Adrian Toomes, aka Vulture, is Staten Island.
And although the look of Michael Keaton's Vulture is quite different to his comic book
counterpart, the costume designers have said they deliberately added a straggly fur collar
to his jacket as a nod to both the 'feathers on a real vulture' and the original Vulture
design by artist Steve Ditko.
Homecoming introduces the villainous Shocker to the MCU and there's a subtle homage to
his yellow-diamond patterned costume in the comics via the sleeves on the jacket worn
by the first Shocker Jackson Brice, and the second Shocker Herman Schultz also has them.
Donald Glover's character Aaron Davis tries to buy some tech from Shocker and later Spider-Man
interrogates him in a car park to learn more about what Vulture and his crew are up to.
Spidey's suit analysis on Davis reveals his alias is The Prowler, a nod to his comic book
alter ego.
And during the interrogation, Davis mentions he has a nephew in the neighbourhood.
In the comics, Davis is the uncle of Miles Morales who, like Peter Parker, was bitten
by a radioactive spider turning him into a famous web-crawling superhero.
This easter egg works on several levels, firstly Sony have an animated movie for Miles Morales
in the works.
Secondly, the nephew-mention suggests that Miles Morales could also exist either in the
MCU or Sony's live-action Spider-Man universe.
And finally, it's interesting because Donald Glover and his fans campaigned for Glover
to play Spider-Man before the character's first movie reboot, and later that led him
to voice Miles Morales in the Ultimate Spider-Man TV series.
Spider-Man: Homecoming very obviously connects to the MCU with the opening scenes reliving
moments from Captain America: Civil War from Peter Parker's point-of-view.
But there's a less-obvious call-back to an earlier MCU movie that I particularly enjoyed.
Now, during this early fight scene with a group of criminals breaking into some ATMs,
their masks very obviously evoke the Avengers, but there's a more subtle joke and reference
you might not have noticed.
As Spidey takes the thugs out, at one point he makes Thor punch Hulk, which is a nice
reverse of how Hulk smashed Thor at the end of the Battle of New York in the first Avengers
movie.
By the way, given the criminals are wearing Avengers masks, I also liked the identity
theft joke here in the background.
When Happy Hogan is arranging the move of Avengers tech like Tony's Hulkbuster armor
from Age of Ultron and the prototype of Captain America's new shield, he also mentions something
we've not yet seen in the MCU, that is, Thor's Magic Belt, the Norse name for which Happy
gives up trying to pronounce.
The belt is also known in the comics as the "belt of strength" or the "power belt" and
it gives the wearer incredible strength.
I wonder whether the belt is just a fun easter egg or something we might see in a future
movie, for example Ragnarok or Infinity War?
There's a call-back to the first Captain America movie at the end of the scene on Coney Island
when the camera pans up to the Cyclone roller coaster.
In that First Avenger film, just before Steve Rogers and Bucky zip-wire down to the HYDRA
train carrying Zola, they reminisce about how Steve threw up on that same roller coaster
ride when they were younger.
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, actor Kenneth Choi returns to the MCU, this time as Principal
Morita.
Choi previously played the role of Jim Morita, a member of the Howling Commandos in the first
Captain America movie.
And there's a clever easter egg to his previous role with a picture of Jim Morita in the Principal's
office, suggesting the two men are related.
By the way, this isn't the first time Marvel has reused actors for new roles in the MCU.
Alfre Woodard had a minor role as Miriam Sharpe in Captain America: Civil War where she confronted
Tony Stark as the mother of a son who was killed in the Battle of Sokovia.
Then, later that same year, she had a much larger role as the villainous Mariah Dillard
in the Netflix series Luke Cage.
And Martin Starr who plays teacher Mr Harrington in Spider-Man: Homecoming previously cameo-ed
in 2008's The Incredible Hulk as a computer nerd, who was said to be Amadeus Cho in the
movie novelisation.
Spider-Man: Homecoming really delves deep into the capabilities of Tony Stark's Spider-Man
suit and, after Peter and Ned hack into the suit to remove the "training wheels" protocol,
we next discover that the suit is also equipped with an AI voice to assist Peter with the
suit's functions.
Peter calls the "suit lady" program Karen and she's actually voiced by actress Jennifer
Connelly who played Marvel character Betty Ross in director Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk movie,
a pre-MCU movie released by Universal.
But what's even more interesting and a sort of MCU in-joke is that Jennifer Connelly is
married to Paul Bettany, who played J.A.R.V.I.S., the original voice inside Iron Man's suit,
before he became Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
After Ned learns that Peter is the real Spider-Man, he starts asking him what powers he has, for
example, whether he can summon an army of spiders.
This is a curious question because Spider-Man did indeed use that threat against a villain
in issue 57 of Marvel Adventures Spider-Man.
And when Ned suggests that Peter should go and stand on the edge of a building and see
how far he can shoot his webs, it immediately made me think of the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man
movie where Tobey Maguire's Spidey literally does just that as he's learning about the
extent of his abilities.
There's another fun homage to that first Sam Raimi movie and the kiss the web-crawler shared
with Mary Jane as he hung upside-down after rescuing her.
During the Washington Monument rescue in this film, there's a moment where Spider-Man is
hanging upside down after he's just saved Liz from the plummeting elevator.
Spidey's suit lady Karen even says, "This is your chance Peter, kiss her", in a nice
call-back to his upside-down kiss with MJ back in 2002.
And earlier, en route to Washington, there was a road sign warning about the Triskelion
Clean-Up.
The Triskelion is the SHIELD headquarters built on Theodore Roosevelt Island and the
mention via the road sign is a link back to the events of Captain America: The Winter
Soldier where the Triskelion was severely damaged when one of the Project Insight helicarriers
crashed into the building in the movie's finale.
Spider-Man: Homecoming introduces the Department of Damage Control properly in the MCU, although
you might remember that the organization appeared on a news report ticker playing in the background
during the very first Iron Man movie and also got a mention in Agents of SHIELD.
In the comics, Damage Control is an organization initially owned by Tony Stark and Wilson Fisk
and founded by Anne-Marie Hoag, who's played by Tyne Daly in Homecoming where she has a
very similar look to her comic book counterpart.
Interestingly, Marvel announced a comedy TV series called "Damage Control" back in 2015.
It's unclear whether this is still on the cards, in particular after NBC cancelled "Powerless",
a comedy set in the DC universe that explored a similar premise about how ordinary people
deal with the fallout from superhero activities.
We learn in Homecoming that Tony Stark has sold off Avengers Tower in Manhattan and is
moving upstate to the New Avengers Facility.
And we get a quick cameo by DUM-E, one of Tony Stark's two helper robots from the Iron
Man movies, last seen mangled up and being driven away by Tony at the end of Iron Man
3.
There's another Iron Man easter egg thanks to the design of the T-shirt Peter wears when
he goes to see Tony Stark at the New Avengers Facility.
It has the exact same science joke as the T-shirt that Pepper Potts wore in Iron Man
3, which is especially fitting as, after Peter leaves, Pepper emerges from the press conference
where she's been waiting for him.
By the way, the new suit that Tony shows Peter in this scene is also a nice tease for the
Iron Spider costume.
Comic book artist Mark Bagley, who's known for his work on titles including The Amazing
Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man, gets a shout-out via graffiti on a building in the
background while Spidey's on the phone to Happy Hogan.
Following Tony Stark and Aunt May's flirty first meeting in Captain America: Civil War,
Tony continues his flirtation in Homecoming, this time via a video Peter shoots on his
cell phone; though May later says she's not a fan of 'that Tony Stark'.
This is all a nod to Robert Downey Jr and Marisa Tomei's real-life relationship in the
90s and also their on-screen relationship in the rom-com "Only You".
But Tony's not the only guy enamoured with May – both the bodega owner and the waiter
at the Thai restaurant feel the same way.
All of which is a pointed contrast to May's previous movie and some of her comic-book
incarnations.
Aunt May's joke about a turkey meatloaf recipe is a little call-back to a humorous scene
in the first Amazing Spider-Man where Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker arrives back home
ravenous and eats Aunt May's meat loaf, declaring it's the best meat loaf ever.
And when May and Peter go out for Thai food, right next door to the restaurant there's
a little nod to Thor's homeland via the Korean Church of Asgard.
The work of John Hughes was a particular inspiration for Homecoming director Jon Watts and there
are several moments in the movie which reference classic films by Hughes.
For example, Zendaya's character Michelle channels Ally Sheedy's outcast character Allison
from The Breakfast Club.
And, like Allison in the 1985 coming-of-age classic, in Homecoming Michelle spends time
in detention, though apparently she doesn't have to be there/neither of them has to be
there.
And there are also a couple of homages to the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off as
well.
First, there's the scene where Peter races after Shocker through a suburban neighbourhood.
Peter's run through gardens, past barbecues, dogs and children is Jon Watts' ode to the
classic teen comedy by John Hughes, where Ferris Bueller had to race home to get there
before his family.
In fact, we even see a little clip of Ferris's own race against the clock on a big TV in
one of the gardens that Peter Parker rushes through and Peter even says 'great movie'
as he runs by.
The very final post-credits scene featuring Captain America's humorous PSA about the virtues
of patience is a very meta-moment and joke by the filmmakers to all of us in the audience
who've become accustomed to sitting through the credits in any Marvel movie for the chance
to see a little tease to a future MCU film.
Captain America pokes fun at us with the scene in a similar spirit to the fourth-wall-breaking
joke in the post-credits of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which was, of course, directly spoofed
in 2016's Deadpool.
There was, of course, another after-credits scene which featured the villain Mac Gargan
and there was a cool tease to his comic book alter ego of the Scorpion via the scorpion
tattoo on his neck.
The scene sets up a much bigger role for Gargan in the sequel and his mention of having friends
on the outside who want to take out Spider-Man could be a tease to the supervillain squad
the Sinister Six.
Homecoming already introduced three characters who've been members of the Sinister Six in
the comics; Vulture, Scorpion and Shocker, so, this is nicely half-way to a full Sinister
Six crew.
Sony has been hoping to make a Sinister Six movie for a while now and it's not hard to
think that these characters could be spun off eventually into a separate movie.
A little reveal at the end of the movie by Michelle's character is that her friends call
her "MJ".
This feels like a bit of a joke by the filmmakers about the persistent rumours during production
that Zendaya was going to be playing Mary Jane.
It's not actually a "Mary Jane" reveal because all she's saying is that her nickname is "MJ"
even though Spidey fans around the world will know that MJ is, of course, synonymous with
"Mary Jane".
With the filmmakers shying away, for the moment, from using various characters from the Sam
Raimi trilogy and the Amazing Spider-Man movies, it doesn't seem likely that we'll see a real
Mary Jane for a while.
Of course, Marvel might also try to find a way to make Michelle into Mary Jane with a
trick like making "Mary Jane" her middle name and, therefore, the reason for her MJ nickname.
Mary Jane's classic nickname of "Tiger" for Peter Parker gets some great visual shout-outs
at the high school via several Homecoming banners that include the word "Tiger", plus
at one point, I noticed someone in a tiger costume running around the school in the background.
"Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot" were Mary Jane's first words to Peter Parker
in the comics and Kirsten Dunst's MJ said "Go get 'em, tiger" to Tobey Maguire's Peter
at the very end of Spider-Man 2.
And to round off the very self-aware nature of this Spider-Man movie, Homecoming even
integrated the theme tune from the original 60s Spider-Man TV show into the opening Marvel
logo intro with a composition by Michael Giacchino.
So, what was your favourite easter egg or moment in Spider-Man: Homecoming and were
there any other references I missed?
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