FILM · 2017 · USA
Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Directed by
- Jon Watts
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Studio
- Marvel Studios, Pascal Pictures, LStar Capital
251 archived facts 6 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Nov 2026
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
251 Interesting Facts About Spider-Man: Homecoming
Interesting Facts (93)
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In a 2013 interview, while promoting his then-upcoming film How I Live Now (2013), a reporter asked Tom Holland what kind of role he might want to try next. When Holland answered that a project full of action and humor would interest him, the reporter asked whether he would want to play a superhero. "Maybe Spider-Man, in ten years time," Holland replied. "The reboot of the reboot, if they do that."
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(Around 1 hour 11 minutes) Aaron Davis (Donald Glover) mentions that he has a nephew. In the comics, Aaron Davis is the Ultimate Marvel Universe version of The Prowler, and his nephew is the second Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales. Artist Sara Pichelli originally modeled Miles on Glover and President Barack Obama, and Glover voiced Miles in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012).
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The cast had to watch a John Hughes film marathon to prepare. Because this film is above all a coming-of-age story, Jon Watts turned to John Hughes, the master of such stories. "He gave us a lot of movies to watch," Tom Holland said in an interview with PopSugar UK. "God, there are so many movies and we all sat at my house in Atlanta, all the cast, and watched them all in one day and it was like a Domino day. It was amazing, The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Pretty in Pink (1986), there were loads of them."
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(Around 1 hour 40 minutes) The scene in which Peter lifts the rubble pinning him down through sheer willpower is taken directly from The Amazing Spider-Man #33 (February 1966), one of the final Spider-Man issues drawn by Steve Ditko. The panels in this comic are considered by many to be among the most iconic panels in Spider-Man history.
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At around the 17-minute mark, according to James Gunn, Stan Lee's cameo in this film was shot alongside his cameos for Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017) and another title he did not specify (suggested to be Thor: Ragnarok (2017)). Gunn, however, did not direct Lee's cameo here.
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Michelle's literary tastes contain subtle references to the plot or to spiders. At the 26-minute mark she is first seen reading W. Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage"; the protagonist of that novel is an orphan living with his aunt and uncle. At around the 46-minute mark she is reading Vladimir Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading", in which a man sentenced to death waits in his cell to be executed with only a spider for company. At around the 59-minute mark, in the Washington Monument scene, she wears a Sylvia Plath T-shirt; Plath wrote a poem titled "Spider" and used spiders as imagery in other poems.
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At roughly 27 minutes, after showing a video in which Captain America encourages the students, a gym teacher mentions that he is "probably a war criminal now," referencing his situation at the end of Captain America: Civil War (2016), in which he and the other Avengers operating outside the Sokovia Accords are wanted by the government and in hiding. In the films shown in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain America appears in his Avengers (2012) costume and mentions having been frozen in ice, suggesting they were made shortly after Avengers (2012), the last time he wore that uniform, and making him easily recognizable as a potential positive role model.
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Despite prominent advertising, Gwyneth Paltrow appears in only a brief scene. It is her first appearance as Pepper Potts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Iron Man 3 (2013), after which her contract ended. Pepper's absence from Captain America: Civil War (2016) (and possibly Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)) is explained by a temporary rift in her relationship with Tony Stark.
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At around the 2-hour mark, Kevin Feige said that the decision to have Aunt May discover Peter's secret as Spider-Man was inspired by a crucial exchange between the two of them in Spider-Man 2 (2004), and that he felt it had to be included. This film drew the most laughs in test screenings. It was based on J. Michael Straczynski's Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) No. 35. Director Jon Watts felt the scene was a tribute to the final scene of Iron Man (2008), and that doing it allowed them to do things in later films that had never been seen on screen before. When Marisa Tomei saw that line in the script, she too agreed to that moment and felt it allowed her character to develop in more areas in later installments rather than staying in the background.
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At around 1 hour 13 minutes, in the ferry scene, when Adrian Toomes meets Mac Gargan, you can easily see the scorpion tattoo on Gargan's neck (a concept originally derived from Ultimate Marvel). There is also the mid-credits scene (at about 2 hours 5 minutes), in which Toomes talks with Gargan in prison, hinting at his future as the Scorpion. In addition, a prison guard mentions that Toomes's family has come to visit right after Toomes refuses to give up Spider-Man's identity. Previous portrayals of the Scorpion generally targeted the family members of individuals who knew about Spider-Man, especially J. Jonah Jameson. Mentioning Toomes's family within Gargan's hearing may point to a possible future hostage situation.
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Marisa Tomei said she was shocked when she learned that Aunt May is much older than her in the comics. However, her brother, a Marvel fan, explained to her that Aunt May is not Peter Parker's blood relative. This made her realize that Aunt May could be any adult age, depending on how old she and Uncle Ben were when they married.
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Zendaya was initially cast to play Mary Jane Watson. However, the producers decided to distance themselves further from Spider-Man (2002) and created the original character Michelle Jones instead.
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(At about 1 hour 50 minutes) After the plane crashes on Coney Island, Peter sits on top of a roller coaster called the Cyclone. In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), as the Howling Commandos are about to board a train, Bucky asks Steve whether this is payback for the time he made them ride the Cyclone.
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According to what Kevin Feige has said about the film, there are actually many similarities between this film and Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): the film is not an origin story, Peter is in high school, Peter wears the classic Spider-Man costume, the film features new villains, Peter has a never-ending intellect as Spider-Man, Peter has strange interactions with other superheroes, Peter is a street-level hero, and Peter tries to balance his double life.
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(Around 2 hours) Near the end, while Peter stands with Happy at the Avengers headquarters, he is wearing a black T-shirt with a popular "nerd" joke printed on it. The full joke goes: Two atoms walk into a bar. One says to the other, "I think I've lost an electron!" The other atom says, "Are you sure?" to which the first replies, "I'm positive!"
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Alfred Molina stated that he wanted to reprise the role of Dr. Otto Octavius, also known as Doctor Octopus, in another Spider-Man sequel. This was also confirmed by the trailer for the third Spider-Man film (No Way Home), which was officially released on August 23, 2021.
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Marvel's original proposal was for Spider-Man to appear in many of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films in exchange for Columbia and Sony (which held the rights to Spider-Man) receiving a share of the profits, but this offer was rejected by Sony. However, the commercial disappointment of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), partly due to poor decisions by Sony in general and by executive producer Matt Tolmach in particular (at one point during production, Andrew Garfield and Tolmach did not get along), pushed Sony to renegotiate the deal with Disney/Marvel and reboot the series. Under the deal, Marvel produced the film for Sony within the MCU; Sony retained full financial, distribution and creative control, and Disney received the merchandising rights and a small percentage of the gross box office revenue.
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The Vulture is the first major villain in a Spider-Man film to become a supervillain of his own free will. Doc Ock, Sandman, Venom, The Lizard, Electro and both Green Goblins became villains as a result of experiments gone wrong or other accidents beyond their control. (Rhino, Shocker and The Tinkerer are minor villains in the films.)
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Speaking with The Daily Beast, Tom Holland says the new Spider-Man reboot will be the "biggest independent film ever." He said: "One of the special things about what we're going to try to do is that you're going to see the biggest independent film ever. It's not going to be something epic. It's a film surrounded by incredible things but about this kid and his life. Peter Parker is a lot of people's favorite because everyone can relate to him, and we're going to try to make everyone relate to our Peter Parker, and John Hughes is a perfect example of what we're going to try. And do."
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In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Andrew Garfield is seen wearing a Ramones shirt. In this film, the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" features prominently. The Ramones covered the original Spider-Man theme song as a hidden bonus track on their album "¡Adios Amigos!". "Adios" was their final album, and its hidden bonus track "Spider-Man" was the last song on their last original album.
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The strong backlash to the rumor that Peter Parker might be played by a black actor sparked debate among comic book fandoms. Dan Slott, who was writing The Amazing Spider-Man at the time, said: "Some of the comments, the rigidity, the rationalizations, and in some cases the outright anger from some people that Spider-Man HAS to be 'white' scares me."
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Donald Glover is the third Community (2009) actor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Danny Pudi and Jim Rash had small roles in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016) respectively. Martin Starr had also previously played Professor Cligoris on Community (2009), and here he plays the teacher Mr. Harrington.
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(At about 1 hour 26 minutes) The Beat's "Save it for Later" plays as Peter picks up Liz for their date. One of the lines in the lyrics is "Sooner or later, you'll hit the deck and get found out…" This exactly foreshadows what will happen to Peter Parker; Adrian Toomes soon realizes that Peter is Spider-Man after the two fight on the ferry's deck.
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This entry contains spoilers for all previous Spider-Man films: it is the only Spider-Man film without any cemetery scene. All five previous installments had cemetery scenes for some main characters: 1) Spider-Man (2002) - Norman Osborn; 2) Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Uncle Ben Parker; 3) Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Harry Osborn; 4) The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) - Captain Stacy; 5) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) - Gwen Stacy.
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(At about 9 minutes) Early in the film, while Peter (Tom Holland) is in the limousine with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Peter is wearing a shirt that reads "The physics is theoretical. The fun is real!" This is a quote from The Big Bang Theory (2007), a show about incredibly intelligent people with very poor social skills, much like Peter.
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(At about 1 hour 35 minutes) While taking his date to the Homecoming dance, Flash Thompson says, in other words, "knows fresh branzino, and that was not fresh." In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), when Gwen Stacy invites Peter Parker to meet her family, her family is preparing branzino for dinner.
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(At about 1 hour 4 minutes) The scene at the end of the Washington Monument rescue pays homage to previous Spider-Man films, particularly their love storylines. When Peter saves Liz just before she falls with the elevator, she slips from his hand, similar to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), in which Spider-Man, then played by Andrew Garfield, lets his love Gwen Stacey fall in the same way during his battle with the Green Goblin. Later, after Peter has safely gotten Liz out of the elevator, he looks at her while hanging upside down. His AI Karen tells him to kiss her, a direct homage to the iconic scene in Spider-Man (2002) in which Peter, played by Tobey Maguire, kisses Mary Jane Watson while hanging upside down.
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(At about 46 minutes) On the way to Washington, D.C., there is a road sign at a traffic light reading "Triskelion" (Peter and Ned have a brief conversation about it in a deleted scene). Shortly afterwards, one of the bad guys says they "are still cleaning up that Triskelion mess." The Triskelion refers to the building that housed S.H.I.E.L.D. before and during the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and where three ships called Helicarriers were ultimately shot down. Like "The Incident" (the climax of The Avengers (2012)), this also required a serious cleanup. Coincidentally, the flag of the Isle of Man, where Tom Holland's father comes from, features a triskelion.
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Toomes's short speech, in which he says "We build their roads and we fight all their wars and everything, but they don't care about us," was clearly inspired by Sarah Palin's speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, where she said: "They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America, who grow our food, run our factories and fight our wars."
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The underlying theme throughout the film is the lack of respect and attention from the adults in Peter's life. Peter is repeatedly dismissed by Happy Hogan as a nuisance. Although Tony believes Peter has potential, he rejects everything Peter says, at one point using the phrase "below [my] pay grade" when Peter asks for help, and even when he listens he fails to connect. The names "Training Wheels Protocol" and "Baby Monitor Protocol" are reflections of this. Some of Peter's teachers also seem indifferent to their students' welfare, as when the shop teacher responds to a loud noise (in-universe) with a written sentence without even raising his head. Especially the tendency of older generations to dismiss and disregard the ideas and values of younger generations as trivial and unimportant because they are not yet mature.
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The exterior of Peter Parker's high school is Franklin K. Lane High School, located on the border of Brooklyn and Queens. The New York Daily News front-page headline of March 8, 2004 labeled FKLHS "City's Worst School." Some notable alumni include Red Holzman (NBA), Richie Havens (singer-songwriter, guitarist), DJ Spinderella (of Salt-N-Pepa (2021)) and John Gotti.
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The Vulture is the fourth member of the original Sinister Six gang to appear in a Spider-Man film. The members who appeared previously are Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2 (2004)), Sandman (Spider-Man 3 (2007)) and Electro (The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)). So far only Kraven the Hunter has not appeared in live action. In fact, Vulture, Doctor Octopus, Mysterio and Kraven were to appear in Sony's Amazing Spider-Man saga before it was cancelled. Mysterio made his first live-action appearance in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019).
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While Sony was in development on the fourth film in Sam Raimi's film series, John Malkovich had initially been cast as the Vulture opposite Tobey Maguire as the lead character, and Malkovich was preparing for the role. However, when Sony chose to reboot the series with Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield, the film was cancelled.
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In the book "The Art of Spider-Man: Homecoming", concept artist Josh Nizzi reveals that in the early drafts of the script the Vulture was to have prior ties to the Falcon and to share some of the same design elements and a more military look. The wings and gear would have looked like a cobbled-together, bulkier version of the Falcon's technology. In the end, however, the idea was abandoned and not used.
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The writers of Spider-Man: Homecoming wanted Peter Parker to come to terms with his new abilities while still being unskilled with them and carrying human fears such as a fear of heights, and they avoided Manhattan skyscrapers in favor of locations including the suburbs, a golf course, the Staten Island Ferry, Coney Island and Washington, D.C.
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In a 2013 interview, while promoting his upcoming film How I Live Now (2013), a reporter asked Tom Holland what kind of role he might want to try next. When Holland responded that a project full of action and humor would appeal to him, the reporter asked whether he would want to play a superhero. "Maybe Spider-Man, in ten years time," Holland replied. "The reboot of the reboot, if they do that."
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Jennifer Connelly voices Karen, Spider-Man's computer. Her husband, Paul Bettany, had voiced Iron Man's computer J. A. R. V. I. S. She was also cast because of her role in Career Opportunities (1991), which John Hughes produced. "Homecoming" pays tribute to Hughes's high school films, and Connelly's casting was done as a tribute to his career. Connelly had also previously played the role of Elizabeth "Betty" Ross in Hulk (2003).
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Even before Disney and Marvel Studios worked with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a popular fan theory about Iron Man 2 (2010) held that Peter Parker was the little boy in the Iron Man mask who stood up to a killer robot and was saved by Tony Stark. Tom Holland liked the idea so much that he asked Kevin Feige for permission to have it officially confirmed, and Feige agreed.
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The cast had to watch a John Hughes film marathon to prepare. Because this film is above all a coming-of-age story, Jon Watts turned to John Hughes, the master of such stories. "He gave us a lot of movies to watch," Tom Holland said in an interview with PopSugar UK. "God, there are so many movies, and we all sat at my house in Atlanta, all the cast, and watched them all in one day, and it was like a Domino day. It was amazing, The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Pretty in Pink (1986), there were loads of them."
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Before this film was released, there was a first look at a large number of excellent posters celebrating Spidey's first film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Among them, the photo of the hero lying next to a body of water, wearing his high school academic decathlon jacket and headphones, stood out. Apparently even this pose was not designed by a marketer; it was a photo taken of Tom Holland while he was completely unaware. In an interview during a press conference in Mexico City, Holland explained that the poster was a photo taken while he was dozing on set. "That is actually me asleep," Holland said. "It's not part of the film, it's me sleeping between takes. We were shooting this scene and I was really tired that day, I was sleeping on the ground and the photographer took the photo. When they made this poster I said, 'What?! What's happening, guys?!'"
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(At about 17 minutes) According to James Gunn, Stan Lee's cameo in this film was filmed at the same time as his cameos in Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017) and another title he did not specify (suggested to be Thor: Ragnarok (2017)). However, Gunn did not direct Lee's cameo here.
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In the Civil War comic book series, Tony Stark made Spider-Man a red and gold "Iron Spider" costume full of armor and gadgets. Initially, Spider-Man's costume in Captain America: Civil War (2016) was going to be red and gold, but Marvel said that Spider-Man should be red and blue in his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At the end of the film, Tony Stark offers Peter a place in the Avengers with a real red and gold Iron Spider costume, but he does not accept it (instead receiving it in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)).
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In Spider-Man's previous Sony Pictures incarnations, it was observed that the character had very few of his comic book thought monologues, depriving him of his introspective nature because it was thought difficult to convey such speech convincingly in a film environment. The character of Karen, Tony Stark's digital assistant in Spider-Man's first costume, solves this problem by giving Peter someone to talk to while wearing the suit. Moreover, the suit's adjustable eye lenses help give Spider-Man's full face mask a level of expression that eliminates the need to constantly remove his mask in important scenes, thus restoring the character's visual universality.
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Michelle's literary tastes contain subtle references to the plot or to spiders. * (At the 26th minute) She is first seen reading W. Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage". The protagonist of this novel is an orphan living with his aunt and uncle. * (At about the 46th minute) She is later reading "Invitation To A Beheading" by Vladimir Nabokov. In this novel, a man sentenced to death waits in his cell to be executed with only a spider for company. * (At about the 59th minute) Finally, in the Washington Monument scene, she wears a Sylvia Plath t-shirt. Plath wrote a poem titled "Spider" and used spiders as imagery in her other poems.
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(Around 27 minutes) After showing a video in which Captain America encourages students, a gym teacher mentions that he is "probably a war criminal now" and refers to his situation at the end of Captain America: Civil War (2016), in which he and the other Avengers operating outside the Sokovia Accords are wanted by the government and in hiding. In the films shown in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Captain America appears in his Avengers (2012) costume and mentions that he was frozen in ice, suggesting these were made shortly after Avengers (2012), the last time he wore that uniform, and making him easily recognizable as a potential positive role model.
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(Around 23 minutes) The first solo Spider-Man film that does not mention or foreground Uncle Ben in any way. Peter Parker briefly refers to bad things that happened to Aunt May and could mean the loss of her husband, but does not go into detail. Later, May gets Peter a shirt and tie for the dance, possibly one that once belonged to Ben. Uncle Ben's absence may stem from respect for Cliff Robertson, who died in 2011.
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(Around 2 hours) Kevin Feige said that the decision for Aunt May to discover Peter's secret as Spider-Man was inspired by a very important exchange between the two in Spider-Man 2 (2004), and that he thought it should be included. This film drew the most laughs in test screenings. It was based on J. Michael Straczynski's Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) No. 35. Director Jon Watts felt this scene was a tribute to the final scene of Iron Man (2008); by doing so, it allows them to do things in later films that have never been seen on screen before. When Marisa Tomei saw this line in the script, she too agreed to that moment and felt it allowed her character to develop in more areas in later installments rather than remaining in the background.
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(Around 1 hour 13 minutes) In the ferry scene, when Adrian Toomes meets Mac Gargan, you can easily see the scorpion tattoo on Gargan's neck (a concept originally derived from Ultimate Marvel). There is also the mid-credits scene (around 2 hours 5 minutes) in which Toomes talks with Gargan in prison and hints at his future as Scorpion. A prison guard also mentions that Toomes's family has come to visit, right after Toomes refuses to give up Spider-Man's identity. Previous portrayals of Scorpion often targeted the family members of individuals who knew about Spider-Man, especially J. Jonah Jameson. Mentioning Toomes's family within Gargan's hearing range may point to a possible hostage situation in the future.
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(At about 51 minutes) The Tinkerer makes all his weapons from materials collected by Damage Control, including the Shock Glove. In the scene outside the gas station, the Tinkerer reveals that the glove came from the Lagos cleanup. This references the opening of Captain America: Civil War (2016), in which Captain America fights Crossbones, so the Shocker glove is made from Crossbones's glove.
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In classic Marvel comics, Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) is not Peter Parker's friend or classmate, but a reporter at the Daily Bugle. He is also based on Ganke Lee (a chubby Chinese schoolboy with computer skills from the Miles Morales Spider-Man comics who knows his friend's secret identity). Ned's LEGO collection in the film is also a nod to Ganke, since in the comics Ganke loves collecting LEGO.
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John Leguizamo was in talks for the role of Adrian Toomes/The Vulture after Michael Keaton turned down the offer, but Leguizamo was dropped when Keaton changed his mind. Leguizamo explained: "I was used as a pawn to close Keaton but I should've said 'no' because we'd agreed to terms! I had a leg to sue on but I'm not a suer." Warner Bros. had previously done the same thing to Robin Williams to persuade Jack Nicholson to play the Joker opposite Keaton in Batman (1989). Williams refused to work with Warner for the next decade and turned down the role of the Riddler in Batman Forever (1995).
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This is the first Spider-Man film to reference various elements from the original comics regarding Spider-Man's web fluid for his web-shooters. The first nod is Spider-Man saying his web fluid only lasts two hours after being fired before dissolving, whereas in the comics he says it lasts one hour before dissolving. The second nod to the comics is the taser web, a reference to how Spider-Man at various points in the comics created different variations of the web fluid formula to create different web types to deal with situations where regular web fluid was not enough.
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Spider-Man's "spider sense" is never mentioned or alluded to in any way, and nothing over the course of events shows that he has this ability. Even though he does in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Peter mentions that his senses are "dialed up to eleven". Later, Avengers: Infinity War (2018) officially confirmed that Peter has "spider sense".
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(Around 35 minutes in) While Spider-Man is chasing Toomes's men in the white van, Spider-Man goes to a pool party where Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) is showing on a big-screen television, specifically the scene where Ferris runs home. This is a double homage: in this film Peter's running to catch the white van resembles the scene in "Ferris", while the other resembles the real-life scene where the cast was made to watch John Hughes films to grasp the essence of this film as a coming-of-age story. That is why Peter shouts "Good movie!", which Tom Holland watched and enjoyed.
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(Around 1 hour 50 minutes in) After the plane crashes on Coney Island, Peter sits on top of a roller coaster called the Cyclone. In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), as the Howling Commandos are about to board a train, Bucky asks Steve whether this is payback for the time he made them ride the Cyclone.
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(Around the 2-hour mark) Near the end, while Peter is standing with Happy at Avengers Headquarters, he is wearing a black T-shirt printed with a popular "nerd" joke. The full joke goes: Two atoms walk into a bar. One says to the other, "I think I've lost an electron!" The other atom says, "Are you sure?" to which the first replies, "I'm positive!"
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Marvel's original proposal was for Spider-Man to appear in many of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films in exchange for Columbia and Sony (which held the rights to Spider-Man) receiving a share of the profits, but this offer was rejected by Sony. However, the commercial disappointment of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), partly because of poor decisions by Sony in general and by executive producer Matt Tolmach in particular (at one point during production, Andrew Garfield and Tolmach did not get along), pushed Sony to renegotiate the deal with Disney/Marvel and reboot the series. Under the deal, Marvel produced the film for Sony within the MCU; Sony retained full financial, distribution and creative control, and Disney received the merchandising rights and a small percentage of the gross box office revenue.
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While Sony was in development on a fourth film in Sam Raimi's film series, John Malkovich had initially been cast as the Vulture opposite Tobey Maguire as the lead character, and Malkovich was preparing for the role. However, when Sony chose to reboot the series with Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield, the film was cancelled.
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The Vulture is the first major villain in a Spider-Man film to become a supervillain of his own volition. Doc Ock, Sandman, Venom, The Lizard, Electro and both Green Goblins became villains as a result of experiments gone wrong or other accidents beyond their control. (Rhino, Shocker and The Tinkerer are minor villains in the films.)
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Speaking to The Daily Beast, Tom Holland says the new Spider-Man reboot will be the "biggest independent film ever." He said: "One of the special things about what we're going to try to do is that you're going to see the biggest independent film ever. It's not going to be something epic. It's a film about this kid and his life, surrounded by these incredible things. Peter Parker is a lot of people's favorite because everyone can relate to him, and we're going to try to make everyone relate to our Peter Parker, and John Hughes is a perfect example of what we're going to try. And do."
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(Around 40 minutes in) At one point the Vulture mocks one of his associates for calling himself "the Shocker," saying, "what is this, pro wrestling?", a reference to the disastrously inept character "The Shockmaster," famous for passing through a wall and losing his mask during his first appearance in WCW (later becoming an internet meme).
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There are several similarities between the villain Adrian Toomes and the villain Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002): -Each is the father of one of Peter Parker's classmates (here Liz, in the previous film Harry Osborn). - Both initially take their motivation to become villains from being forced out of government contracts. -Each discovers Spider-Man's true identity by talking to Peter Parker and catching him in a lie (Liz tells her father that Peter abandoned them in Washington, D.C.; Norman notices the scratches on Peter's arm at dinner). -Both use their gliders in a sneak attack aimed at killing Spider-Man. Both fail.
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The film's working title was Summer of George, a reference to the eighth-season finale of Seinfeld (1989). Co-producer Eric Hauserman Carroll stated that the code name was chosen because, during production, crew members watched reruns of the series on a local Los Angeles TV channel on weekdays and discussed them with each other the next day. As a result, the sequel's working title is Fall of George. George Costanza's falling in love with Marisa Tomei (Aunt May), who guest-starred in one episode, is also a fitting choice.
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Two characters who bear the title of the supervillain "The Shocker" appear in this film: the original Shocker, Herman Schultz, and Jackson W. Brice, who was Shocker in The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008). (Because Brice was a former cowboy who could use a rope, he was actually known as Montana in the comics).
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(At around 1 hour 10 minutes) When Spider-Man goes to confront Aaron Davis in the garage (where Aaron touches his hand to the trunk), the license plate is UCSM01. This may refer to Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, Miles Morales's first appearance as Spider-Man in the Ultimate Marvel Universe. Donald Glover, who plays Davis, was said to be set to play Morales in a future Spider-Man film.
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When the film was announced, many actors were said to be interested in taking over the role from Andrew Garfield. Dylan O'Brien and Logan Lerman were the frontrunners, but Daniel Radcliffe, Freddie Highmore, Alfred Enoch, Donald Glover, Josh Hutcherson and Grant Gustin were also mentioned. Freddie Highmore admitted he would "love to be considered."
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While the film was still in development as the third film in the Amazing Spider-Man series, Andrew Garfield discussed the possibility of Peter Parker passing the mantle to Miles Morales and said: "Miles Morales was a huge moment in this character's comic book life, and I do believe we can do it. It's something I'm really interested in figuring out; an effective way of coexisting or passing the torch. I don't have an answer, but I think it's a really important move. I think it's a really beautiful and important move. I want to somehow merge the two ends. I don't know what that means in terms of the amount of Spider-Man films I've made. But I do know that I don't want to be a Spider-Man at forty, specifically."
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In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Andrew Garfield is seen wearing a Ramones shirt. In this film, the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" is prominently featured. The Ramones covered the original Spider-Man theme song as a hidden bonus track on their album "¡Adios Amigos!". "Adios" was their last album, and their hidden bonus track "Spider-Man" was the last song on their final original album.
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(At about the 27th minute) When Liz and the other girls are talking in the gym and the subject of Spider-Man comes up, Betty mentions "could be almost thirty under that mask". This may be a nod to the previous two Spider-Man film actors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, who were in their mid-to-late twenties when making their own Spider-Man films.
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In the book "The Art of Spider-Man: Homecoming", concept artist Josh Nizzi reveals that in the early drafts of the script, the Vulture would have had prior ties to the Falcon and would have shared some of the same design elements and a more military look. The wings and gear would have looked like a cobbled-together, bulkier version of Falcon's technology. In the end, however, this idea was abandoned and not used.
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Although Marvel confirmed that the film would not be an origin story, it was said that Steve Buscemi would play Uncle Ben.
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(Around the 37th minute) While Tony Stark sarcastically comments on his detective work, he calls Peter Parker "Crockett". This is a reference to Miami Vice (1984), but since Peter calls films like Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) "really old", it is no surprise that he does not get the 1980s reference.
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Hannibal Buress paid around 500 dollars for someone to attend the premiere in his place. The impostor, Joe Carroll, did not look much like Buress but still fooled the attendees. He gave interviews, took selfies with fans, and when he arrived on the red carpet it was announced that he was Buress.
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(Around 12 minutes) When Flash Thompson is the first to answer a question in class but gets it wrong, the teacher responds: "See Flash? Being the fastest isn't always the best." This is probably a joke about the DC comics character "The Flash", known as the fastest man alive in the DC world.
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(At about 1 hour 26 minutes) As Peter picks up Liz for their date, The Beat's "Save it for Later" plays. One of the lines in the lyrics is "Sooner or later, you'll hit the deck and get found out…". This precisely foretells what will happen to Peter Parker; Adrian Toomes realizes soon after the two fight on the ferry's deck that Peter is Spider-Man.
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To prepare for his role, Tom Holland attended classes for a few days at Bronx High School of Science in New York City. In an interview, he said that at one point a few students introduced themselves to him and perceived him as a new student. Tom said he was doing research for the role of Spider-Man in an upcoming film. According to Tom, the students looked at each other and laughed at him, unconvinced. Tom said that for the rest of his time there, they treated him like the weird new kid who thought he was Spider-Man and avoided him.
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(At about 9 minutes) At the beginning of the film, while Peter (Tom Holland) is in the limousine with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Peter is wearing a shirt that reads "The physics is theoretical. The fun is real!" This is a quote from The Big Bang Theory (2007), a show about incredibly intelligent people with very poor social skills, much like Peter.
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(At about 1 hour 35 minutes) While Flash Thompson takes his date to the Homecoming dance, he says (in other words) "knows fresh branzino, and that was not fresh." In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), when Gwen Stacy invites Peter Parker to meet her family, her family is preparing branzino for dinner.
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(Around 35 minutes) While showing the Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) scene, during the white van chase scene, you see the scene where Ferris Bueller runs home (the return home), but the song you hear is not the actual song in that scene, not a tabla-driven ska-inspired song, but Yello's "Oh Yeah", the song everyone remembers from the film and used in the Ferrari "borrowing" scene, or the "Live a little" scene.
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(Around 1 hour 4 minutes) The scene at the end of the Washington Monument rescue pays homage to previous Spider-Man films, especially their love storylines. When Peter saves Liz just before the elevator falls, she slips from his hand; this is similar to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), in which Spider-Man, then portrayed by Andrew Garfield, lets his love Gwen Stacey fall in the same way during his battle with the Green Goblin. Later, after Peter gets Liz safely out of the elevator, he looks at Liz while hanging upside down. His artificial intelligence. Karen tells him to kiss her; this is a direct homage to the iconic scene in Spider-Man (2002) where Peter, portrayed by Tobey Maguire, kisses Mary Jane Watson while hanging upside down.
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(Around 46 minutes) On the way to Washington, D.C., there is a road sign at the lights that reads "Triskelion" (Peter and Ned have a brief conversation about it in a deleted scene). Shortly afterwards, one of the bad guys says they "are still cleaning up that Triskelion mess". The Triskelion refers to the building where S.H.I.E.L.D. was based before and during the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and where three ships called Heli-Carriers were ultimately shot down. Like "The Incident" (the climax of The Avengers (2012)), this too requires a serious cleanup. Coincidentally, the flag of the Isle of Man, where Tom Holland's father comes from, features a triskelion.
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Tunde Adebimpe originally auditioned for the role of The Tinkerer, but ultimately took on the role of chemistry teacher Mr. Cobbwell. In addition, Tunde, who is also the lead singer of the indie rock band TV on the Radio, had previously worked with director Jon Watts on the music video for the band's second LP (and first for a major label), Radio: Wolf Like Me (2006).
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Toomes's short speech, in which he says "We build their roads and we fight all their wars and everything, but they don't care about us.", was clearly inspired by Sarah Palin's speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention; she says: "They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America, who grow our food, run our factories and fight our wars."
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The underlying theme throughout the film is the lack of respect and attention from the adults in Peter's life. Peter is repeatedly dismissed by Happy Hogan on the grounds that he is a nuisance. Although Tony believes Peter has potential, he rejects everything Peter says, at one point even using the phrase "below [my] pay grade" when Peter asks for help, and even when he listens he cannot communicate. The names "Training Wheels Protocol" and "Baby Monitor Protocol" are reflections of this as well. Even some of Peter's teachers seem indifferent to the students' welfare; for example, when the shop teacher responds to a loud noise (in-universe) with a written sentence without even raising his head. In particular, the tendency of older generations to dismiss and disregard the ideas and values of younger generations as insignificant and unimportant because they are not yet mature.
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(At around 27 minutes) While Peter (Tom Holland), Ned (Jacob Batalon) and the others are in physical education class, Peter's crush Liz (Laura Harrier) talks about Spider-Man with her group of friends. When asked whether Spider-Man is "hot", one of the girls replies "He could be thirty under there". Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films featured actors older than their high school counterparts. Although the age gap is not as severe, the same argument can be made for Andrew Garfield and Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man films. This gives reason to believe that the line is a jab at the earlier films, because this film actually cast high school with age-appropriate actors and actresses.
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The exterior of Peter Parker High School is Franklin K. Lane High School, located on the border of Brooklyn and Queens. The New York Daily News front-page headline of March 8, 2004, labeled FKLHS "City's Worst School." Some notable alumni include: Red Holzman (NBA), Richie Havens (singer-songwriter, guitarist), DJ Spinderella (of Salt-N-Pepa (2021)) and John Gotti.
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Behind the Scenes (15)
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Before this film was released, audiences saw the first unveiling of a number of excellent posters celebrating Spidey's first film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Among them, one stood out showing the hero lying beside a body of water, wearing his high school academic decathlon jacket and headphones. Apparently even this pose was not designed by a marketer; it was a photo taken of Tom Holland while he was completely unaware. In an interview during a press conference in Mexico City, Holland explained that the poster was a photo taken while he was dozing on set. "That is actually me asleep," Holland said. "It's not part of the film, it's me sleeping between takes. We were shooting this scene and I was really tired that day, I was sleeping on the ground and the photographer took the photo. When they made this poster I said, 'What?! What's happening guys?!'".
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In the Civil War comic series, Tony Stark built Spider-Man a red-and-gold "Iron Spider" costume full of armor and gadgets. Spider-Man's costume in Captain America: Civil War (2016) was initially going to be red and gold, but Marvel said that Spider-Man had to be red and blue for his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At the end of the film, Tony Stark offers Peter a place in the Avengers with a genuine red-and-gold Iron Spider costume, but he turns it down (taking it instead in Avengers: Infinity War (2018)).
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In Spider-Man's previous Sony Pictures incarnations, the character was observed to have very few of his comic-book thought monologues, which stripped him of his introspective nature because conveying that kind of speech convincingly in a film setting was considered difficult. The Karen digital assistant in Spider-Man's first suit, voiced by Tony Stark, solves this problem by giving Peter someone to talk to while he wears the costume. Moreover, the suit's adjustable eye lenses give Spider-Man's full face mask a level of expression that removes the need to keep taking the mask off in key scenes, thereby restoring the character's visual universality.
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Spider-Man's costume in Spider-Man: Homecoming featured more technical improvements than earlier suits, including a chest logo that functioned as a remote drone, an AI system comparable to Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S., a holographic interface, a parachute, a tracking device for Stark to monitor Peter, a heater, an airbag, illumination and eyepieces able to augment reality.
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Characters & Cast (12)
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Jennifer Connelly voices Karen, Spider-Man's computer. Her husband, Paul Bettany, had voiced Iron Man's computer J. A. R. V. I. S. She was also cast because of her role in Career Opportunities (1991), which John Hughes produced. "Homecoming" pays tribute to Hughes's high school films, and casting Connelly was done as a nod to his career. Connelly had also previously played Elizabeth "Betty" Ross in Hulk (2003).
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John Leguizamo was in talks for the role of Adrian Toomes/The Vulture after Michael Keaton turned down the offer, but Leguizamo was dropped when Keaton changed his mind. Leguizamo explained: "I was used as a pawn to close Keaton but I should have said 'no' because we had agreed to the terms! I had a leg to sue on but I'm not a suer." Warner Bros. had previously done the same thing to Robin Williams on Batman (1989) to persuade Jack Nicholson to play the Joker opposite Keaton. Williams refused to work with Warner for the next decade and turned down the role of the Riddler in Batman Forever (1995).
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(At about 35 minutes) While Spider-Man is chasing Toomes's men in the white van, Spider-Man goes to a pool party where Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) is playing on a big-screen television, specifically the scene in which Ferris runs home. This is a double homage: in this film Peter's running to catch the white van resembles the scene in "Ferris," while the other resembles the real-life scene in which the cast was made to watch John Hughes films to grasp the essence of this film as a coming-of-age story. So Peter shouts "Good movie!" as Tom Holland watched and enjoyed it.
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To prepare for his role, Tom Holland attended classes for a few days at Bronx High School of Science in New York City. In an interview, he said that at one point several students introduced themselves to him and assumed he was a new student. Tom said he was doing research for the role of Spider-Man in an upcoming film. According to Tom, the students looked at each other and laughed at him, unconvinced. Tom said that for the rest of his time there they treated him like the weird new kid who they thought was Spider-Man and avoided him.
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Tunde Adebimpe initially auditioned for the role of The Tinkerer, but ultimately took the role of chemistry teacher Mr. Cobbwell. In addition, Tunde, who is also the vocalist of the indie rock band TV on the Radio, had previously worked with director Jon Watts on the music video for the band's second LP (and first for a major label), Radio: Wolf Like Me (2006).
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Butterfield, Holland, Judah Lewis, Matt Lintz, Charlie Plummer, and Charlie Rowe screen-tested for the lead role in Spider-Man: Homecoming against Robert Downey Jr. for chemistry; the six were selected from a search of over 1,500 actors to test in front of Feige, Pascal, and the Russo brothers.
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Easter Eggs & References (19)
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(At around 51 minutes) The Tinkerer makes all his weapons, including the Shock Glove, from materials collected by Damage Control. In the scene outside the gas station, the Tinkerer reveals that the glove came from the Lagos cleanup. This references the opening of Captain America: Civil War (2016), in which Captain America fights Crossbones, so the Shocker glove is made from Crossbones's glove.
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Before the Spider-Man deal, certain characters such as Georges Batroc, Christine Everhart, Ben Urich, Wilson Fisk, Mister Hyde and Frank Castle had already appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before the web-shooter's arrival. In Ant-Man (2015), while Luis describes Falcon's search for Ant-Man, a woman mentions "we got a guy who jumps, a guy who swings, and a guy who climb up the walls," the first reference to Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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In classic Marvel comics, Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) is not Peter Parker's friend or classmate but a reporter at the Daily Bugle. He is also based on Ganke Lee (a chubby Chinese schoolboy with computer skills from the Miles Morales Spider-Man comics who knows his friend's secret identity). Ned's LEGO collection in the film is also a nod to Ganke, since in the comics Ganke loves collecting LEGO.
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(At around 1 hour 4 minutes) After Peter saves Liz from the falling elevator, he hangs upside down in front of her and Karen (the Suit Lady) suggests he kiss her. This is a clear nod to the classic "upside-down kiss" between Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson in the original Spider-Man (2002).
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This is the first Spider-Man film to reference various elements of the web fluid used in Spider-Man's web-shooters from the original comics. The first nod is Spider-Man saying his web fluid only lasts two hours before dissolving after being fired, whereas in the comics he says it lasts one hour before dissolving. The second nod to the comics is the taser web, a reference to how Spider-Man at different points in the comics created different variations of the web fluid formula to create different web types, usually to handle situations where normal web fluid was not enough.
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Spider-Man's "spider sense" is never mentioned or alluded to in any way, and nothing over the course of the events indicates that he has this ability. Although it appears in Captain America: Civil War (2016), where Peter mentions that his senses are "dialed up to eleven," Avengers: Infinity War (2018) later officially confirmed that Peter has "spider sense."
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(Around 26 minutes) When Ned asks Peter what he can do after learning he is Spider-Man, at one point they are shown a lesson that could count as a history class. In the background, you can hear their teacher discussing the Sokovia Accords, which were introduced in Captain America: Civil War (2016), the film in which Tom Holland's Spider-Man first appeared.
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At around the 40-minute mark, Vulture mocks one of his associates for calling himself "the Shocker," asking "what is this, pro wrestling?" — a reference to "The Shockmaster," the famously inept character who, on his first WCW appearance, fell through a wall and lost his mask (later becoming an internet meme).
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At around the 27-minute mark, Peter and Ned overhear students discussing Spider-Man's identity, and one of them suggests that Spider-Man might be "seriously burned" under his mask. This may be a reference to Deadpool, another Marvel hero who wears a costume very similar to Spider-Man's and has a horrific scar under his mask. Deadpool and Spider-Man often team up in the comics.
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There are several similarities between the villain Adrian Toomes and the villain Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002): each is the father of one of Peter Parker's classmates (Liz here, Harry Osborn in the earlier film); both are initially motivated to become villains after being forced out of government contracts; each discovers Spider-Man's true identity by talking to Peter Parker and catching him in a lie (Liz tells her father that Peter left them in Washington, D.C.; Norman notices the scratches on Peter's arm at dinner); and both use their gliders in a sneak attack meant to kill Spider-Man. Both attempts fail.
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The film's working title was Summer of George, a reference to the eighth-season finale of Seinfeld (1989). Co-producer Eric Hauserman Carroll said the code name was chosen because, during production, crew members watched reruns of the series on a local Los Angeles TV channel on weekdays and discussed them with each other the next day. As a result, the sequel's working title is Fall of George. It was also a fitting choice because George Costanza falls in love with Marisa Tomei (Aunt May), who appeared as a guest star in one episode.
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(At about the 27th minute) When Liz and the other girls are talking in the gym and the subject of Spider-Man comes up, Betty mentions "could be almost thirty under that mask". This may be a nod to the previous two Spider-Man film actors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, who were in their mid-to-late twenties when they made their own Spider-Man films.
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(At about the 37-minute mark) While mockingly commenting on Peter Parker's detective work, Tony Stark calls him "Crockett." This is a reference to Miami Vice (1984), but it is no surprise that Peter does not get the 1980s reference, since he calls films like Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) "really old."
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At around 27 minutes, while Peter (Tom Holland), Ned (Jacob Batalon) and the others are in gym class, Peter's crush Liz (Laura Harrier) talks about Spider-Man with her group of friends. When asked whether Spider-Man is "hot," one of the girls replies, "He could be thirty under there." Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films cast actors older than their high school counterparts. The same argument can be made for Andrew Garfield and Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man films, though the age gap was not as severe. This leads to the belief that the line is a jab at the earlier films, since this film actually cast age-appropriate actors and actresses for high school.
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(Around 1 hour 23 minutes) Kenneth Choi, who plays Principal Morita, also portrayed Howling Commando Jim Morita in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). In the principal's office you can see photographs of the Howling Commando implying that they are relatives and that the principal is his grandson.
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Although he is the main villain, Vulture never deliberately tries to harm innocent people, only those who directly confront him. All dangers to people and damage to buildings stem from Spider-Man interfering with Vulture's plans to steal and/or sell weapons.
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At around 23 minutes, this is the first solo Spider-Man film that neither mentions nor features Uncle Ben in any way. Peter Parker briefly refers to bad things that happened to Aunt May and could mean the loss of her husband, but he does not go into detail. Later, May gets Peter a shirt and tie, possibly once belonging to Ben, to dress him for the dance. Uncle Ben's absence may stem from respect for Cliff Robertson, who died in 2011.
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At around 1 hour 10 minutes, when Spider-Man goes to confront Aaron Davis in the garage (where Aaron touches his hand to the trunk), the license plate reads UCSM01. This may refer to Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, the first appearance of Miles Morales as Spider-Man in the Ultimate Marvel Universe. Donald Glover, who plays Davis, was said to be in line to play Morales in a future Spider-Man film.
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