{"slug":"spider-man-into-the-spider-verse","type":"movie","title":"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse","year":2018,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":"spider-verse","genres":["Animation","Action","Adventure"],"creators":["Bob Persichetti","Peter Ramsey","Rodney Rothman"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse","hook":"The spider is tagged #42, Stan Lee rides half the subway cars, and Peter's flop Christmas album is a real record you can stream.","intro":"The very first frame of *Into the Spider-Verse* is an easter egg. Before a single character speaks, a **Comics Code Authority** seal flashes on screen — the approval stamp that sat on nearly every Marvel cover from 1954 into the 2000s — announcing that this movie intends to be a comic book, not just adapt one. From there the density never lets up: Ben-Day dots, caption-box thought balloons, off-register printing errors, and a Brooklyn where Coca-Cola is *Koca-Soda* and FedEx is *RedEx*, because Miles Morales' Earth-1610 is deliberately not our world.\n\nThe filmmakers openly encouraged the frame-hunting. Co-director Bob Persichetti told fans that *\"every time a train passes the screen, you should slow it down\"* because the cars are stuffed with hidden gags — including multiple secret **Stan Lee** cameos animated by crews who each wanted their own shot at drawing him. Miles' phone contacts name-check his real co-creators, and the throwaway joke about Peter Parker's embarrassing Christmas album turned out to be a real EP Sony actually released, with Chris Pine crooning \"Spidey-Bells.\"\n\nBelow are the eggs we could verify against director interviews, creator statements, and cross-checked outlet coverage — from the prologue's shot-for-shot Sam Raimi homages to the Earth-67 pointing meme waiting after the credits.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":324857,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/324857","imdbId":"tt4633694","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4633694/"},"counts":{"eggs":18,"confirmed":6,"community":12,"theory":0,"sources":20},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"One scene, and it's worth the wait: a year-2099 lab introduces Miguel O'Hara (Oscar Isaac), the first person to make an autonomous jump across the multiverse. His chosen destination — Earth-67, home of the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon — leads directly into a canon recreation of the famous Spider-Man pointing meme. Before that, the credits include a heartfelt dedication card to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.","detail":"One scene, and it waits until the absolute end. There is nothing mid-credits, so the wait is the full length of an animated feature's crawl — long, and worth it.\n\nBefore the stinger, the credits carry the film's most affecting card. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko both died in 2018 while the film was in post, and Sony added a dedication: an image of Lee's glasses over his own words — that the person who helps others simply because it is the right thing to do \"is indeed, without a doubt, a real superhero\" — followed by \"Thank you Stan Lee & Steve Ditko for telling us we're not the only ones.\" After ninety minutes arguing that anyone can be behind the mask, it lands hard.\n\nThen the scene. It opens in 2099, in a lab belonging to Miguel O'Hara — voiced by Oscar Isaac, and introduced here as the first person able to cross the multiverse deliberately rather than by accident, with technology rather than a collider going wrong. He announces he is going back to the beginning one more time and jumps to Earth-67: the world of the 1967 *Spider-Man* cartoon, rendered in that show's flat, cheap, gloriously stiff animation and dubbed to match its recording quality. The two Spider-Men point at each other and immediately start arguing about who is pointing. The film ends by making the internet's oldest Spider-Man meme canon.\n\nIt sets up more than the joke suggests. Miguel's ability to travel under his own power is the seed of the Spider-Society in *Across the Spider-Verse*, and the trilogy's rule that crossing dimensions on purpose requires hardware starts right here. It also establishes that this franchise treats every previous screen Spider-Man as a real place you can walk into — the licence the sequel then spends two and a half hours cashing in. Stay.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"comics-code-authority-seal","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-comics-code-authority-seal","title":"The Comics Code Authority Seal of Approval","description":"The film opens with a quick flash of the Comics Code Authority stamp — the self-censorship seal that appeared on the cover of virtually every mainstream American comic from 1954 until the early 2000s, when Marvel finally dropped it. Putting the seal in front of the story is the movie's mission statement in miniature: this is a comic book that happens to move. It also quietly dates the film's visual DNA to the classic newsprint era it imitates with halftone dots and misaligned color printing throughout.","scene":"The very first seconds of the film, around the glitching studio logos","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Nerdist — 15 Easter Eggs in Into the Spider-Verse","url":"https://nerdist.com/article/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"spidey-bells-christmas-album","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-spidey-bells-christmas-album","title":"Peter's Flop Christmas Album Is a Real Record","description":"In the prologue, blond Peter Parker sheepishly admits to a \"so-so\" Christmas album among his merchandising misfires. Sony then made the joke real: *A Very Spidey Christmas* is an actual five-track EP released alongside the film in December 2018, featuring Chris Pine performing \"Spidey-Bells (A Hero's Lament)\" and \"Up on the House Top,\" plus Jake Johnson and other cast members on Spider-fied holiday standards. A snippet of \"Spidey-Bells\" also plays during the credits, making this one of the rare easter eggs you can add to your own music library.","scene":"Blond Peter's opening 'I'm Spider-Man' montage; the album exists on streaming services","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","meta","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"GamesRadar — There's a Spider-Verse Christmas album featuring Chris Pine","url":"https://www.gamesradar.com/theres-a-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-christmas-album-featuring-chris-pine-and-its-only-dollar5-heres-how-to-listen-to-it/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"raimi-trilogy-homages","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-raimi-trilogy-homages","title":"The Prologue Replays the Sam Raimi Trilogy","description":"Blond Peter's highlight reel is a rapid-fire recreation of Tobey Maguire's movies: the upside-down rain kiss from *Spider-Man* (2002), stopping the runaway elevated train from *Spider-Man 2*, and — played completely straight — the infamous street-strutting \"evil dance\" from *Spider-Man 3*, which this Peter refuses to explain (\"we don't really talk about this\"). Jake Johnson's Peter B. later jokes about having a bad back, a wink at the train stunt's toll and at how the older Spider-films have aged in fans' memory. It's an affectionate roast that establishes the multiverse rules: those movies happened, somewhere.","scene":"Opening montage narrated by the blond Peter Parker of Miles' universe","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Easter Egg We Found","url":"https://collider.com/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["restaged-famous-shot"],"referencesSlug":"spider-man","referencesWork":null},{"id":"koca-soda-alternate-brands","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-koca-soda-alternate-brands","title":"Koca-Soda, RedEx and the PDNY: Miles' Earth Isn't Ours","description":"Every brand in Miles' Brooklyn is slightly wrong on purpose. Coca-Cola is \"Koca-Soda,\" FedEx trucks read \"RedEx,\" the phone carrier is \"C-Mobile,\" and even the police wear \"PDNY\" instead of NYPD. Times Square signage keeps the gag running with \"Picaboo\" standing in for Snapchat and \"Planet Inglewood\" for Planet Hollywood. The kicker: flashbacks to Peter B. Parker's home dimension show regular Coca-Cola branding, silently confirming that his Earth is (roughly) ours while Miles' Earth-1610 is a parallel one. It's world-building delivered entirely through set dressing.","scene":"Background signage throughout Miles' Brooklyn — delivery trucks, bodega fridges, police cars, Times Square","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"WhatCulture — 20 Things You Didn't Know About Into the Spider-Verse","url":"https://whatculture.com/film/20-things-you-didn-t-know-about-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse?page=12"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage","product-of-the-fictional-universe"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"untied-air-jordan-1s","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-untied-air-jordan-1s","title":"Miles' Untied Jordan 1s Became a Real Sneaker Drop","description":"Miles spends the movie in red-and-white Air Jordan 1s in the classic \"Chicago\" colorway, always with the laces untied — a deliberate character beat about a kid who won't fully button himself up for his fancy new school. Nike closed the loop in real life: the Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG \"Origin Story\" released on December 14, 2018 — the film's opening weekend — with reflective dot details on the red panels and a Spider-Man-blue \"Nike Air\" tongue tag. The shoes even survive into his final Spider-suit.","scene":"Miles' introduction and essentially every scene he's in; check the laces","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Nerdist — The Origins of Miles Morales' Air Jordans","url":"https://nerdist.com/article/spider-verse-miles-morales-shoes-air-jordans-origins/"},{"label":"SneakerFiles — Air Jordan 1 'Origin Story' release","url":"https://www.sneakerfiles.com/air-jordan-1-origin-story-spider-verse-555088-602-release-date/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"community-on-uncle-aarons-tv","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-community-on-uncle-aarons-tv","title":"Donald Glover's Community Episode on Uncle Aaron's TV","description":"When Miles hangs out at Uncle Aaron's apartment, the TV is playing *Community* — specifically the season 2 premiere \"Anthropology 101,\" the scene where Donald Glover's Troy wakes up in Spider-Man pajamas. That image helped fuel the 2010 #Donald4Spiderman campaign, which Miles co-creator Brian Michael Bendis has cited as an inspiration while creating Miles Morales. Glover later voiced Miles in the *Ultimate Spider-Man* cartoon and played Aaron Davis himself in *Spider-Man: Homecoming* — so the egg is effectively Miles' uncle watching Miles' own origin story on television.","scene":"On the TV in Uncle Aaron's apartment during Miles' visit","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta","cameo"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CinemaBlend — The Hilarious Donald Glover Easter Egg You May Have Missed","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2550586/the-hilarious-donald-glover-easter-egg-you-may-have-missed-in-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"community","referencesWork":null},{"id":"the-42-spider","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-the-42-spider","title":"The Spider Is Tagged #42 — and 42s Are Hidden Everywhere","description":"The Alchemax spider that bites Miles has \"42\" printed on its back, and the number keeps recurring: in background signage across Brooklyn, and in a falling sign whose digits land as a perfect 42 when Miles tumbles off a building. Miles co-creator Brian Michael Bendis has said the number nods to *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*, while it's also Jackie Robinson's universally retired Brooklyn Dodgers number. The sequel then retroactively made it plot: the spider came from Earth-42, pulled across dimensions by Alchemax's collider. One number, three layers of meaning.","scene":"On the spider's abdomen in the abandoned subway station, and hidden in backgrounds throughout the film","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Nerdist — 15 Easter Eggs in Into the Spider-Verse","url":"https://nerdist.com/article/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"ScreenCrush — Across the Spider-Verse explains the first film's big mystery","url":"https://screencrush.com/what-42-means-spider-verse/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"spider-man-across-the-spider-verse","referencesWork":null},{"id":"bendis-pichelli-ditko-contacts","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-bendis-pichelli-ditko-contacts","title":"Miles' Phone Contacts Are His Real-World Creators","description":"Freeze-frame the phone screens and the contact lists read like a Marvel masthead: Miles has \"B. Bendis\" and \"S. Pichelli\" in his phone — writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, who co-created Miles Morales in 2011's *Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man* — while his dad's contacts include Steve Ditko, the artist who co-created the original Spider-Man with Stan Lee in 1962. It's the film signing its source material in the margins, visible for only a few frames.","scene":"Phone screens shown during Miles' texting scenes; pause to read the contact names","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"stan-lee-costume-shop-and-hidden-crowds","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-stan-lee-costume-shop-and-hidden-crowds","title":"Stan Lee's Costume Shop Cameo — Plus Hidden Ones on Every Train","description":"Stan Lee voices the shopkeeper who sells Miles his cheap Spider-Man Halloween costume, delivering \"I'm really gonna miss him\" about the fallen Peter Parker — devastating in a film released a month after Lee's death. But the directors confirmed that's only the visible one: because nearly every animator wanted a turn drawing Stan, he's hidden throughout crowd, subway, and train shots. Co-director Bob Persichetti's tip: \"every time a train passes the screen, you should slow it down\" — the cars are packed with him. Lee also gets a bonus voice cameo in the post-credits scene.","scene":"The costume shop after Peter's memorial; then freeze-frame crowd and train shots across the whole film","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook.com — Directors reveal multiple hidden Stan Lee cameos","url":"https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/into-the-spider-verse-stan-lee-multiple-cameos/"},{"label":"Mental Floss — Stan Lee made several cameos in Into the Spider-Verse","url":"https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/570072/stan-lee-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-cameos"},{"label":"Syfy Wire — Even more Stan Lee cameos than we thought","url":"https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/into-the-spider-verse-has-even-more-stan-lee-cameos-than-we-thought"}],"motifs":["stan-lee-cameo"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"post-malone-banksy-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-post-malone-banksy-cameo","title":"Post Malone Thinks the Bent Lamppost Is a Banksy","description":"Post Malone doesn't just supply the film's signature song — he has a blink-and-miss voice cameo as a Brooklyn bystander who looks at a warped lamppost (collateral damage from the super-powered action) and deadpans, \"I think it's a Banksy.\" Fitting, since \"Sunflower\" by Post Malone and Swae Lee is the track Miles mumbles along to in his bedroom introduction, and it became a chart-topping hit off the film's soundtrack. He's right there in the voice credits if you doubt your ears.","scene":"A street scene roughly half an hour in; listen for the bystander commenting on the bent lamppost","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","music","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Looper — The truth about Post Malone's Spider-Verse cameo","url":"https://www.looper.com/207800/the-truth-about-post-malones-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-cameo/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"kingpin-sienkiewicz-design","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-kingpin-sienkiewicz-design","title":"Kingpin Is a Walking Bill Sienkiewicz Painting","description":"Wilson Fisk's absurd, door-frame-filling silhouette — a black mountain topped by a tiny white head — is drawn from Bill Sienkiewicz's expressionistic take on the character in the pages of Marvel comics like *Daredevil: Love and War*. The design team leaned into bold abstraction rather than realistic anatomy, so several shots frame Fisk as pure negative space swallowing the screen. It's one of the clearest cases of the film treating iconic comic art styles, not live-action movies, as its visual source of truth.","scene":"Any Kingpin scene — especially his first full reveal and his office confrontations","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CBR — How Into the Spider-Verse perfected Kingpin","url":"https://www.cbr.com/kingpin-how-into-the-spider-verse-perfected-the-spider-man-villain/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"olivia-octavius-reveal","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-olivia-octavius-reveal","title":"Doc Ock Is a Doctor — and Her Name Is Olivia","description":"The friendly Alchemax scientist who greets the intruding Spider-heroes introduces herself as \"Dr. Octavius,\" but the film hides her villainy in plain sight: colleagues call her Liv, and her wild hair and goggles read as quirky-scientist rather than supervillain until the tentacles deploy. Olivia Octavius is a gender-flipped Otto Octavius voiced by Kathryn Hahn — the comics had briefly put a woman, Lady Octopus, in the role back in *Amazing Spider-Man* #406 (1995). Her line describing alternate universes as \"what if... to infinity\" doubles as a wink at Marvel's *What If* anthology series.","scene":"The Alchemax lab infiltration, when the head scientist introduces herself to Peter B. and Miles","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing","reference","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Easter Egg We Found","url":"https://collider.com/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"earth-designation-monitors","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-earth-designation-monitors","title":"The Monitors Use Real Marvel Multiverse Numbers","description":"The dimensional readouts in the film stick to Marvel Comics' official multiverse catalog: Miles' world is designated Earth-1610 (the Ultimate Universe where he was created), while a monitor tags Peter B. Parker with E-616, the number of Marvel's core comics continuity. The rest of the team keeps their comic-accurate addresses too — Gwen is from Earth-65, Spider-Man Noir from Earth-90214, Peni Parker from Earth-14512, Spider-Ham from Earth-8311, and Miguel O'Hara from Earth-928. For continuity obsessives, it's confirmation the film treats the comics' cosmology as canon.","scene":"Computer readouts in the Alchemax lab and collider control screens; pause to read the E-numbers","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — All Spider-Verse easter eggs revealed","url":"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-videos/all-spider-man-spider-verse-easter-eggs-revealed-1169124/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage","book-accurate-detail"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"peters-lair-suit-closet","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-peters-lair-suit-closet","title":"The Suit Closet in Peter's Lair Spans Comics, Games and the MCU","description":"Blond Peter's underground bunker beneath Aunt May's shed displays a museum of alternate Spider-suits pulled from decades of canon: the white-spider Advanced Suit from Insomniac's 2018 PS4 game, the armored Iron Spider suit from *Amazing Spider-Man* #529 (familiar from the MCU), the black-and-green Stealth suit from the \"Big Time\" era, the black *Secret War* costume, the bulletproof MK I, the Electro-Proof suit, and even the caped costume from 1980's *What If?* #19. The staging — rows of illuminated suits — plays like a loving riff on Batcave costume displays.","scene":"Inside Peter's high-tech lair under Aunt May's garden shed, when Miles and the Spider-gang gear up","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Easter Egg We Found","url":"https://collider.com/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 30 Things You Completely Missed","url":"https://screenrant.com/spiderman-spiderverse-movie-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["book-accurate-detail"],"referencesSlug":"avengers-infinity-war","referencesWork":null},{"id":"spider-mobile-in-the-lair","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-spider-mobile-in-the-lair","title":"The Spider-Mobile Exists in This Universe","description":"Parked in blond Peter's lair is the Spider-Mobile, one of Marvel's goofiest artifacts: a web-shooting dune buggy from the 1970s *Amazing Spider-Man* comics that only existed because Marvel cut a toy-friendly promotional deal — despite Peter Parker famously not knowing how to drive. In the comics the car ended up dumped in the Hudson River; here it's kept in mint condition, implying this universe's Spider-Man leaned all the way into merchandising, which tracks with his cereal, popsicles, and that Christmas album.","scene":"Background of Peter's lair beneath Aunt May's shed; look behind the suit displays","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["book-accurate-detail"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"times-square-parody-billboards","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-times-square-parody-billboards","title":"From Dusk Till Shaun and the Parody Billboards of Times Square","description":"The film's Times Square runs its own alternate-universe entertainment industry. Billboards advertise *From Dusk Till Shaun* — a mashup sequel to Edgar Wright's *Shaun of the Dead* that doesn't exist in our world — plus *Hi, Hello*, riffing on John Mulaney and Nick Kroll's Broadway show *Oh, Hello* (Mulaney voices Spider-Ham), *Clone College* (a nod to Lord and Miller's cult series *Clone High*), a Weeknd stand-in called \"The Kisslnd,\" and *Baby Showers*. Elsewhere, signage honors Spider-Man's comic creators with \"Bendis\" ads and a \"Romita Ramen\" shop, and Uncle Aaron watches Wright's *The World's End* at home.","scene":"Times Square backgrounds during the city swing-throughs; freeze-frame the billboards","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Easter Egg We Found","url":"https://collider.com/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Complete Guide to Marvel Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-complete-guide-to-marvel-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":"shaun-of-the-dead","referencesWork":null},{"id":"lee-ditko-memorial-card","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-lee-ditko-memorial-card","title":"The Credits Dedication to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko","description":"The end credits pause on a memorial card for Spider-Man's creators, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who both died in 2018, the year of the film's release. It features Lee's glasses and his quote defining a real superhero as the person \"who helps others simply because it should or must be done,\" followed by the film's own thesis-summing line: \"Thank you Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for telling us we're not the only ones.\" Given that the movie's whole point is that anyone can wear the mask, it lands as one of the best-integrated tributes in any Marvel film.","scene":"In the end credits, before the post-credits scene","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CBR — Into the Spider-Verse pays tribute to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko","url":"https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-into-spider-verse-lee-ditko-tribute/"},{"label":"IMDb — Crazy Credits","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4633694/crazycredits/"}],"motifs":["in-memoriam-dedication"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"earth-67-pointing-meme","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse#egg-earth-67-pointing-meme","title":"The Post-Credits Scene Canonizes the Spider-Man Pointing Meme","description":"After the credits, Miguel O'Hara — Spider-Man 2099, voiced by Oscar Isaac, with Greta Lee as his AI assistant Lyla — tests a dimension-hopping watch and lands on \"Earth-67,\" the world of the 1967 *Spider-Man* cartoon. He immediately gets into a finger-pointing standoff with that show's Spidey, recreating the internet's favorite \"two Spider-Men pointing\" meme, which originated in the 1967 episode \"Double Identity.\" The producers discussed the gag on Marvel.com, and Stan Lee sneaks in a final voice cameo as Earth-67's J. Jonah Jameson. The scene also quietly sets up the sequel's multiverse-hopping premise.","scene":"The post-credits scene, after the full credits roll","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","cameo","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Marvel.com — Producers on that post-credit scene","url":"https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-producers-post-credit-scene-spoilers"},{"label":"Collider — Spider-Verse post-credits explained","url":"https://collider.com/spider-verse-post-credits-explained/"}],"motifs":["restaged-famous-shot","sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":"spider-man-across-the-spider-verse","referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?","answer":"We've verified and cataloged 18 significant easter eggs here, but the true number runs far higher — the directors have said trains and crowd shots alone hide dozens of gags, including multiple secret Stan Lee cameos. Between comic-accurate Earth designations, parody brands like Koca-Soda, Raimi trilogy homages, and creator name-drops in Miles' phone, nearly every frame carries at least one deliberate reference."},{"question":"What does the number 42 mean in Into the Spider-Verse?","answer":"The spider that bites Miles is tagged #42, and 42s recur in backgrounds throughout the film. Co-creator Brian Michael Bendis has linked the number to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it's also Jackie Robinson's universally retired Brooklyn Dodgers number, and Across the Spider-Verse added a third layer: the spider was pulled from Earth-42 by Alchemax's collider, making the number a plot point, not just a gag."},{"question":"How many Stan Lee cameos are in Into the Spider-Verse?","answer":"More than anyone can easily count. The obvious one is Stan the costume-shop owner, who sells Miles his suit and says \"I'm really gonna miss him.\" But the directors confirmed animators hid Lee in numerous crowd, subway, and train shots throughout the film, and he voices Earth-67's J. Jonah Jameson in the post-credits scene. Co-director Bob Persichetti's advice: slow down every passing train."},{"question":"Does Into the Spider-Verse have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Yes — one scene after the full credits. It introduces Miguel O'Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, voiced by Oscar Isaac, who uses a prototype watch to make the multiverse's first autonomous dimension jump. He arrives on Earth-67, the 1960s cartoon's universe, and re-enacts the Spider-Man pointing meme. Stay through the Stan Lee and Steve Ditko dedication card to reach it."},{"question":"Is Peter Parker's Christmas album from the movie real?","answer":"Yes. The prologue jokes that Miles' universe's Spider-Man cut a \"so-so\" holiday record, and Sony actually released it: A Very Spidey Christmas, a five-track EP from December 2018. Chris Pine performs \"Spidey-Bells (A Hero's Lament)\" and \"Up on the House Top,\" with Jake Johnson and other cast members covering the rest. It's available on major streaming services."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-10","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}