{"slug":"spider-man-no-way-home","type":"movie","title":"Spider-Man: No Way Home","year":2021,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":"mcu","genres":["Action","Adventure","Science Fiction"],"creators":["Jon Watts"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home","hook":"Three Spider-Men, five returning villains, and a license plate that announces Doc Ock one second before he rips through the bridge.","intro":"Freeze the frame when Peter chases the MIT administrator's car onto the Alexander Hamilton Bridge and you'll see her license plate reads **63ASM-3** — *The Amazing Spider-Man* #3, published 1963, the first appearance of Doctor Octopus. Seconds later, Otto Octavius tears the road apart. That's the level *No Way Home* operates on: a multiverse blockbuster that hides its biggest reveals in plain sight and its deepest cuts in set dressing.\n\nBecause Jon Watts's third MCU Spider-Man film folds in Tobey Maguire's Raimi trilogy and Andrew Garfield's *Amazing* duology, nearly every scene doubles as a reference engine — organic web-shooter debates, a back-crack gag that reaches all the way to *Seabiscuit*, and a mid-film staging of the 1967 pointing meme that Garfield himself pitched on set. Several of the best details here aren't fan theories: Watts, Garfield, and Kevin Feige have confirmed them on the record.\n\nAnd one egg is still officially unaccounted for. Watts says a *very* deep-cut reference to the old YouTube sketches he made with co-writer Christopher Ford is hidden somewhere in the movie — and as of his 2025 comments, nobody had found it. Consider this guide your head start.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":634649,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/634649","imdbId":"tt10872600","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10872600/"},"counts":{"eggs":19,"confirmed":3,"community":16,"theory":0,"sources":21},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Spider-Man: No Way Home has 2 post-credit scenes.","scenes":2,"description":"Two scenes. First: Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock gets an MCU crash course from a Mexican bartender before Strange's spell yanks him home — leaving a small piece of the Venom symbiote behind on the bar. Second: a full teaser trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, making the multiverse fallout explicit.","detail":"Two scenes — one mid-credits, one after the final card — and the second one is different depending on which release you watched.\n\nThe mid-credits scene lands a few minutes into the roll. Eddie Brock is at a beachfront bar somewhere warm, several drinks deep, being patiently briefed on this universe by a bartender: the billionaire in the metal suit, the green rage monster, the purple alien who collected stones. Eddie concludes that the obvious next move is to fly to New York and introduce himself to Peter Parker — and at that precise moment Strange's corrective spell fires and pulls every multiversal visitor home. Eddie vanishes mid-sentence. What stays behind, glistening on the bar top, is a small pool of the **symbiote**, twitching.\n\nThat fragment is the whole point of the scene. Sony's *Venom* films and the MCU had been circling one another for years, and this is the first physical object to cross between them; *Venom: The Last Dance* builds its plot around that residue.\n\nThe second scene, in the original December 2021 theatrical run, is not a scene at all but a full teaser for *Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness*, capped with a \"Doctor Strange will be back\" card — the studio drawing the causal line from Peter's broken spell to Wanda's rampage as explicitly as it could without dialogue.\n\nThis is where the version matters. When Sony reissued the film in September 2022 as **The More Fun Stuff Version**, the trailer was gone, for the obvious reason that the sequel had been in cinemas for months, and a new post-credits scene replaced it: Betty Brant hosting a segment of her Midtown News show, running a cheerful photo montage of the senior class including the Europe trip from *Far From Home*. Peter is absent from every picture but one, where his face happens to be turned away. It is a quiet, cruel little scene, and it is the only place in either cut where the film shows you what the spell actually cost him.\n\nStay for both. If you have a choice of versions, the extended one has the sadder and better ending.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"rogers-the-musical-billboard","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-rogers-the-musical-billboard","title":"Rogers: The Musical Is Already Playing on Broadway","description":"As Peter web-swings MJ away from the Mysterio-reveal chaos in the opening minutes, the Times Square billboards include ads for *Rogers: The Musical* — the gloriously tacky Captain America stage show that Clint Barton suffers through in episode 1 of the *Hawkeye* Disney+ series. It's a sly bit of MCU calendar-syncing: *No Way Home* opens in late summer, while *Hawkeye* takes place that Christmas, so the show is just beginning its run here. Marvel even released an official clip that put the billboard front and center before release.","scene":"Opening swing through Times Square, right after the Mysterio identity-reveal broadcast","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Direct — Hawkeye Easter Egg Featured in New Spider-Man: No Way Home Clip","url":"https://thedirect.com/article/spider-man-no-way-home-captain-america-musical"},{"label":"CBR — Spider-Man: No Way Home's Opening Scene Already Connects to Hawkeye","url":"https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-3-hawkeye-rogers-the-musical/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"matt-murdock-very-good-lawyer","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-matt-murdock-very-good-lawyer","title":"Peter's 'Very Good Lawyer' Is Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock","description":"When Peter needs legal help after the DODC comes knocking, the attorney who gets his charges dropped is Matt Murdock — Charlie Cox, reprising his Netflix *Daredevil* role in the MCU for the first time, complete with a superhuman catch of a brick thrown through the window ('I'm a really good lawyer'). Kevin Feige personally called Cox in June 2020 to set it up, and Cox told The Hollywood Reporter he sat on the secret for nearly two years. Feige later confirmed on the record that Cox is *the* MCU Daredevil going forward — a promise the character's later series made good on.","scene":"The legal-counsel scene with Peter, May, and Happy after Peter's interrogation","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — Charlie Cox Spills All on That No Way Home Cameo","url":"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/charlie-cox-spider-man-no-way-home-daredevil-1235090859/"},{"label":"CinemaBlend — No Way Home Featured THAT Cameo After All","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/superheroes/spider-man/spider-man-no-way-home-featured-that-cameo-after-all-and-heres-why-its-such-a-big-deal"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"daredevil-born-again","referencesWork":null},{"id":"feast-shelter-from-comics-and-ps4","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-feast-shelter-from-comics-and-ps4","title":"May Runs F.E.A.S.T. — Straight Out of the Comics and the PS4 Game","description":"Aunt May volunteers at F.E.A.S.T. (Food, Emergency Aid, Shelter and Training), the charity organization Dan Slott introduced in his 2008 *Amazing Spider-Man* run. Gamers know it even better as a central location in Insomniac's *Marvel's Spider-Man* on PS4, where May also works — and where the shelter is secretly bankrolled by Martin Li, a.k.a. Mister Negative. The film keeps the villain association intact in spirit: it's at F.E.A.S.T. that May insists on helping Norman Osborn, the act of compassion that puts the Goblin inside Peter's orbit.","scene":"May's homeless shelter, where Norman Osborn wanders in looking for help","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-marvel-references/"},{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — No Way Home Easter Eggs: The Definitive List","url":"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-1235064008/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"ditko-and-gkane-rooftop-graffiti","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-ditko-and-gkane-rooftop-graffiti","title":"'Ditko' and 'GKane' Graffiti Honor the Artists Who Built Spider-Man","description":"During Peter and MJ's quiet rooftop scene at Midtown School of Science and Technology, the graffiti tags behind them read 'Ditko' and 'Gkane.' The first honors Steve Ditko, the artist who co-created and designed both Spider-Man and Doctor Strange — the two heroes whose worlds collide in this movie. The second nods to Gil Kane, the artist behind era-defining 1970s Spider-Man stories including the death of Gwen Stacy in *The Amazing Spider-Man* #121 — a story this film's third act deliberately echoes and reverses.","scene":"Rooftop of Midtown High while Peter and MJ talk after the identity reveal","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"IMDb — Spider-Man: No Way Home Trivia","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10872600/trivia/"},{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — No Way Home Easter Eggs: The Definitive List","url":"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-1235064008/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"go-get-em-tiger-betty-brant","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-go-get-em-tiger-betty-brant","title":"Betty Brant Signs Off with 'Go Get 'Em, Tiger'","description":"Betty Brant's Midtown News broadcast ends with 'Go get 'em, tiger' — Mary Jane Watson's signature send-off. 'Tiger' is MJ's pet name for Peter throughout the comics (most famously her 'Face it, Tiger... you just hit the jackpot!' introduction in *The Amazing Spider-Man* #42), and it's the exact line Kirsten Dunst's MJ delivers in the final shot of *Spider-Man 2* as Tobey Maguire swings off. Hearing it in a Watts film months before Maguire's Peter walks through a portal plays like a wink in retrospect.","scene":"Betty Brant's Midtown News segment playing at school","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-marvel-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"sanctum-177a-bleecker-equalizer","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-sanctum-177a-bleecker-equalizer","title":"The Sanctum's Comic-Accurate Address — and Its Equalizer Credit","description":"The Sanctum Sanctorum keeps its exact comic-book address, 177A Bleecker Street, a Greenwich Village location Ditko and Stan Lee established back in the 1960s. And in a much stranger flex of New York trivia, Strange mentions that an episode of *The Equalizer* was once filmed in the building — the real 1985–1989 CBS crime drama. It's the kind of joke that rewards viewers who know the Sanctum is modeled on a real block of Bleecker Street with its own screen history.","scene":"Peter's visit to the snowbound Sanctum Sanctorum before the botched spell","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-marvel-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"happys-condo-dum-e-and-downton","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-happys-condo-dum-e-and-downton","title":"DUM-E and Downton Abbey in Happy's Condo","description":"Happy Hogan's bachelor pad is a small museum of Tony Stark leftovers. The robotic arm helping around the condo is DUM-E, Tony's long-suffering workshop bot from the *Iron Man* trilogy — Happy apparently inherited him after *Endgame*. Look around and you'll also spot *Downton Abbey* DVDs, calling back to *Iron Man 3*, where Happy's devotion to the show was a running gag. Even the Lego Death Star vibes feel pointed, given Ned's set met its end in *Homecoming*.","scene":"Happy's condo, where Peter and May hide out from the press","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"BuzzFeed — 43 Spider-Man: No Way Home Easter Eggs You Might've Missed","url":"https://www.buzzfeed.com/noradominick/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-details"},{"label":"Den of Geek — No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-marvel-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"iron-man","referencesWork":null},{"id":"bridge-scene-license-plate-hunt","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-bridge-scene-license-plate-hunt","title":"The Bridge Scene Is a Number-Plate Treasure Hunt","description":"The Doc Ock bridge attack hides at least three numeric eggs. The MIT Assistant Vice Chancellor's license plate reads 63ASM-3 — *The Amazing Spider-Man* #3, 1963, Doctor Octopus's first appearance, glimpsed moments before Otto himself arrives. A nearby taxi is numbered 1228, a nod to Stan Lee's December 28 birthday. And another plate reads TCR 339, widely read as Timely Comics — the Marvel predecessor founded in 1939. Production design as foreshadowing: the scene literally tells you who's coming if you can read fast enough.","scene":"Alexander Hamilton Bridge, as Peter catches up to the MIT administrator's car","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — No Way Home Easter Eggs: The Definitive List","url":"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-1235064008/"},{"label":"IMDb — Spider-Man: No Way Home Trivia","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10872600/trivia/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage","real-world-date-reference"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"aunt-may-amazing-fantasy-15-quote","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-aunt-may-amazing-fantasy-15-quote","title":"May Delivers the Amazing Fantasy #15 Line Word-for-Word","description":"Aunt May's dying words — 'With great power, there must also come great responsibility' — are not the paraphrase every previous Spider-Man movie used. That's the exact text from the final caption of *Amazing Fantasy* #15 (1962), Spider-Man's first appearance, making this the most comic-accurate delivery of the credo ever put on film. It also completes a deliberate inversion: in this universe the lesson comes from May, not Uncle Ben, and later both Maguire's and Garfield's Peters confirm their Uncle Bens said it too — three universes, one sentence.","scene":"May's final moments after the Green Goblin's attack at Happy's condo","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook.com — No Way Home Finally Brings Classic Marvel Quote to the MCU","url":"https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/spider-man-no-way-home-classic-marvel-quote-mcu/"},{"label":"Looper — What Only Comic Book Fans Know About Aunt May's Big Line","url":"https://www.looper.com/714110/what-only-comic-book-fans-know-about-aunt-mays-big-line-in-spider-man-no-way-home/"}],"motifs":["book-accurate-detail"],"referencesSlug":"spider-man","referencesWork":null},{"id":"neds-lola-reveal-beat-reddit","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-neds-lola-reveal-beat-reddit","title":"The Spider-Men Debut in a Grandma's Kitchen Because Reddit Guessed the Rooftop","description":"Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield were originally going to step out of portals on a rooftop — until director Jon Watts saw Reddit fan art predicting exactly that. 'If that's exactly what everyone thinks we're going to do, we absolutely can't do that,' Watts recalled, so the two Spider-Men instead materialize in Ned's lola's living room, dodging thrown pillows and getting asked to clean cobwebs. Bonus milestone: the scene features the MCU's first spoken Tagalog, an unsubtitled touch honoring Jacob Batalon's Filipino heritage.","scene":"Ned's grandmother's house, where Ned discovers he can open portals with the sling ring","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","trivia","cameo"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — Jon Watts Changed the Spider-Man Returns Because of Reddit Sleuths","url":"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spider-man-no-way-home-tobey-maguire-andrew-garfield-reddit-1236304404/"},{"label":"Collider — Why the Unsubtitled Tagalog Scene Matters","url":"https://collider.com/spider-man-no-way-home-why-unsubtitled-tagalog-matters/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"ned-hobgoblin-promise","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-ned-hobgoblin-promise","title":"Ned Promises He Won't Turn Into a Supervillain — His Comic Self Did","description":"Ned's anxious vow that he won't become a villain who tries to kill Spider-Man is a direct wink at the comics, where Ned Leeds was unmasked as the Hobgoblin — one of the nastier betrayals in 1980s Spider-Man lore (later retconned into brainwashing, but the damage was done). Coming right after Ned discovers he has a knack for sorcery with Strange's sling ring, the line reads as both a joke and a keep-your-eye-on-him flag for the MCU's future.","scene":"The lab, as Ned and the alternate Peters compare notes on best friends and villains","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"IMDb — Spider-Man: No Way Home Trivia","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10872600/trivia/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"organic-web-shooter-debate","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-organic-web-shooter-debate","title":"The Organic Web-Shooter Debate Finally Happens on Screen","description":"Within minutes of meeting, the three Peters get into the argument fans have had since 2002: Maguire's Spider-Man produces webbing biologically — Sam Raimi's most famous change from the comics — while Holland and Garfield build mechanical shooters and cartridges. The others' baffled fascination ('It comes out of you?') turns a two-decade fandom flame war into character comedy, and doubles as a loving acknowledgment that each film franchise made structurally different Spider-Men.","scene":"The school lab, as the three Spider-Men team up to cook cures","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Screen Rant — Why Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man Has Organic Web-Shooters","url":"https://screenrant.com/tobey-maguire-spiderman-organic-webshooters/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-marvel-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"spider-man","referencesWork":null},{"id":"pointing-meme-recreated","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-pointing-meme-recreated","title":"The 1967 Pointing Meme, Staged by Garfield Himself","description":"When Ned yells 'Peter!' in the lab and all three Spider-Men point at each other, the film is recreating the famous double-Spider-Man pointing meme from the 1967 animated series episode 'Double Identity.' Andrew Garfield revealed the moment grew out of a behind-the-scenes photoshoot of the three actors pointing at each other — he had a 'lightning bolt' idea mid-laugh and ran to Jon Watts to pitch working it into the scene. Sony leaned in later, releasing an official three-Spideys pointing photo captioned 'Of course, we got THE meme.'","scene":"The school lab — listen for Ned calling 'Peter' and watch all three react","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook.com — Andrew Garfield Shares Pointing Meme Recreation Backstory","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/news/spider-man-no-way-home-spider-men-pointing-meme-andrew-garfield-tom-holland-tobey-maguire/"},{"label":"Screen Rant — Andrew Garfield Improvised No Way Home's Pointing Scene","url":"https://screenrant.com/spiderman-no-way-home-pointing-meme-andrew-garfield/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"tobey-back-crack-spider-man-2","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-tobey-back-crack-spider-man-2","title":"Tobey's Stiff Back Is a Spider-Man 2 Deep Cut (via Seabiscuit)","description":"Before the final battle, Maguire's Peter admits his back is stiff and Garfield's Peter cracks it for him — a callback to *Spider-Man 2*, where a de-powered Peter thuds off a rooftop groaning 'My back... my back.' The joke has a real-world layer: Maguire's genuine back problems from filming *Seabiscuit* nearly cost him the *Spider-Man 2* role, with Jake Gyllenhaal famously waiting in the wings. Twenty years later, the 'old man Spider-Man' bit doubles as the trilogy's most affectionate piece of self-deprecation.","scene":"Statue of Liberty scaffolding, as the three Spider-Men prep for the villains","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","meta","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-marvel-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"power-of-the-sun-callback","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-power-of-the-sun-callback","title":"'The Power of the Sun, in the Palm of My Hand' — Completed at Last","description":"When a cured Otto Octavius pulls the arc reactor off Electro during the Statue of Liberty battle, he repeats his *Spider-Man 2* mantra: 'The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand.' In 2004 the line introduced his doomed fusion demonstration; here it lands as redemption, with Otto finally holding limitless power and using it to help rather than destroy. Pair it with his earlier rooftop exchange with Maguire's Peter — grown-up, 'trying to do better' — and it's the tidiest arc any returning villain gets.","scene":"Statue of Liberty final battle, as Otto yanks the arc reactor from Electro","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — No Way Home Easter Eggs and Marvel Universe References","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home-easter-eggs-marvel-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"electro-black-spider-man-miles","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home#egg-electro-black-spider-man-miles","title":"Electro Wonders About a Black Spider-Man — Hello, Miles Morales","description":"After being cured, Jamie Foxx's Max Dillon tells Garfield's Peter there must be a Black Spider-Man out there somewhere — the MCU's clearest nod yet to Miles Morales, the Brooklyn Spider-Man created in 2011 and made a household name by *Into the Spider-Verse*. It stacks on top of the MCU's earlier breadcrumb: Aaron Davis (Donald Glover), Miles's uncle in the comics, explicitly mentioned his nephew in *Homecoming*. 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Garfield has described the healing as intentional, telling interviewers his Peter 'got to heal the most traumatic moment of his own life' by saving his 'younger brother's' love, calling it 'cosmically beautiful.' 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Just as important is how he gets it: with the Stark resources gone, Peter sews it himself at a desk-top sewing machine — exactly how comics Peter (and Maguire's Raimi-era Peter) always handled his wardrobe. 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Watts revealed the egg's existence himself but has declined to say where in the film it hides, which makes it live-action Spider-Man's great white whale — a confirmed-to-exist detail with no confirmed location. If you're frame-hunting, the duo's pre-Hollywood shorts are your only map.","scene":null,"timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","trivia"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"GamesRadar+ (via Yahoo) — Jon Watts Says One No Way Home Easter Egg Remains Unfound","url":"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/spider-man-no-way-home-110347201.html"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Spider-Man: No Way Home?","answer":"We document 19 significant easter eggs in Spider-Man: No Way Home, from the 63ASM-3 license plate foreshadowing Doc Ock to the Ditko graffiti and the still-unfound 'waverlyflams' reference director Jon Watts confirmed. Broader outlet counts run higher — BuzzFeed cataloged 43 details and GamesRadar 30 — because the film layers references from two prior Spider-Man franchises, the comics, and the wider MCU into nearly every scene."},{"question":"How many post-credit scenes does Spider-Man: No Way Home have?","answer":"Two. The mid-credits scene shows Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock and Venom at a Mexican bar learning about the MCU before being snapped back to their universe — crucially leaving a sliver of symbiote behind. The second 'scene' is actually the first teaser trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which continues the multiverse story Strange's broken spell set in motion."},{"question":"What comic is Spider-Man: No Way Home based on?","answer":"Its backbone is One More Day (2007) by J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada, in which Peter makes a deal with the demon Mephisto and the world forgets his identity — the film swaps Mephisto for Doctor Strange's spell. The ending, where MJ and Ned lose all memory of Peter, mirrors that story's divisive conclusion, while May's death scene pulls its exact wording from Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962)."},{"question":"Is Daredevil in Spider-Man: No Way Home?","answer":"Yes. Charlie Cox appears as attorney Matt Murdock, marking the Netflix Daredevil actor's first MCU appearance. He gets Peter's charges dropped and catches a thrown brick without looking — 'I'm a really good lawyer.' Kevin Feige called Cox in June 2020 to arrange the cameo and later confirmed on the record that Cox is the MCU's Daredevil, which his return in Daredevil: Born Again cemented."},{"question":"Is Miles Morales referenced in Spider-Man: No Way Home?","answer":"Indirectly, yes. After being cured, Jamie Foxx's Electro tells Andrew Garfield's Peter there must be a Black Spider-Man somewhere out there — a clear nod to Miles Morales. It builds on Spider-Man: Homecoming, where Aaron Davis (Donald Glover), Miles's uncle in the comics, mentioned his nephew. Miles himself has still only appeared on screen in the animated Spider-Verse films."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-10","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/spider-man-no-way-home","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/spider-man-no-way-home","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}