10 ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed
Spider-Man Theme Song
The film starts right off the bat with a nod to Spider-Man’s long history. Rather than include the usual music that plays over the Marvel logo opening that’s included in every film, the music in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is actually the theme from the 1967 “Spider-Man” cartoon.
Peter’s Classmates
Peter’s school life is a much bigger part of this film than it was in the previous ones, and as such, he spends more time with his classmates. Among them are a lot of familiar names from Spidey’s history.
“My friends call me MJ”
Michelle (who’s played in the film by Zendaya) sticks to the background for most of “Spider-Man: Homecoming” — more content to be reading her book than caring about what’s going on around her. It isn’t until one of the last scenes of the film — when she is nominated to be the new captain of the academic decathalon team — that she reveals her friends call her MJ.
Vulture’s Henchmen
Michael Keaton’s character Adrian Toomes (aka the Vulture) has a pretty decent operation going by the time Spider-Man starts interfering, but there are two members of Toomes’ team that stand out as other villains to the wall-crawler.
Mac Gargan
The man who the Vulture meets on the ferry for the weapons deal, and later runs into in prison, is Mac Gargan (played by “Better Call Saul’s” Michael Mando). If you couldn’t piece it together by the large neck tattoo he sports in the film, Mac Gargan eventually becomes the Scorpion.
“I got a nephew who lives around here.”
Donald Glover has a small role in “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” but an exciting one for Spidey fans. Glover plays Aaron Davis, a low-level criminal who eventually becomes a villain called the Prowler. That isn’t what makes him special to the film though.
Karen
Karen, the A.I. inside Spider-Man’s suit, was a last-minute addition and is voiced by none-other than Jennifer Connelly. Connelly is married in real life to Paul Bettany who, before becoming Vision in “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” voiced Jarvis the A.I. in Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit.
Principal Morita
In a great, and subtle, nod to the larger MCU, Kenneth Choi plays the principal of Peter’s school, Principal Morita. In “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Choi played Jim Morita — a member of the Howling Commandos. He’s returned to essentially play his own grandson in “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” In a scene in his office where he is speaking with Peter there are photos of Jim and the Howling Commandos.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” #33
The Spider-Man films have paid homage to famous covers and scenes in the past (think Peter throwing away his Spider-Man costume in the garbage in “Spider-Man 2,”) and “Homecoming” is no different. Near the end of the film, after the Vulture drops a roof on Spidey, Peter struggles to push the rubble off himself as water rains down on him. This is a tribute to a famous Steve Ditko sequence from “The Amazing Spider-Man” #33.

The Iron Spider
After the final battle and the dust settles, Peter is driven to the new Avengers complex in upstate New York where Iron Man offers him an Avengers membership as well as a shiny new suit. While not exactly the same, it does bear a resemblance to the Iron Spider suit Stark builds for Peter during the Civil War comic book storyline.