While Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is totally suitable for children, it has some truly great moments that older viewers can appreciate — moments that likely swung right over the kiddies’ heads. These are some of the things that only adults will notice in Into the Spider-Verse.
Into the Spider-Verse feels like a movie that is fully aware of the fact that it’s inspired by a comic book. The film begins with an introduction from Peter Parker… well, a Peter Parker, as we later meet a couple different versions of him.
If you pick up on the context clues, you can determine that the Peter from the beginning of the film is actually Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man from the original Sam Raimi trilogy. The film smartly displays animated versions of scenes from those movies, including Peter stopping the runaway train in 2004’s Spider-Man 2 and even his weird dance from 2007’s Spider-Man 3. Rumor has it that Sony actually even considered casting Maguire to voice this version of Parker before ultimately settling on Chris Pine.
Beyond that, Peter goes on to brag that he’s been featured on a slew of various merchandise, including a comic book, a cereal …
He also mentions that he has “an excellent theme song,” which fans of the early animated cartoon shows can certainly vouch for. While this surplus of Spidey stuff is sure to give older fans fits of nostalgia, you have to wonder how much of it went unnoticed by the younger generation.
Watch the video to see more things in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse only adults notice!
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A very meta intro | 0:15
It’s a puberty thing | 1:21
Uncle Aaron was doomed from the start | 2:21
New phone, who dis? | 3:16
Porker quotes Porky | 4:16
Do I want kids? | 5:06