The MCU and its filmmakers are known for including a lot of nice little throwbacks and details
in each of the franchise’s additions.
With Spider-Man Far From Home fresh out in theatres, you can bet your butt that the web
slinger’s sequel contains a whole lot of tiny touches that really expand the world
of the MCU, and potentially hint at stories that we may see come to fruition later on
down the line.
So today, we’re taking a look at the top 10 small details you missed in spider-man
far from home.
We’re going to be talking about details that were noted in passing, not easter eggs
– you can actually check out our list of Easter Eggs on our channel for the low down
on all of those.
And before we begin, it’s kind of a given, but be warned – there are definitely a whole
lot of spoilers for Spider-Man Far From Home in this video.
So with that in mind, let’s get to it!
10 Where’s everyone else?
After Fury has brought Peter to their undercover gathering spot in Venice, Peter asks him why
he hasn’t called upon other heroes who he deems more up to the task.
He’s informed that Thor is off-world, Doctor Strange is unavailable and not to invoke Captain
Marvel’s name.
While we knew that about Thor thanks to the ending of Avengers Endgame seeing him take
off with the Guardians of the Galaxy, the other two heroes’ whereabouts are unknown.
With the promise of a Doctor Strange feature film on its way, having Stephen Strange be
unavailable is quite curious.
There’s some speculation that his sequel will take place in another dimension.
As for Carol Danvers, having seen the final post credit scene of Far From Home, we can
only assume that Fury’s reaction here is because Fury is actually Talos, the Skrull
who is revealed to have shape shifted into Fury, helping him out while Fury takes what
appears to be a bit of a work vacation in space, amongst other business.
But where in the galaxy Carol is during Far From Home is still a big question mark.
9 Iron Man is everywhere Literally.
Throughout every setting that Peter finds himself in, there’s a ton of Iron Man art
or tributes decorating the background of shots.
In his school, there’s a bunch of Iron Man student made art hanging on the wall in behind
Peter and Ned when they speak to MJ.
There’s an Iron Man poster in one of the airports they arrive in.
There’s graffiti of Iron Man that Peter is confronted with after avoiding Fury’s
calls in New York.
And in prague, there’s even a shrine to the character on a wall that Peter passes
by.
There’s also a ton of other Tony Stark Iron Man movie throwbacks throughout, and the film
does a great job at highlighting parallels between Tony’s origins and Peter’s new
found responsibilities.
8 Thor and Physics This one’s from the same scene as our number
10, when Fury introduces Spider-Man to Quentin Beck.
After Peter geeks out about the Elementals coming from another earth in the multiverse,
he mentions that he and his classmates study Thor in Physics class after noting he was
once also a myth.
It’s a small detail that really helps paint a picture of what a post-Avengers world looks
like, and how much the Avengers involvement on Earth 616 has changed the way that people’s
viewpoints of the world are; Thor literally breaks the laws of physics, so to civilians,
their existence opens up a whole new school of thought and study.
It’s also worth noting that Beck lying about where he’s from means that we still don’t
see the grander implications that the snaps may have had on the multiverse; when it was
revealed in the trailer for Far From Home that he was from another Earth, many believed
that this meant we were fully being introduced to the multiverse, and that we’d start seeing
MCU stories take place on different Earths.
That may not be something the MCU plans on diving into just yet from the sounds of it.
7 Every Spidey Suit After Peter discovers the truth about Mysterio,
he confronts the villain, and the two duke it out in an abandoned building, where Mysterio
uses his drones and illusions to trick Peter into thinking he’s completely lost his mind,
and is in a surreal world of sorts.
During this, we see a lot of throwbacks to Peter’s history in the MCU, and even a terrifying
skeletal Iron Man who crawls out of his own grave.
But one really neat detail about this sequence is that it features every single Spider-Man
suit we’ve seen on screen in the MCU up until this point, including the original suit
that Peter had made during his early days of crime fighting prior to meeting Tony.
6 BFP While Spider-Man Homecoming confirmed that
Uncle Ben was once a character who existed but passed away, there hasn’t really been
a direct reference to what happened to the character beyond the fact that he’s no longer
with Peter or May.
But there has been a few subtle references and easter eggs to the character that have
appeared, including one in Far From Home that some of you may have booked from the movie’s
trailer.
Peter’s suitcase contains the initials BFP, which stands for Benjamin Franklin Parker.
5 Iron Spider Suit Another little detail from the same scene
as our last number.
While Peter is packing his luggage for his Euro trip, he glances at his spider-man suit
in his closet.
But perhaps what’s cooler is when he takes a look at his other spidey suit situated in
his room – the iron spider suit, which is contained in a globe shoved in the corner
of his room, connected to a bunch of cables and wires, and appears to be floating within
said globe tube-esque thing.
It’s a neat way to depict the differences in the suits, and the fact that the Iron Spider
suit was a more advanced Stark tech creation compared to his original stark built suit
in Homecoming.
4 Flash’s Parents Towards the end of the movie, when Peter and
his classmates all return home, there’s a brief moment at the airport where we see
a shot of Flash Thompson being greeted by a drive rather than his family; all of his
friends have family members there, eagerly waiting for their kids, who had just endured
the events of Mysterio’s reign of terror in Europe.
Flash asks the driver where his parents are, and seems rather disappointed.
This could be a reference to the fact that in the comics, Flash’s parents aren’t
the greatest.
His father Harrison Thompson is abusive towards Flash.
3 Spider-Man’s Cap Moment There’s a handful of references in the film
to Captain America, with the most obvious one being when Happy Hogan tosses the medieval
shield at a drone but fails miserably, questioning out loud how does Cap do that?
But a more subtle one comes in the form of Peter having his own Captain America moment
during the Tower Bridge battle.
After he realizes his web shooters are all webbed out, he gets creative and makes use
of his surroundings, grabbing a piece of fallen drone debris that’s gone haywire.
He picks up the Tower Bridge sign, using it like a shield, and swings the drone debris
around like a hammer, tossing it up into the air at the other drones to cause a denotation
effect and blow them up.
The moment resembles Captain America in Avengers Endgame when he grabs hold of Thor’s Mjolnir
and his shield and approaches Thanos.
2 Avengers Tower During one scene where Peter is web slinging
his way through the city, we can see part of the New York skyline that, previously in
the MCU, would have featured Avengers tower.
The tower is currently under construction.
We know from previous films that Tony had moved the Avengers base outside of the city,
but what’s still a big unknown is who has purchased the tower.
There’s a lot of speculation over who that buyer is.
Some believe that it’s been bought out by Norman Osborn, and will act as a way to introduce
the character and Osborn Industries into the MCU.
Others think that the reason why we don’t know yet is because Marvel Studios and Disney
were waiting for the Fox rights to be officially theirs first, and that the Avengers tower
will become the Baxter Building, the home base of the Fantastic Four in the comics.
What we do know is that, based on the construction and renovations we see going on in the background
of this shot, that someone has purchased the tower, and it definitely has a new owner.
Whether or not that’ll be important down the line is still a mystery.
1 Kree Sleeper Cell There’s a moment at the beginning of the
film when we first see Nick Fury and Maria Hill roll up in a car to inspect a tornado
torn town after hearing reports that the tornado had a face.
It’s where they first encounter Mysterio.
But before they encounter Quentin Beck, the two have a brief conversation in which it’s
mentioned that there’s a Kree sleeper cell on Earth.
This could potentially have some grander implications, since the last time we see the Kree in the
MCU, which was in Captain Marvel, they weren’t overly happy about Carol and Fury teaming
up to help stop their Skrull genocide.
It could be possible that Fury and the Skrulls have been working to keep an eye on any Kree
activity in the galaxy, and that the Supreme Intelligence may have a scheme brewing in
terms of getting back at humans for the trouble they’ve caused the extraterrestrial race.
There we have it friends!
What other little details did you notice in the films that surprised you?
Give us a shout in those comments below and let us know your thoughts!
Also, be sure to check out our channel for other Spider-Man far from home content, including
easter eggs you missed lists, and the far from home ending explained, which features
a break down of the two post credit scenes.
In the meantime, thanks for watching friends!
I’ll catch you all in the next video.