Following on from the recent Spider-Man: No Way Home villain
posts, my post about the various Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie
trilogy references, easter eggs and connections in the MC2 got some
nice responses so I figured I should attempt a modest sequel of sorts. This one
detailing the (admittedly far fewer) connections between the MC2 comics
and the Marc Webb directed The Amazing Spider-Man duology
of films. Since both Amazing films were released after the MC2’s
published history ended, the references and connections (intentional or
otherwise) will obviously only flow in one direction. Let’s look at the MC2 in
the TASM-Verse.
This first one is probably just an unintentional similarity
but one I can’t get away from. Not only does Andrew Garfield’s Peter
Parker have amazing hair, when he tries on his father’s old glasses early
in the first film, he resembles May ‘Mayday’ Parker in her own debut
appearance in What If #105.
Ever since the first time I watched The Amazing
Spider-Man in the cinema I’ve felt the scene where a newly empowered Peter
takes a basketball from Flash
Thompson and slam dunks it through the hoop and destroys the backboard looked
awful familiar. This can only be swiped from the aforementioned debut of Spider-Girl
in What If #105 where the emergence of Mayday’s powers is
heralded by her leaping high into the air during a basketball game and
performing a slam dunk which shatters the backboard. Even if this was not an
intended reference, it’s an extremely unusual coincidence as Peter was
notoriously unathletic and isn’t associated with basketball whereas Mayday
is by contrast an athletic high school basketball star well before her powers
developed.
Jumping from the films to the games now, The Amazing
Spider-Man 2 game features a very small cameo by Spider-Girl in the
form of a comic glimpsed on the shelf of a comic shop you can visit in-game. I
included this cameo appearance in my updated Evolution of Spider-Girl in Video
Games YouTube video. The cover depicted in the game is Spider-Girl
#39. Just a nice little easter egg inclusion.
That might be it, if I’ve missed anything please let me
know! Hopefully you’ve seen how much crossover and recycled concepts different
adaptions utilize from the MC2 Universe. Not sure if I should try and
turn out more of these sorts of posts. Let me know what you think!
Until I realize far too late that I’ve missed a super
obvious reference or connection, I remain
frogoat