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  • Miles has a poster of a heroic-looking figure in blue tights, red boots, and a cape, alongside a smaller poster of a silhouetted figure with pointy ears and glowing eyes.
  • When Miles is looking at a dead genetically-altered spider, it briefly phases into a green version with the Alchemax logo on it.
  • When we see Miles' attempt at deliberately failing a true-or-false test, not only did he get every question wrong on purpose, but he also wrote the date as Decembruary 2, 2018. We later see on a poster in Miles' dorm that his universe has normal months, so it means that he tried so hard to fail he even wrote a nonexistent date.
  • A scene from the Community episode "Anthropology 101", featuring Troy in a Spider-Man costume, can be spotted playing on the television of Aaron's apartment. This shot was one of the main inspirations for Miles Morales' existence, as fan reaction to it — not to mention the fact that Glover was pushed on Twitter for the lead role in The Amazing Spider-Man — showed Marvel that there was both room and desire for a black Spider-Man. It's also a reference to a joke in Donald Glover's stand-up routine, "Weirdo".
  • After Kingpin kills Spider-Man, he commands "Get rid of the body". In a blink-and-miss-it moment when Miles first approaches Peter's grave, there's a copy of the Daily Bugle lying among the memorial offerings and the headline reads "Spider-Man Dead. Peter Parker, 27, kept New York safe for years. Found Dead in front of Daily Bugle".
  • When Fisk is seeing alternate versions of his family flickering into reality in the train in the climax, his son briefly transforms into what appears to be a young Matt Murdock.
  • As the Super-Collider is destroying itself, the FLDSMDFR from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs can be seen, a film the producers and studio also worked on.
  • Jefferson Davis' phone when he tries to call Miles mid-way through the movie show that he has the name "Steve Ditko" in his contacts list.
  • Miles' contact list includes his creators Brian Bendis and Sara Pichelli, but also numerous Spider-related characters, such as Cindy Moon, Jessica Drew, Billy Braddock, Karn, Ezekiel Sims, and Monica Chang.
  • An advertisement for a sequel to Clone High, called Clone College, can be seen in a few scenes.
  • The advertisements seen in the background contain a treasure trove by themselves. At one point in the newscast about Spider-Man's death the running line "Bitcoin hits new high" is immediately followed by "Bitcoin hits new low".
  • In the scene where Ganke and Miles fist bump after Miles reveals to him that he's Spider-Man, the sound effect above the bump says "Best Buds" implying that Miles and Ganke's friendship will blossom like it does in the comics.
  • Peter B's "one last time" recap shows him being clobbered by a city bus being driven by Tombstone.
  • The Daily Bugle's highly unfavorable review of "TGI Spideys" reveals that some of its menu items include "spider-web nachos", a "spider-burger" and the house drink called "web-fluid" that is reminiscent of a cucumber-creamsicle.
  • After Miles' does his walk around the outside of the school building, he stumbles into his dorm room and a copy of "True Life Tales of Spider-Man" lands on him. On the rear cover is an "advertisement" for the "Vignali Reader Program". Marcel Vignali is the artist who created the comic in the style of Steve Ditko and John Romita Sr and the top of the page asks "Do you know at least 10 people?" and underneath is a series of caricatures of the various writers and producers of the movie. Going from left to right there's: TBD, Rodney Rothman, Avri Arad, Christina Steinberg, TBD, Phil Lord, Chis Miller, TBD, Peter Ramsey, and Bob Persichetti.
  • When Miles accidentally electrifies Peter B. Parker in the cemetery, it momentarily shows an outline of his nervous system (rather than the more commonplace skeleton outline).
  • As a despondent Miles walks to his uncle's apartment, he passes by two businesses named after Spider-Man creatives: "Bendis' Used Books" and "Romita Ramen". John Romita, Sr. is a classic Spider-Man artist, while Brian Michael Bendis is a longtime Spider-Man writer and the co-creator of the Miles Morales character.
  • During the final battle, when Miles delivers his shoulder touch, you can see the Kirby Crackle behind him coalesces to spell out "Hey" just as he delivers this as his Pre Ass Kicking One Liner.
  • On the living room mantle in Aunt May's house is a triangular veteran's case displaying the American Flag along with three silver stars, medals, and a small photo of a man in uniform implying that Uncle Ben was a veteran. Although knocked off the mantle by Tombstone during the fight at May's house, it can be seen on the floor, apparently unbroken, when Miles is chased by The Prowler through the living room after the rest of the fight spills out into the street.
  • The PC desktop of Olivia Octavius is... less than organized. While most of the images and folders are named "Untitled" or "Untitled Folder", some are slightly more organized like: several labeled "Test Results", "Old Plans", "Secret Plans", "New Plans", "New Beakers", "Dinner Plans"; some for "Tree Pictures", "Fish Pictures", "Cute Animals", "2016 cow pics", "Pics From Toronto Trip"; some for "Fantasy League", a file name ending in the classic convention of "final final FINAL", an image of "Best sandwiches", an image of "SPA ART", oh, and several folders of "Evil Plans", and one file named "doomsday". Also the folder "alt dimensions" is right below the folder for "SPIDer man"... near the folder marked "pool party".
  • When infiltrating Alchemax, Miles gets stuck on the lights in the lead scientist's office. Just as he frees himself and his head drops out of frame, one single frame shows his bugged-out eyes still floating in mid-air right before the rest of his body falls.
  • In the mother of all freeze-frame moments, Stan Lee has a final cameo as a passenger on the train Miles-as-Spider-Man bounces off of during his "once last time" recap at the end of the film. Stan is on screen for literally a single frame but when you catch it right, you can see him clearly through the train window note 

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