History Trivia / SpiderManNoWayHome

** ''Series/WheelOfFortune: On the March 23, 2022 episode, this movie is the featured prize and a trailer is shown.

** The story of this movie was going to focus on Kraven the Hunter hunting down Peter Parker on the run as a "Plan B" if {{the Multiverse}} route didn't pan out, since it wasn't clear if key actors necessary to tell the Multiverse story were going to participate. It was ultimately dropped becaus [[ExecutiveVeto Sony refused to allow Kraven to appear in a Spider-Man movie before his solo film was released.]] Had the Kraven story been chosen, the multiversal villains would've only appeared in TheStinger for this movie.

** Seamus McGarvey was originally going to be the cinematographer for the film, making it the first Marvel film he had shot since Film/TheAvengers2012 in 2012. However, he was forced to depart the project due to testing positive for COVID-19, and was replaced with Mauro Fiore.

** There were prior plans to integrate the Sam Raimi's ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' universe early in the MCU, with Stark Industries being involved in the creation of Octavius tentacles in early drafts of "Film/IronMan" and there was an attempt to include a cameo of Tobey's Spider-Man in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'', but rights issues prevented them from doing so, but this film finally gets to incorporate the Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy into the MCU
*** Likewise there were attempts to integrate ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' as part of the MCU with an EarlyBirdCameo of Oscorp Tower in "Film/TheAvengers2012", but the film was far ahead in post-production that it was too late to integrate the tower into New York's skyline.

** There were prior plans to integrate the Sam Raimi's ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' universe early in the MCU, with Stark Industries being involved in the creation of Octavius tentacles in early drafts of "Film/IronMan2008" and there was an attempt to include a cameo of Tobey's Spider-Man in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'', but rights issues prevented them from doing so, but this film finally gets to incorporate the Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy into the MCU

** There were prior plans to integrate the Sam Raimi's ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' universe early in the MCU, with Stark Industries being involved in the creation of Octavious tentacles and there was an attempt to include a cameo of Tobey's Spider-Man in "Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008", but rights issues prevented them from doing so, but this film finally gets to incorporate the Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy into the MCU
*** Likewise there were attempts to integrate ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' as part of the MCU with an EarlyBirdCameo of Oscorp Tower in "Film/TheAvengers2012", but the film was far ahead in post-production that it was too late to integrate the tower in New York's skyline.

* IKnewIt:
** After Creator/JamieFoxx and Creator/AlfredMolina confirmed that they would be reprising their roles as Electro and Doctor Octopus, respectively, many fans predicted that Creator/WillemDafoe would also be returning as the Green Goblin, which the first trailer and teaser poster confirmed.
** This process later repeated for Creator/RhysIfans and Creator/ThomasHadenChurch as their respective iterations of The Lizard and Sandman.
** The idea of Creator/TobeyMaguire and Creator/AndrewGarfield appearing as their respective versions of Spider-Man was planted not only by the premise and trailers -- "Tom Holland's Spider-Man faces down villains from previous continuities, reprised by those actors" -- but by the existence of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', where a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover was one of the film's central conceits... but the one thing we never ''actually'' got was Multiple Peter Parkers.[[note]]There were only two, and they were NotAsYouKnowThem.[[/note]]
** The theory that Creator/CharlieCox would appear as Matt Murdock to act as Peter's legal defense was highly speculated ever since the end of ''Far From Home'', and continued to build traction after the first trailer dropped.
** [[spoiler:Creator/TomHardy showing up as Eddie Brock/Venom was also highly anticipated, especially after TheStinger of ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' had the two of them warping to the MCU inexplicably.]]
** From the moment that [[spoiler:MJ falling from the Statue of Liberty and Tom's Spidey diving down to rescue her]] was shown in the official trailer, quite a few people predicted that [[spoiler:Tom would fail, and Creator/AndrewGarfield's Spidey would be the one to rescue her, finally getting redemption for failing to save Gwen]].
** Many guessed that [[spoiler:Aunt May]] would die, and it would be [[spoiler:Green Goblin who killed her.]]
** People speculated that the reason why Venom recognized MCU Peter in TheStinger of ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'' was because its connection to the symbiote hivemind gave it memories of Peter Parker from some other universe's Venom variant (the incarnation from ''Film/SpiderMan3'' in particular being singled out). The writers of ''No Way Home'' eventually [[https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/spider-man-no-way-home-writers-reveal-how-venom-traveled-to-mcu-even-if-eddie-brock-didnt-know-peter-parker/ confirmed this to be true]], though they didn't specify which variant of Eddie Brock/Venom the symbiote took knowledge from.

** The way the movie lingers on Peter 3 (Andrew Garfield) saying that creating an antidote for the Lizard is "no big deal" since he's done it before has led some to believe that the line was a reference to Sony wanting his Spider-Man to have the phrase as a CatchPhrase in an attempt to make him YoungerAndHipper, as revealed in the 2014 Sony data hack.

** [[https://youtu.be/6d8p-ls4MIg According to]] a video by Corridor Crew, Matt Murdock originally caught a snow globe in his scene, which was changed to a brick in post-production using CGI. If one looks closely, evidence of this change can be seen in that both Charlie Cox and Tom Holland's fingers are spread out in a wide, spherical fashion, despite their characters gripping a brick.

* MilestoneCelebration: Though it's slightly early, the film was released in December 2021, which was a few weeks before 2022 -- the year of the 60th anniversary of the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' franchise, the 20th anniversary of the first ''Film/SpiderMan1'' film, and the 10th anniversary of ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''. In some markets, the film was first released in the 2022 proper. In any case, the film makes a big show of the occasion by going all-out with [[CrisisCrossover featuring cast members from those respective film continuities]] [[RoleReprise reprising their roles]].

** [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools A positive example]]: the scene where [[spoiler:Andrew Garfield's Peter saves MJ]] originally had a choir providing background music. Tom Rothman, infamous for his meddling, requested that the background music be muted entirely during the scene instead, allowing it to be much more impactful.

* ExecutiveMeddling: [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools A positive example]]: the scene where [[spoiler:Andrew Garfield's Peter saves MJ]] originally had a choir providing background music. Tom Rothman, infamous for his meddling, requested that the background music be muted entirely during the scene instead, allowing it to be much more impactful.

** The story of this movie was going to focus on Kraven the Hunter hunting down Peter Parker on the run as a "Plan B" if {{the Multiverse}} route didn't pan out, since it wasn't clear if key actors necessary to tell the Multiverse story were going to participate. Had the Kraven story been chosen, the multiversal villains would've only appeared in TheStinger for this movie.

** The movie's synopsis having the appearance of villains from the previous ''Spider-Man'' films has caused a rise of viewers checking them out to get them caught up with who's who. Tellingly, all five of Raimi's and Webb's Spider-Man films fill the top searches on Creator/{{Netflix}} in certain regions.

** In the European French dub, Matt Murdock is voiced by Creator/SylvainAgaesse instead of Creator/BernardGabay, as the latter already had a prominent role in the Creator/MarvelStudios side of the MCU, that of Tony Stark.