Mythology Gag / Spider-Man: Far From Home

• Spider-Man's new costume is red and black, similar to the original Lee/Ditko design. The spider emblem on the back is also white rather than red, similar to how in his first appearance it was colored blue before changing to the more familiar red.
• Peter Parker's passport gives his birthday as August 10 (year omitted), which is the publication date of Spidey's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15.
• While sailing through Venice before the water elemental attacks, the class passes by a boat with the registration number ASM 212. The Amazing Spider-Man #212 introduced Hydro-Man to the comics.
• When Peter's classmates are trying to learn more about the Water Elemental they just encountered, Flash reads a BuzzFeed story that talks about a sailor named Morris Bench and proceeds to accurately describe Hydro-Man's comics origin.
• A car bears a license plate reading "463" during the earth elemental's appearance; the Sandman made his debut in The Amazing Spider-Man #4, September 1963.
• A car bears a license plate reading "2865 SEP" during the fire elemental's appearance, drawn from Molten Man's debut in The Amazing Spider-Man #28, September 1965.
• A hotel in Venice is named the "Hotel DeMatteis" after Spider-Man writer J.M. DeMatteis. Also in the background of another shot, a building is labelled with signs saying "G. Convayo," "B.M. Bendisio," "D. Michelinio," "R. Sterno," and "Del Slotto," after respective Spider-Man writers Gerry Conway, Brian Michael Bendis, David Michelinie, Roger Stern, and Dan Slott.
• When Happy is telling Peter not to ghost Nick Fury, a poster for an event with "Crusher Hogan" can be seen. Crusher Hogan is a wrestler, who Peter battles when he first appears as Spider-Man, in most of his origin stories, and has even worked together with Spider-Man on numerous occasions in the comics.
  • And while we're at it, check his opponent: it's Bonesaw McGraw, the wrestler fought by a certain OTHER Spider-Man.
• Happy and the tour group try to evade drones in the Tower of London. When MJ braces herself to smash one with a mace, you can spot a silhouetted suit of armor in the background which appears to be Dane Whitman's costume as the superhero Black Knight.
• The suit designs Peter examines while building his upgraded costume include the original Iron Spider design from Civil War (2006), The Spider Armor Mk I from Web of Spider-Man #100, the Advanced Suit, and the Superior Spider Man costume.
• The illusion sequences and Mysterio's general aim of breaking Spidey's mind feel like an homage to several different comics, such as issue 90 of Web of Spider-Man.
• The way Mysterio holds MJ over the Eiffel Tower in his illusion and drops her with Peter jumping down to save her seems incredibly similar to Gwen Stacy's death, particularly resembling the version depicted in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It also calls back to the Green Goblin dropping Kirsten Dunst's MJ from the top of the Queensboro Bridge in the 2002 film.
• The illusion of Mysterio's gigantic fist striking at Peter is from the classic The Amazing Spider-Man #67 story where Spider-Man was fooled into believing that Mysterio had shrunken him to miniature size.
• Peter's encounter with skeletal Iron Man is straight out of Marvel Zombies. And while he does still have the lower half of his body, unlike the Iron Man of that continuity, he crawls along with his arms and uses his hand repulsors to lift himself up as though he doesn't.
• Peter masquerading as an entirely new hero calls to mind the 'Identity Crisis' storyline from the comics, with the all-black costume resembling the "Dusk" identity specifically.
• When Ned denies to Betty that Peter (sporting his stealth suit) is Spider-Man, his excuse is that it's actually a "European knock-off".
• When MJ points out the coincidence of "Night Monkey" using the same webbing as Spider-Man, Peter is quick to suggest that "Night Monkey" is more of a spider monkey. A nod to Spider-Man's ape counterpart from Marvel Apes.
• Spider-Man 2's tie-in game gets a few references thrown its way too; First, Peter's class is sent to an opera house so they won't interfere in the battle against the fire elemental, while in the game, Mysterio's first crime involved destroying an opera house/theater. Later on, Peter is going through one of Beck's illusions and Spidey's own reflections begin to attack him, something that also happened in the game as the final segment of "Mysterio's funhouse of doom". His plot of faking a massive threat is also somewhat similar to him faking an alien invasion in the game.
• During the climax, Spidey overcomes Mysterio's illusions by relying on his spider sense instead of his sight to counter the actual threats, which was the same tactic he used to defeat Mysterio in the illusionist's first appearance on The Spectacular Spider-Man.
• During the last appearance of "fishbowl helmet" Mysterio in the 1967 series, Mysterio also resorted to trying to shoot Spider-Man with a pistol just before getting defeated. Bonus detail that roughly similar-looking pistols were used there as in the film.
• What If? #24 (What If Spider-Man Had Rescued Gwen Stacy?) depicts Spider-Man having his secret identity revealed by J. Jonah Jameson similar to what occurs in the mid-credits stinger.
• Peter's elaborate plan for a Grand Romantic Gesture, i.e. telling his feelings to MJ atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris alludes to the fact that in 616, Peter and MJ's Big Damn Kiss happened at JFK airport when Peter was flying to Paris on an assignment in ASM #143 (where he would battle the Cyclone, an inspiration for one of the Elementals). The numbers 143 even appear in the background in the final sequence when Peter and MJ go swinging over NY. There's also a more direct nod in the form of one of the overturned cars on the Tower Bridge with a license plate "TASM 143"; appropriately, it's in the background for this version of Peter and MJ's own first kiss.
• While in Prague, MJ is wearing a shirt with a tiger on it; her comics counterpart affectionately calls Peter "tiger".
• Aunt May's car has the license plate "AMF 1562"; Spider-Man (and May herself) debuted in Amazing Fantasy #15, published in 1962.
• The first shot of the post-credits scene is of the license plate on Fury and Hill's car: "HNM 62011", as in Hawkeye & Mockingbird #6, published in 2011. Much like that comic, this scene also features a Skrull pretending to be Nick Fury.
• Ned and Betty's romance in the film is a nod to their comics counterparts, who were married until Ned's death.
• At the end, while going to meet MJ, Peter runs across the glass windows of an office building very like Miles Morales' first run out as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• In the final stinger we see Fury relaxing in front of a simulation of a tropical beach. While the location is never identified, it calls to mind "Tahiti" and Phil Coulson from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
• The Daily Bugle is reimagined as an InfoWars-type conspiracy podcast, similar to the PlayStation 4 video game.
  • Peter taking a selfie with his phone mid-swing is similarly taken from a mechanic in that game.
  • The Advanced Suit from the game is also briefly visible as a hologram when Peter is constructing his new Stark Tech suit.
• S.H.I.E.L.D's cover identity for Peter in Europe has a striking resemblance to Agent Venom.
• The real Earth-833 of the Marvel Multiverse appeared in the Spider-Verse event, and was home to the superhero known as Spider-UK. This reality was actually destroyed, befitting of Mysterio's claim that his own world was gone, but not by the Elementals.
• On the plane to Europe, Peter briefly views a webpage of the late Tony Stark being hailed as having a "heart of iron". In the comics, his mantle has been taken up by Ironheart.
• Nick Fury's use of a tranquilizer gun when we first see him is reminiscent of the "Needle Gun", his weapon during the Silver Age.
• Peter holding up a sign as a makeshift shield, followed by slinging around an arc-reactor covered in webbing like a hammer. He really is channeling Endgame Cap.
• During Spidey's swing through the city near the film's end, he swings past the penthouse at NYC's Tudor City apartment complex — the same building that was used as the Osborn Mansion in the Spider-Man Trilogy.
• The car Nick Fury picks up Peter in while in Germany bears the license plate "MTU 83779", referencing Marvel Team-Up #83 (cover dated July 1979) featuring Spider-Man and Nick Fury.

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