99 Fun Facts About Spider-Man: Homecoming

Jackson Brice and Herman Schultz each wear a vibrating gauntlet in Spider-Man: Homecoming under which villain name?

Shocker. Toomes kills the first one, Jackson Brice, by accident with one of the crew's own weapons, then simply hands the gauntlet and the name to Herman Schultz.

Which actor plays Happy Hogan, the Stark aide assigned to look after Peter in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Jon Favreau. He directed the first two Iron Man films, then came back here with no say behind the camera, and called returning purely as an actor a lot of fun.

What business was Adrian Toomes running before he turned to crime?

Salvage and clean-up after the Battle of New York. A new federal agency takes the contract away mid-job, so Toomes keeps the alien wreckage his crew has already collected and builds weapons from it.

What is the name of the government partnership with Tony Stark that pushes Toomes out of business?

Department of Damage Control. Its director, played by Tyne Daly, orders Toomes off the site, and he answers by quietly keeping the alien scrap he was meant to hand over.

Whose technology does Toomes's crew scavenge to build their weapons?

Chitauri. Toomes keeps the supply topped up himself, flying out in his winged suit to rob the government trucks that haul their wreckage away.

Which school does Peter Parker attend in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Midtown School of Science and Technology. To prepare, Tom Holland spent a few days undercover as a pupil at the real Bronx High School of Science.

Which school team does Peter Parker quit, then rejoin, to follow the weapons trail out of New York?

Academic decathlon. He rejoins only once a tracker shows the weapons leaving the state, then misses the tournament anyway, shut inside a government truck.

Who is the first person to discover Peter Parker's secret identity in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Ned. He is waiting in Peter's bedroom with a Lego Death Star when Spider-Man crawls in across the ceiling, and he drops the model in disbelief.

Who plays Ned in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Jacob Batalon. Lewis Pullman auditioned for the same part and lost out to him, then joined Marvel a decade later as Sentry in Thunderbolts*.

Homecoming's Ned borrows heavily from which best friend of Miles Morales in the Spider-Man comics?

Ganke Lee. The filmmakers blended him with another comics character, Ned Leeds, to make their own, and the film's version only gets the surname Leeds in the sequel.

Where does the Vulture drop Peter Parker after their first encounter in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Into a lake. He nearly drowns before Tony Stark, who has been tracking the suit, has him fished out and warns him to stay away from the weapons dealers.

Which actor plays Aaron Davis, the crook who tries to buy weapons from Toomes's crew in Homecoming?

Donald Glover. A 2010 online campaign had pushed for him to play Spider-Man himself; the film's director watched it up close and asked for him as soon as he got the job.

Who plays Michelle, the classmate who mocks Peter from the sidelines in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Zendaya. Her character spends the film mocking her classmates from the edge of the room, then ends it as the new captain of Peter's school team when Liz moves away.

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, what does an exploding alien power core trap Peter's classmates inside?

A Washington Monument elevator. The writers kept Peter away from skyscrapers until this scene, so that his climb up the outside would give him, and the audience, real vertigo.

Which vehicle is torn in half by a malfunctioning weapon while Peter Parker fights the Vulture?

The Staten Island Ferry. Peter boards it to catch an arms buyer, and once it splits it takes Tony Stark's arrival to help him save the passengers.

How does Tony Stark punish Peter Parker's recklessness midway through Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Takes back the Spider-Man suit. When Peter pleads that he is nothing without it, Stark answers that in that case he shouldn't have it.

What does Peter Parker learn when he collects Liz for the homecoming dance?

Her father is the Vulture. Kevin Feige said that if the moment Toomes opens the door didn't work, the film didn't work, so the story was built backwards and forwards from it.

Where does the cargo plane Peter Parker clings to finally crash in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

On the beach at Coney Island. Peter steers it there himself, then pulls Toomes clear when the damaged wing-suit explodes and leaves the man who tried to kill him for the police.

What is the cargo plane Toomes tries to hijack carrying in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

The Avengers' own equipment. It is all being flown from Avengers Tower to the team's new base upstate, and Toomes plans to rob the plane in mid-air.

How does Peter Parker answer Tony Stark's offer of a full-time place in the Avengers?

He turns it down. Stark had the press waiting to meet the new Avenger, so he has to find another announcement and produces an engagement ring for Pepper Potts instead.

Who walks in on Peter Parker in his Spider-Man suit in the final scene of Homecoming?

Aunt May. Kevin Feige compared it to Tony Stark announcing he is Iron Man: an ending chosen because it would force the next film to do something fresh with the secret identity.

Mac Gargan, the tattooed crook who confronts Toomes in prison in Homecoming, is which villain in the Spider-Man comics?

Scorpion. He wants Spider-Man's real name, and Toomes, who knows it, tells him he doesn't: a last flicker of decency the director wanted the villain to have.

Which actress makes a surprise return as Pepper Potts near the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Gwyneth Paltrow. An earlier film had explained her absence as a break-up with Tony Stark, but here the pair are back together and he walks out to face the press holding a ring.

Who plays Adrian Toomes, the Vulture, in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Michael Keaton. He dropped out over a clash with another film, and John Leguizamo had negotiated for the part when Keaton became free again and Marvel asked Leguizamo to give it up.

Which Broadway star turned down the villain's role in Spider-Man: Homecoming, saying he would have been deeply miscast?

Lin-Manuel Miranda. Kevin Feige told him the whole plot over the phone, but shooting would have begun right after his run in Hamilton, and he felt he was wrong for the Vulture.

Tom Holland's Spider-Man made his screen debut in which film before Homecoming?

Captain America: Civil War. Early in Homecoming, a home video Peter calls 'A Film by Peter Parker' retells that film's airport battle from his side.

Homecoming's director compared Michelle to a character Ally Sheedy played in which 1980s film?

The Breakfast Club. Sheedy played Allison Reynolds in it, and the young Homecoming actors took to calling themselves the Breakfast Club on set.

Which nickname does Michelle say her friends call her at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming?

MJ. She is not the comics' Mary Jane Watson: the writers borrowed the initials to plant a seed, and two sequels later her full name turned out to be Michelle Jones-Watson.

Who plays Flash Thompson, reimagined in Spider-Man: Homecoming as a rich, smug rival rather than a jock?

Tony Revolori. He had auditioned for Peter Parker; cast as the bully instead, he received hate mail and death threats from fans because he didn't match the Flash of the comics.

Who voices Karen, the AI in Peter Parker's Stark-built suit in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Jennifer Connelly. Peter only hears her once the 'Training Wheels' limits Stark built into the suit are hacked off, and her husband, Paul Bettany, had voiced Stark's own AI.

Which Avenger appears in Spider-Man: Homecoming only in public service announcements played at Peter's school?

Captain America. The film's last joke is one more of his announcements after the credits: a lecture on patience, aimed at the audience that has just sat through them.

Which actor plays Mr. Harrington in Spider-Man: Homecoming, reprising a bit part from The Incredible Hulk?

Martin Starr. In 2008 he was a nameless student in a university computer lab, and Kevin Feige later confirmed that the student had grown up to be Mr. Harrington.

What does Stan Lee's cameo character, Gary, do in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Scolds Spider-Man for the noise. Gary joins the neighbours shouting from their windows after the hero webs up a man who was only getting into his own car and sets off its alarm.

The boombox punk in Spider-Man: Homecoming is played by the man Spock nerve-pinched on a bus in which Star Trek film?

The Voyage Home. Kirk Thatcher was an associate producer on that film who also played its punk and wrote the song blaring from his boombox, then brought the look back for Homecoming.

Homecoming was filmed under the working title 'Summer of George', which is also an episode title from which sitcom?

Seinfeld. In the episode, George Costanza treats three months' severance pay as three months off, and the film's sequel kept the joke going by shooting as 'Fall of George'.

Where was most of Spider-Man: Homecoming actually shot?

Atlanta, Georgia. Tom Holland said it was cheaper to build New York sets there than to shoot in New York, so the production reached the real city only for its final days.

Under the 2015 deal that brought Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which studio kept final creative control?

Sony. It went on paying for, releasing and owning the films and kept the last word, yet in practice it deferred to Marvel's team on the creative choices.

In May 2015, the search for a new Spider-Man was reported as narrowed to which two actors?

Holland and Asa Butterfield. Both then auditioned on camera opposite the films' Tony Stark with four other hopefuls, and the last cut left Holland facing a different rival, Charlie Rowe.

Which director's teen films did Kevin Feige name as a major influence on Spider-Man: Homecoming?

John Hughes. Feige's reasoning was that in high school everything feels like life or death, so Peter's growing up had to matter as much as his heroics.

Which artist drew the 1966 comic that Homecoming honours when Peter lifts himself free of the rubble?

Steve Ditko. In The Amazing Spider-Man #33 the hero strains for pages under wrecked machinery before heaving it off, an image Kevin Feige had wanted to put on screen for years.

Which Spider-Man staple did Marvel deliberately leave out of Homecoming, saying it would need to feel contemporary?

The Daily Bugle. Co-producer Eric Carroll said the team toyed with it but didn't want to go down that road yet, and it finally turned up in the next film as a conspiracy-minded news website.

Who composed the score for Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Michael Giacchino. Kevin Feige let the news slip at a Doctor Strange screening before it had been announced, and the score itself quotes the theme from the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon.

Iron Man's armour in Spider-Man: Homecoming is just his previous suit repainted; what ruled out a new design?

The budget. The studio paying for the film couldn't stretch to a new suit, so Kevin Feige asked for a colour scheme borrowed from the Ultimate Iron Man comics instead.

Which Homecoming actor was reportedly paid at least $10 million for a brief supporting role?

Robert Downey Jr. The studio's film chief called his casting wonderful commercially but said that was not why: after their earlier meeting, the story needed Tony Stark as Peter's mentor.

Aaron Davis, the small-time crook in Spider-Man: Homecoming, goes by which costumed name in the comics?

Prowler. The film never says the name aloud: it is only listed among his aliases, and he mentions a nephew, a wink at the future Spider-Man Miles Morales.

Homecoming's $117 million debut was the second-biggest for a Spider-Man film at the time, behind which earlier entry?

Spider-Man 3. Its $151.1 million opening from 2007 was still the best for the character and for the studio, even though the series had been restarted twice since.

Which film replaced Homecoming at number one in North America in its second weekend?

War for the Planet of the Apes. Homecoming's takings fell 62% that weekend, yet after ten days it had already out-earned the entire North American run of The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Which country was Spider-Man: Homecoming's largest market outside the United States and Canada?

China. The film opened there two months after the US, backed by a campaign in which Tom Holland recorded a greeting for students sitting their high school entrance exams.

Which actress plays Peter Parker's aunt in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Marisa Tomei. She negotiated the whole deal without knowing how elderly the character is in the comics, said she was horrified to find out, then offered to play her older and was turned down.

The final post-credits scene of Spider-Man: Homecoming is a mock public service announcement about which virtue?

Patience is the joke: viewers have just sat through the entire credits to reach it. The scene was a last-minute addition to the film.

Which figure from Spider-Man lore, whose death drives the hero, is alluded to in Homecoming but never named?

Uncle Ben nearly got a direct mention: the writers considered revealing that Peter's dance outfit came from his late uncle's wardrobe, but felt it would seem a throwaway.

Just before Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tony Stark takes Peter Parker to which country for a superhero showdown?

Germany is where Stark drafted the teenager into an internal dispute between heroes; Homecoming opens by retelling those events from Peter's own point of view.

What does Peter Parker wear when he leaves the homecoming dance to chase the Vulture's final heist?

His old homemade suit is a red and blue hoodie fitted with his web-shooters, glimpsed only briefly in his previous film appearance.

Which filmmaker, fresh from the Kevin Bacon thriller Cop Car, directed Spider-Man: Homecoming and both its sequels?

Jon Watts wanted the job so badly that he pestered Marvel with clips from a fake Spider-Man trailer he had made himself.

Which familiar part of the hero's tale does Spider-Man: Homecoming skip because two earlier film series had told it?

His origin story was left out on purpose: Kevin Feige said audiences had seen two retellings in thirteen years and could be trusted to know it.

Which sibling directors, who first put Tom Holland's Spider-Man on screen, pushed hard for his casting?

The Russo brothers wanted an actor close to Peter Parker's real age, and praised the young star's background in dance and gymnastics.

What does the orchestra play over the Marvel Studios logo at the very start of Spider-Man: Homecoming?

The 1960s cartoon theme gets a 39-second orchestral arrangement, which is also the opening track of the soundtrack album.

Which New York punk band's Blitzkrieg Bop plays on the soundtrack of Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Ramones formed in Forest Hills, the same neighbourhood Peter Parker comes from in the comics.

What nickname does Tony Stark give the protocol that locks most features of Peter Parker's suit in Homecoming?

Training Wheels kept the teenager from the suit's full feature list, which ran to a parachute, a heater and an airbag, until the suit was hacked.

What do Peter Parker and his best friend switch off inside the Stark-built suit in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

A tracking device let Stark follow the teenager's every move; removing it also opened up the suit's locked advanced features.

What does the spider emblem on the chest of Peter Parker's Stark-built suit detach to become in Homecoming?

A remote drone sits on a long gadget list: a producer said Marvel went through the comics pulling out the fun and wacky things the costume had done.

In the mid-credits prison scene of Homecoming, how does Adrian Toomes respond when asked who Spider-Man is?

He denies knowing, protecting the boy who had just saved his life. The director said the villain had to be redeemable in some way by the end.

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, what kind of neighbourhood business does Peter Parker's friend Mr. Delmar own?

A bodega, the corner grocery of New York life, suits a film whose director wanted to explore what he called the ground level of the Marvel world.

Which new armour does Tony Stark unveil when offering Peter Parker a full-time team place at the end of Homecoming?

Iron Spider is only shown off here; Peter does not use the armour until Stark sends it to him in Infinity War.

What does Adrian Toomes do to henchman Jackson Brice in Homecoming while only meaning to scare him?

Disintegrates him: Toomes had fired Brice for recklessness, then shot one of the crew's weapons at him when he threatened to expose them.

Which villain, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, does Peter Parker face in the 2019 sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Mysterio headlined a sequel that kept Homecoming's director and two of its writers, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.

What did some comic fans complain about when Peter Parker's aunt was cast for Spider-Man: Homecoming?

She seemed too young to fans used to older screen versions, but the filmmakers were deliberately looking for someone closer to a big sister in age.

Phineas Mason, who builds the Vulture's wings and weapons in Homecoming, goes by which villain name in the comics?

The Tinkerer arms the whole crew, turning stolen technology into Toomes's flight suit and the vibrating gauntlets worn by his henchmen.

To prepare for Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tom Holland spent a few days as a pupil at which New York institution?

Bronx High School of Science pupils refused to believe he had been cast as the hero, which he felt mirrored how nobody at school suspects Peter.

Tom Holland first impressed Homecoming's producers with his screen debut in which tsunami survival drama?

The Impossible won the teenager a London Film Critics Circle award as young British performer of the year.

Homecoming co-writer John Francis Daley played a high school freshman in which cult TV comedy-drama?

Freaks and Geeks cast him as Sam Weir; years later he and writing partner Jonathan Goldstein pitched a Spider-Man film built around school life.

In mood reels made before he won the Homecoming job, the director pictured which Marvel figure as Peter Parker's mentor?

Nick Fury struck the director as someone the teenager would want to get in trouble with; in the finished film the mentor's job went to Tony Stark.

Visual effects artists on Spider-Man: Homecoming studied the translucent hair of which animal when designing the webs?

Polar bear hair guided Digital Domain's artists, while another studio dialled back the tiny barbs it had given the webs in earlier Spider-Man films.

Which carmaker, alongside computer firm Dell, had product placement in Spider-Man: Homecoming?

Audi was one of dozens of brand partners in a campaign valued at more than $140 million, the largest for any Spider-Man film up to then.

Adrian Toomes, the villain of Spider-Man: Homecoming, reappears in the credits scenes of which later non-MCU film?

Morbius shows Toomes transported to another universe, where he builds a new flight suit and proposes forming a team.

Spider-Man: Homecoming returned to cinemas in 2024 to mark the 100th anniversary of which film studio?

Columbia Pictures put every one of its live-action Spider-Man films back in theatres for the centenary celebration.

A Fandango survey ranked Homecoming the second-most-anticipated blockbuster of summer 2017, behind which film?

Wonder Woman topped the poll, yet Homecoming went on to become the highest-grossing superhero film of 2017.

During the homecoming dance, Peter Parker and a friend leave henchman Herman Schultz webbed to which vehicle?

A bus holds him fast: a deleted scene shows students finding the villain still stuck there and posing for photos with him.

Tom Holland's performance in Spider-Man: Homecoming won him the younger actor prize at which genre ceremony?

Saturn Awards voters honoured him three times running: for his debut in the role, for Homecoming and for its first sequel.

Homecoming's writers deliberately kept Spider-Man away from which city backdrop that earlier films had leaned on?

Skyscrapers were swapped for suburbs and a golf course, and one early pitch put the hero on a plane 10,000 feet up with no safety net at all.

Which Star Wars actor said he would have liked to play Homecoming's villain if the first choice had said no?

Mark Hamill never got the chance, because the studio's first choice came back once a scheduling clash with another film had cleared.

In which country did Spider-Man: Homecoming become the top-grossing Hollywood film of 2017 within two weekends?

South Korea gave the film $25.4 million in its first five days, at the time the third-highest opening ever for a Hollywood film there.

Homecoming's director wanted the Vulture to feel like a regular guy, like John C. Reilly's role in which Marvel film?

Guardians of the Galaxy cast Reilly as an everyday Nova Corps officer; a villain that ordinary would not draw the attention of Earth's mightiest heroes.

Kevin Feige accidentally revealed who would score Spider-Man: Homecoming while promoting which other Marvel film?

Doctor Strange was on its press tour in November 2016 when the slip came, five months before recording of the Homecoming score began.

In the animated show Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, who replaces Homecoming's Tony Stark as Peter's mentor?

Norman Osborn, better known as the Green Goblin, steps in because the series is set in an alternate timeline to the films.

Critics panned the US poster for Spider-Man: Homecoming for using which cluttered design style?

Floating heads crowded the sheet so badly that its three biggest stars each appeared twice, in and out of costume.

A tracer on a fleeing henchman shows him bound for which state, sending Peter Parker on a Homecoming road trip?

Maryland is where Peter intercepts the crew robbing a government truck, only to be knocked out and locked inside a storage vault.

Which actor entered talks to play Homecoming's villain when the original choice briefly dropped out?

John Leguizamo stepped aside when the first choice's schedule freed up, then turned down the smaller part Marvel offered him instead as tiny.

The first trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming premiered in December 2016 on which late-night talk show?

Jimmy Kimmel Live! hosted the debut, and the American and international trailers together drew more than 266 million views within a week.

Which former studio chief produced Spider-Man: Homecoming with Kevin Feige through a company bearing her name?

Amy Pascal had been won over by the young lead's earlier films, and later revealed plans for at least three more Spider-Man films with him.

Homecoming co-writer Jonathan Goldstein compared Tony Stark's mentor role to Ethan Hawke's father in which film?

Boyhood fitted because Stark is unsure of the part: the director asked whether he is even comfortable being a mentor figure.

Which filmmaker, once attached to a Sinister Six movie, passed on Homecoming saying he had no real idea for it?

Drew Goddard had spent a year in the mindset of the villain team-up project and struggled with the thought of starting a new film.

Cross-promotional TV ads for Spider-Man: Homecoming were woven into live coverage of which 2017 sports event?

The NBA Finals spots were shot by Homecoming's own director and built to work in a highlight from the game moments after it happened.

Two tracks on the Homecoming score quote the theme from the 2012 film The Avengers by which composer?

Alan Silvestri's theme surfaces in the tracks The World Is Changing and A Stark Contrast, linking Peter's story to the wider team.

Which free tie-in to Spider-Man: Homecoming let fans fire web-shooters at targets and face the Vulture?

A VR experience arrived for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive before the film opened, and also ran in selected American cinemas.

Which country was Homecoming's top-grossing market in Latin America, where it set a regional Spider-Man record?

Brazil had contributed $25.7 million of the region's $77.4 million by the film's third weekend on release.

Which British band's Can't You Hear Me Knocking is also heard on the soundtrack of Spider-Man: Homecoming?

The Rolling Stones sit alongside Traffic, the English Beat and A Flock of Seagulls on a soundtrack that leans on older British acts.

Which Maze Runner star was reported as an early front-runner for Homecoming's lead but said nobody had approached him?

Dylan O'Brien was tipped alongside Logan Lerman when the studio was said to want a lead younger than Andrew Garfield.

At which annual industry convention was the title Spider-Man: Homecoming first announced in April 2016?

CinemaCon heard that the title nods both to the high school dance and to the character coming home to Marvel.